Help! Can't proceed past 'X Marks The Spot'

[Hotdog Legs]

I was able to trigger the warden but had to abandon the mission as he kept killing me. I went and did side missions for like 5 hours and now when I come back I can't get him to trigger again. There's one of those yellow crystals that needs to be activated, but the lens does not appear. I don't know how to proceed.

[Hybarf Tics]

Is it side mission or main? If it can be cancelled do it. Also you can go to a past save and load that.

[Hotdog Legs]

It's a main mission. Don't see anywhere where it can be cancelled. I've gone back to this mission over and over, so my saves are not viable since they are all "stuck."

[rockfish_andi]

Hey there! Could you send your most recent save game files to "support @ rockfishgames . com"? That way we can take a look at it to determine if the mission state is broken or if there's something you are not seeing.

Save files are located at C:\Users\{YOUR_USERNAME}\AppData\Local\ES2\Saved\SaveGames You can go to the AppData\Local folder quickly by typing %LocalAppData% in a windows explorer address field. Note that two files are needed in order to load a saved state, so we'd need both files from you. The file names are almost identical, but one of them has "PREVIEW" in it. If you are unsure which files are the right ones, you can also just zip the whole folder and send it to us.

[Pappy]

I've actually done this as well and came back and activated the warden successfully so not sure why you can't. Are you sure that you're supposed to be using the lense on the crystal and not on the warden itself? I can't remember exactly how you respawn the warden.

[Hotdog Legs]

Originally posted by rockfish_andi:

Hey there! Could you send your most recent save game files to "support @ rockfishgames . com"? That way we can take a look at it to determine if the mission state is broken or if there's something you are not seeing.

Save files are located at C:\Users\{YOUR_USERNAME}\AppData\Local\ES2\Saved\SaveGames You can go to the AppData\Local folder quickly by typing %LocalAppData% in a windows explorer address field. Note that two files are needed in order to load a saved state, so we'd need both files from you. The file names are almost identical, but one of them has "PREVIEW" in it. If you are unsure which files are the right ones, you can also just zip the whole folder and send it to us.

Just sent you the files. Thanks for looking in to it.

[Hotdog Legs]

Originally posted by Pappy:

I've actually done this as well and came back and activated the warden successfully so not sure why you can't. Are you sure that you're supposed to be using the lense on the crystal and not on the warden itself? I can't remember exactly how you respawn the warden.

There are 3 interactables on the bottom of the spire + one on one of the fingers, but I can't find anything else. On the bottom of the spire there's an ancient rune that you can rotate, a blank space for another one that says "???" and a "sealed ancient structure." On one of the fingers there's another spot for a rune that says "???". The top of the spire is completely lit, but there is one yellow crystal remaining that needs to be activated with a lens, but there are no more lenses available.

https://i.imgur.com/2k2VOyo.png

[Pappy]

Well the weird thing is that I just tried that mission again and after "releasing" the warden, I couldn't leave the area, jump was disabled. So that leads me to the conclusion that you must have used a save that hadn't yet activated the warden to leave the area because you couldn't have left the area without killing him if you did. So there must be something left for you to do or the mission is indeed bugged. There's I believe 3 lenses you have to align which activates the warden. Fly around to the tops of all the fingers and make sure there's not a lense on one of them, should be on the side where the crystal is near the top where the warden spawns. Once you align the last lense then the warden should spawn. If there is no lense, then yeah I'd say it's bugged.

I compared your picture to mine after I killed the warden and they look very similar. The finger with the lense that activates the warden I believe is the one closest to you on the right. Fly right on top of that finger and double check there isn't a lense there. It's pretty hard to see unless you are right on top of it. Looking at the picture, 2 of the fingers do seem to have lenses above them as I can just barely make out 2 dark spots above the fingers, I think those are lenses. I can't see one on the finger closest to you, but one of the fingers is in the background making it really hard to see from a distance whereas the other 2 have more plain backgrounds and you can just barely make out a dark spot for each lense.

Also that bright spot in your picture is actually not a crystal that needs to be activated I don't believe. It's something else. Not sure exactly what it is, but it's not a crystal. The crystal you still need to activate is near the top of the spire, close to where the warden spawns.

[rockfish_andi]

Hi, we did not receive any saves? (We also checked the spam folder). Are you sure that you sent the files to the correct address? Maybe you could send them again?

Taking a look at the screenshot it indeed looks wrong. Structure seems fully repaired (even the top), but that one of the crystals is still glowing is weird.

Do you remember how/when you left the location? As Pappy pointed out, it should not be possible after the ancient spawns. So I'm guessing that you loaded an older save and just left before the ancient spawned?

Also, have you at any time used any cheats and did you maybe leave the location in a "non-normal" way?

[Hotdog Legs]

@rockfish: Just sent from a different email account. If that doesn't work I can send you a dropbox link if you add me on steam.

@Pappy/Rockfish: The last interaction I had with the map is basically where the screenshot was taken. There was a lens that you could interact with at the nearest finger which only rebuilt the top of the spire. Once the spire rebuilt the lens deactivated and that was it, nothing else happened. I did check the tops of all the other fingers and there's nothing to interact with.

No cheats, no modifications, no nothing. The only thing I can think of is this is an instance of the game that had a major update without restarting over. I've already restarted twice and didn't want to go fully through it again before v1.0 comes out.

[Hotdog Legs]

Originally posted by rockfish_andi:

Do you remember how/when you left the location? As Pappy pointed out, it should not be possible after the ancient spawns. So I'm guessing that you loaded an older save and just left before the ancient spawned?

Knowing me, I probably rage quit after dying so many times and unable to escape. Upon return I would have selected Continue to go back to wherever it thought I left off. I don't remember where this was but could have been just as I jumped in to the location then jumped as soon as it loaded. Just speculating though as I don't know the answer.

[rockfish_andi]

Thanks, I received your save file and have rather bad news: It is indeed broken ant it looks like the problem is that one of the ancient lens target crystals was replaced/changed by us for this latest update and it looks like this broke the save state for you because at the time oif the update you had an old save state in which the location was already visited, but the structure not opened.

The only thing you can do is load an older manual save that was created before you ever went to the "Chabar Tower" location. And I'm afraid if you don't have an old one there's nothing else you can do but completely start fresh (If that's the case I'd wait until version 1.0 if I were you).

I'm sorry about this. The team member who changed the lense target wanted to fix an issue in which the target was sometimes "flickering" and surely wasn't aware that this fix could create a much bigger problem

[Hotdog Legs]

@rockfish: I was afraid of that. I may still restart it or poke around in some old saves and find one that works. Thanks for looking in to it and quickly responding to questions! Looking forward to 1.0, this game is a blast to play!