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[azure hazel]

I am doing main story mission ''happines for everyone'' and I need to get to the other side of Duga , however I am unable to pass anywhere there are invincible snipers and I am getting one shotted even behind cover , any advice ?

[sleek lotus]

You have to go way around the side of the map

[azure hazel]

will try , thanks

[nocturne stone]

Dont even get close to the wall or you get sniped, theres gonna be a tiny entrance by the south east area by the water.

[obtuse wind]

Holy shit the end fight in happiness for everyone was rough. Finally got it done on console after constant crashing at the end of it

[rocky palm]

is it intended to be unable to save after you get through x5 lab in In Search of Past Glory? my last save was a whole yesterday ago

im getting very nervous about my survival chances

[marble mantle]

Is ||strider dead after the doctor stabs him?(dont elaborate further, yes or no will suffice)||

[proud rose]

guys im still softlocked in the boundary mission

its been a whole week now and richter still isnt spawning

i used commands and everything and NOTHING is working

[hot sphinx]

Did you try reloading an earlier save?

[proud rose]

what do you think

[hot sphinx]

Idk, that's why i ask

[proud rose]

bro do you really think i havent thought of that

[ember abyss]

I’m on Xbox game keeps crashing when I talk to strelok on top of the fortress to get in the portal every time anybody else having same problem

[limber quest]

The quest indicator has gone missing for the quest "a minor incident" where I can't deliver the collars to Richter.

[rocky palm]

he’s in the little gatehouse by that building

[limber quest]

Can you be more specific?

[rocky palm]

tagged you in #📸┃screenshots_and_videos

i had the same bug with no quest marker

[late orbit]

Once more unto the Breach - I didn’t open the door in this quest, what should I do?

[worthy bolt]

Hey guys, what's the best choice : side with Noontide or The Ward?

[patent sluice]

Hi Just finished with ward ending if I replay and choose spark will I have different missions or will they be almost the same?

[rocky palm]

the story plays out the same-ish afaik
you do get a totally different gameplay experience by making different choices along the way

friend of mine played ward the whole time and at the same gameplay points we were in totally different situations geared up very differently

[amber jetty]

To me it's been surprisingly different in terms of what you do and how you get certain places.

[amber jetty]

Yes

[hidden quest]

why are military all of a sudden everywhere and targeting me directly lmao (i chose ward)

[lavish aspen]

question Im at the antenna there suposed to be floor B2 i found code should i do it before i go to pod?

[nocturne stone]

Several different missions and gear and outcomes

[lavish aspen]

nice got all titanium components

[neat cedar]

Is there a script to be one shotted when you step into Duga?! I have to go there in mission Happiness for everyone but when I step inside the walls I get one shotted even though I killed every monolithian I saw beforehand

[marble mantle]

If you happen to have an emission happen during Escape from the Cage. GG you are now screwed

[lapis spruce]

Yes attempting to enter duga where there are guards will result in you being instantly killed, no matter what you kill.

[wise swift]

Move forward stealthy as possible (often times they dont recognize you even if youre very close) and if you have problems (especially in the last part with the exo monoliths) just run and heal. its doable

[nocturne stone]

Appreciate ill try again. What was the reward? I’ll see if its worth reloading

[nova grove]

Is it normal during Dangerous Liasons, that on a Ward playthrough they're hostile to you? I understand on a Spark playthrough, but I don't want to be killing these guys if I'm Ward..

[light inlet]

Am I the only one with a problem with the "vision of truth" mission? I had to search Faust's body but it disappeared, I reloaded the savegame and even started the mission again.

[glossy crystal]

someone know where to find the stalker on the water tank in main mission?

[solemn bloom]

the update had to of changed that then because before it took minimum two shots with the gauss in the head to kill. im really glad they changed that'

[deft charm]

sullyboo has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[drowsy fulcrum]

probably common question but, what changes if i either side with dubny or SIRCAA? the internet only really tells me the moral sides of the choices rather then the actual effects what happens to the zone when you choose either ex. more enemies, more instability, less order

[coral urchin]

Personally never ran into that, but the game does some silly stuff.

[solemn bloom]

its lame it censored you for what you said lmao, but yeah it does. Either way that change makes me actually want to redo the ending because it was miserable watching dudes laugh off a dome shot with the strongest weapon in the game

[coral urchin]

I imagine the only thing that is different is some dialogue in a later story mission but as far as I know it doesn't impact much.

[coral urchin]

Yea I went through and did all the endings off the same save just to see which I liked more. Started my true second playthrough today in hopes of it fixing some of the bugged sidequests.

[solemn bloom]

far as i know the only side quest for sure still borked( for some people) is the zalyssia one. other then that i cant say

[coral urchin]

My Deceive the Deceiver was mega scuffed in my first game

[solemn bloom]

remind me again of that quest?

[coral urchin]

It's the one to get the Shah's MP5. You have to help the trader in Scrap Heap get some package from some other goonies.

[solemn bloom]

oh what was borked on it for you? i actually didnt have anything go wrong which with the way my game went is super surprising

[coral urchin]

The turn in guy at the end died in an emission so I was never able to complete the quest.

Which from what I can see in the side quest tab, it's still happening to people.

[solemn bloom]

ah, i luckily didnt have that happen though i might have done it differently because after the dude in the room with the package told me where shahs stash was i killed him

[coral urchin]

So like, the guy you are supposed to talk to and he gives you the stash location was already dead for me when I got there. He was just slummped over the chair instead of being able to talk to.

[solemn bloom]

oooooh, ok that makes sense. thats lame as hell. hopefully works better for you this time. in full honestly, i wish i hadnt bought the game for probably another year or too. i didnt hate it but i didnt really enjoy it that much with how bugged it was and how much is missing. If it gets the no mans sky or cyberpunk treatment it can be amazing though

[drowsy fulcrum]

thanks, does factions get hostile depending on choice for example if i side with dubny does millitary and ward get hostile on free roam?

[coral urchin]

Ummm, yes? No matter the outcome you chose, ||Noontide|| becomes hostile due to what happens in the story.

[drowsy fulcrum]

if noontide becomes hostile despite my efforts for their cause isnt it more reasonable to chose SIRCAA

[solemn bloom]

depends how you want the rest of the story to go

[coral urchin]

Honestly up to you. I chose to help Strider cause I like his character, but ultimately later in the game there are 3 major choices you have to make that actually determine your ending. This one has no real impact on it.

[drowsy fulcrum]

right, then i might aswell just go with dubny if nothing major happens.

[solemn bloom]

what was your favorite ending or one you think is cannon?

[coral urchin]

Personally, I really liked the ||Kaimanov|| ending as my personal favorite. The one that I actually think will end up cannon is ||Streloks|| just due to the nature of the original trilogy, which this is actually my least favorite ending. ||Scars|| ending was also really good because of its impact on Skif and the zone as a hole.

