I’ve seen a few people talk about it, so I wanted to say - if your character uses they/them in Baldur’s Gate 3 and an NPC uses a gendered term for you, please submit a bug report! That is a flag that is being misapplied, and it can be fixed. There are thousands of pronoun cases in every playthrough, and a few are bound to be incorrect, so let Larian know.
But also be polite to QA in your form. They’re busting their ass 24/7 to provide fixes.
I don’t know what data BG3 sends/Larian QA receives with a bug report, but if you’re wondering how you can word things to help in a bug report in general (this goes for this bug & any others you may encounter), solid info you can add includes:
- Your character’s race, pronouns & class
- Location in which the bug occurred
- The NPC you were speaking to & the dialogue option selected (if you remember!)
- What quest you were on/progressing, if relevant
- Steps to Recreate/Step-by-Step of what happened, if possible (ie “NB Tiefling Paladin on Quest QUESTNAMEHERE -> talked to QUESTNPC -> Chose [PALADIN] PALADINDIALOG -> Received binary gendered response”)
The more detail you can provide, the easier it is for QA to narrow down where the bug, incorrect flag, etc is. Always be kind in your reports! Probably goes without saying, but QA is hard and stuff falls thru the cracks.
The fascinating thing about this particular patch note is that it implies the game engine is fully rendering your character’s penis at all times, not just when you take your pants off.
I’d say it was because they were accurately rendering the bulge, but if they’re clipping through, that clearly can’t be the case either.
Even if they wanted the bulges to be meticulously accurate, the sensible approach would have been to include a hidden penis size slider in the mesh for the trousers. That way, you could render the trousers with a bulge of appropriate dimensions baked into the mesh and simply switch the penis off whenever it’s fully covered; it’d be hugely computationally cheaper than doing fabric simulation to determine the bulge dimensions dynamically, you’d save on running needless penis physics calculations whose results will never be seen by the player, and there’d be no risk of penis clipping. The way they currently seem to be doing it is just sloppy penis optimisation.
@puppwitch - 40k how do they feel about the emperor? True believer, jaded? Like are they just here cause their friends are here?
More of a true believer than you’d think, but more by default than by indoctrination. I think she finds the idea of a benevolent (lol) all-powerful (lol) deity (heresy?) comforting. She relates to giving away pieces of yourself until there’s nothing left.
Of course, she may not be such a fan if she knew more. Ignorance is bliss.
@seahutch - What was the moment she discovered her psychic powers like?
Terrifying. She was a just a kid, already barely surviving among mutant enclaves deep in the underhive. She had no idea what was happening to her, only that trying to tell anyone got her shunned or attacked, until she learned to make herself useful.
And where did he eye iconography come from?
The eyes tattooed on her hands are stick and pokes she did in her early days, as a sort of calming/grounding ritual when her psychic connection was threatening to overwhelm her. Eyes and a feeling of being watched are kind of a common element in Warp weirdness, so it was a natural motif
The eye on her forehead was done when she was conscripted by the enforcers, as much to humiliate her as to pass her off as a ‘sanctioned’ psyker. The eye shape in specific is based on the iconography of the Adeptus Astra Telepathica.
Well we can assume her parents were probably fair haired and pale, though she never knew them. What else?
Her eyes glow because that’s a common trait among psykers. Her lips and ears are constantly nicked by frostbite, from both the frozen city she grew up in and warp-frost from overuse of her power. She wears tons of trinkets for comfort, because touching and remembering them helped her stay grounded before she had more sophisticated psychic protection.
Feel free to ask me stuff about Lark (or any of my ocs) any time! I love to talk about them, but occasionally need a kick to actually Do so
