#fix your broken fucking game ea

[holocene-sims]

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july 4, 2021 10:00 a.m. woodward memorial park

[sleepyhazee]

the sims 4 is so wildly broken that its sucked away all my desire to play. it is not hard to test basic features before a release.

[saruin]

as a console player I can say this update is one of the most fucked up things that's happened.

Instead of fixing your fucking game you made a button to show off your stupid broken dlc

I'm no EA apologist but normally I prefer to look on the bright side of changes since you know I have no fucking choice but fuck the developers for allowing this to happen

Truly

[the-magpie-collective]

[Part 3/3]: It gets worse

Part 2

Because yes, the writing gets worse.

First, it's very clearly implied that the pact has already been broken when Mizora first arrives in camp in Act 3. Mizora offers Wyll a new pact to both herself and Zariel: 'Option one. I show you the way to your father. I guarantee him no harm except that from you and your allies. And you pledge your soul to me and the archdevil Zariel in a pact eternal.' A warlock cannot have more than one pact in DnD, the mechanics do not allow for it, a soul cannot be forfeit twice. But then she goes on to state: 'Option two. I break your pact. You are freed from your duty but retain your devil form. Your father dies by his enemy's hand.' So his pact isn't broken? Which is it?

Why didn't they write something like, 'Or Option one. You rescind your request to have your pact broken, I offer an alternate boon, and you continue to pledge your soul to me.' Why would you ever write it like that if that Pact isn't broken? Why does Mizora need to break the Pact if it is? It makes no sense.

As if that isn't bad enough we come to my least favorite part: Addendum F.

Addendum F. 'The Absolute must be avenged for the soul-binder's detention at Moonrise. The soul-bearer retains his gifts until such time as the Absolute is slain.'

What?! What do you mean Mizora can just add on addendums willy-nilly to the Pact without even so much as needing to run it by Wyll first? How the fuck does this make any sense? If Mizora can just add whatever she wants to Wyll's pact then why would she ever actually break it? Why not have Wyll dress up as a clown every full moon and run around terrorizing children? Why not use Wyll's pact to make every single soul in Baldur's Gate forfeit to her? 

This addendum is so stupid. I hate it. The only reason for it to exist is so that the in game mechanics make sense and Wyll doesn't have to be respecced as something other than a warlock at the 11th hour. But if that's the case why not just add something into the six months clause? Easy fix to add 'Clause Z, Section Thirteen: 'If the soul-binder consents to separation, she will release the soul-bearer from all obligation and rescind all gifted powers within six months. Like really why? What possessed them to add this addendum? Why make it seem like Mizora can change the Pact at any time and for any reason? Were they so oblivious to their own writing that this is the only way they could think of to patch that potential plot hole?

I just can't.

This is Wyll's narrative Arc and the writing is so slap-dash. It doesn't make sense. The player feels like they have little to no choice in the outcome. Wyll has no choice in the outcome. The stakes feel pointless because there's no reason why breaking Wyll's pact should endanger his father. The path the player has to follow is inane. And when we get to the end we find out it was all pointless anyways because the pact is clearly whatever shit Mizora makes up on the spot that comes to her mind because that's the only way any of this makes sense. This is the level of writing I'd expect from a DM who suddenly needed to pull something out of their ass, not a team of writers who have had plenty of time to sit down and plot out a story.

In the story they built there's no point in Wyll struggling to escape. This isn't a 'well, Wyll's story was hastily rewritten' issue. This is a bad writing issue. No attention or care was paid towards making the narrative crux of Wyll's story actually make sense. No one bothered to make Mizora's pact make any sense. You cannot tell me there wasn't a planned ending for EA Wyll to break his pact; I won't believe you. The writers clearly just didn't care to make it make sense.

Mizora's Pact might just be the symptom, but it really shows how poorly Wyll's narrative arc was written.

