Party banter

Just a thought ... have you mixed up who you take?  If you take the same two squad mates with you constantly, they WILL eventually run out of stuff to say.  I romanced Peebee, so she is with me all the time.  But I mix up the other squad mates randomly and she is always engaging with them.  

As an experiment, I did keep Peebee and Cora together for an extensive amount of time and they did eventually pipe down quite a bit.  They were chatty at first but eventually ran out of stuff to say, and that was in a single day (real life day) of gaming.  So far I think I have used up Cora, Vetra, and Jaal as far as Peebee goes.  She is now pretty quiet with them.  She is currently really chatty with Liam, though they REALLY dislike each other, and I believe she has some juice left with Drak as well.

If you do not change up your crew, then yeah things will go quiet.  If I weren't fully completed with the game already, I worry that I'd have to start leaving Peebee behind and start using Cora as my regular female sidekick just to keep the banter from completely dying off.

The scripted conversations about the environment or planet specific stuff is, I believe, not bugged. This stuff will play when you approach certain areas, whether you are on foot or in the Nomad does not matter.

The bug affects conversations between your two squad mates. For example, when I first landed on Eos, I brought Cora and Vetra. After I got the Nomad, I spent quite a bit of time exploring the area before activating all the monoliths. During that time, Cora and Vetra talked about how/why they joined the Andromeda initiative, about their unique abilities and talents, about any family they had in the Milky Way, that kind of stuff. These conversations seem to occur only while in the Nomad - which makes sense, because this banter is supposed to play as you are traveling and not while you're fighting stuff.

Then I went on to finish the story quest on Eos, went on to the next planet, recruited my final squad mate, scanned all the planets and did a bunch of sidequests on the Nexus. After that, I wanted to continue exploring planets. I switched out Vetra and brought Jaal instead, along with Cora. However, the two never talk to each other. They react to landmarks and the like with one liners, but never any conversations of the kind I described above.

I also tried switching the squad. I brought Peebee and Drack, two completely new people. Silence. Went back to Cora and Vetra. Nothing. Liam with anyone? Nope.

The banter bug is, unfortunately, very real. I hope Bioware can find and implement a fix soon, I haven't played any single player for days.

No party banter at all, really sucks. When you tell me about conversations in Eos, while in Nomad, between Vetra and Cora, it sounds as sci-fi to me. I only hear them say some few scripted lines when advancing story etc. Not playing single player until it's fixed, tried all workarounds.

I couldn't care less about eyes or animations!!!

I went through Eos, Havarl and Voeld so far, and has plenty of character chatter. I mostly used Jaal and rotated PB, Cora and Liam. On Liam's loyalty mission I took Vetra along and there were comments from her as well.

Yesterday I managed to get a couple of banterd on Eos.
All journal notifications were cleared, subtitle was on.

I think someone here mentioned that it could be triggered by specific spots in the map (I'm not talking about the comments about the environment/buildings) and I'm starting to think there's some truth to it. Or maybe there's a bug that makes the banter only triggers at those spots.

I was driving from the first Remnant structure, near a stone arch when a banter comes up. Then I reloaded an earlier save, drove to the same spot and hear a different banter. Hmm.

As we keep seeing, everybody's experience is different, lots of workarounds that work for some, work sometimes, etc. We won't fix this as we couldn't with inquisition's (only cheat engine could, and not at all, just allowed to reset timers).

I think it can only be solved by devs, and maybe with a good amount of time / coding / investigation.

We users do sometimes troubleshoot this stuff for ourselves or come with fixes, but really, in Inquisition was the same, people performing weird rituals to get it back, without any reliable 100% working fix. Only bioware fixed it, and only for some.

We should keep sharing our experiences etc, but I think the focus should be on giving attention to this, pressing the devs (on twitter, fb, ea answers...not many places since they killed bsn) I know they acknowledged this problem a week ago, but fix is not coming, problem is not included in the official known issues on ea troubleshoot site.

"Luckily" I am still on Eos, just stablished Prodromos, without any banter, and won't keep playing till it's solved, and not tinker with workarounds or rituals anymore. I still want to fully enjoy this game...

I wanna be a believer

Here's hoping they really come through with it

I won't believe it till I see it.

Ah, come on. Where is that famous BioWare forum positivity? 

Yeah, I know, but the bsn spirit can't be laid to rest, it seems.