Larian's Changes To Minthara Indicate Deeper Flaws

Minthara-lovers have had a hard time this month. Earlier in March, an update to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:changed the Minthara romance with The Dark Urge in a way that a lot of fans hated. After this update, if The Dark Urge resisted their urge and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:rid themselves of Bhaal’s inಌfl🔯uence, Minthara would break up with them. While our own James Troughton 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:defended the change, saying that it was in fact in character for Minthara to do so because she is, at her core, power-hungry and evil, Larian has now said that th🐽is was an unintentional🍸 change and patched it out.

This was a theory that TheGamer raised in our init🦋ial coverage – the change wasn’t mentioned in the patch notes, and would be quite a big one for a hotfix. It turns out that this was cut content that was accidentally reimplemented because of the update, and therefore was totally unintentional. This makes me think, though, about how flawed Baldur’s Gate 3 is as a game, as mu🦂ch as I love it and have invested into it since launch.

Part of this is just how buggy the game still is, though a lot of the worst bits (especially in the third act) h♔ave♕ been fixed in patches over time. The bugginess is to be expected, considering how big and intricate this game is. When it was first released, developers and critics alike were awed at how much freedom it offered players and how well-made it was, considering the potential for technical disaster. But that doesn’t change the fact that it was very, very buggy on release, and it still is. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Patches to the game ofteღn cr✤eate more bugs, as we’ve seen here, and players are constantly finding more issues.

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I’ve 🦩learned to overlook the bugs as much as possible, but they still often disrupt my gameplay or worse, force me to reload old saves. I had an issue with Shadowheart getting frightened dur꧟ing the first fight with Ketheric and being frozen permanently in place. Characters randomly stop having voice lines, though I can see their dialogue on the screen. Wyll acts both as if I’ve saved Grand Duke Ravengard and let him die. Quests don’t update in the tracker when they should. I never know what’s game-breaking and what’s not, so I just keep going, hoping that a future patch or just bulldozing through will fix the issue. Sometimes it does, and sometimes it doesn’t. Bugs like this are a real problem, and I’m not sure if the game will ever be playable without coming up against an issue like this.

But I’m also concerned that there was this much discourse over whether this behaviour was in character for Minthara at all, making it unclear if this was even a mistake or not. In fact, when I first read that Larian had backtracked on the update, I assumed it was pandering to players again and the change hadn’t been a mistake – after all, the developer did 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:make Minthara recruitable 𓃲on good runs, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a move I found very fan-servicey.

Minthara is largely considered by the community to be 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the most underdeveloped companion. I haven’t recruited her, so I can’t judge this for myself, but many players see her as evil for evil’s sake, power-hungry with no redeeming qualities. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Even her writer says so – there’s no fixing her, she’s just bad. I’m down with a character not having a redemption arc, but that’s not the issue. It’s that something as important as whether she’d cut her partner off for something is so controversial. Her character hasn’t been as fleshed out as the other companions’, so it's easy to project motivations and thoughts onto her.

Maybe I’m just being greedy, but if Baldur’s Gate 3 is going to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:keep changing and evolving over time, I’d love to see Minthara get more development. Her romance arc has been criticised for being very lacking, with only one romance scene and not muchও else. Sure, she’s not an origin character, and Halsin also only has one scene, but your romance with Halsin has three acts of build up. Minthara, meanwhile, will hook up with you right after you do Tiefling genocide, and there’s not much after that. Minthara deserves better.