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Before patch 3 the amount of banters I got seemed to vary between playthroughs. On my current playthrough I was regularly getting them around every 15 to 20 minutes before I downloaded patch 3 and now I only seem to get 1 banter an hour, if that. I tried making a new playthrough and played through the Hinterlands for several hours and still nothing. I even tried reinstalling the game last night and that did not help either.
- What Platform are you playing the game on? If PC, can you provide a DxDiag?
I am playing on PC http://hastebin.com/ucahehaxeg.tex
- 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?
When the patch downloaded I was in the Western Approach. Since then I've done almost all of the Emerald Graves, gone back to the Hinterlands, and done most of the Storm Coast. I have only had about 3 banters since the patch downloaded in around 8 hours of play time. One of which was cut short by a surprise bear attack.
- What is the the Race/Class/Gender combination of your Inquisitor?
My Inquisitor is a human female mage.
- What followers are you using at the time?
I usually take Iron Bull, Sera, and Dorian but I have switched to Blackwall, Sera, and Solas, and also Cassandra, Vivienne, Varric and still nothing.
- 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 have not used the mounts at all in this playthrough and I do not use spells to move around areas. I have even tried standing still by a camp and only got one banter after waiting for over 30 minutes.
- 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?
Usually I am in combat fairly regularly but I have been avoiding it lately to see if it causes more banter to trigger. I was not in combat for about an hour on the Storm Coast, only got one banter between Sera and Iron Bull and listened to Dorian make the same comment about the environment twice in 10 minutes.
- How many hours have you spent in your current playthrough? (the one you are experiencing the banter issues in)
About 39 hours, I was at the 30 hour mark when I downloaded patch 3. I have only done Here Lies the Abyss so I am not at a point where I should be running out of dialogue yet.
- Where do you expect banter to be firing? I expect banter to be firing about every 15 minutes whenever I am walking around in an area and I am not engaged in combat.
I re-installed after patch3, started a new character. Everything was fine; for the first time I heard regular party banter in rather regular intervalls for roughly 25h (btw, I was fast travelling like a pro, and it triggered in all kinds of situations)
Then....
Skyhold...
haven't heard anything except one banter in 5h now.... maybe Skyhold messes things up big time? Not looking forward to spending the next 60h talking to myself only...
Update:
7 more hours, and only 2 banters in Crestwood, nothing in the Hinterlands, Approach, Hissing Wastes....and ony fetch questing. Am on PC, btw.
- 11 years ago
I have played for about 5 hours in my first playthrought and spent the majority of that in the Hinterlands. I have gotten very minimal banters( around 2) in the 3 hours in the hinterlands. Any fix arounds?
- Anonymous11 years ago
Banter is not supposed to fire in skyhold, your party doesnt follow you around so how would you hear them?
- 11 years ago
He probably means that only after getting acess to Skyhold the party banter stopped. I noticed the same thing recently, but it was with a Save game I created before patch 3.