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2 years ago

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[PC] DAO Unable to Fight During Combat

I am trying to play as a human noble in Dragon Age Origins but I cannot get past the fight in the larder with the giant rats. As soon as the combat started, the rats would move forward a bit but then...

InkheartASM
2 years ago
This is my 5th human noble playthrough on the PC version of the game and I've never had this issue before either. I did happen to see old forum posts (the ones I mentioned) even saying this happened in the Proving in their dwarf commoner origin and even once during the Archdemon fight, so I don't think it's origin specific. I just think it's most likely to happen with the human noble origin and early in the game.
The good news is that a second uninstall and reinstall seemed to work. I was able to load the save file and the error was resolved. The rats are attacking me just fine so far, though I plan on loading in a few more times. This made me realize that the error with the rats not attacking also didn't allow me to name Dog at the start of the fight. I hadn't realized it before at all, but maybe it's connected. Just to be safe, I did do a fresh install of my current mods as well (I don't have Qwinn's Ultimate Fixpack, but I'm going to look into it now).
Before doing this second uninstall and reinstall, I had exited the game, reloaded old saves, restarted the origin, etc. Nothing fixed it until this second time. The only difference is that I waited a few days between the uninstall and reinstall. I doubt that did anything, and I'm not sure why the second time worked, but I'm not going to question it if it means I get to keep playing one of my favorite games.
Thanks for the suggestions, guys! I hope your issue resolved as well, @Cyb3rNugg3t. A few days was no fun for me. I can't imagine a few weeks if the problem has persisted.

Elena_Chase

Rising Adventurer

2 years ago

Hi,

@Cyb3rNugg3t I'm curious to know if a reload/full restart help with the problem. Maybe try to repair the game though I'm not certain that'd do much

@InkheartASMI've played the human noble origin quite a few times but haven't stumbled on that bug somehow (and yes I do have the ultimate edition). I do tend to find fixpacks mods whenever I can. So I'm actually curious to know if Qwinn's ultimate fixpack helps with this (the changelog doesn't mentions the bug but maybe fixing something else fixes this too ? I dunno) or if I've just been very lucky all this time.

Same question though does a reload (maybe of an earlier save) or full on restart of the origin fixes the issue or is it "stuck" from the moment it appears ?