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My brother was playing his game on his computer and he was in the graveyard area when he noticed it. After battle he hovered over his Modora and other characters and interaction bubble wont pop up. characters wont even talk or react to each other.
He keeps like 20 save files and he even loaded his oldest save file from like the beginning of the game and it does it. It can happen to any of the characters depending on what order they are in when you load a save file.

So I made a new game profile on my computer naming it test and just copied one of his save files over to test the game. It did it on my computer too.
So I'm like oh can't figure out his game problem so I go back playing my game and now my game is doing it. Every single save file of my load does it.

So backed up save files and uninstalled the game and reinstalled checking deleting save file folders. made a new profile copied my save games back in the new profile and it still does it.
Now I made a new profile clicked new game. my 2 main characters wont interact with each even on new game?
What is going on here cant play anymore?
Any fix?

Main characters can only speak to each other if a dual dialogue has been triggered, such as after reading a book that can be found on the beach north of the start, or after the first combat encounter.

If you have a main character selected as leader, you should always be able to talk to a companion, though. If a companion or henchman is selected as leader, they can not talk to other party members.

when an exclamation point pops over one of the characters head I cant talk to them because I cant click on them.

I can click on the square icons on the top left to select individual characters and drag them around but not directly on the characters to talk to them if something comes up.
I have the GOG version of the game.

I also tried a registry cleaner and complete new installation of game and it still doesn't work.

That is how it is suppose to work.



Define 'something', and which character is selected as leader?

Main characters as leader can talk to companions; they can only talk to each other if a dual dialogue has been triggered.
Companions/henchmen as leader can not talk to any party members.

I have the exact same Problem. My main and second main character can't start another dialogue anymore. This happened, when they both had the exclamation mark over they're heads in the secluded beach area. I saved before i wanted to undergo their dialogue. After the save was made, the exclamation marks were gone. And they could not enter any more dialogues. In all saved games... like with this person. So i think the saving mechanism triggered this problem in my case, with any further dialogues.
I hope you can find what is going on through my comment.

If they had the exclamation marks before you saved, which were then gone after, that is a problem, but it is normal that the main characters can not speak to each other except when the marks are over their heads.

Yes after the saving the ! were gone. Ok, so if the ! won't return, then I either missed this chance for a chat, or all chances for chats between the main characters.

Most likely it is just that specific dual dialogue that was affected.
There are a couple dual dialogues on the starting beach (once after reading a diary and then another after the first fight), and possibly another depending on how you handle the drunk guards at the bridge.

If you reload the autosave made at the start of the game, if it hasn't been overwritten, does saving after triggering the dual dialogues eliminate the marks again?
There are people who save before every dual dialogue so they have the option to reload until both characters get the traits that they want them to have, while also getting the results that they want, where applicable.

I sadly ain't at the beginning but already quite some hours into the game. This happened near Evelyn's lair. Another Save though after i killed innocent guards, there came another Dual dialougue, but I will have to redo that to check if the dialogue disappears again.

Allright, so now after i tested the killing again, i tried saving, that didn't make it disappear instantly, but after waiting perhaps too long, the ! marks, just disappeared by themselves. So perhaps after waiting too long, they will become a missed chance?