Yeah, I'm not suggesting anyone get content taken away from them at all (and I'm not suggesting anyone is this thread is saying that, I am just clarifying). But at the very least fixing bugs which includes enabling content that is already there just non-functional should in fact be a priority for them. I will never understand why patch 6 wasn't just the romance patch where they legit fixed everything and added any final things they were going to which should have included additional content for companions that needed it. They could have put romances to bed for the most part and then moved forward on fixing/adding other content before closing out the development cycle on the game. I truly believe had they done that, in equitable way, and done some very light/brief but FOCUSED testing or/and Q&A, the game and the community would be in a much better state. Why things like this are done piecemeal with no further explanation or clarity will always baffle me.
And honestly, there are so many common fan requests that could be easily added instead of things they have added. People want to hug companions, there is a beautiful mod for that so I know it's possible and larian could have implemented it. Players want an equitable number of kisses (or even the ability to have an actual functioning romance branch), they could and SHOULD do that. Players want to sleep next to their companion, they could do that by reusing but tweaking some end game scenes for this purpose. The sleep scenes all have files that could be replaced I suspect rather easily. A mod author will do it eventually but probably only for whatever companion they themselves prefer to romance and then they will be inundated with requests to do it for every companion. They reuse animations for other companions/situations, this isn't a novel concept. Most players aren't asking for the world, small changes and just fixing content would go a long way. I don't expect that the romances will be everything that players want. I do expect that things will mostly work for all companions, and that choosing one romance/path over another doesn't mean having very large content discrepancies between romances. That isn't asking for much at all and it is again baffling for me that Larian seems to not understand this.
And yeah, I assume (rather I hope because who knows with Larian) that camp activity will be improved because for me not only does Shadowheart move around but so does Mizora. She frequently goes to check herself out in the mirror in act 3 in one particular camp now and I hope they are planning on adding things like that for every actual companion because that is the equal and equitable thing to do.
But anyway Larian, please just make things equitable and fix the bugs please and thanks lol.
