Opening the menu in the inn and quickly exiting makes the "Return to the Plaza" text persist at the top of the screen.

Beast's loyalty is still a janky piece of mess, taking the same amount of damage the covered character would've taken (instead of using their own stats) and not working with any of protector's shield skills or even their own passives.

My game locked up when I talked to a guard on 10F, A-6 on the map. The guard portrait appeared but there was no text box and I couldn't do anything else. I was dragging a map icon with my mouse at the same time I started the conversation with the keyboard. I can still use the map controls, but am unable to move the party or open the menu.

From what I've read, this event only shows up if you are playing a password linked game from EO1

Originally posted by Kwupah:

My game locked up when I talked to a guard on 10F, A-6 on the map. The guard portrait appeared but there was no text box and I couldn't do anything else. I was dragging a map icon with my mouse at the same time I started the conversation with the keyboard. I can still use the map controls, but am unable to move the party or open the menu.

From what I've read, this event only shows up if you are playing a password linked game from EO1

My game freezes at that point as well. I confirm this.

Pretty sure this is a bug for beast class.

Because it's the only class that you can't use portraits from the other classes for them.

While other classes, you can use any portraits.

Originally posted by RegalStar:

Beast's loyalty is still a janky piece of mess, taking the same amount of damage the covered character would've taken (instead of using their own stats) and not working with any of protector's shield skills or even their own passives.

This isn't a bug. It was modified in the wish-granting Untold version, but here, it gives the Protector more value.

If Loyalty used the Beast's own defense, the Beast would just take all of the damage all of the time and wouldn't break a sweat, with its gigantic reserve of HP. Not only that, Loyalty is a passive action. Free-action defense? The player is gonna suffer for such a bonus.

Protector has the benefit of using its own defense to take hits for others, but it's an active skill that you have to select. Such is the ways of balance.

Originally posted by nnnnoon:

Pretty sure this is a bug for beast class.

Because it's the only class that you can't use portraits from the other classes for them.

While other classes, you can use any portraits.

It was stated in its preview video (uploaded to Youtube) that this is specific to the Beast class and not a bug.

Originally posted by Kwupah:

My game locked up when I talked to a guard on 10F, A-6 on the map. The guard portrait appeared but there was no text box and I couldn't do anything else. I was dragging a map icon with my mouse at the same time I started the conversation with the keyboard. I can still use the map controls, but am unable to move the party or open the menu.

From what I've read, this event only shows up if you are playing a password linked game from EO1

Can third this, I have tried reloading, trying to get a different "seed" etc and every time my game soft locks here. I can still play about with the map so I know the game hasn't crashed, it's just a broken script of some sort.

Originally posted by Raex:

Originally posted by Kwupah:

My game locked up when I talked to a guard on 10F, A-6 on the map. The guard portrait appeared but there was no text box and I couldn't do anything else. I was dragging a map icon with my mouse at the same time I started the conversation with the keyboard. I can still use the map controls, but am unable to move the party or open the menu.

From what I've read, this event only shows up if you are playing a password linked game from EO1

Can third this, I have tried reloading, trying to get a different "seed" etc and every time my game soft locks here. I can still play about with the map so I know the game hasn't crashed, it's just a broken script of some sort.

Yep this happens to me this, seems to be a repeatable bug across all versions.

Not a game-breaking bug, but game stutters when using the Gunner skill Ricochet in combat

Originally posted by RosabellaMelantha:

Originally posted by Raex:

Can third this, I have tried reloading, trying to get a different "seed" etc and every time my game soft locks here. I can still play about with the map so I know the game hasn't crashed, it's just a broken script of some sort.

Yep this happens to me this, seems to be a repeatable bug across all versions.

Yep, same here. Locks up hard. I can mess with the map but thats it.

Originally posted by HypeWagon:

Not a game-breaking bug, but game stutters when using the Gunner skill Ricochet in combat

I have this issue too.

Originally posted by Eaeelil:

Originally posted by RosabellaMelantha:

Yep this happens to me this, seems to be a repeatable bug across all versions.

Yep, same here. Locks up hard. I can mess with the map but thats it.

The reason is because the script here has an errant tag. You can see the DS version here: https://lparchive.org/Etrian-Odyssey-II-Heroes-of-Lagaard/Update%2043/156-EOII_18_118.png

It was just a visual error then, but apparnetly the new engine hates tag errors and will just softlock when you try to feed it this.

You can get around the lock by changing the game to another language, since English is the only language that has this tag error.

Please fix the guard on B10F. I lost a ton of progress talking to him and many other people will as well

Originally posted by Kwupah:

My game locked up when I talked to a guard on 10F, A-6 on the map. The guard portrait appeared but there was no text box and I couldn't do anything else. I was dragging a map icon with my mouse at the same time I started the conversation with the keyboard. I can still use the map controls, but am unable to move the party or open the menu.

From what I've read, this event only shows up if you are playing a password linked game from EO1

Confirmed, I even took a screenshot. This bug only exists in the English version of the game.

froze in a third stratum fight and talking 2 guard in second stratum as above