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I posting to see if any interest exists for a Companion interaction Overhaul mod. I've noticed a lot of strange interactions with Tav and companions that don't follow your character path very well. Even situations where complete interactions were removed after patch 7.

After patch 7 a conversation between Gale Origins and Minthara was removed. This conversation aligns well with Gales Origin quest when romancing Minthara. Whereas now she rambles about the absolute and her commenting on Gale blowing up. This conversation is trigger after retrieving The Annals of Karsus.

Original conversation patched out of game

conversation

Some other odd issue's. If you become God Gale and have Minthara romanced at the end game party. Minthara will be disinterested in Gale being a God. That type of outcome seems at odds with Minthara's character being her character is extremely ambitious so you would assume a positive interaction with God Gale romanced with Minthara. Simple solution is just swapping in the romanced Minthara end game party conversation.

This also points out some strange elements to Origin playthrough vs vanilla. You would think something like Gale Romance Ending would be applied whether your play as Gale Origins or as Tav, but currently the Gale Romance only works with Tav and not Gale Origins.

I wouldn't no myself, but I'd assume issue's like this is spread through out the entire Origin and Companion relationships where characters don't respond in an accurate representation of the characters. Most of these issues stem from not having proper dialogue sequences triggered. It's not as complicated as needing new writing and VO, but instead just an overhaul on which conversations are triggered. Also seems possible to re-introduce some of the character dialogue into the Origin playthroughs. Similar to a Mass Effect style of dialogue.

I honestly wish some of these massive upcoming BG3 mods would work on overhauling the vanilla BG3 game rather then introduce new content. Just seems to be some lack of polish on the mainline character interactions.

One last small issue is Minthara's mouth doesn't move when you speak to her in the final battle preparation room.

Would be a real complex mod, but I'd think people would enjoy a more Mass Effect style dialogue system for the Origins Characters.

Hi everyone,

I'm posting this to see if anyone else has encountered a specific audio issue with Halsin in the current patch, or if there is a known workaround.

The Issue: Halsin plays his scripted dialogue lines perfectly fine. However, he is completely silent regarding "effort" or "bark" audio cues. Specifically, he makes no sound when:

Executing an attack (weapon swings).

Taking damage (no injured grunts).

Using spells.

All other companions work as intended; this is isolated to Halsin.

Troubleshooting Steps Taken: I suspected this might be a mod conflict initially, so I have already:

Completely removed all mods and cleared the Mods and Public folders.

Cleared the local AppData folder (%LocalAppData%\Larian Studios\Baldur's Gate 3).

Verified game file integrity via Steam.

Tested on a save loaded after performing the clean-up.

The issue persists despite these steps. I am currently in contact with Larian Support (and have sent them my save file for analysis), but since support tickets can take time, I wanted to ask the community:

Has anyone else experienced this silence with Halsin recently? If so, is there a known fix or a specific file I should check?

Thanks in advance!

I've noticed some changes in the patches that removed some stronger elements of the game. After patch 7 a conversation between Gale Origins and Minthara was removed. This conversation aligns well with Gales Origin quest when romancing Minthara. Whereas now she rambles about the absolute and her commenting on Gale blowing up. This conversation is trigger after retrieving The Annals of Karsus.

Original conversation patched out of game

Conversation

Some other odd issue's. If you become God Gale and have Minthara romanced at the end game party. Minthara will be disinterested in Gale being a God. That type of outcome seems at odds with Minthara's character being her character is extremely ambitious so you would assume a positive interaction with God Gale romanced with Minthara. Simple solution is just swapping in the romanced Minthara end game party conversation.

This also points out some strange elements to Origin playthrough vs vanilla. You would think something like Gale Romance Ending would be applied whether your play as Gale Origins or as Tav, but currently the Gale Romance only works with Tav and not Gale Origins.

I wouldn't no myself, but I'd assume issue's like this is spread through out the entire Origin and Companion relationships where characters don't respond in an accurate representation of the character. Most of these issues stem from not having proper dialogue sequences triggered. It's not as complicated as needing new writing and VO, but instead just an overhaul on which conversations are triggered.

Probably beyond the means for Larian to patch. I'll probably mention on the mod forums if modders might think of doing a Origin/Companion overhaul mod. I honestly wish some of these massive upcoming BG3 mods would work on overhauling the vanilla BG3 game rather then introduce new content. Just seems to be some lack of polish on the mainline character interactions.

One last small issue is Minthara's mouth doesn't move when you speak to her in the final battle preparation room.

Uh, obviously there is no age to rulesystems. They are either good or bad.

Chess for example saw its last change in 1880, when the rule of en passant became official - a rule invented in the 16. century and already commonly used.

D&D is designed for pen and paper, not for computers. Which is why many things are like they are. Thats probably the "age" you talk about. But that was the case in 1999-2002 when BG originally came out, and that will still be case if there will ever be a Baldurs Gate 4 from someone.

Also technically the newest version of D&D is from 2024. Not that BG3 would use that.

Please release the Linux build of BG3 on GOG. That is where I bought the game to play on my Steam Deck. When I got the binaries from a friend they worked great with the rest of the GOG files.

It would also be another great datapoint to push GOG for more Line support.

Seeing as Volo clearly has several potions of Animal Speaking I suspect that he understands the bear perfectly the whole time but has his fun in his own Volo way.

Please release the Linux build on GOG as well. That is where I bought it for my Steam Deck.

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