I'm sorry I don't have the time to do the research on whether this bug has been reported, but frankly, I don't feel it's my responsibility to spend that much time doing so.

This is only one of many bugs I have encountered in the game. There's a great game in here somewhere, but shame on you for releasing a game with this many issues. It's made for a frustrating experience.

I have completed the main storyline and received the "The Rescue" mission. After finding out my goal is to rescue my child, I see the child standing next to his mother. I ignore this fact and accept the mission.

I enter the Hobbe's Cave and kill all the hobbes and release my son. He follows me to the ladder which leads to the barn in Rookridge, and doesn't follow me out. But now I'm stuck in Rookridge, because I'm supposed to be getting my son to safety. Apparently, this exit was not disabled or programmed to be a legal exit in regards to this mission.

As a result, I had the choice to either spend the rest of the game in Rookridge or reset the mission and do it over. Did no one on the QA team even try to exit this mission from the secondary exit? It leads me to believe no QA work was done on this game at all, when added together with the several incidents where my character has been hopelessly stuck behind or in objects.

I'll be hesitant to buy another Lionhead game at launch - and as I type this, I still struggle with why I'm even taking the time to post this, other than to vent a little of my frustration. Sorry.

Here's a followup: The exit I mentioned is the only exit you can use. If you go back to the beginning of the dungeon, it gives you the message that you will have to reload the mission from the beginning if you leave.

I have loaded the mission 3 times with the same result: I leave and the kid stays behind. I have had him in Follow mode and not. The result is the same.

I eventually had to load before the mission began, and ignore the mission. Soon enough, I was informed my son was dead. Well, great - I got around the bug at the cost of my kid! Thanks, Lionhead!

In all seriousness, you should be ashamed at the number of issues with this game. How it went to press without proper QA should be an embarrassment to your studio! Throw the issues together with the fact that you can't get the 1000 points of achievements without buying XBLA Pub Games - or meet up with someone who has - and you have a shoddy product that requires extra cash to reach completion. It should state this clearly on the box. The whole situation is a mess.

I want a refund. Merry Christmas.

I bought Fable II 2 days ago and returned it yesterday. It froze my console too many times, and since I received the red-ring-o-death twice before, I didn't want to chance tuning my machine into a brick. Here's the thing: I got lucky at BestBuy and the guy TOOK IT BACK. Maybe it was the 20th one he's seen, maybe he didn't want to argue, maybe lax return policies for xmas, but I say TRY! TAKE THIS SH*T BACK TO THE STORE! MAKE THEM TAKE IT BACK! This product is defective and should not be sold in stores. Also, let's get off these blogs and start talking to the media. This is class-action territory. Happy Holidays Everybody!

I think it has to do how the disks were printed.. I was able to complete the game once... but I did have the children bug..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsZoth-Do6s

only my son was affected since he was born in the Homestead demon door.. after progressing through the story he returned to normal..

I don't know if this has been mentioned before, but if you sell or buy lots of things, the scrolling individual amounts spent/received can cause extreme framerate issues if you sleep repeatedly while they're still scrolling.

Example: It's 6pm, I want to sleep 7 days and 18 hrs.. the week to get shops to restock and the 18 hrs to get it back to 6am..  I can then wait a bit or sleep with a spouse to advance time a few hours.  3 sleep periods while the scrolling is going on has probably a 30% chance of causing extreme slowdown, even after the scrolling stops.

I've only been able to get rid of it by leaving the region and returning, and I have one game save that's permanently running at about 5 frames per second (whether caused by this glitch or not I don't know).

I suggest that just one net result of all purchases/sales at a shop be displayed once.. we know what we bought, we don't need to see each individual amount.  Once money is no longer an object, purchases can cause these amounts to scroll for minutes and I now have to stop playing and wait on them for fear of it glitching my game out (again) before doing anything significant.

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One potion makes you larger and one potion makes you small and the one Lionhead didn't give you doesn't do anything at all...

