If anyone is interested;

(Properly covered feedback about the infamous scene)

I made this video to cover all the responses during the break-up scene and will be sending it to Larian as direct feedback.

It is also a part of my "Minthara's Compendium Of Bugs, Issues and Inconsistencies". Had to entirely make a new one for feedback purposes because the first video about it was done while I was frustrated beyond belief, so it wasn't a proper fit for the compendium.


Originally Posted by Marielle
Regarding the scene where Minthara breaks up with the DU - I see it, frankly, as a specific intentional insult to the player, by breaking the plot, completely disregarding Mintara's character and her relationship with the DU. And also a bit of deja vu... It feels like someone somewhere has an unhealthy predilection for "showcasing toxic relationships" (or rather, dragging "toxicity" into deep and sincere monogamous relationships with "evil" companions without any correlation to the plot).

Wonderfully said Marielle and unfortunately that's exactly how I felt when I saw it.

A slap in the face for loving a character with barely any content. People already can't experience half of her content due to bugs, so they gotta take away the only remaining half from her that does function? This all feels like an insult and complete disrespect to see Minthara kicked again and again as a character.

Maybe their mentality of "who cares if we break it, we'll fix it sometime later in the next 6 months" is okay with them, but when the purpose of these games is to create these wonderfully intricate stories and characters so people can emotionally attach themselves to their stories and immerse themselves to the companionship that's being built with them throughout the journey, Larian simply cannot afford to "F" around and find out. They can't afford to just throw out updates without proper quality assurance and leaving entire parts of the game broken or inaccessible for substantial periods of time.

Even if all of this is done unintentionally, it is still just complete disrespect of the player's time and effort to get Minthara to that point in the game and see her completely break apart with bugs and issues that directly contradict her character. As someone who plays this game for the wonderful story and characters, it is just painful to have this constantly happening to the point I just wanna go smash my head through a wall, break down and cry for all eternity... just like Astarion does;

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If I could I would've left this game behind already and wait for the Definitive Edition, but who else is going to document and playtest all these issues because I certainly don't trust it'll be done for Minthara if I don't personally do it myself. It's just like you said; "while the players themselves write to the developers about all these problems in detail - just read and do, you don't even need to test anything yourself, it's all done for you! This seems like a deliberate ignoring of the character and the players who love her."

Literally all they gotta do is just read and fix, the troubleshooting is done for them. Once I release my compendium (it's almost done), they won't need another Minthara bug report ever again. It'll all be in public display easily accessed and fully presented.