Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Technical & Gameplay Problems Astarion Graveyard Scene Glitched ;_;

So by all rights it seems like I'm not the first one to encounter this issue, and all the threads I've seen on here and everywhere else have mostly ended with "Welp too bad. Guess it's glitched :(" and no further info, but over 100 hours into my first play through, and frankly having gone into the game with the express intent of seeing Astarion's story, I'm not really satisfied with that as an answer.

After killing Cazador, when you sleep there is meant to be (or so I've heard) a scene in a Graveyard where Astarion's story wraps up. Apparently he takes you to his grave. That scene never triggered for me. I spoke to him at camp (with the "!" indicator. "Thank you for stopping me from going through with the ritual", ect.), slept, and there was no scene.

I thought nothing of it and continued playing for a good 10 hours. During said 10 hours, I caved just a bit and looked up some ways to get approval, getting his affection to what looks to be the highest level (up to "character is thrilled with avatar") assuming that that must be a trigger for finally FINALLY getting some additional scenes to talk with Astarion. (His affection had been fine but not amazing most of the game. Given that I didn't go out of my way in the first two acts to meta game/min max it, and just let the experience ride. It resulted in a bevy of disapproval points early on for my Tav being a decent guy, generally. Now Wyll on the other hand? That man was all over me from act 1 on.)

Said approval didn't trigger anything.

So I go, "alright, I cave. I'll look it up". I find out about the graveyard scene and think "okay, the scene where Orin kidnaps a party member DID play the very next time I ended the day, maybe that event was messing up my ability to see Astarion's final scene?" So I reload to before I killed Cazador. About 10 hours ago. Given that the very first thing I did when I got to the city was end the little shit.

I'm hardly happy about it, but sure, if that's what I have to do. I reload, get the kidnapping scene out of the way, and for good measure spend a few hours collecting a few approval points around the city that I'm now redoing, because I figure "if I don't get the scene right after Cazador this time, I'll stop there and try and figure out what the hell is happening. Doing a handful of side quests won't change that one way or the other". After a time, I head back and kill Cazador again, making an abundance of saves on the way, of course, because damned if it hasn't been made clear that things can go weirdly sideways timing wise, rather than playing out as intended.

I head back to camp after stopping him from completing the ritual again, freeing the spawn, talking to the waiting Gur, taking the elevator, and walking out of the mansion before going back to camp, and, well, this thread wouldn't damn well exist if the graveyard scene had triggered this time, would it? I go to camp, end the day, talk to Astarion, sleep, and no scene plays.

I reload, I try not talking to him when he has the "!" over his head then sleeping, I try talking to him then sleeping several times. Nothing seems to be triggering it.

So here I am, I guess. And posting here specifically because I figure there's the best chance of genuinely informed responses here, as opposed to guess work about "Oh, well, you didn't do a triple backflip summersalt in act 1 then click X twelve times so I guess you're locked out forever" (speaking not in hyperbole, something like "well you didn't sleep with him after the Teifling party, nor get lucky enough to trigger any romance scenes till, now so I guess that means you can't get a final one, nor see his ending proper", which I doubt is a prerequisite for the graveyard scene.)

This game isn't exactly light on the time commitment it asks of it's players, and if I wanted to resort to watching youtube clips rather than having the experience of playing it myself, of being invested in my own journey through the story, I wouldn't have bought it, nor put in literal hundreds of hours into getting here.

This won game of the year, surely this is a glitch. And even if it's not, surely someone can at least tell me what specific triggers apparently warrant me being locked out of the climactic scene of the one and only character I went into the game with an interest in getting to know.

What do you think? What in the actual shit is causing me to miss this scene?