Amiri's Second quest; Unable to find Hodag's Lair

[BubbaFett]

I didn't speak with Dalton to have the location revealed and I can't travel near the location to have it revealed.

Am I just screwed and now I can't continue with the questline or is there a workaround?

[Lougandy]

I'm in the same boat ! Any idea on how to solve this ?

[Entropie]

Can you be more specific, why can you not travel there?

If there is no road maybe you need to find it first, try travelling along the roads next to it and see if you find an intersection you didn't discover before.

[Zaltys]

Dalton who?
I randomly stumbled to that area before I had any idea that I was supposed to even find it. Still counted for the quest.

[Lougandy]

I tried to roam the roads but with no success so far ...

https://imgur.com/a/5qwgZA1

Any idea ?

[Zaltys]

Urgh, sorry, but that doesn't look good.
Not only are you missing that node, but there's two other in the area that aren't showing up either. For some reason.

https://i.imgur.com/zuCNlNe.jpg

[Antinous]

Originally posted by Zaltys:

Dalton who?
I randomly stumbled to that area before I had any idea that I was supposed to even find it. Still counted for the quest.

Dalton is the merchant with his stuck caravan that you met during the Troll Trouble subchapter. The same one who confirms to go to Bartholomew.
You saved him from bandits, and you had to option to kill him, leave him be, or persuade him to stay in your lands.

[Second_Samurai]

same issue as well, please post solution here if you find it

[BubbaFett]

I ended up finding the spot but way too late and I had already lost the quest. I think one of the only ways to find it is either through dalton or after you get the Minister advisor you can do a project/event to find areas in a certain region.

[Entropie]

It could also depend on how much perception you have, since that seems to determine finding hidden areas on the map as well.

[KKiLL]

I found it, didnt have amiri in my party and she appeared there, i hadnt planned on changing party so i didnt join her in as i planned to come back to it, when i clicked off the party change window the amiri that spawned there dashed off outside of the party and engaged the mob, i killed it with her and didnt think anything more of it until later i realized the quest didnt update, now i still have to kill the hodag for her but there is no more hodag. Any way to reset a ticker in the save file to reset the monster?

[Johan]

Same here, i cannot find that lair no matter how many times i pass by. Not sure why that is.

[tuberman01]

I traveled back and forth with my dude at perception +19 then kept going back every time Ivled up with incremental gains on perception +3, +5, etc until one of my dudes got to perception +28 that's when it popped up for me, took forever, showed up after I completed the bloom and went around the map leveling as much as I could.

[CatsWithShoes]

Hey, a year later and this is still a broken mess of a quest, I have NEVER had this progress the way it " should " every play through I have had to pace the trail hoping the damn node would pop up.

[𝔗𝔢𝔞 ❀]

Missed it as well. Thought it was the barbs on the other side of the map. Took her there, nothing happened. Forgot about it. Finished Vordekai. She tearfully told me that we failed, but she doesn't care. Doesn't seem to have impacted it very much, and she is still loyal.

[BubbaFett]

OP here, Seems like it's less of the fact is was a broken quest but just shows the importance of having a well balanced party stat wise. Still super ♥♥♥♥♥♥ in hindsight because it forces you to play the game with various stats at certain levels while not giving you enough time to level up and gain those stats if you don't have them already.

Pretty ♥♥♥♥♥♥ game design removing player agency in how they want to play the game. Oh you don't have a high perception character? You miss out on a whole questline for a main companion. For a game based off a table top rpg that doesn't force you to have a certain party composition, pretty ♥♥♥♥♥♥ that they're computer game requires you to have certain party compositions.