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Hi,

My friend and I have a honor mode save where we're permanently stuck in combat. It's in Arx, upstairs in the Toysellers house. When my friend played dead, Sanders appears to repeatedly joins and exits the combat ad infinitum so it does not progress at all. Usually saving and reloading fixes these problems rather easily, so that's what I did without thinking about the fact that I would no longer be able to load an earlier save if this didn't work. Now the save seems unsalvageable.

Would it be possible to fix this issue or have we dun goofed too much?

Do you have any time to act, to be able to use the teleporter pyramids or a waypoint, get to the stairs, summon something, etc?


If you are playing on PC, please email supportdos2@larian.com with your save (or a Dropbox or Google drive link, etc). If you are using any non-Larian mods, also include a list of those enabled and/or the modsettings.lsx file from your profile folder.
Each save is a folder in the '..\Documents\Larian Studios\Divinity Original Sin 2 Definitive Edition\PlayerProfiles\<ProfileName>\Savegames\Story' folder.
In Windows Explorer you can zip a file or folder by right clicking on it/them and selecting 'Send To | Compressed (zipped) Folder' (and similarly in OSX/Finder).

PS4 saves can be sent, as well, but they would need to be transferred to a USB flash drive first.
In the Saved Data in System Storage section of the Settings menu, click Copy to USB Storage Device, select the relevant save(s) and Copy. From there you can zip the files, then copy to email or upload somewhere and provide a link.
Unfortunately, in that case a fix could only be done with a game update. On console saves are locked to the account used to start the game when they are made. While a PS4 dev kit can load saves created in other accounts, it will still lock the save to the developer account, so there is no way to return a save that you could use.

I actually managed to solve it in another way - the issue was Sanders was aggroed on my friend, but not on me. Apparently his permission to enter the attic does not apply party-wide. When my friend used Play Dead the glitch occurred with Sanders repeatedly exiting and entering combat. The regular methods you suggested did not work, couldn't use anything or Escape or whatever, so I was just trying anything at that point.

The solution was to simply de-equip an item to cancel Play Dead, after which combat proceeded more or less as normal (though very slowly).

Thank you for the help!

Thank you for the update, and details; I'm glad you found a workaround.