[hood-simz]

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[lehdenlaulu]

Okay, seems like you still need to spam long rests, pretty much. Not because you're not getting cutscenes and story development, but because you're getting them inorganically/too fast if you don't long rest enough. There's still a certain order to them, but if you don't long rest enough, the game just... sort of fast-forwards to the next 'stage', especially if your approval with a companion has risen meanwhile.

I guess it's better now in some ways, but the mechanic is still kinda... broken. And especially now that we're out of EA, I feel like the approval can rise way too fast during the very early stages already. Not even during the first act, I mean, but the first few in-game days. And the main culprit is still Gale -- if your character is a decent person, that is. Our kooky wizard lad just full-on adores you in less than a week (and is ready to share secrets he's only shared with his cat 🤭), and the feeling is apparently mutual. I mean, it's very sweet, but again, if you don't long rest enough, the development just doesn't feel organic.

I mean, maybe it's by design, maybe there's some inevitable scripted drama looming on the horizon or something, but it's not just him: your hapless Tav just seems to pull bitches left and right, and the fast-forwarding happens with the others as well.

I mean, I expected this, more or less, since this appears to be the same base mechanic that was already in DOS2 and that was famously kinda... broken despite multiple attempts to fix it. Ah well, the game is straight out of oven, some imperfections are to be expected. But this was on the top of my wishlist of fixes alongside resizable UI (the inventory window is so fucking tiny one needs a magnifying glass ffs). Maybe one day.

[transkingcobra]

I miss when I could go to the store, pick out a game, go home, and just play it.

I didn’t need the internet for any aspect of it unless specifically playing multiplayer (which I never did) because the game was on the disk/cartridge/whatever physical thing I could hold in my hand and physically put into the console.

And the game was polished! It was finished!

Glitches were few and far between and usually not consistent - at worst you restarted and hoped this time it worked out.

Because the people testing the game before release were doing it as a job. There was no early release, only the final version in physical form. It had to be correct - they couldn’t go back and fix it if they left in something game-breaking. And if you made games that broke constantly? People would stop buying your games.

Now it doesn’t matter how awful a game is at release. They’ll just keep poking at it after release, it’s fine!

No it’s not!

Your game upon its release date should not be fucking broken.

I do not want to buy a new game with a fear it will be unplayable. I do not want to buy an old game and wait 24 hours while it downloads and updates.

Use more actual playtesters. Rely less on EA players to find shit - they’re not actually looking to improve the game, they just want to play it early. And stop fucking relying on people to find your fuck ups after release.

I paid for a game that works. Not a broken concept of one.

[lanaevyssmoved]

I don't know what the fuck larian did with the last updates but I started a new game and am now in act 3 and NO ONE wants to romance my Tav despite exceptional approval and doing all quests up until this point. Last two games that wasn't an issue at all. Guess this is an Emperor only run, he still seems to like my Tav at least. Oh well.

this is the first time i've heard no one be able to be romanced but i know karlach (unless you do very specific things) is broken, along with gale (which you cannot fix). and astarions romance is pretty spotty too, along with minthara who's "totally fixed now" despite many people still being unable to romance her. the fact you're telling me there's a chance all romances can get messed up is absolutely crazy.

i'm purposely not playing right now and instead am focusing my attentions elsewhere because patch 3 is just a total wreck. and i don't hold out hope for patch 4. aisling and i are going to do a coop run eventually and we're purposefully waiting until a few more patches are out because this is just a mess fdlgkdfgfd

the other day my friend asked me "is bg3 good? you've played it a lot and talk about it a lot. i was thinking of getting it" and i told them that i do not recommend them buy it and they should hold off for like a year and grab it on sale or just wait a few years and get the definitive/enhanced edition they'll surely push out for extra cash. and that's so upsetting? i did consider baldur's gate 3 one of my all time top favourite games, despite all the flaws it has, but the patches breaking more and more things to such an extreme that entire companion questlines don't properly work (karlach and gale right now, minthara since forever tbh).. i just can't lmfao

i love the game, i really do, i'm grateful it exists and i don't regret buying it the second EA came out - but holy fuck larian.

