Your continued and amazing passion for the game inspired us to work on this. Thank you and may the 4th be with you!
I still can’t scan the bogano spot where there is a chair used to watch the creature
Make sure you are not only standing by the chair — you are also looking in the direction of the Binog and keep looking that way.
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.
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.
Are you unable to call the elevator in the refinery back down using the call switch next to the platform?
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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 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!
A fix has now been submitted for this issue and will be in a future patch. It should fix the glitch that enabled the elevator to work without saving BD-1, and should also restore BD-1 to players who left without him.
Hey, could you guys please confirm whether the female NPC is still present when you reopen the game, or whether she has also disappeared? Thanks!
Hey, could you guys please confirm whether the female NPC is still present when you reopen the game, or whether she has also disappeared? Thanks!
I have found a repro for this bug -- the steps are to start talking to the NPC (Merrin) but then run to the save point while you both are speaking. Save, and then close the game. When you reload your save, it is possible that sometimes your remaining conversations with her will be limited and the bridge away will not appear.
Is it possible that this is what happened? I can fix this issue but want to make sure I'm not missing another bug.
Hi. Just encountered this bug. This is fresh in my mind, just happened to me about 15 minutes ago. Start the prison sequence, pull the first plug, exit the cell. Central area: Pulled the plugs out of the wall, re-arranged them and plugged them all back in, elevator was still red at this point.
Went through the wall crevasse, talked to the guy in the cell, found BD-1. I noticed that it was on the table way in the back of that cell, inanimate. Eyes weren't lit, not moving on the table. I said aloud to myself that that looked like an ambush. I pulled the plug from the wall on the left, the forcefield went down. I dropped down from the overhang above where the forcefield was, and soft locked myself. There was nothing there. Killed myself by jumping off around 10 times, respawned in my beginning cell. At this point, I wandered around, and I think that this might be what caused the elevator to be powered. Stepped on it, did the arena without BD-1, the Mantis came in, I boarded and went to Kashyyyk. I quit before finishing the cutscene because I was finding posts online about permanent loss of BD-1.
Edit: oh my god, you were supposed to climb the plug, lol. 2iq player behavior. I had no idea.
Thank you for this repro! I have fixed the bug that allows the elevator to go up before you’ve gotten BD-1. Without being able to use the elevator you would have had to return to the other area after respawning, which is where you find him. The fix will be in a patch soon. Thanks!
This issue has been fixed for an upcoming patch. Thank you for your patience and assistance in resolving this!
We're looking into this one -- thanks for the report.