Halsin Bug - Portal Defence

[NeoAnderson1001]

Hey, does anyone know how to fix this bug? Unfortunately we saved the game in mid of the fight, when we thought that we had successfully fought the first wave... but there is no followup, the fight is apparently over (after 5 foes) and Halsin is just in his Portal, nothing happens. :((

[A Disembodied Intelligence]

What's the bug? Enemies aren't spawning and the battle won't end?
If that's what it is then you could try the Cazador bugfix (who also has a similar bug in the current patch) where you walk far enough away from the fight that your characters exit combat, then walk back to the area to trigger the appropriate cutscene.

Though I think for the Halsin Portal fight the cutscene should trigger based on the turn timer, so... is the turn timer not going down?

[emreyigit1967]

I had the same issue. In my case it resolved by:

1. Exiting the game
2. Taking a long rest BEFORE trying the lute out on Art Cullagh

Which helped, I have no idea.

@Disembodied: In my case there was no turn timer. 😮

It could be a mod conflict, by I'm at a loss to think why turn timers would be affected.

[ahmirova.l]

i have the same bug but nothing helped

[NorthernStrong24]

Same thing is happening to me. I tried what emreyigit1967 suggested and it did not work. No timer or round countdown. Killed all foes and the portal is still open and we are just standing around and Halsin never comes out. Any ideas would be appreciated!!

[canwrong]

same is happening to me - i'm going to try to walk out of the area and back to trigger the cutscene. I only faught the shadows, mastifs, and harpers - the other enemies haven't spawned for me

[sreed67]

Same issue - 3 rounds of combat, I happened to kill all the enemies before round 4, and they stopped spawning. Combat ended and nothing from there.

[grimlock4h]

Same issue; no timer, killed the first wave of mobs, then no more spawned. Nothing fixes it.

Just sent in a bug report.

[emreyigit1967]

Originally posted by sreed67:

Same issue - 3 rounds of combat, I happened to kill all the enemies before round 4, and they stopped spawning. Combat ended and nothing from there.

Not the same issue; when you kill all three waves the combat timer ends. However, Halsin is supposed to appear too, which I guess did not happen.

[Callirgos]

Is it possible to end Turn Based mode?

[NeoAnderson1001]

Thanks for the answers and the reports of similar issues, so it appears to be a (common) bug... We had no timer as well, have no mods installed and have finished the combat as usual (no ongoing turn-based-mode)... We have not played since that happened and are waiting for a hot fix (hopefully) in near future (I think this valentine patch had several new bugs included...).

[spoon]

Originally posted by grimlock4h:

Same issue; no timer, killed the first wave of mobs, then no more spawned. Nothing fixes it.

Just sent in a bug report.

Same problem here in my honor mode run, which is why I can't reload an earlier file.
Any idea how to fix it by now? Would be very thankful.

[NorthernStrong24]

OK I finally got it to work!!! So I always started the fight by separating my team members. When I reloaded and went to talk to Halsin with my group all grouped together the timer and rounds came up and I finally got the cutscene! Hope this helps!!

[emreyigit1967]

This part does seem bugged.

In my case, it made no difference whether I had split my party, but any summons caused the combat to end prematurely on the next turn.

[lemlems]

I’ve just had this bug so seemingly it’s not fixed (post hotfix 23). After a couple of failed reloads (and then reading this thread) I reloaded before the fight and grouped my party before speaking to Halsin - that worked for me.

[soapling]

Have this bug still - the Githyanki warriors never showed up but smoked everyone else. Timer disappeared and battle ended; attacked portal to try to trigger something and nothing. We're all just standing around waiting for Halsin. Will try reloading.

EDIT: I had smokepowder barrells set up and had been exploding them before the Githyankis arrived. This seemed to stop them coming at all and bugging the battle. This time I waited to explode them after they arrived and managed to finish the battle with Halsin normally.