Game autosaves before you try to pick up the ice sickles.  When you do many scopians attack.

Playing on PC and my son on his Xbox Series X. (co-op crossplay)

When the fight starts, the game crashes mid way through the ice sickles warming up.  

We tried looting each scorpian body to see if it helped which it did, but getting close to the sickles warming up, it crashed again.

 

This is the first bug  blocker that I've got in the game.

 

 

 

I am having the same issue. Game gets right to the point the ice sickle are ready and there are maybe one or two scorpions that are not dead and the game just crashes and kicks you out.

When you log back in it takes you right back to where you were before the battle started.

Really annoying as you need these to complete the next part, I e get the stranger.