UPDATE: 12/01/09

If anyone has encountered this issue, the latest patch is now available on Xbox LIVE!

To download the patch, simply connect your Xbox 360 to the internet via either the wireless adaptor or an ethernet cable, and start Fable(r) II. You will immediately be prompted to download the latest update, which fixes the Abbot issue. The issue is fixed for those that have already encountered the issue, and will prevent it happening in future. The original thread can be found below.

Thank you for your patience.

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Hello community,

   We are aware that a minority of people playing Fable(r) II over the last few days have encountered an issue where the Abbot becomes unresponsive at the beginning of Monks Quest in Oakfield. This is an isolated issue, but we are currently looking into it as a matter of priority. If you have already encountered this issue, there is unfortunately no work-around at this time, but we will keep you updated on any progress made.

   If you want to avoid this issue, when you go to the Abbot for the first time don't run away and leave the region after he has started talking to you. Listen to him, let him finish his cut-scene, and then you are free to do what you wish.

   Some things slip through the net during development, especially when a game is the size and scope of Fable(r) II. Again, we can only apologise for this issue, but we are doing our best. We might be silent on these boards, but we are watching and listening to you, the community, and are looking into all serious issues that are bought to our attention.

Thanks,
Ted

thanks.

Thats the post i wanted to see!  At least i can go to sleep knowing they're looking into it.

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Si vis pacem, para bellum.

Ted:

This is an isolated issue

Not to be nitpicky, but if it's an isolated issue that means it has only happened to one person.

As for this topic, it's to see people addressing the issues, but how come none of the topics regarding people (like myself) who are getting locked out of their own saves, black screened, and system locked are being responded to?

No offense to the people experiencing this issue, I'm sure it's awful, but at least you can still play your game in some form, even if it's just running around Oakfield. Whereas mine remains completely unplayable due to that black screen/lock up issue.

AceGunner:

Ted:

This is an isolated issue

Not to be nitpicky, but if it's an isolated issue that means it has only happened to one person.

no, he means it affects this one situation.

The Bag:

AceGunner:

Ted:

This is an isolated issue

Not to be nitpicky, but if it's an isolated issue that means it has only happened to one person.

no, he means it affects this one situation.

Ah, my mistake. Thanks for the clarification.

approximately how long would the fixing take as i really want to restart and i would have by now but all my pub games money and items are on that profile

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its only when youve lost everything that youre free to do anything

Ted approx when will this patch be done?  I've already returned my copy of Fable yesterday bc i wasnt hearing any progress about the matter.  Not going to buy it again until all these issue fixed, this one being the biggest bc it happened to me.  So, a approx date would be great! Thanks.

Awesome! Thanks, Ted.

Just a mild suggestion, though - Shouldn't you copy this as a sticky to the "Fears and Problems" section of the forum?

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Yeah, this has happended to me today.

However I never entered the Temple of Light but did stand outside a while I talked to a friend over Xbox Live! I had read of other people skipping dialogue in other quests and having a similar issue but I never even entered the Temple and I did not hear the Abbot speaking.

I've spent over 6 hours just exploring the world of Albion and have only just started to play through the main quest. Well looks like I'll be starting again, but glad to know that its being worked on.

Sticky this please

I will be very happy if and when you release this patch, but this is for only one bug and / or glitch.

Please try to fix..... every other bug and / or glitch that everyone is telling you is in the game. If you are going to make a patch, make it with every correction.

thanks alot to the developers. this stupid bug ruins everything. i played about 10 hours into the game and i have over 400,000 gold and own every damn building in 4 towns. thanks to the bug, i cant do a f***ing thing anymore.

or at least fix the game-enders first... like the pixelated screen, which randomly comes up.  this requires a reboot of the xbox.

Just got this to happen to me.  The abbot started talking, he said two sentences but was not directly speaking to me, he started talking when I turned the corner past the little pond off to the right, but well before I was anywhere close to the temple door.  He said something along the lines of needing to find an escort for someone or other.  I'm pretty sure he didn't speak after those two lines, but I could be mistaken.

I didn't enter the yellow circle in the temple, went through that little gate on the left, then jumped down and wandered around for a bit before I noticed the little yellow path wouldn't show back up. 

Then my story becomes the same as everyone else's.

Oh.  Also, the next time I approached the temple, I believe I did actually cross a Yellow Circle Of Quest Giving once I entered the temple, but nothing happened. 

