Stuck waiting on combat loading menu

[BigCat]

Has anyone else been stuck on the pre combat screen? ive sat for ages hoping it would load to no avail. im almost done with the game so id hate to restart. any help would be awesome, thanks.

[Lumicatti]

I have that too! On the 'Escape the elderly' Part. I've tried to make my screen smaller, changing my outfit (which helped me with one glitch), I've tried to fight something else and everything but it keeps on being on a combat loading screen. It's like "Start a fight" but I can't press it.

I'm bored of hearing the "I love to play my triangle my triangle goes" for the fourth time. Urgh.

Help us ;_;

[UbiBaron]

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Bigg-Catt, what fight are you stuck on?

Something that has helped some users to get around these stuck issues is hitting Alt + Esc when they come to this.

-Ubisoft Support

[Lumicatti]

I'm stuck in the Escape Shady Acres. Pretty sure he is on the same one since I see multiple people stuck on that fight.

I've tried everything honestly, even the alt esc isn't working in this situation. I simply cannot proceed to the fight because it keeps on showing me a loading screen. I am able to change clothes and others with tab but can't proceed.

[cdarklock]

Originally posted by UbiHolz:

Something that has helped some users to get around these stuck issues is hitting Alt + Esc when they come to this.

I was stuck on the same battle with the same problem, but what I did to resolve it was:

Skip the cutscene where they recognise me as the Farting Vigilante.

----- Geek stuff, muggles stop here -----

I tried several other solutions - close uPlay and Steam, restart both, start from uPlay, start from Steam, start from the EXE, press Alt+Esc, change the screen resolution, switch to windowed mode, nothing else worked. In the middle of something like the twentieth experiment (I swear to God if you don't shut the ♥♥♥♥ up about your ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ triangle), I just happened to skip that cutscene and suddenly everything was fine.

My plan on that experiment was to start from Steam at my normal resolution and fullscreen setting, but when the battle window came up to press Alt+Enter to switch into windowed mode and then Alt+Esc to lower the window in the Z buffer. However, when the battle window came up after skipping the curscene, it didn't have the progress metre so I went ahead and fought the battle.

Basically, skipping the cutscene avoided the problem when I was literally doing everything the same way I did the first time I had the problem. Except that one cutscene, which I skipped.

Also this part of the game is hysterically funny. So is the rest, really. I love this game. Great job. Bugs like this happen, it's to be expected.

[Octavin]

launch the game from uplay or steam instead of table icon.try both.

[BigCat]

It was before the shady acres fight. I managed to fix it however. What i did was, run it through uplay, and windowed. after that it was back to normal. thanks peeps

[Lumicatti]

When you ran it through uplay was your steam online?

[BigCat]

Originally posted by lumicatti:

When you ran it through uplay was your steam online?

yes it was

[Lumicatti]

Originally posted by Bigg_Catt:

Originally posted by lumicatti:

When you ran it through uplay was your steam online?

yes it was

Huh, It's really weird how different things help different people on this situation.

[p301.gomezluisa]

I´m really angry, I'm also stuck in the Escape Shady Acres.

[BigCat]

Im fairly positive theres a scripting error in the code. they really rushed this late game

[Lumicatti]

This game has far too many errors late game honestly. .-. I'll just go and replay the first game.

[CanOfBeans]

I've got the same issue with the elderly fight, and that's on top of all the other issues (horrible framerate throughout the entire game and crashes to desktop). For a game delayed this long, the PC port is shockingly bad. Thank you for reminding me to never buy a game on day 1, Ubisoft.

[TacticalPnut]

Originally posted by Bigg_Catt:

Has anyone else been stuck on the pre combat screen? ive sat for ages hoping it would load to no avail. im almost done with the game so id hate to restart. any help would be awesome, thanks.

Originally posted by lumicatti:

This game has far too many errors late game honestly. .-. I'll just go and replay the first game.

Originally posted by p301.gomezluisa:

I´m really angry, I'm also stuck in the Escape Shady Acres.

When this happened, did you have any controller connected to your PC? Because what i did to fix this is the same way i did to fix my black screen problem, i disconnected my controller and go window mode just in case before i start the fight.

[Lumicatti]

No, I don't have my controller connected, since I don't have that thing to connect my controller to the computer.