Fights that do not end Thread - Jade Empire in Style mod for Jade Empire

...Problem : In some battles, i defeated all enemies but the slow-motion battle ending didn't trigger and the battle didnt end, i got stuck in the battle-arena, reload to recently save doesnt seem to fix the problem, i has encountered this problem 2 times so far now :
- 1st : after you rescued Dawn Star and head back to Two Rivers, keep going...to the brigde..when Dawn Star said something about she plant flowers for everyone in the village, there was 2 guys ahead...thats the battle i got stuck.
- 2nd : in the forest mission after battle with Black Whirwind, from the temple you go east (If you look on the map,the battle is on the short road lead to the temple ), it will lead you to some battle...thats the 2nd.
This is not really a problem, i could remove the mod....pass through the battle, then install the mod again, but its still a bug.

The 2nd I can most likely fix myself, but for the 1st I could use a little assistance. Please, send me a savegame that's as close to that fight as possible! I'll PM you my email address.

OMG i just delete all saves last night:((, ok i will play again to that point...just wait.

No, I can't reproduce the second problem either. You mean the battle between the temple and the entrance to the Inn, right? There's eight opponents spawning successively one after another. I just played that one twice without any problems whatsoever. If you have a savegame that would help me reproduce the problem, that would be great!

EDIT:

Damn. I'm sorry to hear that. But I'm afraid I cannot fix the problem, if I cannot reproduce it. I just loaded an Autosave that was made before fighting the Black Whirlwind, then quicksaved before the combat area in question and played it twice - twice without problems... So, I got nothing.

Edited by: pecoes

done, the 1st battle did stuck..again... erh the 2nd did not spawn 8 opps, it only spawn 3, the 8 one must be the long way to the INN, i mean AFTER you fight black whirwind head east, straight to the place where you has to palce the crystal, just go down that road, you should meet some ghosts, i remember there was only 3, can i upload the save to mediafire and sent to you here? or its must be sent via PM/email?

Edited by: Rewels

Mediafire's fine, of course.

I think I did figure out the issue with the first fight (the one in the burned down school). Here's the hotfix:

Jade-empire-in-style.com

The fix was made under the assumption, that you either did not give a potion to Kia Min or gave her the bad one.

Edited by: pecoes

OMG i just read your reply i go to gamefaq to find the walkthrough, yeah i didnt know about Kia Min's injury and that Quest, i just started playing and completed this game once so its obvious i missed lots of thing.
Hey i tried your new file...problem sovled , no need to send save anymore:-c

Fine, but what about that second fight in the forrest? You still get stuck there, don't you?

BTW The short way to the Inn isn't East, it's North. But you went to the East, didn't you? I tried that as well, but there was no fight at all...

EDIT:

I'm off to make breakfast now. I'll be back in an hour or so.

Edited by: pecoes

its north if you go from the forest, it will be east if you go from the temple, just stand exactly where you fight Whirwind, after that you has to head east anyway, to completed the Crystal Light puzzle, yeah that where i has problem. anyway that problem can be easily ignored, as i dont need to go there, after you killed the Mother all creature will vanished anyway.
Heres the map so you can easily figure it out

I completely ignored 16 17 ,i go from 12>13>14>15>18
after battle with whirwind at 18 i head to 17...which is east...see?(yeah i afraid i might pointed out the wrong direction so i googled it be4 i told you it was east ) then when i go to 16 i should meet some ghost ...and stuck

*edit* : haha you must be really far away from where i lived, cuz right now its really at noon, and i already ate my lunch=)

Edited by: Rewels

Oh yeah, Vietnam, is it? Then it's six hours later than here in Germany... Six hours is still cool! My main tester lives in New Zealand. That's 12 hours! He and I are rarely awake at the same time. He's a great guy, but the lag is not so great.

Well I tested your scenario as exactly as possible and I still can't seem to encounter any problems. Would you mind uploading that savegame? It doesn't look like I'll be able to fix this bug without it. Thanks!

Well then i though it is a rare bug, well if it dont happen to your game then it might not happen to everyone else , too bad last night i delete all the save, each of them take up 4-5mb in my hard drive and i got more than 200 of them, just like Dragon age, this game save eat up hard drive really quickly , never mind that bug, i will keep playing, if any bug happen i will report back to you, thank you for your time
Or mb it was fix by the previous fix you sent me..havent test it yet.

