Some notes on dialogue skip:

1. Its definitely not entirely random, you can force it to trigger by skipping the conversation between Blake and Capelli that triggers in the Twin Falls defense perimeter tower. You do this by simply being fast enough with the orb hop onto the rafters. It helps to leave Capelli some rollers so he is stalled.

2. If you miss this, it usually triggers at some point in Bryce canyon or Chicago. Though it can be unique; sometimes only Daedelus gets muted for example. I believe this happens because the game is trying to figure out which assets to load constantly, from you going out of bounds, and decides VFX is not a required entity that needs to be loaded.

3. DSkip can cause your game to hardlock. As far as I can tell, THIS REQUIRES that you have already been hardlocked once on your game via other means. My specific example was walking into an unloaded area in Chicago just past the flooding area. Now everytime I enter Chicago with DSkip on it hardlocks. This is just a heads up and an extreme case.

Please discuss below if you have any more insight.

So an additional followup after returning to this game.

1. The glitch is not triggered by going Out of Bounds as I triggered it on a NMS run at the Malikov/Daedalus point having only done a single skip

2. The glitch got progressively worse, starting w/ only a single line of dialogue from Malikov and culminating in all in game speech being muted, this seemed completely irrelevant of any and all skips I did and deaths I had

3. The glitch occurs on both 1.00 and 1.60

As such I believe this skip is actually triggered by simply playing all of Resistance 2 up to Bryce Canyon in a single sitting after first booting the game up.

I am also no longer experiencing the hardlock after several patches and de patches

An update.

bonesaw has discovered that making your disc dirty via fingerprints and such actually loads the game faster and triggers dialogue skip consistently.

https://twitter.com/Bonesaw577/status/1410394086272536578?s=20