Patch 1.3.1, game breaking bug in "Questions and Answers" still present (spoilers)

Hi,

Some of you might be familiar with the bug in the main questline where you’re supposed to travel to meet sir Radzig near Talmberg, but he doesn’t show up at the camp, which basically means your progress in the main story is halted.

I’ve looked through the forums for all the advice and possible work arounds I can find. I’ve looked for sir Radzig in Rattay, Neuhof and Merhojed, but he’s nowhere to be found. I’ve reloaded my game from the autosave after you take the bandit to the Rattay dungeon (the one which reads “Questions and Answers- inform sir Radzig”, without saving or loading my game in between that point and arriving at the hideout), but he still doesn’t turn up at the camp. I’ve waited for him at the camp afterwards, but he still doesn’t arrive. Finally, I’ve knocked the bandit out, stolen his letter, and travelled directly to the hideout without curing the disease in the village (skipping the cutscene where you argue with Straw and then travel to Rattay), but sir Radzig still isn’t there!

I’m not really sure what to do. It seems like sir Radzig has entirely disappeared from my game. Earlier on, while I was fast travelling (it was at some point early in the Pestilence quest, while travelling to Sasau I think) I bumped into him on the road during a bandit attack. We fought them off together, I told him there was a disease in Merhojed and he told me to travel to Sasau to deal with it. It struck me as odd that I’d bumped into him there of all places, but I didn’t think anything of it at that point. Is it possible this has something to do with the bug I’m experiencing?

Sorry bud, you’re gonna have to start over. The only work around with that is to not complete the pestilence quest before Questions and Answers.

Not to do any of the quest at all? I started it, but didn’t complete it.

what? i stopped playing since days because of this bug… and now its still not fixed? wtf?

before u cure the merhojed plague report to radzig in camp above merhojed(same as quest marker), then u can cure all of them and complete the quest & u get new main quest. i tried it and worked the bug happens when u dont report to radzig before cure the plague

I’ve tried betweenureyes’ suggestion of going to Radzig before curing the plague. I’ve tried two things, first I got the potion, talked to Nicodemus and Melicar to open the barn, and stealth knocked out and looted the letter from the bandit (instead of curing him) and bought it to the hideout. Nothing. Second I didn’t even go to Sasau to make the potion, I just killed the watchman outside the barn, lockpicked it, stealth knocked out the bandit and looted the letter, bought it to the hideout again… Sir Radzig still nowhere to be seen!

Sorry man, you’re probably jsut gonna have to start a new game. Did you start the quest before or after the 1.3 patch? Patches usually fix quests but not the bugged version that are already in play if your character already started it.

I started the quest after the patch. I think I’ll just drop the game for a few months until it’s fixed up better if that’s true. I don’t think this quest was fixed in 1.3 though? Not according to the patch notes anyway iirc

I’m going to do the same. I’ve had a similar problem to the one the user mentions in this post. I ended-up having to restart my game, losing 65+ hours of gameplay. In my new game I came across a glitch where right after the initial cutscene in the Nuehof raid mission ends, my game loads, but I can hear a guard wanting to check me for stolen goods. When the game finishes loading I’m in a fight with 4 - 6 guards for ignoring them. My game actually saved as one of them was punching me.

I just restarted the game from a save a little before the beginning of the quest and it worked fine. No more bugs so far, but I hope this one gets fixed soon for the sake of other players.