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Hi! I've noticed some some animation issues during some scenes + some feedback.

1. After we kill Yurgir, talk to Raphael at camp, Raphael reveals all the details about the contract, disappears, Astarion says "hmm" and when you continue the dialogue with him, all we can see is his back and his wobbly neck. Tav is also shown only from the back and the camera is SO off-center.

2. When we meet Araj Oblodra for the second time in Act 3, at Baldur's Gate. When we talk to her and after she invites us into her house, Astarion says something and his neck is all wobbly again and looks like his whole body is twitching.

3. Astarion's expressions during the dialogue with him at camp. He looks a bit too smug and slightly angry (?) now. I mean it wouldn't have been a problem if he didn't look like that all the time. After you smooch him, offer him your blood, pretty much anything. His expressions used to be softer. So much softer.

4. Please bring back the staring. Love the new camera angles during interactions with him at camp, but let him stare at us in some instances as well.

5. Seen a lot of people talk about this, thought I might as well. When you ask Astarion to smooch him, his voice lines cut off very abruptly.

Hopefully some of this stuff will be fixed in the new patch :]

I hope you don't mind, I also found a couple of bugs.

1) After the scene with Mizora, when romancing Astarion, the dialogue should start, but instead it simply throws you out of the camp (I heard that if Astarion ascends, the dialogue will start. But it is very buggy with Astarion before Cazador and without ascension)

2) Previously, the scene after the House of Hope and the Incubus worked if you entered into a contract. Now this scene no longer triggers (Astarion was also not ascended for me and this walkthrough is on DU

3)Maybe this is a one-time bug, but after patch 3, Asta’s mocap did not load after his quest without ascension (1st dialogue in the camp, the very beginning of the conversation)

Also forgot to mention that now, at the end of each camp interaction with him, he looks like he's plotting something (idk how else to describe it, but it looks like one of his brows is gonna fly away somewhere or break from arching so hard). Same expression. After every dialogue choice. Other than the camera angles, I don't think changing the expressions to what they are now was a good idea. They were fine before.

OK, I am on my second playthrough and as I go I notice more and more bugged animations in the cinematics. And from what I remember, some of these weren't present during my first playthrough.

This time it's after we kill Cazador, long rest, the scene with unascended Astarion starts (the one where he wants to take us to his grave) and during the first part of what he's saying his animations aren't playing at all. He just stands there and his eyes are glitchy.

The similar thing happened with Dame Aylin at Lorroakan's tower. Her voice lines were playing with no animations. (Only a few at the start of her first conversation with Lorroakkan, then it went back to normal)

I now have a bug with his animations in Act 1, the camp scene where you find him tracing the scars on his back.. he is no longer facing his tent and actually tracing the scars with his fingers. He's just standing motionless, facing Tav, but still talking like is he is tracing the scars with his fingers. Patch 3 really borked things.

Found something else to add today as well.

Ascended Astarion, at the start of the ending scene of his quest, when he is talking, mocap is not mocaping again. (only a few first lines of his dialogue). Then the scene where he turns you into his spawn starts and it's completely broken. All animations are broken. All of them.

I had something similar, but this was before patch 3. The spawn scene was completely borked. The initial conversation while still in camp is ok, but when the actual steamy part starts, the screen goes black for the entire time, no words, no conversation, nothing. Posted about it here a while back but got no replies that anyone had similar issues with that scene.

I also noticed in the Scar scene that at some point Astarion does not have teeth or they are black. Additionally in biting scene at the end Tav is standing sideways for some reason.
Patch 3 broke a lot.

I am having each and every one of these errors in my game. Furthermore, in the sex scenes, even with the option to see nudity activated, everyone is seen wearing underwear.
This latest patch has broken Astarion and many other things in the game.