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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Heya everyone,
The studio is investigating this issue and would really appreciate the following information:
- What Platform are you playing the game on? If PC, can you provide a DxDiag?
- What areas have you been in when the problem was reported? Have you already entered the Hinterlands? Are you mostly spending time on Critical Path plots?
- What is the the Race/Class/Gender combination of your Inquisitor?
- What followers are you using at the time?
- 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?
- 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?
- How many hours have you spent in your current playthrough? (the one you are experiencing the banter issues in)
- Where do you expect banter to be firing?
If anyone has any experience with video capture, we would greatly appreciate that as well. We are looking for the following:
- With three followers, idle in a safe area in an exploration zone. Be away from any combat including enemy factions who are fighting each other. A good place to do this would be right outside of the first Inquisition Camp in the Hinterlands. You must ensure that no combat is nearby for this test to be valid.
- Enable subtitles
- Idle for 30 minutes while running video capture – banter should be heard at least once. Alternately, you could idle for 60 minutes – banter should fire at least twice.
- Upload your video and share the link with us here.
Thank you very much for your help in advance!
1. Playing on an Alienware 18, Windows 7. Dxdiag: http://hastebin.com/letehikeru.tex
2. First began to notice it in Crestwood, then subsequently in the Western Approach. My character is level 13 so she's well past entering the Hinterlands, and currently spending time on both side quests and critical path plots in Crestwood and the Western Approach.
3. Elven Rogue Female
4. I've switched them around to try and get some banter, but the constant has been Solas.
5. Yes, my character is moving around, as that is what is necessary to play the game. I don't use the mount because I enjoyed the party banter I was getting. (As a side note, my war table banter has greatly increased.)
6. Combat is occurring with semi-regularity. Mostly now as a result of plot points where combat is required, like finding the darkspawn outside Griffon Wing Keep. Definitely not in combat every 30 seconds. Most of the time is spent going from quest point to quest point, while also looting and/or gathering herbs and metals.
7. Current playthrough is 30 hours.
8. I expect banter to be firing everywhere except Skyhold and perhaps locations where there is already a lot of ambient dialogue, like Val Royeaux and captured keeps.
edited to add: Won't everyone "expect" banter to be firing everywhere? I'm not sure what that question is trying to get to, so in the interest of being more specific, I know that Solas and Sera have some banter/bickering when entering the Exalted Plains. With a previous (now completed) playthrough, the first time I entered the Exalted Plains was for Solas's personal quest. I headed essentially straight there from the starting camp, passing through the Dalish camp, where Sera had some not-kind things to say about the Dalish, crossed the stream, and to the cutscene for the quest. I did the same thing to try to recreate my steps in my current playthrough, and got dead silence. I'm fairly certain that the party makeup in both cases was Sera/Solas/Cassandra. The difference was that my Inquisitor was a Human Female Rogue.