also don't blame the skeleton crew working on it, they're just doing what they're told, i can't begin to imagine how much they're crunching right now, and considering we have proof they did crunch during dev i can't pretend they aren't right now, especially since these hotfixes are coming out extremely fast, which while appreciated, the rush to do things feels like that may be why each patch and hotfixes brings even more issues and bugs..

and i cannot help but feel some rage because i know most of larian have moved on, including sven who confirmed he has nothing to do with baldur's gate 3 anymore, he's taking a break and then moving onto the next game. and it's like.. god. bg3 is not ready to be moved on from bro, please give your skeleton crew some more hands

[rjshepofftheshits]

Ok real talk tho, here is how they can improve dead space 3 for a remake.

Less focus on saving the world and more focus on the characters. i want to see isaac and ellie try to repair their relationship, i want to see carver go from grumpy git to isaacs friend and i want to see robert norton go from a good man with good intentions to someone who cracks under pressure, not because of some dumb jealousy thing with Isaac. if you were feeling REALLY spicy you could even make Danik a reasonable if categorically wrong man who eventually goes absolutely fruit loops by the end instead of starting out that way.

give isaac more story besides running after ellie. i know saving people, particularly the women in his life is a running theme with mr clarke, we do stan a feminist king. but he was perfectly capable of doing everything in dead space 1 WHILE ALSO looking for Nicole, his every other word wasn't about her. Dead space 3 makes me feel like he is only capable of pining after ellie and that is just not him. Isaac and ellie were together for 2-3 years, he knows her and he knows she can look after herself, it's the rest of the fucking universe that needs his competence and intelligence, not her. and if you must go this way, please don't make it another rescue mission. Again, ellie is a survivor and an intelligent person maybe even as smart as isaac she does not need saving.

also give the girl back her sports bra im sick of the cleavage. how she jumped 3 cup sizes is beyond me.

keep carver in the story but make him either an AI companion or do what NIER : Automata or RE2MAKE did. you play all the way through as isaac, then as carver and then once again as whoever for the ending OR you play all the way to the end as Isaac and then on a second playthrough you can be Carver and the way that you played as Isaac is now how your ai partner isaac behaves.

do not lock Carvers story behind coop missions. i know visceral didnt want to do this, they were made to by ea but still it seems like a dumb move even on their part. Carver didnt need to be there but since he is, why are you hiding that light under a bushel ea???

big one: get rid of the micropayments and retool the fucking weapons and combat. most of the guns are like water pistols and the necromorphs tank hits like brick shithouses. i know SCAF weapons are 200 years old by the time of dead space 3 but like. Isaac is smart enough to make a ripper, a line cutter and a plasma cutter on its own without bolting them together.

do not hide the true ending behind a dlc paywall. i think i was the only person on the planet that actually liked Awakened, better than the base game too. so it pains me to say that it didnt need to exist: either cut it completly and use it as the opening for dead space 4 or merge it into the ending of dead space 3 somehow.

lastly i think the story needs some tweaking. if we look at the progression it goes > outbreak on one ship > outbreak on a station> universe wide outbreaks everyone is doomed. now granted i understand you need to escate things for sequels but i just dont feel the same gravity of the situation in 3 as a did in 1 or 2. we never see the world outside isaacs pov which is fine but i would still like to see some of the world before it got fucked over a picket fence by the unitologists. the only glimpses we get are in text logs and it would make me feel more urgency to save the world if i actually knew what the world was like.

