Help! I'm Stuck and I can't get up!

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Hello, and I know I am new to this board, but I am about ready to tear my hair out so for those of you that want to help me save my folicals, please assist me before I go mad into the night!

Okay, here is my bleak situation.
I am at the point in the second chapter where the main character needs to become a squire by visitng Sir Gada (sp?). The only way for him to do that is to go to the merchant district. But alas, I am stuck in the dock district. Both exits send me right back to where I started, as well as the alley that takes me back again to the dock district. Is there something I am missing or is this a glitch in the game? I am honestly thinking of turning the game cd into a frisbee at this point... but other than that, I am having a grand ole time with NWN2.

Any assitance given will surely help me sleep at night and be much appreicated.

 

this is certainly interesting, since it's the second topic about the same issue
either obsidian screwed something up with the latest patch, or you are doing something seriously wrong

i've been poking around their official forum, but couldn't find any traces of the issue there

 

I don't know the answer to the situation, but this unable-to-exit-docks thing happened to me once, too.

I assumed that the reason for it was the fact that I kept clicking and pushing Escape, Space, Enter etc. throughout the cut scene, like a maniac, trying to make it end faster, since I had seen it before.
This probably isn't what happened to you.

I loaded a previous save and everything was back to normal.

 

@Kalika:

Do you have MotB installed?

Are you patched? And if so, what patch version has you applied?

 

This game really is horrendously unstable. I had a gamebreaker where, after a cutscene, it would put me in the location the cutscene took place with no characters and unable to do anthing. I ended up doing a full clean install, and it seems to be better now.

 

Okay, I guess a little back ground is in order. This is my first time playing NWN2 since I just finally got a computer this last month that had a video card that could support the game. Before that I was stuck with my wife's notebook computer and it immediately locked up on impact. So I loaded the game and got all the available patches to date, took about an hour to download and load up. I am currently sitting at version 1.11.1153. I am now timid about loading any other updates or patches. Also, I hate to sound so stupid like this and I am sure I will figure it out as soon as I ask but what is "MotB." I promise I am not this dense, just frustrated and missing something when it comes to this game.

I am also starting to believe that I have done nothing wrong, but that it is a glitch in the game, but my then question is, what do I do about it?

Help! Again!


Oh, I also have the expansion, but am waiting to load it on the off chance that it might make things worse. Is it possible it could make things better? Advise?

 

@Kalika:

MotB is the abbreviation of Mask of the Betrayer.

That is the name of the expansion pack as you know.

The newest patch is patch 1.12.

Now, as you mentioned you didn't load the expansion I assume you haven't installed it, right?

I would at least install the newest patch or install MotB and patch it up.

Another thing you should check is if any of your companions is missing.

Before patch 1.12 a nasty bug could happen resulting in companions missing with outcomes of cutscenes not loading, game crashes and area transitions not working.

The reason the bug happened was because of summonings (familiars, animal companions, elementals and so on). When a summoning was brought with your party through area transitions, the summoning would take one of your companions place in the party.

That bug should be fixed in patch 1.12.

 

Well, I am not feeling so stupid now. Thanks for the clarification. MotB is still sitting here in the shrink wrap. I figured I would take my problems one at a time and just go with the original for now, but you are more than likely right about the latest patches and all, so I will go ahead and install it and see what happens next.

I am assuming that even if I do install MotB, download a corrective patch for my problem that the current game I have going will not be fixed, that I still have to go back and redo it all... correct?

 

I don't know if it will fix your problem with your current game, but it's worth a try.

I did a search at the official forums, and some has reported that resetting the screen resolution in Options or setting graphics to low fixed the problem with area transitions. It's maybe worth a try too.

 

Oh, my bad. I forgot to answer you about missing characters. Yes. I am missing both the dwarven fighter and my horned girl theif, and I kinda liked her.

eta: So now I have MotB loaded and updated with all the latest patches upto version 1.12.1295. The only patches I have downloaded and installed are the ones through the game update. I know of no others, if I am missing something vital please somebody let me know.

Thanks everybody for your help, I will let you know how it goes.

 

Auch!

It is not good that you are missing Khelgar and Neeshka.

They are needed for a couple of cutscenes, and if they are not in your party by then, your game can't continue.

As I mentioned, summoning can cause loss of companions when you go through area transitions. A couple of patches ago, Obsidian changed the AI so that companions automatically summoned animal companions and familiars.

Obsidian has reported they have fixed the issue in patch 1.12, so for the future you should be homefree.

But right now you have a big problem since Khelgar and Neeshka doesn't show up by themselves even if you patched. They are gone.

Later in Act II you will run into a game break, since one or both of them are needed for the cutscene. You will simply not be able to continue.

You can either load an earlier save when they both still are in your party, or you can copy their character files from the earlier save to your current save.

If you do the latter, you have to level them up and give them items lost via the Debug Console.

If you don't have an ealier save or an autosave from where they still are in your party, you either have to restart or hope that someone here can send you their character files.

 

I went ahead and started from the beginning. No, I did not have another autosave or saved game (stupid me I know) and it took me about two weeks to get leveled up and everything, and to the point I was stuck and went in seach of ya'll. You are right though. With missing Khelgar and Neeshka I don't think it would have mattered much if I had been able to continue to the merchant district or not, I would have still been stumped when it came to the cutscenes you speak of.

Hopefully, in the next 14 days or so I can get back to the point I was at and see if everything is finally working okay, or as okay as this game ever will get. I really do appreciate the guidance. It is just maddening to think you screwed something up along the way and it is all your fault that you are stuck in the quagmire you've gotten yourself into. Much better, in a way, to discover it is the game messing up, and not you.

I will keep an eye out for companions and familliars, let you know how everything turns out.

 

Good luck then.

If you want to be on the safe side, you can turn of the AI's automatical animal companions/familiar summoning, and you can unsummon all summonings before going through an area transition.

To turn of the AI's automatical summoning, go into every companions Character sheet, go to the Behaviour Tab and set Ability Usage to Off.

To unsummon a summoning choose the person who summoned it, right click the summoning, and choose Unsummon from the menu.