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tuxedo-tara
Seasoned Newcomer
3 months ago

Rook's Face Changes when loading a save

When loading into a save I created instead of one of the saves the game generates on it own (auto save, temporary decision saves, etc.), my rook's face will change to one of the default presets and they become bald.

If I go to the Mirror of Transformation, their face returns to the custom face I made at the start of the game, but I have to go into edit, change nothing, and finalize again for it to save Rook's face when I exit the mirror.

If I load into a temporary decision/chapter save, my face is fine, If I use an auto save most of the time it's fine, though I have had my face reset by some of the auto-saves.

For some reason, I have not had this issue while loading saves made in the Arlathan Forest. Yet.

For reference, I am playing on pretty much the minimum requirements of the game:  HDD, GTX 1660 super graphics card, 32 GB RAM, I can't remember what my CPU is but I can add it later after looking it up. I know when I compared it to the minimum requirements CPU before Veilguard launched, it preformed comparably.

20 Replies

  • Same issue..  I thought it was autosave but I just loaded a manual save and it happened also. Luckily I loaded the manual save again and it was fixed but no idea what is causing. Fingers crossed for early patch fix.

  • Yep same issue. Every time I load a save file it changes the appearance of my rook entirely and I have to go back to the mirror to change it it’s extremely frustrating 

  • geekninja's avatar
    geekninja
    Seasoned Novice
    3 months ago

    Its a genuine bug because people have been reporting this since the game first released. For me I only have ever made 1 Rook and I still get this bug. 

  • colsoull's avatar
    colsoull
    Rising Newcomer
    3 months ago

    Same here, I had to watch this bald guy for the whole weisshaupt mission it broke my heart it didn't feel like my Rook was making progress but an imposter 😭

  • R3dButterfli's avatar
    R3dButterfli
    Seasoned Newcomer
    3 months ago

    Either that or my hair has disappeared, or when going into the inventory menu to change items on my character, its a bald old man, where my character is a female with hair and a young complexion. i have tried new loads restarting my computer etc. i know its not my specs on my computer either.

    The only time it doesn't happen is if I start the game again and literally play the game without reloading at all, just continuously playing through, which is not ideal at all.

  • werewolfbait's avatar
    werewolfbait
    New Novice
    3 months ago

    Ok so my fix for this (and many of my other issues) was buying an external ssd (u can get a 250gb off Amazon for $30) and reinstalling the game on that and I’ve had no load issues at all on pc now 

  • Same issue here. Made two different Rooks and both are having the same problem. Reloading sometimes work, mostly not if it's a manual save. Tried opening up the game slower, worked until it didn't. Now my Rook is stuck in a quest and I can't go to the lighthouse to fix their preset face issues. Other than reloading to an earlier save there really isn't anything I can do.

    My PC is running Veilguard on a HDD, but I'm going to try moving it onto an SSD and see if that helps at all. I wonder if the bug testing was done on lower end PCs and equipment or high end stuff only because this is wild. No support with the patch either.

  • Same here. It's not every time and reloading the same save will fix it for me but very weird when it does happen. 

  • StrawberryOcean's avatar
    StrawberryOcean
    Seasoned Newcomer
    2 months ago

    Swapped to an SSD. No problems with Rook's appearance resetting anymore.

  • Im so glad I’m not the only one who is experiencing this issue! But it still frustrating! Every time I die and have to restart from last save or wanna reload because I missed something I get the preset default. It’s been happening for me since the end with the lyrium ghoul and I yet to find a fix yet to it. 
    can you even submit a ticket about this ? If so where ? 

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