i got the same problem fix it!!!

Just finished the game. Everything works like charm - except that [censored] sidequest (and beacuse I wanted to do no kills and that problem is probably bound to saves), I will wait till it is solved...
You know what′s interesting? When I tampered with saves (and cache), I deleted few saves. After that, 2-3rd mission in mission select was locked - even when I had that save in SAVE menu. After I finished another episode, the mission was unlocked. In the end, I unlocked 1st and 4-9 mission. 2-3rd mission was still locked.
It is normal that patch is hanging in XBox cache? When I make maintenance, the patch will delete and download again. It is awkward.

Reporting in with this issue as well. Getting the load screen freeze upon entering the Distillery after exiting the Galvani office.

1. What is your chaos level? High
2. Did you sleep dart or kill an NPCs just prior to exiting Galvani/entering Distillery? Yep
3. Did an NPC notice and ‘alert’ on you prior to exiting Galvani/entering Distillery? Yep
4. When this issue was experienced, what were your powers and their level? Blink 2, Possession 1
5. What was in your inventory at the time of the issue? 3 Rewire tool, 4 Rune, 2165 coin, 9 Spiritual Remedy, 3 Galvani Building Key, 1 Old Port District Sewer Key, 2 Back Yard Gate Key, 1 Workshop Key, 2 Galvani Lab Key, 1 Granny's Front Door Key, 1 Dunwall Sewer Gate Key, 2 Yard Walkway Key, 1 Corvo's Cell Key, The Heart, Corvo's Pistol, Corvo's Crossbow, Corvo's Folding Blade, 10 regular bullet, 10 crossbow bolt, 2 sleep dart, 1 incendiary bolt, 5 springrazor, 2 grenade
6. How many hours had you been playing when this issue occurred? Approximately 4-5 hrs.

Edit - I am unable to proceed *at all* in the game. Can't get into the Golden Cat or the Distillery. Or anything that requires a loading screen. Very frustrating.

I'm having the same problem as well for PS3 - Would be nice to get some type of indication from developers on what is happening on patching the issue since so many users seem to be suffering from it.

1. What is your chaos level? Low
2. Did you sleep dart or kill an NPCs just prior to exiting Galvani/entering Distillery? No
3. Did an NPC notice and ‘alert’ on you prior to exiting Galvani/entering Distillery? No
4. When this issue was experienced, what were your powers and their level? Blink 2, Possession 1, Darkvision 1
5. What was in your inventory at the time of the issue?
6. How many hours had you been playing when this issue occurred? Approximately 3-4 hrs.
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So what is the final answer for this issue? Do we need to go back a few levels or is Bethesda coming out with a patch to resolve? If so, how soon?

I′m affraid we have to wait :/ Or if you want to spend another 4 hours with crawling and then stuck there, you can try it...but I won′t, it′s waste of time.

Hello,

I am having the same problems with the load screen and freezing. I am on the High Overseer level, fairly early in the game, and it just won't load. I replaced the disc, cleared the cache and loaded it onto the 360 harddrive. But, every time I try to load my game, it freezes up.

1. What is your chaos level? Low
2. Did you sleep dart or kill an NPCs just prior to exiting Galvani/entering Distillery? I didn't make it that far in the game yet.
3. Did an NPC notice and ‘alert’ on you prior to exiting Galvani/entering Distillery? Same as #2.
4. When this issue was experienced, what were your powers and their level? Possession, Blink, Dark Vision, Bend Time.
5. What was in your inventory at the time of the issue? Unknown, can't remember...
6. How many hours had you been playing when this issue occurred? a few hours

I might have to start all over or at least the level, because my current saves/autosaves aren't loading. I finally had time to play yesterday, and this happened. It's so frustrating.

~Megan

I`m having the exact same problem, stuck in dr galvini`s office. Started a new game as well it happend again. Rendering it unplayable, i loved this game & was going to buy the PS3 version as well. But not if they don`t patch it, can any of the devs at least let us know in here if you are working on a patch please??

Can any devs or forum mods shed some light on this? It`s been 3 week, is a patch coming simple answer yes or no? My game is rendered unplayable now, great start to something that should be gamer of the year!

SPOILER ALERT

I am also having a loading screen freeze problem. However mine started when I got back to Samuel after assassinating Lady Boyle. It began to load the next sequence on my return from the mission but then told me there was a disk read error and now I can't load any missions at all! I've tried loading all of my previous saves but nothing works. The loading screen doesn't seem to be frozen, it's just forever loading. I left it go for nearly 45 minutes to load and it never stopped; just continues to scroll through the game hints in the loading screen....HELP?!?

i have the exact same issue on my xbox. whenever i try to leave galvani's office after getting the evidence for slackjaw the game freezes. i restarted the mission, i went in and out of the distillery to meet slackjaw, no problem, i havn't killed any one except a few guards with a hacked watchtower and a few weepers.

