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[Jurus]

So I have to ask: are we just a vocal minority now with this issue? Did most people get fixed? Just seems unlikely they'll pool more resources into this issue sine they've "addressed" it

 

I think most people just gave up and started playing again even with the banter issues. Since the problem has already been addressed (successfully or not) it is unlikely they'll deal with it again, let alone fix it, anytime soon.

 

I, for one, just listened to the 5 and a half hours of banter on youtube. It would have been nicer to hear it in the game but at least I haven't missed the content. Now I just count the scarse banter I do get in the game as a bonus.

[Lindsay4410]

Has anyone noticed that the character icon circles on the left side flash sometimes, when banter is SUPPOSED to be happening when it isn't? 

 

Every now and then, I'll see Cole's icon flash, and then Varrics, and I think this is banter that's occurring but I'm not hearing it. 

 

Anyone else have this happening?
 

[Lindsay4410]

Has anyone noticed that the character icon circles on the left side flash sometimes, when banter is SUPPOSED to be happening when it isn't? 
 
Every now and then, I'll see Cole's icon flash, and then Varrics, and I think this is banter that's occurring but I'm not hearing it. 
 
Anyone else have this happening?
 
edit: sorry for the double post.

[PhantomGreed]

Has anyone noticed that the character icon circles on the left side flash sometimes, when banter is SUPPOSED to be happening when it isn't? 

 

Every now and then, I'll see Cole's icon flash, and then Varrics, and I think this is banter that's occurring but I'm not hearing it. 

 

Anyone else have this happening?
 

Last time I managed to get my game to work, I noticed this as well. 

[LunaFancy]

I think most people just gave up and started playing again even with the banter issues. Since the problem has already been addressed (successfully or not) it is unlikely they'll deal with it again, let alone fix it, anytime soon.

 

I, for one, just listened to the 5 and a half hours of banter on youtube. It would have been nicer to hear it in the game but at least I haven't missed the content. Now I just count the scarse banter I do get in the game as a bonus.

 

I gave up on the game altogether, not quite halfway with four re-rolls. Game's not worth it to me without banter, that's the best part of a Dragon Age game for me. I've moved on to better games that are as they are represented. Maybe I'll finish it one day but for now I just don't care enough to mess around with the workarounds. I play games for fun, not to perform complicated multi step processes in hopes the damn thing will actually work properly.

[Ashen Nedra]

I gave up on the game altogether, not quite halfway with four re-rolls. Game's not worth it to me without banter, that's the best part of a Dragon Age game for me. I've moved on to better games that are as they are represented. Maybe I'll finish it one day but for now I just don't care enough to mess around with the workarounds. I play games for fun, not to perform complicated multi step processes in hopes the damn thing will actually work properly.

QFT

[Enviable Memory]

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.

 

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...

 

Quoting myself...I had another 7h with TWO real banters and little environmental banter. This sucks big time! 

[Fredward]

Has anyone noticed that the character icon circles on the left side flash sometimes, when banter is SUPPOSED to be happening when it isn't? 

 

Every now and then, I'll see Cole's icon flash, and then Varrics, and I think this is banter that's occurring but I'm not hearing it. 

 

Anyone else have this happening?
 

 

I've noticed the flashing icons too but I've never connected it to banter. I'll see if they flash next time I actually get a banter.

[Big Magnet]

Far as I know this flashing is just their mana/stamina bars when they fill up to 100%  :3

[turuzzusapatuttu]

I see that alot of you are getting big issues again after skyhold, i had the same problem, it was fine the 40-ish hours before. Here's one thing to keep in mind:

 

Unread War Table missions may have the same effect as unread Quests and Codex entries

 

I'm back to decent banter atm (took a bit tho i think), after unchecking those and keeping up some other blood magic. Here's what i do

 

Spoiler

-haven't used mounts once

-i only made like ten manual saves, and always load from auto saves

-i try to keep my open quest list short (finished all open stuff in hinterlands, storm coast, etc before opening up new maps)

-exhaust almost all follower/npc dialogue in Haven/Skyhold

-i walk instead of sprint alot to possibly give scripts a chance to catch up

 

things i used to do but dropped now and still have banter (so far  )

-always offline

-zone from wartable

-never fast travel in maps

 

i maybe forgetting stuff, not sure

 

Btw, is anybody else always getting armor sounds after cutscenes in Skyhold, but as soon as you travel somewhere else it's gone again?

