HypnoticMeat

Just had the same heartburn with this questline, but I was able to get around it. I think the problem is with the idiotic timer - I think it starts as soon as you deal with the Valera people in the Hole tavern in the Gullet. So, for instance, if you go to the tavern, crash the meet, and then continue on questing in the zone and other zones instead of immediately hightailing it back to the Bardatto lady - you know, like you would in *every other game of this type ever made* - you're going to get screwed and stupid papa Valera will be slapping his son regardless of whether you try and convince mama Bardatto to make peace. However! I was able to use a mod to get around Obsidian's garbage quest design. If you download the unity console mod (link below), you can edit all sorts of things, *including* quest related global variables. So, if you walk into casa Valera hoping to sue for peace and find yourself completely screwed, follow these steps: 1. Open the game journal 2. Open the unity console (Ctrl + F8 - though its rare, be careful as this can sometimes not register and instead load your latest quick save) 3. Click the toggle for global variables as well as the one for the filter (you should see a big window filled with wonky looking variable names like n_we_suck_at_coding) 4. In the filter box, search for "heist" (in my game, I saw 3 options and I clicked the clear button to the right of all of them except the one labeled trap_master or something like that) 5. Once the variables no longer appear in the window, close out of the journal and talk to papa Valera - he should no longer start slapping his son Good luck out there! And Obsidian...guys...come on. This is absurd.

I've noticed an issue that seems to have only just appeared with the latest patch where certain doors are either extremely difficult or downright impossible to target. In certain cases, the cursor doesn't change to the door icon unless all party members are standing as close as they can to it and the camera is positioned just so. In other cases, the icon just never displays and I can't open the door. I mention the new patch as my suspected culprit because I'm playing through the game with 2 different characters roughly at the same time and when I went through the area I'm having trouble with the first time (Raedric's castle), there were no door issues to speak of. Anyone else having problems like this? Also, holy crap holy crap holy crap holy crap this game is freaking awesome Also again - screw shades forever...