escort quest glitch

[Remuz]

Hi all,

old tome2 player, I discovered tome4 a couple of weeks ago, and I am having a blast. the game is relatively bug-free, except for a few glitches I noticed. here comes one:

currently clearing dreadfell, my dwarf summoner entered dungeonlevel 6, where he was given an escort quest for a lost sun paladin. As a summoner, I find that escort quest are usually pretty easy. however, next to the staircase were several monsters, which I did not want to fight melee ( as always). I did not want to phas door away either, as it would surely mean the demise of my escortee, so I decided to go back to dungeon level 5, as the paladin was next to me, he would follow me, as my summons normally do.

what happened:
-the escort quest was flagged as failed in my quest log, saying I abandonned the paladin to his death (even thought the paladin was still alive by my side)
- I got a new quest, exactly similar to the previous one, for level 5 of the dungeon this time.

I suspect the code is made to automatically fail the quest when leaving the level (whatever the mean) and to create a new quest when an escortee is present in the level when entering it.

I wanted to attach my save file, but could not find it on my hard drive. Here is the dump though:
http://te4.org/characters/27597/tome/23 ... e60a10aef9

Please let me know if anything is unclear.
Thanks!

[supermini]

For the first part, escort quests always fail when you change zones. That's WAD. They can't follow you to the previous level.

For the second part, there was an escort quest on level 5 but it didn't spawn the first time you entered the level because there was a block between the spawn point and the portal (usually a closed door). When you entered the second time (after you cleared the level), the block was no longer there and it could be done normally. This can be a bit annoying until you realize that this mostly happens in Dreadfell where the success rate for saving escorts isn't stellar.