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Please, please, PLEASE stop Shadowheart's constant chatter with Scratch in Camp!!!!! It never stops ...

Is it a specific campsite you have trouble with? I think the interaction is cute but I have noticed it happens more often in some camps than in others. For example in the act 1 main camp Scratch seems to visit her especially often, while I can't recall the interaction playing in some of the act 2 camps Although I might have just missed it - or it's somehow connected to him now playing with the owlbear cub.

The heart wants what it wants! Getting between the gal and her dog is probably a bad plan lol

I'm partial to this interaction honestly, not least because it's like the only Bark interjection we got going on in camp.

At camp everyone is just chilling, and so idle banter probably makes sense there. I mean as opposed to when we're out on the road, where everyone is all winded from hiking uphill. The companion interjections that occur while traveling around are easy to miss and often hard to hear, especially since proximity to the camera/currently selected character determines the volume. Frequently the Banters will activate over-the-shoulder, when the camera is focused on another character, and we probably turn around just in time to see the floating text disappear before we can read it.

In my Head Kanon, the rivalry between Lae'zel and Shadowheart probably extends to Scratch as well. Like where I could easily imagine them both vying for his approval, even though there's no meter for that one. For Lae'zel I imagine that everyone else is probably just an ishtik, but through his loyalty and constancy, she really comes to respect Scratches contribution. Even if he sometimes fetches random bombs or sussur flowers at super inopportune moments hehe.

For Shadowheart I picture a whole subtext to the Scratch relationship stemming from her fear of Wolves.

I thought a cool interaction for that might have been something like, when Shadowheart encounters a Wolf and is struck by fear, Scratch comes over to protect her from the wolf. Like he does a "back off" bark, and then suddenly it's the big bad wolf who's afraid! I like that, even if I have to pretend that banter into existence.

I don't know, I guess we can't win em all. I'm totally on team Scratch for this one!

I think it's just cause it's new, like they probably didn't get the timing fully sorted. Most of the other Character interjections don't repeat, but I let it slide in this case, because it exactly mirrors the way I'd roll. Of course I'm going to pet the dog twice back to back, every single time. It's just in my nature I suppose.

They are probably also testing ways to make the camp feel more alive with interactions between characters like this. Having Shadowheart water her plants was also a very nice touch. It's such a mundane activity that suits her well and suggests that the camp is a real space that needs to be cared for. I am curious what new camp animations Gale and Wyll will get, they are the only ones who still only have their original idles.

I'm in Act 3 and I do long rests quite often. Also, though I don't romance her, I visit her often to sit on her stool and see what reaction she hjas. With all that ,I 've seen Shart play with Scratch only 2 or 3 times. And only 1 time with Owly Mc Owlface. ("I swear you've grown since last I saw you") I think it's amusing.

In Act I still ... and it isn't something that happens every minute or so, it is constant, non-stop, there isn't a second that it doesn't happen.

I'll come back and post a short video with sound.

You might have a bug then. For me, Shadowheart did chat with Scratch in act 1 when he came close to her while doing his normal rounds through the camp. So it happened more or less frequently depending on the campsite, but it wasn't constant. It felt like a natural reaction to your pet coming over to say hello.

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Right, this is totally untypical for what I see in my games. Scratch runs up to Shadowheart. She kneels and scratches him and says her line, and then scratch walks away again. Shart then returns to her normal routine. Watering her plants, trying to open the artefact or reading her book. There's something not notmal in your Shart action. Maybe a mod side-effect ?

Could be a mod reaction. Just no idea which mod it would be.

maybe she's having this reaction because you are using a mod that changed her idle animations? Judging based on the video you posted she looks like she has an elf idle animation. I'm not entirely sure if that could be the reason though because I use a mod where my character stole her little hand idle pose and Shadowheart now has a normal half-elf tav standing idle but she only talked to scratch & the owlbear I think like 3-4 times the whole game for me.

I'll double check my mods. Thank you.

That is definitively a bug. I would be annoyed too, if that would be playing the whole time in camp.

I don't think, it's the animation mod, but worth checking it out.

Yes, it was constant. Seems to have corrected it's self after defeating the goblins, but, we'll see.

I've got just under 2000 hrs playtime in total, and a good hundred with the latest patch 7, and I now noticed for the first time that there's a big black rat that comes to chat with Jaheirah in camp.