Hi there~
I have a question regarding the Triss romance... Figured I could ask it here since this seems like the place to find the Triss experts! But let me know if I should post it elsewhere...
I bought the game on release and being a bit of a completionist, have only just recently finished it. Throughout the game I romanced
only Triss, but when the epilogue came up it said Geralt ended up alone!! I was pretty floored because as far as I knew I hadn't done anything wrong.
With a little research I realized when I met her at the fountain in Novigrad later in the game, she was supposed to talk to me about moving to Kovir, this however never happened! I honestly had no idea why not because in her goodbye scene at the docks earlier in the game she ended up coming back and the romance scene popped up successfully.
Then, with a bit more digging around, I found
this thread about how originally if you DON'T say "I love you" to convince her to stay, all other options were supposed to fall flat and not work on her. This apparently didn't get fixed until patch 1.05?? and I of course played this around patch 1.03. I told Triss, "Stay with me" (just felt more natural to the scene for me) and at the time it worked (And after I remember even looking at guides online to confirm my dialogue would work)... But I am wondering if this is possibly what ruined my romance with Triss? And I just didn't realize it until recently, because my playthrough has been over the course of so much time and many different patches, that I missed the signs until now...
Can anyone confirm this? Or have any other ideas on what went wrong? I thought maybe it was just a glitch initially when I saw my ending, but now I realize it might have been this misstep of the dock scenes. I was originally hoping to reload a past save, and fix the problem so I could end the game on a happier note, but now I'm starting to realize, if I have to go all the way back to the dock scene... I might as well just start a new game entirely! :/