Middle-earth Shadow of Mordor....

With my recent adventures into the world of Ghost Recon on console. And my surprise at how well it translated. My view of a game with keyboard and mouse compared to a controller has changed. I tend to just go with pc games as a keyboard and mouse. A game that's been on my long list of games to play, one that also seems to work better on PC with a controller is Middle-earth Shadow of Mordor. The game came out just over 3 years ago. I bought the full, all content version 10 month's ago during a steam sale. Once purchased I ignored it. I knew it was a lengthy game, I had played it for a split second then put it on the long finger.

Getting into it now with a controller in hand feels perfect. The controls in game react to whatever input you use. Put the controller down and the Xbox symbols change to the appropriate keys when you move the mouse/keyboard and vise versa.

To readjust myself to the game I decided to ease in slowly, gathering and stealth killing as I went.

This gave way to a build up of my game mechanic confidence and in turn grander enemy take-downs, fire explosions as well as the 'weaker' non-storyline 'featured' Orcs.

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There is great fun to be had in the combat system. It's a visual pleasure to watch once you start to become familiar with the combo's/finishing moves.

So with a healthy amount of orc's at my feet I think I overstaying my reintroduction. I'd already collected herbs, mushrooms, artifacts, hidden eleven texts in all the area's. All the while obliterating targets of opportunity. Yet this is the story mode I'm supposed to be playing. I better get into the meat of the game. So marking the lesser of the two story mode orc captains I went on to progress; And this is where I've hit a snag. When they are selected their markers show up on the map but not when you go to that location.

Orc selected but no marker in game area.

With no marker on the ground to activate there is no mission to progress.

This is apparently a well known bug in the game. One that has not been fixed in all it's time!

As described in the steam forums, a potential fix is to create a second playthrough, complete the intro and retry the first playthrough. I did just that with no joy.

Here is what it should look like from a second character's perspective.

The only solution seems to be a deletion of the save and a start from scratch....
Not fun after 10 hours of gameplay. I'm not in any mood to redo those 10 hours after having just done them..... The game is fun but the thoughts of redoing it again is not good at all, not fun, not fun at all.

I'll try file verification, but if it works on the second character I doubt it's a fix. This could be the end of the game for me.  If I did get a second playthrough going I wouldn't want the same thing to happen to me after another 10, 15 or 20+ hours of gameplay. I'll need to reconsider it.