It’s not the best, but you can group the other player characters with your character so they just follow you around the same way the origin characters do. You still lose the slot, but it’s otherwise the same as using an origin character.
My wife left early last night while we were playing and her character ended up coming in clutch in many combats. Figuring out I could get her to follow me was a game changer
It’s looking like I will only get to play around 3 hours a week with friends and I’m ready. Last night’s session was fantastic. It felt like meeting up once a week for a more simplified DnD session. We got through a fair chunk of content.
You may never be able to reach the end of the game, but I think if you enjoy the base gameplay then it’ll still be very worthwhile
Except you’d have to be always online to play it that way, and forcing always online as the only way to play is a huge part of what killed the Xbox One. It wouldn’t surprise me if Xbox isn’t ready to try and push that again (as the only option, they’re obviously fine having it be AN option on their console)
Dang it’s a good thing people don’t play games for fun otherwise you might actually have a point, doofus