So I'm a little upset now as I've put a ton of time into my playthrough (its my first) trying to make it completionist and making my 'canon' choices. Origin says I've put 290 hours into the game (probably about 20 was multiplayer and I did keep the game on pause for long periods of time). Just checked and my save game says 253 hours. I have been playing this playthrough since the day it came out. There is no way I am going back through my saves and looking for hour 60 or something and restarting from before Skyhold. I've completed the Hinterlands, Storm Coast, Crestwood, Exalted Plains, Emerald Graves, Western Approach, Fallow Mire, most of the Forbidden Oasis (just have the last Ice and Spirit room left). I've killed 6 of the High Dragons, completely upgraded my keep, and I have spent hours crafting equipment for my companions. My character is level 20 (I think my companions are too; I know Cassandra, Varric, and Dorian are). Main quest wise I completed through skyhold and the Grey Warden mission including the Fade.
So after killing the emerald graves dragon and the storm coast dragon I decided to do the Empress Celene quest in Hiramsharal before finishing the last two areas (that I know about Hissing Wastes and Emprise du Lion). The quest is fun and I get all the way until the end (of course waiting until I get to dance with Dorian). The dance with Florianne was awesome and I enjoyed the quest all the way until the end when I Josephine comes to talk to me on the balcony. At this point I'm confused why its Josephine and not Dorian. I google just to make sure and trying to keep myself from spoilers I find out on reddit that Josephine is the 'default' if you aren't actively pursuing someone or have enough approval with them.
So I reload a save, and figure I'll knock out the Hissing Wastes getting approval from Dorian, do his companion quest, and then just rush through Hiramsharal again. I finished the hunting the venatori Dorian wanted but I figured I probably just didn't have enough approval and the war table told me that there were Venatori in there and Dorian gets approval when I kill Venatori so I chose that over Emprise du Lion. I get half way through Hissing Wastes and I notice I'm not getting any approval with Dorian and I remembered I didn't get any from the Hiramsharal quest either. (I now think it is because I have max approval with Dorian or maybe its also the bug). I google to see if there is a limit with the approval you get from killing enemies and I find out about this bug.
The reason I went into this was because I wanted you to step into my shoes a little. For me restarting is not an option, I've put waaaaay too much time into this and become too invested into my character, I'm not restarting from the beginning (or from before Skyhold). I've searched google for a mod (what I loved about origins was fan-made patches that fixed stuff that you guys were never going to fix), or a console command or something that would autostart dorian's personal quest (if Iron Bull and Cole like me enough to give me their quest, and I rarely use them, I'm 99.9% certain that I have the approval that it should have started already). I know you guys are working on a patch and thank you for that, but please have a fix for those of us currently in a playthrough. I don't want to start over now that I've gone this far into the game.
I am going to take a break from inquisition from a while, hopefully this will be fixed in the next couple months. Is there anyway you can give us a console command that we can use as a hotfix? Thank you for taking the time to read this 