BIara Bug

[jkrame2]

Can someone please help me? Mission 1 of Ranger the blue team captures my gates and I retake. At some point, I get a cutscene saying that the Demons (red team) are attacking, but they never do. Also, the blue team never enters my land, so I can't fight them. I know from reading here that there is a bug and I have replayed this scenerio twice now to no avail.

[Piratminer]

The Biara bug is a script error. Some people say you should not visit certain things like the cartographer to lower the chance of the error. For me, it helped to load a save game before Biara started running. After a few loads she started running. Others say it that putting heroes into the garrisons. Restarting the mission may also help.

[jkrame2]

Thank you for the help. The first time I played, I did not capture the cartographer's, but did take the hut and shrine near the city. As I said, the blue army started attacking my garrisons, but left after each attack. I received the cutscene about demons, but never saw a red army. I started over from day 0 and did not take the hut or shrine (or cartographer). This time the blue army never attacked my garrisons and I never received the cutscene. I even left heroes in several of the garrisons for several turns, but they were not attacked.

[Piratminer]

Did you restart the mission with the restart button? If yes this is also going to break the script. For restarting the mission go back to the main menu and start the mission from there.

[jkrame2]

No, I started from the last save prior to the start of this mission 1 of the Warlock.

[SardonicJonez]

Yeah, if I remember, using a previous save also triggers the bug

[jkrame2]

SardonicJonez - how did you get around the bug?

[Piratminer]

I still recommend loading a save before the demon cutscene starts. Repeat this until she comes is the best way for me.

[SardonicJonez]

Originally posted by jkrame2:

SardonicJonez - how did you get around the bug?

It's been a hot minute since I played this one. I'm currently working through everything again on Heroic (I'm stuck on The Warlock/The Cultists if anyone has any advice). But, I hopped back into the Sylvan Campaign on Normal, played straight through without saving and Biara was a no-show for 3 months. Let me try again and see if I can do something different and trigger her to show up.

[SardonicJonez]

Okay, doodled around a bit and here's what I just did. Played on Normal Difficulty, took Master Hunter bonus. Week 1, stayed in town and built it up. Week 2, I headed down to the Garrisons and hired a 2nd hero to transport troops down to Findan each week. I hung out near the middle Garrisons, and Teal attacked the second from the right Garrison Month1/Week 4/Day 2. I took it back. Stayed by Garrisons, took Hill Fort and upgraded everything. Got Demon Cut Scene Month 2/Week 2/Day 6. After cut scene, I could barely see Biara down below the middle Garrison. Next day, she attacked the Garrison, I swooped down and took it back and Saved. I went after her and died. I was gonna list what troops she has, but I'll let that be a little fun surprise for you ;-)

[Piratminer]

The cultists is a tricky mission. I restarteted it a lot of times. The important parts are to have the right skills and defeat the army which is heading to you quite early. After that you can try to defend more the two towns or go straight to the enemy towns.
My skills are Expert Defence, Expert Destructive Magic, Expert Luck, Expert Summoning Magic (Expert light magic should be better), Expert Sorcery
Here a good walkthrough from MasterKD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlhMOD5uUhE&list=PLo6dUe-n7Er-E43mD79w8BDcXqKl0YrMT&index=18

[SardonicJonez]

Originally posted by Piratminer:

The cultists is a tricky mission. I restarteted it a lot of times. The important parts are to have the right skills and defeat the army which is heading to you quite early. After that you can try to defend more the two towns or go straight to the enemy towns.
My skills are Expert Defence, Expert Destructive Magic, Expert Luck, Expert Summoning Magic (Expert light magic should be better), Expert Sorcery
Here a good walkthrough from MasterKD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlhMOD5uUhE&list=PLo6dUe-n7Er-E43mD79w8BDcXqKl0YrMT&index=18

Thank you! I went back and did it on Easy, and it took freaking forever! I just can't seem to keep Shadya alive. The Warlock towns give so few troops each week and I've been giving them all to Raelag. I have spent MONTHS on this!!! I'll try this. Thank you again!!!

[jkrame2]

SardonicJonez, thanks for the help. I will try to start over again.

Piratminer, I had started over from saves in prior mission several times with no change in result.

Does anyone know of a way to trick the computer into successful completion of the mission so that I can just move to the next scenerio? I intend to give it one more attempt, then would like to move on.

[Piratminer]

Maybe this thread helps: https://steamcommunity.com/app/15170/discussions/0/412448158151835308/

[SardonicJonez]

Piratminer, just restarted and took a look at my Raelag....I don't have Resurrection. I have Expert Destructive, Expert Light but somehow missed getting that spell. Ugh, I really don't want to replay to previous mission.....

[Piratminer]

Sadly I think you will have to do replay it. Resurrection is the important part of light magic. And you will get it only from "wizard magic hut" since dark elve towns don't have light magic in the 5 tier of school of magic.