The first time I did this quest, Nicodemus basically told me that I’d missed a few and better do it right the next time. And he gave me a chance to finish it properly and I finished the quest, no problem. But I ended up needing to reload an older save for a different part of the overall main quest for healing the sick, and every time I tried to turn the quest in for weeding his garden after that, he just gets mad and tells me he’ll do it himself. The garden in its entirety, even as far as weeding around it and the Comfrey as well, is completely bare of any of the three weeds, yet he still didn’t approve of it.
Something that I did notice is that most times when I go toward the garden, I see weeds throughout the whole thing again and then within a second they all disappear. Something tells me Father Nico is seeing something I’m not. I think he’s seeing the garden full of weeds when I’m not. Somehow the state I’m seeing it in isn’t being updated to the variables that his coding pulls from. Or something… shrug
Also, I decided to reload an older save again and do other quests for a couple of days to see if waiting and finishing others would maybe fix the issue, and then go do the garden and turn it in, and he doesn’t even bother going to look at it anymore. He just stands at his table and tells me that I didn’t do it.
Also, my system is no slouch. I’m running i7 8700K, EVGA GTX 1080 Ti FTW3, 32GB Corsair Vengeance DDR4 3200, Samsung 960 EVO 500GB system drive and Firecuda 2TB SSHD for installed games. Yet, the game freezes anywhere between a few seconds and a few minutes once out of every 5 times a loading screen comes up (saving, dialog, map, inventory, etc) and sometimes even stays frozen until force closed (which has caused a few corrupted saves and missed opportunities)
With this and so many other bugs, especially the issue after having played the game to level 12 or so and no longer having anyone stop you on the road during fast travel, missing out on fighting challengers like the knights and wayfarers, etc. with those random encounters, I feel like I’m missing out on so much the game has to offer. I think I’ll hold off on playing this for a while, which is a shame, and maybe pick it up again in a few months. Hopefully by June or July they’ll have much of this fixed. It’s just too broken to enjoy at the moment. This, right here, and I know there’s really no excuse, but it is the entire reason why there is such a huge market for pirated games. People are sick of paying a lot of money ($60?!?) for games that are essentially broken on so many levels.
Investors force developers into releasing games before they’re ready, forcing their customers into a situation where they’re simply an extension of the beta process. The difference? A lot of testers get paid to test. We /pay/ to test. I still love this game, but I wish we could figure out how to get past this way of doing things, because time and time again games and entire game dev teams have failed and been dissolved because of it. Look at Mass Effect Andromeda (smh…)