Party banter disappeared with patch 3
Prior to patch 3 updating automatically I had no issues whatsoever with party banter not triggering as reported by several players - after this patch installed I get nothing,absolutely nothing at all...
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Having played for some hours again this appears to have resolved itself for me - no idea what caused it to correct itself but it was still not working in the hinterlands and i went to another area to sort out my specialisation items and it worked fine there and also on returning to the hinterlands, so fingers craossed as someone suggested it might simply be taking it's time to load the new banter settings
I was about to come here and update my story as well.
I idled 10 hours yesterday in Hinterlands in the main camp silent spot with my mage as I was working on the other computer simultaniously. I got absolutely nothing (not even landscape commentary) until 23:14
Then the heavens opened and wonderful apocalyptic inquisition started
I got banter alright from then on and almost bang on time :
23:14 sera and cassandra
23:24 sera and cassandra again
23:39 sera commenting on the landscape
23:49 dorian and cassandra
00:00 varric making a landscape commentary
then i paused the game for a bit while having my dinner so there is natural gap here:
01:55 blackwall commenting on landscape
02:06 varric commenting on landscape
02:18 dorian and blackwall and interractive bickering
02:33 dorian and blackwalla again
02:48 blackwall and varric
this was delightful! This is where I ended my experiment certain that this character is wonderful to play again and will get back at it
Edit:
however the joy was short lived as the improvement did not carry out to actual playing as banter is non-existent (1 in 6 hours)
- So in conclusion. Day after my long moan the game stabilized in terms (took until last night from the download day) of idle banter. Sounds are still a bit out there, but it may be an entirely separate issue and deserves no further commentary here.
What can be noted is that as someone already suggested in Bioware forums was that landscape commentary is part of banter frequency. In fact I have now heard commentary I have not heard before so something has shifted and makes the replay more refreshing too. Lovely lovely and lovely. Thank you- the increase is great thing and does have a very positive impact on the play. I hope this persists while actually playing instead of idling.
Unfortunately the issue is very much present when actually playing the game.
But at least I hear it when I stay idle- it is a small victory, but questing does become abundantly more boring with this unfomfortable silence- that was not there when I was playing my warrior pre-patch.
