Lucanis romance bug after Act 1 decision
Because it's DEFINITELY a bug that lucanis is perma-locked out of romance if you don't save Treviso, while you get to still romance neve eventually for the EQUAL and opposite decision? Especially whi...
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I’ve been following this discussion across various platforms about Lucanis’s romance being completely locked out if you don’t save Treviso since I found out about it early on post-release. I’m coming in here as someone whose first playthrough had me saving Minrathous instead to confirm that this choice does indeed lock him out of romance completely. And I’m also coming in here as someone whose second playthrough (and probably every one after this as a result) had me saving Treviso to confirm that the same lock out does NOT occur with Neve.
It still makes zero sense to me that BioWare would program it so that one of the romanceable companions gets permanently cut out of possible romances at all for the rest of the game because of a specific very early game decision, and yet the same thing does not happen to the other character affected by said same choice either way you choose.
The way I see it is, if you lock one out, you should lock the other out. Otherwise, do not lock ANYONE out. It does not add anything to the game story, lore, plot, or playability-wise, and only actually removes content. Which is alienating to players.
I originally thought this had to be a bug, but it doesn’t seem like it is the longer post-release goes on that it isn’t patched. It feels like it shouldn’t be a feature. It feels extremely shortsighted. And it sucks, because again, Neve is STILL ABLE TO BE ROMANCED NO MATTER YOUR CHOICE, and Lucanis ISN’T. He will ONLY be romanceable in a save Treviso playthough. Yes, I’m annoyed too.
Fully agree. It's not even good character development/exploration, because the writing doesn't hold up in terms of why this would be the case for him but not for Neve. It almost feels like the old "well, women forgive easier", despite her being very involved with her city. Not to mention he'll cut off romance with a SD Rook and then still romance Neve, just to really spit on the player's face. How does that make sense? Lock neither, lock both or, at the very least, lock the background romance if the player is locked out.
They were going on and on about you could romance the companions with any gender and any background, and then basically locked the Lucanis romance for one of the backgrounds, because why the hell would you choose Treviso as SD? Now I have to choose between my roleplay and my romance in this "very romantic" roleplaying game? And his is the only romance that can be locked out? Great. He always seems to get the short end of the stick, huh? Give me hard locks, then, based on background, race, gender, whatever. Don't give me false hope and then compromise my roleplaying in a roleplaying game.
It's giving very much putting character agency before player agency, like they forgot they were making a RPG, not writing a book. And even in terms of character agency, as I said, it does very little, if anything, for the character. A truly baffling decision all around.
