I think it marked your compass, so kind of?
They were on the compass and on the map. More importantly a good number of quests were unplayable without them because you were never told the crucial info an existing marker represents.
Quest markers aren't cancerous in and of themselves. I prefer them sometimes when I don't want to think so much. That said, the option to turn them on and off is god-tier.
Lack of extreme violence in npc deaths is also a sad state of affairs from the creators of Fallout... no gibs, yet another step back from New vegas and Bethesda Fallout's
I think they could add it very easily since they already have critical hits that depend on body parts (in robots it's the core, in humans it was the head), so they could have gore and explosions.
It's not the ease of implementation, its the lack of will to do it. Maybe they want to play it safe, which is weird considering hyper violent action rpg's like Fallout and Borderlands sell millions and garner a cult following.
Patel and Starks.
Boyarsky too, no? And Chris L'Etoile stopped working on Outer Worlds only two weeks ago. If the game is close to being finished then he might be considered a major writer too.
That's when you play Robotron or something newfag.
Deadfire has the most dialogue options of any RPG, so anything less would be decline.
