BUG: Dialogue audio cuts off sometimes
In addition to the voice sync issues some people have mentioned, I've also noticed that dialogue audio sometimes prematurely cuts off (usually just at the end of someone's dialogue).
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Hi, I have noticed that the final word or words of a character's first line of dialogue to Shepard almost always cuts out. This is especially true when talking to Ashley, Kaiden, or another squadmate on the Normandy. This, and sometimes squadmate are incredibly quiet even when you're standing next to them (also Kaiden)
No special sound options chosen, happens with or without headphones. XBox One X.
I am gearing up to do the Asteroid and Virmire, and I am putting the game away until these are fixed; I don't want my immersion broken during those missions. I also heard this is an issue, but even worse in Mass Effect 2 where full lines of dialogue Cut out. Def not starting ME2 with that issue.
PLEEEEEASE fix.
Personally I didn't expirience this issue in ME1 and ME2 but I'm having it in ME3 🥳
Yeah I’m experiencing this on ME2. It’s awful.
I have that problem on pc and ME1, the dialogues are cut at the end or I dont have sound or worse start late and mix with other dialogues. I dont know what to do. ☹️
I'm seeing this happen in ME3 as well, especially during Kasumi's mission. All but 2 dialogues that Shepard said was cut off at the end of her talking and she never finished what she was saying.
I have emailed EA as none of their reps have responded to this message, and on other threads about this error type, EA stops responding and never says that this is being looked into and worked on by the developers. Frustrating.
Thanks for the tip, but someone else posted this same issue and EA responded without being tagged. Then, EA stopped responding at all. So it seems they don't need to be tagged and it didn't matter because they ignore you anyway :-(
The post I'm taking about is titled
BUG: Dialogue audio cuts off sometimes
- @jmjfrank Why would they? Both Bioware and EA cashed in and gaming journalists aren't doing pieces of hoe they abandoned the game.
If you think this is bad wait until you see that this is likely a Legacy issue that they didn't fixed in ME2 and ME3 LE.
Ashley Williams conversations are supposed to last longer and she has a conversation that doesn't trigger with Liara when she gets back to the Normandy:
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Mass-Effect-3/Ashley-Williams-bugged-lines-in-dialogues/td-p/236398
Yep. Same here on Xbox one x
Or that some dialogue is barely audible. I am already hearing compromised (I wear hearing aids) and I use captioning, but the captioning doesn't get use for non-controlled dialogue (can't remember what that dialogue type is called). This seems to happen during this type of dialogue mostly . I noticed this throughout ME1.
So I got impatient waiting for any response from EA about the dialogue issue, and decided to toy around, I reinstalled the game but did a few things differently and now I haven't been able to recreate the bug. I played for several hours last night and it has yet to happen.
When I first installed a couple weeks ago:
Set External Hard drive as game location
Inserted disc 1, installed Mass Effect 1 AND had it download the update simultaneously
Downloaded Mass Effect 2 and 3, which ignored Disc 2
Would play game by clicking "Resume" from the LE Main menu launcher
Because of bug:
Deleted ME:LE from my XBox One XThis time:
Set The XBox One X as the game location
Turned internet off, so the update would not prompt and I could fully use installation discsInserted Disc 1, Installed Mass Effect 1 and half of 2
Inserted Disc 2 when prompted, downloaded remainder of Mass Effect 2 and 3
Reinserted Disc 1 when prompted
Once complete, turned internet back on, and downloaded update
Click Start Game from launcher, and then Resume once on the Mass Effect 1 original menu
Haven't noticed the dialogue cut off bug at all since. Characters still sometimes seem more quiet than others. I went through multiple save files to different parts of the story, no dialogue cut off. Kaidan, who used to be one of the people the dialogue would always cut off for, is able to finish his sentences- though now it strangely looks like he is rolling his eyes in annoyance when Shepard approaches. I haven't touched 2 or 3 yet, so no idea if that helps those dialogue issues.I have no idea which part of this was the fix, and it took 3 hours for the game to reinstall and update (don't know why it takes so long, installing from disc) but I suspect that it has something to do with trying to update while installing? Either way, this shouldn't be a proper fix as its unrealistic for every person to have to do this, and an actual update hopefully comes soon.
Playing on PC. Did not have this issue at all in ME1 as far as I can recall but it's happening regularly in ME2. I did not start ME2 until after the first big patch came out, if that matters at all.
Sometimes the dialogue and mouth movements match up - when that happens, no issue. However they regularly start out of sync, and it just moves on to the next character when the mouth flapping ends and cuts the spoken dialogue off.
