@loonycat67 Hi, I only just found this and have uploaded to the cloud, but from what I see you have not found an answer and the work around did not help. I just completed the new cross over with Kassandra and went back to Ireland and still the same issue, guards re spawn and key stays in the rock, so I guess it is hopeless.

I killed everyone in the cave. I killed the person with the key with an arrow with ability to pass through the rock, well now the key shows up inside the rock wall but there is no way to access it. I have left and come back, more druids show up and I kill them but key is still in the wall. Therefore I cannot get the guy out of the cell and complete the quest. Thanks for any help.

This happened to me just yesterday. I spent an hour sailing around, jumping in the river jumping in and out of the boat, and it is not the first time it has happened. Just as I finally decided to give up, I decided to have Eivor start walking toward a fort to commit suicide by arrows, when doing that triggered something which triggered the return to settlement. Of course this makes zero sense but try it. I am on XBox

Well after leaving a long rant about the continuous lost saves, I finally decided I am not willing tom play this way with a game that should never have been released in this half baked fashion, so I am sending it back, which is really sad because I was enjoying in between the endless bugs, glitches and lost saves. The bigger the companies get the worse the quality and the bigger the greed factor.

So it is now November 22, I just lost an hour and a half of play, but what is worse is the map is showing all the areas I went but not the unfinished or finished quest. All items missing fom my inventory. I saw a little flash during game play about server connection but i do not see why everything would disappear as I was still playiing and doing more saves, it is not even showing up as corrupted anymore it is just gone. There have been so many issues with this game I have been playing for 12 days now and have spent way more time frustrated and trying to fix glitches than I have spent enjoying the game. Next time if a game is not ready for release please do not release it just to make a few more bucks because the bad feelinfgs you are creating will far out weigh any little money you might make in the short term. I dod not even know if I will go back to this because you never know when your hours of play will just vanish, and the endless slogging you have to do around the map does not make it a joy to replay. I mean [censored]!

It is happening constantly and it is now a week since the release. I had gone to Asgard not knowing you had to be a certain level to accomplish anything there, also not knowing you could not come back unless you did fight the battle. I was not worried because I had saved my game before going except when I went to load it I found out all my saves had changed to data corrupt. This is [censored] ridiculous. This has been happening to me every time I play.