❔┃side-quests

[pastel tiger]

You have to progress a little bit into the main story for it to appear

[fierce spindle]

Oh okay thank you.

[onyx orchid]

i heard there's a chance he might have died, but that was a few patches ago, not sure if that's an issue now

[cinder shuttle]

Is anyone else still get a crash for Quiet's "Light in the End of the Tunnel", it gets worst the closer I get to Paet to the point that getting anywhere near the old military checkpoint it crashes.

[onyx orchid]

i thought that problem was fixed in the earlier patches?

[frail wasp]

I am doing the quest where you get the psi emitter for quiet, can I give the psi emitter to quiet myself?

[onyx orchid]

think you're suppose to sell it to sidorovich as it's part of the deal with quiet and he's suppose to send the money later to quiet

[scarlet flume]

how do i get the three captains quest?

[pastel tiger]

Finish side quests from beard and sultan and then progress the main story enough and it should become available

[sharp rain]

Grays Last Hunt side quest is bugged for me

Ive returned to Arkhyp to collect the reward but i think its bugged bc theres no dialog for it

@ me if someone can help solve this

[scarlet flume]

found a bug during deceive the deceiver where Zakhar doesn't want to be escorted to his stash lol tried reloading but that doesn't work unfortunately lol

[modest crest]

I got the partner gun from the save zalissya side quest and I can’t get rid of it from my inventory no matter what, anybody know a fix

it’s been there for over a month 😭

[sacred geyser]

You try giving it to Warlock?

[modest crest]

I don’t think I can sadly

[sacred geyser]

That was part of the sidequest

[modest crest]

yeah I deleted my old saves too

I’m on my 3rd playthrough and I’m trying to get all the achievements so I tried to get the gun for the “get all special weapons” achievement

[zinc karma]

your just stuck with it forever, although maybe theres someway to remove it through command stuff idk

[modest crest]

damn

[paper bridge]

I have to kill zombies during the side quest Black Sheep. Unfortunately, i have already killed them during the exploration before i have the mission. Is it possible to finish this quest?

[echo terrace]

Hi! Is there a list of sidequests or events that are only available before Siirca?

[warped cloak]

I can list the ones I can remember off the top of my head that are specifically pre-SIRCAA:

• dogfight side quest from nightingale (and its subsequent side quest) deluxe/ultimate editions only
  -the lost boys side quest from Lens

[plucky mortar]

the 'The Sound of Music' side quest in the duga region as well

[summer moat]

Quiet’s quest in the Cordon

[warped cloak]

thanks for the add ons fr fr I am not so good at the remember of all the side quests

[echo terrace]

What about the one sidequest in the town south of Douga? Chornobyl-2

[warped cloak]

that one’s called “the sound of music” and that’s def one of them

[pastel tiger]

It's a pretty dece quest too

[echo terrace]

Aright. Anything else? Planning a new playthrough soon ish and don't want to miss anything on that one.

[knotty hemlock]

Please, I need help with the mission: The Moment of Truth. I've completed everything, but nothing's happened for two days. I've restarted this mission three times, but the same thing keeps happening: I can't progress any further. What should I do?

[prisma bear]

Yo, where do i have to save to get all endings? (Doing achievements)

[magic quest]

Where the Scar pulls you out of the capsule

[peak niche]

Subtle Matter quest is where that happens

Making a save right before you go in that pod is what I did

Unless if you want to do the whole mission again

[north kraken]

Is there anyway to get into icurus with out the ward badge?

I did not know showing the unusual pda the ward was alright

And I'm way to far in to start over again

[harsh hinge]

(not when ward is occupying the base, no)

[north kraken]

Asking because it has a blue side mission flag

[harsh hinge]

(ye i know how it feels, would be a mission for another playthrough for me)

[north kraken]

Fair enough

[crisp cedar]

Is there a way to do the The Poppy Field Side Quest if i am already advanced in the game ? ||(i'm talking to Sidorovich). I went back to Zalissya to find the npc but everyone was killed did i missed something ?||

[ripe locust]

i tried smuggling an rpg into the rostok arena and managed it, but the shooting of it doesnt seem to do anything. its like it disappears into the air........but when i fired in the ground under me to test it, it did go boom. whats up with that? trying to kill the chimera...

[round jay]

The side quest where the dead bodies are marked to search? Yeah...

Or what do you talking about?

[verbal jasper]

It can only be given as a side-quest from the NPC named Mityay, that is hanging out in Hamster the Trader's building.

[topaz marsh]

speaking of missable missions, is "The sound of music" doable late game? I've never encountered it. Apparently it's at Duga but I assumed I couldn't get to duga earlier with the area being inaccessible

[ember marsh]

Can I avoid killing beard in the three captains mission or is it mandatory to complete it (beard is my goat)

[harsh hinge]

||yes, you can avoid it||

[pastel tiger]

Late reply but afaik it's only doable pre-SIRCAA. You can access the Chornobyl-2 area of Duga as long as you take the far south entrance by burnt forest

[topaz marsh]

Noted. Will try on my veteran play through then. Thanks a lot for your answer!!

[crisp cedar]

But what if Zalissya failed in my timeline is there a way to do it even it failed ?

[verbal jasper]

If Mityay is not alive to give it, it's not going to happen. Maybe next game.

[onyx orchid]

are the side quest for Hera in cement factory still bugged in that it doesn't remove itself from the journal after completing and talking to Hera?

[round jay]

The side quest where you should kill a few bandits is bugged, when you are approaching from the edge of the cliff and the npcs start running around, one of them is falling through the pixels (so to speak) and shot you from below and hits you, but you are unable to kill him. When coming from the left side around the small hill and shot said npcs, they wont disappear and the quest is solved.

[misty tendon]

So if you progressed after SIRCAA and didn't save Zalissya from the Monolithians that means nothing related to Zalissya is gonna be available anymore

[karmic tusk]

Hi any issue deleting pomor to get the special gun?

[limpid pumice]

Howdy, I got a gamebreaking bug. In the mission "Down Below", Degtjarev simply won't start conversation in that big room after Dalin contacting me. He simply replies to "Get moving" and other generic replies when interacting with him. Any idea?

[verbal jasper]

https://egw.news/gaming/news/27594/modders-are-already-fixing-stalker-2-one-duty-ques-zNobmsgFx

[half atlas]

No weight limit why did he made that simple config change so flashy lmao

[verbal jasper]

Modders give people what they want and not necessarily what they need.
No one really needs a no weight limit mod.
No one needs to carry every weapon and armor.

[half atlas]

Point is that he sounded impressed by it (and it's like a rookie form of modding)

It's just funny

Restoring cutcontent is great. I like seeing such things taking place aside from what I said about the weight thing

[gritty aurora]

I wanted to spare Kwascka.
He wasnt on the roof, I heard hos moans.
Later some Zombies attacked me in Ponton area, one of them was Kwaschka.
Version 1.4

[onyx orchid]

anyone with the bugged side mission from hera, did it get fixed for you in 1.4 patch?

barkeeper in cement factory

[modest crest]

still praying for this to be fixed in a patch

[prime bison]

Hey guys i need some help with the defend of Zallisya quest

i watch a video that the ending is different from what i get

it seem that i defended the town but not perfectly

[digital crag]

What do you mean?

[prime bison]

in the video i watch the ending is more upbeat and the player defend the town perfectly

what i got is a sign from Gaffer

and the mission completet but have grey mark rather than green check mark

[digital crag]

What was in this sign?

[prime bison]

sigh i mean

i misspell

[digital crag]

It's strange. Did you complete all missions in Zallisya? That appear after monolithians returned.

[prime bison]

yea i did

[digital crag]

How many stalkers did die because of monolithians attack?

Maybe it depends on how much did survive.

When I played - I tried to keep everyone alive.

[prime bison]

i load back and did it 10 times now

i shoot them even when they are just spawning in and standing up high to attract gun fire

the best run i did i only see 1 dead stalker

i even pulled out the Clusterf with AP to one shot every monolithians

[digital crag]

Then it's bug.

But maybe it's not. As I did everything that you did and I got green check mark.

Can you replay Zallisya from the beginning? When you visit it and help with defeating monolithians at first time.

[prime bison]

oof that would suck to play from the begining of the quest

[digital crag]

You can wait for answers from others, maybe I'm not right.

[prime bison]

i'm gonna try to replay it from the begining

[digital crag]

Good luck.

[prime bison]

After finishing the quest again, I got the ending that I want with people being more cheery

but the quest complete mark still gray neutral

not green check mark

[digital crag]

Then report it: https://support.stalker2.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

Maybe something activates this bug.

[prime bison]

Sometime later, i walked by and Gaffer announces that Zallisya is holding against the Monolithian

[digital crag]

Scripts broken. I remember bug when you protected Zallisya, went out and then audio played that Zallisya has fallen.

[prime bison]

luckly that I stayed in Zallisya for all the quests to trigger and playout

so the only thing i'm puzzled is that neutral complete quest mark

[half atlas]

It's fine. I tested it myself, and it worked perfectly. It has been fixed since 1.3

[jovial pulsar]

hey I just started playing stalker cop enhanced edition on win 10 22h2, on a fresh save I ran into a bug where i cant talk to awl by the boiler anomaly; when i interact with him, he tells me to "talk to the boss". Any advice?

[jovial pulsar]

nevermind, fixed it by starting another fresh save

also tip for anyone wanting to adjust your viewmodel/weapon fov, use the command hud_fov 0.x (0.1-0.9 is the max I think)

[cyan ridge]

Nah i played it on 1.4 and it had some issues, especially with radio messages of gaffer

[half atlas]

Not a single issue in my playthrough. Spawn points were fine. Npcs didn't get stuck, and all parts worked with no issues.

[cyan ridge]

Zalissya stalkers all died in mine and gaffer said even though they killed all the Monolith attackers zalissya is dead

[half atlas]

Funnily enough, only one stalker died. I made sure to tank them all and execute a reflexes rush on them. The one that died simply did in the second spawn point behind the building cuz I took too long getting around it

[cyan ridge]

I did the same the first time and they still all died.

Reloaded the save and did the same thing, everyone survived. Not even one casualty

[half atlas]

Yeah. I think what really makes the difference is them focusing on you as a primary target. If not, they'd simply destroy them as you try to snipe from a far

There are a bunch of rookies there, so aside from the couple exo boys, the rest are easy to die, considering the arsenal the monolith guys are carrying

[frozen birch]

I'm trying to find the side quest where you give healthkit to a guy and the reward is to loot his friends corpses, 2 of the corpses have a modded Viper 5 on them, one of them has a pistol silencer attached, help me please 🥺

[brisk turret]

Hey everyone, I’m on PlayStation. Currently playing SOC and I’m having trouble with the Stalker Legend, trophy. From what I can tell. I’m meeting all the requirements and I’ve picked up all 14 out of 27 artifacts that I need to pick up, but in the trophy menu on my PlayStation. It says 13 out of 14. Can anyone help me out on what I’m missing could this be fixed by starting a new game or something?

[sacred geyser]

Wrong channel btw

[floral valley]

@sacred geyser

Elo

[sacred geyser]

Hey

[floral valley]

Polska

[sacred geyser]

Tak

[floral valley]

Dawaj pv

@sacred geyser

[languid snow]

Hey guys ang gals!
I am trying to complete the ||Three captains||. I started it during ||A deal with the Devi||l, and apparently i need to finish the current main mission after completing ||Bullseye and A misterious case|| to get ||Three Caps||. I finished|| A Deal with..||. but the mission is not appearing.

[harsh hinge]

I had to wait a bit/progress the story a bit before said quest is available for me

[distant cloak]

hey guys quick question, I'm currently trying to complete|| 'decieve the deciever'||, and even though I have the ||spitter|| I'm unable to show it to ||Zhakar Babay||, any advice on how to fix this bug?

Thank you

[elder bison]

Same here, the marker is shown on the map but ||Zhakar|| is not showing up. ||I've searched whole slag heap||, reloaded game multiple times and slept for atleast 24 in game hours.

[agile parcel]

Hi everyone, the "Deceive the Deceiver" mission went fine except Where is Agopyan?

I went back to the place I first found him and he's not there nor is he dead.

I'd appreciate any help

Thank you

[round jay]

Im actually playing the side quest for Owl, where you have to find 4 dead bodies or bagpacks and loot their pdas. Have already 3 of them but at the last stage, the body is missing, consulted a youtube vid, where the body was placed over a wooden box. Into my game the boxes are present but no body to loot. Any ideas? There is nothing else around, even a x for the assumed body location is missing...

[distant cloak]

hey guys can I get a hand with 'on the edge' quickly, my issue is a bit different from the bugs other people are reporting:
Basically, I'm at the point in the quest where I have to fight off the monolith attack, but whenever I kill a monolith, a sidequest icon appears on his body (exclamation mark in a blue diamond), and nomatter what I do I can't complete the quest to fight off the attack.

