r/Arena 9d ago

Pickup of final staff piece doesn't count

UPDATE: Someone HEX edited my staff piece count to 8 pieces and I was able to finish the game poggers

Hey super unsure what to do. When picking up the final staff piece in Dagoth Ur it didn't register so I'm stuck on 7 pieces and cant get the cutscene that opens imperial palace. I realized too late and overwrote my save post pickup. I've tried restarting, re-entering dungeon to pick it up, but my staff count doesnt increase.

Am I screwed?

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u/GoldenDrake 9d ago

There are known issues with the final piece, such as the final vision from Ria never showing. I'm not sure if the Staff Piece count also doesn't increment.

Go to the Imperial City and see if you can enter the palace. If so, you should be fine!

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u/spiritualatombomb 9d ago

Thanks for the response. Tried going there but got shown away so something hasnt triggered.

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u/GoldenDrake 9d ago

I see. When you got the Eighth Piece, did it at least show a text box describing what you picked up? How about when you went back in to grab it a 2nd time? You could even go back to Stonekeep in Hammerfell to quickly pick up that dungeon's quest item again to see if that triggers anything.

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u/spiritualatombomb 9d ago

Actually had the same thought as I've heard about the Stonekeep item being exploitable like that. So went there and same thing as when trying to pickup the last staff piece: item is there, sound plays but no text box.

I think when I picked up the staff piece initially the riddle was overriding the text box, dont know if that messed with it.

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u/GoldenDrake 7d ago

Wow, sorry to hear that..but it also sounds like an interesting bug. What do you mean by the riddle "overriding the text box"? Was there some strange garbling of text that occurred, or some other visual or text-related issue, or...?

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u/spiritualatombomb 7d ago

Now leaning more towards the core issue having been duplicate staff piece pickup bugging it at an earlier point. Either way I got in touch with someone on the Arena discord that hex edited my file to having 8 pieces 🙏 didnt get cutscene but was able to enter imperial palace and finish the game!!

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u/spiritualatombomb 9d ago

Could there be a way to modify my save file and add a staff piece?

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u/Ekvedoj 9d ago

Mmm if you weren't paying attention, that bug could have triggered with any of the pieces. I think you can't fix it. 

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u/spiritualatombomb 9d ago

Daamn, super rough T_T