Game breaking bug, killed Oliver (Spoilers)

[MINUANO GAMING]

I've met Oliver pretty early on in act 2, played with him, thought he was dangerous and killed him. Now I'm doing the "lift the curse" quest and Halsin told me he's half of the land's spirit, and that he couldn't die.

That's cool, we returned to his house and he ran away through a portal. We chased after him, fought Mommy and Daddy plus a dozen of clones until his shield was destroyed, but he never gave up?

The fight kept going so I was forced to kill him again. Now he's nowhere to be found and Halsin says nothing about it.

[MINUANO GAMING]

Reloaded a save from 5 hours ago and replayed the entire portal defense mission + Oliver fight, only to be met with the same outcome. He never speaks to me, just keeps summoning shades indefinitely regardless of his shield being down.

The quest is completely bugged.

[Ziggurt]

Originally posted by MINUANO GAMING:

I've met Oliver pretty early on in act 2, played with him, thought he was dangerous and killed him. Now I'm doing the "lift the curse" quest and Halsin told me he's half of the land's spirit, and that he couldn't die.

That's cool, we returned to his house and he ran away through a portal. We chased after him, fought Mommy and Daddy plus a dozen of clones until his shield was destroyed, but he never gave up?

The fight kept going so I was forced to kill him again. Now he's nowhere to be found and Halsin says nothing about it.

Did you use silence spell on him? He doesn't the chance to "surrender" before you kill him when you do that.

[MINUANO GAMING]

Originally posted by Ziggurt:

Did you use silence spell on him? He doesn't the chance to "surrender" before you kill him when you do that.

Nope. He keeps summoning shades non-stop and never talks to anyone in my party, I am either forced to kill him or die.

If I do kill him, Halsin no longer has dialogue saying he's a spirit and can't die and he never respawns.

[Ziggurt]

Originally posted by MINUANO GAMING:

Originally posted by Ziggurt:

Did you use silence spell on him? He doesn't the chance to "surrender" before you kill him when you do that.

Nope. He keeps summoning shades non-stop and never talks to anyone in my party, I am either forced to kill him or die.

If I do kill him, Halsin no longer has dialogue saying he's a spirit and can't die and he never respawns.

Ok, not using silence spell on him during fight solved the issue for me, thought you had same problem.

[Dos Snakes]

Having the same problem except after I killed him in the second fight with the dome, he showed up in camp next to halsin, but when I try to speak with him it just says “Thaniel is unresponsive. He hardly looks alive”

[Добрый Ээх]

seems like i lost 50hours of playing coz i cant complete the quest, cant proceed with halsin, cant get the damn content....

[MINUANO GAMING]

Act 2 is so unbelievably unpolished it's disheartening. I wish I had some helpful tip for you guys, but nope.

I just replayed 5 hours since the game's auto save is so unreliable, made a save right before his fight and kept reloading it. After like 6 or 7 attempts he decided to finally talk to me after breaking his shield.

Unfortunately, I didn't do anything different, which is the most frustrating part. The quest simply decided to work after not working for 2 days straight.

[Asgo]

I think you have to have the halsin dialog until he mentions him. And after that you should talk to Oliver.

But only something I read. I dealt with Oliver before his role came up.
But it is not game breaking , continuing without the cleansing and halsin is a valid story branch.
Since I don't know his dialog options on the other branch, I can't tell if the branching over prior knowledge is intended or buggy accidental; probably the latter :)

[MINUANO GAMING]

From my personal experience I'd say this quest is bugged on several different levels.

Since I had killed Oliver before, the only way to make him spawn for his fight was talking to Halsin IMMEDIATELY after the portal defense quest and picking the dialogue option that says Oliver died, to which he will reply that Oliver cannot die since he's a spirit, and then he'll spawn at his house.

If I did not talk to him right away or pick a different option, Halsin would have generic companion dialogue and the quest would be impossible to finish.

I imagine the same is true if you haven't met Oliver before but don't ask Halsin where you can find him, the dialogue option disappears and breaks the quests.

If you're lucky to gef past these problems, pray to god he talks to you once the shield is down.

If he keeps summoning shades, reload the game.

[Veradalycan]

I figured it out.

When the shield breaks, the fight isn't yet over (Ran into the same issue recently on my Solo game).
The dialog doesn't trigger unless you're near to Oliver with your character.
1. I broke the shield
2. All the shadows vanished, but no dialog.
3. Ran over towards him
4. It started the dialog.

Not sure if it's your main character or any of them that's needed because, as I mentioned, this is a solo character this time.

[MINUANO GAMING]

Originally posted by Veradalycan:

I figured it out.

When the shield breaks, the fight isn't yet over (Ran into the same issue recently on my Solo game).
The dialog doesn't trigger unless you're near to Oliver with your character.
1. I broke the shield
2. All the shadows vanished, but no dialog.
3. Ran over towards him
4. It started the dialog.

Not sure if it's your main character or any of them that's needed because, as I mentioned, this is a solo character this time.

I don't think this is the same issue. Did he keep summoning shades/clones?

I'm pretty sure I was close to him a couple of times, he just wouldn't give up.

[YES CHEF!]

Originally posted by Veradalycan:

I figured it out.

When the shield breaks, the fight isn't yet over (Ran into the same issue recently on my Solo game).
The dialog doesn't trigger unless you're near to Oliver with your character.
1. I broke the shield
2. All the shadows vanished, but no dialog.
3. Ran over towards him
4. It started the dialog.

Not sure if it's your main character or any of them that's needed because, as I mentioned, this is a solo character this time.

This really helped. Thanks

[Mr.Coffee]

I managed to solve that very same issue by:

-dismissing summons
-killing all shadows
-fleeing the combat with all my characters
-come back through the portal in sneak
-sneaking my way next to him
-breaking stealth

and then the dialog started, hope that help!

PS: I'm not sure if being stealthy or killing everything before fleeing is important, it's just how I did it.

[Tae]

I sniped oliver from long range early on in act 2 before even talking to him. "Noped" right out of that situation. Now I realize what he was for but even his corpse is gone, think i'm boned on this playthrough

[MINUANO GAMING]

If you have a save right after the mission where Halsin saves his other half (the huge battle mission) or right before that, reload the save, do the mission, and IMMEDIATELY TALK TO HALSIN.

And I mean it. IMMEDIATELY. Don't even loot the corpses. Go straight to camp and talk to Halsin. PICK THE OPTION WHERE YOU SAY YOU MET OLIVER BUT HE'S DEAD. UNLESS YOU PICK THIS OPTION, THE QUEST GLITCHES AND HE'LL NEVER HAVE THIS DIALOGUE AGAIN.

If you do that, he'll respawn. IT MAY STILL GLITCH AFTERWARDS AND HE'LL NEVER TALK TO YOU. If that happens, you have to keep reloading the save until he does talk to you. Unfortunately I have no idea what causes the "not talking to you" bug.

I'm sorry for the caps and if it sounds convoluted, but yeah... it is. Unless you follow this **VERY** specific set of instructions, the quest breaks and falls apart.