Larian Studios Forums Divinity II The Dragon Knight Saga / Flames of Vengeance (English) Technical problems The Heartbreak of Captain Rodney

This doesn't seem to be the same problem I've already found noted elsewhere in the thread(s).

Here we go: I'm playing the Developer's Cut version of Divinity 2 from Steam. I am in Developer Mode but I hadn't used it.

When I first got to the first Broken Valley town, Captain Rodney was at a desk in the barracks, but invisible. Just a quest ! with no person. If I tried to activate that, the game would produce a "loading" icon - the spinning disc with the circle around it - in the middle of the upper right quarter of the screen. Sound and visuals would keep updating, but this icon would never stop spinning and I would never be able to move.

OK. I restored a save and said "we won't click on him any more now for a while."

Finished freeing the guy stranded on the watch tower. Went back to confront his friend up on the barracks parapet (Peavey, is it?) Once my choices are finished, spinning disc up in corner forever and me unable to move, same as before. It's trying to find Captain Rodney so he can show up for his scene. No dice. He's not at his desk, even invisible; he is nowhere to be seen.

OK. Maybe I'm trying this too soon, I thought. Maybe the game wants other things to happen first. After all at that point I hadn't turned in the first stage of the story quest or gone to the tomb under the church yet. So I did all that, turned in a couple of other side quests, etc. Confronting Peavey still won't work though, and Rodney is nowhere to be seen. He is not off arresting Carl - I checked - and anyway I haven't completed that quest; I still haven't either confronted Carl or told Rodney yet.

So as we stand:

- Rodney cannot be located
- Peavey's scene can't be finished
- If I want the "tell Rodney" resolution of Carl I can't do that either

I thought about trying to use the developer command to move myself to wherever the game thinks Rodney is, just so I can see, but I've tried several attempts at figuring out his internal name and haven't gotten it yet.

I also tried the "reset scripts" option just to see if that did anything. It didn't. (I did NOT save a game where I'd tried that.)

Any help appreciated!

You've talked to Lieutenant Luis already, I assume? Did you read all the wanted posters on the sign to the left of the stairs leading up to where Captain Rodney should be? Did you talk to Palmer in the barracks?

I don't know what the internal name for Captain Rodney is (probably tried all the obvious permutations that you did).


Did you try starting a new character, doing the minimum in Farglow and seeing if Rodney shows up once you get to Broken Valley? Maybe try verifying local files for the game first, if you didn't already do so.

Do you want to try emailing me your save (raze@larian.com) to see if it works here? If not I can forward it to support (support@larian.com), or you can do so yourself.



In XP the saves are in the folder

C:\Documents and Settings\ %username% \Local Settings\Application Data\Divinity 2\Savegames


or in Vista / Win 7

C:\Users\ %username% \AppData\Local\Divinity 2\Savegames


You may need to set Windows Explorer to show hidden files and folders (XP, Vista, Win 7).

I've spoken to Louis several times and taken all the wanted bounties from the posters (although I haven't done them). I've also talked to Palmer a couple of times.

I'll try a fresh game and see if he appears. That seems simplest for now. If a new game bugs as well, I may want to send it to you or support.

Started a fresh game and this time Rodney is at his desk when I reach town, visible and interactible. *shrug* Not sure what made him glitch the first time, but problem solved ....

You can still email support to see if they can restore Rodney in your first game, if you don't want to redo everything.