Playing with the Devil quest...problem

[Noquid]

The first time I tried this quest I made it all the way to where the 2 guys come into the camp. After a minute or two of fighting, everything went black and I woke up at campfire but all 3 women were dead. I thought I screwed up the quest so I reloaded from the Inn and tried again. Now all they do NO MATTER WHAT I DO is walk out to the campfire, stop and then go home. Over and over again. I left the quest alone for a while because that worked with the Executioner "bug" but this has been going on for a long time. Any ideas?? My last attempt, I went to the campfire and found a good spot to hide, and they still walked out, stopped and turned around.

[Bramborough]

Having similar problem. I thought same; completed the quest, but thought I'd gooned it up somehow. So tried again. My mistake was...I didn't save, lol.

Now, two of the women go the road meeting-point each night, but Zlata's behavior is messed up...she just stays in her house. The other two (and I) wait for her to show up, she never does. After a while they give up and walk back home. Two nights in a row now.

Really don't want to go back to a yet earlier save....but might have to. I suspect would have to go back to before the quest started. Which would suck, because I did a lot of alchemy stuff and hunting in between, lol.

[Batootcat]

I manage to finish it however during the fight with the 2 woodcutters they bowed down indicating that they had surendered. However later when I talk to the priet Henry says that he had to kill them to save the women.
So this quest is buggy.

[Skaldy]

Originally posted by Batootcat:

I manage to finish it however during the fight with the 2 woodcutters they bowed down indicating that they had surendered. However later when I talk to the priet Henry says that he had to kill them to save the women.
So this quiest is a buggy.

no it is not, there is no peaceful solution, either women are killed or woodsmen are killed. Just because AI decided to surrender cant insta implement the 3rd way

[Batootcat]

OK it just seems strange that this happened. I guess I could say even though they looked like they surrended they died of their wounds....

[Жора]

Playing with the Devil - one of the worst quests in gaming history (all bugs aside!). It's hellishly boring, involves a lot of backtracking, and no matter what you do you get the bad ending which punishes Henry - you lose reputation!

[Saxon]

It's a buggy quest and I even used a saviour schnapps right before the scene starts after experiencing many bug variations:

First of all the game calls the 'lumberjacks' BANDITS and giving them loot typical for outlaws so that didn't make me feel like I had just done something bad the first time I killed them until I was told so by the quest NPC's.

One time the dead hunters remained in demon form. The women escaped. And I was arrested for brawling once I made it back to town. I think the cause for this was moving one of the 'demon' corpses.

One time all women died without the hunters appearing in the scene. Though I did hear their voices.

One time all women and both hunters died. I'm pretty sure all they did was hit one of the women ONCE. They were far too dead to do anything more after that. But then again... I was pretty high.

One time I tried to knock one of the hunters out with my fists but that would simply cause the event to end. It seems to me that we are meant to fail this one no matter what we do.

Every time I used a lockpick to initiate having sex with Vera. I try not to dwell on this.

Eventually I just settled for not intervening in the ritual which seemed to cause the least amount of buggy outcomes.

I learned form this that I'm not letting Henry do drugs again.

[Noquid]

Originally posted by Skaldy:

Originally posted by Batootcat:

I manage to finish it however during the fight with the 2 woodcutters they bowed down indicating that they had surendered. However later when I talk to the priet Henry says that he had to kill them to save the women.
So this quiest is a buggy.

no it is not, there is no peaceful solution, either women are killed or woodsmen are killed. Just because AI decided to surrender cant insta implement the 3rd way

I've tried a couple more times but same result. Just leaving it in my quest book. BTW, the player doesn't know there isn't a peaceful solution.

[cmcm]

After much thought I just ended up killing everyone. It was the only satisfying outcome to a such a poorly thought out quest. I will just have to live with an F.