I completed Possession in NG+ and since then I cannot save nor mediate in Skellige. If I travel to Novigrad I can, but if I travel back to Skellige or open a save prior to completing the quest I cannot. Has anyone else had this issue?

This just happened to me as well.


I did the *trick* method of solving the quest and the battle music kept playing and I couldn't save or even attack.

I reloaded and re-did the encounter possession about 5 or 6 times and it finally worked.

I don't know if it made a difference but the last time when it finally worked I completely quit and restarted he game, allowed all the movies/dialogue to play completely through, and even let the game sit for a minute at each dialogue choice.

Got to be a bug.

I managed to remedy it by travelling to vizima, travelling back, (which fixed combat) then killing all the bandits in the bandit camp in the fort behind the town. Seems they were causing the combat state to trigger and prevented from saving. I first noticed the glitch when I went past there to complete a contract, and could not attack the bandits (nor could they attack me) and couldn't save.

It is a proper bug tied to the quest itself and can be resolved by the 2 points at the bottom.

The problem is related to the combat sequence while the Jarl tries to free the baby. It has NOTHING to do with skipping scenes nor bandits near the village.

If you drop to a certain health point - the combat auto resolves into the end scenes of the quest, and the game does not resolve the combat status.

1: Killing all 3 of the Skellige footmen before the next scene plays on can prevent this.

2: Additionally if an auto-save ticks over during the conversation scenes after quest completion you can just load that and the combat status will be resolved.

If you're sick of it glitching out, don't keep replaying it. Just set your auto-save period to minimum and wait in the conversation with everyone post quest until it pops, then load into that auto-save without a glitch state and revert your auto-save periods back to where you want them.