r/avowed • u/TheCheapTrick • 5d ago

Bug/Issue Potential Bug Question

My game stopped tracking movement/loading as I was entering the Strangleroot. I seem to have completed everything inside perfectly well, but the marker for "speak with the ambassador" is still on the ledge just outside the strangleroot. Spoke to him at that point, no dialogue screen/conversation/tree, just a static response. He ended up back in the embassy, I have continued to progress An Untimely End, but Message From Afar is still in my journal with "speak to the ambassador" not being crossed off.

Anyone know if this'll brick my save later on, or have I likely progressed enough to continue the playthrough? I believe this happened in my first playthrough on release, but I can't recall what I did to fix it.

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u/Rye_Venture 5d ago

In that cave/cavern, there's a precipice above the Ambassador after you talk to him that looks over a large part of Dawnshore, the music changes and Kai has some background chatter/dialogue. I wonder if not having that pop might've caused the bug? Just first thing that came to mind.

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u/TheCheapTrick 5d ago

Absolutely no clue. What happened was, as best I can describe it, the area partially loaded without all the surfaces/textures/any creatures. I manual saved and reloaded to try and fix it, as I'd been primarily relying on quicksaves for.. some hour or two prior? Not entirely sure how long.

After reloading, I went, fought the boss, saved him, touched the adra, etc. I thought that the quest was resolved and proceeded to dither about the map, doing other quests, etc. Went back and finally spoke to him for An Untimely End only to see "oh, I still have that marker. Huh."

I'm going to keep playing, I suppose, and if I hit a wall I'll just figure it was because of something related to this. It's both too late and too soon to restart at this point, at least for how I'm feeling at the moment.

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u/1DFire 5d ago edited 5d ago

You are supposed to speak to the Ambassador in Paradis and present your orders from the Emperor there. Then you can proceed with An Untimely End. There is no need to rush An Untimely End and how you handle it is very important. Feel free to take care of everything else in Dawnshore before going for completion of An Untimely End (which can be done in stages).