I was so ready to start another evil play through to explore the new patch but finding this out makes me no longer want to... I almost always romance Astarion and I don't want to stop doing that in my next run.
If you do want to start a new playthrough in the meantime, there is a new mod to restore the original patch 6 kisses on nexus! Not perfect, but at least it’s a stop gap until Larian hopefully adds the flag based expressions! I’ll be using it once the mac update comes out. Since the expressions were already part of the game, the mod doesn’t have the same limitations the last one had.
