At this point I feel like I'm spending more time shooting at the banter cave than actually playing the game. But I'm determined to at least get the banters about relationships between companions that trigger the extra dialogue later, before my game is over.
Certain banter triggers extra dialogue? o.O
Thank you very much. I didn't knew there was any music in Skyhold. o.O
Ugh, I didn't either. Now I just wonder what else I've been missing on? I'm playing on pc right now and I almost considered getting another copy on ps4 but I'd just end up even more upset if I ended up with two broken games.
Ugh, I didn't either. Now I just wonder what else I've been missing on? I'm playing on pc right now and I almost considered getting another copy on ps4 but I'd just end up even more upset if I ended up with two broken games.
My husband and I bought two copies and play on two computers. We wanted to multiplayer together. We both have this bug. I wouldn't recommend throwing anymore money at it.
(I say this as I'm listening to an hour and a half stream writing down every instance of ambient music / banter there was while I AFKd in a camp while cleaning my house.)
Right. I'm gonna try something that I haven't done in quite a while and that is just... play the game. Yep. I'm going to just play it as I would normally. I want to test whether these work-arounds have actually been working or it's all just been a "placebo" affect, as someone mentioned previously. If I get around 2 or 3 banters trigger in this session, that will be consistent with all the testing I've been doing. So we'll see..
Certain banter triggers extra dialogue? o.O
There are some spoilers about it in this post http://forum.bioware...0#entry17911252
Sadly the party members mentioned have spent my entire game ignoring eachother
I've noticed I mainly get it in the hinterlands, and get it nonstop in a place called the dead hand, in the exalted planes.
I would like to say something, but keep in mind that I'm still at the beginning of the game, so I don't know what it's worth.
I played for a few hours with 2 banters . This was in the hinterlands.
I then went back to Haven and chatted with my companions, then I went back to hinterlands and had a banter every 8 minutes on average, and I'm writing this now right after the 6th banter with this frequency.
Sorry if my English is bad
Update: I went to Emerald Graves for the first time today....no banter, but I did get the Val Royeaux music playing bug after I closed the first rift.
My issue so far is that Varric and Solas won't shut up about
Hours after submitting my Val Royeaux music video to @bioware, reading this just aggravates me further considering I haven't heard a response.
https://twitter.com/...813151840448512
When will I be able to play the game I purchased with full features? I remember hearing about this game with an amazing soundtrack and party banter only to not have it in my game.
There are some spoilers about it in this post http://forum.bioware...0#entry17911252
Sadly the party members mentioned have spent my entire game ignoring eachother
Yeah, apparently we are missing out from a very important part of the game. The bug is not game-breaking, there are worse issues regarding that, but it is immersion-breaking, maybe much more than a game-breaking bug could be.
And it's only a big issue if you know of it. I wish I hadn't noticed it, ignorance is a bliss.
My issue so far is that Varric and Solas won't shut up about
Spoilerthat entire exchange plays about every 4 minutes. Enough that I switched party members out because it got annoying.
This has happened to me as well. I was playing today, did the clear out the journal, codex, and inventory thing, got three banters over the course of an hour... and they were all repeats of stuff Varric and Solas have talked about before. Specifically that Corypheus one, the one where they talk about the reaction to them at the Winter Palace, and the one where they talk about the Grey Wardens including different races. Then after that the game went back to being silent. I ran around different maps with different parties for roughly three hours without a peep from them.
Also getting no battle music. Since changing my audio setting to TV I get exploration music more often, though it's still fairly rare. Also get no music at VR or Skyhold. I wasn't even aware that there was any music at those two locations and I have over 70 hours played.
My issue so far is that Varric and Solas won't shut up about
Spoilerthat entire exchange plays about every 4 minutes. Enough that I switched party members out because it got annoying.
My roommate got that conversation three times in one play session, along with the one about the Orlesian nobles disgusted expressions when they had to deal with non-humans.
I've noticed I mainly get it in the hinterlands, and get it nonstop in a place called the dead hand, in the exalted planes.
Actually the 2 places where I get the most banter are in......... you guessed it the hinterlands and the exalted plains. Other areas don't get much at all.
Yeah, apparently we are missing out from a very important part of the game. The bug is not game-breaking, there are worse issues regarding that, but it is immersion-breaking, maybe much more than a game-breaking bug could be.
And it's only a big issue if you know of it. I wish I hadn't noticed it, ignorance is a bliss.
IMHO the importance of the banter is being underrated.
My game seems to be getting more messed up as time goes on. Now I have absolutely no music anywhere - Exalted Plains , Hinterlands, Val. R, etc. No combat music ever. Very infrequent banter. Even ambient noises cut out sometimes. Sometimes the bards will sing, other times it's just subtitles with no sound. So weird.
