Want to know how broken Banter is? Post Patch Iron Bull sees dragon, fights dragon, wins and says nothing throughout. Way to go Bioware!
i was about to ask about kinda exactly that, should the followers say anything when you face a dragon? I just saw and killed my first dragon, and the only banter was my character asking "eryone allright?" afterwards...
Well prepatch Iron Bull was giddy when seeing and fighting dragons, now he is silent and morose
Does anybody know if they actually went and upped the likelihood of banter occurring? Last Dev post on the matter said that they planned to do that to "counteract edge cases". It's been a bit since patch 2 and it seems like a small update so.... any word?
Well I have had the same converssation between Solas and Varric about a certain bad guy 49 times now...sometimes they just loop 9 times in a row, real immersive, think Varric may have drunk too much and Solas is just humoring him
is the banter bug in western approach absolute? using the work around i've been able to get convos every 5-15 minutes in hinterlands and storm coast, but i heard western approach is really silent for anyone no matter if you do the trick or not?. is it true?
i'm on patch 2 + hotfix
It worked for me on PS3. The frequency of party banter went WAY up post patch.
I seemed to get more banter while playing this weekend, but I've tried so many of the workarounds I have no clue which one of them worked.
i've seen to of gotten much more also, more then my previous 4 plays put together, i was afraid to say anything because i don't want to curse it.
Mine works fine on Ultra, except Solas and Iron Bull, Solas repeats the bit about Iron Bull being a mindless drone every five minutes. Gets annoying so, I rarely have those two together anymore. (Except if I need them both on a dragon. Then no one else talks because Solace won't shut up and IB just keeps asking him to let him have it. ANNOYING! I'd rather silence than chronic repetition. You said it once, remember it and shut up!
I have the same problem with the same conversation. I don't know how many times Solas insulted Bull with the drone dialogue in my game, but I'm getting a little tired of it. But they only do this in the Hissing Wastes.
It seems that the patch + hotfix made my banter worse. I usually had quite a bit of it. I played a lot the last couple of days and barely had any banter. Except the drone thing between Bull & Solas,
I call myself lucky when I hear three banters per hour, but... I reinstalled the game to reduce load times (I had the game on the normal HD, copied the folder on the SSD and made origin "download" and reinstall the game) and I just heard four banter in like ten or fifteen minutes (first time in a part of the Hinterlands, the Speaker Anais cult ruin/castle in particular) I'm guessing is just a coincidence, but I was pretty much like this 
when I heard the third and the fourth banter.
This is strange... I just added Solas to my group because I thought "What the hell..." and my party started chatting constantly all of a sudden, not just with Solas, Varric and Cassandra is bitching and moaning at eachother.
I wonder if there is a connection to Solas and the party banter not occuring as often as it should.
Alright, seriously, does anyone else get this?
I go without banter for a while and then I close a rift and I immediately get a banter. Its happened to me like three times now.
I created a new character and guess what, i have my banter & music back, at least in the Hinterlands.
Summary:
- First playthrough (pre-patch) - lots of banter + music in all areas...(even in the western approach) without clearing codex + fast travel through world map.
- Second playthrough (half of it pre-patch, rest patch 2 + hotfix) - before patch see above, after the patch almost no banter and no music. Tried to clear codex, travel through war table and all the other steps.
- Third playthrough (new char post-patch 2 + hotfix) see first playthrough, or to be precise even more banter. I played for 4 hours and stayed only in the Hinterlands and had 15 banters (at first I had 13, but had 2 more after I wrote that here). 4 between Varric/Solas, 7 between Varric/Cassandra, 3 between Solas/Cassandra & 1 between Solas/Varric/Cassandra. I did a lot of fighting, cleared codex and travel through the war table, but I didn't fast travel between camps...I'm also offline in origins and the game is disconnected.
I'm really afraid to leave the Hinterlands now. I don't want my silence companions back.
Alright, seriously, does anyone else get this?
I go without banter for a while and then I close a rift and I immediately get a banter. Its happened to me like three times now.
Actually yes, in my second playthrough, for the first 20 hours or so, they would only talk when I was closing a rift. It was incredibly weird.
Party banter and conversations are bugged. I'm having to watch youtube to hear and see what should trigger for the Cullen romance...apparently Cullen was wrong, in my Skyhold there is no gossip...not even a peep from companions.
Playing on PC.
I've been dealing with the banter bug and trying the various blood magic work-arounds with varying results. Patch 2 and the hotfix didn't seem to make any difference with the amounts of banter.
However, last night I actually had two banters in the Western Approach (one between Blackwall and Varric about Aveline, and another between Black Wall and Iron Bull about bananas) which shocked me because everyone has said WA has no banter at all.
The only thing different was I was having some performance issues (those have definitely cropped up lot since Patch 2 and the hotfix were installed, whereas they were non-existant for me before) and tried switching over from HBAO to SSAO to see if it made a difference. (Which it seemed to, but everything looked terrible.)
Does anybody know if they actually went and upped the likelihood of banter occurring? Last Dev post on the matter said that they planned to do that to "counteract edge cases". It's been a bit since patch 2 and it seems like a small update so.... any word?
Honestly, to me it feels like they looked at the things we said we were doing to get it to banter and "fixed" it so those wouldn't work. My Iron Bull is now silent as the grave. Very sad.
Alright, seriously, does anyone else get this?
I go without banter for a while and then I close a rift and I immediately get a banter. Its happened to me like three times now.
Not sure if this has been up, but I just realized this: When quick saving and then quick loading, my party banter jump starts. Almost immediately after loading a new banter begins. 
- Also works if characters are misssing in Haven and Skyhold.
Personally, I like the spacing between party conversations, that way, for me at least, the banter stays fresh rather than hearing the same stuff over and over. Do I need to remind people what it was like having Imoen in your party? 
So like. ETA on Patch 2? It's been about a month and I'm tired of people saying I NEED TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT THE ENDING.
When I'm still in Hinterlands...
Patch 2 came out last week.
Patch 3, in case you meant that instead, there's still no ETA on.
Not sure if this has been up, but I just realized this: When quick saving and then quick loading, my party banter jump starts. Almost immediately after loading a new banter begins.
I've noticed that reloading from the auto-save after a map change seems to be the most consistent way of getting banter going. I wonder if the auto-save is somehow interfering with whatever process runs the banter timer.
Even though it's a completely different game on a completely different engine, I remember that the "Auto-save on Map Change" feature in Temple of Elemental Evil completely borked a bunch of the scripts the game used for AI functions, among other things, meaning it was best to disable it and manually do saves.
Patch 2 came out last week.
Patch 3, in case you meant that instead, there's still no ETA on.
patch 3 sorry. I always forget a patch happened before this one.
Yes Patch 3
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