i am not a newbie.... In fact, it happens sometimes when you complete "Dead hand of the past" quest by not killing the ghost of Leo and doing burial of Leuvaarden's friend after Reverend orders everyone to hide in their homes. Try reloading older save and finish the quest before speaking to Reverend about Alvin's prophecy.The issue is already mentioned in "Possible quest issues" thread in "Story, Quests - discussion", it will be fixed in the next patch.
but I didnt complete the dead hand quest yet. And without speaking to the reverend, after abigail gave the potion to alvin, i cant get the key from the inn keeper.... so it is not possible to finish the salamandra quest without telling the reverends about the prophecy.... so this cant be the solution... Or is ist neccessary to start a new game after installing the patch 1.1a to solve this problem? or is this not implemented in the patch? i am disappointed, because in fact i like the game really and i want to go on in the story....
I know that there's a bug in which Alvin dose not turn up in the cave, this is NOT my issue. Alvin is there and standing at the wall he wants me to knock down, i've been told you do this with the aard sign but this simply is not working for me no matter what i do. I've reloaded for a save before i started the quest and so on but still no luck. I've seen this brought up in other threads but for the most part they get ignored for the Alvin not turning up at all bug so i'm bringing it up here. I'm already having awful problems with the game, out side load times of 5+ minutes at times (2 if i'm luck 3 typically) which i've been putting up with beacuse i really do like the game that much. But with this? a game stoping bug that i've tested in different ways with the huge load times, its just getting a tad to much. It sad for this game to have gone from something i would love to something i can't stand to boot up simply for bug's and tech issues.Anyways, if there any work arounds for this wall bug? or am i just going to have to uninstall and wait for a few patches to fix the damn thing?
i found my problem, i updated to 1.1a but on the luncher the check for update kept flashing but there was no new update... so i reinstalled the patch and the same thing happened... so i tired redownloading the patch and installing and it worked no longer got the flashing update on the menu. So went in the game and checked if it fixed the bug and it did, it also improved performance quite a lot if not the load times. So ya if you've not updated try doing that, otherwise i don't know...
This is a game stopping bug and if encountered does not allow you to continue playing..This happens in the cave when trying to "collapse" the wall to free the children and start the final ending to chapter 1.No matter what I do the wall will not collapse.. I have max skill in the magic required and have actually done it before in a previous run through of chapter 1(had to restart after a new hard disk drive installation. But now it will not come down..Others have had the same problem and have stated in might have something to do with the "bury my friend" quest..Pretty sure it has nothing to do with the "bury my friend" quest though as this is what I did and I still cannot "blow" that wall down..1...Restarted a new game and started Chapter 1 with accepting all the notice, main and the "bury my friend" quests.2.. Found friend but did nothing and completed all quests/notices up to the final "talking" to the reverend(that starts the last sequences leading up to the cave).3.. Went to the reverend and started the "bury my friend" quest and then went to merchant and told him i found his friend and he stated he needed burying, went back, buried him, fought ghost and went back to merchant and told him and finished quest.. Wall Still will not collapse!!3B.. Went to reverend and started "bury my fiend" quest, then went and buried him, fought ghost and went to merchant and told him he was buried,,finished quest.. Wall still will not collapse!!So, what am I to do,, stand on my head and try it...This is becoming very frustrating and some dev should answer this as the game cannot progress ifyou encounter this bug..Funny thing is I restarted a fresh game after a hdd re-install and was in Chapter 2 and never encountered this bug at all,,now it shows up and I am virtually "stuck" and cannot continue playing..Come on,,whats the answer or work around for this??CheersVinnieMc
I just wanted to officially report, if it hasn't been already, that several people have run into problems with the game in the v1.2 patch - it seems that sometimes when you're in the Salamander cave and you meet Alvin, the wall you're supposed to blow down with Aard is undestroyable no matter what you do. Loading earlier saves, doing the earlier quests in a different order, etc. all don't seem to fix this problem - if you're one of the unfortunate ones to get the bug, your game is officially broken at that point.However, a temporary solution to this has been discovered - if you uninstall the game and reinstall the game using the v1.1 and load the last autosave (should be exiting the Inn), you can then complete the sequence and knock the wall down and save as soon as you can. After you do this, you should be able to safely install patch v1.2 again and keep moving on with the game.I wish I could help more in isolating this bug but it seems like there's nothing that really stands out. I redid all of the quests in a different order and finished them all before getting the Reverend to tell everyone to stay home but nothing fixed it. But I do know that it's a bug that's introduced with the v1.2 patch only so maybe that's a start.