Halsin Dying, and another bug. (Patch 7)

[Goat-Tan]

Hi all, i am mostly just complaining to blow of steam, but if anyone knows how to fix *either* of these bugs or some form of work around i would be grateful. In the goblin prison, as soon as the fight ends, Halsin turns from a bear back into humanoid form... and instantly dies.

The other bug i have also weirdly has to do with druids. During the Kagha shadow druid quest, when i return with the evidence and confront her. She says "What?!" The screen turns back for a few moments, then the game resumes. All the rats have transformed into the shadow druid forms, but are already dead, Kagha walks a few feet away then just idles there forever. Talking to her again gives me the same dialog option, she says "what?" again, black screen, and after a few seconds the game just resumes again. The quest at this point is super broken, as even if i kill her after this series of events the quest "updates" but just says that i have to kill her.

I have beaten this game a bunch of times when it first came out, i have not played for a long while. I came back thinking "all the bugs will be fixed and it will be great." However the game seems more broken then its ever been. Im mostly just angry and frustrated. (Side note, im not running any mods or anything)

[Goat-Tan]

Oh as one last side note: I have tried a few different things to fix the Halsin bug for example. If i kill all three goblin leaders, instead of Halsin freeing himself the log just says he died. As far as i can tell the game is just killing him every time he is supposed to be free, regardless of how he becomes free.

[Angel_Starlight]

disguise self not working, wild form not working

[Goat-Tan]

:o

[Angel_Starlight]

Also as i play on gamepad the UI disappears during combat and inventory is empty all the time unless i use keyboard and mouse

[Kamuizin]

Sorry for ask, but is your game modded? Cos those issues sound so much like what a mod would break…

[Traksik]

I have the same symptom, just after the end of the fight, at the moment Halsin should return to humanoid form, he dies.
The game is freshly installed with no mods.
I have tried various things, including loading a very early save and going straight to the goblin camp - nothing helps.

I have reported this as a bug via the portal:
https://larian.com/support/baldur-s-gate-3#modal
I think the OP can do the same

[Goat-Tan]

Originally posted by Kamuizin:

Sorry for ask, but is your game modded? Cos those issues sound so much like what a mod would break…

Nope. No mods!

[Goat-Tan]

Originally posted by Traksik:

I have the same symptom, just after the end of the fight, at the moment Halsin should return to humanoid form, he dies.
The game is freshly installed with no mods.
I have tried various things, including loading a very early save and going straight to the goblin camp - nothing helps.

I have reported this as a bug via the portal:
https://larian.com/support/baldur-s-gate-3#modal
I think the OP can do the same

Ill do it a little later when i get home. Nice idea.

[Estellese]

I think there is a beta patch for the build prior to update 7. Play that and these issues should be resolved. They all worked fine in that patch.

[JustinGayme.TTV]

Originally posted by Goat-Tan:

Hi all, i am mostly just complaining to blow of steam, but if anyone knows how to fix *either* of these bugs or some form of work around i would be grateful. In the goblin prison, as soon as the fight ends, Halsin turns from a bear back into humanoid form... and instantly dies.

The other bug i have also weirdly has to do with druids. During the Kagha shadow druid quest, when i return with the evidence and confront her. She says "What?!" The screen turns back for a few moments, then the game resumes. All the rats have transformed into the shadow druid forms, but are already dead, Kagha walks a few feet away then just idles there forever. Talking to her again gives me the same dialog option, she says "what?" again, black screen, and after a few seconds the game just resumes again. The quest at this point is super broken, as even if i kill her after this series of events the quest "updates" but just says that i have to kill her.

I have beaten this game a bunch of times when it first came out, i have not played for a long while. I came back thinking "all the bugs will be fixed and it will be great." However the game seems more broken then its ever been. Im mostly just angry and frustrated. (Side note, im not running any mods or anything)

Im actually in your same shoes. Not the same exact situations but in that I played this game many playthroughs when it first came out. Came back and did another playthrough. There seems to be way more dialogue / consequence bugs than ever. It’s actually not a great time to do honor run vs earlier after reelease due to these bugs, since you’re locked in and can’t save scum.

I think they polished a lot of things but I feel the coding or something with quests has gotten worse. Likely because fixes ro one thing have had consequences in a cascade efffect.

This is especially true when paying a game from previous patches. The choices you made then coupled with new patch can result in chaos.

But still even new playthrough like ours are lots of bugs. It’s a shame.

For the record I use no mods.

[Kamuizin]

Hmmm, as a palliative solution, you could, then, install a mod that mess with shapeshift.

It may bring other problems in the long run, bur may be a immediate solution for your problem, until Larian attend the issue.

[JustinGayme.TTV]

More directly related to the OP:

I’m not sure there are fixes other than an earlier save or fresh start.

When these patches come out, I think sometimes they have a hard time reconciling your old file and the new version. So in your case it sounds like something in your halsin/Druid quest line got altered and now just isn’t doable for you.

I don’t know of what you could do differently, but to be honest if I were mid playthrough whens major patch came out I’d probably start over. I found way too many cases where keeping the same save files after fixes caused very weird issues for me.

[Boneart]

My situation is exactly the same, absolutely the same bugs
There was also a bug to aunt Ethel - she instantly dying after cutscene in the teahouse

[Don Bazil]

Originally posted by Boneart:

My situation is exactly the same, absolutely the same bugs
There was also a bug to aunt Ethel - she instantly dying after cutscene in the teahouse

same thing with Ethel

[Starwight/ttv]

Originally posted by Traksik:

I have the same symptom, just after the end of the fight, at the moment Halsin should return to humanoid form, he dies.
The game is freshly installed with no mods.
I have tried various things, including loading a very early save and going straight to the goblin camp - nothing helps.

I have reported this as a bug via the portal:
https://larian.com/support/baldur-s-gate-3#modal
I think the OP can do the same

Weird. I did this last week and had zero issues with that part of the quest procing properly. I have had weird instances of dialogues having issues where it only goes through part of the dialogue, but never with that quest in particular and the couple times it has happened, it was dialogues that weren't really story important.