Game crashes when I try to leave the Shadow Broker's ship after the mission.

Can confirm that this issue persists as of February 2017. I'm appalled that something like this is pushed on unsuspecting customers.

Sir....thank you.

I have spent an unreasonable amount of time and frustration trying to get this (insert appropriate language here) game to work. The work-arounds for this DLC included everything from changing my graphics settings, to inserting code, to deleting cache's. 

But you, sir, had the answer. 

Don't go through the door!

Talk to Liara!

It worked. After twenty straight crashes....I was skeptical that something so simple could be the answer. But I stared, jaw agape, as I was placed on the Normandy. Sure, I had to talk to sissy Liara...but I was home!!! 

So, while I may never set foot on the shadow broker ship again, I will recall your wonderful break-through advise if I do. 

I am slow-clapping you right now. Thanks, buddy!

It's a workaround, not a solution. You have to skip the movie scenes which I would like to see as well and I can't because BioWare doesn't care to fix this bug.

On top of that it's related to DLC that people paid extra for which makes it extra rotten. I really wish they would come up with an actual solution for this rather than people having to use this workaround still after so many years just so their progress doesn't get blocked instead of being able to just enjoy the full content. It may be a small part but really just because people found a workaround, doesn't absolve BioWare from fixing an otherwise game breaking bug.

@EgoMania;  I can appreciate your point, but I can also appreciate that neither BioWare nor EA is going to spend resources to fix what is a "workaround-able" bug, that affects a tiny minority of players, in an eight-year-old game.

Not. Going. To. Happen.

And I'd rather that they devote the resources to making Anthem a fantastic Single-Player experience anyway. :eahigh_file:

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@ThandalNLyman wrote:

@EgoMania;  I can appreciate your point, but I can also appreciate that neither BioWare nor EA is going to spend resources to fix what is a "workaround-able" bug, that affects a tiny minority of players, in an eight-year-old game.

Not. Going. To. Happen.

And I'd rather that they devote the resources to making Anthem a fantastic Single-Player experience anyway. :eahigh_file:

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I don't actually expect them to fix it but I don't actually find this workaround acceptable either since it actually means cutting scenes from the game to be able to make it work.

It's something they should've fixed years ago already but don't mistake my grievance for an expectation. I've lowered my expectations for BioWare quite a bit in the last 4 years or so.

As far as Anthem is concerned, I'm not ready to share your optimism. We'll see with E3 what comes out but EA just told their investors this week that they will add live services later after the release. So that tells me that they'll sell the game without mtx * but add it later. This is what they learned from BF2...not to become more player friendly but first sell the game without mtx as if it's all about the players and then once people bought it slap the mtx on it.

I mean the only reason they would tell investors this is because it relates to making money and so these live services are all about that clearly.

Of course I get they're not going to fix old games but my problems is that BioWare's older games are the ones I still play and the new ones not anymore. If I had faith in them to make a great BioWare game gain and EA wouldn't stick their greedy fingers in the business model, I would also be excited. But we see that EA is already talking about monetizing the game, just not on release so it won't hurt their initial box sales. As far as BioWare themselves, well, we'll see what E3 brings.

But it's been some years since a BioWare game came out that I really really enjoyed and EA I trust just about as far as I can throw them especially now it's become clear they are going to add mtx to the game.

You don't have to cut movie scenes for it tow work. The crash happens when the loading screen comes up when leaving the ship. What you do is you get onto the sb's ship, do what you're trying to do, save, exit the game, do the workaround, then when you're back on the Normandy, exit the game, remove it, and boom. No missed cutscenes.

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@Legionary92 wrote:

You don't have to cut movie scenes for it tow work. The crash happens when the loading screen comes up when leaving the ship. What you do is you get onto the sb's ship, do what you're trying to do, save, exit the game, do the workaround, then when you're back on the Normandy, exit the game, remove it, and boom. No missed cutscenes.

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I get the crash towards the end of the scene where you discuss destroying that box you got for her. There is a cutscene after that that ends with you being back on the ship. That one you have to miss. 

And yes then I can close the game and start it up via the normal way again, but really, there is no other game where I have to do something bizarre like this to play it through. It also happens on other DLCs by the way so I have to do this multiple times each time and I just think it's something that they should've fixed years ago.

Not holding my breath here, but I just think it's pretty poor especially since they still like to charge you pretty good for the DLC.

My game would freeze.

Then this solution fixed it for me. I did not try anything else, except inviting Liara up to the Normandy. 

Bypassed the freezing issue, thankfully because if it did not all those hours spent, would be infuriating.

You can't work around it. I have had the game crash on me several times. I have tried ALL of the fixes. I went back to the Normandy with Liara and the game crashed, then put me back in the Shadow Broker Lair and I can't leave. This is absolutely not okay for paid DLC. They should stop selling the content if it crashes the game and they can't be bothered to fix what is making it crash. Give it to people for free with the disclaimer that is it broken.

So it is a missing movie? Patch in the missing file(s). Tell us what is missing and give us access and let us patch it in... something other than fixes that miraculously work for some people but not for others.

I wanted to see the content, but it would have been nice to know what I was getting myself into and why bother giving us in game investment opportunities or planetary surveys if we can't actually benefit from them because we have to find a pre-DLC save to load?