Arthur stops talking,,,

[Jindrik]

I feel like I somehow manage to encounter more and more bugs the longer I play..
I'm currently west of the main camp, where dakota river has a U turn, there's a special encounter where I assume a guy kidnaps a woman? I honestly can't tell because as soon as I shoot the guy off the horse, Arthur suddenly loses the ability to speak, completely, no sound, not even whistling.

All the other sounds are fine, other people, horses, wind, even Arthurs walking, everything works properly... This is quite annoying, I have saved right at the spot where the encounter begins, so I can easily reload it and retry, so far I've reloaded the encounter 10 times, 2 of those time the encounter didn't happen, 8 of those time Arthur went mute...
It has happened to me before, but all I had to do then is reload the save and everything was fine, it just refuses to work...
Is there a way to fix this? I'm going crazy because of this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥..

[Jin]

Maybe it is just for a short duration? Have you tried waiting or doing a story mission? That might fix it.

[Jindrik]

Originally posted by Generic Weeaboo:

Maybe it is just for a short duration? Have you tried waiting or doing a story mission? That might fix it.

It won't, I've tried that before, usually what happens is, the character you go talk to, starts the conversation, and then when it's Arthurs turn to talk its just completely quiet, you have the "cinematic view" like you do in all cutscenes and such. The funny part is that, if there's supposed to be a cinematic cutscene, what happens is you just get a cinematic view, the character talks and move just like in the cinematic, but you still have control over Arthur and can move around, wherever you want, except, you can't do anything, except walking. So there's no way to progress through the cinematic and there's no way to make Arthur start talking again.

And the problem here is, soon as I encounter the person and take him off the horse, Arthur goes mute. And it doesn't matter how I take care of him, be it killing him or hogtying him.. It still makes Arthur go mute. All I want is for me to be able to hear the dialogue with the women I saved.. but at this point I'm just ready to complete the damn encounter save and reload just so he gets the ability to speak back.

Doubt this will help but I'm desperate and going to try restart my PC

[Jindrik]

Alright, I'm not sure what fixed it, if it was me restarting the PC or me verifying file integrity... either way it seemed to have fixed the issue with Arthur going mute.

I even tried to do it twice, altho the second time there was still the issue of sound disappearing but only for the the part where Arthur was calming the horse. There were no lines of dialogue or sounds coming out from Arthur. However as soon as you cut loose the girl, he began talking again...

What a buggy, glitchy mess of a game this is...

[Qobura]

2024 and this still happens.

[howl]

damnnn

[hamberger]

having a poor pc can cause bugs what are your specs

[Qobura]

Originally posted by hamberger:

having a poor pc can cause bugs what are your specs

5800X3D and 3080TI...no
Next time I'm just going to ignore this encounter since it's so colossally bugged.

[Aussiemozzie]

next time it happens, turn on subtitles, if you haven't already, then if there are subtitles for Arthur but he's not actually talking, then that'd be weird