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.
Right? There is nothing about those characters that makes me think Lucanis cares more about Treviso than Neve does about Minrathous.
I also never took the "didn't have time for a romance" to be a permanent thing when I ran across it, but I abandoned that first playthrough for different reasons and chose to romance Davrin instead. Still a wafer-thin romance, but at least it works.
BioWare never seems to get these things right (as much as I love both DA and ME franchises), but with all the personal stories and advertisements of create the hero you want to be, or however they worded it, Veilguard is remarkably thin on choices.
This decision seems .... dumb.
