NPC dialog in multiplayer

Manveru

I don't see this anywhere yet, so I just bring it up here. I though this would be mostly applicable for BG2EE, but as BGEE now gets NPC's with more dialog I'll just bring it up now.

Current behaviour:
Lets say you play with 2 players, both controlling 1 PC and 1 NPC (or more). Now if a dialog triggers between NPC A and B and A begins asking a question to B or make a statement B replies on, the dialog breaks off suddenly. For example: Player 1 controls Minsc and player 2 controls Aerie, this makes sure that Aerie can never become Minscs witch as the dialog breaks off.

Expected behaviour:
Dialog between NPC's controlled by different players does not break off, but continues as normal.

Single_Issue_Voter

This question is so very highly relevant to my interests. I thought I read somewhere (and Manveru's question seems to mirror what I thought I read) that players could choose to control NPCs instead of creating a custom character. That's what I want to do--no custom characters, all NPCs (aside from the main character, of course). But will that break the inter-party dialogue?

Anton

Topics worth mentioning:
https://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/4487/the-issue-with-multiplayer

Feature requests:
https://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/40/request-multiplayer-enhancement-beaconspingstarget-indicators
https://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/1498/request-ability-to-pingmarker-in-multiplayer
https://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/36/request-multiplayer-enhancement-simultaneous-shop-use

Manveru

It does break that way, at least in Baldur's gate 2. We played it with 3 PC's (3 players) and 3 NPC's. There wasn't much inter party dialog in BG1 as far as I remember, but with the new NPC's that might change so I hope they'll fix this.

minutus

I wonder if this was looked at and whether a fix is feasible? Single most annoying mp issue for me.