Map doesn’t open, softlocked in perpetual loading screen.

Upon trying to enter a map the loading screen just never goes away and I’m stuck in a soft locked state. This happens several times a day. It can usually be fixed by quitting the game and reloading but sometimes even this doesn’t work and I’m soft locked in a perpetual loading screen. I quit the game and it tries to load me in to the map and I just get stuck at the loading screen again. I have to completely delete the game from the console and redownload the whole 80gig game again. This gets me out of the soft lock by putting me back in my hideout but I lose the map or logbook or whatever I was doing.

It’s gotten even worse now though. Logbooks with frigid bluffs map are just a complete no go. I tried one and it wouldn’t load, I had to delete and redownload the entire game, I tried a different logbook with frigid bluffs again and the same thing happened. I’m currently softlocked in the perpetual loading screen again, looking like I’ll have to delete and download the game all over again. Once I do get out of this it seems I’m just going to have to avoid frigid bluffs altogether from now on.

Weirdly it seems like the map is loaded up and ready to go but the loading screen just won’t go away. I can hear Rog say ‘hello there’ and I can hear all the ambient sounds from the map… but the loading screen just won’t disappear.

Your game does load (you can hear the ambiance sounds) but the loading screen is never destroyed.

Even if the following does not apply, I think it is helpful to know for others until it is fixed. There seems to be an issue with events / event handlers in Game code that breaks for Act 3 Cruel, particularly for Chimeric Wetlands and Barens.

I have encountered soft-locking almost exclusively there, and always when porting from waystones towards the aforementioned maps.

If you have this issue, I highly recommend to use portals and just transition through the maps with their "go to map" gateways when you are questing.

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There is a workaround when you are locked and it is "easy" to fix in Console because you can pull your character via Co-Op.

Here are the steps how I "pull" my characters stuck in perm-loading screen.

1. Make sure to have "downscale" option (this is by default) when in a party.
2. Create a character that only makes it to Clearfell camp and leave them there.
3. Start a P1 P2 session with my stuck character and the lvl 1 character.
4. Game will force the higher lvl character to go to Clearfell.
5. Exit to char. selection and start game with my desired character.
6. Teleport to Ziggurat's camp from Clearfell.

Worth noting:

When wetlands are broken, it always breaks consistently when you port from your camp to Wetlands/Barens. What I usually do is -> quest normally til I find the Trials area, then always port to Trials area (Act 3) first, then to Wetlands/Barens. This seems to circumvent the issue.

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Probably this will "not be fixed" because when Act IV / V / VI comes out, the spaghetti code will either be deleted or not used.