LET ME SWITCH MY ACTIVE CONVERSATION PERSON PLEASE

[spider]

yes hi this is a single player game why does the game force conversation with people who have no reason to be talking at all?

there isn't even a mod to fix this awful decision that vastly impacts my ability to enjoy this game. I just lost another SEVERAL HOURS OF PROGRESS BECAUSE I DON'T WANT SOMEONE ELSE TALKING IN A SITUATION THAT CAN NET ME APPROVAL FROM A COMPANION.

LET ME CHANGE THIS. LET ME CHANGE WHO IS TALKING.

[ShockedHearts]

npcs auto talk to whoever you are controlling at that time. sometimes at the end of battle it doesnt swap to your TAV fast enough and then chooses whomever you were controlling at the end of combat to talk to.

its kinda stupid. I personally believe npcs should only talk to the main character (tav) unless you engaged in the conversation with another character in your party first.

I only use tav for conversation. I dont want karlach to randomly get thrown into dialogue for the first time in idk 60 hours lol.

[spider]

Originally posted by ShockedHearts:

npcs auto talk to whoever you are controlling at that time. sometimes at the end of battle it doesnt swap to your TAV fast enough and then chooses whomever you were controlling at the end of combat to talk to.

its kinda stupid. I personally believe npcs should only talk to the main character (tav) unless you engaged in the conversation with another character in your party first.

I only use tav for conversation. I dont want karlach to randomly get thrown into dialogue for the first time in idk 60 hours lol.

yes hi, NPCs do NOT auto-talk to whoever you are controlling at the time. I just finished a fight and I was not able to FORCE the person to speak to Tav. I literally told tav "go talk to this idiot before he force starts conversation with one of the companions because this game just does that for no reason any sane person would ever have implemented, ever" and I was not able to make the game force the conversation with tav. Who gets to talk instead? SHADOWHEART. Should I just play this game with zero companions at all times to avoid this or like, what? it's so frustrating because it's mainly act 1 that's filled with this stupid nonsense.

[ShockedHearts]

Originally posted by THE LEGENDARY DARK KNIGHT SPIDER:

Originally posted by ShockedHearts:

npcs auto talk to whoever you are controlling at that time. sometimes at the end of battle it doesnt swap to your TAV fast enough and then chooses whomever you were controlling at the end of combat to talk to.

its kinda stupid. I personally believe npcs should only talk to the main character (tav) unless you engaged in the conversation with another character in your party first.

I only use tav for conversation. I dont want karlach to randomly get thrown into dialogue for the first time in idk 60 hours lol.

yes hi, NPCs do NOT auto-talk to whoever you are controlling at the time. I just finished a fight and I was not able to FORCE the person to speak to Tav. I literally told tav "go talk to this idiot before he force starts conversation with one of the companions because this game just does that for no reason any sane person would ever have implemented, ever" and I was not able to make the game force the conversation with tav. Who gets to talk instead? SHADOWHEART. Should I just play this game with zero companions at all times to avoid this or like, what? it's so frustrating because it's mainly act 1 that's filled with this stupid nonsense.

for me it happened most in act 2.

and only at the end of combat when i was controlling shadowheart or something for a second. the npcs would run up and talk to me before it switched back to tav

[spider]

I don't understand what else I'm supposed to do. I made sure Tav was the last person to hit anyone in that fight. I made sure tav was the closest person to the NPC that forces converstation. Still, for some VERY STUPID REASON, the game is like "oh yeah obviously shadowheart is the main character and should speak at all."

I'm not playing in multiplayer. None of my friends are controlling shadowheart. Why does she EVEN HAVE THE ABILITY to speak honestly, I could go the entire game without ever using the ability of making my other NPC, NOT HUMAN, NOT PEOPLE, party members talk to something. I literally only ever use it to disguise self-> speak with dead. That is the only time I ever, ever use that feature. I would rather be able to mod this out but apparently nobody can do that.

[ShockedHearts]

Originally posted by THE LEGENDARY DARK KNIGHT SPIDER:

I don't understand what else I'm supposed to do. I made sure Tav was the last person to hit anyone in that fight. I made sure tav was the closest person to the NPC that forces converstation. Still, for some VERY STUPID REASON, the game is like "oh yeah obviously shadowheart is the main character and should speak at all."

I'm not playing in multiplayer. None of my friends are controlling shadowheart. Why does she EVEN HAVE THE ABILITY to speak honestly, I could go the entire game without ever using the ability of making my other NPC, NOT HUMAN, NOT PEOPLE, party members talk to something. I literally only ever use it to disguise self-> speak with dead. That is the only time I ever, ever use that feature. I would rather be able to mod this out but apparently nobody can do that.

curious, do you have TAV as the top part member in your party UI on the left side of the screen?

maybe the game takes some sort of priority or something with that?

