I just loaded up an old save where the resist path was completed after the temple. I spoke to my companions and they were all talking and congratulating me on conquering the urges and overcoming. Every companion that wasn't in the current party(because I assume those three, Jaheira/Astarion/Lae'zell, would have done it already at the time, but I didn't check it) commented on it. Wyll, Karlach, Shadowheart, Minsc, Gale -- all of them had something to say.
I don't know if you all had glitchy saves, but the dialogue is there. This was a saved game from December 12, 2023 of last year.
I am beyond pleased now. I am going to do another playthrough as a Dark Urge again because this is my all-time favorite.
Sure, but we're mostly talking about the lack of reaction DURING the moment Durge gets killed. The companions basically just stand there without any reaction before Withers shuffles his bony ass over to rez you. The emotional weight of Durge's death gets resolved so quickly, it's just...weird, especially when you compare it to the earlier, more polished parts of the game. In act 1, if you so much as sneeze, everyone has something to say about it, but come act 3, one of the most important moments to Durge's arc is met with silence and apathy.
I wouldn't even be opposed to Withers not showing up immediately as he kinda feels like an ex machina in that instance. Maybe they have to physically drag Durge's dead body back to camp. Maybe show us Gale using the only revival scroll he has and his face falling when it doesn't work. Shadowheart being the healer, desperately expending all her energy to bring you back to life as a last hail mary. Minthara not caring that Bhaal is a god, vowing to make him pay. Lae'zel threatening you to wake up, and the devastation that follows when she realizes you won't. Wyll thinking of bargaining his very soul to Mizora just for the chance she could bring Durge back. Astarion and Karlach praying to whatever gods they can think of even though they don't believe in them anymore. Show the grief,
the exhaustion. Then, finally, Withers appears.
Even the post-death dialogue you get from the companions is lukewarm at best and basically amount to "oh hey good job, so proud of you for standing up to daddy bhaal". Like that's it? I just died in front of your eyes and that's all you have to say?
It's an issue all across the game tbh. Why do the companions have no reaction to Kressa's reveal that she tortured Durge? Why are there no consequences to your relationships when they find out you were behind the Absolute plan? One or two instances of these, fine. But eventually they add up and suddenly it becomes a lot more apparent that Durge doesn't feel quite finished.
