Of course there is dialog - check your sound settings in the game options.

not helping at all still no dialogue

There's a bug with game that sometimes causes dialogue to be silent. It's a decent chance everytime I play that it doesn't work. When it happens, I go back to the main menu, navigate to the audio settings reset them to factory defaults, then quit and restart the game. That usually fixes it, but it still happens to me pretty regularly.

引用自 Peter：

There's a bug with game that sometimes causes dialogue to be silent. It's a decent chance everytime I play that it doesn't work. When it happens, I go back to the main menu, navigate to the audio settings reset them to factory defaults, then quit and restart the game. That usually fixes it, but it still happens to me pretty regularly.

No need to do all that. Simply restarting the game fixes it.

done it like 5 times it jsut refuses to work how could they mess such a simple thing up?

Something else you could try is changing the language to something else temporarily to see if that makes any difference. Unfortunately this is a bit of a buggy game.

Shadow of the Tomb Raider (SotTR) rarely bugged out on me and most of the times that it occurred I also was trying some mods. So, perhaps it might be better to check what you're using before blaming the SotTR's game engine.

And one of those mods which I strongly advise anyone to not even bother trying it[www.nexusmods.com] because it's unfinished and still very unrefined with heaps of major bugs alongside with it.

引用自 Basan™：

Shadow of the Tomb Raider (SotTR) rarely bugged out on me and most of the times that it occurred I also was trying some mods. So, perhaps it might be better to check what you're using before blaming the SotTR's game engine. :winter2019happybulb:

And one of those mods which I strongly advise anyone to not even bother trying it[www.nexusmods.com] because it's unfinished and still very unrefined with heaps of major bugs alongside with it.

I don't use any mods, but I've encountered plenty of bugs in this game. The worst one is an optional crypt (the one that fills with water) just before you rescue Unuratu. The game has crashed on me and few times in that cave.

Bugs I've encountered:
I save just after solving the Bridge puzzle in Peruvian Jungle - when I reload that save there are TWO Jonahs, until you go into the cave with the stele. Every time. I'm gonna upload a screenshot.

The other one is in the Path of Battle tomb in the Wild Jungle. Every time I get to the puzzle proper, the FOV goes doolally and Lara has to die to Continue the game. Every time.

The game used to crash after escaping Cenote, where Lara climbs out of the water, but a GPU with more RAM solved that one.
And that's it.
https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3592571257

That is a weird one. Never had one like this.
Are you using headphones? If so, does it run through a software? Maybe check there.

引用自 Baroness Lady Lara Croft：

Bugs I've encountered:
I save just after solving the Bridge puzzle in Peruvian Jungle - when I reload that save there are TWO Jonahs, until you go into the cave with the stele. Every time. I'm gonna upload a screenshot.

The other one is in the Path of Battle tomb in the Wild Jungle. Every time I get to the puzzle proper, the FOV goes doolally and Lara has to die to Continue the game. Every time.

The game used to crash after escaping Cenote, where Lara climbs out of the water, but a GPU with more RAM solved that one.
And that's it.
https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3592571257

That is a hilarious one. The only bug I ever came across was a raft that didn't float to the right area for me climb up to reach an edge.

skill issue

引用自 Peter：

引用自 Basan™：

Shadow of the Tomb Raider (SotTR) rarely bugged out on me and most of the times that it occurred I also was trying some mods. So, perhaps it might be better to check what you're using before blaming the SotTR's game engine.

And one of those mods which I strongly advise anyone to not even bother trying it[www.nexusmods.com] because it's unfinished and still very unrefined with heaps of major bugs alongside with it.

I don't use any mods, but I've encountered plenty of bugs in this game. The worst one is an optional crypt (the one that fills with water) just before you rescue Unuratu. The game has crashed on me and few times in that cave.

Well, the game never crashed me upon that hidden and around 1/2 of it underwater Tomb to unlock one of her skills. Probably I was just lucky, not sure (since imho this is probably the buggiest of the latest Tomb Raider trilogy and probably because it was developed by the Eidos company and some asorted dev' team because the one that made Rise of the Tomb Raider's was busy doing some other game during that time).

Although I keep encountering a bug that creates a duplicate corpse shortly after she gains that green "Mud covering herself to blend in better" skill right at the end of the Peruvian Jungle and when you stealthily kill a foe from a hanging below position. That one always creates me a double corpse (and many times preventing me to raid at one of those). Silly, I know how that one has escaped the Shadow of the Tomb Raider's (SotTR's) "Quality Assurance" team, but it's still there even after all these years.

引用自 Jäveln：

done it like 5 times it jsut refuses to work how could they mess such a simple thing up?

I've been experiencing this issue more frequently, but I think I've found a solution. Go to the game's properties in Steam and set the language to something else, e.g. German. That will force it download another language. After that, start up the game and change the language for dialogue and text back to English. I also changed the in-game sound from Auto to Stereo.

引用自 Peter：

引用自 Jäveln：

done it like 5 times it jsut refuses to work how could they mess such a simple thing up?

I've been experiencing this issue more frequently, but I think I've found a solution. Go to the game's properties in Steam and set the language to something else, e.g. German. That will force it download another language. After that, start up the game and change the language for dialogue and text back to English. I also changed the in-game sound from Auto to Stereo.

Great tip. Thanks. I was changing the language from the game main menu to something else, then back to English but the fix didn't last long. Resuming the game after exiting brought the loss of dialogue issue back again. Doing it from the Steam properties setting looks like the fix holds. So far, so good anyway. :)

Edit:

The fix by changing the language and back from the Steam game properties looks like the best fix. Pretty bizarre, but there you go.

Further update.

Lost voice audio again! Oh well, time to switch languages again.