Neve's barrier not displaying during Fire & Ice

Hey, following up on this one, since the Fire and Ice quest, have the visuals come back or was it just during that one specific part of the game where they were not visible?

Thanks for asking; here's what I've seen so far:

• The barrier visual displays during "The Cobbled Swan Case" when Neve protects Rook against Aelia / Damas.
• It doesn't display during "Fire and Ice" when Neve protects Rook against Elgar'nan.
• It does display correctly later during "The Returned Cultist Case" when Neve protects herself against Aelia.
• Other spell effects seem to be displaying correctly in other parts of the game.

This is still true during the current patch. Her barrier still doesn't appear during the cinematic ending of Fire & Ice, even though the audio still plays for the missing effect.

I also can confirm that it does not display during Fire & Ice still, though the audio does play. It more looks like they're dancing and doesn't quite make sense as to why Neve is there if you don't have her in your party.

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Are y'all on console or PC?
Has it happened when you reloaded a save before the patch and then played?
Have you tested it on another playthrough with he same result?

Hi, there. Thanks for the follow-up.

1. I've confirmed the issue on PC and console (PS5), for multiple users.
2. Since console only allows 3 total saves, I don't have a pre-patch save to test, but maybe someone else will.
3. It has happened on every playthrough I've seen since patch, both for me and asking my friends/watching streams. It is reproducible in every Fire & Ice new save.
4. Neve had a bug that was patched out, where she was appearing as duplicate in this scene. When duplicate Neve was fixed, her ice barrier went missing. Attaching screenshots of the difference.

    

Same here on PC, with more than one playthrough of this quest encounter since patch 4. I never saw a duplicate Neve in previous playthroughs, but the barrier displayed before patch 4.

Hey Rooks,

Thanks for sharing your feedback! I like the images showing what you're talking about that helps. We'll pass it on to the team so they can check it out. I have a feeling that the saves you are on may just not get retro-fixed, but I am honestly not sure. I know a new playthrough does it, as I've tested it, too, but I will send it up the chain!
 
Cheers!

Thanks for your update; I haven't personally played through this again, but I saw a livestream yesterday where the player went through this quest and still didn't show the barrier. So it seems like the fix on the internal build might not have made it through live. If the fix is already done internally, it would be awesome if they could get it pushed through for us.

Avaraen Thank you for the info on the stream. I will certainly let the team know so that they can test it out!

Thanks!