[spider]

Originally posted by ShockedHearts:

Originally posted by THE LEGENDARY DARK KNIGHT SPIDER:

I don't understand what else I'm supposed to do. I made sure Tav was the last person to hit anyone in that fight. I made sure tav was the closest person to the NPC that forces converstation. Still, for some VERY STUPID REASON, the game is like "oh yeah obviously shadowheart is the main character and should speak at all."

I'm not playing in multiplayer. None of my friends are controlling shadowheart. Why does she EVEN HAVE THE ABILITY to speak honestly, I could go the entire game without ever using the ability of making my other NPC, NOT HUMAN, NOT PEOPLE, party members talk to something. I literally only ever use it to disguise self-> speak with dead. That is the only time I ever, ever use that feature. I would rather be able to mod this out but apparently nobody can do that.

curious, do you have TAV as the top part member in your party UI on the left side of the screen?

maybe the game takes some sort of priority or something with that?

I do, yes. I genuinely have no idea why the game does this. In my experience you have to know beforehand that it's going to, and then quicksave before the fight ends so that you can constantly waste your life in the overly long loading screens having a ton of fun trying to make the game work properly instead of playing it.

[ShockedHearts]

Originally posted by THE LEGENDARY DARK KNIGHT SPIDER:

Originally posted by ShockedHearts:

curious, do you have TAV as the top part member in your party UI on the left side of the screen?

maybe the game takes some sort of priority or something with that?

I do, yes. I genuinely have no idea why the game does this. In my experience you have to know beforehand that it's going to, and then quicksave before the fight ends so that you can constantly waste your life in the overly long loading screens having a ton of fun trying to make the game work properly instead of playing it.

it only happened to me 3 times in my 100+ hours playthrough. so if its that bad it might be some bug you are experiencing.

[spider]

Originally posted by ShockedHearts:

Originally posted by THE LEGENDARY DARK KNIGHT SPIDER:

I do, yes. I genuinely have no idea why the game does this. In my experience you have to know beforehand that it's going to, and then quicksave before the fight ends so that you can constantly waste your life in the overly long loading screens having a ton of fun trying to make the game work properly instead of playing it.

it only happened to me 3 times in my 100+ hours playthrough. so if its that bad it might be some bug you are experiencing.

it's very much not common. I'm griping because this recent time I run into it, and actually whenever I run into it happening, I definitely have to quickload and I don't normally HAVE to quicksave a lot. I've several hundred hours in the game at this point and as far as I can tell it happens at several reliable points in act one mostly but maybe act two if I do certain things differently. I have a habit of literally not one single thing surviving act two.

Still, why can I not swap who is active in a conversation if the game is going to make it so several companions have proficiency in conversation skills anyway? BG3 isn't pathfinder where it will let you use say, asterion's deception proficiency for a conversation choice your tav makes.

This stuff really puts me off of playing the game. Really badly. Because I know for a fact I'm not the only one who ever thought "oh there's a change character UI element, that should let me swap who is talking so the fact, the FACT that this game forced converstation with ssomeone who was INVISIBILE AND HIDING isn't so stupid. Oh wait, that just lets me control someone outside of converstation."

You know what does work? Murder your companion who is locked in conversation. Then take their place. That ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ works.

[ShockedHearts]

Originally posted by THE LEGENDARY DARK KNIGHT SPIDER:

Originally posted by ShockedHearts:

it only happened to me 3 times in my 100+ hours playthrough. so if its that bad it might be some bug you are experiencing.

it's very much not common. I'm griping because this recent time I run into it, and actually whenever I run into it happening, I definitely have to quickload and I don't normally HAVE to quicksave a lot. I've several hundred hours in the game at this point and as far as I can tell it happens at several reliable points in act one mostly but maybe act two if I do certain things differently. I have a habit of literally not one single thing surviving act two.

Still, why can I not swap who is active in a conversation if the game is going to make it so several companions have proficiency in conversation skills anyway? BG3 isn't pathfinder where it will let you use say, asterion's deception proficiency for a conversation choice your tav makes.

This stuff really puts me off of playing the game. Really badly. Because I know for a fact I'm not the only one who ever thought "oh there's a change character UI element, that should let me swap who is talking so the fact, the FACT that this game forced converstation with ssomeone who was INVISIBILE AND HIDING isn't so stupid. Oh wait, that just lets me control someone outside of converstation."

You know what does work? Murder your companion who is locked in conversation. Then take their place. That ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ works.

I 100% agree that we should be allowed to swap who is talking. sometimes it just makes sense for someone else to take charge.

[BigJ]

Issue was raised during the beta, Larian never corrected.

[Humpenstilzchen]

+1

This is really needed. When you fight the hag for example she will always talk to the character closest to her which are oc your fighter and/or barbarian who tend to not be the best picks for conversations.

This feature could fix this so you don´t have to walk your melee fighters away and get your casters close into the line of fire.