Can't interact with certain objects

The altars in my game seem to be already triggered from my first playthrough and never reset to use. Does anyone else have the same problem? I can't finish the Solas Regrets missions because of this issue.

Evanuris & Fen'Harel don't work for me! PS: Big Chests now too don't work... PC/Steam
I have no idea what's going on with the game, but no matter which Big Chests, Elvanuris or Fen'Harel altar I go to, none of them work anymore. I can no longer do anything with them or activate them. At the beginning of the game it worked and now I'm just standing in front of it and there's no way to activate it. I've already loaded several saves before, but nothing happens! Is this a bug or what exactly is happening here? I've already played for 25 hours, so I should have all the tools to activate it.

I have this bug too. I can't open unique chests.

I also have this same problem. The really "big" chests don't even "glow" as I approach them. Also the wolf statues that you are supposed to use the dagger on, etc...  Ughh...  For me this seemed to start almost immediately after the patch.

After several hours of play (I've recruited all the companions), I got the dagger bug when loading an autosave. I tried loading a savegame made 30 minutes before the bug, then I redid the test by loading an autosave, then a savegame, and I realized that the bug appeared when loading an autosave.

(Sorry for my english, I use an automatic translator because I'm french)

I realized the bug happened when I finish the Formless One quest and couldn't loot the chest in Necropolis.  Then I completed the chapter 8 after the Siege.  I was able to loot the chest then.  But now the bug returned and I couldn't loot the unique chests anymore.  And this is after the big event in Hossberg.  I don't know man... Can't the dev team just make the unique chest being able to open like normal chest? Why must there be this extra requirement that's extremely unnecessary.  I am certain that this bug happened to the QA team and the dev team haven't deem it high priority enough to fix it before launch. 

Same issue. Starting at about the 8 hour mark I stopped being able to open the special armor chests with the three glowing orbs and I can no longer interact with the fen'harel or evanuris alters/statues.  Then it fixed itself after the Siege of Weisshaupt.  That lasted for one level and now I'm back to not being able to interact with the special armor chests or alters/statues or any timelost gateways. This is a pretty major bug and from what I've seen it's one that A LOT of people have.  I know EA knows about it and yet neither patch has addressed it.  It pretty disappointing to finish a huge battle and find a chest you can't unlock over and over again.  It also is irritating the crap over the completionist in me. Other than that MAJOR issue I've no other performance problems. It's not my computer.  It's your game. I'm waiting for the moment where this issue blocks me from progressing through the story completely. Edit:  I'm starting second playthrough and just realized the wall behind the library table is supposed to have a bookcase with books.  Mines been just a brick wall the entire time.  I think the books disappear at the same time I lose the ability to open chests and statues etc.  I'm trying to figure out the exact moment in the game this all happens.

Deleted entire game and all saves.  Download game and doing a new, clean run after patch 2.

Edit 1:  Lost all the books in the lighthouse bookcase behind the main table after Sea of Blood.  Now there is just a brick wall.  Have also lost the dagger on my hip. First sign of the bug. 

Edit 2: Clean download and new game AFTER the second patch and I have the same problem, only this time it hit me faster.  Sea of Blood was the 4th quest I did, and after I did completed it I couldn't interact with armor chests, fenharel or evenuris statues, or some (not all) of the timelost gateways anymore.  I also lost all the library books and bookshelf behind the table in the library and Solas's blade from my hip.  I've given up on a second run.  I should get a partial refund for having SO MUCH content blocked for me. 

Just wanted to chime in with specifics to say the same.

Not exactly spoilers but warning in the wind anyway!

 I am currently at the point after recruiting the final 2 companions prior to taking on the msqs: Shade of the Blight and Something Wrong. I was trying to finish up the Regrets and Crossroads Blight quests in the Crossroads without issues getting the Venatori sealed Evanuris and Fen’Harel altars. Not long after that (same session within minutes), I could not interact with the Elvhenan Haven Evanuris altar or the snow biome’s (forgot the name of the region in the Crossroads) Fen’harel altar. I’ve tried restarting the game from menu and full reboot. Nada.

i will attempt to load a save prior to the issue to see if it’s a corruption but i really don’t plan to backtrack if i can help it even for small progress. But i fear that more interactibles might lock me of completion down the line. Ill find the motivation shortly..

Not sure if its a progression thing but the memory achievements dont unlock either and as far as research shows there are locations in the Lighthouse to put them on to actually “view” the memories (not the actual dream sequences in-map).

Another quick update for us active players for this bug. Ive pushed through the two main quests I had mentioned in a different response here and no update caused by world state yet. 

furthermore, while doing the Hossberg Wetlands side quests, An Academic Interest is supposed to have a breakable wall in a cellar. It is also affected in my save as the wall is still solid and has no available options at the moment. 😵‍💫 TheGamer’s guide also has a person im the comments who cannot break said wall. Will link them to us here in case they got it to work. Now further proof of more important interactables are locking out more significant quests. 🤔

UPDATED UPDATE PLEASE READ THE THREAD FOR DETAILS

TLDR: its back. Not much progress into story for act 2, bunch of cleanup while everything works. But a major crossroads boss triggered this bug for me again. Reloading before the encounter and after the gates work though. So i am leaving the boss last since it’s not important until the very end. VERY end. As in after the entire game kind of end. I hate that i had to get spoiled bc of this bug and its repercussions…

UPDATE! My issue with this bug is resolved. 

Similar to Kielg413 on this thread, progressing through a major world state update did return the functions of the altars in question, the chests I couldnt open, and the wall that was supposed to be accessible. So avoiding spoilers, try and progress to the next major world state change to see if it resolves the issues for now.

SPOILER TERRITORY AHEAD FOR DETAILS!!

STILL HERE?

YOUVE BEEN WARNED…

After punching the fi—ahem, after the siege of Weisshaupt and defeating the fancy snake and the squabbles at the dinner table, the world state seems to have reset to allow all unfinished business to be done. Not sure if the resolution to this bug, by means of resetting the world state at this point of the story was built in because of said bugs known to the devs, was intentional, but because of story reasons all unfinished business is set up for completion. (Sorry major run on sentence there).

Though another user, Omnicidiel reports that this specific progression did not resolve their issue. Milage may vary. As for the cause… The reasons will continue to remain…unsolved.