I believe I have identified the bug, for players who find a way to bypass getting BD-1 back before proceeding up the elevator to an arena in a level. I have proposed a fix to the team. Thanks for the info!
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Glad going back into Zeffo and finding the mini boss again worked! I’ll make sure we’re tracking the fact that ending that encounter with a force ability can lead to problems.
I did delete the game and reinstalled it and I never get the board to even light up anymore. I made the second post that you responded to after deleting it and reinstalling. I even made a brand new playthrough and nothing changed, the same issue persisted but the board wouldn’t even light up this time.
I do apologize. For some reason Reddit didn’t notify me you responded to either of my posts.
That’s truly bizarre that the same bug occurred on a whole new playthrough. I’ll pass on that additional info. And no worries — I think my posts were held up by auto-moderation at first.
Also I would recommend for someone from the team to respond with anything. Like seriously just say you are investigating it or something. It's always better than silence. EA_Attic seems to be the guy who was watching over the thread at first. An update from him or sth would be great.
Gotcha, I will pass that feedback on.
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/BD-1-disappeared-after-death/m-p/8426523#M10
This is the bug report I made. To me it looks more like improper reinitialisation of the BD-1 object after certain circumstances. Once it happens, you can keep dying, flying to diff planets, opening chests and he never comes back. Most people including me get it at a point where starting over would be too frustrating since there is no way to skip the beginning and it's kinda tough to have fun replaying a game when you just played it unlike when you come back to it after a year or so.
Thank you! I’ll read that report.
Yes I am still having the problem. When the scene opens the introductory lines about the force and not using aggression and obstacles define the path are all said and then he starts, I hear a kind of whimper from Cal and then i never hear anything else. It just is stuck in a loop of him forcing the ball to me and me force pushing the ball. Most of the time the target doesn’t light up, and Jaro and cal says nothing at all the whole time after the intro
Ok, thanks for the additional info. I will investigate further for patch purposes, but at this time I don’t know of a fix other than a game restart, unfortunately — assuming that completely killing and restarting the game, and reinstalling the game, don’t fix it.
Hey, just as a heads up it seems to be working ok, managed to get through a mission, hopefully it holds. If anything changes i will update here. Thanks again.
Thank you for the update!
So when are you going to add an option to manually reinitialise him? I have made a bug report on ea site and so have many others. Someone from the team responded once with a not so helpful response and after that we received no word at all from anyone. Even a "We are working on it" is better than no response, it just makes you look bad. I started this game on release hour and was unable to continue after 2 hours. It's been days.
Understood - I have raised this issue with relevant devs and I know it is being tracked and investigated. Understanding the repro for how BD-1 got into this state could help other players avoid the bug or assist us in also fixing that aspect of the bug. It is likely an issue related to a game save that triggered shortly before quitting the game and then later returning to resume play, but any info you could give would help.
Thanks, I think I'm going to try a few more times and then start a new game on the easiest difficulty and just power through the story with no secrets to try to progress past it.
Have passed this bug on to relevant devs.
Are you unable to call the elevator in the refinery back down using the call switch next to the platform?
If you haven’t already, try completely quitting and reopening the game and then returning to the mantis from your last save point. It’s possible that slow level loading from your hard drive might have meant that you returned to the mantis prior to a trigger volume loading.
So i just had a look and my external harddrive is nearly full (about 20gb off) maybe thats messed with it? I have the optional to move the game directly to system storage, or should I uninstall and reinstall on the PS4 itself? Sorry for the barrage of questions, i’m useless with this stuff!
I haven’t done it before, but from googling, my understanding is that using ‘move to system storage’ will move the game onto your PS4’s internal hard drive.
Thanks, we'll forward this through to the team. Sorry for the inconvenience!
Pffft, you look absolutely smashing.
Awesome timing!
she hot this planet is fucking terrible though i hate dathomir so goddamn much
Dathomir is amazing, you take that back!
A..are... you.. \looks both ways** a wizard, Sesetti? o.o
Usually when something has a blue highlight around them it indicates you to use a force ability, in this case it would be slow. Try heading around to a higher vantage point too if possible. Alternatively, try reloading your game!
Edit: After rewatching this, graphical issue - will pass this on to the team to fix :)
We are in the process of forwarding this through to the team, sorry for the inconvenience with this - Out of curiosity, had you attempted to reload the game prior to this happening?