Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Sexual content is funny; NOT in a good way.

Hopefully this isn't too much of a spoiler, but there is a party early on... after which some intended sexual content.

My settings for both game-play and accessibility are for full cinematic nudity (with genitals). I ran it through the first time and it played fully clothed. That was fine, but why did the settings not make a difference? So, I rechecked settings and then played it through again. This time I manually removed clothing before going into the cut scene. Takes you out of the role-playing to undress in the middle of the party, but at least the cinematic played through properly. But at the end, I was put back to camp and then immediately forced into a serious cut-scene conversation with Halsin and the rest of my team. Shadowheart and I were buck naked for the entire thing. The result was ROTFL... but it totally destroyed any sense of a romantic story line. Then to add insult to injury, I was automatically put back into battle clothes AFTER talking with Halsin.

OOPS! How did this get through playtesting? It's ludicrious, and seems like an easy fix!

The clothes need to come on and off AUTOMATICALLY for the cinematic scenes, according to your selection.

I've not tried the Shadowheart romance scene in full-release, but the Early Access version certainly wasn't intended to be nude. Her romance was more of a slow burn. It could have changed of course, but are you sure that this was a scene where you were meant to have your clothes off? Just because your cinematic settings say you'll take the full nudity when that's what's intended, it doesn't mean that every romance scene animation is explicit.

There's a scene in HoH where you can avoid a fight by agreeing to let the bad guy have sex with you (this is weird without spoilers it makes sense in context), but the cordinates were off or something because the whole thing happened a good three foot from the bed just floating the air half clipped through a wall, it was almost as funny as DA:I not accounting for PC's of not human height

I wrote this in response to another post, but I thought it best to expand on it here:

"Interesting. I've had nothing but approval from Shadowheart, and lots of it. Killing Laz'ael no doubt helped. Our approval reached "very high" well before I reached the party scene. There was an option in dialogue with her to say how I regretted we hadn't had a chance for a deeper connection, and she responds with a desire to get together later and have a private sexual encounter. This was well before the party scene, so when that rolled around I just assumed this was our sexual encounter and not just sharing a bottle of wine. Certainly all the companion dialogues and my options indicate this is at the level of physical intimacy. Now the moderator tells me, the romance is supposed to be a slow burn. This is either badly written or the script doesn't take into account that you can bond with Shadowheart very early."

LOL... So I'm not looking for Pornhub, just story continuity. Shadowheart had already asked me for romance. I ran the dialogue through twice just because of how heart broken she looked when I said maybe later (Their was no "yes, but not now" option). Turns out the game wanted her to say "later" when we can have some privacy. She's telling me how I've made her an entirely different person now. So when the party rolled around that's what I thought the moment was. The party scene as a "slow burn" had already been surpassed...

I think that's just a funny misunderstanding. Nothing in that scene, before or after, really suggests she wants to go all the way yet. Frankly, as a character, it takes her longer than others to get to that point.

Here, let's make this simple. The goblin party scene with Shadowheart is NOT a sex scene. No one is supposed to get naked. There is nothing you can do to make her have sex at that party.

I agree with the others. Shadowhearts scene has no sex and you both stay clothed. She is not like Lae'zel or Astarion, who offer you sex right away, she wants to bond and test the waters and at the end of the scene, there can be a kiss. Nothing more. I'm not sure, how one can think, two people talking is a sex scene.

Ya, but everyone is missing the point. This no sex scene, in my play through, has come after she hits on me for a romantic encounter.