Beware the game-ending condition - "You've lost the trust of Sir Otto von Bergow"

[DanielV]

Beware for other players of KCD2.
I made it some 30+ hours into the game and was really enjoying it, but then my latest (and only) saved game ends abruptly in Trosky castle, with a death screen telling me that I've "Lost the trust of Sir Otto von Bergow".

I don't know how this occurred and what conditions were involved in triggering it.
I don't want to spoill anything for anyone, but I DO want to call out how painful it has been to get into this position, only for me to be utterly blocked.

Why did I have just one saved game? Well, because I had a practice of culling saved game files before they accumulate over and over. I'd made an intentional save at a point in the game where I felt comfortable I was really doing well, only to find that within 5 seconds of loading that save, that game-ending condition is unavoidably triggered.

I'd invested so much into my playthrough up until that point and I've been forced to simply start again.

I've logged a support ticket in the hope someone might be able to help me.
I've ran software to try to undelete my previous local saved game files, with no success.
There's no further saved game files synched at Steam's end either.
I really, truly love this game and Warhorse but feel upset that my progress was thwarted in this sudden manner. I have no idea if it is a bug or functioning as intended. If it's the latter, I'm left feeling a fool.

[Kona]

Postat inițial de DanielV:

Beware for other players of KCD2.
I made it some 30+ hours into the game and was really enjoying it, but then my latest (and only) saved game ends abruptly in Trosky castle, with a death screen telling me that I've "Lost the trust of Sir Otto von Bergow".

I don't know how this occurred and what conditions were involved in triggering it.
I don't want to spoill anything for anyone, but I DO want to call out how painful it has been to get into this position, only for me to be utterly blocked.

Why did I have just one saved game? Well, because I had a practice of culling saved game files before they accumulate over and over. I'd made an intentional save at a point in the game where I felt comfortable I was really doing well, only to find that within 5 seconds of loading that save, that game-ending condition is unavoidably triggered.

I'd invested so much into my playthrough up until that point and I've been forced to simply start again.

I've logged a support ticket in the hope someone might be able to help me.
I've ran software to try to undelete my previous local saved game files, with no success.
There's no further saved game files synched at Steam's end either.
I really, truly love this game and Warhorse but feel upset that my progress was thwarted in this sudden manner. I have no idea if it is a bug or functioning as intended. If it's the latter, I'm left feeling a fool.

You can probably find a replacement save file on nexus mods

[XZeffer]

I just nearly fell into this trap myself, I managed to backtrack and see what happened. The only difference was that I sparred with Black Bartosch to pass the time before, and when I just waited the time instead I didn't lose his trust. No idea why this has an impact, but I did waste 3 hours trying to figure it out, so I hope this helps.

[Tenchuu Khan]

wow, that's quite the achievement.

Did you commit some crime in Trosky or something?
I mean - how did you even do that?

I spared Semine for instance by lying to him in the second playthrough, in the first I sided with Semine and we torched the place.
Didn't have that kind of "ending" with either way.

[pascal.difolco]

Weird ending, what did you do ? Did you not follow orders for some time ?
Regarding your saves, it's pretty foolish to only keep one, you can clean them but keep 4 at least, some more MB on your drive is nothing

[Dansoprazole]

Use spoiler tags if you’re worried about spoiling things, but your post is far too vague to be helpful.

To my knowledge, telling Von Bergov about young Semine’s odd behavior and then siding with Semine during Necessary Evil results in your death unless you keep your mouth shut upon returning to Von Bergov.

With the benefit of hindsight, it should be obvious that you shouldn’t mention Young Semine to Von Bergov nor press the prisoner about his allies in the area unless you’re willing to let the Semines die.

Aside from the scenario I mentioned, I’m not aware of any other way to make Von Bergov upset with the player. If you’re referring to a different way you can lose the game because you angered Von Bergov, I’d be interested in hearing specifics.

[juanpaxdl]

If you side with Semine during the necessary evil mission when going back shut up and let Hans do all the talking. he's got quite a silver tongue when not being a brat. he'll explain everything and make a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ excuse as to why you were the only alive ones returning and von bergov will believe it.