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No more gender specification in kit descriptions?

SharGuidesMyHandSharGuidesMyHand Member Posts: 2,582
in The Road to v1.2
In non-beta BG:EE, the kit descriptions are tailored to the gender of your character. So for example, if my current character is a female undead hunter, the description would read, "This holy avenger has honed HER abilities..."

In the new beta, the descriptions seem to be using male default descriptions (i.e: "This holy avenger has honed HIS abilities...") irrespective of the character's gender.

Maybe this isn't technically a "bug," since the original BG1 didn't differentiate between genders either, but I thought it was a nice touch added by BG:EE which I would like to see kept if at all possible.

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  • JalilyJalily Member Posts: 4,681
    That definitely isn't supposed to happen, but I can't reproduce the issue. This is a long shot, but has your character changed gender (girdle, wild surge)?
  • ajwzajwz Member Posts: 4,122
    Maybe it is just for one or two kit specific descriptions? Which kit did you notice it on?
  • DzarinDzarin Member Posts: 11
    edited October 2013
    I just tested this on the latest build (v1.0.2028, 12th Oct 2013). To reproduce this case:

    1. Start a new game and create a new character: female, human, undead hunter
    2. Notice that the class description (correctly) uses the pronoun "her"
    3. Outside of Candlekeep Inn, press "r" to view the character record
    4. Select "Kit Description"
    5. Notice that the class description (incorrectly) uses the pronoun "his"
  • SharGuidesMyHandSharGuidesMyHand Member Posts: 2,582
    @Jalily - No, I didn't change gender.

    @ajwz - I used a female undead hunter.

    Dzarin appears to be correct - the gender is correct on the character creation screen, but wrong on the record screen during gameplay.

    Interestingly, when I play the tutorial using a female undead hunter, my own kit description uses the wrong gender, but Branwen's cleric description uses the female gender.
  • JalilyJalily Member Posts: 4,681
    Ah, I see the problem. Should be fixed for the next update.
  • SharGuidesMyHandSharGuidesMyHand Member Posts: 2,582
    Jalily said:

    Ah, I see the problem. Should be fixed for the next update.

    Thanks!
  • SharGuidesMyHandSharGuidesMyHand Member Posts: 2,582
    Jalily said:

    Ah, I see the problem. Should be fixed for the next update.

    I just reopened a couple of my saved games and noticed that Kivan's and Khalid's kit descriptions use the female gender. In each case, my player character was a female whose own kit description used the male gender.
  • JalilyJalily Member Posts: 4,681
    @SharGuidesMyHand For technical reasons, they're all supposed to use Charname's gender. What was your player character's kit in those cases?
  • SharGuidesMyHandSharGuidesMyHand Member Posts: 2,582
    Jalily said:

    @SharGuidesMyHand For technical reasons, they're all supposed to use Charname's gender. What was your player character's kit in those cases?

    Archer in both cases.
  • JalilyJalily Member Posts: 4,681
    Shouldn't be a problem anymore...
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