Any help is much appreciated, I've also tried running away from Zalissya but I just fail the quest and Zalissya falls to the monolith

[round jay]

Just to make sure that you aware a green dot for the friendly and a white one for the monoliths? Asking because shooting own people is very possible with the attacks. Also, try to apporach the village from an other angle and try to counter attack them from behind or an other spot, just to figure out if this happens no matter what you try

[obtuse igloo]

Bro I go on this fetch quest for this dumb Sgt at Icarus for a Psi suit, wait around for him to be done, then spend 40k coupons for a suit im already wearing -_-

[round jay]

Had done this silly thing too, sis^^ After awaring that I own the suit already and the bought one was not better, I reload the game at last point and refused to buy that suit, 40k saved.

[frozen birch]

I'm still looking for the one where you give medkit to a guy and his reward is allow you to loot his friend's corpses, 2 of them carry a modified Viper 5, one of the Vipers have an pistol silencer attached, which can be use for the Internal A .

[round jay]

Look further, into the game you have the opportunity to find suppressors for nearly all weapons. I wouldnt stick not to that only one

[frozen birch]

I want to find that silencer for free since there's no known place to pick it up at the moment, I want to use it for the Integral A (somehow there're 4 extended mags around the map but only one side mission give you for free lmao)
Also I can't seem to find anything about this specific mission on the internet, like I'm one of the 0.1% that encountered this quest or something.

[round jay]

There is a "Viper Monolith" on top of the Lesser Zone, located right of the broken bridge into the old facility but its only there, if you own the ultimate game edition.

[open geode]

How much is the map involved in quests? for anybody whos completed the game. How much can i expect to just explore vs how much should i wait for a quest / side quests to bring me to areas i havent been to ?

trying to figure out if i should go explore regions quests havent taken me to yet or not

[harsh hinge]

in general, there are prompts that leads you towards certain regions that you would likely stumble upon side quests (and some regions are not on story critical paths), so I'd say go explore! since some side quests may be locked after certain main story progression

[verbal jasper]

I've seen many of the Traders selling the pistol silencer you seek.

[blazing prawn]

(i don’t actually know what counts as a spoiler) Im at the ||scientist helicopter by Rostok|| and a guy yelled “||watch out loner, theres a blood sucker||” but i insta killed it before he could finish, and he didn’t say anything after. Did i mess up/glitch it? Where is he hiding?

[sacred geyser]

Think you should be good. Go find him ig

[blazing prawn]

The game just crashed while i was looking for him. This time ill wait till after he finishes talking to kill it

After getting back there i found out ||he was on the ground and instantly dies once he’s done talking. I probably looted his body while looking for him. I also couldn’t heal him, even though i was right there||

Also ||i think the blood sucker was weakened by his team, because it died in one burst of the APSB||

[frozen birch]

Yeah I know, but not only that I want the damn thing for free(I'm on Veteran, not changing mode to sell loots).
And I'm actually curious about the damn quest.
I'm starting to think that a certain action would cause the quest/activity to bugged since I did encounter it during my first playthrough, and curiously,I don't find information about this quest anywhere online.

Within my first playthrough I didn't go loot-hunting frenzy like I'm right now, I went to a location, do all side quests there, then go for the main, rise and repeat.

I don't really remember whether I encountered the quest before or after the Signal though.

[open geode]

this is prob not the right channel to ask (direct me where the right place is)

Anybody have preference / insight on PSZ-9I FALCON vs diamond exosuit?

[rapid silo]

For what pistol do you want the silencer ?

Because you can find one for skiff pistol at the beginning of the game. At the very beginning, after meeting Richter, go for Zalyssia's, then, you may encounter a stalker assaulted in a house by bandits. Help him and accept his request to save his friend. At the end end of this little quest, you may find the silencer, an echo detector or hide, and some beginner's weapon.

[rapid silo]

Diamond exo by far. You can fully upgrade it without any blueprints.

[sweet pewter]

Have to fetch a skipjack artifact for S2. Where to best find?

[deep gyro]

identical chances in chemical anomalies, if you're cheeky or can't be bothered, save 100m away and try for the artifact, not what you want? reload the save until you get it

[deep gyro]

is diamond exo overall the best even if I have all blueprints and dont care about prices?

[sweet pewter]

Gave up after like 5 ciliates

[rapid silo]

Its the most polyvalent one. (And imo, the best among's all)

I mean, the most balanced in the stats.

[loud ledge]

After 3 captains, do the shops all move to sultan? I see their icons on the smaller ship but no doors

[wanton glade]

I can’t seem to start the Legend sidequest at the flea market, he’s just standing there facing the chair and everyone tells me to shh

Ive tried sitting on the mat behind him but no luck

[grand flare]

Im doing ||in the name of science|| I have ||6 electronic collars|| and I can't deiver them to ||scherba ||I can only ask whats new around the zone

[sterile mango]

shevchenko doors bugged? cant enter ship

[tame zinc]

Anyone when they return to needle all they can do is trade with him ?

Can’t finish the quest

[onyx orchid]

i had to progress the main storyline a little bit to get them unlocked but I guess I lucked out with the doors on schenvehko not opening and then fixing itself

anyone still bugged with Hera the bar keeper in cement factory? I finished his mutant quest and got the reward like 2 patches ago but the side quest never removed itself from the Journal still

[unreal thunder]

three captains. are there any benefits to letting sonya run the place over beard and sultan?

[onyx orchid]

so far no difference, just some extra dialogue it seems
i've done both already

[verbal jasper]

Yay! I finally got STC Malachite to go GREEN!

[frosty finch]

Got the same problem.

I tried to move away >100 meters to make him respawn but to no avail.

[wanton glade]

I was able to fix it by saving infront of him and then relaunching the game, surprisingly

[worldly temple]

Has anyone gotten past the side quest. Called in the name of science? I collected all six collars but can't seem to deliver them.

[paper coral]

Hello i have a question please, how many side quests are in the game

[mighty mason]

Like you can't get into the bunker to deliver them?

[mighty mason]

I believe 54 side quests

[worldly temple]

I can't deliver them to the scientist. Also when I was getting the last collar. I couldn't attack the soldiers who had it. Otherwise my game would freeze and kick me out.

[mighty mason]

You're save might be just bugged sadly but try loading a previous save and see if it lets you then

[fallen mural]

You may have to wait for the scientist to contact you as it would say on the objective screen, but it could just be bugged out

[worldly temple]

Yeah probably bugged quest. Hopefully a patch can be released soon.

[slow pagoda]

i took a side quest from warlock. says pick up warlock's order but when i got to the marker there is nothing

[mighty mason]

The in name of science quest is broken now the scientist won't take the collars 😔

Hopefully the hotfix will fix it

[trail yarrow]

having the same problem

lmk if you find a fix or if its fixed in the hotfix

[mighty mason]

Will do hopefully the hotfix will get here soon

[trail yarrow]

hopfully just spent a few hours walking and killing all the mutants just for it to be broken :(

[mighty mason]

The amount of coupons I wasted on repairs

[trail yarrow]

FOR REAL

I heard that there is a really good reward at the end of the quest though, no spoilers but its worth it even with the bug if what i saw was true

[mighty mason]

I finished it last playthrough and I sadly picked a choice that didn't get me the reward 😔

[trail yarrow]

very sad

[mighty mason]

Hey after the hotfix in the name of science started working again for me

[placid lantern]

So with Sparrow at the Burnt Forest

anything happens with him after selling him a detector?

[harsh hinge]

he ah.. tells you lore about the point of interests in the area (not sure what he'd do if you didn't bring him a detector lol)

[mighty mason]

He'll still tell you the points of interests chill dude honestly

[harsh hinge]

what a bro :>

[last drum]

Heyo is completed side missions not clearing from the journal a known bug? Just completed “A big Score” from some dude in garbage but it remains tracked with no further objectives

[last drum]

^went back a save, started again and this time saved the dude at the ambush. Progressed fine after that

[plain lynx]

can't believe some stalker is having trouble with a mutant then pseudogiant appears

[elfin topaz]

such is the will of the zone

[rugged imp]

Hey friends, I upgraded to the Ultimate version but I don't see the weapons or the journalist stash.. what to do?

[rapid silo]

Where are you in the main quest ?

[rugged imp]

In pripyat, I destroyed zalissya if it matters

[rapid silo]

Ahhhh

I think you need to start a new game, because the journalist quest trigger when you first come to Zallisya, by spawning a key inside your chest.

But this chest is unavaible after Monolith attack.

But well, i've got the ultimate edition too and ... The journalist stuff's are kinda lame, you miss nothing.

[rugged imp]

Thank you bud 🙏

[placid lantern]

so is anyone else having hamster die durning on the edge (Like just drop dead at the start of the quest)

[mighty mason]

No but that probably saves you money from paying his guard off

[elfin topaz]

6000 coupons

[tight pond]

is the fuse just falling off when you place it a know bug or is there a work around?

got stuck in lost boys, as far as i remember from last play i need to place the fuse to open the door

[lunar ember]

Hi, there is 2 codes i have no idea how to get.
The first is near wild island. The CoP plant. There is a new door with a passcode.
And the other one is in the army warehouses.
Where can i find them?

I knows there are puzzles for some of these.
Like the one on Yantar.
But i had to ask for where to find it too.
(It was the truck cemetery eyes)
Since there is nothing pointing to where.

[lunar ember]

Thank You for the clown face.
But i'll rather know what im looking for instead of going on a wild goose chase or getting the answer from a YouTube video.

[slim bloom]

so the army warehouses code I think you are referring to, you get that key from the old Freedom base and there is another building nearby a warehouse and the code is scratched onto a wall in there

[slim bloom]

and then I'm pretty sure the one you are talking about with the waste processing station goes something like this, you find the 2 corpses in basement and tape players near them. There is a bus not far from the area which has a bunch of related tape reels sitting inside and you derive the door code from a puzzle there

[lunar ember]

Ok. Thanks.

[onyx orchid]

anyone run into problems with the malachite side quest where the scientist at the shop asks you to help with lefty's group and blizzard? For blizzard I found him but interacting with him says don't bother him, so I'm unsure what I'm suppose to do even though I killed the bloodsucker

[verbal jasper]

Did you kill the Bloodsucker before he said anything to you?

[onyx orchid]

yea, there was a fire fight going on so I just killed the bloodsucker first

[verbal jasper]

I actually stumbled upon this scenario, before I got to STC Malachite. Blizzard was killed before I killed the Bloodsucker. On him was the chest of bones that Victoria wanted. I believe there was an audio announcement from Blizzard about what he was doing but I can't remember if he said that when I met him or on his body. I recorded the scenario, so let me review it and get back to you.

[onyx orchid]

thanks if need be I can make a new bug report for this

[verbal jasper]

When I approached him from the east, I heard gunfire and the roar of a Bloodsucker. Then he said "Hey Stalker! I need a hand. I can't do this alone." (Audio and text on the screen).

As I got closer, he said "C'mon help me out What are you looking at?". I joined the fight, and killed the Bloodsucker but I found him dead. The chest in his inventory told me it was wanted by Victoria, who I had never met yet.

When I finally did, she had dialogue to give it to her. With Blizzard surviving in your case, it seems like you killed the Bloodsucker before any dialogue. Unless you make manual saves before you approach any scenario like this, you may be stuck with an incomplete action.

It's at about 21 minutes into the video, if you want to review: https://youtu.be/iutVnmhgo5U?si=wxgrNTxiWlqYaZVm

[onyx orchid]

fantastic lol, looks like I'm not gonna be able to finish this quest then, I did hear him shout hey help me out but there was another group in the area and they all started firing on the bloodsucker, and I just ended up joining in on the fight to kill it

[verbal jasper]

You could hang out with him until he is killed. Then you will get the chest of bones from his inventory that Viktoria wants.

This is just a good lesson to make a quick or manual save, when you arrive upon a scene, right before the action starts.

[calm saddle]

im in the poppy field, i keep dying. i need to hand weapons and ammo to that guy but i get overencumbered and cant run and then when i drink i die anyway. i dont get whats happening

even after dropping all the stuff i cant sprint

[mighty mason]

In a light in the end of the tunnel peat is just standing on the bed saying 1268 LMAO

I don't mind this bug tbh

[verbal jasper]

Try dropping a lot of excess gear in the safe house right next to the Poppy field. That way when you find the three stashes, you have room to add the loot without getting overweight. Plus you need to drink the energy drinks often. Don't wait for the sleepy symbol every time.

[calm saddle]

no i meant it was bugged and i couldnt run even after dropping weight

i ended up resetting to an earlier save and it all worked fine

thanks though

[tepid vessel]

on the edge still broken😤

[jagged anchor]

hey I updated to Ultimate Edition and di the new sidequests, is it normal that neither of them gave me any coupons? I got 1 can of meat and a pistol silencer and thats all

(Dogfight and Nightingale's Hunt)

[tulip basin]

how is defend zalissya still broken

[verbal jasper]

What is happening?

