Originally Posted by Anska
What? XD Then I probably didn't click the book line, but really? And people complain Gale is jumping to conclusions.

Does apologizing for coming on too strongly also set the flirting flag by any chance?
It's wild yeah haha

Apologizing sadly doesn't remove the flirting flag it seems, all it does is confirm that the game considers whatever you said at the party as flirting and you're stuck on that romance path until act 3 from that point on.

Originally Posted by jinetemoranco
I don't know if I misinterpreted one of the patch notes but they said quite late after release that they had introduced "a platonic option for his conversations" I have to believe that I misunderstood that. Because I cannot conceive that they made his conversations default to his romance as long as you saved Thaniel. It's nuts and a massive oversight.

Okay, I found it. This is from Patch 6. So February of 2024. Someone needs to tell me I misunderstood.
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That's crazy, seeing that confirms to me that there was 100% only a romance path for Halsin up to patch 6, because to me "added" means that there simply wasn't a platonic path before. At the very least it shows that Larian is/was aware of the issue with Halsin's lack of a platonic path, but his dialogue flags still need a lot of clean-up before you can properly be platonic friends and not have him flirting with you because you mentioned abandoned buildings probably have books in them or something like that. So pre-patch 6 there was only romance Halsin, then they tried adding platonic Halsin in patch 6, but as of now a lot of stuff is still broken and desperately needing a hotfix.

And next to that act 3 either needs new flags that they forgot to add for patch 6's platonic Halsin or the existing flags definitely need fixing. An established platonic friend, or especially a person whose sexual advances were rejected, should not creep on you and your partner and try to invite himself to sex with you multiple times. So for a romanced Halsin things look fine, but a platonic or rejected Halsin the flags are really messed up still. And if Larian really does intend for Halsin to not take no for an answer and it's not dialogue flags, they should give something like a news update explaining that Halsin intentionally trying to have sex with you after you rejected him is part of his character.


As an aside, I'm pretty new to the forum so I was wondering to what extent the suggestions & feedback forum actually gets looked at and listened to? From what I've seen so far there's a pretty solid consensus on this needing a hotfix, but I've also seen similar arguments being made on this forum and other places without there ever being an acknowledgement of this needing fixing and it being on Larian's radar. A lot of the romance flags are a mess even after patch 6's (attempted) implementation of a platonic Halsin, but especially the creepy rejected Halsin advances should be fixable with a simple "RejectedHalsin" flag of sorts that's checked before triggering Astarion's and Shadowheart's specific romance party banters and then also having that flag checked for the encounter with the drow twins. I really do hope that these topics are being looked at rather than all of us screaming into the void as we agree on what needs a hotfix.