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.
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
I think this bug is a side effect of the way the devs programmed the game.
Which is the worst way to make game audio in my opinion.
I notice when i play that whenever a companion starts to talk, and you are walking and run into another NPC that starts talking, that the first one (companion in this case) audio cuts out.
I think this is intentional behaviour to make sure you can follow what's being said, and if so, it's ofcourse a bad decision cause our brain is wired to filter out secondary noises that where not paying attention too.
So they made a bad decision there, the game should play up to 8 conversations simultaneously if need be, not just the one.
And i suspect that this rigorous mandatory only 1 NPC may talk programming is causing issues with audio cutting out in conversations.
It might also just be a setting in a ini file somewhere that lets the game mux multiple conversations, but i suspect it's intentionally programmed, and a buggy routine.
Shame that once gamedevs earned enough money on a product, that they really don't care anymore with fixing their bugs.
They seem to fix some bugs in the first month, and after that they don't bother anymore it seems.
And i must also conclude that so far the Legendary Edition is 100x more buggy than the original trilogy, i never had any weird thing happening in OT,
while in LE it's a myriad of bugs i'm encountering, not worth the hassle imo, you're better of playing OT with mods.
- @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
I tweeted the official Bioware, EA and Mass Effect accounts earlier this week and got no response. Just tweeted Patrick and Karin Weekes (who worked on the trilogy) asking them who people need to contact to actually get help for bugs. While I no longer have the dialogue issue, so many others do, and I am still having other bugs like Kaidan and Shepard looking possessed during the most important cut scene of the trilogy for their romance, which is 90 hours in. And someone else I talked to consistently has characters that are missing eyeballs. Yes, you read that right.
I wish I could play with mods, but I'm on an XBox One X, not a computer :-/
- @jmjfrank All five of those accounts are set to be unmessagable, so I doubt you will get anywhere there.
