Bought this game the other day, played around nine hours and have come to a standstill. I've done every quest related thing I can find in Cyseal and reached Level 3 with around 5,000 points still to go before I reach level 4.

Whenever I go to any of the gates the soldiers tell me I'm not experienced enough to go through. Eventually, in despair, I tell them to let me through anyway and find that they're right - I get summarily flattened by a group of orcs exploring through the West gate and through the North East gate, I find an acid puzzle thing that I can't figure out (I put boxes and barrels on the mine things that stops the acid, but when I try it on the further mines, everything just blows up) and a pack of Level 7 wolves which bizarrely I came close to actually beating but could not. I haven't been through the other North gate but they tell me I'm not experienced enough to do that one either and if it's anything like the others, they're right.

I need to level up but there's nothing left to fight. And I don't know how to further any of the current quests without going beyond the city where I get killed.

Am I missing some significant chunk of the game somewhere or some area?

The only unknown paths for quests I have outstanding are:

  • The headless guy who I've managed to steal and wants me to take him to Reginald's cellar. I have no idea where this is and it's not marked on my map.
  • The elf who wants me to kill Victoria. I've told her and we agreed to tell the legion captain (Aureus?). However, he wont do anything without evidence and I don't know how to get that.


There is also the Fabulous Five quest about Arhu's robot. However, Arhu has no dialogue about that and as far as I can work out, my next task is to go North through one of those "you're not experienced enough" gates.

I have to say, I'm finding this game exceedingly frustrating. I just want to fight some things, gain XP. There's nothing to fight unless I start callously killing townsfolk. Or have I missed something? I spent about two hours just wandering around trying to progress with the murder quest before eventually looking online and finding that I'm supposed to break into Esmeralda's basement and steal a load of meat so that I can find the hidden switch to reveal a hidden room. That's beyond tricky - why would I start stealing her food? Especially as I know she's not the guilty one because I stole some of her dirty knickers (lovely!) and got the dog to sniff them for traces of Jake (again, what??).

So is there a dungeon or something I'm missing? I'm playing on Tactitician but I do not believe this is the problem - I completed DAI and DAII on Nightmare. I always play games on harder levels and this isn't the hardest. The game itself tells me I need to get higher level before going further, but there's nothing left to do to get there. I'm happy to fight things all day to slowly get the 5,000XP I need to level up, but there's nothing TOO fight.

How do I solve this? Most unhappy.