Where's my Dragon? bugged, searching for a fix

[TerraMoonandStar]

I'm on the Azata Mythic Path, trying to do the quest to rescue Aivu after she gets kidnapped by demons in Act 4. Everything seemed to be working, until I talk to the snake-lady at the Fleshmarkets. I try to go into their hideout to slay them all and rescue my dragon, but the location doesn't load. The loading progress bar goes to 1% then it crashes to main menu, with an error report saying the location is out of Navmesh bounds. I sent a bug report to Owlcat, of course.

I've re-installed the game, verified the integrity of the game files, switched off and on the betatest branch, reloaded a past save. Nothing seems to fix it. I've seen reports of the quest working fine, but it seems one of the recent patches has broken it for some people. Does anyone have a solution?

This is the second quest-breaking bug this damn toddler dragon has caused in this play-through so far. I'm tempted to just start a new game and stay far away from the Azata path.

Edit: My game is completely mod-less, aside from a single custom portrait.

[gmwaddington]

I think you're meant to get Early Sunset to do the investigating (he should be waiting for you in the Fleshmarkets. Be warned that when you exit the hideout after freeing Aivu, you'll likely have to fight everyone in the Fleshmarkets. To make it manageable, you need to kill Dyunk, Kregus, Raggy, and the Black Mask ahead of time (I think attacking Sarzaksys likely means fighting everyone as well. Buy the Gladiator slaves from the Black Mask before attacking him. You might want to summon several Treants before entering the hideout, so they'll be waiting out side for the big battle.

[TerraMoonandStar]

Originally posted by gmwaddington:

I think you're meant to get Early Sunset to do the investigating (he should be waiting for you in the Fleshmarkets. Be warned that when you exit the hideout after freeing Aivu, you'll likely have to fight everyone in the Fleshmarkets. To make it manageable, you need to kill Dyunk, Kregus, Raggy, and the Black Mask ahead of time (I think attacking Sarzaksys likely means fighting everyone as well. Buy the Gladiator slaves from the Black Mask before attacking him.

I know and I know. I did the stuff with Early Sunset, his investigation is to talk to the slave masters on your behalf disguised as a demon. I'm actually looking forward to fighting the whole Fleshmarkets. Seems like something my character would do, instead of picking them off one by one.

The door is still broken though. Can't go inside to rescue Aivu.

[gmwaddington]

Make sure you've done all the shopping that you want to do ahead of time.

As usual, if the door issue persists, you could try saving, quitting the game, and then reloading.

[TerraMoonandStar]

Originally posted by gmwaddington:

Make sure you've done all the shopping that you want to do ahead of time.

As usual, if the door issue persists, you could try saving, quitting the game, and then reloading.

That's the first thing I tried. I even tried 3 different saves, one right outside the hideout, one before Aivu was kidnapped, and one way back at the start of Act 4. All three times interacting with the door crashed to main menu

[Fluffah]

Just ran into this as well... but I killed everyone in the market beforehand and figured that was the issue. Probably has something to do with the area itself.

Enter the door, loads to 2% then boots to main menu. I'll dig around in the toybox settings and see if I can get around it