Codger's Quarry NPC will not give quest

[silverson12]

Codger's Quarry NPC will not give quest

Not sure how this is intended to work or if this is a bug at all. But there is an NPC here for me marked with a yellow exclamation point and he goes hostile immediately when I approach. Before it was not like this and I received a quest. I did not complete the quest because I did not think I was at a high enough level so I reloaded a different save and went off to do other stuff to return to Codger's Quarry later. But now it's like this. What happened and why isn't this quest available anymore?

 

[silverson12]

I bump

 

[ddev1984]

Yeah same thing happen to me. Does anyone have a reason for this?

 

[sakiboj]

I get cutscene that I should not be here and alhgouls come out and kill all. Not sure what to do here.

 

[jbolinger]

Make sure your sword is not out. Same thing had happened to me, I reloaded and my sword was out so I put it away and I was able to talk to them.

 

[sakiboj]

Tried, when I aproach cutscene starts and then alghouls come out and kill all and no more quest marker.

Apparently the quest is to save them. To not allow alghouls to kill those peasants.

 

[velcroboy]

I have tried this with my sword sheathed and the guy still attacks me. There are no algouhls if I kill him, just a cave with some loot,

 

[scorpgul]

Yet another mess. I saw a yellow quest mark, went there and all the peasants attacked me. My sword was sheathed so I did not provoke them.

I was left with no choice but to kill them and now I learn that they DO in fact give a quest, so now my hopes of being a completionist are ruined. I am playing on Death March and have 60 hours in exploring and looting EVERYTHING on sight so starting a new game is NOT an option!

Seriously this is so damn annoying!!!

 

[velcroboy]

I know there is a patch coming out soon. I have no idea if this bug will ever get fixed but it doesn't matter anymore. I just went back and killed the dude. I had already looted the chest. I never got to fight the alghoul. But, what's done is done.

 

[Simlatio]

I had this same issue and this is how I solved it:

I saved outside the Codgers Quarry, aggro'd them and despite reloading, they still became aggro'd, weapon out or not. So I ran all the way to Oxenfurt, saved the game, loaded and played a game of Gwent with the blacksmith where you find a upgrade manuscript for one of the school sets. Then I returned on horse (I never used fast travel) with my weapon sheathed and everything proceeded like normal.

I suspect that they became aggro'd the first time, since I ran along the top edge of the quarry near the archer with a weapon in hand, so it probably was a weird proximity with a weapon out based interaction occurring along that edge, which is why they became hostile as I approached them with a weapon out. I suspect leaving the area, traveling far away and forcing the game to reload their presence is the actual solution to aggro generated through the action I performed.

Hope this helps.