Via Argentum - Find Volkmar Bug

[SamSam]

I've seen other people have had problems with this quest.

Not only is Volkmar not in the designated quest area, all other NPCs associated with the quest area are stuck in the house. If I want to talk to the horse handler, who is usually outside, I have to break into the house. This is a main quest and can't progress through the story without doing it. I've tried fast traveling to another village then fast traveled back, closed out of the game and rebooted, slept, tried breaking into the house (he's not even there).

Other posts have said that Volkmar is wandering around the village, but I've yet to find him. Others have said they had to load an older save from before accomplishing the quest that leads to Henry needing to talk to Volkmar. I really don't want to load an older save! I'd lose so much time doing other side quests.

Any suggestions? Otherwise I guess I'll have to wait until this gets patched, but that's kind of a bummer.

*Edit!* Not 5mins after posting this did I find Volkmar strolling into town from the south road. Talking to him started the cutscene and everything now seems dandy!

[HopHop]

I have the same problem. I could have done this task, but due to poor health, I first completed another mission and slept to regain health before starting the battle. Now they remain in the house, and he is no longer at the door. Saving, quitting, and returning doesn’t help—I’m facing the same issue as you.

[Zel]

Same here need a fix!

[SANewton]

Hi All,

i ran into this problem, no joke but kill everyone in the house. Wait one hour and then walk back over, He will be stood by the door.

Hope nobody was doing a pacifist run, just close your eyes and pretend it never happened.

Worked for me, hope it does for you too.

[Sycho]

Same here...

[[MoR]Bladek]

same, stuck on this quest and still waiting for fix

[Fitzgick]

Same here... The house is full of people, no volkmar.. no volkmar in the whole town. murdering the people, waiting for days... nothing seems to help. damn, i really love it, want to progress :-)

[RocketRacoon]

It worked for me to reload a save just before getting the quest to find Volkmar

[Jolu42]

Originally posted by SANewton:

Hi All,

i ran into this problem, no joke but kill everyone in the house. Wait one hour and then walk back over, He will be stood by the door.

Hope nobody was doing a pacifist run, just close your eyes and pretend it never happened.

Worked for me, hope it does for you too.

Haha! This actually worked! The house looked like a slasher movie after but he did end up appearing outside at like 1am. Thanks man!

[MildJoe]

Okay so I think I found the reason, maybe a fix, maybe

Seems to me that if you start the quest part "Find Volkmar" and then go do something else, it breaks the quest some how.

I found this out because in the middle of this quest I had failed an (apparently) timed-quest given by the bathhouse. Reloaded. Went and did that before it expired, and when I came back to town Volkmar is missing and all those NPCs are bugged out.

My best guess is that this is what caused it. I vaguely remember having some problems with other quests I had left incomplete or stopped in the middle of. I think it messes with the NPC schedule system somehow.

So I tried slaughtering the house as someone else suggested, rested, woke up with a guard standing over me, but he was bugged out too. Killed him and still no Volkmar.

Also, I tried to skip this part entirely and just go directly to the secret mint mine to get the evidence because I did this all before. Thought this was gonna be a win, but nope. The mine is covered over lol (Angrily shakes fist at Devs)

Solution 1. Reload to a previous save before the "Find Volkmar" part. What I did. Had to lose a few hours game play.

Solution 2. FIND WALDO. Someone said they found him wandering around. He is likely out there somewhere. His schedule or pathing is likely bugged out. Maybe the tavern or a shop. If you get lucky, or sink enough time looking for him, this might save your save file.

Solution 3. Console Commands. Can probably spawn him in somehow and talk to activate the quest. I dunno how to do it. But someone could figure it out.

I'm gonna reload my bugged save and see if I can find him

[MildJoe]

Also I just remembered this Quest has another bug in it... When you find the secret mint, kill the guards, and talk to the main bad guy cowering in the corner, LET HIM GO.

In the dialog options you can choose to Attack him at two separate parts. I skipped the first time, and second part I chose to attack. He started to fist fight me, but was invulnerable and would not die no matter how much of his blood I spilt.

Apparently something causes him to be marked as an essential NPC that cannot be killed, so you can't complete the quest by killing him. Maybe skipping the first option to attack bugged it out somehow and could kill him if you pick the first time.

Don't feel like experimenting so I'm just gonna let him go.

Also UPDATE I found Waldo after 5 minutes of looking. He's walking the streets. SO look around and you'll find him. Bald guy with blonde hair on the sides if that helps.

Cheers all.