Baldur's Gate 3 Patch 6: All Companion Changes

Baldur's Gate 3 just introduced a huge update. Patch 6 brings lots of changes to BG3 in regards to gameplay and storytelling. Most importantly, players will get to enjoy new kisses and idle animations for all companions in the game. Here are all the changes to the companions in BG3 Patch 6. You can also check out our full patch notes if you want to know what to expect in your next playthrough:

All Companion Changes

• Players can dismiss a recruited companion from their party while speaking to the companion they want to replace them with.
• When a dialogue triggers automatically, the game will now prioritise your avatar.
• New, unique, and randomised kisses for all companions. Improvements to how kisses look, particularly for taller and shorter body types.

Shadowheart Changes in BG3 Patch 6

• Sitting on the stool in Shadowheart's camp corner will make her react with a line based on your relation with her.
• Shadowheart has a new animation - polishing the Spear of Night.
• If you're romancing Shadowheart in Act II, she'll have more banter.
• Players can now hug her when she's crying after losing or saving her parents.
• Her parents have more behaviours while at camp.
• If you send Companion Shadowheart to camp, she'll keep the artefact on her. If a custom character or a hireling has the artefact and is dismissed to Withers' Wardrobe, the artefact will transfer to another character.
• Fixed some issues with the flow for freeing Shadowheart from her pod in the nautiloid. Players can only try the Arcana check once. The Eldritch Rune icon is now highlighted as a quest item.
• Shadowheart will have a comment when confronting Balthazar.
• If you part ways with her and hide in the Underdark as a mind flayer, she won't forget that in the epilogue scene.
• Shadowheart won't be referred to as dark-haired, even if she has white hair.
• She has a new dialogue option on a certain path when talking to Zenthino.
• Shadowheart's arm no longer clips through taller characters' shoulders when giving them a kiss.

Wyll Changes in BG3 Patch 6

• Wyll no longer leaves the party when you commit a crime in the High Hall.
• You can see Karlach and Wyll together in Avernus again.
• Wyll will react accordingly if you fail to save Ravengard from the Iron Throne when the pact with Mizora is broken.
• Some flow issues in Wyll's recruitment dialogues have been fixed.
• If you knock out Karlach and she leaves, Mizora will come to judge Wyll the night after.
• When playing as Wyll, Karlach will no longer talk about Raphael as though she was there when you met Raphael if you hadn't even recruited her when it happened.
• When playing as Wyll, Karlach will refrain from discussing Raphael as if she had been present during your initial encounter with him, especially if you had not recruited her at that time.
• Wyll's quest about the Wyrmway is now a subquest instead of part of his main quest.
• Wyll's quest about Ravengard will now more reliably and frequently receive updates in Act III.
• Readjusted a camera to fix your hand blocking the camera when skipping through a dialogue with Wyll about his future plans.
• Polished Wyll's facial expressions when Minthara sits on Ketheric's throne.

Gale Changes in BG3 Patch 6

• Avatar Karlach and Avatar Astarion can ask God Gale for a cure.
• You can kiss Gale's hand if you agree to marry him.
• If Gale is a mind flayer in the endgame, Mystra will now transform him back into a human when returning to Elysium.
• If you agree to give Mystra the Crown of Karsus, she will bless Gale and you'll be able to ask for a new blessing every time the wizard needs it.
• If avatar Gale accepts Mystra's offer to go to Elysium, the player can still attend the epilogue party as a wisp.
• Magic items present within dismissed character inventories can now be donated to him.
• Improved player attitudes in the dialogue options when Gale expresses discomfort at the drow twins' four-way proposal and removed the Persuasion roll.
• In the epilogue, players can't tell Gale that Raphael told them how Gale died if the devil never did.
• Some Gale's dialogues have been tweaked.
• Avatars who went to Avernus with Karlach can now tell Gale they can't ascend.
• Gale's idle behaviour in camp will be more varied now.
• Gale will no longer approve of something if he wasn't there to witness it.

Astarion Changes in BG3 Patch 6

• If you're playing as Astarion, you can ask God Gale for a cure.
• There's a new version of the kissing scene with Astarion after he Ascends.
• You can't date Astarion when you were already dating two other people, early in Act I.
• Gandrel no longer specifically targets Astarion until he meets him and learns that he is the vampire spawn he's looking for.
• During an early romance scene with Astarion, he won't mention the tieflings dragging you into 'another mess' if that hasn't happened yet.
• If Raphael tells you about Yurgir when you don't have Astarion in the party, but you know that Astarion was looking for Raphael, telling Astarion about Raphael's quest will now allow you to trigger the scene at camp between Astarion and Raphael when Yurgir is defeated.
• If Astarion hasn't ascended and is a vampire spawn in the epilogue, he will react properly if you leave Faerûn and end your relationship with him.
• If he is a Vampire Lord in the epilogue, he will now react properly if you used to be in a relationship but left with Lae'zel or Karlach after the final battle.
• If you become the Absolute after being encouraged to do so by Astarion as your partner, you'll no longer enthral him.

