Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Technical & Gameplay Problems Romance Cutscene Bug

Hello! I am experiencing a bug with romance cutscenes where, instead of playing a cinematic, the game just shows characters lying in their bedrolls with the dialogue lines below.



This affects everyone who has responded favourably to my character's offer to spend the night with them (i.e. everyone except Lae'Zel, whose approval was too low for that). As I was able to romance Astarion and Shadowheart on my Patch 2 playthroughs, and have seen some screenshots/videos of Wyll and Gale's romances, I know that this bedroll pillowtalk is not what should actually be happening. :P

Reloading the game and switching back and forth between DirectX and Vulcan has not helped.

I have already submitted an official ticket to Larian, but got an automated message saying that the response may be delayed, and encouraging trying my luck at the forums. So here I am!

Obviously, this is not a game-breaking issue, but I still would have loved to properly experience this aspect of the game. Thanks in advance to anyone who offers input or shares similar experiences!

It's been like this for me since Patch 3. After hotfix 6 at least I get the dialog options and can move past it. Before the hotfix I was stuck on a screen with everyone sleeping and no option to move past. The only cutscene that still triggers for me is Minthara's, but I haven't tried Gale nor Lae'zel.

Oooh wow, I had no idea it was that bad before the hotfix! (I only tried to romance people on Patch 3 after the hotfix was installed). That's a bit disheartening, as I was especially looking forward to seeing the updated scenes for Astarion in person, rather than via teaser gifs on Tumblr and such. But it's a bit a relief that I am not the only one!
I wonder if there is something that triggers the issue, because other people have evidently been able to initiate cutscenes as they were supposed to!

It all worked fine for me before Hotfix #6.. Now the cutscenes are gone It's really disheartening..

Yeah, I think hotfix 6 was an improvement only for those like me who were completely stuck because of a cutscene that did not trigger.

I hope Larian takes note of this (I think I saw someone mention that the devs check out the feedback on the forums), and fixes the hotfix! If it's not an isolated issue, more messages on the subject are bound to show up. Hopefully. Depends on how many people consider a well-animated smooch a part of a quality gaming experience :')

Same bug here, also confirmed it happens with Wyll, Shadowheart and Astarion, haven't tried to test it with the others. Reloading the game or a previous save doesn't change anything. Glad it's not just me, at least.

The more of us out there, the better the chances of Larian realizing that the hotfix messed things up a little!

I was wondering about that. Wasn't sure if the cutscenes were disabled temporarily or if an 'oops' happened.

For me, before this particular hotfix the romance scene with Astarion (fully admit it hadn't crossed my mind to try with anyone else in the name of 'science' hah) played more-or-less okay besides an issue of both characters' poses not fitting well together -- not using the right/best 'sized' paired animations I can only assume. I submitted a report for it and was told it was a known issue with some of the male races (half-elf in my case and also Githyanki) "which should be fixed soon in an update." Naturally when I saw hotfix #6 drop I had to at least load up my game and take a peek and noticed then that the cutscene was like OP posted. (oops? ^^;;)

This leads me to wonder if they're likely in the middle of fixing the various known issues maybe?

I'm also trying to get a handle on how much bug reporting is acceptable, last thing I want to do is annoy TF outta the devs over every single thing I come across

Oh I wonder if that's the common thread: i.e. character model. I play a F!Half-Drow. Idk if this should make any difference, but it'd be interesting to see if the people with the bug all play a half-elf something.

Same on drow female. Maybe they're changing something. Never had it before.

I still have that problem, even after the hotfix. I just reloaded my "cheat with Gale" save and my PC gets stuck when she goes to sleep, same as before - can't continue with the game.

In my case, the character that was affected by the bug uses a female Halfling model, so I have no idea if there is an issue with specific player character models or not. Haven't gotten my other characters (male Tiefling, Male Half-Drow, Female Githyanki) this far yet!

Also, just heard from a person on Tumblr that they are experiencing the bug with a Dwarf, a Halfling, and a Githyanki during the Astarion romance. So this seems to be universal, after all. Or maybe affecting everyone except human PCs since no-one mentioned a human yet. :P

Good to know that Larian seems to be at least somewhat on it, though (wrt male characters).

Same for me and I'm playing as a female human. Same thing happened when I entered a dialogue with Kagha in Druids Glen.