Thanks to Original Sin for posting this advice.  We've tried it by creating a henchman on the same X Box but it failed.  Is there anything else we need to do?

 

Hello all! Have that annoying glitch where you can't interact with your own character after completing the crucible? Well I have the answer to fix your glitch, and it doesn't cost you anything except a friend's help.

Glitch solved by xbox live members: Vextrin and Deadman1991. Be sure to lend props.

1) Grab a cohort. Any other member will do. Be sure to be logged into your glitched character.

2) Fast-travel to Bowerstone Market: Town Square.
2a) member playing the cohort should be glitched too at this point and mot be able to move.

3) Have cohort cast a spell (level 5 inferno worked for us).
3a) this will attract the attention of the guards.
3b) this will unstick the cohort
3c) if you DON'T get the attention of the guards, get it by terrorizing some citizens or breaking stuff, etc.

4) When the guard comes over, resist the arrest and your character will be unstuck too!


be sure to give props to Vextrin and Deadman1991.

 

 

i come accross very few bugs or anythinf in Fable 2, but i think theres something different i might be doing. i dont have it set to see all ORBS, just the ones on my friends list, and there never on Fable 2 when i am, except last night i played with one of my friends and things started to get glitchy (granted it could have been lag) and im wondering if the problems stem from the orbs somehow?

Distraughtllama:

So, after over 40 hours into the game doing everything there is to do and leaving no stone unturned (I had over 40 gargoyles and 34 silver keys) I decided to play with my girlfriend in coop. We started up a game for her so she could find out how the game begins and we played for some hours. Then I wanted to show her my house and how really cool I was with my incredibly expensive clothes. So, imagine my surprise when I find out that I lost all of my experience and gold (I had well over a million gold before and now I have 233 gold) Is there anyway to get my character back to the way he was or do I have to throw the game away and sell it?

I had the same thing happen to me. But to be more specific, I had completed the main quests, and had a significant amount of money and experience. The only achievements really left for me were the co-op ones. So my wife started a new game and I joined to help her (and get my achievements). When I loaded my game later I had 0 gold, 0 experience and none of my abilities. But I maintained all my items, properties and expressions. I think it has something to do with the fact that it autosaves in co-op when she still had 0 gold, 0 experience and no abilities. I've yet to find a way to get it all back.

I apologize if any of these have been posted already but after reading 10 pages of bugs I found that there were 40 more to go and well...I didn't come here to read.

So, here is my current list of bugs:
1) The "save child" quest was reported already and I am just adding a voice to that list. I too led my child to the exit only to find that they wouldn't follow me up the ladder. On one of my characters I finally did get him to follow me (9-10 repeated attempts) but my other character has had no luck. I might add that my wife is never there when I leave the cave either, in case that has something to do with it.
2) Near the end of the main quest after you get "killed" you go into a dream world where you are playing on a farm with your sister. There are several minigames here to play, one of which is to put the chickens back in the pen. Now I dunno if there are any rewards for doing all the minigames (since I was unable to finish) but during my "chicken-kicking" experience I unwittingly kicked a chicken into the boat in the barn. The chicken then proceeded to flap its wings on its side and nothing I could do would dislodge it from the boat.
3) I went to the Cemetary to do the "Love Hurts" quest and when I knocked on the door the little sliding portal in the door opened but no one was there. After knocking several times I gave up and came back later. This time the glowing trail led me across the map to the gated storage area. Victor was just past this area at the bottom of the path near where the Hobbes jump out at the overturned wagon. He was conversing with two women when I approached and then the Hobbes came. I cast a spell at the Hobbes and the women ran away and the "Civilian Displacement" guy came running down the hill out of nowhere. He has now permanently stationed himself where Victor WAS standing and now Victor is floating above him about 20 feet in the air. I cannot get Victor to respond to me or expressions, follow me, etc. and he will not move from that spot, day or night.
4) My wife and children and I live in Fairfax Castle. I received a notification that my family had a gift for me so I went to Fairfax Gardens and the trail led me to the first left (from the Bowerstone side) and down to the wall where I found it ended at the wall beside the guard shack. My children were there but there was no sign of my wife. I have played thru 2-3 weeks of in-game time now and I haven't seen my wife since. My children stand there dutifully until I approach then they react normally and I can interact with them and each time I return there are standing there but still no sign of my wife. She is still listed in my Families portion of my game so I am assuming she is stuck under the world somehow.

