wrong NPC exclamation bug

laniakea_0

This is on PC-EU.
You know how when you approach quest giver NPCs for the first time, they say something about the quest? for a while now, there is this issue where it can play generic NPC exclamations instead. Like the stuff NPCs mention about things you did in the world when you just walk past them. This means they won't say the thing they are actually supposed to and you'll miss out on the first info about the quest. currently, the only way is to go away, maybe even reload in another zone and then come back and try again. very annoying. reported it several times in game with no success. I hope it'll get more attention here.

SilverBride

I've never noticed this and didn't even know it was a thing. I just look for quest markers when picking up quests.

ZOS_Kevin

@laniakea_0 Could you get us a video of this? This would be helpful for the team to try and identify the issue you are describing.

laniakea_0

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

@laniakea_0 Could you get us a video of this? This would be helpful for the team to try and identify the issue you are describing.

I don't have the means or knowledge to record it. it also happens seemingly at random, which makes it difficult to reproduce. but I can give an example. in the most recent instance of this occuring, I was approaching Elouan Genin at the side road just outside Necrom. He has a quest for me and when I got close enough to trigger a voiceline he said: "An undead werewolf took over Camlorn. An undead...werewolf? How does that even work?" which is a generic NPC voice line that starts playing occasionally once you dealt with Faolchu in Camlorn. now, quest givers never said those types of voice lines. they usually have their own unique voice lines before you take their quest. when things still worked properly, a mix up like that literally never happened with any quest givers whatsoever. that's why I'm sure this is unintentionally blocking the proper NPC voice lines. this has been happening for a while now. I'm certain I already encountered this bug around the release of High Isle, but it most definitely started happening quite some time before then.

laniakea_0

weird coincidence. I just tried approaching him again to take his quest and the exact voice line played again. anyway, as far as I can tell this can happen to any and all NPCs with unique quests. it may also be happening to NPCs with daily quests but I'm not entirely sure.