Continuing on with my story point: isaac needs some tweaks. he is a broken and cynical man by 3 which is very fair given all hes gone through but he is also a savior and defender at heart. no, he didnt ask for any of this but since he's stuck in this situation you know damn well he is going to do his best to fix this. I always found it weird that Isaac was essentially suicidal by the time of 3s opening, he was killing himself with indifference and clearly not looking after himself but when Norton comes knocking he still says "find someone else for your suicide mission" outright refusing all of it until ellie is mentioned. why didnt norton open with "ellie is in trouble, she sent us to get you to help" ? and why did isaac flat out refuse if he didnt care about his own life???

all this to say i would very much like to see isaac living a somewhat normal life after 2. ok maybe hes still depressed and alone but hes also still trying to move on, anything better to explain his reluctance to get dragged back into things . Maybe instead of having isaac backed into a corner and avoiding the world it could be more of a case of "i fucking told you so" like the mass effect series. Isaac has spent 2 games telling everyone who will listen "do not fuck with the markers" and now maybe he could be really fucking annoyed that no one has listened and as the only competent man in the galaxy hes got to go sort this shit out on principal.

here also are some things id just like to see.

Isaac struggling with his marker problem less like psychosis and more like a general disability or chronic illness. yes it sucks ass and yes its disabling but hes still a badass despite it. i dont like the wooohhhoooo mental illness scary vibes i get from other marker touched people like stross. thats just not how it works.

isaac with psysical scars from his time in project teleomere/ the hospital in dead space 2. i would like to see him with wounds from the first game healed and also maybe some marker scrawl on him as a permenant reminder of what happened.

id like to see ellie have a more active role or even be a playable character. doesnt have to be a big thing, do something like the born from a wish scenario in silent hill 2, maybe cover the 2 weeks she was lost in space before ds3 takes place.

id like to see the necromorph process slowed down. it happens so fast its almost meaningless, not to mention unbelievable. if it happens over time and the characters can see and react to it happening that has more emotional impact.

In the ending where carver and Isaac get blown off the platform, I want to see them holding hands to stay together.

if i think anymore ill put them in the reblogs or something

but yeah ea hit me up im ready to advise

or if ur not ea and just wana chat shite about dead space you can hit me up too

[daemon-in-my-head]

I don't wanna sound bitter. Cuz I'm not. But I am very much disappointed. And probably a tiny bit mad.

Larian, I very much appreciate it that we get a new patch every 4 weeks or so and that you guys continously throw in "new" content, but; please for the love of everything that is holy take your time.

Patch 6 broke the game. Hotfix 18 made it even worse for modders, those with modded games and even just the vanilla experience. Patch 6 was very much still playable, whereas Hotmess 18 crashed the game round about every 30 minutes for reasons beyond human comprehension. Hotmess 19 fixed the .exe resulting in most script mods working again and Aron stopped his personal vendetta against me, but even now there's random funny lil bits and bobs of what the hell? and apparently some lines are marked as impossible again.

Please, for the love of god, test your patches. This is a fully released game, not EA and your players didn't sign up to be your beta testers. I know it's modern custom to treat your user base like they are, but speaking as part of the user base; I'd rather not.

I don't want to start the game directly from its .exe, continuously stay offline in Steam, or turn off auto updates for fear they will break everything yet again. I know my game is volatile because of mods; I understand that, and I'm not complaining about it, but mods didn't cause the bugs and crashes I've faced, and y'all confirmed it with the patch notes. Especially since I had the very same issues on my very much vanilla Steamdeck myself.

I do appreciate the work you do, but I don't appreciate the way how it is done. There will always be bugs and all. That much is normal. But they shouldn't be this severely game breaking or change the whole fucking .exe. That, to me, screams 99% untested, maybe on 1 particular notebook or PC and in some very small capacity, but not really. That's not a simple "oversight" anymore.

It happened before with Patch 4 which was incredibly broken and caused me to stay away from the game for weeks and I'm seeing it happen again right about fucking now.

Also the whole discord drama bit. If you know what I mean, you know how fucked up it was. Shall I add that some characters received a bunch of idles and some barely any or straight up none? If you commit to such updates, why not wait until you have something ready for everyone instead of stoking the flames by yourself voluntarily? Your players don't mind waiting longer if the end result is worth it, you know.

