God of Schemes Game-breaking Bug

DaniAngione · June 2016

Hey there!

I recently convinced a friend to play the game. She was really enjoying it until she finally got to the last quest of the main storyline, God of Schemes...

She's not a very... uhmm... patient person. And a terrible bug has struck her and she got really angry and mad and now I'm trying to find a fix but I can't (and she doesn't want to play anymore, lol, little does she know what we endured on launch........) anyway...

It seems to be a known bug, there are reports like it from 2014 but it was supposed to be fixed already.

It happens when she is asked to VANQUISH MOLAG BAL during the God of Schemes quest. She goes all the way up but when he "stuns" her to pull her character, he just stands there dancing and she just stands on the ground on the "being pulled" animation but without moving. We've tried relogging and using /stuck and /reloadui and suiciding and trying again and many other things but couldn't accomplish anything. The same behaviour repeats itself every time.

Ideas? Fixes? She's really angry about having to restart the quest, lol, and that might just fix it... though I'll probably only know that tomorrow since she doesn't want to play anymore now. So I thought it was worthy trying a shot here nonetheless.

Ganj · June 2016

That thing happened me 5 minutes ago. After i climb up to the stairs Molag Bal does his spell to me and then i can not move again. I waited like 10 minutes like that but nothing changed. Also tried to relog 4-5 times and still nothing happens. When ever i climb up their stairs Molag Bal stuns me and cant move again.

DaniAngione · June 2016

Ganj wrote: »

That thing happened me 5 minutes ago. After i climb up to the stairs Molag Bal does his spell to me and then i can not move again. I waited like 10 minutes like that but nothing changed. Also tried to relog 4-5 times and still nothing happens. When ever i climb up their stairs Molag Bal stuns me and cant move again.

Exactly!

This is exactly what happened to her.
She choose Varen for her sacrifice. Who did you choose?

Ganj · June 2016

Prophet. I also sent a mail but probably wont help anyway.

So its official

https://help.elderscrollsonline.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/20878/

Elder_III · June 2016

This exact same thing happened to my wife and I tonight..... utterly pathetic that they have known of this at least since 6/3/2016 and have done Two Updates since then without fixing it. Having played since Beta and encountered numerous game ruining bugs like this I have to really wonder how much of an idiot am I to keep paying 2 subs. If this wasn't TES I'm pretty sure the game servers would have been turned off by now. The amount of Broken things in the game is the worst I've encountered in any MMO over 15 years of playing the genre.

Sad pandas Sad pandas everywhere.

Ganj · June 2016

Elder_III wrote: »

This exact same thing happened to my wife and I tonight..... utterly pathetic that they have known of this at least since 6/3/2016 and have done Two Updates since then without fixing it. Having played since Beta and encountered numerous game ruining bugs like this I have to really wonder how much of an idiot am I to keep paying 2 subs. If this wasn't TES I'm pretty sure the game servers would have been turned off by now. The amount of Broken things in the game is the worst I've encountered in any MMO over 15 years of playing the genre.

Sad pandas Sad pandas everywhere.

Wow thats so true i couldnt even defend.

DaniAngione · June 2016

What I find really interesting to be honest is not the amount of game breaking issues (I've seen far worse, seriously. LOTRO has a rough history of dungeons and end-game content after MoM that people literally never completed because of bugs that were never fixed)

What surprises me is that:
1- Things that were fixed break again for no reason (??) I defeated Molag Bal with an alt like a month ago and it was fine. So why it is broken again, lol?

2- Where these game breaking bugs are and are allowed to last. Like, we see super complex/different things working fine all around, silly side quest scenes, etc... and the final animation in the main story final boss, which is likely the most important point in the game, is bugged for years and the fixes don't last long, lol

So it's actually surprising. I mean... Never seen anything like that

Oh, did you also sacrifice the Prophet? It seems you all did, I'm thinking about telling her to spare the old guy

Kodger · June 2016

I didn't see this post before I made one with the exact same issue. Definitely a game breaking bug.

DarkonValor · June 2016

Molag Bal bugged here too (the suspended in air animation loop), but I Chose Sai Sahan on my second attempt. Funnily enough, I chose the Prophet first, then logged out and back in again and had to repeat the quest from the beginning, allowing me to make a new choice of who to sacrifice. As mentioned, chose Sai on the second attempt, but the bug is still present. I don't think it matters who you chose for the ritual.

An interesting observation:

After logging out and back in again, new wayshrines appear at the the next area you'll end up going to (Daggerfall in my case). Teleporting to those, allows me to at least start the quests there and everything is properly level scaled.
So, it's kinda like I (temporarily) skipped killing Molag Bal and am able to continue in the next area.

This needs to be fixed to continue the story line.

Nestor · June 2016

DarkonValor wrote: »

An interesting observation:

After logging out and back in again, new wayshrines appear at the the next area you'll end up going to (Daggerfall in my case). Teleporting to those, allows me to at least start the quests there and everything is properly level scaled.
So, it's kinda like I (temporarily) skipped killing Molag Bal and am able to continue in the next area.

This needs to be fixed to continue the story line.

