I think by now most people have realized that Halsin was a mistake. I only use him to get abducted by Orin, to not loose a companion or npc, important to me. Same with Minthara. She seems to be pretty broken still and I wrote in another thread, that there are story beats, I like to see mor in-depth than romance and sex scenes ( I gave the example of the House of Hope, where I would have preferred to go deeper into the story of the Hearthflame sisters, than having Haarlep creeping on us for a potential and very boring mic drop on Raphael)
Larian doesn't seem to be able to differentiate between a character being liked by an extremely loud minority (Halsin, Ascended Astarion) or being generally well-liked within the community (Shadowheart, Karlach). This is just a side note, but I found their choices to market this kissing update truly baffling too. Why choose Halsin (the least popular character in the game) and Ascended Astarion to promote this patch when they have Karlach or Gale as a choice?
The most disappointing part is that the company keeps acting like the game is still in early access, tinkering with kissing animation and introducing game-breaking bugs, since the GOTY doesn't seem to do basic QA.
Sorry for the rant, but few things disappointed me as much as this game's ongoing updates.
