Travel back to Act 1, receive backpack with goodberry?!?

[DrMcCoy]

I was just in the middle of clearing out Crèche Y'llek when I saved yesterday, before Patch 1. So I loaded, finished that, then wen to pawn off some stuff to Esther.

I still have a lot more stuff left, so I thought I'd travel back to the Myconoid collony (and then the druid grove) to sell the rest, but this time I got a dialog box that I'm traveling to a different region.

And I receive a backpack out of the blue. Looking into it, it looks like a companion backpack, with a camp supply bag, reviviy scroll, etc. And a goodberry. Now, I already know that Jaheira is supposed to join me some time along the way and IIRC, she's a druid. So that smells like her backpack maybe. Is that the game accidentally telling me that she dies when I travel back?

[Oozy Monster]

Doesn't Lae'vel leave the party if you don't handle her companion quest within a certain amount of time? Maybe it's her stuff?

[DrMcCoy]

Well, traveling does send me to the night camp instead, where, when I sleep, I get a cutscene with Voss. And I can convince Lae'zell to hear him out; she stays.

The backpack isn't her stuff either. She still has her camp supply pack, for starters, and the backpack I got doesn't continue all her other stuff either.

[Gingermonkey]

Originally posted by DrMcCoy:

Well, traveling does send me to the night camp instead, where, when I sleep, I get a cutscene with Voss. And I can convince Lae'zell to hear him out; she stays.

The backpack isn't her stuff either. She still has her camp supply pack, for starters, and the backpack I got doesn't continue all her other stuff either.

I doubt its Jahieras unless you left while some obviously important stuff was going on. Could be Halsins

[iloness]

Is Halsin in your party?
I have a problem that Halsin becomes aggressive towards the rest of the characters inside the camp. And if I try to move to another location, he disappears, his things appear in my bag and the journal says that Halsin decided to leave. I'm about at the end of the second act

[Razorblade]

Sounds like Halsin's bag. The new update tries to prevent him and Minthara from being in the same party by killing Halsin off at some point if Minthara is still alive, so maybe that has something to do with it.

[DrMcCoy]

You might be right.

He's still in my camp in the night scene. But he's gone when I finish sleeping and travel to the Act 1 destination, and then go back to the camp.

I didn't actually travel to the Shadowlands proper yet. I did everything in the Underdark, rode the elevator, which triggered Act 2. Then I went back to the Mountain Pass to do the Creche.

So this might be the game partially thinking I'm reacing Act 3, where he leaves?

Which means when I continue with that path, I basically completely cut myself off from any of the Halsin stuff in Act 2, no?

[DrMcCoy]

Originally posted by Razorblade:

Sounds like Halsin's bag. The new update tries to prevent him and Minthara from being in the same party by killing Halsin off at some point if Minthara is still alive, so maybe that has something to do with it.

I killed Minthara, though, and all the other Goblin leaders.

[DrMcCoy]

Ooooh, my Journal now says that we can Minthara's instruments...

So maybe my save thinks I went with her instead now? Ugh

[DrMcCoy]

Yeah, looking at my previous saves, the last save of Act 1, before entering the elevator in the Grymforge area in the Underdark, says "Halsin" in the Moonrise Towers quest. My first save Act 2, after meeting Elminster, says "Minthara.

Somehow, the game got confused there for me.

But I don't know if that is retroactively broken due to Patch #1. The save was orginally from Hotfix #4. I don't think I've checked the journal when I made that save yesterday.

[DrMcCoy]

Okay, and when I don't use the elevator, instead go the mountain pass and go to the shadowlands from there, it also changes to "Minthara" :/

[Orin_Slythe]

This just hit me as well. Either reload 4 hours back or abandon unfinished quests in Act 1 areas? How do we report this? Was kind of counting on Halsin to fix this parasite issue...

[DrMcCoy]

You can submit a bug report here: https://larian.com/support/baldur-s-gate-3#modal

I did so and attached a save from end of Act 1 (correct state, according to the journal) and one from start of Act 2 (wrong state, according to the journal).

Probably a good idea for you to do similar, so the they have more points to compare to see what's wrong, and know there's more people affected.

[neiluj]

Hey guys, I am having the exact same situation !
What should I do ? I didn't have the opportunity to do the creche quest... And I don't want to lose Halsin.

[DrMcCoy]

Right now, you can do nothing, it seems. The world state in our saves is borked. As soon as we reach either the passage from the Underdark to the Shadowlands or the Shadowlands itself (by going through the mountain pass), the game seems to assume we sided with Minthara instead of Halsin.

I messed around with the corpse of Minthara, talked some more with Halsin, checked the druid grove, etc. Nothing helped.

You might want to submit a bug report (see my comment above) to notify them that more people are affected by the bug. And send them your save (or two, as I did, see above), so that they have more data points to check, and see what our game state has in common that might trigger the issue.

How did you go about with the goblin camp / druids quest? Might be that something we did there triggered the issue.

Me, I free Sazza, let her lead me to Minthara, then convinced her to not kill Sazza. Then I told Minthara that no, I'm not going to attack the grove, I'm going to kill her instead. So I killed Minthara. I also talked to her with Speak with Dead afterwards to learn a few things. Then In went after all the other goblin leaders (unfortunately, Sazza turned hostile when I attacked the priestess, so I killed her as well).

I then went outside, killed all the goblins there. Then I searched the camp for ages for Halsin, both inside and outside. I also stepped over the area boundary to the forest a few times. When I finally found the door to the kennel where Halsin was kept, he already freed himself.

I then went back to the grove, where the tieflings greeted me happily, met Halsin there, did the party, etc.

So I did talk to Minthara a bit about all the jazz and I do have one Journal entry about how Minthara said something. Might be that the game misidentifies this as me going all the way instead of "betraying" her.

[Orin_Slythe]

Bug report issued, guess my playthrough is Dead in the water until/if its ever resolved.