Game crashes on day 5 after the boulder collapses

[Unmotivated]

Been loving this game, bar the boss fights, but there is a crash on Day 5 that has made me unable to progress at all. When i get to a ravine and the rocks crash down, it leads to a QTE that i succeed, and then i get to fight some enemies. Without fail, no matter what proton settings i use, the game will crash with no warning whatsoever in the middle of gameplay.

I've tried verifying files, restarting the level, using various proton versions, even doing the section with different weapons and skins. Nothing works.

Anyone else have this or a similar issue and know how i can fix it? Running this on Steam Deck since my PC is pretty much dead per a hard drive failure.

[XenoVersePrime]

im having the same problem on that same mission in that same spot

[Unmotivated]

Originally posted by XenoVersePrime:

im having the same problem on that same mission in that same spot

Well that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sucks. Two people in the world with the same issue, and a gamebreaking one at that, with no way to fix it.

I refuse to believe that out of the thousands that play Ninja Gaiden on PC, we are the only ones on Steam Deck of all things.

And it took a month for anybody to reply, so this "fringe issue" is beginning to piss me off even more.

Getting ready to just buy the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ on PS5 just so i can play the third damn game.

[roadkill]

i just ran into the exact same issue. on sd as well. no solution found so far

[roadkill]

I FOUND A SOLUTION. Hopefully you see this.

So after a little experimenting, I found out the crash happens at a specific threshold in the gorge where you do the fight. I don't know why, but at about halfway through the gorge, whenever you cross that line from any direction, the game crashes.

HOWEVER, for whatever reason, you can bypass the crash by doing a flying swallow to dash over the line. No idea why this works.

So what I did was as soon as I dodged the boulder I sprinted to the middle, flying swallowed over the line and did the entire fight on the opposite side of the gorge against the wall.

It's kinda hard to describe exactly where the crash spot happens, but it's a few feet before the smaller boulder on the ground to the left

[Unmotivated]

Originally posted by roadkill:

I FOUND A SOLUTION. Hopefully you see this.

So after a little experimenting, I found out the crash happens at a specific threshold in the gorge where you do the fight. I don't know why, but at about halfway through the gorge, whenever you cross that line from any direction, the game crashes.

HOWEVER, for whatever reason, you can bypass the crash by doing a flying swallow to dash over the line. No idea why this works.

So what I did was as soon as I dodged the boulder I sprinted to the middle, flying swallowed over the line and did the entire fight on the opposite side of the gorge against the wall.

It's kinda hard to describe exactly where the crash spot happens, but it's a few feet before the smaller boulder on the ground to the left

I'll attempt this.

[Unmotivated]

Well, dunno if it was that or my moving the game to an SD card worked, but i'm finally past that section after 2 months of being unable to play.