Kari (and other specific NPCs) from Thieves guild do not open mouth while talking

maboleth · October 2016

I did several heisting quests for Kari and sometimes she does not open her mouth. Audio is heard, her emotions work (I can see when she's happy/sad) but her mouth is shut. Tried logging off, /reloadui, same thing.

Also happened to the tailor, Percius Loche, he does not open mouth either. I also asked several more players that were there with me and all of them responded that they couldn't see him talking.
There's definitely some kind of problem with NPCs talking animation in the Hew's bane/Thieves Guild.

EU server.

Arthmoor · October 2016

The same thing has been happening since Dark Brotherhood dropped on PC/NA too.

Rohamad_Ali · October 2016

Can confirm they are now speaking telepathically .

maboleth · October 2016

Yeah, and NPCs of the main TG quest sometimes have some sort of small delay before they start to speak. So, audio is synced, but they start to speak 1-2 sec after you initiate dialogue with them.

But that's not nearly as annoying as these ventriloquist NPCs.

ZOS_GinaBruno · October 2016

Thanks guys, we're aware and working on fixing this.

maboleth · October 2016

Awesome, thanks guys!

maboleth · October 2016

Art & Animation
Animation
Fixed an issue that was causing facial animations to not display on characters in the Japanese game client.

I do hope "the rest of the world" will get this fix soon enough, not just for the Japanese client. The thing is, I stopped doing TG quests (that I love!) because non-talking NPCs ruin my immersion a lot.