Larian Studios Forums Divinity: Original Sin 2 Divinity - Original Sin 2 - Bugs & Technical Problems Custom main character suddenly broken.

I was in a very long fight on bloodmoon isle, and my main and 2 npc's got wiped. Fane fled, went to town, got ress scrolls, came back and got everyone up. Beat the last 2 baddies. Shortyly after that my main could see all the bodies on the minimap as blue diamonds, and gui interactions were busted. https://youtu.be/xrPfNIfYHdo Example switching between the main and any other party npc.

I have the same problem - it's across all my recent saves.

It seems like if your main character is possessed by the demon inhabiting the dwarf, it breaks the game and that character doesn't get returned to your party properly (seems like the player is an 'ally' rather than a 'party member', but they are also the player character).

At this point, I cannot talk to my party, have difficulty grouping them, I cannot use magic pockets without crashing to desktop, cannot see spirits any more, quest icons etc are all gone from the minimap, and all NPCs (dead or alive) appear as party members on the mini-map and in when highlighted.

There doesn't seem to be a way around it. I've started looking at editing the save file, but can't see anything amiss just yet; doesn't help that I don't really know what I'm looking for.

Edit: Screenshots:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1162697524
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1162619132

Some progress made - managed to unpack the save file into human readable format; downside is the file is 1.8 million lines of text.

I've identified where my character data is for each character, particularly by finding this expression:
attribute id="InParty" value="True"

I've spotted a number of attributes, but none of them seem to be amiss, these are the same on all four characters:

<attribute id="Party" value="108086395351859200" type="24" />
<attribute id="Team" value="0" type="1" />
<attribute id="IsPlayer" value="True" type="19" /> <attribute id="InParty" value="True" type="19" />

Interestingly, on this one, two characters have this value, but two have the other
<attribute id="OwnerCharacter" value="18014402804449311" type="24" />
<attribute id="OwnerCharacter" value="0" type="24" />

I initially assumed this was the characters that are linked together, but I'm not so sure since there are *three* linked characters in the save (one of which is the broken character).

Edit: This seems to be saved under PartyManager right at the end of the save, and all looks fine.

I haven't worked out how to repackage the saves yet, and will keep digging, but hopefully may find a solution. Would appreciate any input anyone might have at this point.

Okay - I have fixed it.

You will need to manually edit your save file, first extracting the contents of the packaged file using the EE Pak Extractor, making edits, then repackaging your changes.

Follow this guide to editing save files:
http://larian.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=605573&an=

The lines you want to change in this case are indeed the OwnerCharacter lines - the OwnerCharacter should be 0 - not the ID of your lead character.

That's awesome! Thanks so much :)