Echoes of the Past Quest Bug BROKEN please help!
To whomever it may concern,
I’ve stumbled across a bug and unfortunately do not know how to fix it or replicate it. Anyways, the point is that the quest “Echoes of the Past” cannot be progressed or completed on my playthrough and is greatly hindering progression.
The problem being that once you start the quest Bellara asks you to “Find and replace Power Crystals” that should be easy to find in the small room. But the crystals aren’t in my room for me… Can you maybe just make them respawn if you reload or maybe have them return to their default position after 15 seconds of sitting in a different spot? I’m not sure what happened exactly.
But I can recall the most likely event that caused this issue, I had loaded into the map a long time ago early in the game and somehow the entire map was messed up! Things were moved all over the place, buildings were in the sky, mountains and paths were missing and I was in the floor and everything was a wreck! And of course I found it interesting and was checking it out, and I had gotten inside the place that was supposed to be the “Artifact Vault” for this quest! I didn’t do anything other than read the plaques that displayed info about the artifacts even though everything in the room was gone and the notes were on the floor surrounded by nothing, not even walls or roof! It was a disaster!
Point is I reloaded an auto save and the world restored itself so I continued about my journey. But it auto saved after I messed around in the glitched world! For example I got inside the locked quest area for the quest where you help Harding get comfortable with her new powers. And I went around moving the rocks before she could, which made the quest really weird when I got there she would move a rock and nothing would happen because it was already where it needed to be, awkward… RP wise I don’t think she really got any confidence but glitch wise she was quite happy with the nonexistent results…
In conclusion, I believe this is the issue for the missing power crystals. Simply I believe when the world got obliterated and I played around in it, I think those power crystals were moved somewhere into space with all the land scape and buildings. And then never got to return home where they belonged once it got restored. And now that I’m actually in the Artifact Vault the correct way the power crystals are nowhere to be found. Point is, only way for me personally to remedy this is to redo the game… And that’s not happening! I’m WAAAY too far along into the game and have spent way too many hours to restart now! I think I’ve logged 76 hours? To restart would suck!
I’ve tried various things like saving in the vault and reloading to see if it’d refresh? Going outside and killing myself in the water, loading before I started the quest and restarting it, and I was curious if they were perhaps stuck in the floor underground and used my rouge bomb ultimate to see if I could damage it to get it to respawn. I’ve tried all I can think of and have to accept my fate that I’m not going to be able to play this quest without dev help or a restart… Therefor I’ve reached out to you super stars in hopes of a patch in case this happens again to someone else. Unfortunately it was a long time ago when I randomly loaded into the map and everything was broken, so I cannot recall any possible steps to make the map break again. All I know is that’s the most likely reason for the missing power crystals inside the Artifact Vault during the quest Echoes of the Past.
And so, I humbly beseech you good fellows to help my poor soul in restoring the natural order of my game so I may continue to play! Please, and thank you!
Sincerely, Shane - NotTooSavvy
P.S I’m playing Veilguard on Xbox series X!