Cannot Progress Past First 5 Minutes of Tutorial

[9of9]

Has anyone else had an issue with the tutorial, the very initial siege, bugging? At the start I get sent with my crossbow to the rampart and take some potshots at the attacking army - okay, so far so good.

Then I get called down to the courtyard as there's guys going through the gates. Take some potshots at them, then they get burned with oil.

But then what? The game seems to stop doing anything. The defenders just stand there, the dead guys are burning, if I try to go anywhere else, my character just says he needs to defend the courtyard. There doesn't seem to be any way to advance?

I've reloaded several times now and it's always the same. Am I missing something obvious, or is it a bug?

[9of9]

Okay, this seems to be a fully progress-blocking bug.

I've looked up some playthroughs and it seems like at this point a character named 'Dry Devil' should appear and advance the action, leading you to another part of the castle. I've fully restarted the game and began an entirely new game three times now and this never happens to me. After the attackers burn at the gate, nothing else happens and the NPCs just stand around doing nothing.

The game literally cannot be progressed less than 5 minutes into the game 😅

[9of9]

Seems like quite a few of the NPCs are being derpy when I play the game. When you climb the wall the first time as Godwin, looking at other playthroughs, there's meant to be an enemy in a red coat climbing over the wall, while one of the guards is telling you to shoot him.

Every time I play, those two are just chilling out next to each other.

The guards in the courtyard are also generally not really doing anything. They just stand in formation and when the attackers begin shooting through the gate, they typically kill two or three of them before they get roasted.

For the life of me, no idea why my game is behaving differently to everyone else's apparently. There's no other obvious glitching, it's not like it's running at a low framerate or anything like that.

I've tried everything short of a full reinstall of the game at this point, but I guess I'll just wait for a patch. Hope this thread is helpful to devs or anyone else having the same issue!

[J_o_e]

Revalidate the game files and then start a new game. I had a corrupted file apparently. I had the same issue and that fixed it for me. Weirdly loading the save from before validating would have the script still be broken but restarting the entire tutorial fixed it.

[genioboy]

I am also stuck in the courtyard of the castle, as you described

[shir0ki_mirukami]

same issue

[Wizengamot]

same issue. .. trying the fix, will post here if it works.

[Arda_Kctfk]

i had the same issue and let steam search for corrupted files. after pressing on fix it worked

[9of9]

Just want to come back to this and comment that yes - revalidating the game fixed it!

Glad to know it wasn't just me having the issue, maybe it was a Steam preload issue then!

[patvmru - Allkeyshop]

Originally posted by Wizengamot:

same issue. .. trying the fix, will post here if it works.

same issue revalidating files now so hope it does fix will report back!