[solemn bloom]

i agree with your favorite and i actually think its more likely to be cannon just because of how many opportunities it presents itself for games going forward. that being said i could also see the one you think is cannon being so and making it so next game you have to like "break" into the zone

[coral urchin]

Exactly my thoughts.

[drowsy fulcrum]

||bruh, i regret that now that strider just make me get electrocuted then kicked me in the face and left me to die.||

[coral urchin]

More or less goes the same way if you help ||Strider||

[quartz matrix]

Guys, is game still bringing bunch of issues after w/e mission with SIRCAA?

[coral urchin]

Post SIRCCA there are still issues with some side quests. But from what I have played myself in two playthroughs now the MSQ seems fine.

[quartz matrix]

Thanks

[coral urchin]

[coral urchin]

Np

[glossy crystal]

dude i cant continue!!

someone know where to find the stalker on the water tank in main mission? in janiw

[round wharf]

He should be up there waiting, however there's a bug where he doesn't spawn

[oak vine]

Hey I'm stuck on once more into the breach the ward quest line this door will not open do you have a way around it

[young gulch]

Does anyone know how to get passed the subtle matter bug? I’m missing an item I’m supposed to collect to progress. Silly me went to the mission point when I was early in my playthrough. I’m on Xbox so I dunno if I just have to wait for a patch 🙃

[grizzled tangle]

Where in Rostok would Richter be to turn in this collar, thats where the quest tells me to go? He's not at the bar and hes not by the boathouse.

[hasty thunder]

A locked door in wishful thinking?

[young gulch]

He should be at that little shack near the boathouse

[rocky palm]

#📸┃screenshots_and_videos message

[ancient wing]

So for the mission "Just Like the Good Old Days", they fixed the problem two patches ago where the Prof would not spawn and the map marker where he was supposed to be also didn't show up. Now, I can walk right up to him but can't actually "talk" to him as the game wants. Any ideas for a fellow stalker who hasn't progressed in over a week 🥲

[versed loom]

I'm in prypiat and the quest isn't completing lol

[covert flume]

I keep crashing on the mission ||find bravo team||

i crashed when i got to the very end last night and now i am crashing constantly

[worthy bolt]

Anyone had a bug where the take shelter mission that occurs when a omission starts doesn't go away?

[coral urchin]

Yea, you should be able to unfollow it in the journal.

[final bramble]

anyone having problem with main quest "the forge of progression" endless teleportation loop? I am stuck in second teleport (the one after the pigs)

[heady laurel]

Did anyone else have a locked dialogue with Strelok asking "What's the STALKER Program?" Did I miss something to unlock this?

[unreal linden]

guys i'm so lost, can anyone tell me where Stars body is after the duga mission? i'm supposed to search his body but WHERE IS IT??!?!?

[cinder horizon]

Thats a good question… I Don’t know

[simple rapids]

i have the same problem

[signal anvil]

bruh watching the monolith regaining ||control of poor Strider|| was shocking

[unreal linden]

that whole scene is just peak cinema

the music too, i had chills the whole time, got emotional too

||how he tried to off himself ||

[hoary narwhal]

am I stuck in agroprom underground cant seem to find a way out. the manhole cover isn't open on the ladder.

[celest sand]

im stuck in the lesser zone because i lost the garbage key also the floating bridge to go chemicl plant is not there

[ancient wing]

Any help with this? :’)

[ashen finch]

who else is waiting for them to fix visions of truth? I guess I should just start a new playthrough at this point...

[floral willow]

I have the same issue. I cannot progress the main story quest "Subtle Matter"

Earlier in the game, I entered the Orbita Station while I Googled the door code, and picked up the Antenna Reset Instructions. I turned on the antenna on the roof as well. Nothing seemed to happen so I continued playing.

Now, during the "Search Kaimanov's Office" task in "Subtle Matter," I’ve found the X15 card and the diary, but the audio recording hasn’t spawned. Without it, the quest is softlocked, and I can’t continue.
I can enter the lab with the key card, I deleted all of the mutants. I can install the cartridge to raise the pod. But I cannot press the button to open the pod.

The quest markers are still set to Search Kaimanov's office
I am playing on console (Xbox X)

[young gulch]

Got punished for exploring lol well hopefully they change the spawn of quest items or something I’ve submitted a report

[sage dock]

is it possible to do the quest act of mercy silently?

[floral willow]

@young gulch I've submitted report as well

[sage dock]

feels like the monolith will always detect you and swarm you even if you'll try to run

[young gulch]

They need to lock out keypads for quests or something, idk now I’m just wandering aimlessly

[floral willow]

@sage dock Is that the one you are asked not kill anyone in the lab? I did it, they will agro, just need to run through and keep healing. lol

[sage dock]

ye made it as well, i didn'tl oot anything and i hate it! haha

[floral willow]

Yes, but you get some nice amount of coupons

[sage dock]

another thing i was wondering for quite some time is how do you deal with electric anomaly that jumps you

like i always eat the damage and heal it through but it destroys my armor very quickly so i dont think its intended way

[floral willow]

Not sure, I run away, havent figured out how to stop it, if you actually can

[young gulch]

Un equip all artifacts and it wont attack

[sage dock]

oh woah, thanks

since i run 4x weight artifacts i am not gonna do that haha - i wont be able to move

[young gulch]

But you won’t be dying at least lol
Well if you ever switch it up, that will help a lot

[tranquil crest]

Can someone help me? Im struggling w crash, Laggy n FPS downgrades i just cant play

[leaden bridge]

Hi there, is it possible to save Brodyaga (Stroller) from being killed? Im playing for Varta

[fallen flint]

hey how to go to the|| tunnel to Pripyat||, i cant go ||becouse of barycade|| and dont know how to go past her

[ashen violet]

its quest locked, you go there later game

[fallen flint]

i know i have the item

but i dont know how to get ||to tunnel and i dont want to give it to military||

[daring fractal]

Is there any way to get rid of the quest marker for "A minor incident" (getting rid of what obstructs the rails) ?

[fallen flint]

when you finish a quest its disappear(for me)

[daring fractal]

ok thx I'll continue then

[topaz atlas]

Anyone has a save right after the Duga mission? Mine is completely broken I can't progress the main story anymore.

[simple wave]

Pls fix the bug that strider dont spawn in the ranger station i wanna continue the game 😭😭😭

[neat cedar]

Sincerely, ||FUCK that pseudogiant in lab X3||

[grand igloo]

A little question about the main quest: ||There is an option to ask Strelok about the Stalker Program but it is locked, did i miss something or...?||

[sage dock]

hey, im in Cordon doing mission for Sidorovitch. I'm trying to talk to Roosevelt (i dont remember him but i guess we met in peaceful way last time) but after 2 lines he stops talking to me and then doesn't want to restore the conversation or something, is it a bug?

