Kangaxx will not die..the first time

[Shadowcran]

Before anyone replies "He's a demilich and has another life after the first one", I'm aware of this. What I'm talking about is a bug where he won't die the first time.

I've done this one before in a different playthrough and although he's probably the hardest fight in SOA, he can be defeated.(possibly the battle with "Shangria"(sp?) with the Rogue Stone triggering could be argued as harder)

However, I've hit him to "nearly dead" and have done hundreds of hp damage afterwards but he won't go into that "haha"Demilich mode. It's a bug...does anyone know how to get around this?

Also, the troll in the "Gong Limited Wish" quest died without telling me who has it, thus the ogre never appears in the Ogre Tower...anyone know a fix?

[Julius Borisov]

For Kangaxx I think you've got a glitch, try reloading and fighting him again.
As for the Gong quest, open the console and type:

For the troll:
C:CreateCreature("GRAE")

For the ogre mage:
C:CreateCreature("DRUSH")

[Shadowcran]

Originally posted by Julius Borisov:

For Kangaxx I think you've got a glitch, try reloading and fighting him again.
As for the Gong quest, open the console and type:

For the troll:
C:CreateCreature("GRAE")

For the ogre mage:
C:CreateCreature("DRUSH")

Thank you. I have tried reloading. It just won't work. I'm thinking opening the console for the Ring, one of the better items in SOA. At this point, I won't consider it a 'cheat',lol.

[Qiox]

Kangax, like any lich in this game is trivially easy.

Read a scroll of Protection from Undead and you are completely immune to anything they can do.

[anferFFmax]

Originally posted by Qiox:

Kangax, like any lich in this game is trivially easy.

Read a scroll of Protection from Undead and you are completely immune to anything they can do.

I can hear his voice, whispering from his coffin, saying, "try me in LoB, just try me!"

[Shadowcran]

It's not that at all, guys. It's a glitch. In this playthrough, he won't die the first time so he can become Demilich. Therefore I can't kill him and get the ring.

[Godsarm]

I've had it sort of glitch too...I think it's because I keep pausing the game during the fight. The last couple of times i made sure not to pause when he was near death so that the dialog triggered. Not sure if this is what was wrong, it just seemed to work

[Shadowcran]

Old thread, but yeah that's probably what went wrong. It's a fight you have to pause to get through.

[EmotionallyBroken]

Originally posted by Shadowcran:

Kangaxx will not die..the first time

Sucessful lich

but really, if pausing causes triggers not to work, then there' is a really base level function that needs to be fixed.

[Shadowcran]

I agree. I'm sure, even though it was a while back when it happened to me, that the pausing was what caused it. I mean, this wasn't my first time playing the game nor beating him. I must confess that it stopped my playthrough dead and I haven't been back to it since. It's ok, when I do go back it'll be better imo.

[just.r3ader]

I had the same thing. What I feel was happening pause was giving this bug sometimes. What was giving this bug 100% of the time is force attacking Kangaxx while he was still blue. I ended up killing both lich and demilich with pauses, just not attacking till he is red, and reloading on bug.

[Hell-met]

alot of scripts in bg2 rely on the target being near death (though they can't go under 1). even irenicus and melissan work with this.

sometimes said script will fail to launch and permanently break the monster.

a factor that goes against this method is said monster usually have health regen so it can be really annoying to get it to trigger.

the solution is save your game before the fight, and if the script fails then you must reload and try again until it works.