I've also encountered this bug unfortunately when I went for Astarion (I play f!elf) - the voice lines were fine and I was able to continue to the next day, but I have seen glimpses of the Astarion cutscene and was a little dismayed to be missing out. On the bright side, it seems like Larian is pretty responsive to feedback and very fast at churning out hotfixes so the romance cutscenes'll likely be back before the new year. I've submitted an official ticket on their site as well. Fingers crossed : )

I think hotfix 6 fixed the bug of "players could see romance scene"LOL...now my PC(female half-elf) only makes CONVERSATION with Astarion on each other's bed.

Yes, I've experienced the bug today too - did the Wyll romance with a female Tiefling and had only the dialogue. It's not game breaking or anything for me, but I thought, I'll leave it here, since it does seem to be a bug.

After siding with the goblins, the Minthara cutscene worked (with a male Drow), but the Astarion and Gale cutscenes were the lying around the campfire as above.

I ran though the game again with a male Tiefling, sided with the Tiefs and had Astarion's scene fail again, so the problem seems pretty pervasive.

I have the exact same problem i hope itll be fixed soon

About a week ago, I was able to see the romance scenes, but I just got through another playthrough last night and now they're bugged! Bummer!

I just spent the last two days playing through the game again in hopes of a romantic night with Astarion and now this! What a heartbreaking Christmas it has been..

I know, right! Especially since they were supposed to add *new* content to the scene, instead of just the disapproving maintenance Ilithid.

And they added, but not completely.

Well. This was certainly a turn off.

The devs removed the cutscenes for now; they ran into issues and will be fixing them. Most likely with next update.

I'm so happy this isn't just me! I was so confused why they didn't work anymore.

Where did you get this from? Does it say somewhere that they've done this?

I bought the game after Patch 3 and Hotfix 6 so I thought it was an issue with my Mac, and that the romance scenes were playing correctly on PC. Glad to hear that's not the case as it means I just have to wait patiently to have my night with Astarion.

Why would removing the cutscenes do anything? they were fully functional. I can see removing them to add onto something to get rid of the "under maintenance" screen, but couldn't a patch fix that, and why was nothing said about this? Judging by the fact this topic keeps popping up from several other posters and no one seems to know whether or not it's a bug, intentionally done, or something the patch messed up (as it started for most people after the patch), needs to be better communicated as it's literally causing some people to delete their saves and start a new game just because they think their game/companion bugged permanently.

Still no fix for this

There was no patch since this thread was created. We are all waiting for Patch4.

I ***FINALLY** got through the Weave scene, happily went and killed a bunch of goblins, had a great party, then get this with Gale and my characters on their sleeping furs instead of the cinematics I was hoping for. Hope this gets fixed. If it does then going back to my save so I can watch the cutscene.

Sadly, I have encountered the exact same issue I worked hard to "get Astarion to like me" and was very excited to finally "seal our relationship with a kiss"--and other things
I've only played this game for a couple weeks and am loving it! When Astarion came along...oh yeah, heartthrob! My whole mission was to romance his socks off. But, I guess I'll have to put my current character on hold until this is fixed. Sad day...

I've got that problem too. I think they disabled the scenes until they finished animating them. So hopefully they'll work in patch 4.

I've got that problem as well in version 1.4.9.6567. No cutscene is displayed, only textlines.

I have a very weird problem, as the scenes are not loading, but I have no even access to the dialogs or options to skip the scene and continue playing. Its totally bugged and I only see the camp, and the characters sleeping, hearing them snore.

If I go clicking on their avatars, the romanced character disappears and all the action bars and avatars with it.

It stays there for hours and theres no way to make them wake up, or even skip the scene.

I am stucked there and I cannot even go out. I have to close the game and load again and it get stucked over and over again.

I had the same problem and the only way out was to load a previous save. Then I updated GPU drivers, tweaked the graphic settings and finally got it to work.

Just hit it, or something similar.
Doing an Evil playthrough, and went to camp for the Goblin Celebration.
Ran through diaolog options with Will, Laezal, Astarion, Gale, and Shadowheart.
Went to bed Minthara. Took me 3 tries to not glitch with party "asleep" in beds but no cutscene or progression. The goblin revelers were running about, but couldn't move or switch characters. Couldn't use the "Go to camp" button, or enter turn based mode, or fast forward through the scene. Couldn't save. Tho the options to quit and Load a previous save were available.

3rd or 4th try I figured out what was causing the glitch.
Did the dialog with Minthara.
Went to bed, and selected the option to "sleep" with Minthara. Then, instead of letting things play out, I was hitting the space bar to advance through the "narrator's dialogue" and get on with the cut scene. And that was what was causing it to bug out. Once I reloaded and did all that without trying to fast forward the dialogue/ narrative bits, the scene played out normally.