The Event Bounties that opened with the September 2 update can leave an account stuck. Konami has confirmed the fault, published a workaround, and scheduled an emergency maintenance to fix it.
What Goes Wrong
The lock needs three things to line up:
- You start an Event Bounty while standing somewhere other than a town.
- The battle is interrupted.
- On returning, you choose Cancel at the resume prompt.
The interface then fails to draw correctly and the game cannot be advanced from that state.
How to Avoid It
Konami asks players to do two things until the fix ships:
- Start Event Bounties from inside a town — your headquarters or Gregminster, for instance — rather than out in the field.
- When you come back to an interrupted battle, choose Resume, never Cancel.
Both are cheap habits, and the second one matters more: the prompt appears whenever a fight is broken off, so it is the step that is easy to answer without reading.
The Fix
An emergency maintenance ran on September 4, 2026 from 02:00 to 04:00 JST. It addressed the softlock above and a second one, unrelated to gameplay: at the KONAMI Games store, some players could not buy a ¥10,000 Fantasy Stones product — accounts that set their age bracket to 18-or-over during August and whose first September purchase was that product. Konami confirmed that one resolved the same day.
The Same Fault in the Mist Shade Fights
The Mist Shade fights on the event’s bounty board — the ones entered with Bounty Tickets — opened on September 4 at 12:00 JST carrying their own version of this, and here it costs the tickets. Starting one from outside a town and then coming back from an interruption goes wrong two ways:
- From the field: no resume prompt appears at all. You are dropped on the travel screen with the battle gone.
- From a dungeon: Cancel returns you to the travel screen with no results screen; Resume leaves the screen black and unresponsive, and force-quitting puts you back on the travel screen.
Either way the quest rewards are not paid and the Bounty Tickets are consumed anyway. The workaround is the same one — start Mist Shade fights from inside a town.
Konami has confirmed compensation for the tickets: players who could not return to the battle and lost tickets without receiving the quest rewards will have those tickets returned, once the fix is complete.
Source
Suikoden STAR LEAP official account on X, with the maintenance schedule from the follow-up notice, the Mist Shade bug report and its compensation notice.
