Guild Wars 2

I didn’t have this problem on my Street Rat human, but on my Commoner, pretty much every cut scene is missing voice over from one or more characters. They just stand there all silent, nodding and staring at my character. What’s up with that?

I had that during the white stag story Arc for the sylvari aswell

Been having the same issue in those same arcs as well.

I’m having this problem as well. Relieved to see it’s not on my end.

The human storyline as a noble is missing quite a few as well. I will try to take screenshots next time it comes up. It’s not one or two, but happens quite regularly.

There is an awful lot in the order of whispers for my asura, and in the first few missions for my blood legion charr.

I prefer to think of it as telepathy.

This is actually a new experience for me, only since the last patch on the 14th. I had VO working perfectly, then the patch came and half of VO was missing. I started a new character, same race, same gender, same class, same personal story line choices, different name (I wanted a new name), and played through… some VO that was perfectly present and complete before is now missing. Roughly speaking, every other VO line from any given NPC character is missing. So, for example, if a cut scene involves 2 NPC characters and myself, roughly every other line of NPC 1 will be missing, and roughly every other line of NPC 2 will also be missing, but you can occasionally get back to back VO lines that are complete if the character that is speaking changes. Unless VO files were somehow removed during the patch, I don’t see how it could be related to missing or incomplete files.

By the way, this if for Norn, using Defeat Ancient Foes and Lost an Heirloom story line choices from character creation.

Bobby, I’m not sure that that’s the only issue that’s going on. I just created an Asura Engineer the other day and some of the missing VO lines were ones that were shared across storylines, ones that I had heard before just fine (unless the lines are repeated in multiple places on the back end of things). It also happened to my Norn Guardian with lines that I heard fine in BWE1.

I too noticed this for the first time today. Did 2 personal story quests and each had dropped lines. I filed a bug report with screenshots for each.

Woah I wish I knew this earlier.
EVERY single cinematic conversation my characters were having was at least one.

I started a new Norn (female, Guardian, blessed by bear, noble, lost heirloom, protects the mist). Got until the mission where you first meet a Kodan.

BobbyStein.2315:

There are some cinematic conversations that are missing VO files. It helps if you can screenshot the missing line for us, or if you can at least give us the text. They’re easy to fix if we know those details.

Bobby, this would be a complete waste of time on the early Asura Statics. Pretty much -everything- some of the NPCs are supposed to say is now missing. My character speaks, and then we listen to crickets on each one of the early steps right now. Very rarely, Zojja will quirp out about 1 line. Then go back to being mute.

I’m back to working on my main right now so I cannot attest to it getting any better or worse past the early ones, since.. you know. I can’t do my story in a group with my friends on my main without breaking my character. >.>

I’m having same issue with my asura engineer. Lots of VO lines are missing. Zojja, Teyo, Shodd, even scout right in front of Rata Sum – they all eventually go mute during cut-scenes.
I love my new engineer, but I’ll stop doing her personal story until it gets fixed. Those missing lines can really ruin personal story experience.

Im getting the same problem since the update no matter what storyline I enter with any toon the VO are getting missed on nearly every other one.
I’m also getting sound fade when playing on a map sometimes in some case’s where I have been looking on the Blackline trading company then decide to come out, and continue my adventure never had any of these problems in beta all was ok.
This is all since the last patch.

I’ve also been getting BSOD’s, again something I never had on beta, and I have the graphics drivers you recomended.
It seems to me the beta was far better, and more stable than this original you keep patching, and messing up other stuff.
Please fix it ASAP it’s giving me the right Hump.

Bobby, for example I’m in the Sylvari arc of “A Splinter in the Flesh”, and its successive missions. Every character seems to miss only the first of their sentences except the Pale Tree, which doesn’t have ANY line.

I’m starting to see this problem in the main storyline after dealing with a brave apple-vendor. It’s just a few lines here and there it’s almost as if the archive was corrupted and the game just couldn’t provide it. This is recent too.

I had the same problem with the story quest where the Pale Tree shows us a vision of the future. Some of Trahearne’s lines missing VO (and maybe some of the Pale Tree’s as well, not sure).

Can confirm this issue coming up in the last day or two, every cut scene so far has a muted line and it isn’t always the same character. There is a bigger thread in the Game bugs section on the same thing with people also saying this started to happen wide spread since a recent patch. Hope this can be fixed soon, I stalled playing my story for now.

This is a problem I have come across recently also. Norn Warrior just did the Vigil initiation. Happens quite alot.

It is happening constantly to me on my Human/Thief/Street/Circus. Every single personal story conversation I enter is missing at least some of the VO work.

On my first character Human/Elementalist/Noble/Parents I was not missing any. This really sounds like a recent patch broke things for a lot of people.

I have been playing the game with a friend of mine and we do play togheter into eachother personal storyline. He took a different order of mine ( he picked the order of whisper) and i have noticed that , in the mission that are the same for both of us like the “Retribution” mission, that his missing storyline voice are those that have the "lightbringer " words into it, while in my storiline ( as a member of the durmor priory ) i didn t had any missing Voice.

hope it may help

BobbyStein.2315:

UPDATE: The Audio and Programming teams have been investigating this issue since it was first reported over the weekend. They’re working on a fix.

Superb! Thank you for the update It’s great to hear when things are actually being addressed, rather than simply finding out about it from patch notes somewhere down the line (as is often typical with other games).

There are some cinematic conversations that are missing VO files. It helps if you can screenshot the missing line for us, or if you can at least give us the text. They’re easy to fix if we know those details.

