Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Technical & Gameplay Problems Wrong animations in certain cutscenes

Since the latest patch I've had issues with certain cutscenes where animations are totally borked. Examples:

- In the cutscene where Astarion is trying to read his scars with his fingers he just stands there in the beginning, facing the player character instead of facing away from them tracing his back as he should. As soon as you walk up to him his character model turns around to play the rest of the animtation properly.

- In the last cutscene where you
- In several other cutscenes the face of the one you are talking to is not properly animated, usually they are not moving their mouth while speaking in the beginning. It usually works fine after the first line.

Mostly wondering if I am the only one with this problem since I have seen no posts about this. Everything worked fine before the last patch.

Having the exact same issues in the same cutscenes.

Same here! the last patch must have somehow borked a lot of animations.

Same. After staring a new game with the new hotfix the end of Astarion's bite scene animation is also broken. PC locked looking in one direction away from and overlapping Astarion in the background.

Just got his 'after ascension' romance scene. Oof, talk about borked. Bodies not lined up, kissing the air, Astarion's voice saying lines but lips not moving... it was awful. How frustrating it must be to fix one thing only to find something else broken. At least it's not just a big "under construction" sign anymore, but still... can't wait for the day when I can get through a cutscene and see the whole thing as it was intended.

The latest hotfix seems to have fixed the strange camera angles and wrongly aligned bodies in the Emperor cutscene and the Raphael cutscene at least, but, yeah, now others are not working right. Like the one SheWildWolf mentioned above.

After previous update, in act 3, when we in Baldur's Gate, we have animation with Vlaakith in the camp.
After that, if i goes to the Gail, he will start telling me, like i got a contract with the Rafael (I home, you came to speack about the contract that you got right now), but i didn't see him yet.

Astarion's scene that triggers during long rest after finishing his quest without ascension is messed up as well, at least since patch 3 (cant speak of earlier since I only got to it after patch 3 release). His model seems to not load correctly so the game supplies the default one with his starting armor and there's no animation during the first few lines aside from his eyes going crazy.

The phrases he says when I start a dialogue with him also seem to be extremely limited after the last hotfix.

I'm having exactly the same problems. That added to the teeth that disappear and things that give a bad vibe.

Astarion also always looks like he's plotting my demise, even with high approval. This wasn't the case before the patch.

Also, some characters still try to break their necks while speaking to me.

The camera is also completely wild now. I have had entire cutscenes where I couldn’t even see the NPC I was talking to bc the camera was centered neatly on a companion’s shoulder.

Just started a new playthrough and in one of the first camp scenes when you speak to Gale (the one with his mirror image) he is facing away from the mc when he is explaining ceremorphosis. I hope they find what broke all the cutscenes.

Same here. I don't know what they are fixing in those patches but the cinematic bugs get worse with every patch/hotfix for me. As a matter of fact I didn't have ANY problems at all before patch 3.

I had to roll back to prepatch 3. I don't have any quest bugs or performance problems, but the visual glitches are just killing the gameplay for me.

Here's fingers crossed that they can fix it all in the next patch.

Same! I had actually backtracked the DAY before patch 3 dropped, so playing through those exact same scenes but dramatically worse in every way was WILD.

I, unfortunately, was one of the lucky ones that also got a TON of bugged quests and other glitches from patch 3 as well. Honestly wish I could roll back but I’m on console.

At this point I’m just pausing my playthrough until the next patch or two. They’ve been rolling out hotfixes pretty quickly so hopefully it is fixed soon!

Same, just started a new playthrough, having this scene play now and Gale has his back to Tav while explaining about ceremorphosis. Comical, but annoying.

I am also having this problem. Just as the OP described.

I have this same issue with Gale. The camera angle for dialogue has seemingly completely broke for some Act I conversations, Barcus is completely blocked off screen by Tav standing in front of the camera, Karlach also blocks the camera when rescuing Counselor Florrick, Kanon and Aradin are invisible in the goblin attack cutscene, Tav clips into Shadowheart during the Dror Ragzlin cutscene with the Mind Flayer, and that's just some of what I've seen so far since Hotfix #9.

The more I play, the more it's gamebreaking. Can I revert a few patches back somehow?

Go to Steam forums >>> guides its there. Kind of a pain to do it, but its not a rocket science

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3039948952

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3023295121

I can't remember which one I used, sorry, but I think they could be the same. Try at your own risk.
Hope it helps

Thanks. This is exactly what I need.