Bug Report: Little Joe Progression-Locked Side Quests

Hi @Realrumblejack - There are two quests with Little Joe, but I don't think you can get the 2nd one until after you've advanced the story line a bit. I can't remember exactly, I think you get it somewhere around Two-Town Square.

Check your journal - have you completed Royal Entanglement? (that's the battle that frees Little Joe) 

If that's completed, then do you have Catch Him Red-Handed active? 

If not, then you need to proceed to Two-Town and complete some more quests, which will eventually give you the step to Confront Little Joe.

I think it depends on where you are in the storyline - let us know

Hi

Thanks for your reply. It looks the same in my quest book. I saved little joe. I saved big red and have to confront little joe now. And i have to trade the gubblegregger. This should be with little joe too... Or i am wrong?

Greetings

Adrian 

Understood - I haven't actually got back to confront Little Joe yet (as you can see in my screenshot). I did already do the Grubblegegger trade, tho. I think you should follow that questline and then return and see if it unlocks the side quest to talk to Little Joe. I don't think you've done anything wrong, really - just did the questlines in a different order than I did. But I think you need to complete the quest A Reward to Die For before you can talk to Little Joe (and give him the Grubblegegger)

I can't give him the gubblegregger, because i can't speak to him. The icon is the crossed "speak" icon... Can it be, because two quests require to speak with little joe and the game don't know what to do?

The green quest marker is visible over little joe. 

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@Realrumblejack wrote:

I can't give him the gubblegregger, because i can't speak to him. The icon is the crossed "speak" icon... Can it be, because two quests require to speak with little joe and the game don't know what to do?

The green quest marker is visible over little joe. 

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It could be - which 2 quests do you have open that require you to speak with Little Joe?

I had to complete the gubblegregger quest before confronting him later on (I remember it taking a while before finding the right word to trade - you'll be able to confront him after the boss battle.

@Realrumblejack - If I'm understanding correctly, you saved Little Joe, then you did the trades and got the Grubblegegger, but you didn't return to Little Joe & give it to him. Then you saved Little Red and returned to Little Joe. So the quests "Two Sides to Every Story" and "Catch Him Red-Handed" are not completed. Is that right?

What platform are you playing on (PC, Switch, etc)? Could you please share a screenshot of your quest log?

Correct!!

I am playing on XBox Series X. 

@Realrumblejack - Thanks for the screenshots, that really helps. I see what you're saying and it does seem like the game could be confused. I think the game expects you to return the Grubblegegger before you move on to the Upside Downtown.

Where are you in the main questline? Is there anything else you can do / try? I see you have completed Royam's poem. Have you done the boss battle with Royam yet? Maybe share a screenshot of the main quest "A Tale of Two Towns"? I had to do the boss battle with Royam before I was able to confront Little Joe. Maybe if you get through that, it will unlock both of them.

Side note - I know it's a bummer not to complete everything, but at least these are 2 side quests. If we can't get it fixed in some way, I think you can still proceed with the main storyline. But I don't think we should give up yet

Hi

Thanks a lot. I did everything else already. The only thing open is to proceed to "world 3".