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Anonymous
11 years ago

Game won't advance after Aspect of the Nightmare!

HELP! Possible game breaking bug. I've just defeated Aspect of the Nightmare in the Here Lies the Abyss quest on Xbox One, but it is not advancing to the cutscene or whatever follows. My players have disengaged and sheathed their weapons, and there is no one left to kill, but the "action" music is still playing and nothing is happening. It also won't let me save my game because it still thinks it is in the middle of the action.

I went back to my previous save to defeat it again, and the exact same thing happened. How do I get around this and continue the game???

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    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    Slight update. There is one of the spiders from the battle ("Darkness") still on the field of battle, but it is at 0/1550 and does not react at all to being hit by any party member, as they sheath as soon as I stop using them. But I have a feeling that it not disappearing is the reason the game won't advance. Nothing I do seems to make it disappear. Also, since this my second time defeating the boss to have this happen, I assume this is not just some random fluke bug because it happened twice in a row.

    I do not want to have to fight this boss a third time, or start my entire game again. Please help EA!

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    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    Update #2. I went back to a save a little earlier, though still in the same area of the fade. Did a few of those small skill points side quests, then fought the Aspect of the Nightmare again. This time, when that spider (Darkness) showed up, I made sure he was dead before killing the boss and that seems to have worked. The game advanced and the cutscene cued as it should.

    Hope this helps for patching or anyone else experiencing this bug, because fighting a boss three times to move forward is not fun.

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    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    Thank you for posting your experience and your solution. I was playing through and encountered exactly the same problem twice. Clearing the spider first worked for me!

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    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    EDIT:  had same problem, on the 5th try, went thru and focused on killing ONLY the henchmench spawn.  Eventually killed AoN, and the cutscene triggered.

    This needs patched.

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    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    I just had this happen to me so I hope I can help out someone else, when this happened to me though one of my party(Sera) wouldnt heal, she stood back up but still had the red skull instead of health. I too had left one of the little spiders alive and went to kill the boss instead, so maybe this started it. I had Vivienne in my party so I used Resurgence (even though i used it already I managed to build it back up during the fight) and it healed Sera and the cutscene activated. i was relieved too because I was playing on nightmare. So maybe if you want to be on the safe side use vivienne in case this glitch happens to you