Peeper Quest Bug

[Xiane]

Was a work around found or mod made to help deal with peeper bugging the hell out in ACT 2?

Realized too late that the little feather duster had broke and is now stuck in limbo, but going back to an autosave where he is unbroken means undoing hours of gameplay so not really an option.

Was a fix ever found or did some nice individual make a mod to fix this buggy quest?

[Chaoslink]

Never heard of it bugging out, what exactly is happening/not happening and what are your expectations for what should be happening?

[Xiane]

The bug is that Peeper tends to get himself stuck if he's taken inside certain sub areas. Much like how the black cat and Lora follow you everywhere, thing is unlike either of them Peeper will get 'trapped' inside these sub zones. He stops following you when you leave and even a save/reload does not teleport him back to you his position changes if you use the pet urn mod to debug his position coords.

What *should* be happening is like black cat and lora is he should teleport to you as you shift areas or in the extreme save/reload. But as mentioned, Peeper seems to like being a unique pita and not doing either

The old fix was reloading a save back before he bugs and directly doing his quest before it could break again, but in my situation from where he got stuck chances are pretty good I'm looking at a loss of like 4-5 hours of gameplay just to reset the featherduster. So was hoping since the last time someone asked about this (2018) that either a new fix was found or a mod was made that 'summoned' him forcefully as losing that much game completion just for a bit of xp/single item isn't really feasible. Much like the black cat he's not THAT important its just one of those quests that should be easy to do but has a high tendancy to go wrong and be overlooked if you haven't played before or in awhile.

[Arseny]

I had a similar problem, and here’s what I did to solve it.

Using the Pet Revival mod, I got debug data about Peeper. It should look something like this:

Ornamental Pet Urn - Debug Info: Peeper
Character Region: RC_Main
Pet Region: RC_Main
Pet OnStage Flag: 0 (this is the important one)
Pet Position (X, Y): 431, 200 (just in case, make sure that Peeper is not at this coordinates)
Pet Dead Flag: 0

The issue is caused by Pet OnStage Flag being set to zero. I wrote to support, send them the savegame with this explanation, they’ve set Pet OnStage Flag correctly and sent it back to me.

I’m really disappointed that Larian didn’t include dev console, because problems like this could be fixed in minutes without contacting support.

[Sotj]

I dunno I just did that quest today and it worked just fine. Peeper followed me no matter what. Even when I enter spirit realm to talk with the amalia, peeper followed me into that place as well, even I had my other char talk to it before I entered.

[Arseny]

This is not about following the party - sometimes after receiving damage Peeper will disappear (instead of dying) and the game will despawn him.

[WHIP AND NAE NAE]

This happened to me too the other day, seriously considering restarting my 40hour playthrough cos I want this lil guy back. Saving and loading back doesnt work for me either, and I've re-traced my steps all over the place and cant find him or his body.

[Xiane]

Yeah as Arseny points out Peeper likely took damage that unspawned him the onstage flag being 0 is the big tell. Just sucks that they never patched this issue long ago, hardly a new bug.

Makes me really worry for BG3, DoS2 is a great game but it's riddled with these unfixed bugs that should have been patched out years ago.