Chapter 13 Bug - Cuff Broken? No Block or Killer Blows

[bobthegopher]

Hi all, I'm a bit confused. I have completed the game and reunited with Cuff (star on save file, in Chapter 13), but he still seems broken. He will not auto-block incoming blows (which will not allow me to finish the Tempest Level 2 spell challenge). Yes, I have auto-dodge off in the menu. I'm taking hits and damage and dying - but he never blocks and thus does not have his block "broken" to get the spider web effect on screen which is the state you need to be in for the spell challenge.

Similarly, I can not use killing blows on any enemy. When they are knocked down, the icon shows up but it is in red and there is no button prompt to perform the attack.

Does anyone know what I am missing here?

[Elveone]

After completing the boss fight Cuff should be back to his standard functionality with the block, scan and execute functions restored so as you suspect - it has to be a bug.

[bobthegopher]

The yellow dots for stamina are full on screen, and aren't depleting because Cuff is not blocking at all. I can stand in the middle of a group of zombies and just take damage until I die without Cuff ever activating.

I see that the compass is now working in some locations, so that does appear to be normal. But block and killing blows are still not available. I'll try to complete the only active detour I have (Blast From the Past) and see if that restores it, but I doubt it.

It's super frustrating because the Tempest Level 2 challenge is literally the only thing I have left in the game to complete my last achievement...

Edit: Completing the Blast From the Past detour did not change anything. It's so weird because in battle sometimes the circle will come up around Frey's body with the arrow pointing to where the attack is coming from, but then Cuff still does nothing. I'm really at a loss and if this is a bug and not just some setting I changed on accident, it's going to be devastating to not get the final achievement because of a single spell challenge after 50 hours.

[bobthegopher]

I'm playing on the Xbox Store version. I only installed it like two weeks ago, I don't think it's updated since then. I tried to un/re-install and that didn't change anything. I had one other save directly at the beginning of Chapter 13 (before exploring the whole map and getting all the points of interest) and the same thing is happening there. I reset all the settings in the menu to default and that did not help either.

I know Cuff worked earlier in the game because I turned off auto-evade at some point to do the Tit for Tat achievement. I had dodge on for the rest of the time though, and Killer Blows were working until Chapter 13 started as well since there's an achievement for that too.

I'll start a new save file and see what happens when I unlock Cuff. It's going to be extremely annoying to play through this game again and collect enough Mana to purchase all the spells, then upgrade them all a second time...