My PC is a level 10 Jedi Guardian, about 90% Light Side at the moment. Just got to the first encounter with Atris at the Polar Plateu. Walked into the building, everything was normal (that is to say, my transport just crashed and my companions have been arrested. Seems pretty damn normal to me
).I speak to the lead Handmaiden and all is still well. Go to the Prison cells...and nobody is there, save for Bao-Dur who's KO'd and I can't interact with him in any way (this is probably normal, but the cells thing isn't, because...)
then I go to meet Atris, and there are my party members, in front of the Turbolift door. Kreia is meditating and Atton is knocked out. I assume that this is what each should be doing INSIDE their chambers?
Now for the REALLY weird part - when I speak to Kreia, she stops meditating, but does nothing else. Repeated clicks of the left mouse button make her turn towards me, but never talk to me, or go into the conversation screen (the one with the options and thick black margins top and bottom).
However, the REALLY REALLY weird part is when I talk to Atton. He stands up, and goes into the Conversation screen, giving me these two choices:
1. [Cheat Node] Skip to the PC conversation with Atris
2. [Cheat Node] Continue conversation with Kreia
I've never entered any cheats, or installed anything other than the update from the Updater built into the launch program...
2 does nothing (as if I'd just clicked to talk to her, she turns towards me and stands there motionless).
1, however, skips to what I assume is the cutscene you're supposed to see at the end of the level. Kreia says something about "something important is about to happen", then Atris comes out of her chamber (even that's bugged, because she's already on the ramp when the scene starts, then when the doors open she glitches her way back inside the room and walks back to where she started
).At the end of this cutscene (the conversation is great. I really love this game so far, it puts the RP back in RPG, the likes of which haven't been seen since Deus Ex. Anyway...) I return to the normal view (without my lightsaber.. grrr. I wanted it back
) and return to the turbolift shaft. It's still locked, and my party are still in the "[Cheat Node]" - state. I can't rescue T3 either, but I'm not sure if I'm supposed to yet so I'm not too bothered.Then I go down the ramp to the Ebon Hawk, and I can't board it without my party, but I can't add anyone to my party yet (because the screen said so. Presumably because it thinks they're still locked up).
All very confusing.
So in short, I can't leave this zone without my party, and I can't regain my party because nobody other than the Handmaidens and Atris will talk to me...
The previous save is just before the (really difficult, for me anyway) fight with the three combat droids after your shuttle crashes into the snow. So I could try re-fighting that later (I tried half-heartedly after realising I couldn't get past this bit yet, but died. Quickly
), but I'd rather not, because that would mean re-doing the conversation with Atris (which while really awesome, was also really long), not to mention trying to beat the Droids again...