Please get your shit together Larian. You guys advocated for your players, but this isn't that anymore. This feels like a sellout. The very thing certain people tried to complain about at the Game Awards. Love you guys, but please. Please. Get it together again.

Okay. Got it out of my system. Back to my usual bullshit. On the bright side, this did trigger me to go write again after spending the entirety of yesterday asleep.

FYI; even if this was caused by the whining, get mad at the devs, not at your fandom. It wasn't their fault, the devs made these changes. Some of these people were right to complain (can we be adults about it this time pretty please? We all just want our ships to sail smoothly and our blorbos to be as developed as they deserve.)

[ohheyitslitz]

i just wanna play my game guys.. this error code is so frustrating and the fact that EA isn’t saying anything about it other than “we’re investigating ” isn’t good enough for me. you’re a multibillion dollar company, you are very capable of having a group of people look into this issue no problem. i never speak out on the issues that i deal with for this game but i’m beyond frustrated and disappointed with the way they handle this game. it’s gotten to the point where i feel comfortable and confident enough to voice my opinion on this matter and let’s just say i’m fucking sick of it. i don’t know much on the history of sims or anything like that but what i do know is that i love my sims just as much as i love my IRL family. not being able to play with them is basically fucking torture. i get it, it’s just a game but at the end of the day it’s one of the only games that brings me joy as much as it brings its other users joy. EA/Maxis please fix your incredibly broken game and learn to be better when it comes to releasing new updates and packs.

[hatredmadeofgold]

It’s ethical to crack Sims 4 because EA is also doing a complete ass job at keeping the game functional and without modders, sometimes it’s completely unplayable. Not to mention the situation with that fucking shopping wheel cart that they introduced back in March I think? Greedy ass bitches trying to coerce people into buying new packs WHILE IN-GAME. As if the Menu when booting the game wasn’t already doing that, no, they force that onto players WHILE PLAYING. PC and Mac users can remove that shitty thing thanks to mods, but people on console are completely fucked over.

EA has also outsourced their QA and it’s done so badly, it’s crazy. Every new gameplay addition comes with so many bugs that the game is literally unplayable. The For Rent expansion pack had such extremely game breaking bugs for many people that STILL have not been fixed, and there is complete radio silence from EA about fixing it. The bug is so bad that it destroys entire save files and recovering them doesn’t fix it. People have lost literal years of gameplay because of this shit just because these greedy bitches at the top don’t want to invest into better quality assurance. Nope, just buy more packs!! Buy buy buy!!1 I hope they get fucking shot =_=

Without modders from the Sims 4 community (I LOVE ALL OF YOU BTW 🫶💕), the game would be unplayable for me. It’s boring as shit without mods. The build mode is great but the gameplay is so low in quality compared to Sims 2 and Sims 3, it’s asinine how they are pricing it like 4 billion times higher than those 2 editions combined. I was sadly on a MacBook when I began playing Sims 4 and cracking things for Mac is really difficult, so people do not really make those, therefore I bought many packs. By the time I switched to PC, I had already spent so much that risking my account’s survival was not worth it any longer just in case I’d go for a crack. What I do now is that I get packs from mmoga or instantgaming for way less money than I’d pay full price. The only times I buy directly from EA is when their sales are cheaper than the discounts from the former 2 options.

Tl dr; DO NOT BUY SIMS 4 DLCs. CRACK THAT SHIT, DO NOT GIVE EA YOUR MONEY BECAUSE THESE GREEDY BITCHES DON’T GIVE A FLYING FUCK ABOUT THE QUALITY OF THEIR PRODUCT AND IT ALWAYS COMES OUT BROKEN AS FUCK. EA won’t give a shit as long as people are buying their broken ass shit at full price that’s cosplaying as a functional DLC for this game.

the fact that all of the DLC for The Sims 4 combined is $1,100 USD should get several people at EA killed btw

[ratchet-ratch]

Disappointed because I thought the free kit was to compensate for EA breaking the game.

