Fatal Bug: You are unable to speak.

[Martin]

Can't talk to anyone in camp.
This is unbelievable.. Almost to Act2 every quest completed in Act 1 and my character cannot speak to anyone.. neither to my companions or to any npc in the game. My companions can speak fine, only my character cannot.

What a bug. And it's on purpose.. there has to be a condition for the game to tell me I am "unable to speak" so this has been done by design.. saving/reloading does nothing, emptying group, does nothing, teleporting to different locations does nothing.

I'm going to have to restart the entire game all over again. Or at least go back to a save previous to redo last fight, which was the spectator fight.

[Llama_Queen17]

I just started and I cant talk to anyone i cant add anyone to my party or anything this needs to be fixed asap

[orange808]

I have the same problem. The devs need to abandon the ability to silence party members outside of combat. The feature isn't worth all this hassle. There was a silence spell in a battle and your character is now permanently silenced. Even worse, the effect is flagged somewhere, but it doesn't show up in the character sheet. The final insult: Larian doesn't let us use a debug console. If we (at least) had that, we could toggle the effect manually.

[Scorba]

Workaround: Gather your group. Cast silence on an area that encompasses them all. Then just walk out. The flag gets cleared and you can talk to people again.

[Zeo]

scorba that didnt work for me, i did that, killed my main, stab him with silence dagger, still cant talk to party or npc

[vanimalda]

This happened to me just before patch 1, sent my save to devs but still got no answer, and my 1st adventure which I spent 80+ hrs are gone...I fed up and started 2nd adventure but really worry about the bugs may occur again..

[signal.to.noise]

Originally posted by Martin:

Can't talk to anyone in camp.
This is unbelievable.. Almost to Act2 every quest completed in Act 1 and my character cannot speak to anyone.. neither to my companions or to any npc in the game. My companions can speak fine, only my character cannot.

What a bug. And it's on purpose.. there has to be a condition for the game to tell me I am "unable to speak" so this has been done by design.. saving/reloading does nothing, emptying group, does nothing, teleporting to different locations does nothing.

I'm going to have to restart the entire game all over again. Or at least go back to a save previous to redo last fight, which was the spectator fight.

You are not alone:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1086940/discussions/3/3808408963762671434/

@SaloAtLarian is this bug being elevated to patch?

[jims]

Originally posted by signal.to.noise:

Originally posted by Martin:

Can't talk to anyone in camp.
This is unbelievable.. Almost to Act2 every quest completed in Act 1 and my character cannot speak to anyone.. neither to my companions or to any npc in the game. My companions can speak fine, only my character cannot.

What a bug. And it's on purpose.. there has to be a condition for the game to tell me I am "unable to speak" so this has been done by design.. saving/reloading does nothing, emptying group, does nothing, teleporting to different locations does nothing.

I'm going to have to restart the entire game all over again. Or at least go back to a save previous to redo last fight, which was the spectator fight.

You are not alone:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1086940/discussions/3/3808408963762671434/

@SaloAtLarian is this bug being elevated to patch?

Not the same bug. I have had that one too - where you simply cannot talk to companions and clicking on them does absolutely nothing. This one is different - when you click on things like the sigil where you pick up Gale - you click on it and get a message saying "You are unable to talk" - Turn around and I can talk to Shadowheart just fine. Back to the sigil and get the message again - as does Shadowheart.

[Due]

Here is how I fixed the bug (mods where used).

1. Copied the savegame files for safety.
2. Deleted the files outside the savegame folder. (I dont think this is the fix, but part of what I did.)
3. Verified the game.
4. From the Launcher. Go to settings, and press Profile Folder.
5. Deleted the MOD folder.
6. Launched the game in X11.

Point 4 to 6 is probably the fix in my case.

N.B The newest saves did not work. Because of the mods it needed. So hopefully the latest workable save isnt far back for anyone trying this out.