Big-game Hunting: Medusa Matriarch bug

[The Suspect]

Hey, is this mission bugged or something?

I have cleaned and pixel peeped the entire map(it's pretty small anyway) like 3 times and still missing 1 silver/white scale for the puzzle. I even reloaded it. It's nowhere to be found.

Same with the nidari goo.

Dafuq, did the developers played their game once before releasing it or what? It's like a couple of dozen missions all together and have allready 3 that can't be completed, it should be pretty easy to locate such obvious bugs...

[Don Montega]

I completed the Medusa hunt yesterday evening just fine. Cleared the map and solved the riddle. However i had a single shrine where i had the option to "remove all scales". Maybe that helps you out? Otherwise, did you use the medusa lure "charm", maybe you are a mob short?

[The Suspect]

What's that charm?

Yes I removed all scales to start the puzzle, I have solved 3/4 snakes and as said missing the second white on for the top statue.

I guess I ll scan the map again from different angles in case it's on the ground and I don't see it

[Don Montega]

The charm is a consumable in the inventory. Afaik you can use it to lure medusae. Maybe you left out the north-eastern coast section?

[The Suspect]

I don't think I received such thing.

In any case, I went through the map again from different angles (Of course I had cleaned the NE section) and nothing.
I just won't bother further...

Thanks in any case.

Amazing games both of them(SF3 and SH) but frankly if I could ask for a refund I would. We shouldn't be paying to beta-test products...

[Farlon]

The scales should still be there, they drop even from the bandits. And the nidari quest has worked before, something just went wrong and it got bugged out. It's already fixed either way on the public branch. So, if you can't wait, you can easily switch to it and finish the quest. The saves are compatible and the Nidari Father should spawn in Lar swamps as soon as you switch versions and get there.

[no_idea_what_I'm_doing]

one scale is already in the statue ( wrong one you have to pull it out)

[$okataaaaa]

i found the missing bag was in it the silver one in the middle of the bridge to the top was behind one of the pillars of the bridge just left the white guy who u can buy from him the charms. was searching for it all over but it was in a bag that feel from one of the enemies, but fell behind the pillars of the bridge in the middle of the bridge may be it fell at same place so hard to see

[Jenaldin]

Hey guys, another person missing last scale... Killed everything on the map, 3 times looked for it from every direction I could, still missing one - the blue one for the green statue in my case...
Killed 3 "groups" of bandits, killed 3 groups of medusae on the beach and I think at least 4 in the ruins.. What am I doing wrong?

[Jenaldin]

Nvm, got frustrated the 4th time I looked around and replayed the part... all scales here now...

[Zeferrus]

After a lot of searching for the last silver scale I gave up and reloaded my game to an earlier point on the map. On the reload I found I already had 2 silvers in my inventory. So the bug in my case somehow removed one of the silver scales, probably while interacting with the puzzle...

[NeoX]

Originally posted by Zeferrus:

After a lot of searching for the last silver scale I gave up and reloaded my game to an earlier point on the map. On the reload I found I already had 2 silvers in my inventory. So the bug in my case somehow removed one of the silver scales, probably while interacting with the puzzle...

1 or 2 stones are already in the statues, maybe that didn't trigger the first time?

[Rhyzon]

I replayed the entire game a couple of weeks ago, and both quests mentioned are working perfectly fine.

But I feel you, with the medusa one I also had to reload an older save because I missed a scale, but they are all there (however, they are extremely easy to miss, way too much stuff in the background on this map).

[Percles]

Originally posted by Farlon:

The scales should still be there, they drop even from the bandits. And the nidari quest has worked before, something just went wrong and it got bugged out. It's already fixed either way on the public branch. So, if you can't wait, you can easily switch to it and finish the quest. The saves are compatible and the Nidari Father should spawn in Lar swamps as soon as you switch versions and get there.

And exactly the same BUG (!!!) has now happened to me (11/2020 !!!). Bug fixed? Not really! I have searched everything. I used Medusa bait. Cleaned the whole map. Nothing! A silver/white scale is missing and can't be found! This IS a BUG, which seems to occur sporadically. Because I had saved another game where I found all the scales! But I had to reload the game because of another BUG (no movement during auto-attack...)
Here one bug chases the other and they are not fixed! Neither for SF3, nor for SF3:SH!

Edit: To fix THIS bug, I reload an old saved game. And what happend? The "no-move" BUG appears again!
It's just to throw up with SF3/SF3:SH. Everything is full of bugs! Unable to fix them! My time is too precious for that!

[CptnCankles]

Sorry to necro, but the bug still exists. Already pulled the charm from the statue and I'm missing a single charm even though I killed everything on the map already. Reloaded an older save and ran through and cleared it out three f****** times and ended up with the same result, missing one damn charm (again, already took the one from the statue). This is one broke ass mission...ugh.

[iameatingjam]

Sorry to necro again but this bug is still thing because the exact same thing is happening to me and its driving me mad because its the only side quest in the game I haven't finished. Sweeped the map a million times. Took different camera angles. Threw the bait all over the map. The second white scale is just not there. Is there anything I can do to reset this quest from the game files or something?