Minsc fight is bugged for me

[commenterry]

I'm having a problem attempting to save Minsc and recruit him.

I *can* knock Minsc out, but when the cutscene triggers and Jaheria asks me to have his mind shielded, the only option I have is "Continue". The Emperor never talks to me about him, so it's like the cutscene is bugged or something. If I click "continue", Minsc just stands up and the fight starts over. He has 1 HP and if I knock him out again, he dies. I've tried healing him some and then hitting him with more "non-lethal" attacks - it makes no difference. If I knock him out a second time, he dies no matter what. However, if he dies in this way, Jaheira doesn't react to it at all. I've read she is supposed to leave the party if he dies, but she doesn't say anything about it.

I've started the fight over multiple times. I kill all the other combatants and then un-equip all weapons. I make sure the non-lethal option is on for everyone. Only then do I start attacking Minsc. I cannot get it to allow me to save him! This is so frustrating! Anyone else having this issue? I didn't get to this point (in the Cistern) until after Patch 2 installed, so I don't know if it's a bug introduced in this patch or what. Any help or ideas would be appreciated!

[Anzaman]

The "1. Continue" seems to mean that the game failed to load the required dialogue options.

When that happens, try refreshing the UI in some way. Eg. casting Guidance with another character to the one currently doing chat. Also heard that plugging in controller can help with that, as they have different user interfaces.

Otherwise try hitting save mid-dialogue and load that, and see if it still shows "1. Continue".

[commenterry]

Thank you for the suggestions, Anzaman, but none of them worked. I even tried it with a controller and that didn't work either. In any event, I appreciate the reply. Anyone else have any ideas?

[Pieshaman]

I just saved Minsc without any problems.
I do get the 1) continue bug often too though. Had it at least 10 times on random conversations.

[commenterry]

I do have a save just before I go into the Cistern. I think I will go back to that save and do some other quests and then go back to try to save him again. Maybe that will help.

[Shadow♥]

Originally posted by commenterry:

I do have a save just before I go into the Cistern. I think I will go back to that save and do some other quests and then go back to try to save him again. Maybe that will help.

I had that 1. continue happen to me too on another quest. I just repeated the fight and it worked fine the second time. For some reason randomly certain dialogs will do that 1. continue thing. I hope they are working on fixing whatever is causing it to not load properly.

[commenterry]

Originally posted by Shadow♥:

Originally posted by commenterry:

I do have a save just before I go into the Cistern. I think I will go back to that save and do some other quests and then go back to try to save him again. Maybe that will help.

I had that 1. continue happen to me too on another quest. I just repeated the fight and it worked fine the second time. For some reason randomly certain dialogs will do that 1. continue thing. I hope they are working on fixing whatever is causing it to not load properly.

I've done the fight about 9 times now with no change. This is lunacy.

[Dunkelblut]

I have bugs too with Minsc. First Time i saved him, then he runs after Boo. If im not fast enough, i miss the Cutscene. Then he will stand there and i cannot speak to him. I reloaded from the Cutscene, where Jaheira demands to save him with the Imperor. I did, followed him, saw the Cutscene with Boo. It ended fine, i thought, well my whole Party thinks Minsc is dead. But he are in my Camp, where i cannot speak or interact with him. And Jaheira is there too. But all the other Members thinks we killed the legendary Minsc. This is so infuriating. Act 3 is a Act of Horror. I choose the easy Difficult to play this Game, im terified of "normal2 now -.-

[Strahd von Zarovich]

This same thing is happening to me. Even the part where I knocked him out once and when the cut scene happened he came back. When I try to down him again my fight log even shows he gets knocked out, but then shows he is killed as well and then Jaheira instantly gets upset and leaves. I am for sure using a non-lethal attack as the last hit. I just used my fist to even make sure it wasn't something with my weapons.

[Strahd von Zarovich]

Originally posted by Strahd von Zarovich:

This same thing is happening to me. Even the part where I knocked him out once and when the cut scene happened he came back. When I try to down him again my fight log even shows he gets knocked out, but then shows he is killed as well and then Jaheira instantly gets upset and leaves. I am for sure using a non-lethal attack as the last hit. I just used my fist to even make sure it wasn't something with my weapons.

I had to go back before I started the initial fight and do it again and it worked for me this time. Still frustrating to have to do it all again though.

[Dunkelblut]

I think it depends on luck. I worked it out, he is now my Companion. I tryed it again, killed all the other enemy, then i surrounded him with all my fighters. Took weapons off, choose non lethal attacks in passiv skills, and then the boxing with bare hands started. He had only 18 life, so it was a risky situation, because he is a master in missing hits ^^
I think the fifth time, all came back together how it should. He got unconscious, the cutscene begins and no one wa thinking we killed the legendary Minsc. After this frustration Episode i am now happy to have him. My biggest Problem now is the Fight with Shadowhearts Boss Viconia. I play on easy mode, and i was done for. So many Opponents and this darkness Spell -.- This one is really heavy to win...

[Pretendo_64]

Same thing was happening to me but I eventually found a solution.

I waited until there was only one enemy left and made sure all my party members were close (within 10m) to where Minsc lay. Killed the final enemy and the cutscene played like normal and Minsc is allied now.

I think the problem was my main character was way too far away from Minsc and for some reason that bugged out the cutscene, threw me back in combat and Minsc would die no matter what I do.

Getting pretty sick of the bugs at this point. Especially in act 3. Almost every quest and major encounter seems to have annoying bugs like this. The main challenge in the game isn't the enemies, it's finding ways around the bugs.

[❃ Galiäna Krüger ❃]

Load even earlier save - meaning redo the whole Minsc fight.

[Shadow♥]

Originally posted by Pretendo_64:

Same thing was happening to me but I eventually found a solution.

I waited until there was only one enemy left and made sure all my party members were close (within 10m) to where Minsc lay. Killed the final enemy and the cutscene played like normal and Minsc is allied now.

I think the problem was my main character was way too far away from Minsc and for some reason that bugged out the cutscene, threw me back in combat and Minsc would die no matter what I do.

Getting pretty sick of the bugs at this point. Especially in act 3. Almost every quest and major encounter seems to have annoying bugs like this. The main challenge in the game isn't the enemies, it's finding ways around the bugs.

When I did Minsc rescue all my members were right by him because I was using unarmed combat to knock him out. Maybe that is why I never got this bug. I never separated my team at all during the combat either. they all remained pretty close in proximity when i rescued him. Also, when he did go for Boo I followed right behind him.

[Shadow♥]

Originally posted by ❃ Galiäna Krüger ❃:

Load even earlier save - meaning redo the whole Minsc fight.

Yes. this is true. anytime I have experienced the 1. continue thing I completely reload and am able to complete whatever quest it is as the dialog then loads normally like it should.

[aben WHY (VC Off)]

1. continue usually happens to me when I'm skipping dialog and spaming space bar