Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Technical & Gameplay Problems Strange Ox Rampage since Patch 3

I have just loaded up the game after patch 3 and my party was at the Last Light Inn.

As soon as i load my save game, the Strange Ox transforms into the "acid blob" and kills everyone it can at Last Light Inn, starting with Dammon who is killed before i can stop it.

I have gone to some previous saves, including one just before entering Last Light Inn. In every one of them, the Ox goes on an immediate rampage! (Immediately after the cut scene with Jaheira in the case of going back a few saves, before i can even get to the smithy).

The Ox was still just a Strange Ox before the patch, and keeping to itself.

I have gone to a save at the Druid Grove, and there the Ox does not go on a rampage, so it seems specific to Last Light Inn.

Please look into this, as it is real problem with it killing everyone.

Thanks

It's happening to me too. It will also ignore turn based mode and keep attacking people when you try to fight it. Also it immediately kills Dammon so there's no possible way to save him. Anytime I try to use sanctuary on Dammon the strange ox just ignores turn based mode and kills him anyway, along with the Harpers. I already had an issue with Dammon disappearing because I killed the strange ox at the Grove the last playthrough I did.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that during the time it takes to run from the portal to Dammon or the bridge to Dammon he is killed. There's not even enough time to go near him to save him. And then the blob ignores turn based mode so that won't work either

Having the same trouble. Tried loading in from camp, from the basement, into the town directly, and approaching the town for the first time. Every time the Strange ox is already in battle with several unfortunate casualties.

Please fix this! I don't want to continue without Dammon

Having the same problem and just made a bug report. In addition, I can't save after trading with any vendor. Quality is declining instead of improving

Same here. I had no chance to finish Karlachs Quest in Act 3 first playthrough, because of a another bug. On my secound Game again thx a bug i cant again finish karlachs Quest...

Sounds like a hotfix is necessary, hope everyone is submitting bug reports with save files attached

Created an account to say same issue. I'm at the very end of Act II and went back to Last Light Inn to find half the town, including Dammon, dead. Got the update for Karlach's quest as soon as I got close enough. I'm hoping if I leave my saves alone there will be a fix. Can some kind soul please let me know the best way to report bugs? Here is the link to the forum post https://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=874801#Post874801

It's one part hilarious and one part infuriating lol, hopefully they catch it soon. I'm sure there's a very stressed dev out there haha.

Same thing here, have been sitting for 15mins trying to reload a save just in time to save Dammon but no luck :(( hopefully theyre gonna fix it soon

From the patch notes:
"Fixed an issue causing Dammon to enter combat and die at Last Light, preventing Karlach's story from progressing."

Great job there, Larian.

The bright side here is that the save bug allowed me to not progress my story past Dammon being dead at Last Light. I went back in the middle of the Gauntlet of Shar and thought maybe he'd gotten ganked during the initial attack there that I repelled since I was focused on not letting anyone inside die. Happy to know it's just a bug and I should go play Cyberpunk 2077 until the fix gets released.

Having the same issue after updating the game today. It's my second walkthrough and I was really shocked after I've found Dammon dead on the empty spot of odd fox in Last light inn. After a lot of reloads of my saves I've found the one where Dammon can be saved. But I didn't plan to kill the odd fox... Hopefully Larian will fix it very fast, so we all can play this awesome game the way we want

Hello,

a friend of mine an I found a solution how to save Dammon but in a bit complicated way.
There is an appearance range that let's you prevent spawning the Strange Ox and not initiating the Fight.
the method we used is that one character is strength based with crates, featherfall, Haste and Potion of Vaulting with something that disables the Strange Ox like Polymorph.
After that our character jumped from the crates at max range

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Fwiw, afaik Dammon is supposed to in act 1.

The Ox going rampage in act 2, however.. not so much, unless you provoke him. And y'all got yourself an unfortunate spoiler to boot.

[quote=Michieltjuhh]Fwiw, afaik Dammon is supposed to in act 1.

Where did you get that from? There is no connection between the ox and Dammon in Act 1. Even in Act 2 he will die only if he joins you in the fight against the ox and the ox kills him.

This is really annoying as it is happening to me as well. I knew I should have played before the patch to get past the last light inn.. Hope there is a hotfix in the coming days.

I've found a solution for this. It seemed to only happen to me and my friends that have PartyLimitBegone installed. What we ended up doing was saving before entering the inn and having only 4 party members then:

1. Go to Steam > Library > Baldurs Gate III > Settings > Properties > Installed Files > Then click Verify Integrity of Game Files
2. Delete the Mods Folder in the Data folder
3. Play The game (Without the mod) (entering the last light inn for all of our campaigns had the strange ox as the ox and not a rampaging ooze)
4. Save and quit
5. Reinstall any mod we have (we only had PartyLimitBegone)
6. Play the game

After that everything seems to work fine.

Please keep a save or backup of your files handy just incase this doesn't work for you guys.
Happy Adventuring

Fair enough, then I was misinformed. Never tried it myself. I just heard that the Ox supposedly helps them into act 2.

Having the same problem, no matter how far back I go in saves. As soon as I travel back to Last Light Inn, Dammon is being killed by the ox every time.

I have the same issue. I try to misty step and banish before he kills Dammon and I get close but not quite.