I must admit a lot of Astarion's scenes are just outright downgrade from patch 5. Camera too far or from down up pointing at his crotch area; half the time he is standing in unnatural position with his head turned way too far to the side ( how many people have a conversation with their heads twisted to the side like that) and that creates a weird eye motion when he is trying to have an eye contact with Tav. In some cutscenes he is looking in a different direction from Tav. And don't start me on the way he turns around now, it is absolutely awful. The scars and mirror scenes are the worst offenders, where he used to turn around like a normal human (first the head turns then the rest of the torso) whereas now he turns like a person with a back surgery (slowly turning his whole body at the same time). I really hope they could return the body motion/cam angles/closeups from patch 5.
Agree with this. I know the broken necks are happening with a lot of NPCs right now but changing all the camera angles and such on Astarion scenes that were once good was unnecessary. Many more times now than it used to be, the scene's either a super distant shot of him (and my Tav's back) or an extreme closeup where I can count the pores on his face.
Yeah, for me it's the bite scene. The camera angles are so awkward during the conversation now. The new far away shot in conversations works sometimes but in others it just takes you out of the scene and feels out of place. The bite scene with Astarion in particular. I feel like they keep trying new camera angles for the sake of change and it's hit or miss. Most of the changes in Astarion's scenes are a downgrade imo.
The kind of sideways angle characters stand in scenes now, with their head turned away, is unnatural and distracting. Also seems to result in a lot of glitching.
I really miss the way it was before. Sometimes simple is better.
