Please help with Wrecked Caravan (possibly bug?)

[cloudsquall88]

I had just arrived at Reaper's Coast. As I had played the game before up till a point, I know that something was gonna start if I went through the main road. So I did things in his order:
1) I beat the voidwoken battle that was right before the wrecked caravan (the one where at the start of the fight, a big bug-looking like voidwoken with wings takes a woman away).
2) I killed the shark at the beach.
3) I helped the boy and his mother on the other side of the nearby bridge.

Then I went on to go to the wrecked caravan, but it didn't trigger the quest at all. Nothing shows up in the quest log either. I talked to the female dwarf, but still nothing. The thing is, some hours ago, when I accidentally went over to the caravan before doing the above listed things, the quest triggered correctly, and also updated when I talked to the dwarf (I double-checked, because I had a save).

I really wouldn't like to go back to a previous save, I spent a good few hours organizing inventory and optimizing skills during the above three quests, not to mention some great loot via lucky charm. Any ideas?

[cloudsquall88]

I think I found what the matter is. Saving the boy's mom triggers the quest "The Law of The Order", which for some ******* reason overrides the Wrecked Caravan quest. Needless to say, I'm pretty bummed right now. I don't want to debug a game that came out three freaking years ago! I want to play it! Without always being afraid WTF might go wrong!

[OnlyOffensive]

lol i didnt even know you could get on the other side of the bridge not through cemetary so i did resque quest only at level 13, how did you get there i never found teleport point.

But yeah it makes sense, because both trigger law and order i guess, you either report caravan to sentries at gates and they point you to reimond or that woman "tells" reimond about you. I think you still can use caravan scenario in dialogue with lohar and spirits later.

So technically its not really a bug its just "another way" of starting same quest. Im sure you can report female dwarf and caravan to driftwood folk anyway.

[OnlyOffensive]

to be fair this game handles these complicated different approaches pretty well, you get unique dialogues if you've done something before the other etc. Ive seen only couple annoying things, like ryker constantly tells me that im agressor in his home after i consumed one of his masked men even though i apologized to him.

[Godwoken Dovahkiin]

Postat inițial de cloudsquall88:

I think I found what the matter is. Saving the boy's mom triggers the quest "The Law of The Order", which for some ******* reason overrides the Wrecked Caravan quest. Needless to say, I'm pretty bummed right now. I don't want to debug a game that came out three freaking years ago! I want to play it! Without always being afraid WTF might go wrong!

Welcome to the world of RPG's where choices matter and depending on what you do you miss out on things. Is this your first RPG? Plenty of RPG's do this, Dragon Age Origins comes to mind among many others.

If you take too long in fort joy and you don't talk to the elf girl being harassed by the 2 thugs when you come back to her she would be already dead on the floor. This game has a lot of triggers which would make every gameplay a bit unique if you don't do things exactly the same every time.