Party banter

Banter works for me since patching, but it's not nearly as frequent as for some other people. I usually get a conversation every 15 - 30 minutes. Although I had one long stretch of about an hour without any banter, had me worried at first, but then it came back.

Oooh.  Subtitles.  I turned mine on for the sake of viewers on my stream.  I wonder if killing it might straighten up my issue.  I have to chuckle, though - the irony of them fixing the issue for some but causing that very same issue for others LOL.

I've been using subtitles since the patch and I'm very glad I did, because I had an issue that caused ambient conversations to not play occasionally. They still showed up in the subtitles, but the audio didn't work.

I managed to find a fix for it while browsing Reddit. In case anyone finds this and has the same issue: The problem happened because I play the game in a different language than my system is running in. For some reason, the patch changed the game language set in Origin back to my native language. Because of this, it seems that while the game was still running in English, some audio files were downloaded in German, which caused them to not play at all. Simply changing the game language back to English in Origin fixed it.

Well, I'm still in the same situation as before the patch in regards to banter. I hear them talk occasionally in the Nomad, I hear conversations on the Tempest, but nothing on foot. I do play with subtitles on though, so I'll give it a shot with them off. I suppose starting a new game might also help.

I can say that everything is still working fine for me. I have a LOTS OF banter so far. Done two planets. Playing with subtitles on.

Does it work for you on Kadara and Elaaden (or whatever this krogan world is called)? I haven't tried Eos yet but three other are fine, banter triggers pretty often with all combination of squadmates and subtitles on.

I started new game again after 40 hours in. 
I haven't even been on Elaaden yet. Kadara just started before. 

I just check it with sub on. They are talking on Voeld actually. I thought they don't because they didn't want to on Eos but on Eos they're not talking with on and off so I guess it's just Eos thing. 
I'll be testing it in progress. 
I kind of get used to playing without subtitles. 
Also I changed Origin language as PL. I don't know if it has influence on anything. 

Ok, very very interesting feedback from all of you. My conclusion is that it has been improved but not totally fixed for everyone.

I didn't get to play a lot but my report is similar to others and can be helpful:

Party banter works fine for me while in the Nomad, but not while on foot, specially in a planet like Havarl, where I can only walk. Not any banter after running around the initial landing zone for about 30 minutes.

Everybody is the same? Is there any report of party banter while on foot? It can be difficult to note, since there are many "scripter" banter lines that happen when you interact with stuff, do quests, visit locations etc.

But the "party banter" aka having companions talk among them, in any situation, even if just running around, does it exist at all? In my previous bioware games I'd say so, but I see many reports of people saying their party banter is working fine, because it triggers while in tempest or nomad, but not on foot, as "it should be", again, according to some.

It would be helpful if we could at least troubleshoot this: in a planet like Havarl, where you have no Nomad (afaik), do your companions banter? Do they talk among themselves, while on foot?

I think we have either some paranoia expecting banter where there shouldn't be, or a "party banter fix" which is only working in a few situations.

Will report back when I go on other planets, as a summary:

Got party banter while on Nomad in Eos with subtitles ON
Got no party banter while on foot in Havarl with subtitles ON

This is what I found on Michael Gamble's twitter:

User
@tibermoon @gamblemike are we supposed to have banter on foot or just in nomad? Getting banter in nomad (finaly!) but nothing on foot
Only getting place/quest specific banter on foot (i.e. kett tech nearby..)

Michael Gamble
It's working correctly

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Thank you for that.  As stated above, that makes sense, too, because if you are idle/traveling you are in the nomad.  Outside the nomad there aren't time for conversations because you are interacting with missions/cut-scenes/conversations and combat at the time.  It would literally bug the hell out of me if every time I jumped out of the nomad, my guys start a conversation only to have it cut off mid sentence because of interaction or shooting.

Harvarl has some scenery related comments, but again, there, you cannot walk 5 feet without engaging in combat or interaction, so it still makes sense even there.

None for me on Havarl, too. Wonder if a bug or a feature. I guess the teammates aren't comfortable talking outside of Nomad, huh!