I saw a few people having this problem in the patch announcement thread. Well, me too. I've checked on multiple saves with vastly different progress, with vastly different choices made and from vastly different patches. One of my groups was informed about mastered spells when I loaded...

 

And just now I tried reinstalling the game, still to no avail. It did wipe out my custom portraits though :/ and on that note, the new portraits are working, but the merchant is nowhere to be seen. Is there something I need to do to spawn him that everyone else knows but isn't telling me?

 

I could attach some saves but as implied by the first paragraph, I doubt you could find a common factor between them. Still, if you ask...

Edited December 10, 20178 yr by omgFIREBALLS

Just to be sure: Did you just install the new patch? Because for the merchant you have to install the Deadfire Pack, which is a seperate installer. Had this "problem" myself the first time I wanted to try out the new stuff.

I had a disproportionately large download that added some portraits and asked me if I wanted to enable telemetry. It is my understanding that the bonus merchant was supposed to be part of this.

 

At the menu screen, it says my version is v3.7.0.1280

Edited November 28, 20178 yr by omgFIREBALLS

Download size doesn't say much in this case. Due to the way files are stored in this game, we have to download whole packages with all the files included even if a patch just changes one of them. The version number also only shows that the patch has been installed - in which the new portraits are included, I think. The Merchant and items are a separate thing.

 

Try this if you have the game from GoG: https://www.gog.com/game/pillars_of_eternity_deadfire_pack

Or this if you are a steam user: http://store.steampowered.com/app/734070/Pillars_of_Eternity__Deadfire_Pack/

Trying to install that (Steam user) just launches the game. Also, in my Steam DLC list I have Pillars of Eternity - Deadfire Pack checked, installed, the works. As I press view downloadable content for PoE on Steam, every listed item (WM1, WM2, Deadfire Pack) is flagged as already being in my library. In short, nothing in any Steam interface leads me to believe that there is something I have yet to install.

 

I actually don't even understand why you say the portraits and the merchant aren't part of the same deal. They're in the same patch notes.

Well, I'm a GoG user myself, so I cannot say how things are on Steam. I'm not a 100% sure about the portraits, but the Deadfire Pack page on GoG does not mention them and I think (not sure though) I had the portraits but not the merchant when I first patched my game to 3.07. I later added the Deadfire Pack and got everything, so I thought this could help. Seems I was wrong though. Don't know what else could be the problem - sorry.

Hey, thanks nonetheless. But can you confirm that there's no trick to spawning the merchant or anything; you simply go to his location at Anslög's Compass at any point during the game and he'll be there?

Yes, there is no trick or quest or anything in order to make him appear. He just stands there, greets you with an "Ahoy" if get near him and tells you about how his ship got wrecked in a storm, forcing him to sell the ships cargo in order make some coin.

I didn't notice Steam downloading anything (I hope I'd notice another humongous "patch") but this actually seems to be fixed now. My version number is the same but perhaps there was some PX stuff added. I don't know what it means. Regardless, the merchant is now there for both my most recent party and my very first party, so I believe we can say this has been fixed. Cheers.