SmallerTalk issue / NPCs closing greeting?

[ChancellorKremlin]

I swear I saw someone here report this a day or two ago (maybe in the SexoutNG thread?) that for some reason, when you use "E" for SmallerTalk on some NPCs, they say their greeting, but then rather than dialogue opening so you can proceed with SmallerTalk, the dialogue closes as it does normally.

 

This means you either have to keep E pressed on them for it to work, and sometimes it doesn't work at all. The NPCs this happens with appears to be random - I've seen it with rePopulated Wasteland NPCs, vanilla ones and SexoutSoliciting ones. 

 

As an example, you approach an NPC and press E:

 

It goes "What do you need?" and then dialogue closes.

 

If you are lucky, he then approaches you and starts the SmallerTalk dialogue as normal. Most of the times, they don't though. The normal behaviour if for him to go "What do you need?" and for that to feed in straight to SmallerTalk and give you reply options. 

 

Has anyone experienced this with any of the latest NG updates? I know SmallerTalk probably isn't responsible because its the same version as it has been for ages and there have been no new changes, and I am curious too because I'm sure I've seen someone else report this kind of behaviour, though I can't remember where 

[Deamionzero]

I just reinstalled NV and FO3 using TTW and am having this problem. I can engage the npc's with Smallertalk, but normal greetings close instantly. It's not a huge issue with normal npc dialogue, but it just hit me with 3 dog and now he only has the smallertalk dialogue. Haven't found a cause yet.