Sad thing is they're probably focusing more on getting the Xbox version ready as that's more lucrative than fixing the game for people that already bought it. The fact that it's been like this before patch #3 is pretty shocking tbh.
The game was in pretty good shape before Patch 3.
yeah like I think I mentioned I've already cleared the game once with my only complaints being some janky events (a certain two party members fought to the death OFFSCREEN because they weren't both in main party beforehand) and obvs some FPS issues with the main city but never had any progression blocking issue whatsoever, but like you said, that was before Patch 3.
As an aside in case it helps anyone conjure up some miracle workaround, my "loading screen of 100% guaranteed death" is in Act 3 going from the Wyrmsrest Keep into the actual city proper aka the other end of the keep's drawbridge, thus preventing me from ever stepping foot even ONCE into the final map of the game. So I loaded up a bunch of saves from previous points in Act 3 to see if they might be before the suspected "nonzero corpse" and not a single one of them worked, INCLUDING my save immediately after leaving the other dimension/meeting the Real Dream Vis and Gith-Jesus. For all of these tests I just made a beeline for that zone line into the lower city and all of them ended with the usual 33% > 67% > 100% (sounds start up) > crash to desktop.
so unless it somehow "counted" some nonzero corpse from the brief other dimension trip (which it almost 100% wouldn't have because it's obvs not the same zone) or it just so happened to be one of the 3 or 4 Gith camp assassins right before you take the portal at the verrrrry start of the act, it would appear that the bug can either transcend acts (as in, nonzero corpse happened in Act 1 or 2 but it still let me get to the first map of 3 but not the second) or isn't guaranteed to be related to a nonzero corpse, seeing as I entered the "real" act 3 and did the minimum amount of interactions possible (obviously no combat/deaths) and it STILL crashed trying to zone into the lower city
oh and obviously this is a long shot but I noticed in a couple other posts similar to mine they were in Dark Urge playthroughs like mine (the only "forced" cutscene was a Dark Urge related one on the direct route to the lower city line) and my first playthrough wasn't Durge but that should be easy to disprove
