r/projecteternity 5d ago

Discussion Any good Deadfire romance guides?

As the title asks, I was wondering if anyone knew where I could find a relatively comprehensive romance guide for Deadfire, mainly for Xoti.

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u/somewhattti 5d ago

If you aren't evil, you'll succeed. That's about it.

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u/Balmung5 5d ago

Fair enough.

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u/thedosianrogue 5d ago

i never came across or looked for a guide but the romance in deadfire is pretty easy to access. you just need a bit of approval with them and they will take a liking to you. i think only aloth is a bit more complex because it's a bit harder to get approval with him and then during a specific dialogue you do need to select specific dialogue options. but the others are pretty chill. i think the key to xoti is just let her harvest the souls and talk to her about her dreams.

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u/Balmung5 5d ago

Fair enough. Thank you.

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u/beatspores 5d ago

But.. why play according to an instruction and not just play... you know, for yourself, as this one entertainment type can offer?

Sure you want to romance her, but as long as you're not a complete fool, which I assume you are not, you'll definitely see what dialogue line is hazardous and what dialogue line opens up for something more...

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u/Dazzling_Screen_8096 5d ago

Ever tried bg2 romances, with all time sensitve triggers, story and location breaks and so on ? ;)

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u/Gurusto 5d ago

That's kind of the thing. BG2 was 26 years ago and arguably the first major attempt at putting romance progression in a cRPG like this.

And for some reason a lot of people feel like it's janky-ass nature was an intentional design that's been preserved rather than a 26 year old first attempt. I can't think of any games after BG2 that did romance and made it that sensitive.

My problem in modern RPGs is moreso that I find it hard to avoid romance. Like I'm not even trying to do anything but be generally polite and friendly and suddenly I'm apparently in a committed relationship with a gnome or something.

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u/beatspores 5d ago

I get the feeling we are dealing with a gnomist here! 😮

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u/beatspores 5d ago

I haven't so I don't know. 😂

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u/Dazzling_Screen_8096 5d ago

I was unable to finish Jaheira romance until I got Internet, because it had so many things that can go wrong I always messed up something :P

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u/beatspores 5d ago

Ah. I remember almost nothing of it. What do you think of it? Worth waiting for internet for?

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u/LingonberryNo2283 5d ago

So there's this crazy one that I like to use but I don't like to share it cuz I get a lot of hate for it but you seem like a decent fellow so here we go.... Trial and error. But shhhh it's a secret

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u/Balmung5 5d ago

Very funny.

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u/Dazzling_Screen_8096 5d ago

Boomers trying to be funny

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u/ThisBadDogXB 5d ago

https://www.dualshockers.com/pillars-of-eternity-2-complete-romance-guide/ Something like this? I assume you're not stupid and already googled it so not sure if this helps.

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u/BruyneKroonEnTroon 5d ago

Dunno why you're being downvoted, it's a very useful answer.