Green Shoe Bug?

[M6Hurricane]

I have a left green shoe and a right green shoe in my inventory. I can only wear one at a time. How do I put on both shoes?

[Bastila Shan]

I should have equipped itself when you picked it up, what happened?

[M6Hurricane]

I dunno, died, made a new game, picked up my outside shoe, and it didn't equip

[ESonix]

I also have the green shoe problem in my current play through. Wearing one shoe, and the other one is just stuck permanently in my inventory. Completed all the necessary “find other shoe” quest requirements, but the quest never closed and my character never put on the other shoe, just left it in inventory. In any case other than not having the quest marked off and getting the quest XP, it doesn’t seem to have any other effect so far. (This never happened in any of my prior campaign attempts or character builds)

[Bastila Shan]

Best to just restart if you get this bug its only the beginning of the game.

[Moriturhus]

Originally posted by Hoboslayer:

Best to just restart if you get this bug its only the beginning of the game.

I missed the second shoe's location early on, and spent quite a bit of time in the game walking around with just one shoe and progressing nicely until I found another pair. So like with many other things in the game, finding the second shoe is not that important to your progress.

[Bastila Shan]

Originally posted by Moriturhus:

Originally posted by Hoboslayer:

Best to just restart if you get this bug its only the beginning of the game.

I missed the second shoe's location early on, and spent quite a bit of time in the game walking around with just one shoe and progressing nicely until I found another pair. So like with many other things in the game, finding the second shoe is not that important to your progress.

Does anyone mention youre only wearing one shoe?

[Moriturhus]

Originally posted by Hoboslayer:

Originally posted by Moriturhus:

I missed the second shoe's location early on, and spent quite a bit of time in the game walking around with just one shoe and progressing nicely until I found another pair. So like with many other things in the game, finding the second shoe is not that important to your progress.

Does anyone mention youre only wearing one shoe?

I don't remember. Aside from not getting the bonus and malus from the second shoe, there did not seem to be any effect.

[Bastila Shan]

Originally posted by Moriturhus:

Originally posted by Hoboslayer:

Does anyone mention youre only wearing one shoe?

I don't remember. Aside from not getting the bonus and malus from the second shoe, there did not seem to be any effect.

I played most of the game without finding my shirt lol.

[Konerak]

I have this same bug.

[Jeronimosss]

Hi there, if you're ready for experiments - then you could look into the save files.
It seems smth migth have saved wrong (but I'm guessing).

What your save file should have for the shoes to work:
1) "gainedItems" section:
"shoes_snakeskin_left", "shoes_snakeskin_right" AND "shoes_snakeskin.
2) "TASK.find_your_other_shoe" should be mentioned in 3 places:
"TaskAquisitions", "TaskResolutions" and "TaskNewStates" (false) - maybe "TaskResolutions" is missing.

Maybe you could start a new game and if the shoes are working - compare\copy the difference from the new save file to the old one (only the part about the shoes).
Don't forget to back up the save files before the new game :)

Alternatively, you could try to edit the existing file:
My saves are stored in C:\Users\%user%\AppData\LocalLow\ZAUM Studio\Disco Elysium\SaveGames. Open the archive and edit the file ending with "2nd.ntwtf.json".
Again don't forget to back up...

I hope some of this might help.

[Esben Du Ved]

@Jeronimosss, this works, thanks for the idea. Here is my step by step for solving this annoying bug:

__Find and open save file__
1. Open the game. Take off any snakeskin shoe you are wearing (makes the change easier). Create a new savegame. Name it “shoefix”. Quit the game.

2. Find the savegame folder. Usually in %AppData%/LocalLow/Zaum Studio/Disco Elysium/SaveGames/

3. There are two files called shoefix… in the SaveGames folder. An image for displaying in the menu, and a zip-file. Extract the zip files to a folder somewhere Else (like your desktop), and keep the folder name intact except .zip (so keep .ntwf).

4. Open the extracted folder and edit the file that ends with 2nd.ntfw.json. A good text editor helps, but notepad works just fine.

__Edit the save file__
5. The game has not registered that you picked up one of the shoes (left for me, maybe always?). Fix this by searching for the section called [“gainedItems”]. This has a list of things you picked up. Add a new row in the section:
[“shoes_snakeskin_left”,]
Omit the brackets and remember the comma if you are not adding to the bottom of the list. You should have both left and right shoes in the section now, and no comma after the last item in the list.

6. Unfortunately the game doesn’t combine the shoes when it’s done this way. To fix this, add another row to the [“gainedItems”] section:
[“shoes_snakeskin”,]
Again omit brackets and mind the comma.

7. Find the section [“inventory”], which has a few subsections. Find the subsection [“CLOTHES”]. This section has a list of items with a key and a name. The keys must be unique, because they determine which spots in you inventory the item is found ingame. There should be two shoes, if you took both off. If there are two then delete one of the shoes:
{
“Key”: 1,
“Value”: “shoes_snakeskin_right”
}
Delete the entire block above for one of the shoes. Leave the other in.

8. In the [“CLOTHES”] subsection, find the other shoe, andchange the content of the [“Value”] from [“shoes_snakeskin_left”] to [“shoes_snakeskin”]. It should look like:
{
“Key”: *,
“Value”: “shoes_snakeskin”
}
The number of the Key can just be left as whatever it already is.

__Backup and replace save file__
9. Save the file. Zip the unpacked folder back up and keep the name. It should now have the exact same name as the original file in the SaveGames folder.

10. Copy the *original* shoefix…zip file from the SaveGames folder to a new location as a backup.

11. Copy the edited shoefix….zip file into the SaveGames folder. Overwrite the file that is there.

__Done!__
12. Open the game. Load the shoefix save. Check your inventory and put on the shoes. A thought occurs which solves the quest.

Notes: If you don’t create a new save without shoes equipped, you also need to change the sections [“equipment”] and [“equippedItems”].


I hope it helps

[burpel]

Worked for me, thank you very much for the detailed info.

I used winrar to unzip and re-zip (with a zip extension).

One thing to note is that the file structure of the zip seems to have the named folder inside the zip. So if you're unzipping a file named SHOEFIX_blah, when you go into that unzipped folder you should see another folder inside it with the same name. You have to keep the structure the same when you zip it back up.