Party banter disappeared with patch 3

1. What Platform are you playing the game on?

PC

2. DxDiag. Lemme know if this is something I can fix from my side plox.

3. What is the the Race/Class/Gender combination of your Inquisitor?

Qunari, male, mage.

4. What followers are you using at the time?

Various, see below.

5. How would you describe your play-style? How are you moving around in areas? For example, are you using the mount? Are you playing a mage and using Blink to move around areas?

I never use mounts, I pressed the Blink button twice accidentally outside of combat but I don't use it to get around and I'm all over the place.

6. Are you engaging in regular combat? (Are you in combat every 30 seconds?) Are you playing in heavy-combat zones where non-player factions are fighting each other?

Regularly but not every thirty seconds, every coupla minutes. And I don't know? Not really? A couple of times I think, one in the Emerald Graves where the giants fight the templars but I ran away and once where some undead where fighting a wisp where I soon killed both.

7. How many hours have you spent in your current playthrough? (the one you are experiencing the banter issues in)

This one is probably 20-40 hours in. But I've experienced the banter bug in every single game I've had except for one. But I accidentally deleted that save. In that save, this was before patch 3, I had banter between the starting team which I cleared the Hinterlands, the Storm Coast, that desert place with the door and the swamp with every 15-30 minutes. It was beautiful. Pretty sure they close to exhausting their banter and I was so okay with that.

8. Where do you expect banter to be firing?

Everywhere except quest specific areas.

11:00: Arrived at the Emerald Graves with Viv, Blackwall and Sera.

11:05 Closed a rift, fast travelled back to camp.

11:07 Picked up the Devotion quest.

11:08 Music is playing (!).

11:11 Nvm it played for like three seconds. Used an ocularum and picked up some shards.

11:12 Paused and left to go make me a sammich.

11:21 Back.

11:23 Enjoying sammich.

11:26 Spoke to Fairbanks got the quest etc.

11:30 Killed Duhaime, Sera commented.

11:33 Camped at the site overlooking the place I shanked Duhaime, Viv commented on it being 'a decent enough place.'

11:38 Closed a rift, chilled at camp.

11:39 Finished Devotion.

11:40 Picked up A Lover's Promise quest.

11:42 At the Rush of Sighs Blackwall says 'All this, all these statues. They have to mean something right?' I think, Blackwall that it means you should stop being so damn selective about when you speak assclown.

11:44 Viv got eaten by a bear.

11:45 Found another camp, Viv commented again.

11:47 Finished A Lover's Promise, Inquistor cried on the inside, chilled at camp.

11:51 Closed a rift, chilled at camp.

11:54 Established camp Blackwall: 'This would work as a camp.'

11:55 Swapped party for: Dorian, Cass & Cole.

11:56 A banter! A banter! Between Cass and Dorian.

11:59 Closed a rift, chilled at camp.

12:10 Closed a rift, mini-map pinged, Dorian suggested we search around, commented on the waterfall.

12:12 Found dead lady, Doian thought it was rather grisly.

12:13 Camped, out of curiousity swapped the party again to: Solas, Iron Bull and Dorian.

12:20 A banter! Between Bull and Solas this time.

~went to the Western approach, same party~

12:25 Closed a rift.

12:27 Switched party for Varric, Viv and Sera.

12:29 Closed rift, chilled.

12:30 Found the caravans, Varric thought it was bad.

12:31 More abandoned caravans 'some **bleep** getting an arse full of arrows.'

12:33 A hyena made a really sad noise as it died. ☹️

12:34 Used an ocularem.

12:36 Camp, 'good as place as any' declares Sera.

12:39 Spoke with Fred, Sera thinks he's useless.

12:42 Finished On the Chantry's Trail kinda by accident by stumbling across the cave.

12:48 Closed a rift, pinged, Viv suggest we look around.

12:49 Camped.

12:51 Found some of Fred's stuff, Viv doubts there's more than one Orlesian researcher in the desert 'my dear.'

12:53 Found a camp, no one commented this time.

12:55 Pinged, no one felt the need to state the obvious.

12:59 '**bleep**! A high dragon?' - Varric Tethras.

1:01 Camped and swapped party for Sera, Blackwall and Bull.

1:06 Closed a rift.

1:07 Camped.

~went to the Exalted Plains, same party~

1:10 Reflected on the meaning of life.

1:11 Inquisitor wondered why they should stay off the ramparts, Bull suggested they find out.

1:14 Helped Rosselin with his corpse problem.

1:16 I set fffffiiiIIIIIRRReeeee to the RAMPARTS! Watch them burn as I shot an Arcane Horror in the faaa~aaace!

1:19 Returned to camp swapped party for Blackwall, Solas & Cole.

1:22 Closed a rift.

1:23 Dalish camp, Cole says something Cole-ee.

1:25 Spoke to Hawen.

1:26 Spoke to Nissa and the recruitable elf guy, Blackwall said something in that second one.

1:28 Spoke to the rest of the elves and fast travelled there to recover health.

1:32 Got bored; quit.

Notes and such:

- This was an old save that I don't play anymore.

- All three those places were first visits this playthrough.

- I tried using teams I don't usually use and I KNOW none of them have exhausted their banter.

- I tried to note every semi-important thing I did.

- I DID note every single thing my companions said (except their combat lines but I'm not doing that) so if I didn't mention anything they didn't say anything. I can even give the specific two banters if it's important.

- I can't say with any surety whether post patch 3 made banter worse than it was previously for me but it most definitely did not IMPROVE it.

- This was reeeeaaaalllllyyyy annoying.

EDIT:

Also I play in windowed fullscreen mode and did this live by alt-tabbing a lot, that may or may not be important.