Exactly what it says on the tin. There is no need whatsoever to know about your group members' procs or their class buffs. Not showing these at all in the ops frame should, in fact, be the default behavior. This really ought to be a no-brainer, and I'm sure it's been suggested before, but, ya know... please? It shouldn't be too hard. The framework is already there.

Took long enough! But I'm now comfortable just waiting for that patch.

Most, but not all, of the letters you get from vanilla love interests imply they will return to play *some* role. Whether that's just more letters... no one knows at this point. Of course, one love interest is already returning in the very next chapter. So there's that.

The older romances haven't been updated with any of that stuff, so you won't see any pop-ups or anything. You also don't need influence to get all the right dialogs—the availability of those is strictly down to progress through the plot now. Influence is only for combat and crew skill performance. Since you finished Elara's romance very recently, I doubt you'll see anything wrong once you start KotFE. It seems to be something affecting romances that were completed before the expansion.

Begin chapter 2. If you're able to refer to having found love in your conversation with Valkorion about your companions, and then again when he mentions having himself found love, you're in the clear. To get the letter, finish chapter 2. Your influence level is now irrelevant to romance. All dialog with companions is now based on story progress, not influence. If you had max affection before, you'll have 10,000 influence now. Don't worry about that. It will only affect combat performance and crew skill results.

No. Every one of them has a letter, and every one of them can be acknowledged (not by name) in the conversation options—as long as the romance is not bugged.

Strange update. Remember when I said my sorcerer didn't get the right conversation options, but received Ashara's letter anyway? Well, I had been holding back on leveling my assassin for the same reason. While testing my other characters through chapter 1, I backed out of the first conversation with Valkorion because of that. Just today I decided that since my sorcerer wasn't bugged, and so at least one had a working Ashara romance, I may as well just go through with my assassin. And then he got the correct dialog options with Valkorion. I don't know what's gone on since the first time, but if you've got characters who have backed out of the conversation, give it a try again. Maybe you'll get lucky too.

It's still so strange to me that I didn't receive the conversation options but still got the letter. I actually backed out of the conversation several times, exited/re-entered the area. Then I shelved my sorc for about a week before deciding to say 'eff it' and go ahead anyway.

Are you sure about that? My assassin and sorcerer's conversation options were identical. The former was bugged, the latter was not. The only indication that he was not was the letter from Ashara upon completing chapter 3.

You get the e-mail immediately upon completing chapter 3 (after you're told how long you've been gone and then crash into the swamp). If you exit the area, you can go find a mail box.

It's not the trigger. The conversation options will not be presented to you at all if the romance is bugged. I believe that, no matter how you respond to either question, if the romance is active, you will still receive the appropriate e-mail.

At the end of chapter 2. Sadly, that means it's bugged for you. The first conversation occurs when Valkorion criticizes your choice of companions and tells you they will drift apart without you. The smuggler will get the chance to say something to the effect of, "well, I'm sharing a bunk with one of them." The "maybe you'll find love" conversation doesn't let you say anything special as a smuggler. Mine said "I've had many lovers" and received the proper message from Akaavi. He did get the chance to say the "bunking together" line above, though. "I love one of them" for the companions convo and "I already found love" in the "maybe you'll find love too" convo. Same as the others (except smuggler, inquisitor and, as I said, probably agent).

No, that's not true at all. That character is the same for every base class, regardless of relationship status. Smuggler: Corso. Consular: Iresso. Knight: Kira. Trooper: Jorgan. Warrior: Vette. Inquisitor: Andronikos. Bounty Hunter: Mako. Agent: Kaliyo. For the inquisitor, you won't be able to tell until you've completed chapter 2, as the dialog doesn't seem to be set up for them the same way as it is for the other classes. I received the appropriate message from Ashara after completing chapter 2 despite expected dialog options not being presented to me. In an earlier post, I suggested this may be part of that character's overall 'flavor', as it is with the smuggler and agent. For every other class but smuggler, you will be able to talk to Valkorion about having found love. The smuggler only gets to do this once, near the beginning of the chapter; the second opportunity for every other class comes in the scene near the Eternal Throne before you "are reborn". I suspect that the agent also only receives one opportunity, since their lines are very similar to the smuggler's, but my sniper's romance was broken, and I deliberately romanced no one on my operative.

Personally, I wouldn't call them. There are things they actually can help with, and calling them with a bug report just keeps them from doing that for other players.

What is happening is that, despite the romance having been completed, many characters are not presented with the option to speak about their love interest with Valkorion, and also never receive the letter afterward—which strongly implies that whatever flag(s) is responsible for identifying a completed romance has been set to an inactive state. This is worrying because that means there is a high probability that the romance will not be acknowledged in future chapters, should those characters reappear (and everything so far indicates they will---eventually). What has players concerned is that even if the bug is fixed, there may be no way for their current characters to ever have the flag properly set again, hence a reluctance to play through the current content.

Just wait to do the romance until you're ready to move on to KotFE. Put him on hold if the bug isn't fixed by then. When it is, complete the vanilla romance and then whiz through KotFE. It's far more likely they'll have an easy fix for people who haven't started KotFE yet.

XD I agree.

I agree. It's frustrating. Even if it can't be reliably reproduced yet, I'd still like acknowledgment.

All there in the title. This would make many types of armor look better when your character is not wearing a helmet---and often, if the helmet does not extend far along the neck, when s/he IS wearing one. Look at most pieces of armor that actually cover the character's chest, especially the pieces that actually *are* meant to be armor. Now make sure you aren't wearing a helmet. Look at the spot where your character's neck meets the armor. Your armor looks like it's tattooed onto your character's skin rather being WORN (because it actually *isn't* any thicker, in most cases, than your character's naked body—in fact, for male BT2s at least, it seems like they lose a very small part of their superior trapezius in the process), and it makes them look. The reason for this is that there are very few pieces that have something around the neck to give the illusion of thickness. This is one of the things I love about pieces like the Contraband Runner Jacket and the Nefarious Bandit's Breastplate. They have prominent, folded collars which add "thickness" to the appearance even though it's still skin-tight at the front of the neckline. So the solution to better appearances, especially when helmetless? Simple. Add more dimension to the neckline. This doesn't have to come at a cost of clipping with most helmets, either. A VERY simple and small, raised metal band, say, around the neckline for a piece of what is supposed to be thick, heavy bounty hunter or trooper armor, especially around the back and the sides, would give a decent-looking helmetless appearance and be compatible with almost every other helmet without noticeable clipping.

My sniper's romance with Temple has also been affected. Rather certain he did not flirt with Lana at all, and definitely not with Cytharat (spelling) in RotHC. He is also an older character.

Not until they increase item stack sizes. I'm glad for the ability to compress my materials into fewer stacks.

This is the most moronic thing I've read this week, and I accidentally read one of Donald Trump's tweets today.

Correct.

It could be a flavor thing (most of the Inquisitor's lines, even LS, bend toward megalomania), or it could be an oversight.

Don't start with the back and forth, guys. We should keep this thread on-topic. I want to come back with an update: my sorcerer's romance with Ashara was NOT, in fact, bugged. It seems that (male, at least) inquisitors never get an option to specifically talk about their love interest, so it's not possible to tell whether they're bugged until you're past chapter 2.