Larian Studios Forums Divinity: Original Sin 2 Divinity - Original Sin 2 - Bugs & Technical Problems [BUG?] Game doesn't use original Origin portraits

At first, I thought this was a respec mirror thing again, but I noticed upon testing by starting a new game that the game no longer uses those sweet original hand-drawn portraits at all, instead defaulting to some generated ones instead. The reason I put [BUG?] in the title is simply because I don't know whether this is intentional. If it is intentional, I can't say I agree with the decision, but at least it isn't a bug to be fixed.

I was going to write a post about this too but noticed this one is still unanswered.
It definitely looks like a bug to me so here are some examples:



(for some reason the image doesn't show after posting...so just check the link: bugged portraits)

I think it came with one of the patches. I checked the screenshots on steam and it's been affecting everyone for a long time (maybe new players never got to see the original portraits so they don't know any better).
It may not be game breaking but it's still a shame to lose some of the details and hard work that went into this game.

I hope somebody addresses it...

This was a deliberate change with the portrait system.

Wow...that's...quite surprising really (I might have missed reading that particular update).
Any chance you guys might reconsider? I mean...just look how wonderful the first ones looked (Tarquin looks less likely to survive the first encounter now )

I am sorry for reviving a old post, but is there any specific reason this choice was made? Personaly I just don't see it. The new system does not improve the origin portraits.

It was part of an overhaul of the portrait system, but I do not know why it was done that way.