Can you send me the save file? Export it, and e-mail it to david.m@fancyfishgames.com.

Nothing for me, dying because of the blast and the homing orbs.

I've beaten the old one with melee weapons before, but it's tough - much easier with ranged weapons. I haven't had any crashes though, but maybe it's something to do with the save or specific equipment, which is why I asked for the save.

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Possibly useful info:
-Multiplayer game
-Connected player clicked to finish the dialogue to start the battle while on far left island and host was on the right island actually doing the battle.

This fixed yet? Be nice to continue but crashed like three attempts and gave up.

Originally posted by bumbaclad:

This fixed yet? Be nice to continue but crashed like three attempts and gave up.

Not sure. However, I would recommend using a recurve bow with fire/drain arrows. Stay behind Alchemist until the Old One opens up or is about to fire the blast attack (in which case, go to the bottom of the area; you may want a kite shield or better to block the last orb or two). You could also use a shied to block the blast, but it will drain a lot of health from the shield. Then, fire an arrow at it and move to the top recessed area (where you came in) while she moves to the other side (when she starts using the blast). Repeat until she is killed.
This way, you don't need to worry about taking a killing blow that crashes the game.

Originally posted by squirleybob:

Originally posted by bumbaclad:

This fixed yet? Be nice to continue but crashed like three attempts and gave up.

Not sure. However, I would recommend using a recurve bow with fire/drain arrows. Stay behind Alchemist until the Old One opens up or is about to fire the blast attack (in which case, go to the bottom of the area; you may want a kite shield or better to block the last orb or two). You could also use a shied to block the blast, but it will drain a lot of health from the shield. Then, fire an arrow at it and move to the top recessed area (where you came in) while she moves to the other side (when she starts using the blast). Repeat until she is killed.
This way, you don't need to worry about taking a killing blow that crashes the game.

I don't think it is related to the weapon that made the killing blow.

Originally posted by bumbaclad:

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I don't think it is related to the weapon that made the killing blow.

I was meaning that this way, you will likely not take a killing blow. Ranged weapons tend to be better against Them than melee, especially with the orbs surrounding the Old One (and lightning attacks for her "brethren").
Anyhow, I agree that the weapon shouldn't make a difference in the crash caused by receiving a killing blow. Unless... Am I correct in that you are the one who is dying and not the Old One?

The Old One dies and game crashes.

That means I was completely wrong in what I was looking at.
No crash for me, though, all the same.

Can we get an update on this? Fine in single player but 100% crash in multiplayer.

Possibly related had a similar bug when hosting multiplayer session, old one killed with by a patrol bot. (No other players in session and I activated the original dialogue) Repeated in single player and issue did not reoccur. I had ran off after starting the fight and didn't come back until after mostly finishing tech side and have mods on, I'll test on a cleaner save and upload when I get a chance.

Actually, on beating in single player the same way, the magical energy quest did not complete and still showing open, so didn't crash but no new dialogue with the alchemist and unable to interact with evolution chamber and able to return to science side without triggering bombardment.

Bombardment isn't triggered directly through killing the Old One. Since you can't access the evo chamber, you won't be able to get far enough to allow the bombardment to happen.

Clean test save primarily for patrol bots killing CTD, wasn't able to replicate frost sword error, think more non-host killing old one in multiplayer. Notably if host is in menu and patrol bot kills old one, pops up normal conversation and only crashes when host moves after conversation.
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