@DarkonValor

If your CP Ranked, then the WS for the next set of zones are automatically enabled. Whether you kill Molag Bal or not. Although, the areas don't quite start out the way that they should, at least in Vulkhel Guard (Gold Instance) I had to go find the quest to take me to the starter island, rather than when the game NPC kind of just gives it to you after you get sent there by Caldwell.

So, that could be a way to get past this, although you do lose out on the rewards, and a skill point.

Kodger · June 2016

I just tried this again using the 64 bit client. I chose another companion besides "Prophet" but still have the same thing happening.

DarkonValor · June 2016

Nestor wrote: »

DarkonValor wrote: »

If your CP Ranked, then the WS for the next set of zones are automatically enabled. Whether you kill Molag Bal or not. Although, the areas don't quite start out the way that they should, at least in Vulkhel Guard (Gold Instance) I had to go find the quest to take me to the starter island, rather than when the game NPC kind of just gives it to you after you get sent there by Caldwell.

So, that could be a way to get past this, although you do lose out on the rewards, and a skill point.

That is correct. I went to the wayshrine this morning just to check if the level scaling was working. I would obviously prefer to do the quest(s) the way it's intended to be, but at least I can still play my character. I'm guessing Molag Bal can be killed at any time once the issue is fixed since I still have the quest. I just don't know what kind of mess it'll create when eventually completing that part after I've already started questing in the next area(s).

I'm playing DLC content/dailies for the time being.

I'm hoping this'll all be fixed soon.

lordp · June 2016

The interface I use ( LUIExtended) shows an effect being applied with a caption of "Phase1 HidePets", so I'm wondering if the bug is trying to hide pets that don't exist - my character is a templar and I don't have any vanity pets.

salvapepo · June 2016

i tried sacrificing lyris and still doesnt work, hope they fix this bug soon

researchmonkey · June 2016

I have the same bug as well.

Clearly they changed something a few patches back and didn't test the effects, so now the main story can't be completed by any player. They are aware of it but have no plans to fix it. Seriously best troll of players by a game company ever: "No you can't fight the boss to complete the story".

Why is this even bugged let alone not fixed, it's the final fight of the game story.

Hugely disappointed on not being able to finish the story.

DarkonValor · June 2016

Apparently this doesn't affect every player, because if it did, I'm sure the internet would break :-/

Joking aside, I think this still has to be a top priority for ZOS. This is indeed a game breaking issue and probably one of the most critical. Not being able to progress in the main story is a big deal and the "workarounds" are not a real solution.

Unfortunately there's not much that we as players can do to help troubleshoot or identify the cause other than posting character builds and PC specs maybe.

Would be interesting to know if this has affected console players yet?

Nervani · June 2016

Having the exact same issue. Walking up the stairs, Molag Bal stuns and I'm in an endless animation. Tried relog, restart pc and repair w/o any luck. Chose the prophet aswell :P
Had no issues with this when I did it with my DC character a few months ago (AD now)

ylehavot · June 2016

I have the same situation....can not continue the quest, im just stunned for ever

zyk · June 2016

@ZOS_JessicaFolsom

Can you comment on this? This progress blocking main story bug has been an item in the support kb for almost two weeks.

commanderkoalab14_ESO · June 2016

Just adding to the pool of people with this glitch. I didn't know it had been known about for 2 weeks. That's utterly insane. How has this not been fixed?

Nervani · June 2016

I'm just curious, what level are you all? Not that it should matter. I'm currently lvl 47. The character I finished ot with a couple of months ago were lvl 50 (V1)

salvapepo · June 2016

Im champion 151, but tried it when i was lvl 49 before reaching 50 and couldnt do it anyway. So i dont think the lvl matters.

Ganj · June 2016

im 50 and cant do it.

ylehavot · June 2016

I did it on lvl50 on another character a while ago, but now it is buged.
I can not even enter the fight, I am just stunned for ever....waited like 15 min and still was stunned and can not do anything.

zyk · June 2016

At least new players will quickly learn what they can expect from ZOS going forward.

Xsorus · June 2016

Rofl; Just tried doing this on my Sorc to finish her off and this happened...Jesus...can't believe this exists after 2 years..

Sheerah · June 2016

Has been happening to me. Sadly I logged out, and did it again just to have it happen again before finding this post. I've done it on four other toons no problems until now.

Nervani · June 2016

I just managed to complete God of schemes by entering cyrodiil once trapped in the animation when entering where molag bal is. Once in cyrodiil I went right to the harborage and entered the quest where I directly got that red and golden armor and ran thru the map and once back with molag bal I could run around and then trigger the quest to continue

Sorry for bad english

Valoryan · June 2016

Mary_Hex wrote: »

I just managed to complete God of schemes by entering cyrodiil once trapped in the animation when entering where molag bal is. Once in cyrodiil I went right to the harborage and entered the quest where I directly got that red and golden armor and ran thru the map and once back with molag bal I could run around and then trigger the quest to continue

Just tried and didn't work for me $:\$

ylehavot · June 2016

yes, for me it also did not work. I returned to the entrance, and the moment I step into the fight area, I was again stunned for ever.

When this bug will be fixed??????

Aelron28 · June 2016

Yeah thats happened to me just 5 min ago. And my clan mates told me its imposible to finish that untill they relase new patch. thats sad.