Is anyone working on patches for these issues? I see no reason to purchase the new DLC stuff if I can't even play thru the current content.

These have probably been posted by other people but just incase...

I had the Bounty Hunter glitch with bugs in Bowerstone Market. The golden trail lead no-where and I entered the area where the bugs were supposed to be and the number that were supposed to be there came up but, no bugs and when I switched quests the number wouldn't go away. The only way I found to get rid of it was to kill the guard I got the quest from :/

I have a really annoying glitch where my child wont move and talk to me. I had her set to follow me but I forgot children carn't follow you out of an area so, the game made her stay there. I went back later and I found her in a corner of a shop, not moving or anything.

I also can't set the HomeStead house as my martial home. I did it once before but the familly started moaning that they didn't like the area so I moved them to BowerStone and now trying to move them back to HomeStead doesn't work. I even tried with another husband but no luck so now I have a house that does nothing. Random people also keep walking around the house and I don't know how or why but I'm pretty sure there not ment to be there. I keep killing them but another one appears. 

I'm not sure if these are glitches but it's quite annoying. Upong completing the tasks the Temple of Light/Shadows to get the legendary weapons, the quest doesn't go away on mine while other people report that once they get the weapon, it goes.

Oh and theres no furniture in BowerStone. Got some from there once and now all they sell is a book.

My Xbox also keeps telling me the disc is unclean or strached when it's in perefect condidtion. It also won't load certain areas sometimes :/

My character was also once fully " src="/emoticons/g_o_o_d.gif"> and pure and now its " src="/emoticons/e_v_i_l.gif"> and pure and when ever I load up, my character has a halo above it's head until I leave the area.

I have NEVER recieved a present from my husband and hes always happy. Other random people I've married always give me presents.

Its a bug in the dashboard... the dash thinks the disk is bad when it's really not... the root of all bugs! Because I've left the disk in the tray for 3 days now (game boots poorly).. and I am now able to install to the hard drive. So I apologize to Lionhead. Most of you may or may not have updated to the Dash with the Wii like Avatar. So this bug is either a legacy issue or a currently existing one with the new dash. Alternatively, it could be the way the disks are printed.

i can't walk im just standing still and i cannot use weapons or do anything what should i do?????????????????????????

Oh, and I forgot, I also have an issue with the Bowerstone furniture seller. I have seen this mentioned several times but I will describe my issue:
I have N E V E R seen furniture for sale here. Some people have mentioned that they have bought furniture there and now only see the book...well all I ever see is the book. I have 2 characters and neither of them have been able to purchase furniture from a vendor in this store. EVER.

I have the FABLE II Spanish Version, but got a similar bug several times.

1. The wife (or husband) disapears, sometimes with the child, sometimes alone.

I've been stuck with the "Rescue" mission, because if I choose it (this is after finishing the Main Storyline), I'm taken to Cemetery Road on Old Bowerstone (where the husband of my hero is), and are ordered to find my husband, but there's no yellow path, nor husband around to be found.

After several intents, resets, log out and in again, I found him. He was walking down the street, no ring floating over his head. He shows in the Families menú, but no way to go directly to him. I even got a second daughter from him, still no ring over his head, still no advance in the Rescue Mission, my first child still missing. If I try to marry him again, the ring disapears as soon as I give it to him. If I take him to other house, both houses stay as marital homes, but one is unable to get budget.

Finally, he dissapeared completely from the village, the second child showed up alone in the streen after a while, still two marital houses, no way to advance on the Mission, or to get a divorce, or kill him, or whatever. This "missing" husband has happened several times in several cities, finally I married a bartender in Oakvale to get able to locate him.