[tame trench]

Should be fixed by now

[tulip basin]

Gunshots coming from nowhere restarted the game 3 times and it fixed itself.

[tame trench]

Maybe the npcs spawned in weird

[sage dust]

The shooting sound is the ambient track for the area till you leave. Change is indicated with a whino sitting on the steps complaining about how dangerous the zone is now.

[wispy pollen]

How many enemies are in the cave squint sends you to?

[sage dust]

Usually 1 bloodsucker, but I have seen 2 down there.

[wispy pollen]

Ok thanks

[cloud ginkgo]

Does anyone know how to get Lodochka's Lab to open during a heavy burden?

[cloud ginkgo]

Nevermind. Ended up progressing the main story and it opened the door for me.

[autumn minnow]

What's the mechanism behind turning NPC green?

I don't get it, sometimes I didn't do anything and some of the npc goes green the moment I meet them. Some won't turn green even if I do some side quests from the area

[bitter quest]

Side quests, healing them, helping them to kill mutants or enemies

[meager notch]

I'm stuck on the side quest where Squint sends you down to a cave, do I have to kill the mutant to get the Icon or can I just jump past the mutant? Because the part is making me a little bit mad as I have been on it for about 3 weeks straight

[harsh hinge]

if you are referring to the quest Piece of Cake, technically killing the mutant is not mandatory - though it will be on your critical path; if you want to just run past it by all means give it a shot - your objective is only to retrieve the artifact and bring it back to Squint

[meager notch]

I have tried running past it and it still goes after me (But I also don't have good guns not alot of amo and yeah.)

[harsh hinge]

if you are not comfortable with dealing with bloodsuckers yet, I'd say practice with a shotgun out in the field where you can move around - you will come across them a lot so trust me it would be worth your time in getting better at handling them both out in the open and in tight spaces

[meager notch]

Okay because when I first started playing the game I literally cried at the bloodsucker part (..It took me 4 days to get past that part) but I'm playing on Xbox one. Stalker has some fluffy controls for Xbox and stick drift when my controller doesn't have it

[harsh hinge]

take your time brother and lower the difficulty if you need until you are comfortable with the controls; the zone experience can be tough at times it's part of the fun lol

[meager notch]

I have the difficulty at Rookie 😭

[harsh hinge]

hey i believe in you 🫡

[meager notch]

ty bro. I'ma keep trying at REFRAIN from screaming bc its like.. 1 in the morning?

[ripe heath]

Anyone else have Zakhar Babay missing?

||I accidentally started that mission by clearing the banditt at the camp and talking to the prisoner. But he’s not where he’s supposed to stand/marker is showing.||

[wheat dock]

where are the broom bandits i'm suppose to talk to, the house i have marked is locked and most bandits there shoot on sight

[harsh hinge]

what's the name of the quest or where is the location exactly?

if you mean The Brood, then ||it do be like that lol||

there is a way for you to get in and have a conversation (as I did in 1.3.1) but I had not been given that opportunity in 1.5.1+

[wheat dock]

you basically get a side quest from the weapons dealer at the slag i think and you go down bellow to some old wooden houses at the marker but theres no one there

[harsh hinge]

so you are doing No Honor Among Thieves and are at the part where there is a wooden house and a yellow digger - you need to find a way to jump inside the house through the roof on top of the digger (and if need be, kill any and everyone who's hostile)

if you want specifics, look inside the ||large red shipping container||

[wheat dock]

thanks I'll use the new info to figure it out now

[proud stirrup]

Ive got a borked mission

Can't complete

[frail dragon]

More info required

[proud stirrup]

No honor amongst thieves. The marker doesnt direct you toward anything in the village nearby

No brood bandits anywhere

[frail dragon]

Ok if noone else comments I might be able to find a console command to allow you to progress

[calm pollen]

Hi, I can't progress first Nightingale mission, the dog with the collar is there and the white "pick up" dot appears, but I can't press F or anything to pick something up. Any ideas?

[harsh hinge]

if you are playing vanilla, the angle that allows you to loot mutants is quite specific so crouch, circle around the dot, and spam F; if you are playing with mods some of them may interfere with this so disable them if the issue persists

[calm pollen]

thank you! I have some mutant health mods, but I installed them some months ago. may that be an issue?

[harsh hinge]

I can't be sure which one but it has been reported by many that quite a few mods do not play well with mutant loots introduced in 1.5 so disable them and see which may be causing the issue for you

[calm pollen]

thank u lots, will try that

[muted veldt]

sir_whiterabbit has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[spring grotto]

I need help with the Piece of Cake sidequest

I can't figure out ||how to enter the cave||

Gemini told me to ||drop down, and now I have 2 deaths of me trying to figure out how to go down there||

[spring grotto]

Figured it out

[muted veldt]

chris_98_ has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[muted veldt]

mrkymura has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[wild bay]

How the hell do I find a safe route to help the || fool at the electric field in the garbage || (stalker 2)

[round jay]

Its kinda zig-zag course but makeable. Just ensure not to jump too fancy because the NPC wont follow

[harsh hinge]

for Shcherba's quest, there are specific coordinates for the mutants with collars; there is one at the very north of the Malachite region (not within the centre), so take a look at your map and see where the pins are

[left ibex]

All I can remember that there was 2 blue mark on the map and for one location I went two times,but didn’t find, gonna tell you later what was exactly the issue

[sage dust]

Snork in garbage, pseudogaint in red forest and controller in zaton. It feels like I am forgetting one.

[harsh hinge]

Bayun ||(Wild Island); Merc (Malachite)||

[sage dust]

Oh yeah.

[covert yacht]

theres a quest where some guy wants me to pick up his dead brothers body from an anomaly, he tells me not to loot him but when I pick up his body the game detects it like I looted him

is there a workaround and is the reward even worth it?

[sage dust]

Must be a bug. Did it yesterday and it worked. Started new game today. Will go do it tomorrow.

[peak snow]

Hello, new to the discord, hope this is the right place to ask about a glitch with the new quest on PC-unmodded. I'm unable to progress with the new quest from Honta to ||save Zhuzha from the chimera|| where you need to meet Honta by the train with like 4 other npc stalkers around. I'm there but he just keeps telling me to wait whenever I try to talk to him, am I softlocked? If I go ahead and ||kill the chimera myself||, he runs over alone and says something along the lines of "oh no!" or something then just stays there forever unable to progress. My quest log says to speak to him but there's no map marker even though he's in front of me and talking to him just has him saying "wait" again.

[sage dust]

Sounds like it's bugged.

[south lodge]

for the quest "A school of life" i gotta kill a Burer now but the door is locked and i dont see a way in other than the door

is there a key i missed or somthing?

[tight sun]

If I get the right picture, there is a passage underground in the room where you killed the rodent.

You have to destroy the wooden barriers on the floor.

[south lodge]

I didn’t see any but I’ll take a look round again once I’m back on

[proud stirrup]

I'm doing the business with owl mission finding out what happened to owl's informer

canning factory a little hard to find

[lunar ember]

Its on the bottom left on zaton.

[lunar ember]

Left to icarus.

...

Hi. Hello.
I fought the big monster (spoiler) ..

The chimera.
With honta. But after two day he hasn't returned to his shack
And the beast keeps respawning.
Did i killed it too early?
Did it got stuck?
Or should i just wait it out?

[lunar ember]

ok, tldr. I went back, killed the respawned chimera (this one actually had life on it and took some effort to kill) and when i got back honta was there.
Maybe a bug?

[molten widget]

you know the idea is out there that you can fast travel across the map using the gravitational anomalies. but if this was intended or not is not known for sure to me. but i have single stash that appears that you have to use a gravitation anomaly to get up to it on top of a rock. but

if this is true why don't you put in an npc trainer to make it part of the game and use like premedding in other game to fortity you body to take the jump. or is it you need the physical protection artifact cause i have that one for maximum but i think i will still just always die.

this youtuber is showing people how to do it but i couldn't do it cause i think it is cheating cause it actually says to land on objects like fences for zero damage and someone needs to report this error please.

it is the stash to the left of the first two headed mutant before you get into the underground farm after turning off all the psi installations preventing you from getting into underground base.

[toxic estuary]

hello guys i have problem i have the broken psi emitter in my inwentar but quite is gone and i cant accept the side quest A Light in the End of the Tunnel can some one help me

[sage dust]

Try to give it to sidorovich.

[toxic estuary]

ok

i try

i"ll let you know if it worked. kind regards

[toxic estuary]

it dont work sidorovich wont let me sell it

but its fine i go to bed gn

[molten widget]

i still have never found a single gun in a stash.

[violet flare]

Then look harder 🗿

[muted veldt]

tai_876539_t has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[lunar ember]

Hi.
Does someone have a list of the mutant part sidemissions on stc malachite.
How much per mutant.
So that i can farm before going back.
And how often those refresh.

.
I know some of them are ridículous. Like 6 deer horns.
My good lord, i have just encountered two deers in near 200 hours.

[harsh hinge]

Special Orders I have seen so far (1.5.3):
Rodent paw x10
Burer toe x6
Controller brain x3
Flesh eye x5
Bayun whisker x9
Chimera ear x2
Blind dog nasal gland x8
Boar fang x5
Bloodsucker tentacle x5
Poltergeist organ x3
Snork vertebra x7
Pseudodog hide x3
Hornhead horn x6

Go make some bank for science

[bronze oak]

Has anyone had problems with the Sultansk missions? I'm talking about one mission. I'm talking about three captain missions. They're not showing up at all.

[harsh hinge]

if you have completed both Bullseye and Mysterious Case side missions, you have to progress the main story to a certain point before Sonya will talk to you about Three Captain

[icy mauve]

Where can I find the Guides PDA?

[warped eagle]

Is it just me or are the psidogs in the arena fight just way overtuned? Like, it’ll spawn 5-6 fakes and then one fake will spawn another 5-6 fakes after killing 2-3. I hate this fight so much. On the easiest difficulty, this fight was harder for me than the chimera fight on the hardest difficulty. I hate how over the top these psidogs are

[warped eagle]

Got through the fight by pure luck alone. Just beat the chimera first try without cheesing. Yea psidogs are way overtuned

[rotund plume]

Psidog is bitch. It constantly spawn clones, but the main body usually keeps its distance (around 10 to 20 meters). What I do is toss a grenade at my feet and then run backward — this helps reduce the number of clones chasing me. Luring them into anomalys near the artifact area usually works too, as it can get swallowed by the anomaly. Alternatively, keep kiting it with grenades. In the end, once the number of clones is down, use a high-rate-of-fire shotgun like the SPSS-12 to quickly find and take out the real one with rapid shots.

With standard 12-gauge rounds, it usually takes about 5 to 6 shots to kill a psidog. However, using hollow point rounds (the yellow icon in the top-left corner), it typically only takes 2 to 3 shots. So it's a good idea to carry some HP ammo. Just keep in mind that the SPSS requires you to manually eject all the shells to switch ammo types, so it’s often better to just empty the magazine first and then reload with the new ammo.

[warped eagle]

I have less of a hard time out in the world but the arena side quest with the double barrel against the psidog was absolutely miserable. It took me like 13 attempts on easy for my third playthrough vs the chimera on the hardest difficulty for my first playthrough

[rotund plume]

Oh, sorry—I didn’t realize it was the Psidog from the second arena fight. That one was really tough. With only two shotgun rounds and the nearby gas canisters not being very effective, it ended up feeling a bit like a random gamble.

[wanton schooner]

my technique for the chimera is stand on a high crate, they usually spawn sometimes

[soft acorn]

What happened if you help both sides during the monolithian attack? Bc I just finished helping gaffer and was walking near the sphere & heard their call for help.

[elfin drum]

Who did you side with during SIRCAA?

[soft acorn]

Dubny

[elfin drum]

Okay so to help the Sphere you gotta do Noontide's Professor's little branch of quests and grab whatever is in Noontide/Shelter and then you can help the Sphere unless you have already gone to Rostok and Scar

[soft acorn]

Ahhh okay, thanks for the info/help

[elfin drum]

No problem I honestly only found out myself a few days ago when I was doing these quests lol

[verbal jasper]

Anyone do Warlock's side-mission to pick up this package?
I go to the location, right by the Bubla, and there's nothing there.
As soon as I arrive on the scene, the side mission icon vanishes.

[verbal jasper]

Here's what happens with the bugged side-mission.
I got to the location and the icon to find it vanishes.

[rotund plume]

Due to the presence of Bloodsuckers or Blind Dogs's respawn point in the area, that person might have just been attacked by these creatures, or they could have already died. However, the reward for this quest is quite poor, so even if you can't take it on, it won't be a big loss.

[muted veldt]

legendgamer1870 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

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Reason: Bad word usage

[round summit]

I can’t talk to Gonta to finish the chimera quest. Does anyone know what to do ?