[neat cedar]

I just did it today, worked fine for me. (He was one of the kingpins in garbage, I havent met him neither but the game thinks so)

If loading an older save doesnt work I’m pretty sure ||you can just kill him and loot the package, you’ll only lose a medicore stash||

[sage dock]

aye reported this on s2 support, thanks - i guess ill just kill him

[odd fiber]

Hey guys, Dalin isn't in circaa when I sided with ward in "a long overdue visit" quest
what should I do?

[small ravine]

Hi (SPOILERS) ||i just saw how doctor killed Strider and is there any way that with different choices he will survive or he must die?||

[grand igloo]

Did you find the reason why it is locked?

[shut lagoon]

No it will be a plot point further on. Unavoidable

[slender moss]

I just finished the act of mercy quest and I have a few choice words for whoever was in charge of writing the story for that mission. Because now I’m sad

[heavy oxide]

Is it confirmed that I can use the regenerator on || Spirit ||? Walkthroughs claim I can, but the game removes it from my inventory after the mission where I'm || captured by Ward ||

[stone dune]

I know this probaly has been mentioned but i cant get the door to open to go to the professor for minor incident main quest- in what i believe was Malechite

I did the quest where the helicopter came in and attacked but when it says go speak to professor i cant

[obtuse wind]

Fr. I couldn't get away from it lol

[umbral lagoon]

I had a question regarding the mission "the last wish" for some reason my game crashes "Xbox S" when I walk through the portal opened by strelok on top of the red fortress. Is this a known bug or is there a fix for it?

[light inlet]

Hi stalkers! Does anyone have a solution for the "dark time" mission?
If I get too close to the dome the radiation kills me straight away, but I'm wearing the right equipment.

[near star]

This Granite squad is no joke...

[soft portal]

Quest stuck at Assault on Duga with Ward. After killing 6 Monolithians spawning from thin air at the gates the friendly AI just gets stuck in one place and nothing is happening.
Anyone found a work around or could advice how to push quest forcefully? I dont have free time to wait for an update that fixes my quest 😦
No it's not related to the PSI emitters. I destroy them each time and AI gets into the checkpoint, gets stuck 15 seconds later.

[ancient wing]

Still having a bug with "Just Like the Good Old Days" and Prof. Lodochka. Before the patches, there was no map marker and he was not at the location he was supposed to be. He is now there, but I don't have to fight to get to him and when I "talk" to him, he says the same voice line and nothing else. I don't go into the usual choice of diologue, he just says his line then... nothing. Any help? Been stuck here for over a week

[agile meadow]

Maybe that's a recent change preventing that from happening.

[radiant rain]

Anyone else ran into the bug where the doors to the duga tunnels are locked in once more unto the breach cant open it or progress the story tried everything it just says locked

[loud vault]

is anyone else having an issue with "The Boundary" im standing right on the marker for "Find a way into Prypiat" but nothing is happening

[heady laurel]

no, still unsure

[dull bobcat]

man ive been itching to play the damn game for like 2 weeks. but still encountering a game breaking crash during An Invisible Threat cutscene when you get to the chemical plant and meet with Dr Dalin and Korshunov. 3 patches and no fix :(

[thin yew]

In "Just Like The Good Old Days" what do i do when i find the source in the cave?

[shell quest]

Make a save and try dropping everything in your inventory to see if that fixes it as some cutscenes crash when you have certain items in your inventory (X7 armour, guass rifle) and just reload the save if it works and try dropping big things like armour or weapons

[sand vortex]

yall, im near the end in ||the room where its a gauss rifle ambush from above, and im goin insane i cant beat it. No matter what angle Im in theres a man with a gauss rifle ready to 1 shot me. ||hellllp

this is driving me insane, how are you supposed to beat these guys?

[sand vortex]

nvm i did it yall lol

[random hemlock]

Is there any hotfix workaround or whatever for the subtle matter quest if you have entered kaimanovs office before the quest started? Iam stuck at the „search kaimanovs office“ even though I have the keycard and the recordings.

[empty lagoon]

"The scientists think I'm the bogeyman" is this bug? 😭

[round wharf]

I think so but it doesn‘t really matter

[proud rose]

in the road to foundation mission i have to talk to scar but he says that hes busy.
Anyone else having this problem and also has a fix for this softlock?

[nocturne stone]

Did you try a different save?

[pseudo cobalt]

So in the visions of truth quest when ward attacks Malachite anyone else noticed that your spark allies are just idleing by doing nothing

[meager violet]

Anyone know a fix for - Subtle Matter - Clear out the mutants in the area, It's stuck and wont progress?

[fallen thunder]

the monoliths on duga are they immortal?

[pseudo cobalt]

did u pick up the emmiter?

[sage dock]

yes, snipers are immortal until certain point (pre-reaching the first main mission in south Duga)

[solid shoal]

I'm at the quest where you go back to the Druga, the quest marker is over like 500m away from me inside the base, but every time I try and go to it, I get insta killed by those snipers that are supposed to stop you from going off the map or something, also one of the snipers in the tower can't be killed, i get him hurt enough he falls over, but he gets back up after a bit

[pseudo cobalt]

go further south east there is a wooden gate/wall where u can enter without snipers 1 shotting u, you'll notice it when u see it

[thin yew]

found the transmitter but the door in the engineering room is locked....

[lucid nest]

Man so many branches in the story... The amount of dialogue you won't see in just 1 run is absolutely insane

[agile meadow]

What I read, and which worked for me, was find the Corps base in Pripyat, sleep there, then run back to the objective and run around in circles for a while. It triggered around the time I saw a group of stalkers walk past. Because of that, I assume the bug is a-life spawn related.

Though where you sleep may change depending on story path, I’m not sure.

[deft charm]

zombine3d has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[honest solar]

Screw Scar

[static lagoon]

IS there a way to kill the SHAH quietly ? i did it, but they still mad at me ? OR is there a way to kill the shah, and still have access to the seller in BROOD ?

[pallid nimbus]

i doubt it

[static lagoon]

i tried many things, i even went behind the window quietly, u not supposed to, tried to kill him, but even if you supper fast, for a split second u have the RED WARNING ENNEMIES marker on the HUD 😦

[pallid nimbus]

you dont need to kill him silently

[static lagoon]

Yeah i know, but what i tried is a stealth kill, so i might still be cool with all of them, including the brood seller, maybe he had cool stuff

but no possible.. and i'm not killing roosevelts, theres too many sellers over there and quests

[agile meadow]

Personally, I killed both, just so that I could.

