Shadowlands' NPCs no dialogue

Another patch, full of stuff way less important than those issues yet no fix for this game breaking bug…

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Yea this bug is game breaking, it is literally dampening Questing and PvE experience. Blizzard, please prioritize to fix this.

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This is getting frustrating. I believe it started August 16th. Please Blizzard, fix this soon!

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And quite a few quests, especially from BfA and Shadowlands are having dialogues and cutscenes missing. Also happening on some older content cutscenes.

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I know the last Blizzard response said they aren’t requesting any new information, but I feel I need to contribute it anyway. Several lines get crowded or skipped in the dialogue of A Moment’s Respite. That quest where they introduce the antagonist of the whole expansion. It’s kind of important.

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On the contrary, we need as many people to add to these discussions as possible. Please if you are reading this forum post and having the same issue, don’t just read, please add your voice to the chorus. A Blizzard rep replied to my ticket saying this was only affecting a small minority of players which is FAR from the case.

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How can it be a minority of players when it literally affects ALL players?

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Yeah, that person from Blizzard was clueless. If we have a quick glance at the Technical Support section of the forums and peek at the replies and visualization numbers of each thread in there, one could easily see that this one have MUCH BIGGER visualization count and responses from players compared to others.

So no, this issue is affecting A LOT of people that want to have some immersion while questing and leveling. The irony of all is that last hotfix patch on the 20th of september had fixes for stuff that literally NO ONE cares about, unlike this issue we are discussing here.

Ladies and gentlemen working at Blizzard, I will repeat: please, put this bug higher on your priority list, it is game breaking for many players. I assure you.

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I can confirm I’m having the same problem on the Chains of Domination questline. Nothing new to add from people who have previously posted, just that I’m annoyed too.

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Literally my first time posting on the forums cause of this issue. I left the game a year ago cause I felt it was in a bad state and came back this month only to be hit with this bug that has completely ruined my motivation to continue with the story.

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Same here. Was years away from the game and came back recently just to get hit by this bug too. Created account in this forum just to voice my concern with this bug as it completely killed my motivation to level as well. I just abandoned the leveling and questing until Blizzard decides to fix it.

Shame to come back after years and find this kind of game breaking bug. I expected the game to be more polished but I was wrong.

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It’s sad but it shows the lack of consideration that developers have for the game today. A major bug would never have lasted so long in the past or there would have been much better communication about it.

It’s almost as if the story doesn’t matter to the developers anymore when I see it’s been going on for so long without a patch or major update on the subject.

Fortunately we have wow classic because otherwise it is certain that my subscription would be cancelled.

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One of the main reasons I came back was for DF, but I wanted to see the story of SL to kind of connect me back to game world and see the passage of time from SL to DF. I am worried I won’t have enough time before DF comes out to immerse myself into SL lore. Please fix this soon!

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Have this too while doing the Chains of Domination story

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I’ve made a short video demonstrating how annoying this bug can be and how game breaking it has become

As you can see. Nothing is happening.
Now take a look at the same cutscene from another video I saw on youtube from someone else.

As you can see, the difference is night and day

Blizz dev, you can no longer ignore this. This needs to be fixed… yesterday.

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Yes, the video speaks for itself. The bug is literally game breaking and it is affecting ANYONE doing quests , which is a lot of people.

Blizzard devs, please, we need this fixed asap.

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For what it’s worth, I’m having the same issue. I first noticed it in SL. I am going back and doing horde side BFA and half of the time I don’t know what’s happening as I get just part of the conversation.

Disabled addons, removed WTF folder, messed with Windows sound settings, tried different headphones/speakers, checked game dialog slider, etc. Same result.

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Considering you can see in my video that NPCs don’t even do any gestures when the bug happens, I really doubt any setting can really fix this.

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Definitely have had this bug off and on for a while now. Sometimes it’s only one character that’ll have no dialogue. Was playing through BFA stuff the other day and did The Will of The Loa. Rezan would say all of his lines, but Bwonsamdi just floated there saying nothing. I’d seen the conversation before, so I knew Bwonsamdi should’ve had some dialogue. But I also had it quite often while I was doing the Night Fae campaign for the first time a few weeks ago. It’s pretty annoying to have to look up quests to get the context of the conversation as one of the participants was silent the entire time.

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Here I thought this was happening on my end!! I’ve tried repairing my game so many times. Even reinstalled a few times.

I came back after a 1 1/2 year break and noticed the conversations weren’t happening right from the go in BfA. I had to stand there for a few minutes wating for a guy to talk after my walk with Taliea. Since the big guy has the next quest. That was the longest wait

Just wanted to put my voice in here to establish this is a huge problem.

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