[sage dust]

Few people have this issue, it sometimes resolve by leaving the area and coming back. Otherwise, wait for a patch to fix it.

[rotund plume]

Does Kostya Dry in Duga have any side quests? Every time I encounter him, he's dead, but I saw in the 1.2 update that there was a bug where he was supposed to be alive after interacting with him. So, he should have some storyline, right?

It seems like there are issues with the side quests in Duga. For example, in The Sound of Music, every time I enter the general store, I can't see the NPC and the quest doesn't trigger.

[bright trail]

Whats wrong with Lex the legend? everytime i ask him for a mission he dont want to be bothered but the map shows there is a side mission available on him :/ Ive ben trying every around 20 gamehours if something changed in his opinion, but no.

[harsh hinge]

for NPC that got stuck with available side mission, what worked for me was simply save then load/restart game, and they should resume their dialogue to give you the mission

[sacred crater]

Hey, asking myself if it's a common issue : when I killed chimera before the Gonta questline, at the final stage when I arrive to the tunnel Zhuzha automatically dies.

[rotund plume]

Zhuzha's fate depends on your decision during the quest, which is right before fighting Burer. Gonta will ask you to have a talk with Zhuzha to guide him. You can choose:

1. Do what you want to do.
2. Lecture him.

Option 2 will ultimately lead to Zhuzha hunting the Chimera on his own and dying. There's also a trap here: if you choose option 1 but later tell Gonta that Zhuzha is going to hunt the Chimera in the tunnels by himself, it will force the outcome of option 2. The only way to avoid this is by lying to Gonta and saying, "I don't know."

You didn't get the good ending, so you missed out on Gonta's unique rifle. But to be honest, that rifle can't be fitted with a suppressor, so you probably wouldn't use it much anyway. So, missing it doesn't really result in any significant loss.

[sacred crater]

I said Do what you want to do and lied to Gonta, what's wrong then ?

[rotund plume]

There’s nothing wrong. As for the question you asked, if you kill the Chimera first, no matter what choice you make, it will lead to the outcome of option 2, which is Zhuzha’s death. To change that, you’d have to load an earlier save before you killed the Chimera.

[drowsy yarrow]

Hey everyone, quick question — is the Three Captains side quest still bugged during the part where you have to kill Sultan and Beard?
I’m currently up in the tower waiting to shoot them while they talk, but they never spawn on the second floor near the window.
Did they change the spawn point in an update, or do I need to reload an older save for it to trigger properly?

P.S. Just got back to the game — my last save is from 12/03/2024, so it’s been almost a year

[harsh hinge]

did you tune in to the radio by the rifle? sonya should be calling you as well. reloading a save would be your best bet if those doesn't trigger and if all else false consider submitting a ticket via #s2-support

[drowsy yarrow]

I did, I’ll be submitting a ticket about it. Thanks!

[sacred crater]

So it's a bug. Do you know if it was already reported to the devs?

[rotund plume]

I haven't encountered any bug while playing. What should I report? What I said was 'if'.

[sacred crater]

So it was intended by the devs that you can't have the "good" ending if you already killed the Chimera ? (that's illogical, since Zhuzha cannot just die if the Chimera is already dead).

[rotund plume]

https://support.stalker2.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

[muted veldt]

psyghm has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[uneven sparrow]

I had the same problem yesterday lol

[tiny mica]

This is a spoiler channel, yes?

[fleet stirrup]

Does anyone know if The Sound of Music quest is bugged? I've just finished the Assault on the Duga main mission siding with Spark and i when i got to the Grocery Store the quest didnt show up. Was i supposed to do it before the main mission or is it faction related or it becomes available later?

[harsh hinge]

sound of music is unavailable post-sircaa

[fleet stirrup]

Damn, hope they change that. I mean there is no reason to go to Duga before sircaa since theres no quests there anyways, im not sure how its even accessible since i always get shot by Monolith snipers.

[harsh hinge]

south of Duga (outside of mission area) can be accessed before main progression via the south-most gate from Burnt Forest

(and well, you have your answer - this is THE reason/quest to explore Duga before main progression)

[muted veldt]

speciuletz has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[fleet stirrup]

Wish i knew that earlier, thanks

[proud stirrup]

Hello all. As I accept the side mission ‘light at end of tunnel’ from quiet, when I leave the the shelter I get attacked by 2 NPCs and I can’t go back to trade with quiet. Is this a bug or scripted?

[harsh hinge]

Light at the End of the Tunnel has no scripted event on Wild Island; all related-action for the mission is concentrated in another region

[muted veldt]

chingbillin420 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[iron goblet]

In the side mission "Bullseye," I've saved all three of Beard's men. I shot all the bandits, but on the way back, they stop around 200 meters from the barn I rescued them from, near some anomalies. Is this a bug?

I figured it out

[hollow plaza]

God ... Did you shot them and loot them ?

[muted veldt]

patnor has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[muted veldt]

notvrairhead has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[wintry pewter]

I'm having the exact same issue, they stop near the anomalies and do not move.
Reloaded different saves and tried different options to rescue them, what was your fix?

[iron goblet]

Further away, there are some bandits you need to get rid of. When the guys come to you, dogs are next. After that, they sit at a bonfire

[wintry pewter]

Thanks!

[iron goblet]

No problemo!

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[lean bluff]

Hi all. Doing the sude quest for yurko fantomas to get his bro out yet there's no longer a option to pick up the body, only to loot. any work arounds?

Found the issue, his PDA spawned twice & had to loot both before it let me pick him up

[muted veldt]

dameinu_mookon has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[indigo coyote]

I can't seem to pick up bubble near zalisya to do the quest what can I do ?

[harsh hinge]

known issue they are looking into it #📜┃gsc-answers message In the mean time, you can pick up the PDA beside the body, and loot only the PDA in the corpse, then you can proceed to pick up the body

[lament blaze]

Oh god the poppy’s are terrible

[muted veldt]

korne6694 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[trim oriole]

Hey everyone, so I started playing again and I'm doing the "A School Of Life" quest. I successfully killed the Chimera together with Zhuzha and had a talk with him, then while I'm going back to Honta I get a new quest objective to collect Zhuzha's PDA. I go back and what do I find? TWO MORE Chimeras next to Zhuzha's corpse fighting some Stalkers.

Is this intended or is A-Life screwing me by spawning two more Chimeras? I guess I'll have to go away a bit and go back to Zhuzha before the Chimeras get him.

[trim oriole]

Yeah that did the trick

[random vessel]

Anyone know if there is a console command mod that's working? I just got to Zalissya on a Master run and I don't have a journalist flashdrive I'm on Ultimate Edition + Preorder, it's always been there before now and I'd like to get some of that gear this run.

[trim oriole]

Did you finish the Sensors quest? I was surprised too but turns out you need to hand the sensors in for it to show up.

[gilded iris]

There is a sidequest at deaf meadow from Yurko fantomas where u have to pick up the corpse of his dead brother Bubbs and bring it to Yurko without looting the body. But I can't pick him up without looting...

Is that a bug or something??

[harsh hinge]

see #❔┃side-quests message

[gilded iris]

Bruh

[woeful gull]

What do i do with this electronic collar? I don’t have a quest for it

[wet wasp]

Theres a quest guy at sillysia(however you spell it) that you'll hunt dogs with and turn the collars into the trader there

[blissful forge]

My friend had same bug

[blissful forge]

Where did you get that quest

[proud stirrup]

A big score side mission.. when I get to the car park it’s empty and akopyan is dead?

[trim oriole]

It's in the Duga, before you do the story missions there. You have to go all the way south of the fence to get in, but it's a normal free roam area there. It's pretty small, since most of the Duga is taken up by the part that's locked down.

[solemn mirage]

I’m doing the collar side quest but one of the collars at the boathouse keeps teleporting out of the room and going on top of the lockers so I can’t get it I’ve reloaded old saves and still does it. Anyone deal with this before?

[woeful gull]

Who is quiet? A voice came over the radio asking if i wanted to make money but idk where he is..

[harsh hinge]

Quiet is a Noontider-turned-loner who is stationed at the south of Shelter

[proud stirrup]

In cordon theres an activity with a guy but i cat start it he just tells me to be quiet all the time its in the same village as sindorovic

[old crown]

i'm not getting a hold prompt on bubbles with yurko's side quest

[quasi vortex]

Hey anyone can confirm: I got a sidequest to bring a body out of anomaly field in lesser zone, guy was called Bubble or something and I can't pick him up, only loot him. Did 1.7 break it or am I doing something wrong here? In previous versions I could grab him and take to his 'friend'.

OK, for some reason I had to take PDA from his corpse to pick him up even though a duplicate is on the ground. Makes no sense tbh

[brave umbra]

Cant progress the decive the deciver quest because even though i have cherrys gun and pda i cant convince him to leave

[harsh hinge]

for any side quest/objective that seems to be stuck, save and load usually works for me (I just completed that quest so sorry to hear he's giving you a hard time)

[grand phoenix]

Hey i've help the black guy on the tunnel,, that one that Sidor wants to kill and after help him he says that he will come back to the tunnel when he get some help, but after that i come back to the tunnel and find some bandits and the dude was dead with a pda, i loot the pda but there was no info on the pda and it looks like the pda only was there for the Sidor mission to count as killed if you pick up, cause nothing happen when i pick that pda after the mission, no notes, no voicerecord, nothing. Is that guy suposse to be dead even after help him in Sidor side quest or just a bug?

[sage dust]

Sid doesn't take no $#!t. Even if you are a young blood trying to make it in the zone.

[grand phoenix]

I was wondering if that black guy has any kind of development after the sidequest like opening a new market on that specific place or something like that, that would be cool

or just was there dead like some kind of easter egg to see that nomatter what you choose he was going to die

cause it will be a little bit dissapointing to be honest

[sage dust]

There is literally never a arc or alternative outcome. The missions are on pretty tight rails.

[grand phoenix]

oh that's sad, i wish there were more developement on some quest....

[woeful gull]

I did this mission in icarus to get a new suit but i still haven’t gotten it, is this a bug?

[harsh hinge]

the tech will call you when it's ready (you need to progress the main quests a bit); if you already has a suit that has suitable level of psi protection, you may not need the one from Icarus

[timber tundra]

Having some issues with the "School of life" task and Honta just... refuses to give me the voiceline to continue the quest after killing the mutant he requested. Any ideas?

[slow notch]

Hello guys, I was looking for some info. As of 1.7 I dont seem to be recieving the rubber layer blueprint from the Ninth in the Lost Boys quest. Is this a bug, has it been removed completely. Can somebody shed some light on it?

[sage dust]

What weapons is this?

[slow notch]

Not sure. I know the ninth was supposed to give it to you, but dunno for which weapon.

[harsh hinge]

There is no notification for blurprints since 1.7 but the ones you get are valid - including the one from Ninth. You can verify that by looking at M10 upgrades and you should have the Rubber Layer upgrade available to you

[gentle hazel]

Was it the one where you need to kill snorks

[timber tundra]

Burer

[storm beacon]

so... this is my 3rd playthrough, I've tried both A Light at the End of the Tunnel choices, (Quiet's sidequest) and I haven't seen it has anything to do with the game, anyone has any info what the outcome of the choices we made in this mission ?

[sage dust]

Done it 2 different ways, got shafted by sidorovic evertime. I also don't get it. All I can think is it's context for why there is psi radiation all over the place.

[kind dock]

Is it normal that Beard and Sudan just keep standing after they finished talking?
I have no idea how to spare their lives, climb down will kill them instantly...

[storm beacon]

guys is the Three Captains bug again ? Merc won't spawn after the radio, Sultan and Beard are forced to die either I leave the tower or just stand there and must shoot them.... I don't wanna kill them..... NOOOOOOO

[solar barn]

Exactly same problem here. So I loaded a save before accepting Three Captains and just neglecting it until devs fix it again...

[kind sundial]

If you're on PC and have UETools installed, you can use: XStartQuestNodeBySID SQ81_BridgeEvent_MercsSpawn, XStartQuestNodeBySID SQ81_SpawnSquad_SecondMercs, XStartQuestNodeBySID SQ81_SpawnSquad_ThirdMercs In that order. Fixed it for me

[magic orbit]

when i loot bodies and right click on a gun to unload i can aim while being in inventory menu to loot em plus when i scroll down i can change weapons, it is normal or i should verify my files? PS i can shoot as well while looting a body

[faint maple]

Anyone having issues with the Three Captains side-quest?

I can't seem to side with Beard and Sultan as nothing happens when the radio transmission stops

If i get down from the sniping spot they die instantly

[potent spruce]

I had the same problem few days ago.
I did manage to get the side quest by just throwing the grenade at 2 mercenaries that spawned on the other side of the wall left of the sniping spot.

