Dear devs, thank you so much for letting the WoL speak outside of dialog options!

[Vuro]

As I've been playing through 6.3's quests (Euphrosyne, Tataru's Endeavor, MSQ), I've noticed the WoL has (for the most part) ditched the stoic nod in favor of speaking. They regularly answer questions, seem to say "thank you" when accepting items from NPCs, and volunteer information more readily than before. Their mouth is just silently moving when this happens, but even so, it makes our character feel much more like an active, engaged participant in conversations. My WoL is more alive than ever, and I'm loving it! Plus, I can substitute my own in-character dialog whenever he silently talks, which allows for a more immersive experience.

It's also kind of cool that this can be interpreted as character development for the canon WoL. They were once so reserved, stoic, and quiet, but now they've really come out of their shell! Ya love to see it.

EDIT: There seems to be some confusion. ^^; I'm not talking about more diverse dialog options, since those have been here since StB, but the way the WoL's mouth silently moves OUTSIDE of dialog options to indicate they're much more talkative than before, which is a trend that seems to have begun with this latest patch.

[Puc]

I hate my character agreeing to something i dont want them to

[RitsukoSonoda]

IMO we need more Fray like options in the dialogue boxes too... >.>

[ameliaw]

I personally dislike when they give me options that have the same meaning. Such as "Thank you." and "Thank you!". I might be the minority on that, but my wol might as well not talk at all.

[Midareyukki]

I hate my character agreeing to something i dont want them to

"Yes Yugiri, I will 100% go along with your assassination plan even though it's logistically the stupidest thing I've heard all expansion and know darn well it's going to end poorly."

"Of course Mikoto, I will 100% go along with your vision and not question any nuance or context behind it. I will simply entrust that everything go well both before and after the vision, and not wonder whether or not the enemy has loaded the area up with explosives prior to us arriving there, or if there's any other traitor in our midst feeding info back to Misija".

Like.

I get that we sometimes have no choice and kind of need to go along with the flow for the sake of the plot, but holy hells.

[ForteNightshade]

I personally dislike when they give me options that have the same meaning. Such as "Thank you." and "Thank you!". I might be the minority on that, but my wol might as well not talk at all.

This annoys me to no end. I appreciate they can't have widely conflicting responses because the story is linear but if you're going to offer dialogue choices at least make them have tonal or expressive changes.

[RobynDaBank]

I like it, somewhat. Some options are superfluous, but there are others which indicate tone - and that's really cool. As someone who likes reading books, I just love how the way a sentence is punctuated can approach close to direct speech indicators. Sentences with full stops are truncated, curt, and those with exclamation marks sound excited, hyped.

There's also almost always a "..." option. I've never gone for those, but I can bet those who see their WoL as a true silent, stoic person use those choices liberally.

[Vahlnir]

"Yes Yugiri, I will 100% go along with your assassination plan even though it's logistically the stupidest thing I've heard all expansion and know darn well it's going to end poorly.

This got a good laugh out of me. It's so dang true. Our poor WoLs. The lights are on but nobody's home.

[Iscah]

We've been doing various degrees of that for a long time, I'm fairly sure.

[JamieRose]

I hate my character agreeing to something i dont want them to

But I love when she gets to be extra snarky about it.