Party members missing

[Louisa Bergey]

I know I'm late to the party but I just lost my job so I have all the time in the world to play games that I just never got to. I'm 118 hours in and I just finished White March part one and the game said, "Go rest" so I went back to Caed Nua.

I was going to divvy out my collected spoils to my party members that were left behind because there were new NPC's with new quests to take with me. I went to the party management screen and FOUR of my OG team was GONE! Sagani, 2 that I created and the worst of all.... Eder!! 

I've seen this issue on message boards but the posts are from 10 years years ago and they were PC gamers, I'm in Xbox X. 

 

Please please PLEASE tell me that there's some easy way to fix this and prevent it from happening again. I'm REALLY annoyed that this is still an issue. However, I just want to save my game. Please help

[Boeroer]

Hi, I'm sorry to hear that you lost your job.

I'm also sorry to hear that you encounterd that situation with your party members. It never happened to me (on PC) during thousands of hours of playtime and I also didn't really read about that problem (or maybe I did and forgot about it) - so I'm not sure how to solve this. But I can understand your frustration. Unfortunately the console versions of the game are more buggy than the PC version is. Originally the Pillars game were done for PC exclusively. Only later the publisher (not Obsidian) decided to port the Pillars games to consoles and hired different devs for that task.

On PC I could at least give you some console commands to try to fix this, but iirc the X-Box-Version of the game has no in-game console for typing in commands.  

The game is old though - so if you read about ways how to solve this issue they might still work, no matter if they are 10 years old. The game hasn't changed in the past years - so what worked then might still work now. Maybe it's also a good idea to search in the Paradox forums (they are the ones responsible for the port):
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/forums/pillars-of-eternity-console.989/

But I wonder: don't you maybe have some save game from before this happened? I mean it sure is annoying to have to replay parts of the game - but better than not being able to fix the issue at all I assume. 

Sorry that I cannot be of more help. But I thought I'd answer anyway just to bump the thread. 

Edited 5 hours ago by Boeroer
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