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11 years ago

Companion stopped approving, stuck on Sera romance because of it

I am currently about 100h in on the game (just finnished "what pride had wrought").
I have been romancing Sera for a while (playing with female elf character), hit the cookies on the roof scene about 30-40h of gameplay earlier. When I hit the "I'm interested in you" heart-option on the special section of the dialogue options she answers that we shuold travel some more together. After that I keep her along all the time gaining some approval, but still gets the same answer when I choose aforementioned dialogue option. 
But somewhere along the line i stopped gaining approval (a little bit after crestwood i think) but I kept playing, thinking it was things she didn´t really care about. What i also noticed was that i could get dissaproval and then approval for the same amount again, but then it was stuck again.

Then after the "what pride had wrought" mission I don´t get the greatly approve when I agree it was all lies, but furthermore there is not even the possibility to choose the "I'm interested in you" dialogue option anymore, it´s just not there anymore!

So after this I go back to earlier saves, rushing through the game to try and gain more approval earlier on at every place possible. So I gain a lot of approval that I didn´t get last time, at some places the same dialogue option/choices I made pre-load got approval that I didn´t get the last time (got to thoose places earlier after i loaded). But then after a while it happens again, I stop gaining approval. From what I have deduced from loading the game and re-playing it seems the approval gets capped at a certain level and can´t get higher. And that level is not enough to trigger the romance-option. I even tried to uninstall and then reinstall the game, the issue still remain.

So I really really need help with this, may seem a trivial issue, but I don´t really see any point in playing the game anymore if I can´t play it the way I intend to. It simply isn´t the kind of story I intended for my charcter anymore.

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  • INsaneyAC's avatar
    INsaneyAC
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    11 years ago

    There seems to be a maximum amount of approval for companions. Just stopped getting Cassandra approval myself last night (though I am playing a female, so no romance).

    Here is what I found on the web after quick searching:

    http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/193471/is-it-possible-to-max-a-companions-approval-rating

    As for the romance, she will just keep giving you that line about spending more time together until you activate the romance. For me that was after "The Verchiel March", and I spoke to her again and she sat me down in her Skyhold quarters and had a heart to heart about starting the romance (had to clear things up with Josie first). I know from some guides that there are some story decisions that can close off romance possiblilities, so its possible you triggered one of those (something surrounding Mythal but I haven't gotten that far so I don't have details). It is mentioned in the IGN guide. Also note for the Sera romance, being an Elf female is the most difficult (she has a preference, being Qunari>Human/Dwarf>Elf).

    I have read that if you wait too long in the story the characters aren't romancable (become locked out) but I'm not sure about that. However, I have held back from story missions forever (still waiting to do Wicked hearts after 100 hours). You will probably have to dig around on the interent and Bioware boards (there is a Sera specific thread), but It sounds like you may have triggered a romance lock out and you are now capped for approval level so that romance can not be triggered (especially if the heart option vanished). Hopefully you've been keeping some hard save points and can go back.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
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    11 years ago

    Thanks a lot for the answer. Yes, thankfully I've learned from experience that it´s good to keep some saves, so has a lot of them. Just don´t feel like going back so long right now though so will probably just start a new character and deal with that later. Think it might have gotten stuck on "let´s travel around some more" somehow. In future games I will always worry when a character says that thanks to this ☹️ Think it would be better if it would just trigger automatically if you have maxed out approval and choose that dialogue option. So guess I´ll get back to that character when it is fixed or when there is some kind of cheat to trigger the romance :P

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
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    10 years ago

    I've done the March quest before I got the I'm interested in you option is this a bad thing because she's saying let's travel a bit more and I can't do the pranks missions yet

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