14 DAY TRIAL // Dragon Age: Inquisition is a big and solid video game that continues to deliver plenty of hours of fun for gamers all over the world, but what seems to be a growing minority is affected by an insidious bug which eliminates almost all party-based banter and is currently ignored by the development team at BioWare.
The thread on the official forums of publisher Electronic Arts has been growing steadily since the game was launched, and what seemed initially like a quirk of some game versions which could be eliminated via restarts now seems to be a big problem that more and more players are noticing.
The silent party bug means that gamers can explore almost all Dragon Age: Inquisition but they never get the often humorous and sometimes very philosophical exchanges between the various characters that the protagonist can take with him on his adventures.
The bug is insidious because there are plenty of gamers who do not even notice the problem while they explore Thedas because it’s easy to miss the lack of banter when focused on combat or on the main quest.
Some gamers have been reporting that the banter can be re-enabled by always using the War Table in Dragon Age: Inquisition to travel to locations and by never changing parties once an area is accessed.
Others are saying that only deleting saves and some temporary files and then restarting the campaign brings the dialogue back.
BioWare has not offered an explanation, and at the moment the studio is not even asking for info on it, which probably means that a patch for it is not planned yet.
Dragon Age: Inquisition is supposed to get downloadable content in the coming months
The development team at BioWare has already said that it plans to deliver more content for its title as 2015 starts, although it’s unclear whether it will only be focused on the multiplayer side of the role-playing title or it will also introduce more stories for gamers to explore.
Some fans have said that they want to see at least one more companion introduced, preferably a familiar face from the past of the series.
The studio wants to make sure that gamers have time to first explore the huge amount of content that the game already includes.
Dragon Age: Inquisition has not received any major patch since it was launched and BioWare seems to be satisfied with the current quality of the experience.
UPDATE: It seems that BioWare is requesting saved games from players if they have logged more than 60 hours with the game.