Actually the 2 places where I get the most banter are in......... you guessed it the hinterlands and the exalted plains. Other areas don't get much at all.
IMHO the importance of the banter is being underrated.
I bought the game for the story and companions. I have not played this game since I have noticed the lack of banter and Googled it and found this. I load up the game to test stuff and stream so I have proof of what is wrong.
I'm glad people can still enjoy the game.
I unfortunately, can not.
While I know I can't get a refund even though I feel like the product I own is not the product that was advertised, I won't be making the mistake of pre-ordering (and depending on how long this takes to get fixed, buying) another Bioware game.
While I know I can't get a refund even though I feel like the product I own is not the product that was advertised, I won't be making the mistake of pre-ordering (and depending on how long this takes to get fixed, buying) another Bioware game.
Same. There's no point in a pre-order if it comes with game-breaking bugs the devs barely seem to acknowledge.
Update on journal / codex clearing:
I've been playing my new character today and mainly doing the templar / mage / haven quest chain, but I did go to the storm coast for an hour or so and I had 5 banters all in 10-15 minute intervals, sometimes less. Also had few comments on the environment. Prior to that I went to the Oasis where I did have a 40 minute banter silence, during which Cole repeated the same environment comment 3 times.
Edit: Oh and I used different companions for each zone.
Music is still constant, but no sign of combat music. The regular, relaxing soundtrack keeps on playing through the combat encounters. I have noticed some combat dialogue, but it's always strangely muted and doesn't follow any pattern - very random. Sometimes they say something, sometimes they don't.
Still waiting for the ball to drop and for the banter to just stop as it always has. But this seems to work to some extent, I know it didn't for others so maybe it's not even the cause for these results.
I'm currently reviewing a 1 hour 37 minute video I made while AFK.
20:45 Iron Bull makes a comment about the zone.
59:40 Iron Bull makes the same comment about the zone.
01:01:20 Blackwall banters with Iron Bull. (First instance of banter after an hour of idling.)
01:02:51 Iron bull banters with Blackwall. (Second instance of banter 1 minute 31 seconds after that, while still idling.)
01:15:28 Iron Bull banters with Sera. (Still idle)
01:18:15 Sera banters with Blackwall. (Still idle)
01:32:37 Sera banters with Iron Bull (Still idle)
01:35:28 Iron Bull banters with Blackwall. (Still idle)
This is way more than I've even gotten while I actually played. So maybe being idle has something to do with it. I can not make myself play this game in it's current state. Hopefully someone else can record some actual playing videos.
I'm currently reviewing a 1 hour 37 minute video I made while AFK.
20:45 Iron Bull makes a comment about the zone.
59:40 Iron Bull makes the same comment about the zone.
01:01:20 Blackwall banters with Iron Bull. (First instance of banter after an hour of idling.)
01:02:51 Iron bull banters with Blackwall. (Second instance of banter 1 minute 31 seconds after that, while still idling.)
01:15:28 Iron Bull banters with Sera. (Still idle)
01:18:15 Sera banters with Blackwall. (Still idle)
i didn't record exact times this time, but i just hung around in the hinterlands doing quests for around two hours before i even went to val royeaux and banter triggered three times between varric/solas/cassandra; one-line observations i'd never heard before in my ~20+ hours of time spent in the hinterlands triggered once or twice.
my game is crashing a lot on load now. don't know if it's at all related to what i've been screwing with in an attempt to get the banter working, even though the only things i've done are disable more origin settings and go through the journal to mark everything as read. strange time for it to happen.
ALSO: i still have consistent music playing every 1 - 3 minutes, occasional combat music (though more often it just goes quiet) and party members are yelling taunts, including my inquisitor.
Something weird just happened.
My game randomly closed, no errors or anything. Just up and closed. I launched it back up and I noticed that I had, for the first time, the drum soundtrack in whole of Skyhold. I do believe this is a bug, correct?
Then I travelled to Val R and, wow, music?! I never had music there, EVER (apart from the intro quest).
No idea what happened, but I thought I'd mention it since banter and music bugs seem to correlate somehow.
Something weird just happened.
My game randomly closed, no errors or anything. Just up and closed. I launched it back up and I noticed that I had, for the first time, the drum soundtrack in whole of Skyhold. I do believe this is a bug, correct?
Then I travelled to Val R and, wow, music?! I never had music there, EVER (apart from the intro quest).
No idea what happened, but I thought I'd mention it since banter and music bugs seem to correlate somehow.
So I just got home and tried the journal fix, and suddenly the Val R theme started playing (not the complete thing though) in the Emerald Graves, which was kind of weird 
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