Karlach Changes in BG3 Patch 6

• If you're playing as Karlach, you can ask God Gale for a cure.
• If you're playing as Karlach and you still can't touch others, Halsin will now correctly wait until you can for the romance scene. She won't be able to have sex with Minthara without the proper update as well.
• Karlach won't play with Clive while standing on a chair.
• There will be more support for Karlach's death scene when playing as a non-gith avatar who decides to leave Faerûn with Lae'zel.
• You can see Karlach and Wyll together in Avernus again.
• If you romanced a companion but left with Karlach after the final battle, you can now talk to your partner about it in the epilogue.
• There's a new overhead line for her for when she reaches Last Light, the tieflings are alive, and she hasn't met Dammon yet but knows there might be someone who can help her.
• Karlach can no longer romance Halsin if she hasn't upgraded her engine.
• New reactivity to the ascension with Gale in the epilogue.
• New line for Karlach after she rages about the paladins in Act I to account for the possibility that she'd spent some alone time with Minthara.

Lae'Zel Changes in BG3 Patch 6

• Lae'zel as a new idle animation - studying a githyanki disc.
• Lae'zel will notice tir'su markings when entering the Rosymorn Monastery region from the Shadow-Cursed Lands too.
• Lae'zel will now have a new line as she attacks you for walking away without executing Vlaakith's orders in Crèche Y'llek.
• She can help you get past the guards at the hidden entrance to Créche Y'llek.
• Lae'zel will not become hostile towards you under the false impression that you departed the inquisitor's office in Crèche Y'llek while awaiting to fulfill Vlaakith's orders when in reality, you merely jumped onto one of the platforms in the corner.
• If you romanced Lae'zel you can join her in the rebellion against Vlaakith, even if your character isn't a gith.
• If you're playing as Lae'zel, you will have the option to pick her ending if she wasn't the primary avatar making the decisions in the final moments after the Netherbrain was defeated.
• If you romanced a companion but left with Lae'zel after the final battle, you can now talk to your partner about it in the epilogue.
• If you're playing as Lae'zel you will get a journal update when Zaki mentions that Zorru has seen githyanki.
• Lae'zel will now acknowledge Orpheus as being alive and a mind flayer in her epilogue dialogue.
• If playing as her, your romantic partner will bid you goodbye if you choose to join the rebellion against Vlaakith.

Halsin Changes in BG3 Patch 6

• Halsin as a new idle animation - whittling.
• You can tell Halsin that you found the letter that was sent to Kagha.
• He won't blame the goblins for his death in his Speak with Dead dialogue if he managed to get killed much later on.
• If you're playing as Karlach and you still can't touch others, Halsin will now correctly wait until you can for the romance scene. 
• Karlach can no longer romance Halsin if she hasn't upgraded her engine.
• Halsin will let you leave the Shadow-Cursed Lands when you want to. 
• He will react to a particular song in the epilogue scene.
• You can't invite the owlbear cub to live with you and Halsin in the epilogue if you do not live with the druid.
• There is a platonic path when talking to Halsin at camp if you haven't flirted with him.
• New line in Halsin's camp dialogue to account for an outcome where you resolved the situation at the Goblin Camp but the goblin leadership wasn't necessarily killed.
• New line when he perceives traps in the environment.
• Improved a camera shot and facial expressions in Halsin's default companion dialogue.

Minthara Changes in BG3 Patch 6

• Minthara has new idle animations - Contemplating a skull, tending to mushrooms, expressing violence, adjusting her armour, plotting her future, and being bothered by the sun.
• More methods of knocking Minthara out instead of killing her.
• New lines to her epilogue dialogue for different paths where the player character has partnered up with her.
• Minthara has the appropriate HP for the game's difficulty level.
• Fixed bug causing her to be unable to use Weapon Actions after being recruited.
• Minthara's now more open to talking after recruiting her.
• Minthara no longer speaks so much about Shadowheart.
• Karlach can no longer have sex with Minthara if she hasn't upgraded her heart.
• Players can loot Minthara after the neck-snapping post-romance scene as the Dark Urge.
• She will have a comment when confronting Balthazar.
• You don't have to talk to Minthara to make sure she goes to your camp when you leave the Shadow-Cursed Lands.
• She will let you leave the Shadow-Cursed Lands when you want to. 
• New lines in Minthara's epilogue dialogue to cover characters who are partnered with her and left to fight in Avernus or the Astral Plane.

Jaheira Changes in BG3 Patch 6

• Jaheira has new idle animations - sitting, kneeling and whispering to a rat messenger, and whittling.
• She will heal before the Moonrise Towers battle.
• Jaheira can use her panther form while she's a party follower, as well as Lesser Restoration and Call Lightning.
• Jaheira can have access to two types of Wild Shape in certain circumstances.
• If she joins your camp after the fall of Last Light, you can now inform her that you defeated Nightsong before launching the assault on Moonrise Towers.
• Jaheira will now be more open to Wild Shaping into a panther during the assault on Moonrise Towers.
• Players will no longer be surprised to learn of Jaheira's children if they've already met them.
• New lines when she perceives traps in the environment.

Minsc Changes in BG3 Patch 6

• Minsc has new idle animations - Cooking and shaving his head.
• In the stand-off between the Guild and the Stone Lord in Rivington, Minsc can now respond correctly if he triggers the situation without an avatar present.
• New lines when he perceives traps in the environment.