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Hello there,

I have an complicated bug to report that seems absolutly random at the moment but i try my best to explain.

Since the last patch i had several issues with my GM Save game some i could fix others i could'nt.

The first issues happend cause of a list of mods i subscribed to. i run about 207 mods on my GM file and the following mods are broken since the last patch:

Tiqon's Maps: The Portal, Barricaded way in the forest, cragmaw hideout, ruined tower on the hill, elemental evil and assassins hideout.
Vilerian's JRaven Update 1

Those mods cause players who want to join the GM session to "redownload" the mod even though they already have them and during that the error "missing dependency" will pop up listing all those mods

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The second problem i encountered is of a larger scale and harder to recreate.
I spoke on the discord server with the composer and shenanigans and they encountered the same problem in singleplayer
while i encountered the problem to this date only in GM mode.

Its the infninte loading screen. Like i said i run a heavily modded version of divinity, the composer and shenanigans didnt.
This loading screen only encours when a new map is loading (for example you transition from fort joy to reapers coast) or in gm mode you want to change the map for your players.
For the rest of this report i will only refere to the GM mode situation since that occured to me.
The tricky part there is that the loading screen seem to be some sort of synch problem since as soon as my player will ALT F4 the game the map i choose to load will pop up instantly. Another thing i noticed is that this problem only occourse if you load a previously saved GM session and even then only like 60% of the time, this is the confusing bit for me. I tested it with alot of different options and mod loadouts. The strangest part was that once i loaded the game and the player joined me everythign worked fine and i thought i had a solution then while the player was ingame i load another game opend a map and the infinite loading screen was again there.

https://ibb.co/c2kv5F2
i took a screenshot from where the loading bar would get stuck.

I really hope you can help me. This game means so much to me and especially the GM mode.

Thank you for your help
Demiurgus

#Update1: Composer, Shananigans and Me all used CCP and Helaene mods. I suspect that Helaenes Shared library has something todo with the infinite loading screen issue, but i could'nt confirm it yet.

For the first issue, this error was reported in the main campaign if community mods were in use, Larian mods enabled and then some of the community mods disabled.

For the second, one person reported this entering Reaper's Coast, and a couple with the act transition to the Nameless Isle, in at least one case due to having some mods disabled that were previously used (that happened in single player, though).
QA is currently investigating a similar report in the main campaign, in multiplayer (not using Helaene's mods, but with OdinBlade's class mods and a couple others, so that type of mod may be the issue), just requiring a save/load on the tutorial boat to get a hanging loading screen entering Fort Joy.

I have the second problem of an infinitely loading screen while trying to start the game in multiplayer. We also were in Reaper's Coast, and my co-player is able to enter the map fine, while I'm just stuck on the loading screen for a million years. Interestingly, I haven't used a single mod, nor has he.

I'm not fully sure what exactly you're stuck at, _eowyn_, but one workaround for some of the infinite load issues or problems getting onto a multiplayer lobby in the new area, is that you go past the troublesome loading in singleplayer, make a save in the new area, and then for you and your friend to just start a new campaign (just hit create on character creation and speed past it), then once you're in the starting area, open the main menu > load and load into your save in the new place.

That's what we had to do in regards of getting infinite loading screen from Merryweather to Fort Joy, as soon as she left, loading finished. I made a save, but she couldn't rejoin while there. But making a new campaign and then loading into the save together worked fine.