Bug Stuck at begining of Hollows

[bucksteroo]

Had issue with a notification coming in while the first cutscene at the Hollows and I accidently ended the game mid cutscene. Now the save puts me back there but once the cutscene is over where Fury is asked prove herself nothing happens. My guess is that I am to fight the skeletons that were spawning during the cutscene. But when the cutscene is over Fury is all by herself.
Twice I quit after walking around in the shielded area for 5 minutes with nothing happening.

Has this happened to anyone else?

[Spark]

I have the same problem. In my case I Alt+F4'd out of the game when the next cutscene started to reload and see if acting differently would change anything, and now I too am stuck in an empty arena after the first cutscene. Hope someone finds a solution, otherwise I feel like we're stuck waiting for Gunfire to patch this bug.

[theNephiX]

Same problem here. Defeated Wrath, ended up in Hollows and no enemies after cutscene. No save system to back you up, only this bad autosave system that lets you be stuck forever. And I realy don't want to play again from the start on the hardest difficulity... Hope it will be fixed soon... Such a waste...

[Spark]

Good news - "force respawn" option added in the latest patch helps! I respawned as if I completed the arena and was able to continue the game.

[mitcHELLspawn]

I am having the exact same issue. Does anyone know if there is a fix??? So pissed !!

[bucksteroo]

Force respawn is the only fix right now. That is what I did. I finished the game. Had to force respawn about a half dozen times during the course of it.

[sakabato.edo]

Hi, everyone. I managed to save my save from the same story you had here with the first meeting with the hollow lord.

I went offline and...
I was meddling with save names. Chagning the file's name from save_0 to save_1 etc. starting a new game on a different slot and changing the gameplay, video, and language settings. After a couple of tries, restarts etc. The save normally loaded the skeletons on the first meeting with the lord of hollows. I was also meedling with the save file itself. It can be editted on notepad.
At least, I was meddling with one copy of the same save while the other remained unchanged. I also moved the user profile away from the folder for a while and moved it back in when the save got fixed.

NOTE:
when editting a save file and deleting the wrong line of text the file shows in game as CORRUPT. Story progress is stored as maps/world/hollows/.... references.

So a lot experimenting, loading and exiting (so that the game autosaves) etc. Maybe some of you will find the reason how the above fixed my save.

I still have the copy of the file when it was bugged.
Sadly I was to happy it fixed to make a copy of the file when it got fixed. the 2nd copy I have is after the skeleton fight.

[Mac]

This bug is from 2018 and it still exists? What the ♥♥♥♥? Force respawn is disabled during this segment for some reason. It might be disabled in other segments as well, idk, this is the first i tried to use it and its greyed out disabled so i can't force a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ respawn. this is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. I grinded for hours, this will be so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ annoying if I have to start over. I likely won't. At least this was a humble bundle game.

[7x7 Let Me Entertain You]

Really, no fix yet?

I'm definitely not going to start a new game...

[Ömer]

Still no fixxing :(

[Lanani]

For those of you who are stuck at this precise spot and can't get it to work via force respawn, I created a folder full of back up save games for precisely this reason a while ago. You can find it here:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jEkLvLWfZkJn0CUSWj7dATUoYRzhOMZw

The very first save game (01_MG_Wrath_Defeated_save_2) should put you either directly before or after the fight against the Lord of Hollows' skeletons. These saves were made on Apocalyptic difficulty, as part of a 100% run (all collectibles found). To use them:

1. Download the desired save and rename it to "save_2.sav".
2. Copy to the following directory: C:\Users\[your username]\AppData\Local\Darksiders3\Saved\SaveGames

It will appear in the last slot of the "Load game" menu. Admittedly it's not an ideal solution, but it is better than having to start all over.

[Ömer]

I'm playing the game on Nvidia GeForce Now soo that's no solution for me but thank you :)