Batha and the Lizardmen stuck

[Bladed Blaster]

So after having trouble with the dragon never coming to join me with the fire giants, I have moved on and now come to highcliff. I am directed to the lizard camp. I talk to slaan and then Batha who wants to fight. His lackeys stay out until he casts a massive spell and they all join in except for slaan. When it is over he says I have broken the hope of his tribe and I can do as I will, I get 420 or so exp points. Yet nothing updates in the journal, I try to talk to Batha or Slaan and it just takes me to them with no talking, and from that area I cannot get back to the main part of highcliff, the rocks are now in the way, and there is no exit. Any ideas?

[arathalion]

walk throught the cornfield. cornfield?

[Bladed Blaster]

nope, the rocks are now blocking access to the cornfields.

[btcentral]

Did you fight to kill him? - Because I beleive you're supposed to fight him and instead of killing him you're supposed to let him "read your thoughts" - then the Lizardmen join you as allies.

[Bladed Blaster]

No the fight ends, and he says you have destroyed the hope of my tribe, and my only option is to hit continue at which point the dialogue is finished. If I try to talk to him again it will not bring up a dialogue.

[arathalion]

probably a dialog thing from before the fight. the only problem i see is that he cant leave the area... seriously, try a little harder... when i did it i had to manover around the rocks a little, they do make it difficult but you should be able to get through the corn field

[btcentral]

Ah, if the problem is getting round the corn field now, I beleive the exit is to the left of the area (there should be a gap).

[Bladed Blaster]

no there is no way out. I even can firebomb some rocks to destroy them and create a path and it still won't let me go

[Celestinus]

I am having the exact same difficulty with the exception that I dont seem able to firebomb the rocks and havent done the Ironfist Clan quest yet.

[btcentral]

Sounds like bugged installs to me, have you tried re-installing Nwn2 and/or using 1.02 patch? - Worked fine for me with the 1.02 patch ;)

[deadmikey]

For anyone that found this forum like I did by Googling "batha stuck", I had this same problem and found two solutions.

First solution: Go to Crossroads Keep and leave from there ALONE and head to Highcliff, get into the fight and win. This is kind of tough, but it worked four times in a row before I felt that it was a sufficient solution to post. It is tough because Batha is one of the more formidable fights in the game.

Second solution: Reload the game. I went to fight Batha after a reinstall and won the fight, but he wouldn't join me. Naturally I wanted him as an ally, so I loaded my previous save and did it again, only this time the game stuck on me again. So I tried several more times. No luck - It stuck every time. So after some choice expletives I decided to try to go there alone. I just had a hunch that one of my allies was bugging the game when interacting with Batha.

As far as I can tell, the only way to get the post-fight dialogue to open correctly when you have your party WITH you is: 1. reload the game. 2. Travel there from Ironhold. 3. Fight him and cross your fingers.

Good luck guys and gals.

-Michael

[btcentral]

Cheers for the tip mike! Very useful first post, and on behalf of the Thieves-Guild.net Team - welcome to the forums!

[Liso]

Hi Micheal

I've never gotten this bug. 2 run throughs so far and on my third. I did that quest with my full party as well. They dropped out when the fight started and came back once it was over. And Betha joined me.

I hope you have helped who ever else gets this issue. You put a lot of work into figuring it out :)

Best Regards
Liso