Firstly, I just want to say that I've already submitted a ticket for this issue, but I want to see if anybody on here could help me out with this little conundrum, or share their experience if they've encountered the same or a similar issue. Also this may be a slightly longer post than normal, sorry about that!
Basically, I've noticed on my latest run that Minthara isn't receiving approval from a quest character (He Who Was) despite me picking an option that's supposed to give approval. Additionally, she isn't being recognised by Shadowheart, but she is being recognised by Lae'zel in conversations (she has a speech bubble when I speak to Lae'zel, but not when I speak to Shadowheart). Furthermore when I swap out Minthara for Gale, who was my original companion in the first act, everybody has speech bubbles when I speak to each of them, so I don't really understand what's going on.
I've added links to videos (each 2 minutes long on avg) below that highlight the issue, just in case my explanation is confusing. The first video show my character interacting with Lae'zel, Shadowheart, and Minthara (notice the speech bubbles), the second video shows what happens when I swap Minthara for Gale, and the third video shows what happens when I speak to the He Who Was character.
Video 1 - Speaking to Lae'zel, Shadowheart, and Minthara:
Video 2 - Swapping Minthara for Gale:
Video 3 - Confronting He Who Was:
I believe each companion should have speech bubbles when I speak to each of them right?
Also It's not shown fully in the third video, but Minthara won't receive any approval if I proceed through the conversation with He Who Was (it doesn't show it anyway).
Also I've recently discovered that if I return to any waypoint in the first act, and then return to camp through a waypoint in the second act, Minthara will become hostile at my camp. I knocked her out in the first act and killed Ragzlin and Gut, and so I suspect that this has something to do with it, but she surely shouldn't be going hostile at this point right?
Has anybody else encountered these issues or got any suggestions for fixes?
Unfortunately it is either a design flaw with how you recruited her (regarding hostility) that is acting up or Minthara otherwise being buggy with the conversations, she's typically been behaving like some form of spaghetti code.
Where old legacy conversations that are disabled by design ends up being inadvertedly activated, where fixing some of her bugs keep resurfacing, I suspect you would not have this (going hostile in camp) issue if you had recruited Minthara the intended way developers envisioned in the first place where you side with goblins, not like that matters with what else is problematic.
Scripting got revised I believe (could be wrong) that was suppose to have been a permanent fix for where Minthara refuses to follow the player after being rescued from the Moonrise tower for example but I've still seen topics since then of people experiencing this issue, mainly on console.
I don't need to see video to understand your issue and unfortunately have not encountered it myself and only suggestion I can say is to send a bug report to Larian with a clear explaining of certain conversations not being flagged properly or something along those lines, they will also likely ask you of providing a save file in that case. https://larian.com/support/faqs/how-to-submit-a-bug-report_85
P.S. Sometimes conversation dialogues that act as one-off moments can reset when the character that initiates it has been cast Disguise Self, maybe have fun toying around with that.
