NPC Interactions and Immersion - Beta Criticism

I like the main quest, it feels natural and interesting at the same time. The cutscenes are also fun. So in general I like the direction that WH is taking.

On the other hand, I was initially creeped out by Sir Robard’s face in the first cutscene. I think WH might be hitting the uncanny valley here. The quality of his face is so much better than the rest of the visuals that my brain wasn’t at first sure what it’s looking at. :wink:

Now in the beta are some scanned faces and some generic. For the final there will be much more scanned faces, maybe all.
Hitting the uncanny vally: Yes, I think this could happen…

Dan (the lead designer / writer) mentioned several times that bloody baron quest has the quality they aim for. So we will see. On a podcast he mentioned that their translator has hard times translating some Czech words like ‘andělíčkařka’ (a woman who did abortions in mediaval times) so it seems they do try to include some moral dilemma.

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