No, the previous fix would have no effect. Let's hope this was an outlier, then...

Thank you for taking the time to report this to me and help me fix it!

Edited by: pecoes

Hey pecoes, I have the non ending battle issue from return to Two Rivers. 2 guards are beating Kia Min and commenting on her bum leg. After I beat them, the combat mode never ends and I cant progress. I have saves and everything, just tell me what you need me to do.

BTW I love the mod and the new styles, now it really pays off to take every combat seriously to get more points.

Hi 7ty7! The bugfix I wrote with Rewels' help is not in the featured download yet. That'll happen when the next version comes out. Most likely next weekend. For the moment, you will have to use the hotfix that I posted above. Hope that helps!

Damn, sorry for not reading properly, I'll use the hotfix so I can continue. Will this next version warrant a new game, or is it mostly fixes?

Thanks in advance.

ps it's not really important so i dont want to make a new thread, but is it possible that the peasant in Two Rivers who complains about you taking his cash during the attack is affected by the mod? I seem to remember if you took his money from a basket down the right form the entrance (first time you go to village), then when you were going after Gao he would ask you if you had seen his money? Anyway, I didnt see him this playthrugh with the mod.

I can't confirm that from experience. I've always seen this guy. Maybe you didn't take his money after all? It's in a chest not in a basket. Otherwise I'd appreciate it if you send me a savegame (or upload it somewhere). If I cannot reproduce the bug myself, I'm blind and deaf.

EDIT:

You can also make a quick test yourself, if you like. Temporarily replace pc_heartbeat.ncs and j00_een_area.ncs with the files from this download (keep the originals!):

download.zip

Quit the game, start it again and load the autosave the game made right after you left the school for the last time. You should see an in-game message. If it says "yes", you took the money. If it says "no", you did not.

EDIT2:

@Rewels:

I finally managed to reproduce your second bug - if only by dumb luck. It happens in the combat area in front of the entrance to the Inn. The first time you come to that combat area you face eight ghosts. If you let a lot(!) of time pass, before you return to the Inn, you will get into another fight in the same combat area - this time against three ghosts. This second fight is the one that doesn't end. Unless you want to test the bugfix yourself, I'll simply include in the next full version.

Edited by: pecoes

During the Dream fight in what i think is chapter 6 the fight does not end
Do you know what might cause this or how to fix it

I'll look into it! I'll get back to you this evening (CET)!

PS Guys! Please, stop posting each and every bug in the same thread! Open a new one, please. That makes it much easier for others with the same problem, to find the solution.

EDIT:

Okay, here's a (provisional) fix: j07_drm_fight.zip.
Please do let me know if it works!

Edited by: pecoes

Thanks for posting those files pecoes. No I hadn't found it I'll be more careful before posting bug reports in the future

ps maybe this thread could just be the "Endless fights" bug type thread

7ty7 wrote: Thanks for posting those files pecoes. No I hadn't found it I'll be more careful before posting bug reports in the future

Don't worry about it. I trip over false positives all the time...

7ty7 wrote: ps maybe this thread could just be the "Endless fights" bug type thread

Oh. I didn't even notice that. Under the hood all three problems are extremely different, so I didn't realize, they look the same. Sometimes I don't see the wood for the trees. But you're right. That's what all three bugs have in common: They're all fights that refuse to end, even though there are no opponents left. I renamed the thread to "Fights that do not end".

I have another never ending fight at the very end, when you choose to poison the water dragon and fight your companions.

@Rewels:

I will need a savegame for that. I could never quite bring myself to play the game CF.

(It's no coincidence that over 50% of the bugs only show in CF playthroughs )

Damn, I just deleted all my autosaves :/
I'll upload one once I get to that point again, although you don't need to play the game CF, the choice to poison the dragon will come up regardless of your alignment.

You were right! It works just as well with an OP character.

Murdering my companions and the Waterdragon was rather distressing, though.

Whatever. Here's the fix: j00_ede_default.ncs

Use this fix with extreme caution! I'm currently doing a major rewrite of the transformation- and appearance-subsystems. Since I'm not even half-way through my tests, I have no idea yet what I did or did not break in the process. My mod won't be completely stable before the end of the week, I'm afraid.

Hhm, it seems after installing the fix my game took over my computer and is now gaining access to the worlds arsenal of nuclear missiles, but other than that it seems to work fine so far.

BTW a hotfix only a few hours after the bug report, that's some fast support