the KO recruitment being as broken as it is is just another piece on a list of bugs which leads me to question why it seems like they just don't put that much care and effort into minthara as a character... which in return begs the question why they made her a full companion if they clearly aren't motivated to work on her?
I've been wondering this myself. It's no secret Minthara and Halsin were added as companions due to popular demand during Early Access. So it's safe to say their addition was mostly for fanservice, but it's... poorly executed because they seem to teeter between developing them fully vs putting them in for pure fan appeasement. Like I guess they couldn't commit, so now Minthara and Halsin are stuck in this weird kind of limbo that it raises a lot of questions of what-if's and what-could-have-been's.
The complications might have come when they started adding more and more content in Act 2 or 3, as in they tried to bite more than they could chew and ended up having trouble prioritizing things. There isn't a
good justification for this, but it all probably came down to saving money and resources with the rush of having to release the game in a predetermined time window.
It's just unfortunate for Minthara as she seemingly got shafted along the way to make room for other things. Other characters like Wyll are receiving more or less the same treatment, but Minthara is currently receiving the shortest end of the stick as she has the
least amount of content and has been constantly bugged since release.
I also think most of what they said in the interview is a marketing pitch, or at least some form of "damage control" in response to the cut content discussion, but they certainly made themselves appear more disingenuous than ever before by not acknowledging any of the issues their characters have. As for the shift from Daisy to Emperor, someone already wrote a good summary on this
thread if anyone wants to give it a read.
From my point of view the method sounds more like an exploit than as a feature.
Maybe that's because it is. They never explicitly stated it's a feature or promoted it as a new way to recruit Minthara. I definitely see it as an exploit too, or rather a lazy workaround in response to the widespread complaint that we can't have Minthara without sacrificing a massive amount of content.
I think they should've made it easier because currently this method is nearly impossible to do without consulting a guide. But I also fail to understand why they didn't plan a more immersive recruitment instead, one that wouldn't require us to bonk her head out of nowhere. There are better ideas out there.
