I have been searching everywhere and I think I have completed all possible quests/sidequests without having to talk to Philippa and that is where I am stuck. No matter how long I meditate or how many times I reload the game I cannot talk to the sorceress in her house. Only her assistant Cynthia is there and tells me that Philippa is with Saskia and I will have to come back later. In front of Sakia's house there are two scoia'tael elves that will not initiate dialogue, only say "Only Philippa Eillhart May Enter"

Earlier, I gave Philippa magic crystal from the tower so as a result of this I have completed all the Harpy questts. I have Triss' bandanna in my inventory and also 12 Dwarven Immorteles that I got from mines.

It seems I must be missing something but only quests I have active are:
- Royal Blood
- Where is Triss Merigold?
- The Eternal Battle
- A Matter of Life and Death
- A Score to Settle
- The Assassins of Kings
- Returning Memories
- Hatred Symbolized

All the other quests are marked as completed. I have checked all the locations again looking for something I may have missed but did not find anything. Only location I haven't been to is a "fog" where I am supposed to go later on with Philippa in her owl form.

Also what can help in investigation is that after getting the immortelles, on the way back to the surface from mines there is supposed to be a cutscene/option to either stay in the mine or to go back to the surface (information I found on the internet). It seems, I never got this cutscene and have 3 dwarves standing in front of mines entrance. But if I go back to the mines, there are no monsters only dwarves mining and fixing mines. So it seems that this quest is successfuly finished.


Anybody can help please? I can provide last save if needed.

Try doing the Royal Blood quest

Thanks for reply olnorton.

I tried already. I talked to Stennis but got into dead end with him. He refused to give me his blood and now doesn't want to talk to me anymore. Only option I can think of is to go to Henselt but I always get killed when trying to cross the fog.

Any other ideas please? And evem if I manage to cross the fog and get to Henselt, will it not screw everything up even more? As I am not in phase 2 of this quest when I actually should cross the fog with help of Philippa.

Seems to be a severe problem indeed. If Geralt received Triss' bandana Philippa should be in her house. After giving Philippa the bandana there should be a riot and the story continues.

My proposal: Download my savegame, let Geralt enter Philippa's house. What happens after the dialogue?

http://www.mediafire.com/file/gz34h804zxhauko/ManualSave_0414.sav

If the riot begins after the dialogue then compare the quests done in my and in your save.

Thank you Max for your tips and save file.

With your save file riots begin, with mine, they don't. So I have compared quests and this is the result:
- Hunting Magic - Finished in my gameplay
- Royal Blood - I am 1 step ahead - can not do anything else here (spoken with Stennis already)
- Where is Triss Merigold - exactly in the same part of the quest
- The Eternal Battle- exactly in the same part of the quest
- A Matter of Life and Death - exactly in the same part of the quest
- The Harpy Contract - Finished in my gameplay
- Bring it on: Vergen - I haven't started this one (it is just a side quest)
- The Assassins of Kings- I am 1 step ahead
- Hatred Symbolized - exactly in the same part of the quest

I did some quests in different order, but I don't want to believe, it would mess up the game that much (or I found a glitch).

Could I ask you for a favour? Here is my save file www.mediafire.com/?syhn29hh3b0c9ah (sorry, can't post links due to forum restriction), any chance you could load it and have a look if you can find anything I have missed? Thx in advance

I tried playing your saved game.
It's bugged and I doubt there is anything you can do but try an earlier save.

Confirmed. I'm pretty sure it happened during the Subterranean Life quest. I found this thread:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/20920/discussions/0/611701999522869081/

Look at post #4.

Edit:

Watched something strange never seen before. Next to Zoltan's name there is a "+":

http://www.mediafire.com/view/d0x7k2guaa2h98l/witcher2_2017-06-18_09-17-37-76.jpg

Any explanation? Did you use any cheats, mods, scripts etc. before?

Thx again olnorton.

I think I found my problem. It is related to quest in mines with dwarves where I got the immortelles. In my case 3 dwarves are still in front of entrance to the mines and every time I enter, they follow me. Quest is finished though.

I will try to contact CD Project directly and see, if they can help, otherwise use different save (or somebody else's save).

Thank you Max for your time and help!

I read that Steam discussion and tried changing the languages. None which I have available helps ... :/ I also turned off the subtitules completely, nothing ... So still no luck.

There is no cut-scene for me after leaving mines, Zoltan still has got this "+" symbol and when I leave the mines, he says that dwarves will wait there.

I haven't used any cheats or mods or anything else. Strange.

I sounds like you have to load a save from before you picked an immortelle (you only need one) and switch to English before you pick one.
If you did that, did you get the option to return to surface or remain here?
When you loaded the save from before you picked an immortelle, did Zoltan already have that + sign over his head?

I checked my saves. Unfortunately I delete them regularly so pretty much only one I have is nearly at the beggining of chapter 2 as I did this quest as soon as I could and then pretty much all the others after :D

I am slowly getting reconciled with me playing whole chapter again ...