[zinc solar]

w

why is there so heavy slowmode in all channels? ppl cant talk about the game, i know i cant

[stable plover]

so i'm playing hot on the trail and, the wooden bridge is already collapsed before i can go talk to dubny, is there any way to get to him? i can't use console commands i'm on console

nvm i parkoured it, for anyone with the same issue, there is a corner pipe you need to jump onto (its past the giant tunnel on the right) use the barrels on the right of the ledge to get to it and try to avoid the tunnel on the right

[wind bluff]

stop spam

[loud vault]

i managed to find another fix, the quest marker is actually not on the trigger point for updating the quest objective. instead of the trigger being the whole street it is just this one small patch of dirt in the divider between the two roads about 10m away from the marker

[agile meadow]

Then I ran over it when I was running in circles. Hopefully they patch it soon.

[loud vault]

its real stupid how small the trigger zone is

[zenith echo]

Guys can I get back my stuff after Ward captures me?

[agile meadow]

Yes. It’s kept in a box in a room accessible somewhere along the edge extending on the right side of the helipad, when facing front from the recessed portion.

[agile meadow]

Just got the Strelok ending. I like the Monolith greeting Skif with raised weapons, and Strelok telling them to let him pass, and they split into two files that he can pass between them, dropping his weapon as he leaves. I also like Strelok’s repeating message over the radio as Skif walks toward the security checkpoint while the IPSF manning it run away, finally ending as Skif winds up where he began: at the Fault anomaly by the checkpoint, the Zone closed forever.

[worthy bolt]

So I have a question due to a bug

[agile meadow]

Yeah?

[worthy bolt]

I can’t give the professor the suppressor blueprint for the quest “in search of past glory” on console. I didn’t know if there was any fix known

I know on pc there’s that mods that help you get past it but obviously Xbox doesn’t have mod support and this is the main story like

I just wanna be able to progress

[arctic halo]

How do you get around the sniper when entering the Duga for "happiness for everyone"? even if I'm behind cover it insta kills me

[agile meadow]

Is that with Spark to try and kill Faust? If so, there's an underground area you can enter around 70 or so meters from the objective marker, it's recognizable by a huge open round metal hatch. The hatch may actually appear on the PDA map, I didn't check when I did the quest.

[agile meadow]

Is that the guy with the locked door by the Noontide base on Wild Island?

[worthy bolt]

No he’s a dude later on at the chemical plant

[arctic halo]

Thank ya, think I found it

[agile meadow]

Good hunting, Stalker.

[agile meadow]

That must be the Ward path then. I'm going on that path my newest playthrough.

[worthy bolt]

I think I’m going ward I’m not 100% certain

[zinc solar]

3 iq

[wild slate]

hi all. i have a cutscene bug when I can't talk colonel degtyarev when I first get to pripyat. its The Road to the Foundation main quest. Does anyone know how to solve this?

https://game8.co/games/STALKER-2-Heart-of-Chornobyl/archives/487171

[raw widget]

once more unto the breach door bug

any one found a solution ?

this worked

[wild slate]

nice one

its so annoying when you can't do main quest. I am couple of quest off to complete the story and then I get locked out.

[devout wedge]

Hello, how to fix quest suppressor blueprint in main quest??

[quasi sundial]

@Chat are u think they bring Ng+

[small tiger]

emission while in the swamp is crazy

not to mention that i left with 3 guns 300 bullets each and im pretty empty after disabling the psi beacons

[deep carbon]

is there is any commend to infinity ammo? im on mission and cant kill because i dont have ammo?

[teal lily]

Is Skif a “legend of the zone” after all he’s gone through

[wind bluff]

It’s like 15 seconds calm down it’s to stop spam

[zinc solar]

bro u reply a random message from 20hours ago? also it was 1min its not little

[wind bluff]

There’s a thing called time zones dude 💀

[zinc solar]

how old are you man, timezones dont work like that

[wind bluff]

Yes tf they do

[zinc solar]

anyway im busy

[wind bluff]

U sent me that message at 2 am what do u think most normal people are doing at that time

[lapis raptor]

||guys idk what to choose between siding with the ward or with strelok. Havent paid much attention to the story. Is strelok actually brainwashed by c con? Should I side with the ward? Idk||

[wind bluff]

Side with strelock then kill him

[cloud scaffold]

In search of past glory right? I’ve had the same issue for a long time. I’m just waiting for a patch at this point as any workarounds don’t work // I actually joined this discord to see if anyone knew how to fix it

[crisp plaza]

does anyone know how to fix the tunnel door being locked when trying to break into the duga?

[arctic pendant]

Lol the chimera fight in the "minor incident" mission. I had to empty three weapons on it and eventually only got through because it got stuck on a door and I knifed it for 15 minutes

[tawdry spruce]

does giving the scanner to nor for the pripyat pass make it easier to come and go from pripyat or am i just not going to want to leave at this point and should take the tornado tunnel cuz its cooler

[grave robin]

Question about The Good Old Days quest bugs:

|| When I go into the cave entrance to the Noontide Shelter and get to the psi beacon thing there's no actual emitter to interact with. I also don't have the optional objective on my PDA to turn on the ventilation shafts, and the door behind the technician's office is closed / locked anyway, although I DO have the High Voltage Fuse ||

Most people seem to have a bug / issue with an OPTIONAL objective after the part I'm talking about, but I can't even get that far...

Save, quit, and reload fixed! just in case anyone else has that issue

[fossil crag]

Hi all. Has an issue on Xbox ss with meeting with Skar on x17 lab😭 No Skar there, but by map I am in the right place under Malahit base. Does someone knew how to resolve? I have restarted from saves and change locations and then returned but it is still doesn’t work for me. No Skar at x17 😢

[shut lagoon]

You get like 30k coupons to turn the scanner in so there's that. You get nothing from taking the tunnel

[mellow raptor]

Is it normal that the combatant rifle (which you get when showing a pda to a certain someone) is completely wrecked when you pick it up? Mine was at 0 durability when I got it.

(During the cutscene, I could hear "clunk clunk clunk" the whole time. Guess the rifle was part inside the table?

[full spear]

Hey guys, the regenerator device from Act Of Mercy is missing for me. Any help?
EDIT: Needed to load a much older save. Looks like any quicksave in the monolith infirmary bugs it out.

[hidden pike]

Anyone can help? Im stuck at Dawn of a new day quest. I can't talk to a Spark technician because he is dead.

[devout bramble]

Anyone is experiencing a weird bug on the quest "subtle matter", the quest says "talk to scar" but the npc keeps saying he's busy and the quest won't progress.......

[feral trench]

I need help y’all

[gaunt star]

Is this because of what you said in seeking advice?

[feral trench]

Maybe so

[gaunt star]

What's up?

[feral trench]

Monolith soldiers stuck inside the building

[gaunt star]

What quest are you on?

