Any companions/party dynamics?

[CloudKira]

By that I ask whether the game includes stuff like:

Romance with the player character

Friendship/rivalry with the player character

Banters

Companion quests

Reactions to the players actions

Reaction to game events (like during main quest)

Loyalty levels to the player character

Bonds/bickering among companions

Anything of the sort already there or planned to be implemented in the future?

[Isengrym]

There are companion quests. Companions have a bit of dialogue when you meet them and a few other comments they'll make when you come up to them in safe areas such as towns and inns. It's enough to give you a sense of each companion's personality, but you don't get a lot of conversations with them, from what I've seen.

I'm pretty sure there are not any romance options, banter among companions, or a friendship/rivalry system. While there are twelve companions total, in any given playthrough four of them will be available to you based on your character's alignment (good, neutral, or evil). Of course, characters of the same general moral code could still bicker (like, say, Dorian and Blackwall in Dragon Age: Inquisition), but I haven't seen anything like that here.

I'm a long way from finishing the game, but I think I should have seen some indication of those things if they were present.

In short, companions each have a personal quest and some personality, but you won't see the kind of party dynamics you would in a BioWare or Obsidian game. I don't know if the devs have plans to add any of the other things you mentioned.

I hope this info is of some use.

[CloudKira]

Thanks for the info, hoping more stuff gets added later like romance, banters or influence systems with companions.

Maybe different endings for them depending on how the player treated them too.

[upuaut2]

be nice if romance was added as well

[Megrim]

These are good questions, I hope the developer will say something about it. I´m really interested in this game and will look at it what it looks like when it is finished.

[CloudKira]

Yeah, but in my experience with other EA games wherever a developer was asked a question about including a particular element to the game and NOT answering then it usually meant that at best it was not planned for now and at worst that it was not planned AT ALL.

So I guess that the dev of Alaloth got romance and/or party interaction elements as one of the lowest priorities that will be introduced only by the very very end of development...or it simply won't happen and the dev does not want to say it outright simply to not discourage potential buyers.

Lack of an answer is an answer too...