There are two NPCs that I honestly don't understand why they are not party members, maybe because their classes are not implemented but still (spoilers btw) the two I speak of are the tiefling karlach that you save from the paladins how has a tadpole in her head and has a VERY interesting background in my opinion where she is on the run from Zareal the ruler of avernes (I think she could be a ranger? Or a fighter? Evil/neutral conquest Paladin kind of fits her to) and the druid Helsin that you save near the end talks about coming with you and leaving his life behind to go with you but instead he sits in your camp? seems a waste to me, It's a ton of work for sure but the current amount of party members at least for me is very small and both those NPCs really did look like great, as a side note I think that maybe it would be a good idea to allow players to reach 5 later down the track in order to somewhat survive the Underdark part of act 1 (i barely manged and its was mostly dew to cheesing some encounters)
A dataminer looked into the files and found that Karlach will be a companion. There's another upcoming companion, Helia the werewolf, that apparently had a "Helia or Halsin" reference in the code but nothing about Halsin being a companion.
https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldursGat...announced_companions_in_bg3_minsc_helia/
