Scent of Incense - Game Stopper!

[ironwyrm]

Scent of Incense - Game Stopper!

So, I made an account just for this it's so frustrating.

During the Scent of Incense quest, I gave him the real formula, refused the blindfold, and have no option to fight him. Unfortunately, I didn't realize the game still had game-breakers in it, so I did a LOT in-between refusing and actually going to the hideout.

Before the inevitable questions, yes, I am completely patched, and started a new game, like, yesterday. Would rather not revert and replay four hours just for one quest, I can really only afford to play one game on my schedule, shame to throw away hours at a time like that, you know? I'd also like to finish this game in 2013. Told myself I would in 2012, and that never happened.

 

[cmdr_silverbolt]

From what I remember, the fight option comes about if you don't give the real formula, OR if you realize that the guy's name sounds familiar (i.e. works for antagonists from TW1), and then you say "No thanks" when he asks you to work with him in the future.

You might still have a chance to rescue your game- choose the "familiar" name and "no thanks" options.

He won't fight with you since you gave him the real formula, but the tension will be created when Geralt realizes they work for the antagonists from the last game.

Also, there's a boat in the cave which you can use to go back to Flotsam. If you exit the cave before using it, you cannot use it ever.

 

[M4xw0lf.978]

So, I made an account just for this it's so frustrating.

During the Scent of Incense quest, I gave him the real formula, refused the blindfold, and have no option to fight him. Unfortunately, I didn't realize the game still had game-breakers in it, so I did a LOT in-between refusing and actually going to the hideout.

Before the inevitable questions, yes, I am completely patched, and started a new game, like, yesterday. Would rather not revert and replay four hours just for one quest, I can really only afford to play one game on my schedule, shame to throw away hours at a time like that, you know? I'd also like to finish this game in 2013. Told myself I would in 2012, and that never happened.

So what is the problem? You can simply leave the cave now, can't you?

 

[tommy5761]

This quest has more than one way to complete it . http://witcher.wikia.com/wiki/The_Scent_of_Incense

 

[Eri94_user70]

If you refuse to be blindfolded (good choice for Dark mode, where Battle is difficult), you complete the quest without any combat. You can still though draw steel and run them through, which was exactly what i did, because Vencel Pug (their boss) was an acquaintance of Gellert Bleinheim from the first game, both a salamandra member and a druglord of fisstech.

The quest, either way, is completed just fine. In soviet (iorveth) flotsam, you are not attacked by druglord; druglord is attacked by you!

 

[cmdr_silverbolt]

If you don't make the Salamandra connection via in-game options, then the Journal does not reflect that connection.

The game works out fine one way or the other, but if you're particular about Geralt's actions and how they show up in the Journal, then it's important to do this part in a certain way.

 

[vivaxardas2015]

Yes, I also always go to the cave, give him a real formula (quest completes here), learn about his scheme, loot everything, and then just attack and kill all of them. My journal does not reflect that I prevented a drug trafficking, but I do not really care.

 

[cmdr_silverbolt]

I often take gaps between playing games and play more than one game at a time, so it helps to have something to remind me of what happened and why it happened. The Witcher games are a story-heavy game, so that's the only reason I care about actions, whatever they are, reflecting in the Journal- for making sense of the storytelling process.

 

[ironwyrm]

Well, it's kinda sounding I can either just kill them after the quest goes in a bad direction, or suck it up and replay Act 1. May as well at this point, it might lose me a couple hours, but better than it weighing me down later in the game and end up not finishing it.

I was hoping there was an editor solution or something, change boolean from true to false. Haven't been able to find one though.