Matthias during "Questions and Answers" quest

[Jesus]

the quest marker is there but Matthias is no where to be found in the stable

searched the web and discussion and it doesnt seems to be a fix

is he important for the quest? does he play a role in curing the plague in Merhojed?

[Jesus]

Installed mod that allow tp in attempt to summon matthias but still doesnt work
https://imgur.com/a/8No8rlY

[Cadaver747]

he is Optional as far as I know, but he might be important for Johanka dialog lines and possibly one of the ending where Henry may invite them both to live elsewhere.

In my Game #1 he was there in the stables, lying on the floor bed, near the corner inside the stables. He informed Henry about the Pestilence but without further details. As far as I remember there was no marker for him, but a zone.

Game #2 - I reached the guy outside Merhoed village who force stopped me and when spoken initiated Pestilence quest. I never met him before and I loaded my game just in case it ruin something. There are 2 more side quests I'm going to complete before starting Pestilence quest.

I will tell you if I find him or not.

What I know for sure is that for some crazy reason Matthias is never present in Merhoed before that mission but Henry just knows that he is working there, I wonder who supplied him with such information - it's all very confusing.

[DargonBlak]

Matthias' actual presence is only necessary for a dialogue interaction - no consequences

Even if Henry never interacted with Matthias, the fact that "Matthias is in Merhojed" is enough for Johanka to want to help the town (and Johanka puts this all together and makes the decision without more of Henry's input)

So, imo, Matthias is not necessary as more than a reference

[Tenchuu Khan]

Did you try different times of day?
It's been a while but a lot of quests are bound to certain daytimes.

[Cadaver747]

Well, Matthias is still there. And there is a Marker "B" (Talk to Matthias) indeed, even if inside the zone "A".

I tried to approach Quest differently, first I met the villager who shouts "Stop right there - There is a plague, leave (live?) while you can" outside the Merhoed, this initiated the Pestilence quest, then I talked to Watchman who told me about Matthias, thus completing Optional objective "What happened to Matthias", but he is still in that very same spot, lying on a floor.

I've made 2 screenshots if you like, but I doubt it will help you.

If it matters it's 5:53 AM, and last time it was about 10:00 PM - and I don't see how time might mean anything in this particular case with Matthias lying or not in that spot.

[Tenchuu Khan]

Ah ok, it's the quest with the poisoning - had to google it, has been a while, you can talk to him, he's in somebig farm stud being wounded there

It's not super important to talk to him though. But you can during the pestilence quest where you need to cure the folks of Merhojed.

Dunno if you can/need to talk to him before curing the people there or afterwards.

[Cadaver747]

Maybe Matthias model just bugged out and erased itself, I've seen reports and a few YouTube videos with floating items on invisible objects. There is a chance that he clipped down through the textures even, if the latter is the case that will be unfortunate since Henry can still interact with invisible models but not if there is nothing to interact with.

As far as I know Pestilence quest is timed indeed and the moment the player starts it, there is no going back, and it's possible to ruin it by just doing nothing or being too slow.

Matthias definitely is not required for curing people but he is part of the main objectives in the Main Quest, so it's likely a problem.

I'd suggest to load a previous save state, drink a Nighhawk potion and arm yourself with a torch, maybe ?

[Jesus]

Originally posted by Cadaver747:

Well, Matthias is still there. And there is a Marker "B" (Talk to Matthias) indeed, even if inside the zone "A".

I tried to approach Quest differently, first I met the villager who shouts "Stop right there - There is a plague, leave (live?) while you can" outside the Merhoed, this initiated the Pestilence quest, then I talked to Watchman who told me about Matthias, thus completing Optional objective "What happened to Matthias", but he is still in that very same spot, lying on a floor.

I've made 2 screenshots if you like, but I doubt it will help you.

If it matters it's 5:53 AM, and last time it was about 10:00 PM - and I don't see how time might mean anything in this particular case with Matthias lying or not in that spot.

replying to everyone in the tread:

ive tried waiting on a 3 hours interval, no dice...... and i tried to search for the soul id to spawn him in but all ive found is bandits and cuman, the console command that tp him to my location also doesnt work, the coordinate did change but only air showed up and quest marker stayed on the haystack

had wiki not stated talking to this guy is a must to cure the plague, i would have moved on already

whats the consequence of leaving the disease uncured?

[Cadaver747]

Originally posted by Jesus:

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whats the consequence of leaving the disease uncured?

People will die. You can just picklock the door to the captive or bribe the serving maid to open the lock, take the note from the prisoner and go straight to Sir Radzig Kobyla, this just might be enough (should be enough) considering the Quest item type (Letter on prisoner).

[Cadaver747]

Well, what do you know. KCD can still surprise me, Johann, the stable master is alive and well (he wasn't even there during my first game), he has no dialogue lines about the plague, and it's possible to trade with him for horse equipment but the link about buying a new horse is not there.

And he just took my horse (there is no animation) and he is leading it somewhere to the stables, he literally parking my horse without my consent. The only possible logical explanation I could have is that very same horse was bought in Merhoed, it's his horse and the game might think that I stole it or something and he is just putting it back where it belongs.

Crazy game.

Oh, and there is ANOTHER horse in Merhoed stables now - Al-Buraq, my previous one which I bought in Neuhof and trade-in here. What the hell is going on here?..

And Melicar became dormant, I can't initiate the dialogue with him after helping all the sick people, the Watchman can't be persuaded as well. So I had to open the door, get in, insert the cure into the prisoner while the Watchman was shouting like crazy, and now it's done and I can rest and wait, or go straight to Sir Radzig with report.

So I reported back to Sir Radzig, and Henry omitted the line about the Plague in Merhoed completely and jumped straight to "I brought them help, they should be fine". At the same time he said that Prisoner is dead (which is a complete BS).

Apparently breaking in and stealing the letter from the Prisoner breaks the game logic or Warhorse fired their last beta tester just before checking it out and released the game as is.

[UPDATE] Sleeping a few hours in bed in nearest camp did the trick and I can now interrogate the prisoner like nothing happened. I decided to make him suffer this time, really only 1 person was worth it to put in jail out of all possible prisoners, the rest are just standing their in the cell, in my case 2 or 3 people in 1 cell.