SPOILERS: Reason of State quest bugged?

[Imperivm]

Okay. I'm at the part where the trap has been sprung and you have to mow down Radovid's goons and kill him. The first part I manage to pull off without much trouble, but my problem seems to be once I've done killing them. We reach the end of the road and there's a blockade, behind which sits Radovid. Vernon and Ves sheath their swords and just stand there, meanwhile Radovid urges his nonexistant goons to kill me first. Am I supposed to go around or something? I don't get it. Is this a bug? I feel like a cutscene is supposed to play or something.
I've tried reloading, but I always get the same problem. I've tried google, youtube (to look for walkthroughs and compare what happens) but to no avail. Am I the only one with this problem?

[Johnny Quid]

I had an issue with this quest too, but not the same.
Once i was attacked by Radovid guys, if i stayed and killed them the game would crash. Every time. So i just went to the end of the path and dealt with the guards with shield (tough fight since i was alone), and after that it triggered the next step of the quest.

[Imperivm]

Thanks for the swift reply. It seems I didn't really wait to kill the shieldbearers. I just rushed into killing everyone. I'm level 31 and in full mastercrafted ursine, so it's pretty easy. Maybe killing them all at once was causing it to bug. Thanks, I'll try going step by step and report back.

[Imperivm]

Yeah. Took it step by step this time and it worked. Funnily enough Phillipa struck the killing blow. I knew I should have killed that ♥♥♥♥♥.

[Ravin]

Tried the suggested work around above, didn't work. :I Still trying to fix it. Wanna see this prick dead.

[Imperivm]

It took me a few tries until I got it right, U.B.C.S.
What I did was take it literally step by step, as if every pack of mobs was a new level or something.

[townberry]

I got the same problem and how I fixed it was:
Once the battle start, don't wait for Roche. Just run all the way to the end ignoring all soldiers. You should see the king behind the barrier. Now you're stuck alone with the group of soldiers BEHIND that 3 witch hunters with the big shields. (they lined up nicely, should notice them when you first ran past them). Now kill all soldiers between the barrier (where the king stands) and that 3 witch Hunters with shield. You don't have to kill that 3 soldiers. It can be a pretty tough fight since you're stuck between the barrier and the 3 soldiers with shield. Once you killed all those soldiers the scene should automatically trigger and you're done and the achievement should be unlocked.

IMPORTANT : i didn't wait for Roche this time around. I didn't even get the scene where he says the plan went bad and the mission asked you to follow Roche. I got that the first time around and I was stuck.

Hopefully this helps. I had to retry a few times and this seems to be the only way that works. Everytime I waited for Roche the game got stuck.

[ang]

I have another bug with this quest.
The questline is complete, but the quest in the Failed section.
The part of Novingrad that you kill him is blocked. You just can get there by fast travel and can't get out (waypoint bugged in the barricade). And the bell in the city rings all the time, non-stop.

[Eliot Barringer]

townberry's solution worked for me, and that note about not waiting for Roche was indeed the key. Thanks man.

[bachlynn23]

I'm having a problem here, I get all the bad guys/guards except 2 still guarding Radovid, but no matter how hard I attack them their health meter doesn't go down at all, they just won't die so I can't get to Radovid. I've tried all the things here and going back to previous saves and nothing helps.

[ang]

Well, my problems with this quest were fixed since last patch. I'd suggest to load a previous save point, but you already did it. Maybe changing the difficulty?

[spira150]

Hi everyone.
I got a really annoying bug for this quest.
When the fight starts (Radovid tells to kill you) some NPCs won't move at all.
And it's impossible to kill them and thus... going further to the quest.
I'm in version 1.11 of the game on PC.
I already tried to load my save from before the quest but nothing changes.

Can anybody help me?

[Large Cappuccino]

I had the same problem. Used this method to kill the last 2 from a distance with a crossbow before approaching the gate with Radovid, then it triggered the cutscene. http://forums.cdprojektred.com/threads/39997-Bug-Quest-quot-reason-of-state-quot-German-name-quot-Staatsr%C3%A4son-quot-*spoiler*