Update?

No word yet?  Surely this does not take that long to patch.

While i would GLADLY accept a micro/quick fix patch for this bug, the problem is that they have to play test the patch to make sure that the patch itself doesn't introduce any bugs (lesser or greater).  I just wish they'd give us an ETA or a quick fix.

Ive been running back and forth between rookridge and Oakfield for so long now, that i have something like 2.5 million gold and several rank 3/4 spells.  Killing hobbes has become almost second nature now.

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Si vis pacem, para bellum.

Ted, cheers for the update, alas, I await with bated breath for a fix to this, as I seriously don't want to start a third new character for Fable 2.
As Peter Molyneux himself stated, he doesn't want people to play thru Fable 2 numerous times, as it gets repetitive, and I'm agreeing with him.
Here's hoping there's a workaround

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There are only 10 types of people in the world:
those who understand binary
and those who don't.

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BlatzAttack:

While i would GLADLY accept a micro/quick fix patch for this bug, the problem is that they have to play test the patch to make sure that the patch itself doesn't introduce any bugs (lesser or greater).  I just wish they'd give us an ETA or a quick fix.

Ive been running back and forth between rookridge and Oakfield for so long now, that i have something like 2.5 million gold and several rank 3/4 spells.  Killing hobbes has become almost second nature now.

i'm having the same exact problem. but i can fast travel to bandit coast, seeing as i've been there already.  try that. i'm so frustrated with it, but i'm gonna try getting past it on another xbox. really hoping it works cause i have every but about 4 things at level 3 and i have shock and inferno at level 5 already. ><

IcarusCroid:

BlatzAttack:

While i would GLADLY accept a micro/quick fix patch for this bug, the problem is that they have to play test the patch to make sure that the patch itself doesn't introduce any bugs (lesser or greater).  I just wish they'd give us an ETA or a quick fix.

Ive been running back and forth between rookridge and Oakfield for so long now, that i have something like 2.5 million gold and several rank 3/4 spells.  Killing hobbes has become almost second nature now.

i'm having the same exact problem. but i can fast travel to bandit coast, seeing as i've been there already.  try that. i'm so frustrated with it, but i'm gonna try getting past it on another xbox. really hoping it works cause i have every but about 4 things at level 3 and i have shock and inferno at level 5 already. ><

Ouch!  I feel for you mate.
That's it then, I'm going to wait until after the bridge is back up in Rookridge before "expanding" my character.

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There are only 10 types of people in the world:
those who understand binary
and those who don't.

byrneda 42

Wish I saw this sooner

I ended up starting a new game because of this.

to hear that you guys are working on fixing this. Bad for me because I'm not going to be able to play the game until it is fixed as I've already moved over all of my pub gold and don't want to throw away the 10+ hours I spent already in game away.

Would be nice if this was out soon, like by the end of next week

A very important question for the developers

If i copy the hero saves from my HDD to a Memory Unit, then go on playing on the HDD, and the game gets stuck

Can i erase my HDD saves, and copy back the ones in the MU ? Will the game work and resume where i was when i did the backup ?

 

thanks

i was fortunate enough not to get the abbot glitch but i do have the hobbe cave glitch where my kid is in the cave and when i go to exit she doesnt follow so i try to get her but it prompts a reload so i tried to leave the area and it wont let me without prompting a reload. so im stuck with a character with 10 hours of play 1.5 mil in the bank and worth 3.2 mil in properties. this sucks!

I got this bug, I'm not going to waste time ranting about how annoying it is because I'm sure that has been adequately established

What I wanted to add was some more info, just on the off chance it helps you guys narrow down the search for the cause of the bug.  I found once I was bugged out and the abbot wouldn't talk to me, if I fast travelled to a different region outside of Oakfield (I went to Serenity Farm, but I'd assume it'd work for any region outside Oakfield), and then from there fast travel back to Oakfield, I would be stuck in slow motion.  You know the slow motion effect you come under once you enter the temple?  Where you're moving slow and you can't use any attacks or weapons?  I would be stuck like that no matter where in Oakfield I was, moving really slow, unable to attack anything, and nothing could attack me (I had hostile guards standing there looking at me cos they couldn't shoot me).  If I run back into the temple while I'm stuck in this slow-motion, and then back out, things return to normal speed and I can do all my attacks again (abbot is still glitched though obviously).