Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Technical & Gameplay Problems [SEVERE BUG] - Minthara's Recruitment Blocker (Raid Knockout)

Huh, I had to reload a save to see and I did choose exactly like you but she was totally fine for me. I could talk to her, tell her to wait and get her as a follower after. Only thing was that it took longer to take out the guards for my party, maybe Minthara has to get a turn in combat?

I really hope this gets fixed.

Edit: I did knock her out in the goblin camp preventing her raid on the grove in Act 1. And yes, I think I did knock her out before Ragzlin. I killed Gut first in her chambers (not alerting anybody), then knocked out Minthara, then killed Ragzlin.

I think i got the same bug as you. In my last run. I KO'd her at the Grove defense. I entered her mind and told her to fight with me. After you killed the 2 gnomes torturers you can't talk to her. Nothing. So i loaded an old safe file and attacked the gnomes directly. And it worked then. But i got the Cerys bug in the gnomes fight. Cerys turn was always only a Black screen. And after the gnomes fight this Cerys bug was gone.

At first i KO'd her at the Goblin Camp. The scene with Ketherick at Moonrise was played as normal. But after that Minthara is standing like a Statue in the throne room. She was not teleported to the torture chamber. You can't talk to her. It was completely impossible to recruit her.

After further testing; it is indeed yet another bug tied to knocking her out during the raid.

Because she's a permanently hostile NPC during the raid; permanently hostile NPCs by default cannot be interacted with and she remains stuck in this non-interactable state all the way into ACT II (which only updates after she auto-initiates her dialogue by being rescued).

But because the 'share our strength' outcome does not auto-initiate her dialogue after combat, her state can never update through dialogue so she remains permanently non-interactable forever. So basically she's a friendly ACT II NPC with 'permanently hostile' state still being applied to her, which makes her non-interactable by default unless she manages to auto-initiate her dialogue.


UPDATE;

• If she is knocked out at the Goblin Camp before killing Ragzlin she works perfectly fine since she remains a Neutral NPC
• If she is knocked out at the Goblin Camp after killing Ragzlin she will again remain in her 'permanently hostile state' forever and also remain permanently stuck in Ketheric's throne room.

I can't believe I was lucky enough to do the knock out exactly right for it to work.. It really should not have to be this difficult to get her in your party on a goodish run.