[feral trench]

Defend Zalissya

[gaunt star]

Im ngl, I ran through that area when they were getting raided. I tried getting inside but couldn't

[umbral stratus]

In SIRCCA im faced with the endless loading screen, and I'm unsure how to exactly report this lol

I'm tempted to restart my playthrough all over again

[wind bluff]

Why tf did I get in the pod if I was “setting the zone free”

[wide yacht]

i need help

lab x15 main quest is bugged i picked up the key and paper but still shows me to loot the room

[blissful flower]

Hi, i'm at the end of the game ||In the red forest where kaimanov is, but the game won't let me interact with him|| is there a way to fix it other than waiting for patch ?

[sour violet]

Is the X suit necessary for end game or can I just wear what I want?

[glass minnow]

Is there a chance we will see NG+ and Cigarettes soon?

[languid trellis]

Does anyone knows how to fix the Invisible Threat bug?

Scar literally just desapeared and i cant find him anywhere, ive already reloaded my save and im on console

[faint gust]

Man I love the game, about 8 hours in, but looks like the sawmill is bugged, when I'm teleported in Scar is nowhere to be found and I can't progress. People suggest mods but I can't as I'm on Xbox all of my saves are too far ahead to go back, anything I can do or any news on a fix?

[round wharf]

You can wear what you want

[sour violet]

Strelok is full of shit😏

[round wharf]

Well, it is a pretty damn good suit

[sour violet]

No upgrade tho

[round wharf]

Yeah but you get it so late and the stats are so good that it really doesn't matter

[sour violet]

Sure, nice color too

[solemn pier]

Yo I'm at that part where you kill all the soldiers in the tunnel in cordon, and I've done that but it says there's more I guess? There's also 2 locked doors in can't get past

[keen cairn]

How on earth do you get through visions of truth it just spawns like a million exo ward bois

[sour violet]

Wait now are there 2 Deggys?

[sour violet]

Is my game broken again? Fighting Strelok..there’s no sign of him, and no way to progress

[sour violet]

Man I really went the kill everyone route didn’t I..

[dense agate]

if i don't kill the Ward members in Dead Frequency do i lose alliance with Spark or anything?

does it affect my story progression at all? it says "optional" but it feels wrong putting these guys down

[maiden karma]

|Potential Spoiler, Bug Report]

Hi guys, i try to reach out the top of the base of Malachite, but it's seems impossible.

1. First bug, i save after the fight and hologram, the button go up and i stay there.
2. second bug, Doing again the Hologram part and fight, this time the elevator go up, but i pass trough the elevator; sometimes i jump and it seems working, but kill by exo at the entrance of the lift.

Did you experienced this ?

[carmine nova]

Assault on Duga is broken. I chose ward and cannot progress past taking the check point. I destroy the two PSI emitters, kill the rest of the guards, fight off two small waves of three soldiers each, and then the game just sits there.

[quartz fiber]

I need help. I am doing mission legends of zone and I have to bring back parcel from roosevelt. But when I start talking to him, he says "we can talk later". I started mission again, but this problem doesn't dissappear

[zenith echo]

Guys, what exactly is the point of no return? I can still explore the zone after

[sour violet]

Nope

[median harbor]

im bugged on that mission aswell, when i get to the courtyard at the front of the bunker my game crashes instantly and if i sneak around the island to the cave entrance, i follow that for a little while and when you drop down just before where you see faust in the tunnel the first time i crash again so im stuck

[shut lagoon]

Its a mission in Pripyat, there will be an on screen message waarning you that this is the point of no return. When you get the message you can head back to do other stuff. If you proceed you cant.

[trail geode]

Anyone familiar with the Dark Times questline? Was hoping to get some advice or help maybe, think I’ve encountered an audio bug but I’m not positive

[barren fossil]

I am having a problem at the mission "The Boundary" , there is no Npc inside the water tower , i can't talk to him so i can't progress :<

[vast harbor]

i have already talked to ||spirit|| in the boundry, but the quest wont update, hes handed me the key and everything, im also being told I could have used ||the regenerator|| on him but it wasnt an option because it got randomly taken out of my inventory

(the quest still says to talk to him)

[trail geode]

In ‘Dark Times’ when investigating Grays scene, I started to hallucinate and can hear someone saying “Gray” and “Please don’t” repeatedly. It’s coming from that same location, but I can continue hearing it no matter how far I am, whether or not I’m hallucinating and it’s even persisting during cutscenes. Anyone encountered this? The only time it’ll stop is if I reload a prior save but it starts back up at the same spot.

[eager yacht]

hi does anybody have a fix for broken cutscnes that use videos all of my cutscenes in the game so far where just pure white and not displaying anything
for example here is a screenshot of the issue

it should not be white like this?
https://i.imgur.com/0MnWeqJ.jpeg

[nocturne stone]

Anyone stuck on The Boundary main quest. It says find a way into Prypyat and im on top of the quest market and nothing happens

nvm you literally had to move back and walk straight in a line to towards objective

[grim radish]

same

how do i fix...

[hallow cypress]

did you guys use the tunnel or just get the permit in the boundary quest

[harsh owl]

in the quest: The Last Step ||when I kill strelok and restart the teleporter, Korshunov never leaves the teleporter and I cant progress. If I try to talk to him while he in the teleporter, he just says "dont talk to me" or something. Has anyone figured out a way to get past this?||

[harsh owl]

ive found a solution, find the door with the light near the opposite side of the teleporter. Using UETools (download from nexus mods) type "UETools_Ghost" and walk through the door, this will activate the next step in the quest. You can then type "UETools_Walk" to revert to regular function. We miss out on the dialogue between us and ||Korshunov|| but at least we can continue.

[thin yew]

hey guys, in "just like the good old days" the engineers room is not open for me.

[agile meadow]

Yeah, apparently the trigger is a specific tiny dirt patch between two roads around 10m away. So weird.

[agile meadow]

Permit first playthrough, the tunnel will be this current one.

[zenith echo]

Just finished my first run! AMAZING, but I never saw Bolshak (a guy from the trailers) is it because of the story path I took? are the different paths that unique?

[chrome prairie]

help please how ||do i give the doctor the monolith regenerator? ii didnt kill any of the monolithians it justs prompts me to go to sid in cordon||

[agile meadow]

|| It's not for his use. What it's for comes later on.||

[lucid nest]

I'm so confused by the ending of this game lol

[agile meadow]

Which one? I've only gotten the Strelok ending, and am working on the Ward one, if it would let me meet the Colonel.

[lucid nest]

I got the ||skif ending|| where you don't kill ||Kaimanov/Faust?|| and ||the zone spreads all over the globe||

[agile meadow]

The Strelok ending cutscene was well directed and looked amazing. Can't wait to see this one when I get around to it.

[lucid nest]

I just watched all the other endings on youtube because I don't feel like spending another 50 hours replaying the story right now lol.

I'm just confused how the hell they're going to put story DLCs in this game, which one is the canon ending? ||They all end on a questionable note, I guess Strelok's ending is the least wild out of all of them||

Or perhaps are they adding a new unlockable ending with a Limansk DLC?

