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Crayalcray's avatar
Crayalcray
Seasoned Newcomer
24 days ago

Can't Progress the Main Questline (Fire and Ice)

Like others on this forum I can't progress past "Fire and Ice" on PC, which means I can't continue playing the game - I can defeat the dragons, I get the cutscene with Elgernan and Ghilanain, and I can talk to Evka and Antoine afterwards. But then the screen goes black for a while, and I end up at the Lighthouse. 

  • There is no dialogue/cutscene at the lighthouse
  • There is no new main quest
  • I can't fast travel anywhere because the game says I am still doing "Fire and Ice" even though there is no quest in my journal. 

A long while back I had similar issues with "Regrets of the dreadwolf" where I watched all the memories and triggered the visitor. However, I noticed that I missed out on some companion dialogue, so I went back to a save, talked to my companion and then continued the last mural. However, the last mural doesn't work, so I can't finish the Quest or trigger the visitor. Placing the final wolf statue makes the mural appear, but no cutscene with solas/mythal or companions. The screen goes black, can't travel anywhere or follow another quest because I am still doing "regrets of the dreadwolf" even though I can't complete it. It wasn't a main quest so I just decided to leave it be. But I've heard that people who had issues with "fire and ice" had a similar problem with "regrets of the dreadwolf" as well. 

What I've done:

  • Tried going back to earlier saves (further and further back as far as I would be willling to replay) 
  • Tried setting my graphics to low and restarting the game

Going back several days worth of progression is not a solution for me, I did "regrets of the dreadwolf" a long time ago. This needs to be fixed because this is a game breaking bug! 

 

  • Zenogod's avatar
    Zenogod
    Seasoned Novice

    Until they patch it, there is no solution to this other than going back prior to The Siege of Weisshaupt and finishing Regrets of the Dread Wolf before the quest markers from RotDW to watch the memories disappear.

    • Crayalcray's avatar
      Crayalcray
      Seasoned Newcomer

      Yeah, and it seems so silent from the Devs, no idea if they are even aware of this bug. I will have to take a break and hope it is fixed with the next patch, whenever that is :) 

  • It seems there are a lot of issues with this quest. I currently had a similar bug: not at the end but at the beginning of the quest, where the game would crash when I tried to travel to the Warden Forward Camp (start of the quest). For me it resolved itself by simply restarting the game until it would no longer crash. Maybe try saving as close to the end of the quest as possible and restarting the game (therefore reloading) to see if it resolves the issue. I'm not an expert on these things but maybe it helps...? I just hope they fix this questline asap.