I've been playing this broken game since it came out and while it makes sense that it's free now, I feel disrespected. As a long time player EA has decided to placate me via a shitty little kit that will cost $5. It's not so much feeling like I deserve to be compensated, it's the principle of it. I don't feel valued as someone who stuck through all of EA's bs and contributed copious amounts of money to subpar content.

Yes it's great for them that they're bringing in more costumers who will inevitably buy dlc, but it's still broken. I sincerely doubt this was purely an act of kindness. It's a business strategy. Another way to deflect from the bad publicity.

[scrawnytreedemon]

Troubleshooting BodyShop is ruining my sanity. Fuck this unreliable application so much. Why is EA's code utter shit? Why isn't there an alternative out there? Like... God. I don't need anything much, just... The ability to clean out those extracted Sim appearances.

While chances are my corrupted neighbourhood can last a good while longer, I'll be real, chief: I'm not gonna depend on it. I want to remake this just as we're getting into 4th gen, while I can still feasibly do this all by hand, have that clean, townieless hood, and not need to worry so much.

Corruption is ultimately inevitable when it comes to any hood, and I'm perfectly fine with accepting that(hell, I'm inclined to believe much of the fear-mongering is overblown), but it's starting to get more glitchy and I'm not risking it.

[kookysimfinds]

Goodybe?

If you’ve read my About Me, you’d know that I’ve been an avid player and fan of the Sims for quite some time now (this isn’t even my first simblr!) and it pains me to me admit that...I’m just not that interested anymore. I’ve kinda known this for awhile now but I thought that if I dedicated a lot of my time and energy towards having the best playing experience that I could--on all of the games in the series besides The Sims 1--and being more active in the Sims community that the spark would come back but the Sims community is kinda toxic...

I’ve never experienced drama over the Sims, personally, but I’ve definietly witnessed it (I think we all have at this point) and it’s ugly, very ugly. I don’t understand how a game where you’re basically playing virtual dollhouse could amount to SO much drama but here we are!! I never thought I’d be made to feel even more less-than in my finanical situation than I have just because I couldn’t afford some stupid CC trapped behind a paywall--sure, I got a lot of the things that I wanted through other ways *wink wink* but there’s still a lot of CC, that’s usually stolen from other games *cough* second life *cough* that’s being placed behind paywalls!!! And recently I find out that not only are these talentless hacks placing CC behind paywalls, they’re doxxing their suscribers too??? Disgusting behaviour.

Honorable Nuisances: The upkeep can be a lot -_-)...

Sims 4 -- Lots of mods get broken per update so you have to find which ones are broken unless it’s a common one that updates effect i.e. MC Command Center. It’s especially annoying if you have a lot of mods to sift through. A lot of mods are locked behind paywalls.

Sims 3 -- Oh, dear...where do I start? The upkeep for this game is nothing compared to any other and I’m confident in saying that. EA left a mess and it’s yours to clean up! If you have a fairly new system and a modern graphics card, you have to make sure the game recognizes it which is a whole process, not a hard one put a process nonetheless and a lot of the worlds are riddled with routing errors and bugs that can only be fixed through mods or else you’re game will be a laggy mess, speaking of laggy, this game will stay laggy no matter how much you optimize (for) it. I have a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Super and 16GB of RAM and yet the game still lags for me, not a lot but still I thought it’d be gone!

Sims 2 -- This game is a landmine, tread lightly or you’ll get corruption! Other than that, not too much upkeep besides getting the game to recognize your modern graphics card, renaming files for quicker load times and downloading some mods to fix some of the glitches or oddities but that’s mostly it. The loading time is bad and yes, I have used the “Bulk Rename Utility” and “The Compressorizer!”, still bad.