[lucid nest]

#⭐┃nospoilers_general message
Don't wanna say I called it but...

[civic tendon]

Why u need strelok artifact for Skif end but for scar/colonel u dont need it ? I meaaaan its isnt something very important if u want to make the capsule work?

[lucid nest]

I assume the implication is as depicted.
||In the Skif ending you "give a heart to the zone"
In Strelok's ending he "controls the heart of the zone"
Scar just creates an illusion of peace
Korshunov destroys the zone||

[civic tendon]

[rapid topaz]

I got a bit lost in the story. Have been to SIRCAA now, so if it’s still to be revealed please don’t tell me, but who tf was “the stranger” in answers come at a cost?

[heady depot]

i feel like Korshunov ending is more like ||having the zone everywhere||

[hollow oasis]

Hey folks, question regarding main story:

||I've sided with Ward up to the point where I'm in SIRCAA basement during "Wishful Thinking" quest. Now I can side with Ward or Noon before the experiment. If I side with Ward, can I still get the strelok ending later in the game?||

[shut lagoon]

Yes

[vast harbor]

the boundry is completly broken for me, ive tried to reset the quest through UEtools, but it seems to exist twice, the marker to ||find spirit|| never went away and nothing from the reset quest updates, so im soft locked (the objective to talk to spirit never updated after I talked to him, so ||the spark bunker door|| wont open.) is there a way to completly cancel a quest in UEtools

[lucid nest]

If you paid attention from like the first hour of the story, Ward's entire goal is to control/maintain/harness the zone for its energy.
The ending literally shows ||helicopters going around freely to the generators, something which was already shown in CoP to be rather dangerous, even with their anomaly maps, so you can assume that the anomalies are just straight up gone from the area||

[civic tendon]

Well ward use helicopter everytime they want to move so they have some big veles sensor or something like that now probably

Colonel ending is ||just big brother with extra step, they can see everyone, thats why we can see skif in a monitor, also he destroy the zone too, so its like just a spy version of skif end||

[trail geode]

Anyone encounter the audio bug during the Dark Times main quest? If so did you also find a solution?

[craggy canyon]

Is there a post-game where you can continue to explore the Zone after the end? Or am I locked into a finale after I tell Degtaryev I'm ready?

[civic tendon]

U can do whatever u want but when u got a pop up that say this is a point of no return it’s ur last chance to go back, so no u can speak to deggy u good

[heady depot]

oh yea my bad

[wind laurel]

^^

[lone latch]

Quick question is it possible to save kiddo after investigating the labyrinth

[long laurel]

Is there something I can do, to prevent crashes at the space bubbles?

[lucid nest]

I can't believe the Zone Piece is real

[carmine cloud]

Main questline fix patch ETA?

[mighty seal]

Anyone Know when they patched subtle Matter Main Quest ?

[red breach]

why after i kill all the mutants in the orbita station,the quest doesnt update?

this game so annoying ong

[trail geode]

Has anyone found a solution to the audio bug during the Dark Times main quest?

[strong tangle]

Did anyone manage to help wolfhound or does he always start shooting?

[wild slate]

Anyone had cutscene bug in the road to foundation with colonel degtyarev?

[hallow hull]

I'm stuck after killing faust no mission pops up afterwards

[devout island]

During ||Happiness for Everyone|| mission, during the "get to the radio station" part, when i try to jump down a hole in the floor, the screen goes white even though sound is still playing, but the game is unresponsive and crashes after 30s. Any ideas?

[eager merlin]

why am I getting insta killed when trying to enter pripyat to ||meet the major||

[regal stream]

Load a save before the fight and do it again. I had the same glitch happen to me, after the fight his body will spawn

[solar imp]

im on the "in search of past glory quest" and it wont let me save ive tried sleeping and using a guide but it doesnt work

[warped plover]

same problem here. cannot progress the story either. no dialougue prompt on Dvupalov to turn in the suppressor blueprint. i tried using UETools to progress past this mission and trigger the next mission but sadly it seems that doing this for me atleast breaks the game even further.

[olive sand]

I had to wait for his assistant to come on foot and talk to him before the conversation triggered

[rancid crest]

Guys, in the "just like the old days" mission, I'm in the ||wild island||, but I can't find the ||psy emitter|| where it's supposed to be, is this a bug?

[vast glacier]

Having an issue with assault on duga quest (ward side) . Cannot Secure the checkpoint

[lucid nest]

Is it just me or does ||Strelok|| sound like a South Park character when ||he's making fun of Dark through his POV||

[paper nexus]

Its where faust is when you first go there, where you see strider and faust talking

[hallow hull]

Well yall I just finished the game and I have to say that was an amazing ride 101 deaths to count and a little over 60 hours played, I'm going back for all the endings it was an amazing game GSC.

[ripe plank]

Does anyone know the consequences/advantages of siding with ward or the spark during the extreme Simplicity mission

[supple hemlock]

is it by design that I can't fast travel nor see traders on the map at Malachite? I'm at the point in story where ||Strelok|| asks me to head over to the lab north of Malachite and it looks like I'll have to sprint all the way there from Rostok

[civic tendon]

Someone didn’t choose the ward team :p, ye u fk enjoy ur 3km run

[supple hemlock]

Welp, guess I'm doing that. Cheers

[snow scaffold]

screw ward, me and all my homies hate ward

[civic tendon]

Lol well its funny how ppl hate ward like scar is a better option

[worthy bolt]

There is a NPC called Yarik Mongoose that gives you a Malachite pass as a reward for helping him.

[stuck abyss]

This is after that, When you have to escape malchite. Is there a legit way back in aside form using guides?

[stuck abyss]

there too, starting to get very annoyed at the base set up. Unless youve chosen ward, the entire western half of the map is way harder to travers, Chemical Plant and Malchite locked

[worthy bolt]

I sided with Ward so after a while it was back open, albeit with Wardens there and they were hostile but I can still use the base. I am able to go in through the door you’d normally use. Not sure, I’d say a few in game days?

[stuck abyss]

Nah, the normal door is also locked

theres a bunch of hostile ward soldiers as well as non hostile ward soldiers, Its been a lot of in game days since escaping malachite

[limpid smelt]

Hello, trying to complete act of mercy quest but idk if the no killing rule is worth it to complete since i cant find any info on it online. Is it fine to kill them?

[worthy bolt]

Is that the one where you get the Regenerator for the Doctor?

[limpid smelt]

yeah

[worthy bolt]

Iirc, you’ll get a better reward if you choose the pacifist route. It took me about 6 times to do that though 😂.

[limpid smelt]

Yeah thats what im assuming, just me going to save and load a lot

[worthy bolt]

I also didn’t try to complete it both ways to see both outcomes.

