[campaign bug] [minor spoiler] Footprints

(spoiler alert)

 

I got past the point where I explored all the footprints, met the guy, and moved on. After a couple of battles, I sent my troops back to a city to regen. (PS It's a rather irritating mechanic... you have gone all that way, but the slowness of regen means you have to walk miles back again).

 

I went back where I had been, but it would no longer allow me. It told me I needed to check the footprints. But since I had already done this, it would not let me go past that point.

 

This means the campaign is effectively over for me. 

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Along similar lines, further into the campaign I got the "Obsidian Wall" pop-up every time a unit got within line-of-sight of the wall.  While it didn't break the quest chain as with the OP, it was still quite annoying.

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I did this, and then I like, restarted the campaign thinking something glitched. Apparently I wasn't really paying attention, I guess, to the dialog when I first went north from the second set of footprints and rescued some guy from the burned city. He told me I had to go back to the burned city and bring him a book, and I wasn't doing that. There really should be a different message besides the past the footprints message for those who followed the footprints, but still need to go back and bring him the book. As for the obsidian gate message, that was driving me crazy for awhile too.

 

*spoiler alert for op* Also, when I brought the guy the book I walked my troops all the way back to Tarth and boarded them aboard the ship ship she gave me. Then I sailed to the obsidian gate, without ever sending an overland army. When I got there, the dialog seems to have assumed I would hit the obsidian gate from the outside first, and then sent a ship around it. It spoke of reunions between my armies, when in fact they hadn't ever seperated.

 

There is a lot of room for improvement in some of the interim quest dialogs, no flags to detect certain actions on the player's part can lead to some confused text.