But yeah, that’s all I had to share and I’ll probably see you in the future when I get a fucking SSD or something 💚

[lanaevyssmoved]

i dont think ive seen any of ur pcs other than afhiri (who i adore) basically i am here to say if u want share pics and some facts abt ur other pcs!! :D

this is rue she is my durge and her playthrough got murdered by durge related bugs that i didnt wanna deal with and would rather wait for them to fix the cutscenes <3 also known as rue the impaler shes a wild magic sorcerer who got fed up of being one shot and became a tank with a barbarian multiclass <3 afhiri is a resist durge who i can explain best as those uncomfortable and uneasy to be around strange emo girls who stare into ur soul with lifeless eyes. shes pretty... but shes weird

my oc dru kind of got cannibalised by rue but still exists.. cuz dru's intended path literally doesn't work because i made her before i finished the game and the ending doesn't allow her to exist and it would have to be rewritten by me so much that i just don't have the energy so dru just lives in my lil au "what i wish the ending allowed" space in my brain <3 i'm not gonna share a picture because this also allows me to have her exist outside of the games limitations so no picture <3 she's so much cooler than the cc allows <3 dru is a high elf who is delusional and thinks shes actually a fey eladrin and is very uncomfortable to be around because shes just insane. completely isolated from society and the world and would have the hermit background if they didnt remove it .. larian literally didnt want her to exist.

unfortunately due to my pc death i no longer have asuras cc stuff so she will need to be remade but... this is asura shes literally terrible. shes my unfortunately extremely power hungry character who will accept every single option to make her stronger. she fucks mindflayers. and minthara. and she and minthara will rule the entire world together as tyrant wives and maybe they ascend. true love stuff. asura won't live until i'm confident minthara isn't a broken fucking mess . i think playing asura will make me worse. shes like how people play bhaalist durges who love their daddy but shes not the durge. shes just a bad person

THIS IS TAV. yeah his name is tav. they're just a tav man idk. this is my first character from full release tav is an ancients paladin whose entire vibe is "you don't quite suite your oath" and that's fun. they are the most lawful good boring ass motherfucker you ever met and literally my favourite type of character. he's all about Justice and Order and Goodness and Sacrificing Your Happiness For The Greater Good. that kind of annoying paladin! <3 tav never got to finish the game because my pc died and killed them. oh and tav has a twin who dedicated their life to annoying tav because .. like. lawful good paladin? DESERVES to be annoyed

which is really funny because the twin is my EA character! also tav! see the thing is. paladin tav is actually tav. but this monster? tav isn't their name. but they go by tav. just so they can hopefully fuck with their twins reputation. doing terrible things in their lawful good twins name!!! i still can't decide if i want twin tav to work with the guide and kiss nine-fingers keenne or work with the zhentharim and kiss rugan. or maybe they're a double agent and kiss both. idk!!! twin tav has literally no moral compass and just does shit for money mostly. and to make their twins life hell <3

and lastly i have this dude who doesn't have a place on my oc page because he doesn't have a name or nothing like. he's completely blank beyond i KNOW he's something to do with afhiri. so fun fact afhiri's lore was leading towards this dude being some sort of outer planes entity, either a god (dead star) or the herald of such, and baited afhiri through a portal as part of her destiny. this is how she gains her wild magic. BUT this was scrapped for what ended up happening (afhiri befriends a chwinga. cuteness ensues). HE STILL EXISTS IN AFHIRIS LORE SOMEWHERE - HE IS LITERALLY A COMPANION IN HER PARTY - when my pc stops crashing every time i play bg3 he's going to be on my blog a lot because im gonna use fancy editing to make him a companion and shove him in cutscenes. afhiri and he will kiss btw. i definitely don't want him to be actually a tiefling though this is just a form he uses to walk faerun and not to cause any ruckus... and to make afhiri feel ease around him <3 ALSO HES NOT ACTUALLY AFHIRIS GUARDIAN... u will see who is when my pc stops dying <3