I would like to do that, but in the german version there are so many lines that are missing the audio. In every story part at least one time. If i would screenshot EVERY SINGLE LINE it would be 500 screenshots till story level 80.

BobbyStein

UPDATE: We’re actively testing the fix. No ETA on when it will be deployed to the live server, other than “soonish.”

This is great news.

Yea it is quite frustrating I wont spoil anything but one of the most important pieces of dialogue was missing from my cut scenes and that really broke my immersion with the character… since its happening so often in Blood Legion story, I will skip story mode till its fixed

Was hoping this was fixed in this mornings update, still bugged :sadface:

most of it is gone with my Sylvari

Sylvari white stag
During the final battle with Gavin some of his speech in his final cut scene was missing.

Durmand Priory Quests with Hylek, all of them.
Played them two hours ago. Neither of the hylek nor magister sieran were talking.

Actually, Sieran has this problem in another quests too.

Ibari.1294:

Bobby, for example I’m in the Sylvari arc of “A Splinter in the Flesh”, and its successive missions. Every character seems to miss only the first of their sentences except the Pale Tree, which doesn’t have ANY line.

this seems to be the case in most story lines where they only miss the first line in the cut scene . ive seen a few cases where if a character has 2 consecutive lines they’ll miss the 2nd as well but that’s rare

ive had this issue on my human mesmer, particularly in the later story quests (70+), and several times during the same cutscenes. if i get any more i will take screenshots.

I never had this issue (iron legion charr) until I got up to meeting Trahearne and forming the Pact. now every quest has a missing line or two, usually from Trahearne himself. Blackpowder in the Syska quest had almost all his lines missing.

Today’s patch notes say that missing female VO lines were restored. I’m assuming the males are still on the way.

BobbyStein.2315:

Maximus Delion.8719:

Today’s patch notes say that missing female VO lines were restored. I’m assuming the males are still on the way.

Is anyone noticing a problem with missing male lines?

I did. That NPC that talks to you right after beating the giant ice wurm in the Norn storyline, can’t remember his name, but he was missing a couple lines.

EDIT: This was before the patch, though.

I was working the Norn story line in regards to the Jotun and I chose to build the weapon. The blacksmith had a couple of lines missing. Last night I continued that threw with the Charr and recovering their vehicle. There were a number of missing VO in that part of the storyline. Particularly where the one merchant refuses to help but then changes his mind after I helped defend the keep. Sorry for the vagueness, but I don’t remember the names / locations very well.

ive run into some missing male lines in the early sylvari missions.

Running a new female norn ranger, I’ve noticed a lot of the first lines of the NPCs are missing the VOs – once it changes to a new batch of onscreen text they are fine.

Can’t recall if Eir was doing it, but I definitely had several male NPCs do it. Bugged the first several I ran into.

Same thing happened to me as with nerva. the first chapter so far for my sylvari the male voices were cut out. not just the voices but the animation of them speaking. their gestures were working it seemed.

BobbyStein.2315:

Maximus Delion.8719:

Today’s patch notes say that missing female VO lines were restored. I’m assuming the males are still on the way.

Is anyone noticing a problem with missing male lines?

Female character, Priory personal storyline, I’ve had Gixx missing a few lines in cutscenes in my personal story, particularly in the arc related to Claw Island (that’s as far as I’ve got as of now).

Also when I do Ascalon Catcombs story mode, the first line or two of Rytlock’s speech in the intro is absent, but not every time.

Both of these were before the latest patch, too. Not tested since.

Just chiming in here, because the german forums are rather abandoned regarding developer responses: I’m still seeing missing (female) audio lines on my german client even today. Do you happen to know if that’s an issue of missing localized audio or should every line have audio but isn’t just played because of bugs?

BobbyStein.2315:

Maximus Delion.8719:

Today’s patch notes say that missing female VO lines were restored. I’m assuming the males are still on the way.

Is anyone noticing a problem with missing male lines?

I have, at the start of the human Vigil storyline in Lion’s Arch and Ebonhawk some of Warmaster Forgal Kernsson’s lines were missing (I’ve only just started it and it was before the patch so it may have resolved it or it may resolve itself later on).

Trahearne is often missing lines for me (in pretty much all of the missions with him, there are 1 or 2).

I also seem to remember that Doern Velazquez was missing quite a few, mostly when he was first introduced, or at least when first started to talk (I don’t really remember if that was the same mission).

BobbyStein.2315:

Is anyone noticing a problem with missing male lines?

My girlfriend is doing the same storyline I did and is getting missing voice lines that I wasn’t missing when I did them.
I play those stories with her so I also miss those voices now on my PC.

I guess something went wrong between when I did those stories (August 25th → early September) and now.

For me, it’s every opening voiceover, on every character, that is missing. I am sorry I can’t remember when this first started, only that in the first week or two of game play, none were missing. Now every starting voice is missing, as well as all of the voiceovers specifically of the.. um… tree queen lady in The Grove (my memory of names is horrid)

I started a new Norn character two nights ago, and as others have said the first line that each character speaks is usually missing (I think its actually “always”… but need to do a little more testing before saying that). I’m going to create a new throw-away character tonight to see if that’s still the case, and if it’s just male now or still both male and female, and will start pumping out bug reports if it’s still occurring.

Logan Thackeray, part of the human noble storyline is missing about 80% or more of his spoken parts. I was taking screenshots, but after a while there was so much missing that I stopped because it was so bad.