Some of the mercenaries do spawn but they just wait there and do nothing even if the dialogue between Sultan and Beard finishes

[solar barn]

I've just solved the bug by this guy's tip. Thanks a lot. In my case, I couldn't open console with UETools, so I used SimpleModLoader to open it.

[faint maple]

Thanks! Coincidentally I found a reddit post today with this exact same problem. Post was made a few hours ago to, so I guess it's recent. Might've been where you got the solution as well, no?

[potent spruce]

Well i did try and look it up but i found nothing concrete so i just decided to wait and see if something would eventually happen

then i became dark and i saw a pair of flashlights behind a wall

[faint maple]

Aaah ok

Well it drove me insane because i must've reloaded like 50 times

[zealous jasper]

I have an issue with the side quest that cpt senkevych give you at icare base in zaton once you get the Faust agent, i sided with no one ( didnt show the monolith PDA neither to ward nor spark) and i didnt kill the ward squad in the vent with the bloddsuckers. My issue is, if i dont get to acces the icare base ? Why does the side quest shows ? IS it a bug ? Or im i suppose to wait further in the progress ?

Im writing here cause inwant to do the content that this base give you and also i think ||that thé base get abandoned or destroy at some point and i dont want to miss the side quest||

Btw its my second playtrhough

[clever raptor]

Hmm sometimes quests disappear without really letting you know they are not active or doable anymore maybe it’s something like that, have you tried reloading an older save and trying again stalker?

[zealous jasper]

Nope its actually quit the opposite, the quest appeared juste After i speak to Richter about ||clear Sky|| and didnt show before so since i helped ward by not killing them squads even tho i didnt sided with them, i thought they gave me accès to their base, a bit like thé cément Factory that you get to accès later in the story

|| theres also the acheivement related to one of those side quest i wasted to try||

[clever raptor]

It’s a bug where the side quest from Cpt. Senkevych (likely “Like a Moth to the Flame”) appears in your log/marker even though you can’t access Camp Icarus.

Since you “sided with no one” and didn’t show the PDA to the Ward (nor Spark, the Stalker contact), you lack the badge. Guards will warn you to leave, and forcing entry (like sneaking) often turns the whole base hostile.

[zealous jasper]

Yeah i tried m'y Luck find all thé Doors locked, and getting sprayed. Was fun but not recommend,

Thanks for confirming what i thought !

[clever raptor]

Reload a save before Slag Heap, show the PDA to Korshunov

No worries Stalker

[zealous jasper]

Will do

[mystic condor]

I have got the Ultimate Edition and I am going for the Journalist's Logs
I've went for the Swamp one down at Clear Sky first as its the 4th one I would get (Because I had the Pre Order normal, not Ultimate or Deluxe)
And somehow the Log was not saved or taken at all, and the USB in my Inventory disappeard

[spare bone]

I'm trying to "side with the Sultan and Beard" and I've been waiting a good 5 minutes since they stopped talking. Last thing they said was something like "let's make a deal, and this time as equals" and then Sonya said if I won't do it then her men will. I've been snacking on some bread and kielbasa and nothing is happening... I've reloaded my save twice now and still nothing is happening...

I tried going down the ladder but then the "side with sultan and beard" quest marker is marked grey as "incomplete"? and everyone starts shooting each other... By the time I run to the warehouse both sultan and beard are dead...

[harsh hinge]

known issue, see #📜┃gsc-answers message

[spare bone]

I will try this and report

It worked 👍 had to use f1, rgd didn't cut it, maybe because of the smaller range or my throwing arm is just crap.
Appreciate it stalker o7

[long niche]

Rgds are only good for one thing, being sold

[shy zenith]

So Iex the legend is missing from his location in zaton in my game and there is only one bandit there that just says "talk to the boss". Anyway to fix this or is this quest just bugged and I should just move on?

[median goblet]

Just move on.

[frail dragon]

I had the same, I had to use a console command to trigger the next stage

I got as far as the train car stash

[fringe shell]

Where’s a good spot to find the Horn artifact in stalker 2?

[harsh hinge]

any chemical anomaly will do

[fringe shell]

Thank you

[austere wraith]

New content, can't access the pioneer camp base. After I deal with the mutants, the doors remain locked and now I can't talk with the scoutmaster

[solar barn]

Did you loot his stash then loot his note at flea market? You must pick the note to trigger him to spawn in Zaton. At least in my experience.

[shy zenith]

The blue flag is in zaton but only one thug is there.

[sinful girder]

Right side of the building. There is three boxes stacked up next to a window with a yellow plank. Break the plank. Shoot the lock on the door through the window.

[arctic ridge]

So I start the new stuff by going where?

Im all the way up in Yaniv rn..

[sinful girder]

Red Forest. Old mine point of interest.

[arctic ridge]

Thank

[boreal ledge]

What is the code for the door of Banzai’s tools?

[karmic flume]

he evenetually gives you the code over the radio. it's ||0183||

[wary shard]

In the new content update, what am I supposed to do at Kazkovyi's Summer Stage? Nothing happens when I go there

[dusky elm]

Starting the new quest in the old mine, after talking to Banzai when I turn the pump off nothing happens. Am I missing something or is it bugged? UPDATE - Bugged - After I talk with Banzai checked my PDA and the mission is cancelled.

[hollow holly]

Having the same problem. There used to be ||two bayuns|| hiding backstage, but I had dealt with those yesterday before the update dropped. Guess I'll go do something else for a bit and see if it fixes itself.

[wanton raptor]

Is "On the Edge" still bugged? I am stuck on the objective "Fight off the Monolith attack" after doing all of the side quests

[real hound]

I had issues on and off with it. Ended up getting it to work after reloading the autosaves it makes throughout a bunch of times

[wanton raptor]

Yeah to be fair I am using mods so I bet that isn't helping but console commands got me moving along

It actually made me discover something kinda funny. To help you find where the monolithians are supposed to spawn in Zalyssia, they play gunshot sounds on repeat on where they spawn them in for each wave

It lead me to going to the gunshot sounds, being confused as to what they were for, running the command to advance the quest and then getting smoked by 5 guys immediately

Twice

[real hound]

Loool really? I just stuck near the garage across from the ward building and waited for them to come into the street

Ended up having to spend 31k koupons to repair my exo and gun after walking to garbage

[half thorn]

Whats the code for Rascals safe?

[half thorn]

Its 2909, found it on the walls

[deep gyro]

how do i open the door with the stash in the mine right after the electrical switch

[hexed gorge]

I cant complete the quest related to cleaning snorks from Gonta on Zaton, I killed like 7-8 of them, checked all the surroundings and there is nobody left, but the quest is still not completed

[fiery warren]

Anybody have luck getting Soul to spawn in All That Is Left? I found the body, found a Thorn artifact in the swamp ish area, but Soul is nowhere to be found.

[fiery warren]

It is not there. I know where to get it, it is not visible and likely not spawned.

[jade flint]

for me its there but when i pick it up it doesnt register

[unkempt tangle]

Cant progress 'Once upon a time at Kozkovyi' even after killing the rats. Optional objectives also cant be completed because bayun didnt spawn

[mystic condor]

Does anyone know why the Door to the new Hub down at the Burned Forest are locked??

[zealous jasper]

Theres a red button in the bandit leader shack

[molten pilot]

Seems I have a missing side quest stalker out in the field in Garbage. Any way of resetting his spawn - name is Vova Amalgam. Saw he could be bugged but did not see anything related to his not being there at all.

[real hound]

I hit that button but the door didn't open for me

Just left that stash untouched

[unkempt tangle]

For this, you need to turn the power on that electrifies the water

[real hound]

Ahhh i see

[zealous jasper]

Put thé current back on

[slender moth]

Too bad the new Dark as a Dungeon quest is bugged for me. Tried everything. Automatically cancels it once I’m supposed to go turn the pump off and blah blah blah. Can’t even play the new update. Amazing. Tried reloading all kinds of previous saves. Same thing.

[lunar ember]

Hi, i found a locked door with a code in an apartment next to the library in prypiat.
The one with four dígits.
How can one find the code?

I do not want the code.
Just a small hint. Please.

[regal current]

Anyone know how to fix the bug with the mercs on three kings

[harsh hinge]

see #❔┃seeking-for-advice message (there is no image perms on this channel)

[peak niche]

@regal current

[regal current]

Thx Faust

[peak niche]

(technically, thank @harsh hinge lol)

I thought I'd forward his advice since I am able to do it/for easy viewing

[regal current]

Well thank you too @harsh hinge

[harsh hinge]

(no worries!)

[celest hull]

Hi all,
Does anyone know why the new side mission is not tracking? I spoke with a guy in the old mine and after that nothing is happening, there's a door which is locked and the mission is not tracking at all, so now I don't know where to go or what to do! Please help, thanks in advance.

[proud stirrup]

Did u already clear the mine? If so u gotta go to burnt forest base

[celest hull]

Yes I did, there are no enemies left.

[proud stirrup]

Did u also get the tools? If so you can talk with the guy u freed

[celest hull]

No I did not, the problem is that nothing is tracking and therefor I have no idea where to go!

[proud stirrup]

There is a way down deeper in the mine and there should be a room with some kind of pump control u can deactivate the bandits will come looking why it stopped pumping and open up a door that leads to their leader

Im sry but im giving u info from memory and cant access the game rn if you dont find it maybe look up a guide on youtube

[celest hull]

I did the pump control thing and yet no bandits and the door is still locked

[celest hull]

OK, I will try to find some guides on youtube, thanks.

[proud stirrup]

Maybe is bugged for you idk u playing with mods?

[celest hull]

No mods!

[proud stirrup]

Hmm weird maybe ur just unlucky i hope u find a fix bro

[celest hull]

Hope so, thanks for your help.

[molten pilot]

Are you equally able to encounter all side quests at start of a zone before incidents potentially change them? Had a quest disappear completely on me second play thru so was curious as the npc never appeared or signaled me.

[celest hull]

Hey everyone, I’m stuck due to what seems to be a bugged side quest and could really use some help.

The mission is not tracking and doesn’t appear in my journal

I’ve spoken to Banzai and interacted with the valve correctly

Nothing happens afterward

There are no more bandits

Both doors inside the mine remain closed, so I can’t progress at all

I’ve tried retracing my steps, but I’m completely blocked. Has anyone else encountered this or found a workaround?
It’s really frustrating to keep running into issues like this.

Thanks in advance 🙏

[proud stirrup]

Cant you load a save before entering the mineshaft? If your on pc you could noclip through these doors

Also i remember there was a key somewhere there did u go down where the fire anamolies are? U can drop urself down there if you destroy the planks i think the key was there if i remember correctly

[proud stirrup]

Also when you deactivate the pump 2 bandits should come through the one locked door

[celest hull]

I will give a try, I've preloaded the moment before I spoke with Banzai and it's not working

[proud stirrup]

Seems bugged dont u have a save from an hour before or so? Ik its annoying to replay but maybe just try it to see if it works

[celest hull]

I have a save which was earlier

[proud stirrup]

Try it and keep us updated im hoping this will work

[celest hull]

I will

[solid kraken]

cant loot a mutant corpse for its collar

id attach an image but they're disabled, super. its the buyan mutant cat thingy, corpse is glitched in midair and i cant loot it to complete my quest. does anyone have a solution?

[proud stirrup]

Are you playing with mods? There was a guy today with the same problem he said reloading worked

[solid kraken]

yeah, but i've reloaded the game a dozen times probably since i killed this thing

[proud stirrup]

I think you gotta reload before you killed it

[solid kraken]

dont think its a mod conflict either, i can loot any other mutant just fine

the positioning on this one is bugged though :/

i dm'd you an image of it. fucker's just floating in midair

[proud stirrup]

Sry to hear that idk im not playing with mods and havent had a single bug in 150hours

[rigid juniper]

Hantas quest for the mosin and the three captains quest still bugged

fixed captains quest by throwing a nade over the wall where the mercs spawn to trigger the. Hantas one is borked at the snork part, no audio and cant turn in

[proud stirrup]

Idk why but i really never had any of these bugs. Kinda sucks and makes me worried for my second playthrough

[celest hull]

Just tried to reload an earlier save and still not working, no bandits are spawning and the mission is still not tracking, nor showing in my journal!

[proud stirrup]

Thats so fcked up man sorry to hear that. Could you use console commands to noclip through the door?

[proud stirrup]

Did u do this quest while an emission was active?

[proud stirrup]

Also could you tell me exactly wich steps of the quest you could complete or wich task u got rn i know its not tracking but did he tell u to get his flashdrive and kill pickaxe already?

[celest hull]

I think before I started the quest the emission was active.

[proud stirrup]

Could you try to start the quest when the emission is finished?

Or more precisely wait the emission out nowhere near the mine?

[celest hull]

You know what is strange? When I first entered into the mine and went down underneath where the fire anomalies are and I've looted the bodie, the flash drive was there. Now when I reloaded the game, the drive is not there anymore!

