I saw a message about a similar problem earlier, but it was in Act 4 and seemed to be caused by a broken quest. I have encountered it soon after entering Act 3 and before taking on any quests.
After finding my first Act 3 Battlefield key I entered the battlefield, but soon found that I could not get back, I just jumped back and forth between my position in the battlefield and the battlefield entry point. I had just upgraded to patch 1.42 and read on the patch download page that there was a possible problem with games saved under patch 1.4. I therefore uninstalled/reinstalled the game, installed the 1.42 patch and went back to my last save pre 1.4. This took me back to the middle of Act 2, and I have just made it back to Act 3. I found the key again and re-entered the battlefield ... and surprise! I am stuck there again.
I don't know if it is relevant, but the Act 3 battlefield took much longer to create than the earlier ones did - nearly 5 minutes as opposed to about a minute for Act 1 and 2.
Has anyone found a cure for this problem yet, or do I have to do without the battlefields until yet another patch is issued to fix it?
Other problems (less important but still annoying) encountered with 1.42:
- Mis-identified items (e.g. arrows labelled as swords);
- items with a title but no description and do not appear on Merchant screen so I can't even sell them;
- items with "$ERROR$" in their title;
- chest used for storage now crashes game whenever the mouse pointer moves over it.
These bugs are spoiling what is otherwise a great game. Any help would be appreciated.
Tovi