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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Community Admin@Curufinwe_wins @arainai @KaineTay @LiaLiamano
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!
Hi, I made two video captures, one for about 50 minutes, 45 minutes of which I was in the room then gave up. The other I let run while I was gone. Both are too large to upload to youtube without some movie editing software, which I do not have.
Is there a site that you are aware of where I could send the videos for your review?
Thank-you,
YK
Okay, started playing with Kiri (elf/male/mage), IronBull, Dorian, Varric. Ran around for about 15-20 minutes collecting deathroot and paragon's luster. Avoided combat. Got bored and did two of Frederic's quests: Sharper White Claws and The Abyssal High Dragon.
Started game at 4:24 pm. Stopped playing at 5:43 pm. Only two quest related dialogues occured. Varric after destroying all the traps in the Sharper White Claws quest said something along the order of "someone's going to come running." Varric again after planting the dragon lures, something along the lines of he can't believe we were baiting a dragon and he should've stayed home.
No one else has said a word the entire playthrough. Dorian and IB in my last game, prior to patch 3 were always chatting each other up. To the point where I told my daughter I was thinking about showing IB what fireballs could do because he kept cheating with Dorian on my Inquisitor.
Varric is usually good for a wry comment or two.
In this playthrough, prior to patch 3, everything was going about normal (conversations at least firing sometime), after patch 3, in the Western Approach... nothing.
I've tried these three switch-ups: Sera, Cassandra, Varric. Cole, Vivian, Ironbull. Ironbull, Dorian, Varric.
I love this game, but I play it for the ground-breaking relationship building and the chatter. It makes it come alive. Now the game is... hard to play with all this silence. ☹️
The world is beautiful. The scenery amazing, the way the water moves and the wind blows through blades of grass and flowers in the Hinterlands. The story is interesting, and the characters are a wonderful mix... I was really looking forward to getting to know them all.
I hope you all can figure this out. I play this game on two systems, although heavy preference is given to the PC, since the graphics are amazing and my 360 has a bit of trouble rendering all the textures. 🙂
