For anyone that this is happening to, I just played through this section at Last Light and yeah.. the game does appear to freeze or lock up when a merchant dies.
However, once it locks your movement it's not frozen, the game engine is just extremely slow to process the updated information when the merchant dies. Click end turn once or twice, take your hands off the keyboard and sit and wait for the current turn to end. The game will eventually catch up and move to the next turn and allow you to input actions again. The time it takes to resume seems to vary, when I killed Tali it took 2-3x longer for the game to resume than it did when I killed Dammon.
So yeah, depending on your PC might take longer or shorter, but it will resume eventually. Game is a hot mess either way.
Last edited by psychedelaholic; 20/02/24 06:00 PM.