[proud stirrup]

I know this must be super annoying and frustrating but im just trying to help you my G

[celest hull]

I know and thanks for your support and help

[proud stirrup]

It shouldnt be there at all thats very strange the flashdrive should be in a blue crate in the for you locked bandit lair

[celest hull]

When I speak with Banzai he does not mention anything about the driver, he just offers me two option, and then he is asking from to find his equipment. I follow his instructions to use the valve however no bandits are spawning, and both doors remain closed.

[celest hull]

The blue crate is empty

[proud stirrup]

Wait so you can access the lair?

The room with the electric switch?

Could u send me a screenshot or video in pm wich doors exactly are locked for you?

[celest hull]

Sure

[muted veldt]

laivex has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[molten pilot]

I would imagine with my coming across quest npc's in the field in the wild, potentially aggressive, both before & after their quests - I should selectively off them at my own risk?

[harsh hinge]

(i don't think i've ever "off" a quest giver but I suppose you can do that at your own risk, sure)

[molten pilot]

I mean - unless ur familiar with every bandits name - randomly coming across them in the field shooting at you - how are you to know they appear later on as an important npc with purpose in a fixed position? One tends to defend themselves when shot at.

[sweet lodge]

I did this mission literally 3 days ago before going to the swamps and everything went well without bugs, the sounds were all there, I completed the quest without a hitch, you see, every PC machine has a different way of managing the game, it's not easy for developers to fix it with millions of different PCs, in the end, did you manage to complete the mission or are you stuck there?

[harsh hinge]

(quest npcs by default will not be hostile to you so you can talk to them, unless you make them aggro in the first place; ofc you should defend yourself when shot at but I have never experienced hostility from quest npcs)

[molten pilot]

I was on a fresh loaded save, at the windmill of lesser zone, just entering to start that quest & was shot at outside of it by a quest giver that appears on other half of the zone, randomly in the field.

I later, in another part of zone, ran across a fixed in place npc for another quest for Warlock's Debt, out in the wild fighting bandits - the one with the named scope rifle on the tower. He shot at me & I killed from a distance, not knowing it was him & he had an artifact. So it sounds like there is true randomness or reuse of the npc's. Makes me worried about killin anyone.

[harsh hinge]

sure, all I'm saying is I'm on my third playthrough and have never experienced hostility from an npc with side quests; your worry is warranted if you feel you may be making contact out of order and certain scripts are not running properly (or if you are running any mods that may have caused these issues) - those 2 npcs that you mentioned have never appear outside of their mission area for me to have those fire fights

[molten pilot]

Oddly enough - on this load - The NPC quest trigger is in the woods right near his quest post & now hostile when I approach the spot for the quest trigger, i flee, he drops & I reapproach & he attacks again. He doesn't move to his normal area. Wonder if the update unhinged them as well?

Would he be pissed if I looted stashes?

[harsh hinge]

I know of some quest npcs that would get hostile if you loot their specific stash; personally I have never experienced Squint nor Lummox spawned outside their mission area nor get hostile at me (you are free to take from the stash next to Squint no problem; Lummox would have told you about the stash himself)

[molten pilot]

Vova Amalgam is another that is hostile

he's the one with a friend in the anomoly field on the coast that he says "don't loot him. just rescue him" Did have a glitched PDA issue where u had to loot it to pick him up. Did not trigger Vova.

[harsh hinge]

may I ask if you are using any mods? I had to loot the pda from the body so I can pick up the body - he did not aggro on me; neither did Vova Amalgam in the electric field (I helped guided him out)

[molten pilot]

i know there are factions etc in the game but I've not been on a looting or killing spree so I shouldn't be on the list yet?

no mods - complete PS5 experience

before the update - I could do Vova's quest. since, it's been no go

[harsh hinge]

there is a hidden reputation system sure - if you have killed a certain amount of loners for example, they may grow to be hostile to you in return; all these npcs you mentioned are loners so perhaps in a firefight you have a stray shot or two hitting them

[molten pilot]

would a certain amount be fewer than 10 be enough? I walk past lots of them in the wild. only actual bandits seem to aggro me

[harsh hinge]

lol I wouldn't know the actual amount; bandits aggro on sight is normal

[molten pilot]

I have sneak attacked 3 ward & 2 roamers in the wild involved in firefights with bandits but when I last interacted with him, I had been on a spree in the wildwith ward & anyone else I saw.

I went out of my way to avoid killing for most part now this happens.

such an odd turn

[harsh hinge]

well hopefully after a while loners will return to neutral to you (or if you can, do some quests for Warlock to get on loner's good side) so important npcs won't be mad at you on sight

[molten pilot]

Yurko Fantomas now is also doing it so weird

[harsh hinge]

you did not loot Bubble did you (other than taking the pda so you can pick up the body)?

[molten pilot]

first time even approaching the area this save state & playthrough. He aint standing there. All there is in a pda on ground.

Would Bubble appear alive elsewhere?

[harsh hinge]

(he.. mmm is ||dead in all the universes for me lol||)

[molten pilot]

where Bubble was glitched & known to be glitched, think they sent him on holiday?

[harsh hinge]

if the Zone wills it, sure

[molten pilot]

would explain his mate being pissed he left w/o him for blue skies, barfy burgers & girls

there a place to report this type of behavior for the pwoers that be to investigate?

[harsh hinge]

yes link in #s2-support

[molten pilot]

ty 😄 multi-language support & ackronyms are never clear to me

[harsh hinge]

no worries hope the rest of the ride goes smooth for you

[molten pilot]

its not the main mission so 1 side quest should not be an issue but i hate missing out on content

especially when it's so heavily mentioned by others as one of the gems in the starter zone

[harsh hinge]

ye on my third playthrough as I said and still won't miss out on any side missions

[molten pilot]

would I just find them later returning to the area potentially?

[harsh hinge]

potentially. for Lummox and Squint, there is a chain of quests that leads to them, so talking to the original quest giver make help reset them; for others, perhaps by leaving the area and returning after a long time may help as well

[molten pilot]

So I could just potentially be too early?

[harsh hinge]

(no, not in my experience honestly; if you play with the compass or simply look in your map, npcs with side missions will have a blue flag on them; when you see them, you can start the quest, there is no "too early")

[rigid juniper]

Still stuck, im guessing it has something to do with my mods, which arent really game breaking… but i heard somewhere that the particular quest needs to be done a specific way or it breaks.. the audio thing im not sure why though.. its a newer quest addition than vanilla so im not surprisrd it broke

[molten pilot]

I have played thru again & now I find Bubbles body in the field, a pda on ground & an angry Vova Amalgam guarding the body. Quite a strange turn of events.

[delicate mason]

anyone have problem with ratcatcher quest

[thorn cedar]

Anyone have a work around for the Dark times quest with Arkhyp Lichen. It’s in like driver in the red forest. I can’t seem to talk to him and he’s only as a vendor please help I don’t want to restart my 96 hrs of gameplay

[drowsy carbon]

Hello everyone. So, I have an issue with the Three Captains side mission. I want to side with Sultan and Beard but I can't. When I fixed the radio and listened to their conversation, the mercenaries won't spawn even after waiting an hour. Does anyone have some advice on how to complete this mission without killing them?

[wide zealot]

I just had this issue, if you look to next to the tower, there is a brick building with a brick wall. The merc are spawned on the other side of it waiting. Throw a nade to damage one and as soon as one takes damage it will trigger the option you want

[uneven swift]

!garbage

[muted veldt]

🚫 chtibi, that command is disabled in this channel.

[obtuse rover]

Anyone know how the Three Captains mission is suppose to appear? I did the prerequisite quests and it's not showing up

[harsh hinge]

you need to progress the main story a bit before Sonya will talk to you about Three Captain

namely before you ||get ready for the Swamps||

[obtuse rover]

Oh alright cool I'm right about there anyways on this playthrough, thank you!

[drowsy carbon]

I'll try

[molten pilot]

Save Vova Amalgam in Garbage - does he still spawn here / quest still active? I have an empty field & no emissions since entering Garbage to deal with. All I have to refernce is a year of old data that has likely changed in patches & updates to PC/Xbox & its frustrating to not have anything reflecting it since 2024.

[rigid juniper]

Sound of music quest still not appear after SIIRCA?

[harsh hinge]

pre-sircaa only, yes

[rigid juniper]

thanks, still dumb that its that way. Most people dont even go near the Duga that early on

[harsh hinge]

(i take it as a reward for exploration - one of the best quests honestly)

[steel lily]

Anyone else having an issue where Yurko Fantomas yells at you as though you're still carrying his friend Bubble when you leave and turns hostile?

[molten pilot]

at least he is there for you - he disappeared for me several times - its one of 2 quests with npc's so far I can't do.

[desert yew]

Is there a way to talk to Quiet after Noontide becomes a monolith and accept the quest "A Light in the End of the Tunnel"?

[muted veldt]

Onward warriors of the Monolith, avenge your fallen brothers, blessed as they are in their eternal union with the Monolith.
Bring death to those who spurned the holy power of the Monolith.

[harsh hinge]

(no because that camp ||is abandoned and captured by mercs after the event, among other reasons..||)

[hexed apex]

anyone else stuck with the new sidequest from the 1.8 update when trying to talk with a certain npc?

[thin shard]

The dude im supposed to deliver the heirloom from the poppy field quest doesnt appear... What do? any tips or tricks? tried sleeping, saving and loading.

[undone hornet]

hey i'm doing the stories untold questline and without giving too much away to others, i'm at the part where u need to choose to leave it or change frequency. on screen options show to press q or e to choose. As i'm not in a chat / dialogue mode, i can't interact with the dialogue prompt. is this a known bug?

[molten pilot]

He moved to inside the bar from the vendor shop he's normally at. He's in a booth to the back.

[thin shard]

Yes. but he's literally nowhere in zalissya, nor do i have a quest marker. It's bugged out

[molten pilot]

hmmm no idea then mate. I have 2 side quests bugged myself. Many ppl are saying they went wacky with the last update along with the mutant populations

[thin shard]

Yeah it's probably just bugged out somehow. Oh well not the end of the world. At least the heirloom wasn't stuck in my inventory.

[kind dock]

In The lost boys, what if I don't unlock the front door and leave the house via tunnel without speaking to Dew?
As a master stalker, just trying to keep them both alive

[kind dock]

Oh my... I left peacefully, when I got back from Lens, Dew and his team are all dead, with Mastiff as well...

[undone hornet]

anyone else have any issues on the new storied untold quest chain with the part where you need to choose to change the frequency or leave it? i can't press q or e for the dialogue choice because i'm essentially in combat and not in dialogue mode

[lusty cave]

Running in circles like a headless chicken because of Pomor quest 🙁

Collected all the loot from the 4 marked bodies in the poopy field AND the hard-to-reach one near his hut but the quest won't complete and Skif cannot deliver the loot. Am I missing something? Is this bugged and I'll have to roll back almost an hour of gameplay because of course I forgot to hardsave sooner?

[young yarrow]

Btw anyone thats tryna make a few extra koupons at the underground bar in rostok the protect shipments mission is glitched for me idk about others

I accept it and it immediately says mission accomplished but i dont get anything

[kind dock]

Zip your save folder and submit a request at https://support.stalker2.com/hc/en-us?return_to=%2Fhc%2Frequests
Once devs can reproduce the bug, they will fix it very soon

[dense depot]

guys, the mission "once upon a time at kazkovyi is bugged for me, i was here before starting the mission and disabled all threats while just looting and now i can not progress the mission, does anyone know how to fix?

[harsh hinge]

summer camp objective is optional, so no need to worry ||if you have already clear the kitty||; for the other building, once you clear the ||rats, and pick up the info from the corpse, there should be a pseudodog spawn right outside the building|| - that is your last mutant to clear

all of this should not be affected even if you have been to the area beforehand (I've done so on two save slots and the quest progressed as normal). if you are playing vanilla (i.e. no mods) and reloading an earlier save doesn't work, consider submitting a ticket to #s2-support

[celest hull]

Hi everyone 👋
Does anyone know if there’s an ETA for fixing the Stories Untold side mission bug?
The quest seems to be stuck/not progressing for me. Any info or workarounds would be appreciated 🙏

[oblique glen]

@pallid mulch

look here

[pallid mulch]

Good lord, did you ban him already?

[oblique glen]

nope)

[pallid mulch]

Just mute him for a day or two.

Nvm those people already left.

[wintry radish]

What i do first, zallysia or wild island ?

[molten pilot]

In terms of what? It all depends on when you are in the story

[elfin iron]

Hello, I have a question regarding the battle of zalissya, I managed to save all the survivors, but after gaffer's speech, they all left Zalissya and only remained the main characters. I did the Sphere and nobody went back, is it a bug when nobody die or should I try to reload and do it again see what happens ?

