I have encountered a game breaking bug and have not been able to fix it or avoid it yet: After the quest in the Giovanni Mansion I go through the conversations with Beckett and LaCroix in the tower and when I leave the tower the game world is essentially reset to how it was in the beginning, though characters like Larry are missing for example. If I go back to Santa Monica, the guy with the broken down car is back. Mercurio is lying in front of the apartments, frozen, until I approach the cutscene point again. When I go in and talk with him he talks the way he should after he has recovered but he's lying on the bed frozen like when you first talk with him, and he has no inventory. Trip has no inventory either. Thin-bloods are back on the beach, police is still around on the pier, etc. It's like the game world was reset but not really. Tried reloading saves from before even going to the Mansion, but the game always ends up like this and basically breaks it. Have not found anything on this yet. Does anybody know what might be going on? I don't have any mods, just the way the game comes with the unofficial patch.

Open the console before you leave the Venture Tower and type: G.Story_State = 65

Didn't help unfortunately. G.Story_State is already on 65.

Hm, in that case did you continue an old save after patching? Or did Galaxy update the game version without you knowing?

Nope, have been playing offline since I have installed it.

What is the story state once you are back in Santa Monica?

It's a mixed bag, but things are mostly like at the start. Thin-bloods on the beach, Mercurio cutscene and then him lying on the sofa. Guy with the broken down car standing at the side of the road, police on the pier and so on, although I also have police in front of the gallery investigating the paintings. Mercurio and Trip also don't sell anything. I can't even think of what could be happening.

No, I meant what is the actual value of G.Story_State. Still 65?

Oh sorry. Story State was 0 when I took a cab there, so I changed it to 65, left and came back, but things were still there which were not supposed to be, Mercurio has the correct dialogue and inventory now though. Stuff in Downtown is still reset though, story state there is 65 when I leave the tower.