Baldur's Gate 3 players can't figure out why Astarion sometimes goes full Grinch-mode after patch 6, but there's a mod that fixes it

One baffling result of Baldur's Gate 3's latest patch—which arrived with plenty of bugs and subsequently a bunch of hotfixes—is, well, Astarion turning into the Grinch. It's only happening under certain mysterious circumstances, but it is certainly happening. Act 3 and Astarion spoilers to follow.

This whole debacle kicked off after footage of Astarion's new Act 3 epilogue scene (shared by skarsghardy on Twitter) caused a swathe of memes to surface about Larian's new 'Astarion Jumpscare', wherein everyone's favourite vampire watches you while you sleep, looking as if he's been devising devious plans to steal Christmas.

NEW POST PARTY EPILOGUE SCENE