[inland steeple]

Zalissya doesn't fully recover even after the monolith attack. The main traders and characters (except for ||Uncle Lyonya for obvious reasons||) will all stay in the main building pretty much. As for the sphere, nearly all of the IPSF was wiped out there so there's no real reason for them to go back.

[elfin iron]

Hi, thank you for the answer, I though the survivors were staying like Foreigner Bob, Scops, Milk, Ales Bavaria, Dracula, Ricochet, or maybe they will come back later, I did it again today, I'm going to go back to the sphere, but maybe it will take longer for them to come back I will come back after few days...

[inland steeple]

Some happen to stay and guard most the main building, but the settlement wil stay pretty messed up after the vents of the story.

[sick belfry]

Is it possible to get green rep with everyone in Rostok?
I've done arena mission in Rostok as well as fully completing Barkeep sidequest to kill bandit and rescue Freedomo guy. However, I only have Barkeep as Green rep.

[elfin iron]

It's possible, I also tried to avoid the bugged quest from Barkeep, the one that complete automatically, "secure trade route" or something.

[sick belfry]

Burnt Forest now says it has a personal stash and bed in the fairy tale pioneer camp, but it appears locked. any ideas

[bright trail]

is there (propably cloaked) enemy nearby?

[slim bloom]

Have you completed the Stories Untold questline as is necessary to create this hub?

[kind dock]

yes, and you have to beat the whole quest line to have personal stash, first 2 quests only get you a bed
it is pretty good though, worth playing early on to guide you around the western zone areas, the traditional tool missions

[slim bloom]

Finally finished it myself yesterday, really hope GSC has more content updates like these planned beyond the larger paid DLC expansions. But I'm looking forward to seeing where its story thread continues hopefully in that DLC1 because while I think the questline overall was awesome, a welcomed edition with more narrative content as well as new hub, it felt a little underwhelming in some sense because I was following the related ARG so religiously, and then without necessarily spoiling anything for Stories Untold it's not like you truly get the answers you'd want with what Banzai was pursuing as related to the mysterious signal but then again we will likely be further exploring this, and I would rather that rabbithole go deeper than this single questline anyway

[sick belfry]

Does completing repeatable side quests really give +faction rep to all npcs of that specific faction? The answer is yes for Rostok. Took me at least 4+ repeatable sidequests + arena to get green reputation. (Master diff)

[kind dock]

We should do the faction side quests first for a better starting rep...
Also try sleep after these quests, sometimes rep status won't update if you stay awake

[pale roost]

Is there a way to get the three captains quest to not bug out? I tried throwing nades towards the wall per the search function from Mol1t recommendation but I cannot reach other side of the wall

beard and sultan are instantly dead when the mercs spawn after climbing down ladder

[harsh hinge]

see #❔┃seeking-for-advice message

[pale roost]

Yeah I threw 30+ grenades on that are and nothing is happening...

[pale roost]

brother @harsh hinge I must not have been aiming at just the right spot, multiple reloaded saves I finally tweaked just the right spot with nades.. thanks for input - anyone searching this, its possible but just the right area for nade explosion.

[drowsy carbon]

i have a weird bug where it shows in the side quest name Seek, and you shall find. I don't have the preorder dlc but only the ultimate and it shows i need to collect the preorder journalist stashes which arent on the map. I'm pretty far in the game on the down below mission and i want to get this side quest done. Any advices how to fix?

[molten pilot]

if you have deluxe or ultimate, you have the extended functionality installed & unlocked. All it will require is the right main mission progression & then checking ur stash for the usb drive after that trigger is done. That initial drive trigger will mark them on ur map.

[mint quail]

If I am not mistaking, the quest description has regions left to clear, not specific stashes. Do you have only Swamp and Garbage (the only two regions with preorder bonus stashes) left there? If so, double check if you looted the other stashes in that areas, each of them has another stash for non-preorder version (one in southern part of Garbage and one in far south-eastern part of Swamps). If you still have only these two regions left, I suggest you contact support #❔┃side-quests message

[drowsy carbon]

oh i need to check and yes only those 2 preorder stashes are left

[drowsy carbon]

it seems the game didnt register that i took the deluxe and ultimate stuff from the journalist stash

put them back and grabbed them back and these 2 locations got checked out

[drowsy carbon]

i visited the last stash in pripyat and it should've ended the quest

but the quest is still there

without objectives

everything ticked off

[fringe bear]

anyone know how to unbug The Three Captains mission? I want to betray Sonjya but when i sit and wait for their chat to end nothing happens at all. wqacthed a playthrough and two mercs show up for them but for me nothing and i have reloaded saves, restarted the game and even tried sleeping and doing another mission first. nothing.

[mint quail]

#❔┃seeking-for-advice message

[mint quail]

I mean you can the message I sent here, there is a solution
not go ask and there😂

you just have to throw a grenade where those two mercs spawn

and then they will spawn there

[fringe bear]

doesn't work for me. it triggers but then immediatly Beard and Sultan die and the mercs spawn on the opposite side of the craneyard. i feel like every solution i watched doesn't work for me its bizarre.

fixed it. not sure but apparently visting the schevchenko and sleeping there solved the issue.

[sick belfry]

Im about 330+ hours in on my 1st run thru. In Yaniv, the small main quest to defend the town against mon forces can easily be skipped by just opening the tavern door partially and then stepping back inside and approaching the back wall. it will autocomplete lol.

then i ran outside and ransackked a gaus gun. --> master difficulty. 0 fs given

@fringe bear theres a place where u can throw grenades to trigger the enemy mercs.

@fringe bear it 100% will work just throw enough grenades at that particular spot behind the wall

[fringe bear]

Again, it resulted in an auto kill of Beard and Sultan and the Mercs spawned only on the far side of the dock

[mint quail]

that's strange, this workaround was advised even by GSC #📜┃gsc-answers message
but anyway, glad you've fixed it otherwise

[fringe bear]

i used over a dozen grenades but then the weird ending triggered. its likely just one of those wild bugs that happens from time to time thats stuck on a playthrough or whatever.

[molten pilot]

you have to throw the grenades while still on the tower. The minute you touch the ground u autofail it. I had to toss them from the first platform you climb up on after resolving the sniper.

I had to aim at the bit of broken wall across from the tower, that has vehicle behind it, (aim at the point behind the wall in between the vehicle & wall) pointing to the building with the meeting taking place. Took me going thru 20 grenades to figure out the spot was not closer the opposite way towards the building. Just need to get them behind the wall.

[fringe bear]

bro, i already answered this same statement about 6 times already. it didn't work for me. the moment a grenade lands the sultan and beard are auto killed and the mercs ONLY come from the far end of the yard. I watched both a video of a non-bugged playthrough AND a bug fixed playthrough where i learned of this and mine didn't work. it always auto failed until i restarted the mission from the begining and went to the Schevchenko, slept and then came back to the craneyard for the mission.

[molten pilot]

Well then I dunno what going wrong for you. I did that exact thing personally & cleared it. Took a few reloads to time the location right. I had to wait until the end of the speech & have the woman freak out & get angry

[fringe bear]

again, i know. i did everything over and over for an hour. it only fixed itself when i slept at the Shevchenko and then the mission worked fine afterwards, didn't even need to do the grenade thing this time. i dunno.

reagrdless its fixed and i got my ending i wanted

[molten pilot]

I have 3 more endings to do & 4 achievements left

having to restart to do the artifacts the hard way will be an adventure

[brisk ermine]

is it just me? or. does the vender sidequest bug you when is a 72h cooldown?

[molten pilot]

Are side quests connected to main quests for behavior chains or are they independent?

[harsh hinge]

the availability of some side quests are dependent on your main progression

[molten pilot]

I have been unlucky in finding several npcs again for side quests so I was trying to see if its better to look for them at different times than others.

[harsh hinge]

if you could name the specific npc I may be able to give you more information

[molten pilot]

continues to be my good friend: Yurko Fantomas. He apparently is part of the dynamic npc stuff & only appears in the lesser zone when he feels like it

[harsh hinge]

in all 3 playthroughs (latest on patch 1.7+ vanilla) he's always at Deaf Meadow for me before Lesser Zone is out of lock-down

[molten pilot]

I had him there once. But every playthrough since, he's on walkabout elsewhere for me. I end up not being able to get his friends remains etc. nor the artifact. Just find a PDA on the ground.

There is a second npc in Garbage also not present for me: Vova Amalgam. He seems to have also gone off similar to Yurko

[harsh hinge]

he too is at Electric Field for all 3 playthroughs (pre-SIRCAA)

[molten pilot]

when I walk by it I never come across him. have always wondered if they were triggered through other actions. The electro field is empty.

makes me truly wonder if the ps5 vs pc/xbox experience differs. it shouldn't as they should all be the same build. But there ya have it. I asked support & outside the vague nature of full answers they indicated the initiated dynamic npc system may have inspired them to explore the zone. I hate losing out on content because the AI in the game decides I shouldn't.

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[ashen mango]

Hi all I finished the quest 'A School of Live' now I went back to the hunters home but he is not there. After the quest he said wait some days but the days gone and I will not find him at his home.

[grave light]

this is just advertising

[molten pilot]

Starting to think Yurko Fantomas & his Bud Bubble have to be part of some random generator. I ran into Yurko cruisin around the windmill shootin at me. his bud Bubble was in the anomoly field this time fully loaded with 2 PDA's but no Yurko lookin for help. I wonder if I don't touch the body will it remain or disappear?

[molten pilot]

I can now confirm resolution to 1 of my two missing NPC's. Apparently Vova Amalgam won't appear in Garbage in his Escort position until you Locate Lex the Legend, he gives you a stash location & you retrieve it. Vova seems to be part of a chain - part 2 of 3 with Lex the Legend. If anyone was curious - hope it helps you!

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[molten pilot]

Is there a way to loot Bubble w/o upsetting Yurko Fantomas or having it disappear on you?

[chrome arch]

does anyone know how to open the white door in the oldmines in red forest?

[molten pilot]

Is there a delay or trigger on Three Captains once prior 2 quests complete?

[harsh hinge]

see #❔┃side-quests message

[molten pilot]

Lo & Behold - Vova Amalgam appeared in Garbage finally in the electric field! NPC's seem to be finding their ways home 😄

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[steady pine]

Need some help with banzai tools mission, I have reached the boiler room parkoured to the 2nd floor small room and banzai tools are not on the table, the beep sound can be heard and its fast but the table is empty, I have tried reloading saves no luck

[signal tusk]

stalkers, on master playthrough here. About to do the beard vs sultan task. Any special prizes in siding with the kalyna treacherous woman? Got curious.

[floral turret]

Question: I got Yurko Fantomas's friends corpse out of the anomaly field but when I leave he turns hostile? I'm rather confused. I did have to take the PDA off the corpse to pick him up but that didn't trigger any aggressive attitude?

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[floral turret]

Is A Big Score a timed quest? The quest after it (Deceive a Deceiver) auto completed?

[mint quail]

yes, "A Big Score" is missable, although I am not 100% if it disappears after ||Ward takes over slag heap|| or after SIRCAA section
Not sure if "Deceive a Deceiver" is marked as completed or failed in this case, but you won't be able to complete it anyway

[floral turret]

Plot wise I'm at searching the Technician's workshop.

I'm just confused as to why the quest chain completed out for order?

Do you have any suggestions on how to fix the quest chain or get "A Big Score" to be cleared?

[mint quail]

hmm, that's strange, probably the window for that quest is even shorter than I thought

[mint quail]

I guess the best you can do is just to reload an older save when the quest wasn't automatically cleared yet

[mint quail]

I guess that's expected behavior for similar timed quests

[floral turret]

Sadly I'm on Master difficulty

[mint quail]

Oh that might be a problem xd

yeah if both your manual and autosaves don't have that quest available I guess then there's nothing you can do

btw if you are playing on steam, you can make copies of save folder (%LOCALAPPDATA%\Local\Stalker2\Saved\STEAM\SaveGames) before important story points to create an additional save slot for yourself

e.g. I highly suggest to make such save before you enter SIRCAA, there is a lot of content you may miss once you enter it

[floral turret]

Fair idea

I'll poke at maybe save editor or something to see what could be done

[floral turret]

Mind if you show me what the save file looks like? I need to double check something.

[floral turret]

I'm running on Linux so I'm wanting to double check if I've actually found that directory for my system.

/home/(YourComputerName)/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/1643320/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/Local/Stalker2/Saved/STEAM/SaveGames/Data/

Bunch of randomly named .sav files in there

[mint quail]

Yeah, that seems to be the right directory
Just make an archive of SaveGames folder to make a MANUAL manual save And when you want to load it, you just replace the whole folder with your backup

[floral turret]

Yep, I'm going to test teleportation which mods disable achievements from what I know?

