Buttons the Cat [SPOILERS]

[Ghawblin]

Extremely bummed you can't take buttons onto the ship, nor put her at ease

Cat has been guarding the kid for who knows how long, and when we rescue the kid, the cat gets left behind.

I legit had my heart sink, and really bummed this wasn't accounted for.

More upset at this than the kid being a dead-end quest once she's on your ship.

EDIT: 2 years later and this still isn't resolved. I stopped playing the moment I ran into this situation :\ Unfinished quests really puts me off from a game.

[tempestary]

I agree.

It feels so wrong.

[Ghawblin]

I actually stopped playing moments after this and moved onto a new game. Love this game, it's really fun and nostalgic for me (I played Icewind Dale and Baldurs gate back in the day) but man...Buttons sitting there meowing in panic back to back just tugged at my heart strings too much.

[Winjin]

Feels like this is one of the quests that should be getting an overhaul in the Definitive Edition. It feels half-finished.
I mean, the characters just up and ignore the cat. It's legitimately the most horrible thing that happens in this game.
"-What he says?
-That cat loved her so much, his love kept him alive in death just to keep her company.
-Ok, take the girl, leave the cat suffer here alone for eternity, I don't care".
I mean, wow. That can't be right.

[PK_Ultra]

New Definitive edition trailer is out! Child will get proper ending by Arx! Expect changes!

[xanraal]

What? Who is buttons the cat? Wth spoiler lol.. Just jiving, sounds traumatic though i'm a cat person hahaha

I've only just come up on to the deck of the ship after keeping malady alive and speaking with my god in the hall of reverberating wierdness so i've got no idea.

[PK_Ultra]

Originally posted by xanraal:

What? Who is buttons the cat? Wth spoiler lol.. Just jiving, sounds traumatic though i'm a cat person hahaha

I've only just come up on to the deck of the ship after keeping malady alive and speaking with my god in the hall of reverberating wierdness so i've got no idea.

if you think thats hard, im 300hrs in and I still cant get the achievements for that battle.

[xanraal]

Really? How many is there? I got at least one. I'ma go check lol.. but yeah, took me three goes. Was drama. This game is way harder on tactician than DOS EE was, well for me anyway.

[PK_Ultra]

Originally posted by xanraal:

Really? How many is there? I got at least one. I'ma go check lol.. but yeah, took me three goes. Was drama. This game is way harder on tactician than DOS EE was, well for me anyway.

thats typically the response people give. Dos2 isnt ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ around.

[xanraal]

Originally posted by PK Ultra:

Originally posted by xanraal:

Really? How many is there? I got at least one. I'ma go check lol.. but yeah, took me three goes. Was drama. This game is way harder on tactician than DOS EE was, well for me anyway.

thats typically the response people give. Dos2 isnt ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ around.

lolz you got that right mate..

Checked my achievements and the last two were seascape and heaven's gate.

eep! The heaven's gate cult! They were those wierdos that believed an alien spacecraft was slip streaming the Hale-Bopp comet and they committed mass suicide so that their souls could rise up and hitch a ride with the aliens. There was like 11 of them i think. True story hahaha

Wonder if Larian threw in a dark easter egg or it's just a happenstance? Edgy lol

[Orangemoose]

Originally posted by Winjin:

Feels like this is one of the quests that should be getting an overhaul in the Definitive Edition. It feels half-finished.
I mean, the characters just up and ignore the cat. It's legitimately the most horrible thing that happens in this game.
"-What he says?
-That cat loved her so much, his love kept him alive in death just to keep her company.
-Ok, take the girl, leave the cat suffer here alone for eternity, I don't care".
I mean, wow. That can't be right.

Yeah people's souls are being destroyed and people are being tortured and turned into mindless slaves, entire regions are being bombed and killed.
Man that one ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ cat though.
Horrible.

[Winjin]

Originally posted by Orangemoose:

Yeah people's souls are being destroyed and people are being tortured and turned into mindless slaves, entire regions are being bombed and killed.
Man that one ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ cat though.
Horrible.

Dude, all of that is being done by cruel people around you, not you, that's first, and second, for some reason I don't care for virtual people at all, I mean, they are virtual. But virtual animals still pull my heartstrings. And in that particular case, it's your heroes who ignore the poor puss, not all the crazies around, so you kind of have a hand in that. Also, the whole way the cat is ignored makes me feel weird. As said before, this was just a half-finished quest, that will be rewritten for the Definitive Edition.
There's a reason for the sites like "doesthedogdie" - people do care for virtual animals more)

[xanraal]

Save buttons!

[Ghawblin]

Saw this thread got some traction out of no where after I made it. It's been a year. Just wanted to add that I was actively playing this game (like, hours a day) up until I made this post, then haven't touched it since.

If this single quest line is fixed, I will play again.

If it is not currently fixed, I will continue to not touch it.

[xanraal]

Originally posted by Ghawblin:

Saw this thread got some traction out of no where after I made it. It's been a year. Just wanted to add that I was actively playing this game (like, hours a day) up until I made this post, then haven't touched it since.

If this single quest line is fixed, I will play again.

If it is not currently fixed, I will continue to not touch it.

lol Man i gotta start checking thread post dates. This will be the third necro this week i've post on. When i first post i didn't realise someone had resurrected. Was in most recent so bang. Ima check from now on.

Anyway, still being relatively new, i've only just gotten up to mordus and have recieved my second source slot and have not yet got up to this buttons bit, after reading your post like a week ago i researched a little and what i think is this.. Not sure that it's been fixed per se however if you choose the negative option all the animals in cloisterwood i believe just kinds explode, true story, but if you take the positive option and save the cat animals w/e, you still do lose the pet pal trait. So if you go to the mirror first and swap out pet pal, you won't lose it. Just swap it back after you've finished talking. Also apparently you only lose pet pal if it's on the character that actually does the talking. No other characters will lose it.

Hopefully this will be enough so you can keep playing. Tbh i'm an animal person too, especially cats and i'd lose the pet pal trait before i'd let the cat die. Luckilly this won't seem to be an issue because you don't get too many traits, and it would be a bummer to lose an important one, if you want more dialogue options and just options in general that is, as the pet pal trait.

[Ghawblin]

So, you need the uh...ghost talking and animal talking skills to even talk to the cat (if memory serves....you def need pet pal).

Pretty much you save the girl, whom the cat has been protecting, but....there's no options for the cat.

Save the girl, get her back safely to your ship...and no dialog options for ghost cat.
Talking to ghost cat is just the cat being absolutely devestated.

I'm not like...super sensitive to stuff in games either. But I got super immersed in this and that straight up made me depressed.