 

Jesus, banter should just work, we shouldn't do all these dark rituals in order to have two companions chatting around. I said this a THOUSAND TIMES: please add few spots in which party banter triggers how it did in the previous games. For God's sake.

[Lindsay4410]

Far as I know this flashing is just their mana/stamina bars when they fill up to 100%  :3

You know, I think you're right. Bummer. 

[Nayana_Jaz]

I'm not sure what I did, but my banter is working fine now...for the first time since I started the game in november. Or at least it's working fine in the last 2 hours and I really hope it stays that way.

 

I started the game today at 06:50 (CET) and I had banter at (party Cassandra/Varric/Solas):

 

07:04

07:15

07:30

07:54 - But I paused the game for 10 minutes between the last one and this one

08:06

08:28

08:42 - Banter between Varric & Solas started while I was still fighting and both of them were dead at the moment

 

All of these were real banter, no environmental comments.

 

Things I've done differently than usual
- started directly in the Hinterlands (I parked them there the last time I played)
- didn't use the camp tent
- also didn't fast travel once until now (I was too scared to break it again)

- once the game loaded I didn't load another save

 

Things I've done as usual
- cleared codex and journal
- used quick save a lot

 

I've also noticed that I have my armour sound back. I haven't hear that since my second or third playthrough and now I'm on my seventh.

 

I'm not sure if it is because I created a new character or if I'm just lucky today. I really, really hope the bug is gone for good. But I'm not getting my hopes up just yet, even if I'm super happy right now.

 

Edit: And my armour sound is gone again. I had to restart the game. I'm curious if my banter is gone too now.

[Vader20]

In the emerald graves I had only 2 banters... The latest pach might have fixed some issues with music and environmental comments, but it had almost killed the party banter for me. I noticed that the banter is party member dependant. I does matter who you have in your party. Some party combinations result in zero chit chat..

 

So is there any hope for fix ? Or we can just get used to having almost no banter ?

 

Can't belive they recorded like 5 hours of party banter.

[Xyxlplic]

This may be taking some time to fix because it's difficult to reproduce. I have a plain vanilla install, do nothing special, and get plenty of banter. Go figure.

[Drakonious]

DAI has taught me NEVER to pre-order a game again from anyone - period.   I suspect if more people took this position the devs/pubs would be forced to up their game, and ensure games were actually finished before they were released.   How  they can even think about paid for DLC when the game is in this state is beyond me. 

[abr]

I just finished "What Lies Dormant" and not a single word from Solas before/during/after. Can somebody tell me if Environmental/Banter Bug or just another horribly unsatisfying quest?

[Fell Orden]

I'm 44 hours in and I've had maybe 10 banters total.

 

I'm guessing this isn't normal, right? or judging by these posts, it hasn't actually been fixed. 

[Peregrinus]

I'm 44 hours in and I've had maybe 10 banters total.

 

I'm guessing this isn't normal, right? or judging by these posts, it hasn't actually been fixed. 

The banter is so inconsistent , it's really hard to tell if it's working properly or not.  I started a new game, and banter fires up fairly regularly but on my main save, it's pretty devoid of it. 

[Tsunami Chef]

I just finished "What Lies Dormant" and not a single word from Solas before/during/after. Can somebody tell me if Environmental/Banter Bug or just another horribly unsatisfying quest?

Those companion collection quests are the replacement for gifts that were in DA:O and DA:2.