[mint quail]

I am not really sure what you mean, but yeah, by default all mods disable achievements, although there are ways to bypass. E.g. if you're using something like dev console (Simple BP Mod Loader), I think you can just put .pak files directly into the folder with default .pak files or just rename ~mods folder into smth else (from what I've heard)

and also I've heard there is a mod that disables disabling achievements by mods

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[umbral igloo]

Anyone know how to get into the dusty cable tunnel in East Yanive? It is a building with a locked door that acts as an exit. There is a stash down there I need.

Nevermind it's part of the story mission.

[rigid bison]

Hey guys, Got a huge issue with a bugged Quest. I started doing Once upon a time at Kazkovyi but i explored the Area way before i got Banzai out of the Red forest. Now im supposed to clear the Threats from that one building and i also already got inside of it Hours before the quest started and triggered some of the Traps. did i Lock myself out of the Quest now because it doesnt finish after killing the mutated rats in there and collecting everything of the corpses inside. i installed a method to access Dev Console to maybe force the quest to finish but im either too Stupid to use the commant correctly or it doesnt work. Quest ID is SQ97.

[silk needle]

Does anyone know of any glitches in the Dead Frequency mission? I was trying to eliminate Alpha Team, and I did one, but the other guy leaning over the crack I talked to and he ran away. Kinda forgot I was supposed to eliminate them as I have a tendency to take a Lawful Good route in games. 😐

Either way, they're both dead and/or goneand I've got the mission still just hung open.

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[raven kraken]

Hunt them down show them No mercy (thats the one against the ward in zaton by the bus stop correct?)

but in reality you might have to open a hard save or leave the area and come back (go to zalissya come back) and if it doesn't work ping me and I will check it out

[waxen carbon]

So I'm playing on master and I'm at the Three Captains mission. I'm trying to save Beard and the Sultan but no matter what I do they get killed and if I get close everyone shoots at me haha. I read it's possible to save them.

I don't trust this Sonya lady. I'm going to avoid it until they patch it lol

[molten pilot]

while on the tower, you need to lob grenades behind the wall along the road that heads to the building the meeting is held in. It's a known bug that requires the grenade to trigger the troops moving in. If you end up hitting the ground, its impossible to save them.

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[devout kelp]

how do I start the new sealed truth side quests? I tried talking to diode bu he had no specific dialogue.

[mint quail]

the quest is available only after "Hot Trail" mission (waste processing station) and before "A Minor Incident" (between Duga assaults I guess)

[muted swallow]

Wait, so if you're past those missions, you cant access it?

[mint quail]

yeah, I guess that's because the quest is related to DLC, which should be available some time after these missions

[muted swallow]

Bruh.

[grim junco]

Just backtracked to the most advanced save I had allowing me to do the new quest
Explored all the endings I could think of, now I fear I might need to restart from one of them when the DLC drops, there’s a path that obviously leans towards a faction

[inner bough]

i'm on ''a minor incident'' right now but i dont have the quest 🙁

ill check earlier saves

yup, seems like if you've started ''a minor incident'' the quest disappears. pretty annoying ngl

[elfin narwhal]

This is beyond me, what made them think it will be good idea to gatekeep this quest that way? 😫

[pearl bramble]

Hi everyone in case anyone is in need of a stalker Modder, kindly DM me

[grim junco]

What if the DLC is gatekeeped too ?

[elfin narwhal]

Its quite common like lets say dlc for Fallout 3 or Oblivion. Usually people have save files near the end to quickly jump into new content.

[grim junco]

Yeah, but what if the DLC is gatekeeped much sooner, just like this mission ? Past a certain point you’re screwed, meaning you have to reload an older save. Would be upsetting, just like it is now
Well … wait and see, I guess

[shy zenith]

Is the x18 mission different on the spark path since you were already there with scar?

[eager marsh]

Look at the gsc answers channel they just confirmed that you’ll be able to go and play it endgame

[shy zenith]

Is it already patched?

[eager marsh]

I’m talking about the dlc, it won’t be locked like the X18 mission

[solemn flare]

Ngl the execusion of the new content is pretty bad

"You do not have a save close to that moment ? You are cooked"

[eager marsh]

I was hoping for a new unique weapon from this update like the stories untold one, luckily since it’s unavailable for most they didn’t add one otherwise people would probably be a bit more mad

[rapid silo]

Hello

About the new X 18 quest, is this normal that, from one certain point i keep having psy effect and i cant remove them ?

[slim bloom]

If Cost of Hope launches alongside the 5.5.4 engine upgrade then it is possible all older version saves may be bricked anyway, or otherwise severely bugged when trying to access the new content vs. the clean slate of a fresh save.

So it is hopeful to leave some saves both right around the crumbling of SIRCAA & also the 1st Duga Assault with Cost of Hope info revealed so far placing it in the wake of the crumbled D4 Treaty ( not sure about if it will have a progress cap on the other end like Sealed Truth beyond just the point of no return). I had found keeping some scattered manual saves before major decisions was invaluable for playing through different sides of story bits & also goin for 100% completion.

But my major point here is that we may all end up restarting to access the content in Cost of Hope. I agree it is particularly annoying especially for that to have not only a minimum but also a maximum progress point at which it's even available, but also understandable that sometimes the narrative demands certain story point for its injected existence to even make any sense.

[lost hedge]

GSC could easily just not have locked out this new quest for 99% of the player base..I’d love to hear theories on why they did

[slim bloom]

As we were talking about above & in the other chat lol it's most likely based on GSC's intention for roughly when the events of the mission take place canonically & in regards to those other major events of the main campaign.

They obviously have some idea of an established chronology for these additional story bits and are trying to deliver a parallel unfolding narrative through them. This narrative must be cohesive with the chronology of events of the main campaign.

Maybe there are also some gameplay design reasons for it, like not wanting endgame-equipped players to blaze through this additional content with their late game gear and then complain about its length or difficulty?

Ultimately, I agree wholeheartedly that the "maximum point of progress" trope is particularly annoying & they certainly should at least have let us know about this in advance; wouldn't have all this backlash of folks in same boat that only have saves right before the actual point-of-no-return endgame segment & otherwise need to restart the game and make some decent progress to even be able to see the quest, but doing so sounds counterintuitive with the engine upgrade proverbially around the corner and a restart very possibly required for that & Cost of Hope as well, which then ya that is pretty discouraging to want to start a new playthrough you may end up tossing out eventually, for what amounts to what is a single hour-or-less new quest

[lost hedge]

I deeply appreciate such a well-thought-out and intuitive response from you. I will say that if this quest came along with the full engine update and even the whole next DLC, I could almost understand having to restart, considering the enormity of the changes. In fact, I would argue that a restart would be in order, considering how different things could possibly be, but all of this for as you say even just an hour of content is ridiculous and rather disappointing.

[slim bloom]

Of course always glad to contribute with some real dialogue and yeah completely agreed there!

I almost wonder if at one point that was the plan to release them together or at least with a much shorter duration between the two?

Maybe with GSC facing more major delays with the 2.0 engine upgrade & even with wondering what to fix that wouldn't break again come 2.0 with this 1.9 upgrade before then, they had wanted to throw us a bone of sorts with giving Sealed Truth as a bonus now instead of later because of those further delays with the update pipeline.

I also thought it was a little strange that they had the ATB almanac & card collab dropping on the same day as Sealed Truth considering that it has some information relevant to it, but otherwise heavily covers some classic Zone lore & especially juicy details of the upcoming Cost of Hope expansion, this contains some information that is yet-unseen anywhere else, seemingly some of that even potentially lite spoiler information regarding certain things in the DLC that I wonder if we're originally intended to be revealed closer to or alongside Cost of Hope

So idk can't be sure but to me these details add some plausibility to thinking that some bump was hit along the way in getting those out closer together & generally sooner so we ultimately got the 1.9-ready UE 5.1.GSC build preamble quest with the pre-UE 5.5.4 & engine upgrade update + game version 2.0

[grim junco]

I have saves right at the crossroads for all the endings, I did that thinking maybe one ending will come up canon sooner or later
I also have a few saves at various points … the one right before stepping into SIRCAA served me well for this Cost of Hope teaser mission.
Dang I’d be sad if my saves end up being bricked, I spent so much time opening every door and turning every rock lol

[slim bloom]

Definitely a smart move to do generally anytime manual saving is permitted! But yeah I am a little bit fearful that engine upgrade will make any prior save games incompatible or at least potentially come with a lot of bugs versus starting 2.0 on clean slate.

[radiant steeple]

Is honta bugged currently?
im doing his side quest "a school of life" for the first time, but im stuck on "return to honta" after defeating a burer
who is just idle in his chair and the only thing I can ask him is "what's new around the zone" no matter how many times/days I pass, it never updates.

[eager marsh]

If you have practically any mod on, Honta’s quest will be bugged

[radiant steeple]

damn..even a simple mod like brighter flash light? that's unfortunate

[eager marsh]

At least any mod that I had used would bug the quest out for me no matter what

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[high verge]

How do you actually start Sealed Truth?

[mint quail]

You can only start it at the specific moment in the story, after the quest "Hot on the Trail" and before starting the quest "A Minor Incident"
But there are some workarounds, you can:

1. install a mod, that enables this quest at any point in the story (called smth like "Early X-18 quest");
2. find a save for your game edition and replace your save file with it (you can find one here #⭐┃основна-тема message and don't forget to do a backup of your save files)
3. install a dev console (Simple BP Mod Loader) and trigger this quest using it

[high verge]

Thanks, I think I’m close to that point in the game

[woeful oasis]

I'm trying to help yurko retrieve his friend's body like in the last playthrough but now he's hostile upon approaching

is that a bug? or did I trigger something that caused him to be hostile (did not loot his body nor touch it)

[real hound]

If you're hostile to bandits he'll attack you on sight, i had the same thing happen

[woeful oasis]

oh i did shoot them up in the facility nearby, but hey they shot first lol

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[woeful oasis]

moral of the story, screw the bandit faction i guess lol from the start

Though I honestly think we should have had the option to join the bandit faction though

[real hound]

Yeah if you really absolutely want to complete his quest you gotta head there pretty much first thing before you fight any bandits

The reward for looting his dead buddys body is better than for helping imo

[woeful oasis]

yep true

[sage dust]

I see the Yaniv tornado still kills you through the garage.

[devout cipher]

Any advice for the "Escort a guy out of an electric anomaly close to the sawmill" unmarked thing

it seems broken

I will throw a bolt

not set off anomaly

walk on it

then suddenly the electricity instant kills me

And the guy I have to have follow me either A: doesnt follow me exactly and dies

or B: breaks after loading a save and starts walking out himself

which only further makes it seem like the anomaly's kill zone is bugged

because I walked the exact path he took after bugging out and leaving on his own

but got zapped

I genuinely have no idea what I'm supposed to do here because it seems Skif and this guy have entirely different "set off anomaly and die" ranges

I cannot find a path that keeps both of us alive, either Skif dies or he fails to follow skif properly and goes off my path and dies

[devout cipher]

ok finally managed it

[real hound]

No way did you really? I always just shoot that guy, way too much of a pain to try and save him

[devout cipher]

Had to find a different path

entirely

sucked since it's really not clear what parst will shock you

I Swear the hit boxes are further out

than the actual visual electricity

[real hound]

They are, it's a known bug for like 4 months now

[rapid silo]

Idk about the hitboxes, but for me it seems thath the cooldown have also increased.

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[bright trail]

I wondering why i cant get the new questline after talking with Diode like its described in Steam. Does i miss somethin?

wtf...i found its not playable after SIRCA....are you kidding me? i was waiting so long for new content .. x.x

[orchid ginkgo]

It should be up until before the duga raids

The mission "A minor incedent" is the mission that ends that quest and locks it from end game saves

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[solid notch]

Is anyone having problems with the audio for the school of life side-questline

[left yarrow]

Is there any side quests that are a particular favourite of peoples that I should do before finishing the game 😄

[real hound]

The Sound of Music in Duga

[left yarrow]

Did that one! Not sure I chose right tho lol

[bright trail]

just make a save before Pointofnoreturn like me..play the end, then come back with the save xD

[lean sonnet]

"Once Upon a Time in Kazkovyi" mainly because you get a base afterwards. but other side missions gotta be done first

[ancient elm]

Do you know if the Oxa mod is compatible with the Anomaly weapon mod?

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[oak crystal]

"Radio Silence" spoiler: ||if you choose to take payment and sell out NK-5, can i take the coupons and immediately kill skull? i hadnt realized skull isnt even in the room, i kinda just assumed he was the one looking at me. ||

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[fiery rose]

Finished the new quest and absolutely loved it.

||gave diode the Emitter because he's a G||

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[molten pilot]

That new quest has at least 4 endings doesn't it? I did find it disappointing that we could just sell the stuff we found to any common vendor. I did like how if was integrated across the zone tho. Certainly makes you think about your politics.

[fiery rose]

Not sure on the endings, but I agree with the parts. Would've been really cool if not only we used the "Map" note, but we put together a make-shift key or something to open the doors, etc