I play on ps4, I posted a few days ago about Esther somehow freeing herself and running away from the violence while I was fighting the bandits. I cant find that thread, but if anyone is interested I solved this on the second attempt by drawing the fight a long way down the path to the west. After freeing her and returning with her to Sassy, though, when I go to Florian, he thanks me for saving her but then when I ask him for information, he tells me that he won’t tell me anything until I save her. I have waited a day and come back and this still happens.
Instead of fighting the bandits, sneak past them at night. Everything works from there.
ON PC here . I snuck up on them and using my high bow skill( 12 or so) and combat perks and a powerful bow( like 77 and better piercing arrows) I snipered them dead with one shot each. walked up and freed her and walked her back.
Maybe I’m not being clear. A glitch did occur before where she disappeared while I was fighting the 3rd guy but I found a work around for it so I dont have to worry about it happening again. The problem now is that the little asshole scribe is not acknowledging that I finished the quest and allowing me to progress I the story. I was wondering if anyone else had that problem. Probably I’m just gonna load to before I talked to him and try it again, then try rescuing her over again and if that fails reload to before rescuing her and do other stuff til the game updates again
The quest is currently bugged for a lot of players. I can’t get him to get past that point either. I reported it via email to WH, got a response that it is a known issue, and is in the list of fixes for the next patch.
Just load back and DON’t fight bandits. Don’t sneak on them, just sneak past them and talk to the girl right away.
Esther is saved. But the Main quest does not update “Alles, was klitzert” (german version)