I think that, apart from personal preference and perception, this might also depend on the model of the player character. In a yt clip, I noticed, that with the slender, female human-sized model the hug is a bit looser, while with the slender male human-sized model, the characters basically melt into each other. (Especially if your character is Gale who has a bit of extra shoulder padding in his epilogue outfit.) Just as a thought.
Yeah, maybe. What the hug looks like really depends on Tav's build. My Act 2 hugs have also varied a bit between playthroughs - when I played Tav with body 3, Astarion was very touching snuggled into her shoulder in the finale, and with DU with body 1, the hugs are a bit different, but also very touching.
Originally Posted by Anska
I find it's most of all much less stiff than the act 2 one and much less hesitating on Astarion's part too. It's a good hug in any case.
And why is it stiff in Act 2? About the hesitation - yes, of course, such a reaction to hugging at Astarion can be only at the very first time. But then, when he's already snuggled up to Tav, it's the best hug in the world.
I would like to point out that I am in no way speaking in favor of changing the UA hugs in the epilogue, in another thread I mentioned them only as a general reasoning, this is my personal perception, I don't play the UA route and don't want to comment on any possible changes to that route.
The change I'd really like to see in the game is a modified Act 2 hug in the epilogue of Ascended Astarion (without the hesitation at the beginning). And even better (well, that's a dream in general), not only in the epilogue, but as an additional romantic act that can be repeated at any time (similar as kissing).