[stuck abyss]

That quest is made to be stealth based so its remarkbly easy, just keep hidden, watch the npcs routines and use vents and crawl spaces where possible. ||theres also a stealthy way out compared to just using the way you came in||

[rancid crest]

Yes, that place. The character feels the psy effects, but the ||emitter isn't there||

[paper nexus]

I found it at the base of the weird structure in there

[civic tendon]

I like malachite when everyone hate u because u are with the ward, u are like : « what u gonna do ? Im the law »

[rancid crest]

Nope, it's not there in my game

[rocky saddle]

Anyone know if || the dialogue with strelok not working at the end of down below || is fixed?

[paper nexus]

Try looking up a video guide for that mission to see exactly where it is, if that doesn't work you'll have to reload a sace ig

[rancid crest]

It's not that difficult, it's a glowing thing on the floor, right?

[paper nexus]

It should be

[bold flower]

So I’ve read that when you complete stalker 2 it’s sends you back to the main menu and you can’t go back at what point is a good time to save so you can do the side missions and not have to start all over again

[halcyon phoenix]

my game is bugged stuck in the Subtle Matter main quest wont progress past "Search Dr_____ Office" anyone know if theyre gonna fix it or?

[stuck abyss]

At main quest "The Boundary" Walking past the ||Find a way into pripyat|| map marker in the ||Pripyat street just after you enter the region|| doesnt trigger anythiung? i hung around it, reloaded, got all the way to ||The paalace of culture and the corp base to sell some loot and walked back but still nothing||

[wild slate]

I get the next marker but then I am supposed to talk to colonel degtyarev and cutscene should happen but it doesn't. I guess all this quest line is pretty much bugged out

I sent email to support letting them know about it. I think you should too

[trail geode]

Anyone else encounter the audio loop bug during the “Dark Times” main quest?

[agile meadow]

Yeah, the trigger is not on the quest icon, from what I was told is it’s a small dirt patch within a crack in the road around 10 meters away.

[crisp dune]

GREAT, I am completely soft locked in MSQ "In Search of Past Glory" on the "Take the blueprint for the Suppressor to Dvupalov" objective...

[sand valve]

what does ||the heart of chernobyl artifact do?||

[sweet wind]

||Not sure it "does" anything in terms of regular artifact usage. Its main purpose is as a necessary item for some of the endings.||

||If you don't see it used in the ending you're doing then it's basically just sitting in Skifs inventory I guess.||

[gleaming dust]

My game keeps crashing when I go into the portal at the end of the game with strelok.

[shut lagoon]

I think this is a bug or a mistake, i went for the strelok ending, but there is a wierd autosave after the cutscene should have started were i can move around freely (no strelok to be seen) and go up to the machine and put in the heart. After that i can pull some switches but nothing happens.

[sweet wind]

Huh, very strange. In the Strelok ending you're not even supposed to have the Heart in your inventory. Strelok puts it in the machine himself in a cutscene.

There's not supposed to be any free movement actually. It's one long ending cutscene when you enter the room.

Sounds like something got messed up and you got a broken trigger for the Kaymanov/Skif ending.

[shut lagoon]

Thats what i mean, i dont have it in my inventory, but theres prompts and animations for what happens/should happen in the cutscene of the doctor ending. I think in an earlier version you probablyt manually dud everything and when they transitioned to a cutscene they kind of missed putting in the artifact.

It gets stuck after pulling the lever though, nothing happens with the pod and i can clip right through it

[fluid veldt]

I am at Echo Station. Any idea how many more hours of main quest I have ?

[stuck abyss]

found it, thanks!

[keen forge]

can some one help me? i have a problem with a sniper taking me out with he can se me, i have a little mp4 fil i have recordet with. i have died about 16 times and im close to surrender/delet the game.

[hard mural]

is it close to duga

[obtuse wind]

I found it triggered in the middle of the street walking past the car at the begining of the main strip down. I walked into the store off to the side n walked all the way down without it triggering. Walked back and did that n it worked

[acoustic stream]

If it is happening in Duga, there is a killzone which will stay till the story mission leads you to that location. For the size of an insta killzone check the screenshot in a chanel.

[cerulean patio]

Nevermind figured it out

[agile ocean]

anyone help with the save file. right after the duga fight the second time. my safe file is all corrupted cuz i had mutant loot mod and it messed it up

[scenic fern]

I can't complete the game ATM, when I follow strelok into the portal at the red fortress it crashes every single time, no matter if I side with him or not, I'm on Xbox series s, really hoping someone could help

[scenic fern]

I'm having the same problem 😞

[gleaming dust]

Im on series s too

[gleaming dust]

It's sucks 😞

[uncut ivy]

In let no one leave unsatisfied why is there 4 monolith gauss rifle snipers which insta kill me

Im playing on normal and this part is impossible there must be something im missing

[uneven magnet]

Any idea when the Rickter being dead in 100 rads for the main mission bug will be fixed? They claim they fixed it in 1.0.2 but I did that mission after 1.0.3 and he's still dead and now I'm hardlocked out of the main story. Or does anyone know of the console command to revive him so I can play the game again?

[static mortar]

Zanton/swamp is ofc the worse zone of the game, with they not climbable baby mountains 🥲

[potent garden]

Hi, richter is dead on the boundary mission - its possible a fix this on console until wait for patch?

[zinc solar]

I would just finish the playthrough and do another at this point unless u dont plan to start new after

[potent garden]

So only solution is waiting for patch?

[zinc solar]

Possibly? Unless its common and ppl have a fix on youtube

[dusty shale]

Guys, in the main mission Dangerous Liaisons I'm heading to the mission spot and I was going to stop at old Malachite base, but now there are new stalkers there but for some reason most of them are aggressive to me (some dont) and they simple wont die. What is that?

Are they the Spark (They cammoflage is the basic stalker one)? Because I choose not to follow Scar

[sage dock]

oh damn, did i just f*cked myself over?
I used the scanner to get through anomaly to Jupiter area, then i looted that zone and went back to Yanov to sell/resupply, now the anomaly is back, and the scanner didn't went back to my eq, so i cannot give it to the Diegtarow guys in Yanov, neither i can go through the anomaly lol

[hasty thunder]

yo I approached the tornado ouside of pripyat and there was a wilhelm scream lololol

anyone else get this?

[little kestrel]

Sooooo what do i do if Dvupolov is broken?

||I got the suppressor blue prints and i'm supposed to talk with him again, but he just stands there and if interact with him he just asks if i'm there for vodka.||

[slow wave]

Question: ||How do you get past the chimera when going to Clear Sky?||

[little kestrel]

Kill it

Actually…. I didn’t even know one was there and I just kept running and then got an achievement lol

[slow wave]

Sir the best weapon i have is a pump action shotgun

Anyways i’m pretty sure i soft locked my self

[little kestrel]

They are annoying but killable. I have the semi auto shotty and still gotta unload a few mags into it

[slow wave]

Problem is that it knocks me down and then kills me before i can get up

I can maybe get two good shots in before i die

Just realized that the chimera may be a result of a psi thing

I GOT PAST IT (energy drinks)

[little kestrel]

Excellent!

