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I play completely vanilla btw, no mods at all.
The weird thing is you just have often acquired Halsin and Minthara (if you have) when if you try and take them back into Moonrise Towers, the game warns you against doing it, because they will be recognized. OK, I get that AFA Halsin, but I told the guards Minthara was my thrall and prisoner when I brought her out, so nobody should care that I'm bringing her back in.
(In practice, it really matters very little if you bring either back into the towers, unless you screw something else up.)
But new in Patch 7, she will acknowledge being KO'd by the player (if that happened), and ask why they did that.
I'd even go as far as saying that over the course of the game the main focus is on the companions you get in Act 1.
Starting mid- to end-Act 2, when you're able to recruit Halsin and Jaheira and going into Act 3, you kinda get the feeling that Halsin, Jaheira, Minthara and Minsc are just tagging along because they have nothing else to do. Excluding the obligatory "let's stop the bad guys".
They have stuff to say, sure, but they're not exactly as fleshed out as Lae'zel, Shadowheart, Astarion, Gale or Wyll, which still grinds my gears or is just a me-thing personally.
Then you have "tier 2" - Halsin, Minthara, Jaheira, and Minsc. Who definitely have less, because they were never meant to be played as origins (though you can do it with mods, usually with weird results.)
If you "hack" Minthara to bring her back into Act 1 areas from Act 2, she literally has nothing to say.
Karlach will have considerable more content if you romance her.
Or you could gauge the amount of attention the companions have gotten by the degree of horniness from the community, which Astarion got the most of (still don't get why - he's an insufferable snatch who isn't particularly attractive either).
Whereas Minthara, despite having the only working romance scene in the Early Access, has been shafted and forgotten probably because male gaze = bad or something (she had a steamer alternate romance scene in EA that you had to pass a Persuasion check for, but it got cut out of the full game), or, on a more serious note, she's just been heavily cut down / altered together with the proper evil route through the game we've never gotten, as well as many interactions and dialogues even in Act 1 which portrayed the characters as actually flawed and, egads, "problematic" (like entirely rewriting Wyll so he's not racist towards goblins anymore, and changing your response to Lump from "you're quite articulate for an ogre" to "you're quite the articulate ogre").
Can't offend a fantasy race known for being simple, but being a murderous maniac as the Dark Urge is totally fine. Priorities, right?
In any event, Larian've been mostly pretending Minthara doesn't exist ever since the "it's a bug" apology regarding her lack of content, apart from "approving" a metagamey way of getting her which makes her share a tent with Halsin because they're supposed to be mutually exclusive. Embarrasing, honestly.
Uhm.. okay, whatever. Didn't ask, don't care 😂 Seems like this thread has now caught the attention of that kind of people. Time to disable comment notifications, I guess.
Nevertheless, thanks for the other answers. I figured that Minthara probably has more content in Act 3. Just wanted to be sure, because this dialogue lock thing is still weird (and kind of OP because you can place barrels, position, pickpocket etc. without restrictions).
I think they should have involved her more in Act 2 apart from her rescue and killing Ketheric. When you come through Rosymorn Pass and let yourself be escorted to Moonrise Tower, you get her right at the beginning of Act 2.
Well, it is what it is.
No wonder they don't need to work on the game at all when people gobble up whatever's offered with no criticism at all.
🙄 Bro, I might even agree with your takes to a certain extent. But that's not the point of this thread. Just stop inserting (and tbh overdramatizing) this sh1t everywhere, derailing topics. Start your own thread if it bothers you that much, or just play something else. I can't stand the endless whining anymore. It's like a broken record.
Alright, now I'm really out, have a nice week.
Lol.
The only reason Wyll is in my camp is because of Mizora.
And OP, Minthara has more comments in Act 3. but the only reason I ever get her in the first place is she already has some tadpole powers.
This run I am on now, I will just kill her and not have to bother with her attitude. She really does not add much to a party and even the romance with her is very lackluster.
I think her most dramatic scenes apparently occur when she's being romanced by a Dark Urge who romanced her starting in Act 1, duels Orin & makes the decision to take control of the Absolute. So I've heard, never done that playthrough.
As for mutual exclusivity, there is an unimplemented scene which suggests Larian was considering keeping it that way. Meaning, if you recruit both her and Halsin, they have a confrontation and basically make an ultimatum, "her or me". (I mean, it makes sense, she WAS one of his captors.) (Although I would think maybe there could be a Persuasion check thing here.)
Anyway, they don't share a tent anymore. But, instead, Minthara takes over Halsin's tent, and now Thaniel stands next to her. Poor Halsin just now stands out in the rain, with no tent of his own. Although there's finally a mod to fix it.
I still think, whether or not there's a confrontation (and if they bring it back, I think the player should have a chance to resolve it), what's still a bit ... off .. is they kinda don't acknowledge each other's existence in the party. You can ask them about other companions, but ... neither seems to know the other is there. I am hoping Larian improves this a bit in Patch 8.
I get they changed their mind on them being exclusive, but now having changed their mind, make the new storyline consistent. I get it might require getting both VAs back to record a few more new lines.
I highly doubt they'll introduce significant changes at this point, honestly. We're not getting a Director's Cut or anything this time unless they're keeping it secret, so there will be no justice for Minthara (there's this thread on the Larian forums where a particularly dedicated Minthara fan has done quite a bit of theses-ing in regards to her treatment by the devs) in the end, most likely. Disapponting.