HALSIN portal defense - Bugged AF.

[Wight]

So in Act 2 there is this quest to unlock Halsin as a playable companion.

He goes in to a portal and you are supposed to defend it for a couple of turns. ¨'

My group defended it well with alot of concentration AOE spells like Hunger of Hadar and Firewall.

The problem is when the timer is up and Halsin returns, you get your dialogue and then he walks of to your camp.

All of the concentration spells are still active and you are given but a second to deactivate them before he strides through flamewalls and hungers of hadar.

This fight took us rougly 20-30 minutes and the save was just before the fight.


Well, when Halsin the ever blessed genius walks through all our concentration spells he takes alot of damge, is in the dark without light and ofcourse he dies and turns to a Zombie before escaping the Hunger of Hadar...

So he turns into a zombie, only solution is to kill him?
We kill him and try to resurrect him... no dice, do not work.

Halsin is now perma dead in our playthrough because he decided to stride through all our defences to get back to camp...

Oh and the kid just stands on the rock unable to do anything to, you kick him into the water and he just spawns back, attack him = nothing, talking to him gives you a short narrator diablogue.

[Smartboy64]

Wait.... you got to complete it?

For me it bugged out and wouldn't finish. The timer wrapped up, disappeared completely no prompt or anything, and...nothing. the fight continued and a random undead that 'conveniently' resisted my Thunder arrow to knock it into the lake destroyed the portal.

I unintalled the game at that point. So many questionable and garbage mechanics in this game and then the actual lie from this quest. I couldn't bother anymore.

[badatthis]

Same thing just happened here. Firewall makes this fight WAY easier. Had a fun time rolling through it and then the cutscene happens and he walks right into my fire afterwards. If only it saved right after the cut scene, I could have loaded my game and quick dumped some water or tried retreating to camp immediately.

Instead, he lights himself up and I tried running away so we could retreat. It does say he's "temporarily hostile" so hopefully I would have been able to kiss and make up later. Except it only takes two turns for him to just die from the fire. Gotta do the whole battle over again.

Annoying asf. This time I'll just save the last round of the fight.

[Zak]

If you have someone with Spirit Guardians active standing near the portal, most of the melee enemies will die from running into the Spirit Guardians. That leaves three other people to take care of the archers.

AoE spells help, but I don't think I used anything bigger than Entangle and Cloud of Daggers.

[RACHMANOVSKI]

Try Sleet storm, less destructive.

[❃ Galiäna Krüger ❃]

You can cancel concentration. Bruh. Forced Timed Turn Too is there.

[✪ Wuhan Warrior 🍉🍉]

I think this has been fixed. The last time I played through this was i had firewall and ice surfaces active but he just disappeared after the cutscene when he says he will meet us back at camp.

[I love Israel (he/him)]

Originally posted by ✪ Wuhan Warrior 🍉🍉:

I think this has been fixed. The last time I played through this was i had firewall and ice surfaces active but he just disappeared after the cutscene when he says he will meet us back at camp.

I just did the quest today and he walked straight into my wall of fire. as for the author your just gonna have to restart and hope it does not happen next time

[NoobieWan Kenoobie]

I’m having trouble also. I defended the portal until the timer ran out and all the enemies dropped. The game exited turn based mode but Halsin never came out of the portal. It’s just open and I can’t do anything with it. At least it survived though. So far I haven’t seen any other posts with similar issues.

[Father of Jace]

Originally posted by NoobieWan Kenoobie:

I’m having trouble also. I defended the portal until the timer ran out and all the enemies dropped. The game exited turn based mode but Halsin never came out of the portal. It’s just open and I can’t do anything with it. At least it survived though. So far I haven’t seen any other posts with similar issues.

I'm having a similar issue. I didn't even see a timer when the fight started but I beat everything that spawned and nothing else happened. just standing here and it still says to defend the portal. probably just gonna reload my save

[LouisaB75]

I did this fight yesterday. I did sleet storm over the spot where most mobs initially spawned. The were all dash fall prone over and over and over again. It was funny as hell.

Oddly though when the timer ran out there were still mobs alive but they vanished when he came back through. Expected him to walk into a fight and die but thankfully not.