Testing new ways to recruit Minthara in Patch 6 - Part 1 (KO at the grove battle)
First of what may become a series of attempts to find new ways to recruit Minthara on the good playthrough.
Now according to the patch notes:
It's unclear what they mean by "number of valid methods". So far the ONLY valid methods to recruit Minthara are siding with the Goblins (ie the best method) or to knock her out while temporarily hostile. I go on all about it in this post.
So to start I wanted to see if the number of cases where she becomes temporarily hostile have been expanded. And the first method I wanted to test is possibly the coolest way to knock her out; by fighting her and the goblin horde at the grove! I don't need to show any screenshots of that, suffice to say, she was marked fully hostile by the game, and her knocked out status was NOT temporary (ie., said this entity would disappear permanently after a long rest)
So I played the rest out as you normally would; long resting to go to the tiefling party, then heading to the mountain pass, past the undead patrol, into the shadow-cursed lands, summoned Kar'niss, turned on him at the Harpers, yada yada Last Light Inn yada yada Isobel and Marcus.
So I arrive at Moonrise, and while expecting nothing, who do I see?
THERE SHE IS! And wearing her camp clothing cause I stole her armor again lmao (and she didn't wear the blazer of benevolence I reverse-looted into her inventory, cause she'd rather be in her PJs in front of her boss than anything from Volo. Honestly understandable.)
The cutscene plays out normally, but after going down into the prison, freeing her mind and fighting her interrogators
She just... breaks. No dialogue, not interactable, doesn't follow me, nothing. Killing the other guards outside doesn't do anything.
At first I was ready to call this whole attempt bugged (which don't get me wrong, this IS a bug)
But I thought, what if I have her play along (I never did that in my own playthrough) So I reload, and trick the guards instead.
SUCCESS! She's a follower npc now!
We deceive our way out of Moonrise, send her back to camp
Also, incredibly funny that both Astarion and Karlach approve, when Astarion is the only one who voices major objections, and earlier Karlach had this to say at camp before we headed into the prison
I guess seeing her tortured and grateful for being freed warmed Karlach's heart to her. Awww :3
Ladies and gentlemen, we got her
It's not completely without bugs. Karlach and Wyll both didn't have anything to say about Minthara's recruitment, but that might have been because I hadn't exhausted their reactive dialogue beforehand, as they both had things to say about prior events. Lae'zel, Shadowheart, Astarion and Gale (y'know the regular durge squad) all had their normal reactions.
Also Halsin isn't there cause he's currently at Last Light hanging out with Art. I hadn't even found Thaniel yet. Although I don't anticipate any interactions with those two, as the ultimatum dialogue is still inaccessible, and even if it was, involves an absolutely convoluted way to get both Halsin and Minthara that will almost never happen anyway.
Final Verdict: Recruiting Minthara by KOing her while defending the grove - WORKS!
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