Can't deal with the Lord Regent non-lethal

[daniel]

I went and talked to the propoganda officer, he said I could get him arrested by playing the Lord Regent's recordings and then he told me the safe combination. So I go to the LR's room, knock him out and hide him on top of the bed, and I go to open the safe, and guess what? The 3 number wheels are completely black. Higher textures, brightness, models, nothing works. Is there some way I can fix this? Or do I have to end my non-lethal run?

[Akela]

I may be mistaken, but I believe you can't get an unconscious body arrested. And that's what happens if you expose his shady affairs. So I don't think you should knock him out.

Honestly, I've never had the problem you describe.After you talk to the propaganda officer and enter Lord Regent's bedroom, you have a minute or so to clear the safe and make your escape BEFORE Burrows returns to his bedroom. Do not listen to his conversation with captain what's his face, because once he's done talking, he will return to his bedroom. Use that time to take whatever you need, including the rune. Once you've played the recording you took from the safe, go downstairs and watch him get arrested.

I looted the place afterwards, but you may just go back to meet with Sam if you go for sensitive achievements and don't want to push your luck.

[daniel]

I can't get the recording from the safe. The number wheels are black, as in there is no numbers.

[Orici]

try to repair the game

[Akela]

OK, so I've replayed the mission, saved the game right after I'd talked to the propaganda officer, and tried it with and without knocking Burrows out. Both times I was able to punch in the combo, which lead me to believe it's either a problem with your game or your system. Did you install any updates recently, your video card driver maybe? And try verifying the game cache integrity. You might also consider deleting all your saves for this mission but the default one and replaying the mission. Sometimes a save breaks and causes some random issues. It's happened to me more than once.

Btw, during this test run of the mission I was finally able to listen to Burrows' confession. During my first run of the game, I played the audio but got an "empty" cut scene with no sound or subs. Which goes to show: glitches happen. I'll be damned if I know what caused the cut scene glitch, so good luck dealing with yours.

[aqvarivs]

If you first go up to the propaganda dude, You can't mess with Burrows until after you finish with the propaganda dude's "mission". Visiting him sets a script in motion . There are a lot of silent type scripts in game and I think that is one of the reasons for so many of the glitches we experience. I may have not used the right terminology there, but hopefully you know what I mean. I've tried most thing many different ways in this game and have not been "allowed" to do them all, needing to sometimes even go back two or more saves to get a decent start again. For an open world type environment the game is heavily scripted.

[Akela]

Originally posted by aqvarivs:

There are a lot of silent type scripts in game and I think that is one of the reasons for so many of the glitches we experience. I may have not used the right terminology there, but hopefully you know what I mean. I've tried most thing many different ways in this game and have not been "allowed" to do them all, needing to sometimes even go back two or more saves to get a decent start again. For an open world type environment the game is heavily scripted.

You're probably right. As they say in Russia, there's no such thing as a fool-proof plan, because
there's no plan a fool can't ruin by accident. When you have so many things that define the final
outcome and so many ways to complete a mission, you inevitably make more room for glitches
that would have been impossible in a linear game. And you can never know what you've done to
mess up a script.

It can be any number of things. I had guards literally freeze in the most awkward places making
it extremely hard for me to perform some task. Why? Because I'd interrupted a script that would
otherwise cause a guard to leave. Go figure.

[aqvarivs]

Sure. For example if you approach the Bottle Street Gang member who is standing watch by the arched entrance to the distillery right across from Granny Raggs apt. from face on he will trigger and say something like, "just the guy I was looking for. Slackjaw wants to see you at the distillery."
If you go around to the far side and drop down from behind him. Go around him from his left side. You can go all the way around to his front before he triggers and makes his statement.
Same with if you rob him of his purse. Sometimes he will trigger and say something like, "I've been robbed! Me! Somebody robbed me!" Sometimes, not always and for me not frequently. I mostly get the silent treatment. :D

[SilverSquid1810]

Originally posted by Akela:

I may be mistaken, but I believe you can't get an unconscious body arrested. And that's what happens if you expose his shady affairs. So I don't think you should knock him out.

Honestly, I've never had the problem you describe.After you talk to the propaganda officer and enter Lord Regent's bedroom, you have a minute or so to clear the safe and make your escape BEFORE Burrows returns to his bedroom. Do not listen to his conversation with captain what's his face, because once he's done talking, he will return to his bedroom. Use that time to take whatever you need, including the rune. Once you've played the recording you took from the safe, go downstairs and watch him get arrested.

I looted the place afterwards, but you may just go back to meet with Sam if you go for sensitive achievements and don't want to push your luck.

Knocking him unconscious doesn't stop you from arresting him, on console at least.

[Akela]

Originally posted by hkiss02, wololo:

Knocking him unconscious doesn't stop you from arresting him, on console at least.

That was my initial assumption. Since then, I've replayed the mission, tested my theory, and
corrected my statement. I failed to reproduce the OP's glitch, but he or she could have done
some things differently, so it may be something else altogether.