[.86][bug] Quest locations

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I started the "Hunting The Garrote" quest and upon accepting the quest a new quest location appear, "garrote tracks" or something like that.  The bug occurred after moving my hero to this location to complete the next step in the quest.  As expected an option menu appeared with the standard "continue or give up" option.  Selecting the "continue" option started a battle (as expected) and the "give up" option exits the menu and the quest end (I assume this is expected, would be nice if it wasn't). 

The bug comes in when at the option menu, I press the ESC key on my keyboard.  The menu closes and the quest location disappears.  When I moved my hero to the former quest location, the game initiates an auto-save just as if I had selected the "continue" option.  By reloading my last auto-save I was able to engage in the battle and continue on with the quest, even though it would appear as though I had cancelled the quest. 

 

I have not yet tried to reproduce the above scenario by choosing the "give up" option, so this may be a bug from abandoning a quest rather then hitting the ESC key. 

On a side note.  I would love for there to be a non-bugged way of choosing the "give up" option and still be able to come back to the quest after a couple of turns rather then just abandon the quest all together. 

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

I agree, there should be a way of deciding that you're not quite up to the quest yet but could come to it later.  I had suggested a while back that quest huts should show their difficulty level AFTER you had researched the tech to try them, since you can research the tech long before you have an army strong enough to do them.  If that's not changed, it makes it even more desirable to be able to refuse quests but not lose them.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Publius, reply 1
I agree, there should be a way of deciding that you're not quite up to the quest yet but could come to it later.
End of Publius's quote
  agree

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

+1. While some things could be a "choose now or forever lose your choice" option, I don't think ALL quests need to be that way.