Funny. Same but mirrored everytime killed him except one time when he admitted his vampiric nature in dialogue with Dark Urge very soon after one incident with bard.
Here's the video. I don't have save where I kill Astarion but I think I've captured the problem.
Thank you for the footage! It's been added to the list! I hope you've submitted a bug report to them too.
Now I wonder if she has other comments pertaining to other companions even if she never met them, aside from Astarion I mean.
I have another one for your list, @rendemption, Minthara seems to "eat" companion comments. I just did dialogue encounter with Yurgir, usually your companions opt in at three points during the conversation. I had Minthara and Gale with me and two of the spots went unused, when I parked Minthi at a distance and did the scene again with only Gale for company all the comment slots were used, same with Gale and Shart.
I will have to test this as I remember everyone commented normally in that scene pre-patch 6. If you have any footage, that would be tremendous help. Otherwise, thanks for the heads up! I'll get around to it myself, eventually.
I'm sure they will fix it (or I hope so but looking at this tendency they will actually fix it like she will really break up with redeemed durge after rejecting Bhaal).
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I decided to add the breakup to the bug list, but I highly doubt she is meant to really break up with redeemed Durge tbh. And like, not only because it's out-of-character for her and rather extreme, but also because for this dialogue to even
begin to make sense, they'd have to remove these epilogue lines:
M: "The world wakes to a new dawn, and we are here to greet it. Not as conquerors, but as saviours."
DU: "We can still conquer using our own strength. For us - not for Bhaal."
M: "Yes, I would like that. No more gods or monsters, no devils or demons to manipulate our fate. We reclaimed our freedom, though everything was against us."
DU: "I'm sorry - I should have taken control of the brain."
M: "Why did you not?"
DU: "It would have felt like serving Bhaal again. I am free."
M: �We deserved to rule. But despite everything we gave up when we destroyed the brain, it is good to be here with you. No more gods or monsters, no devils or demons to manipulate our fate."
(The Elder Brain is like 100x more powerful than Bhaal, and yet she stays with you lol)
And these lines:
(Before fighting Orin)
M: "You look well. Are you ready to pursue your enemies?"
M: "That is your gift to me, and we are bound together until it is done."
DU: "I hope our bond will last beyond that."
M: "I hope so too. This bond we share... I believe it is alurlssrin. If that is so, it will last as long as we do."
(Confessing love only to break up afterwards, makes perfect sense)
(After being saved from Orin)
M: "What was I when you first knew me? Before you ever knew me? A madwoman, butchering prey in the name of a god who would discard me without a thought once I was no longer of use. Bhaal, Lolth... the Absolute. They do not have followers - they only have victims, and they reward devotion with death. It is only because of you that I did not meet the same fate as Orin. Lost to madness and blood. If you had killed me when we first met, I would have been just one more casualty of your crusade against the Absolute. And nobody would remember me."
All evidence seems to point towards this being cut content, but I'm ready to eat my words. I have lost all faith in Larian XD
There are SO MANY contradictions it is insane... the only scenario I see this scene existing is if Minthara as a companion had two different paths for her character; one being her community-loved cool neutral pragmatic path and the other being this power hungry angry lunatic bitch they made her in this scene. This scene would only make sense if in such a path the Dark Urge player was constantly pushing the idea forward of wanting to reunite with their father, similarly to how Shadowheart or Astarion have their evil paths as a Dark Justiciar and Ascended Vampire.
I thought the same thing. Although I do have to point out Minthara
is power hungry no matter what - that is her core trait. She is just lenient in most cases, as she said in one of her endings: she is not unreasonable, and survival seems to matter more to her nearing the end of the game.
There should be more prerequisites to trigger the breakup, like low/med approval, what choices you made throughout the game, what you've said to Minthara, etc. But even then, as you said, there are way too many contradictions for this to make sense. If her anger is a kneejerk reaction, as in her fear overwhelming her and causing her to act without thought, I can see this making sense, but there
has to be a follow-up and the breakup itself has to be rewritten to not revolve around "You rejected glory, and I reject you."
As of now, it hasn't ruined her character for me, because this is not the Minthara I know lol. There are several articles released about this already so maybe Larian will respond soon.