Made for Patch 7 - Hotfix 28, Working with Patch 8


OK SO. Some of my favorite party banter in the entire game was between Wyll and Lae'zel—the flirty banter you could get between them early on, where Wyll tells her he's never met anyone like her, and she says she's been told she's quite scintillating (roll for deception. Or performance. Whichever you roll to tell a joke—I really love her sense of humor so much ;u;)

It was so cute and so funny, and I was so sad when they removed it from the game a while back. Because yes, they did remove it!!! If you've been wondering why that banter wasn't triggering anymore, that's why. And it wasn't just disabled from playing ingame, it was removed entirely. The files were entirely gone—until now!

This mod restores the cut flirty banter between Wyll and Lae'zel, as well as the followup if Shadowheart's in the party too.

Now you won't have to miss Wyll going "Oh~!" at Lae'zel saying she believes in uh...a certain kind of romance, anymore!

(Look, I get why Larian might've removed it. I'm guessing they thought it was out of character for Wyll in the full release of the game, and I can kinda understand why, even if I don't agree. I personally think it was fine, though! He's a hopeless romantic looking for the love of his life—he can put himself out there a little!! Let him have a little fun and flirt a bit!!! He deserves it—as a treat 💗💋)

You can find a video of all the banter I restored here:



This is the third mod in the Wyll Cinematic Universe, an ongoing project by Aimryax and I to add more content for Wyll, including restoring cut content like this.

All the other WCU mods, including this custom romance cutscene we made for Wyll, can be found towards the end of this page!!



The banter will trigger as long as Wyll and Lae'zel (and Shadowheart, for her followup) are in the same party.

There are two versions of the mod:

Romance Flag:

This version adds a new condition for the banter to trigger, compared to the original triggers in the vanilla game before the banter was removed: with this version of the mod, the banter will only play if Wyll isn't romancing anyone. This should apply to both singleplayer and multiplayer saves, but let me know if you're still getting it while romancing Wyll!

While I don't think him flirting with Lae'zel and Shadowheart in and of itself is out of character, I do think it would be if he were romancing anyone, so I've disabled the banter in that situation.

However, for people with polyam headcanons, and who are playing with polyam mods, I've also added a second version of the mod:

Polyamory Friendly:

This version of the mod removes the flag testing to make sure Wyll's not romancing anyone, to improve immersion and compatibility with polyam headcanons and mods!

This version will let banter the play, both with and without a romance with Wyll.

Only install ONE version at a time!



The mod is safe to install and uninstall mid-playthrough! You can even install it and get the banter in later parts of the game, including Act 3.

The banter might take a while to trigger in some cases, if there's a lot of other banter you haven't gotten yet. Just keep walking around with Wyll and Lae'zel in the party, and you should be able to trigger it eventually!!


Compatibility:

This mod doesn't override any existing files or resources, so there shouldn't be many compatibility issues! The Romance Flag version of the mod does have some Osiris scripting in it, but the script is just meant to add a new flag I made testing to make sure Wyll isn't dating anyone; it doesn't alter any existing scripts or affect party banter behavior. It's possible there might be unexpected interactions with mods that do alter party banter behavior, but this mod itself doesn't change anything about existing scripts or files; it's just restoring the files that were cut. Definitely let me know if you have any problems, though!



Installation and Uninstallation:

Use the BG3 Mod Manager to install. Uninstall by deleting the mod from your mods folder.

The mod is safe to install and uninstall mid-playthrough!


Known Issues:

Lipsync for the banter unfortunately does not work. It's not super noticeable for party banter; most of the time you're zoomed out away from the characters when they're talking anyway, but I thought I'd make a note of it. This is something I'd like to fix in the future, but lipsync in this game is extremely, extremely finicky (you can read a bit about that in my guide to adding new voice lines here) so it might take a bit for me to fix it.

It's a minor issue, so hopefully it won't be too noticeable in your own games.

UPDATE: I've got a new method for adding lipsync, without needing FaceFX, so I will be able to add lipsync when I have time! Adding that is now in my future plans for the mod, but it might take a lil bit to get it set up. Keep an eye out for that, though!

Lipsync is now fixed as of the 1.1.0.0 version of the mod! Yay!

As always, let me know if you run into any issues, and enjoy! 🎶🌼💗


Credits:

Thank you very much to AlitheaAncunin for helping me get the archived versions of the dialogue files I needed to restore the banter, and thank you very much to my dear friend and fellow mastermind behind the WCU, Aimryax, who helped me troubleshoot ways to get this banter to trigger properly!!! Your help was truly invaluable, thank you!!!! 🌷🌼🎶



Other Mods In The Wyll Cinematic Universe:

• Brightest Star - A New Act 3 Romance Scene For Wyll
• Francesca's Journal
  

Mods Used In Previews:

• Terpsichore - Wyll Edits
• Wyll's Devil Form
• Wyll's Face Textures Restored
• Dies Irae head (I'm using it as a loose file replacement for Shadowheart)
• And custom head, body, and clothing meshes I made for my wizard, Jason. I won't be releasing the head mesh for other characters, but I'm working on making the body and clothing available!
  

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Before you go, please check out these resources I've compiled.

I do link them on pretty much all my mod pages, but considering everything going on in the world, I wanted to highlight them. Please, do what you can to help, and take care of yourselves, ok?

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