@talion1 Sorry to hear you have the problem too. Annoying, isn’t it?

Surely it can’t be that hard for the coders to either a: make it so essential npcs can’t be killed, or b: if they do get killed, they at least respawn eventually (as any local enemies do). But I’m not a coder so i could be way off base. At least it’s nice to know they are at least looking into it.

Agreed. I’ve gone to the support site, typed out my problem and added a pic, then when i hit submit, it tells me to select the various categories. Which i then do, but this then disables submit your request button, and only leaves the start a chat option (which informs me chat is currently closed, and which i don’t want to do anyway). How can i just submit a simple ticket??????

@ubi-borealis

Yes, it worked! And finally 100 per cent completion and the platinum trophy for Valhalla! I’m so pleased!

Thanks @ubi-borealis for keeping an eye on the problem and keeping us updated. And @ubikobald for also responding. And the tech team for finally unglitching the dead pie thief. Really appreciate all your work and efforts.

@talion1 Sorry to hear you have the problem too. Annoying, isn’t it?

Surely it can’t be that hard for the coders to either a: make it so essential npcs can’t be killed, or b: if they do get killed, they at least respawn eventually (as any local enemies do). But I’m not a coder so i could be way off base. At least it’s nice to know they are at least looking into it.

@ubi-borealis Thanks for your reply ubi-borealis

Unfortunately, i don’t have a save file from before that point, which i now regret extremely. I’m sure it would have saved me a lot from the disappointment towards the game that the bug has caused me. But till that point, I’d had no such quest-breaking issues I’d had to deal with and grown complacent. That said, having learned my lesson from that bug, I’ve since created a save file for each new area of the game as I entered it. I’ve had no other problems though and have completed the game except for that one, damned world event!

On your second request, yes, there were indeed enemies in the Jorvik area prior to starting the event. Plenty of them! And in particular, i believe there were a nest of enemies quite close-by, in the market area, who needed to be engaged with as part of the area’s main quest line. I also seem to recall a caged wild animal - a Lynx - in the area, which I’d released to distract some of these enemies(black-marketeers) to help me clear them. I’ve long suspected they, or especially likely the lynx, may have played some part in slaughtering the young pie-thief.

Again, thanks for the reply. Glad to see some thought appears to be going into solving this problem.

I had my hopes up today’s patch might have fixed the issue, but alas, no luck. Any word if this is being worked on?

Agreed. I’ve gone to the support site, typed out my problem and added a pic, then when i hit submit, it tells me to select the various categories. Which i then do, but this then disables submit your request button, and only leaves the start a chat option (which informs me chat is currently closed, and which i don’t want to do anyway). How can i just submit a simple ticket??????

@ubikobold could you advise how to submit a support ticket over this issue. I’ve gone to the support site, typed out my problem and added the pic, then when i hit submit, it tells me to select the various categories. Which i then do, but this then disables submit your request button, and only leaves the start a chat option (which informs me chat is currently closed, and which i don’t want to do anyway - i don’t believe this is a problem that can be solved with online troubleshooting, it’s a bug that’s needs to be patched). How can i just submit a simple ticket so i know it’s at least in the process???????

Essential quest npcs can still be killed, and not respawn (eg, Silver Wind Elder world event)

Sad to say that the latest patch (1.1.1) doesn’t seem to have fixed my issue in “Silver Wind Elder” That npc corpse just won’t resurrect or respawn.

has anyone else had an essentials quest npc dead preventing progress bug fixed in this patch?

@ubikobold
Had my hopes up with the latest patch (1.1.1) that this many have been fixed. But still stuck on the same problem - that damned npc corpse just sits there, refusing to resurrect or respawn. Is there any word if this has made it op to the known issues list and whether it’s going to be fixed in a future patch?

@ubi-woofer by the way, I’m playing on ps5.
The problem in this, and several other incidents in story quests and world events as documented in various threads in this forum, is simple - necessary npcs in a number of quests are able to be killed and don’t resurrect/respawn - no matter what action taken by the player.