Baldur’s Gate 3 players slam one companion for still feeling like “Early Access” content

Baldur’s Gate 3 players have branded one of the game’s most controversial characters as still feeling like they’re part of Early Access content, due to a variety of bugs and glitches.

Larian Studios has always been quick to update Baldur’s Gate 3 with features that the player base has called for. Those changes, including the widely-praised magic mirror and additional romance options, have been a big part of why so many players have stuck with the game, despite it being a largely single-player experience.

However, there are always a few bugs here and there whenever you change something in a game with as many moving parts as this, and for a change as big as making Minthara available for all playthroughs, it was inevitable that some strange things would crop up.

However, some players aren’t happy with the state of the Drow paladin, saying that she feels like she’s part of an unfinished game.

Baldur’s Gate 3 players argue Minthara isn’t the same as other companions

In the current game state, Minthara and Halsim will share a tent in your camp if you recruit both, with Minthara clipping into the furniture frequently. It’s a lot easier to recruit her than it used to (you don’t have to turn her into a sheep anymore), but her inclusion is still a little rough around the edges.

“Let’s be real. Minthara is still in EA.” One player claimed. “It seems to be very clear now that Larian has a lot of plans for Minthara that go beyond some simple dialogues.

“From adding her in a more genuine way for non-grove slaughter runs to expanding her romance interactions like they recently did with the durge run. Even if you play with her in a slaughter the Grove run she feels a bit incomplete compared to even Jaheira and Minsc.”

Another player described her as “totally broken” and described how she even ruined the story of the game: “Minthara talks about missions that she either wasn’t present for or we haven’t even started yet. What gives? Almost everything about her is completely and utterly broken.

“Is this story actually about her? Is Baldurs Gate the hallucinations of a psych ward patient named Minthara? Are we all pawns? A figment of her imagination? She could at least try to keep the story in chronological order.”