2 Bug - in the demon door in Rookridge has a cabin with statues or frozen characters looking out of the window. If you stand in the door it asks for you to press A to inspect. You do, nothing happens.

3 Bug - If you sell the Diamond of Sorrow you get offered the Nightmare in the Tower of Brightwood Mission again, and get other Diamond.

4 Bug - I don't know if this is a bug, but some back doors in homes in
Old Bowerstone and Bowerstone don't open even when you purchase the house. Same thing happens with some doors inside the Castle on the Demon Door of Westclif.

5 Bug - Unable to get some silver keys by touching them.

6 Bug - I am stuck at 100% Corrupt since my hero became Queen of Albion.

7 Bug - Never got the LAUGH expression, not even with 70% moral.

8 Bug - Dozens of sales people in Rookridge walking selling the same stuff, that when clicking A, have nothing to sell.

9 Bug - Marrying Lady Grey, she won't follow you to the room upstairs to have sex, but you can still select the bed, chose protection or not, and get her voice in the dark. Still, she never walks upstairs.

If I remember more, I'll post them here.

When, where and how can we get the patch.

same here

I got to Bloodstone and now I can't run or attack. My game is ruined.  Please release a patch for this soon or I'm throwing the game away and not buying another Lionhead title again.

SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!

 

Before I got the Spire I got Divorced twice. One wife was Alex. Apparently she did not like the house I bought for us in Oakfield. I even decorated it in all the nicest stuff. So I tried to move her across town to the nice house on the hill (by the windmill). It ended up duplicating her but the other Alex was no where in sight, and didn’t duplicate Betty. The hooker ended up divorcing me anyway. The other Alex is sill AWOL. The other wife I moved into the Homestead behind the demon door. She got tired of me beeing gone all the darn time so she divorced me RIGHT after she gave me a gift. I MISS THAT ONE.

So I wanting the carnal things men want went and found a new wife. Saw a pretty little gypsy at the gypsy camp and moved her into the nicest house I could buy at the time in Bowerstone. Had Rick. Now, for some reason I have no wives to speak of. My son was still in the crib but with no mommy in sight. Nothing I do will lead me to her. When I try to transport to my wife it just drops me off in Bowerston market. But no light trail. My logbook still says I have 2 wives and a child but cant seem to find those elusive wives. chemas-microsoft-comfficeffice" />>>

So I returned from the Spire and no wives or child to be found. I thought I would go visit when hammer told me to but he is gone as well.  Seems like the spouses' are gliched all to hell.  

Also for a while I had a text box in the bottom right corner saying 5 Creatures remain. I assume it was from The Summoners mission that I completed. It wasn’t there after I returned from the Tattered Spire.>>

Otherwise, Game is awesome. Wish there where bigger towns, and more maps. It has also been 500 years you think there would be different creatures but you are fighting copies from the 1st game. Also after spending 10 years at the Spire you think the fashion would be different. Well..... I do have 10 year old underwear. For as long as it took to develop this game you think that there wouldn’t be so many obvious glitches. Please Lionhead acknowledge the glytches, post a patch and do a better job on part 3. Thank you bye.

Oh and I cant sell or rent any of my marital homes.

Well, so far I've experienced only a few glitches, but more than enough to make me really disappointed that I got duped into buying a broken game.  I had to restart the game once at the very beginning because I could not get Monty at the beginning to speak with my character at all.  That was frustrating enough, but bearable since there wasn't so much to redo at that point.  Since then, the game has frozen once on a brand new XBox, and my wife has gotten completely stuck in the scenery twice.  There is no way that I have found to get unstuck from the scenery other than by traveling away, but if you are in the middle of a quest where you are escorting someone somewhere, then you have to restart the quest from the beginning.  It sure would be great if we could get some sort of patch to fix so many of these bugs that shouldn't have been there in the first place. 