 

THey have no story element behind them. Each companion has 1/2 story quests and 1 filler quest.

 

I don't really know what you expected though...it seemed fairly obvious to me that it was just a collection quest..

[abr]

Those companion collection quests are the replacement for gifts that were in DA:O and DA:2.

 

THey have no story element behind them. Each companion has 1/2 story quests and 1 filler quest.

 

I don't really know what you expected though...it seemed fairly obvious to me that it was just a collection quest..

 

well iunno what i expected either, i wasn't quite aware it's the equivalent to like Blackwall's Warden items and Dorian's Venatori slapping. Guess i was just a cockeyed optimist expecting some sort of feedback from him, but shoulda known better. At least i can rule out an environmental chat bug now, thanks!

[Olwaye]

Reporting with some sucess.

 

Banter is back on a regular 10-12mn base, I also get more banter at the war table and started to get the discussion between the advisors and their messangers (after 4th completed playthrough on 2 plateforms)

 

On PC I did nothing special, after patch 3 (that definitly killed the banter) and patch 4 (aka Ninja patch ), I loaded my most advanced playthrough, had the party wainting for about 30minutes until I got a banter, then went on playing and banter started to occur regularly (more or less) every 10-15 minutes. I stopped fast traveling, I use either the war table or the maps exit points.

For the last 30 hours of gameplay banter is regular, sometimes when I feel like there is a longer gap, or when I see that I got no banter after 10 minutes since the last one, I just park the party in a quite area ( 2minutes at the most) and banter is back OK.

 

Of all the strange ritual that other people have posted here, I  have done none except avoiding the fast traveling.

 

Persephone had roughly the same experience, you can find his posts a few pages back.

[Fell Orden]

Reporting with some sucess.

 

Banter is back on a regular 10-12mn base, I also get more banter at the war table and started to get the discussion between the advisors and their messangers (after 4th completed playthrough on 2 plateforms)

 

On PC I did nothing special, after patch 3 (that definitly killed the banter) and patch 4 (aka Ninja patch ), I loaded my most advanced playthrough, had the party wainting for about 30minutes until I got a banter, then went on playing and banter started to occur regularly (more or less) every 10-15 minutes. I stopped fast traveling, I use either the war table or the maps exit points.

For the last 30 hours of gameplay banter is regular, sometimes when I feel like there is a longer gap, or when I see that I got no banter after 10 minutes since the last one, I just park the party in a quite area ( 2minutes at the most) and banter is back OK.

 

Of all the strange ritual that other people have posted here, I  have done none except avoiding the fast traveling.

 

Persephone had roughly the same experience, you can find his posts a few pages back.

If I have fast traveled before - does that mean it's broken now? Can I reload where I am and not fast travel and have thing go back to normal? or would I have to conceivably load back to before I ever fast-traveled?

 

It would be great to actually hear something again.

 

Also... Is there music in this game? Upon entering levels I'll hear a brief intro but then nothing just ambient sounds and me running. The only other time music happens is during scripted missions.

[spacefiddle]

Also... Is there music in this game? Upon entering levels I'll hear a brief intro but then nothing just ambient sounds and me running. The only other time music happens is during scripted missions.

 

Official word on music is that it was used sparingly to be "more immersive."  Their words, not mine.  Music is designed to be occurring occasionally, like banter, and play for 30 seconds - a few minutes.  Like banter, things seem to be interrupting that timer, making it even more sparse.  But the bottom line is: stated to be intentionally rare.

[Ghostsaxon]

This topic has been at the top of both bioware abd EA forums..why is there no responce yet to the issues we are all having????

[SkaldFish]

I have nearly 200 hours and I have heard very little banter, either before or after the attempted fix. Even when it comes up, it is almost always a rerun. I have probably only heard about a dozen unique conversations. It's pretty clear the entire banter randomization mechanism is broken. Time for a detailed code review, BioWare.