Ancient Sietch Neverending

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I’m playing as Harkomnen in conquest doing a protect the ancient sietch mission, I chose to protect them seeing as I was already starting to ally the freemen. I eliminated the empire and house of atreides before allying the sietchs needed, then when the protect mission popped up no one attacked, so I eliminated the last faction on the map and the game won’t end. I’m on Xbox btw or else I would’ve given you my save

Fixed Suggested by: Raze (18 Dec, '23) • Upvoted: today • Comments: 4

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21 Dec, '23
arvcran on steam
I have encountered a similar scenario.

Though I was not presented a choice of protect or pillage dialog.

I have allied the sufficient number of Sietches which completed the part of the mission and this was reflected in UI on left of screen showing the Pillage or Protect Ancient Sietch; which, has appeared on the Map, but unable to attack (the mouse pointer icon turns into a move to silver Arrow head when hovered over the Ancient Sietch while units are selected).

This circumstance prevents continuing the campaign. I have no saves of this campaign prior to revealing the Ancient Sietch (perhaps have an automated save for a mission start?).

The Screenshot shows the game in a hang state long after Ancient Sietch is revealed, and many LandStraad Council sessions have occurred. Also the AI players were eliminated after the Ancient Sietch was revealed in hopes of triggering anything to progress with Campaign.
21 Dec, '23
arvcran on steam
Ok ... I missed the fact that one can go "Back to Map" via options menu and restart the mission. So the campaign is not entirely lost.
06 Mar
jjkramok
Let me add a bit of information. When the Ancient Sietch is revealed your advisor gives a speech, if you move your camera (e.g. click on a notification to 'go to') the speech will disappear permanently. I suspect this might have something to do with this bug as I heard from others that you need to make an active choice during this bit of dialogue to tell the game which version of the Fate you want to accomplish.
06 Mar
jjkramok
I was able to resort to an earlier save and think I have found the issue. The problem occurs when you ally/pillage the fourth sietch and receive a speech with prompt from your advisor. If you 'glitch' out of this speech you will be soft locked, because you cannot make the pillage vs. defend choice the advisor gives after the speech.

As said before you can 'glitch' out of these advisor speeches (works on multiple mission types, it happened quite a lot to me, but they are usually not game breaking) by moving to a notification (right click on active notification under your resource counters). Likely any for of moving the camera causes the glitch, like moving the camera to a control group.