Yah I am having the same problem with the cut off screen and I can't stand it. I a not going to play again because I can't see all of the stuff on the top. It really has me that POed!

I can't stress how big this glitch is.

 

Brightwood Locking up Right when you try to enter, probably caused by the Blind Date quest. MUST BE FIXEDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

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III Things I want in Fable III:
More Magic in the World and Plot.
More diverse people in every aspect.
More Abilities in general; skill/strength/will.

This is a minor bug but it is super annoying.

SPOILERRRRRRRRRRR

Ok so after i talked to the guy from The Crucible the first time (when they say Hammer cant do it). I ran down the steps ready to go get that renown and i run into the side of the gate. Which isnt a problem except for the fact i ran INTO it. So i'm sitting here stuck in a peice of a wood wall! Im completely zoomed in the cameras going insane. I swung my sword, nothing, threw acouple spells and what not and im still sitting here in the wall. I try the start button to go to a new region and the start button wont work. So i keep pressing it and finally the start menu comes up and i teleport to a new region and its fixed. Its not bad but it was annoying considering when i returned to westclif everyones freaking out calling me a murderer. Turns our i killed a couple of citizens in my mad rampage to escape the walls wretched hold.

Arkman120:

I ran down the steps ready to go get that renown and i run into the side of the gate. Which isnt a problem except for the fact i ran INTO it. So i'm sitting here stuck in a peice of a wood wall!

I had this same thing happen as well. I was in a house in Bowerstone and I opened a door and it swung inward, trapping me behind it, between the door and the wall. After several frustrating moments I finally got the menu up and was able to fast travel away.

every time i turn on the game, the top of the screen says, Rescuing Charlie Skip Conversation. but i finished that quest a long time ago and got the reward. and now the "A" button NEVER works while stealing, looking at property, or anything else that requires the "A" button. if i just tap an expression, it holds and i have to tap a button to make it stop. my other hero works fine, and the button works in the pause menu.(i can make the rescuing charlie thing go away by teleporting to a sale, NOT a Quest or Region, ONLY a sale)

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Barium123:

I'll go ahead and add the "zombie child" bug to this topic.

The "zombie child" glitch is where your child will permanently stand in one spot and will not react to anything.

The wierd thing about this glitch is that whatever causes this glitch occurs before the effects of the glitch are experienced. I have a save with one of my characters where she is with her family and her daughter works fine and runs around like normal. However if I leave the area and come back she just stands in one spot doing nothing. I have tried everthing I can think of to prevent this (leaving the area,moving the family to a different house in the same area, moving the family to a different house in a different area, all the expressions, giving gifts) but nothing fixes the problem nor does it prevent  it from occuring.

I have almost the same situation, my child is stuck, but my wife is still here. Eventually I just got my wife to divorce me thinking that she would take my son away. But she went over to him and now she just stares at him.....now both my wife and child are mindless unmoving zombies!

Oh, when I finished the spire quest my family was fine, it was only a little while after I moved them to a new house when they glitched up.

Zacarith:

Thanks to Original Sin for posting this advice.  We've tried it by creating a henchman on the same X Box but it failed.  Is there anything else we need to do?

 

Hello all! Have that annoying glitch where you can't interact with your own character after completing the crucible? Well I have the answer to fix your glitch, and it doesn't cost you anything except a friend's help.

Glitch solved by xbox live members: Vextrin and Deadman1991. Be sure to lend props.

1) Grab a cohort. Any other member will do. Be sure to be logged into your glitched character.

2) Fast-travel to Bowerstone Market: Town Square.
2a) member playing the cohort should be glitched too at this point and mot be able to move.

3) Have cohort cast a spell (level 5 inferno worked for us).
3a) this will attract the attention of the guards.
3b) this will unstick the cohort
3c) if you DON'T get the attention of the guards, get it by terrorizing some citizens or breaking stuff, etc.

4) When the guard comes over, resist the arrest and your character will be unstuck too!


be sure to give props to Vextrin and Deadman1991.

 

 

Thank you so much! This actually works o.O