Baldur's Gate 3 Players Keep Missing Main Characters

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Baldur's Gate 3 is a huge game. You could easily spend around 100 hours or more per playthrough roaming around Faerûn, so Act 1 has a hell of a job introducing us to all the game has to offer. But even though this introduction can take tens of hours, some players are still lost, particularly when it comes to companions.

Over on the Baldur's Gate 3 subreddit, players share all the different companions they missed, accidentally running past major characters without even realising. Gale and Astarion seem to be the biggest offenders for this, as fans find it easy to walk right by them as soon as they leave the starting area, never really having a reason to go back again to bump into them.

This was all kicked off by Reddit user DaethChanter sharing that they accidentally went through a whole playthrough without Astarion, as they hadn't run into his introductory cutscene after crash landing on the Nautiloid.

Turns out, they're far from alone. Both Astarion and Gale are found near the Nautiloid, but not in places obvious enough for some players.

"You'd be surprised by the number of players who miss Gale, Lae'zel or even Shadowheart on their first runs then come here asking when they're supposed to show up," says AlbionPCJ.

If you missed Astarion, you can go back and get him in Acts 1 and 2. Just don't enter Act 3 without him, because it won't end well for him at all.

While Gale is a bit more understandable, since you might see the unstable portal and think, "Alright, that's a problem for another time," it's hard to see how anyone could miss Shadowheart. Well, turns out, she isn't always fully conscious after the short tutorial on the Nautiloid.

"If she dies fighting on the Nautiloid, she'll be just a dead NPC on the shore at