1. chaos level is high i think due to a significant bodycount in previous missions
2. chocked a soldier outside by the dropoff point at beginning mission, killed remaining guards with a hacked watchtower, sleepdarted the 3 assasins around the old granny rags residance and the guard on the balcony of Dr.Galvani's office(i restarted the mission earlyer so i knew what i had to do), went to the distillery and talked to slackjaw, after talking to him i sleepdarted the 3 weepers inside the distillery to get the goodies in their cell, went outside and picked up the rune, killed a few weepers outside the new residance of granny rags (leads to the golden cat), went back and got inside Galvani's office through the balcony on the second floor. choked 1 guard that walked around there the other was eaten by a swarm of rats, dumped the unconsinious body near the rats so they would eat him, went upstairs and chocked the 2 remaining guards, got the evidance and wanted to leave the office through the doors on the 3rd floor (used the building key to unlock that door, i get the choiche of staying or leaving i choose leave, the door opening sound plays and the game freezes as soon as the loading screen comes into view,
3. no, i got through undetected
4. Dark vision 2, Blink 1, possesion 1, vitality 1, agility 1, and shadow kill 1
5. my inventory was: 1 rune, lens magnification, incandescent paste, 7 rewire tool, 651 coin, 10 solokov and 10 piero's. i have 4 out of 4 bone charms activated: Tough skin, Healty appetite 2, whirlwind 1, and unnerving target 1. i had 3 other bone charms with me: throwing hand, robust 1 and sustained raige. Keyring: Galvani building key, distillery reserve key, old port district sewerkey, workshop key, 2 back yard gate key, 3 distillery master key, 2 interrogation room key, 2 galvani lab key, galvani pantry key, granny's front door key, piero's workshop key, pub master room key, dunwall sewer gate key, yard walkway key, corvo's cell key. Gadgets: the heart, city watch pistol corvo's crossbow and corvo's folding knife. ammo: 10 regular bullet, 10 crossbow bolt, 4 sleep dart, 5 incendiary bolt, 5 springrazor and 5 grenade. Upgrades: combat sleep dart, crossbow range upgrade, bone charms capacity upgrade 1 crossbow accuracy upgrade, mask optics upgrade 1
6. approximaly 10 hours perhaps even more.

i have also the same problem on x360!!! but with me i can not enter the golden cat or other doors!! it will just freeze, and i haven't killed anybody! (except the targets) i even tried to re cache the game,die and start again, reload an older ssave, and it still freezes! if this is not fixed by next week i am going to deliver it back and get another game, cause this is frustrating!

1.chaos lvl low only used alternate killing methods.
2.took over the gate and the big robot in the district, 2 soldiers are asleep and the rest are alive.
3.haven't been detected yet.
4.dark vision 2, blink 2, possesion 1, vitality 1, agility 2 ( have collected all that are to be collected to this mission of runes and bonecharms
5.1rune, 10 rewire tool, 1099 coin, 10 solokov , 10 piero's, 7 avtice bone charm, all the keys you can obtain to this mission(golden cat), corvos equiptment and the heart,: 20 bullets,10 indecary bolts, 10 sleeping darts, 10 springrazor , 10 grenades. Upgraded bonecharm cap(lvl 2), bullet cap(lvl2), mask op lvl1
6. less then 10 hours

i now the feels man! it svcks! and the game wont even save on very hard!!! it just gives a flyingF and you start all the way back in prison, even if you saved it (not quick saving)

Okay I actually got it to work. I went back to one of the main level saves and deleted the previous autosaves. Then prior to going to the level that caused the problem, I did a manual save again and it worked fine.

I`ve done that quite a few times now. It does not work me, this really needs patching. ASAP come on arkane fix it.

Good to hear that helped. We have seen that reloading the Mission save, and sleep-darting, choking-out, or killing the elite guard on the second Galvani balcony before he enters the building helps.

We are working on fixes for the game. I'll report more information when the title update is available.

Thanks for your patience.

If I might add, when I choked him AFTER SlackJaw gave me the quest, it didn′t help. Maybe If you choke/dart/kill him BEFORE that quest, it will help. I hope it will be fixed soon, I want to make another run as no-kill.

god want to play so bad but the game is just that bug when it frezz i love the game i hope it get fix son