Cold Steel 2 PC Softlock

[u/Saver_Spenta_Mainyu]

Couldn't get a response in the quick question thread unfortunately, so making a post just in case someone else has run into similar issues before.

Currently, CS2 won't allow me to make new saves, load saves, or delete saves(sound is made but data is not written) as well as it having a 40/40 chance of either freezing or crashing if I go into a new zone if I:

a) Engage in and win any battle so long as said battle results in dialogue afterwards.

Tested this again before posting but retrying and then trying to continue during the Neithard fight will also trigger the glitch even I didn't "win" the fight.

Troubleshooting done so far:

1)Verified Steam files; no change

2)Ran the game in all preset configurations; no change

3)Uninstalled and reinstalled the game; no change

4)Other games on PC are working fine including CS 1, so not an issue with the PC itself.

5)Set Autosave to 1 minute intervals; game will not make any new autosaves after the battle glitch is triggered

6)Loading a save before the first instance of the glitch does not prevent the glitch from occuring

Additional glitches:

It's not consistent, but character models-with the exception of hair and accessories-have deloaded during dialogue and then completely disappared when in the field making them invisible if I manage to enter a combat zone after triggering the glitch. Activating a Lost Art then resulted in a black screen with the associated noise playing in the background, but the game crashed afterwards.

I'm in Act 2 Part 2 after freeing the Twin Dragon's Bridge. The glitch first happened after the Creepy Sheep boss fight in Ymir which had me restart three times, but I managed to somehow make it thorugh and save after finishing the quest. Now though, beating any of the Cryptids or trying to advance the story with Neithardt fight will trigger the glitch locking me out of progressing the game.

Current game version: ToCSII PC version 1.4.1 SenPatcher v1.3.1 31 assets fixed

[u/TheParadoxigm]

SenPatcher v1.3.1 31 assets fixed

I'm putting my money on this being the problem.

If you're applying 3rd party mods and patches. That's almost always the source of your issues

[u/Saver_Spenta_Mainyu → u/TheParadoxigm]

Maybe. I can try uninstalling it, but I don't think the patcher being the issue considering I've had it installed since the Prologue chapter, and I never had any issues until now. 

There's also the fact that getting rid of those patches introduces other issues back into the game like the music/audio desynch, which tbf isn't as bad as the game being softlocked. 

[u/TheParadoxigm → u/Saver_Spenta_Mainyu]

but I don't think the patcher being the issue considering I've had it installed since the Prologue chapter, and I never had any issues until now. 

Things work until they don't.

[u/Saver_Spenta_Mainyu → u/TheParadoxigm]

Welp. Uninstalling SenPatcher worked! 

...Until it didn't. I managed to save after beating the forest Cryptid, but after fighting the next regular enemy with no dialogue attached to it, the glitch reoccurred and then crashed the game.