Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Technical & Gameplay Problems Unable to speak to any NPCs or interact with any objects in the wild

After doing the Dank Crypt and getting Wither, I was not able to speak or interact with any NPCs, within or out of my group. I can't even star the event at the waypoint where I am supposed to free Gale. The game is at a standstill right now, worse yet, I found on the patch notes that this was a bug that was fixed recently: "Fixed certain savegames where you cannot talk to any or certain NPCs after the Silence or Garotte spells were used."

Really don't want to redo the whole dungeon again but this is a big blocker. Yes the spell Silence was used on my group during the Crypt encounter.

I am having this issue still as well... I have tried everything suggested: Casted silence on myself to purge it on/off, killed one of my party members, loaded to an old save file, checked file integrity through steam, deleted AppData files, and several others I cannot even remember at this point. I am not using Mods and this happened shortly after Wither and returning to the surface. I am not restarting the game so I am at a complete stand still

I have reloaded a save right after I done the Crypt but before I went to my camp to see Wither. Seems to fixed the problem even after I went to the camp this time and talk to Wither and had a LR. Hopefully this doesn't happen to me again after I get casted Silence from mobs. You really have to remember to save often in this game.

The same problem is occurring here – a game-ending bug. Afte the patch. I don't believe my issue is related to the Silence spell. I'm at the beginning of Act 3, so there haven't been any fights thus far – only walking around Rivington. Loading an old save worked once, but the problem reappeared, so its not really a solution.

I just got this issue but it's limited to Karlach. The option to talk is completely gone from the interaction menu, and loading a previous save didn't help. Neither did casting silence or killing/resurrecting the character.

I had this issue out in act 2. The only real solution as of now is to load an older save.

I have the same problem on my playthrough with my girlfriend. We are at the Underrealm and fought the Duergar at the edge of the lake and we think since then her character can't interact with anyone. We suspected it was related to the Silence Spell because that was used by the enemies there. We also tried to cast it ourselves afterwards but it didn't help. However, when she steals something, she is spoken to and can answer.

I'm affected by this horrible bug and I'm not sure if it's being given the importance it deserves, this makes the game completly unplayable, there seemed to be a fix for the problem caused by silence casted on fights on patch1 that triggered a worse version of this bug for a ton of players.

My game was working fine then patch1 rolled out and my game and saves were all destroyed, neither me or my companions can't talk to anyone or eachother, I've been following this topic online hoping to find a solution and it seems everyday more and more people are affected, and it can happen whenever and in every act, so even If I were to restart the whole game this bug would be lurking on the back of my mind since it can affect your game+ saves at any time too

These are some of the posts I've been following regarding this issue, it seems it's been a bug from the get go but more and more people are being affected:
https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldursGate3/comments/15iinzr/cant_talk_to_npcs_bug/
https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldursGate3/comments/14eh1gz/unable_to_talk_to_any_npc_in_the_game/
https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldursGate3/comments/161py89/main_character_cant_initiate_dialogue/
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1086940/discussions/0/3808408747681416361/

Really crossing my fingers that patch2 fixes my game and saves but they might just stay corrupted who knows