Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24473150-20140207120340/@comment-24376253-20140208090701

The thing is the developers feel it's a bit more immersive to find these things out for yourself instead. NPC reacting to your characters race would also have major disadvantages to some races and the opposite to others which would unbalance the game. As for influence on the world or small changes in the speech options I think we'll have to wait until the next installment for those features to come in play.