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Kalan

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Hi guys, this is my first post here. I spent about an hour looking to see if anyone else had this problem, as far as I can tell I have not been able to locate anyone else. This is my problem. After infilitrating Oxford for the second time, after the cutscene where your character & tobias hide in the shipyard rafters, you go back to get rabel out of the tavern, and meet Tobias around the side. From there you sneak into the shipyard...

Well that is where my error is coming from. I load into the port, and all I can do is move statically left and right, otherwise my character circles Tobias. I cannot draw weapons, talk, or do anything but strafe left and right from the starting position.

I really do not want to reinstall my entire game, I've already invested quite a few hours in pillaging my way in this far, so what do I do? I've tried to reinitiliaze, and I tried to activate that earthquake from the shop that was listed elsewhere in the forums, I'm quite literally stuck in place. Previous saves are from hours back, and I've already played back up to this point and the same error is still present.


Hardware specs:
amd xp 3800
6800 gt x2 (sli)
2 gig ddr 400

All hardware is functioning and directx 9c was reinstalled approximately two weeks ago. Drivers are the last stable nvidia released ones (9x.xx)

Any assistance or direction is appreciated, thank you.
 
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Hi guys, this is my first post here. I spent about an hour looking to see if anyone else had this problem, as far as I can tell I have not been able to locate anyone else. This is my problem. After infilitrating Oxford for the second time, after the cutscene where your character & tobias hide in the shipyard rafters, you go back to get rabel out of the tavern, and meet Tobias around the side. From there you sneak into the shipyard...

Well that is where my error is coming from. I load into the port, and all I can do is move statically left and right, otherwise my character circles Tobias. I cannot draw weapons, talk, or do anything but strafe left and right from the starting position.

I really do not want to reinstall my entire game, I've already invested quite a few hours in pillaging my way in this far, so what do I do? I've tried to reinitiliaze, and I tried to activate that earthquake from the shop that was listed elsewhere in the forums, I'm quite literally stuck in place. Previous saves are from hours back, and I've already played back up to this point and the same error is still present.


Hardware specs:
amd xp 3800
6800 gt x2 (sli)
2 gig ddr 400

All hardware is functioning and directx 9c was reinstalled approximately two weeks ago. Drivers are the last stable nvidia released ones (9x.xx)

Any assistance or direction is appreciated, thank you.
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<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/hi.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":gday" border="0" alt="hi.gif" /> Kalan, wellcome to the forum!
Your story line seems to be muddled! You meet Tobias behind the Tavern to get to the ship, to get you off the Island, not to the shipyard! So you go thru the towngates, where you get held up and talked to by the
french guards. Read the dialog very carefully and mind which answer you'r giving! You run towards the ship,
but have to fight the guards before boarding! So, don't run back to the shipyard, you've been there allready!
Save very often, I do that every time landing on an Island or when leaving it! It looks like, your only way out is go back to your last Save! The Stoy goes like this: Meet Tobias in the tavern, after fighting the guards you
run to the shipyard to hide. Talk to the owner and the french guy, to the tavern to meet the next guy,
than behind the tavern and thru the gates to the habour etc. and remember, you have to fight the guards and defeat them before you can board the ship! Don't forget to save before you're leaving, as there are more
surprises!!!!
 
I'm sorry I was not more accurate in my initial post, I have done all of that at least a dozen times now all with the same result, once I am in the port, with tobias and rabel, I lose all character control except left/right strafing. On a rare occassion my character will sometimes randomly follow a woman around the port, the one time I was able to put up with the glitch for long enough (and followed the woman by default out onto the pier) I was unable to launch onto rabel's ship.

The times I was able to turn around and re enter oxford town (via the port entrance) the same glitch continued and I was unable to move (except left or right)
 
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I'm sorry I was not more accurate in my initial post, I have done all of that at least a dozen times now all with the same result, once I am in the port, with tobias and rabel, I lose all character control except left/right strafing. On a rare occassion my character will sometimes randomly follow a woman around the port, the one time I was able to put up with the glitch for long enough (and followed the woman by default out onto the pier) I was unable to launch onto rabel's ship.

The times I was able to turn around and re enter oxford town (via the port entrance) the same glitch continued and I was unable to move (except left or right)
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<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/poet.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":hmm" border="0" alt="poet.gif" /> You'll have to say which Mod you are playing! If it is Build 14 Alpha /6 it could be a bug! I've not got that
far. There is no problem like that in 14/5. Maybe some other Pirate in this forum can help! It has nothing to do
with your machine, looks like a bug! I will play on and see what happens! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" />
 
<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/poet.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":hmm" border="0" alt="poet.gif" /> Just played the Oxbay/Tobias and found it worked well!
The only odd thing I noticed was two french soldiers fighting each other,
as I ran from the tavern to the shipyard. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/duel_pa.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":ixi" border="0" alt="duel_pa.gif" />
 
that's probably because they wanted to hit someone with another soldier in between, causing one of the soldiers to hit the soldier that was in the way, causing the two soldiers to attack each other. i guess tobias or a mugger was the target. i've seen it happen before.
 
Yeah.. I responded off a different comp on my network, wasn't able to verify the file specifics, it is build13_full.exe 368 megs downloaded off this website.
 
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Don't know what Morgan wanted to say. You should have build 13, if I'm correct. Normaly this part of the main quest is working fine.

I would say the problem is coming from a dialog that's not launching. Normaly, when you enter the port, a french guard adress you - that's why you are 'frozen'. (Did you accidentaly kill him in a previous trip...?) I don't really know how to correct this.




some extra comments:

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The town is called Oxbay, not Oxford!

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Nope, at least in stock PotC I'm quite sure you could board the ship without having to kill them all.
 
i could board the ship too without killing them. if he has build 13, that would mean that he either has the clean version, or with update 2, or with update 3 and the small fix.
 
Come to think of it I most likely did kill the guard at some previous point.. for some peculiar reason *ahem* the french always get picked on the worse, I dunno why.. I'm working up a new game, only a short ways away from that part, maybe I can't go on wanton killing binges.. Oblivion has a nice feature in that if you kill a storyline critical npc you're immediately notified, that would be nice to see in this game (or a respawn of non critical storyline related persona) It'd also be nice to see an autosave feature incorporated.. my .002 cents
 
the error was from killing the french guards, I had to restart a new game and avoid interaction/attacking the guards in that town until that point. Thank you to everyone that commented it is appreciated
 
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