SeveralBaldur’s Gate 3players have taken toRedditto express their frustration with the fact that custom characters remain in parties forever, even if they are dead or the players leave the host’s party for any reason.
“Random people jumped in my game and then left…. but I cant get rid of their characters in my party. How do I do this!?” asksUndeuxtwatafter accidentally opening his game to the public, only to be met with comments like “Your save is bricked” and “you’re able to’t, the whole save is fu**ed now”.
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The problem is frustrating because, according toshplamana’s testing, you can’t even interact with characters who have left. They hijack your party slots forever. You can’t talk to them in camp, and you can’t boot them up to use them in combat. Even if they are killed, they are dead in the party forever.
An even bigger problem is that as slots become clogged with dead and inoperable characters, players become unable to complete main story quests. AsTheKasaRputs it, players can’t start various dialog options that lead to main or backstory quests if they don’t have certain companions in their party. But because the party consists of multiple non-bootable, custom, and dead characters, it becomes impossible to access and interact with these dialogue options.
For some reason, there are some players who defend this design choice, even though it ruins the player’s save file forever.DrasticBreadclearly says: “It’s not a bug, it’s a feature that’s there for a reason”. The reason is apparently that thedrop-in-drop-outfeature in Baldur’s Gate 3 is designed to allow a team to finish the game together, even if it takes years, but it must be the same four who started the campaign. The flaw, however, is that the game forces each player to deal with the characters stuck in their party, even if they don’t want to keep them around anymore.
The solution at the moment, asSchlostsuggested, is for each player to make their own campaign, then play another separate campaign together when they want to cooperate with friends, and that way their party configuration won’t suffer. But for those who already have party slots that have been overtaken by dead, custom characters, there’s no current fix for that.
