Great news for fans of Astarion in Baldur’s Gate 3 – Larian Studios has confirmed that Patch Five for the game is set to be released this week, and it will address a crucial fix to the vampire’s kissing animations.

For those who may not be up to date, Astarion’s kisses have been experiencing issues since the release of Patch Four earlier this month. Initially, he stopped showing any interest in kissing at all, but a later hotfix resulted in him attempting to kiss again, only to completely miss and aim for the air instead. Needless to say, it’s been a rocky time for those who have pursued a romance with him.

Thankfully, this is all about to change very soon. In a post published on Twitter today, Larian Studios wrote: “We’re aiming to release Patch Five this week, which fixes the eternally active acts of thefts and violence causing slowdowns, introduced in the previous patch. It also fixes Astarion’s little kisses, and more!”

As for the “slowdowns” mentioned in the tweet, Larian Studios’ director of publishing, Michael Douse, clarified that these were “caused by a specific bug in Moonrise [Towers] that caused a systemic error that stacked over time, which means the further you got, the worse it got.” This means that the recent performance issues that players have been experiencing in Act Three should be resolved when the patch is released.

Additionally, Larian also confirmed that it’s “preparing a community update that talks about some new features coming to Baldur’s Gate 3,” although it didn’t give any further hints as to what these are, so fans will have to stay tuned to see.

In other Baldur’s Gate 3 news, Larian recently revealed that the release date for the highly anticipated Xbox version of the game will be announced during The Game Awards on December 7. At the same time, it was stated that it’s “on track for a December release,” but it’s not known if that could have changed in the meantime.

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