Who decided to ruin Vampire Lord’s self-confident facial expressions? Please, bring his pride, arrogance, self-confidence, anger (and dark beauty) back. The old facial expressions fitted perfectly ( matching his arrogant behaviour, which you hear in his voice) and it was a great scene before, showing that he is proud and confident of his dark side.
After "Patch 6" I'd like to add a new thought to this suggestion Thread about Astarion's new patch 5* altered facial expressions at the confrontation with Ulma/the Gur after ascension:
(*or probably a hotfix after patch 5, but I'll call it patch 5 here)
Astarion's facial expressions and body language in the new kiss scenes/kiss voice line scenes Patch 6, which also occur directly after the ascension (outside the palace), show perfectly, what an ascended Vampire Lord is capable of:
Pride, self-confidence, dominance, power and Enjoyment of being dominant and powerfulBut in the confrontation with Ulma, just shortly before you got out of the palace, Astarion's "new" (and now current) Patch 5 altered facial expressions show quite the opposite: disgust, concern, and even a bit fear or rather sadness. (With patch 5 changes he looks more like pre-ascension in this scene, Prepatch 5 this scene was better). This in turn contradicts the scenes just before, when Astarion says, e.g.: "I am the greatest vampire to ever walks this land!" or his answer to Jaheira "Please do, I would love to have you for supper", and where he is shown and he behaves very self-confident. So as it is now, it is inconsistent and contradicts itself.
It was already kindly asked to bring the old pre-Patch 5 facial expression (self-confidence) back to him (see OP), so to not let Ascended Astarion look weak and insecure or rather not let him look like he perhaps would have behaved pre-ascension, where he had less power.
But now, that Astarion got these new
perfectly self-confident facial expressions in Patch 6 ( I applaud for these well-made expressions!),
I kindly ask you to improve these patch 5 insecure facial expressions of Astarion in the post-ascension Gur scene, so that the facial expressions and Astarion's voice lines (confident) will fit together and also that the scenes right before and right after will not contradicts the confrontation.
That means,
either bring back the old pre-Patch 5 facial expressions, as it is asked in OP or
improve the post-ascension Gur scene with some of Astarion's new patch-6-kiss facial expressions. (And just to be clear, I don't mean to kill Astarion's character or other scenes, but to give him self-confidence toward his enemies/Ulma, as it has always been in pre-patch 5)
I'll add a picture as an example of Astarion's new facial expressions of the Patch 6 kiss scene. I hope to see these amazing powerful and confident facial expressions in scenes, where Astarion is confrontating his enemies, that means, especially the Gur scene post-ascension. Thank you very much.
![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/mkdTwjXm/astarion-gur-scene.jpg)