The Blade of the Endless Paths bug

[nova_25]

So, after all these years... has anyone ever found a way around the bug ?

You know, the well know bug where:
-After you give all the pieces to 'Dunstan in the Crucible Keep in First Fires', he tells you to come back later, but whatever how many hours/days/weeks/months pass in the game, whatever you do (other quests, going from one Act to another, finishing the White March, etc), whatever how many stat/skill points you have in *everything*...
NOTHING. WILL. EVER. HAPPEN!

Anything ? Anything at all ?
Console commands ?
Editing a game file (like I saw with the ''px2_04_cv_abydon_finale.conversation'' file for the final White March 2 quest), maybe something in the ''02_cv_dunstan.conversation'' file ?

Looked at MANY places on the Internet and... It's almost weird and creepy how much 'Nothing' there is in term of a solution.
Seriously. It's weird.

[Armanz]

Since you googled it I assume you got all 4 parts and a high mechanics skill but I'll throw it in anyways (since many people think it's 3 parts) and having high mechanics skills may prevent that bug.

[D'amarr from Darshiva]

Originally posted by nova_25:

So, after all these years... has anyone ever found a way around the bug ?

Amusingly, I've never run into that bug before. Seems to be some corner-case issue that doesn't affect everyone.

[mr.raider2]

What? In my version of the game he immediately gives you the estoc. Did you check your inventory?

[nova_25]

I did a fair bit of research people... -_-

1) I have over 10 points in Mechanics. I *had* all 4 parts and already gave them to Dunstan.
2) For a ''corner case'', it's pretty damn talked about
3) ... ... ...Sigh. Seriously ? ''Check your inventory'' ? That's almost insulting. Yes, I checked every ''digital square centimetres'' of my inventory and stash.

On point 1), I had given Dunstan the piece after having dealt with the rogue Forge Knights. Like, right when was in the building.

EDIT: ... ... ...research. Research. And more research. What we find with even more searching around.
While I was searching for the name of the quest, with the rogue Forge Knights (Winds of Steel), I found a paragraph of information. One single block of text that provides an explanation, while not providing a solution:

(Quote)
https:// pillarsofeternity.gamepedia. com/Winds_of_Steel (remove spaces)
« Note: If The Blade of The Endless Paths quest is not yet complete, DO NOT talk to Dunstan for the Blade of The Endless Paths at this point. You must exit the keep, then re-enter in order for the quest to complete properly. If you give him the blade parts while he is in the war room, the quest will bug and you will never receive the completed blade. »

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Still looking for a solution. But, at least, I know the source of the problem more exactly now.

[Armanz]

No offense, but replying to a thread asking about a solution to a (well known) bug with "it worked in my game/must be a minor bug/ have you checked your inventory" is not really helpful.

[Superlienju]

still NOT fixed in 2021...

[nova_25]

Originally posted by Superlienju:

still NOT fixed in 2021...

Nope. Not that I'm aware of.

[D'amarr from Darshiva]

Originally posted by Superlienju:

still NOT fixed in 2021...

The software development life cycle of this game has ended in 2017.
--> https://pillarsofeternity.fandom.com/wiki/Version

[Superlienju]

I'm still amazed to see that they consciously stop taking care of a game full of bugs to start the development of another that will know the same life cycle. We send them feedback in due time (Obsidian forums), they say "Yes, we're aware of these bugs and they'll be fixed with next patch" but eventually nothing happens. They just let it rot away.

Getting this blade is a real pain in the @$$ but still, if we make the wrong decision at the wrong time, then the blade becomes a bittersweet memory.

[nova_25]

And that's why mods/console commands should NEVER disable achievement in a game... Because, 'stupid in-game' bugs and stuff happen and the player(You know, the person that PAID MONEY for the product) will always need a way to solve their problem(s), when the company has decided to stop caring.

[nova_25]

Also, personally I'm surprised no one ever made a fan-patch/bugfix to fix this idiocy.
I mean, just look at all the Bethesda games and the hordes of fan-patches and bugfixes people make. Sad that they are a necessity, but whatever.

[D'amarr from Darshiva]

Originally posted by Superlienju:

We send them feedback in due time (Obsidian forums), they say "Yes, we're aware of these bugs and they'll be fixed with next patch" but eventually nothing happens.

Cannot find any such topic in their tech support forum.

But even if they acknowledged the bug and promised a fix and mentioned the fix in the patch notes (have they done that?), it can happen that a fix isn't 100%, because a problem is not easily reproducible at their end.

Reading a few older topics from 2015 about it, it seems to be important that Dunstan is at his forge when talking to him. I haven't ever been able to run into that bug, because most of the time he is near his forge, and I don't try to repair the blade after the attack of the forge knights.

[Superlienju]

Sorry, but you didn't really search because I found at least 2 threads about the blade of the endless paths bug on Obsidian's forum :

https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/73835-bug-blade-of-the-endless-path-quest-wont-continue/

https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/75191-not-getting-the-blade-of-the-endless-paths/#comment-2264434

[D'amarr from Darshiva]

Originally posted by Superlienju:

Sorry, but you didn't really search

How presumptuous! I've pointed Google at Obsidian's forum and have skimmed over multiple topics about the blade.

Originally posted by Superlienju:

because I found at least 2 threads about the blade of the endless paths bug on Obsidian's forum :

https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/73835-bug-blade-of-the-endless-path-quest-wont-continue/

https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/75191-not-getting-the-blade-of-the-endless-paths/#comment-2264434

And?

The latter is the one where you have dropped the same post as in this topic, but which is missing a developer reply.

The former is from 2015 about the v1 series of the game and with a developer asking at least two times for a savegame file. Last in Nov 2015, and only on March 15th 2017 somebody dug up that old topic to add a savegame file. At that point, the devs were busy with PoE 2 already, and PoE was at v3.05 and only received two minor patches later.

[Superlienju]

We have already seen many games receiving updates way after they were abandonned (Titan Quest, for instance) so the fact the developers decided at some point to stop fixing a game doesn't mean it will be forever lost in oblivion.