[leaden bridge]

You dont need to kill it. You just need to ignore her and rush asap to the house.

[sullen valley]

So I just finished the game (Scar ending). After the cutscene I was able to load an automatic save in the last room with scar. But he seems bugged/ doesn't walk. I can freely roam the room with the eight pods. I was also able to insert the artifact, that Strelok drops when you kill him, into the machine in the middle of that room. It even has an animation to put it in there. But nothing happens after that. Did anyone else have this? What does this do or is it bugged for me?

[hasty thunder]

No music in the credits?

[civic tendon]

https://tenor.com/view/run-bitch-run-gif-14941022

[long wharf]

Anyone else stuck on Subtle Mattler - Search the office?

[civic tendon]

Yup, u went to his office before n now the diary don’t spawn ? Enjoy ur broken game

[hazy flint]

Has anyone else had Trouble with Checkijg ||Faust’s body after his boss foght||?

[spare cloak]

Just got the ||Skiff/Doctor ending||. Which ending seemed most cannon to you guys 🤔
I'm stuck between ||Skiff|| and ||Strelok||

[shut lagoon]

I got the same but for the strelok ending. I think it's a bug.

[clever citrus]

STC malachite hates me because i defended them against the Ward. Anyway to repair relatins with them to access thier trader?

[long wharf]

yay for exploring!

[scenic fern]

I just ran, or tried finding a different route

[tepid sun]

So at the "return to the slag heap" main quest im supposed to find diode but all I found was a dead soldier in its place, I moved the body out of the way, reloaded, and now not even the soldier is there, did I screw something up?, in the prior quest some guy asked me to kill 2 dudes but I decided to kill him instead. What do bros

[oblique yew]

If the ward is still there diode won't return till they leave, you need to talk to the ward officer upstairs

usually I think that's prompted by the soldier standing in diodes workshop, but since he's dead not sure what you do

My problem right now is the duga, holy shit I've tried going to the southern gate but I still get intsakilled out of nowhere as soon as I step on the premises

and the quest marker leads to behind the fence on the north side for some reason

[oblique yew]

nvm, I found the underground entrance

[tepid sun]

Ill just have to wait for the devs to patch it up then

[golden knoll]

The elevator in main quest Find the Cartridge in X3 does not have a button to go up... I'm stuck in there and can't leave or go up... Any ideas?

[kind ether]

Is Varan's quest bugged? I'm giving him one of the PDAs but then he tells me to get him one

Ah whatever, I just murdered him for his pda

[civic tendon]

Well if u go to this place before ur main quests u can’t complete ur main quests after

[radiant hare]

You don’t defend them. You actually defended yourself. Malachite scientists works with Ward, and Ward raid was to search and kill Sparks agents, not the scientists. You killed Ward, defended yourself and now hostile to scientists 🙂

No worries though, it works like with any other faction : if you become hostile, just wait till the side mission is gone (it will finish by itself, they just need time to cool off).

[civic tendon]

Ok but why they are mad at ward too after ? I meaaaan in ward path, scientist hate us after too (but allow u to use fast travel thx god)

[clever citrus]

Because this game is a broken and bugged mess. Development was done with absence of forethought.

[radiant hare]

Well… you came to their house, did lot of shooting, killed plenty of people, perform weird experiments in basement… 🙂 It’s important to understand that scientists are not the same with their “leader” Ozerskiy. Actually in Sparks path you can get back to Malachite after they cool off and there will be 3 noticeable changes:

1. Ozerskiy is not a boss anymore, ppl think he’s dead.
2. Scientist are now fully under Ward, and they can tell you how they feel now
3. You can’t get out outside safely, because the base now is guarded by Ward. You’ll have to use an underground tunnel

I haven’t done the Ward path yet, but in Sparks path this all totally make sense, no bugs there

[radiant hare]

I don’t see a bug related to this mission to be honest. But again, I have done this part on a Sparks path, don’t know what’s there on Wards path. Talking to NPC and asking them “what’s new in the Zone” gives you quite lot of information actually

[civic tendon]

They say exactly the same thing spark or ward path, she didn’t want to get promoted that way

[slim wave]

Anyone dealing with the wishful thinking bug and zotov not spawning any help is appreciated! Literally can’t do anything to progress

[quartz mango]

im checking with a dude that fixed this 1 sec

[quartz mango]

how long are you fighting the ward?

[quartz mango]

Only fix I know of

XDKFinishQuest E08_MQ03 true
XStartQuest E08_MQ04 (wardens) OR XStartQuest E08_MQ05 (spark/scar)
XCreateItemInInventoryByID Blueprint_FaustPsyResist_Quest_1_1 0 1 1
Find a tech that will fix it onto your suit after

[echo shore]

Someone help me understand
I finally retrieved the scanner from Faust in Clear Sky.
Then all of a sudden Scar is telling me to come to him if I'm heading SIRCA. Was SIRCA mentioned in the cutscene with Faust? Did I miss something?

And it's not really clear why we need the scanner to get into Sirca?

[snow scaffold]

I have i problem i cant get into ||Enerhetyk||, i'm always in "danger" according to my compass and they just close the doors, i've tried reloading and that doesn't seem to fix it and there's no enemies in the vicinity that i can see

nvm i found it a bunch of monolith were hiding in a building

[civic tendon]

Lol classic

[slim wave]

Not too long, dalin at some point says come up to see me at a certain point

[lime hearth]

That part of the mission is to decide whether or not to keep with the ward or help spark

I’ve got a bug where I can’t open the door leading down into the tunnel on the mission once more unto the breach anyone found a work around for this ( I’m on Xbox so no console commands)

[young parrot]

has anyone found a way around a bug on the invisible threat mission where scar and the cut scene dont show up and its locked the story? im running the game on pc but through xbox rn. ive been stuck on this section for about 2 weeks nor maybe a bit longer

[glossy robin]

so im about to get the mission Wishful Thinking, i read that u have to side between Noontide and Ward, which one is the best and whats the consequences of picking one of em?

[modest marsh]

Is there a difference in choosing between Polissya and Olimpia at Pripyat quest(point of no return)?

[radiant hare]

it's a very tricky question... Depends on your view of "best" I guess. My advice: do what you think is a right way. (and make a save)
It affects lot of upcoming events in a game and the ending as well. You can't get all endings in one playthrough, so dont bother a'bout that for now.

[glossy robin]

im going for Skif/Strelok ending, does picking either side will work?

[radiant hare]

in this case you must side with Noontide there

[glossy robin]

very well, thanks

[verbal cairn]

Hi all!
I'm having a game breaking bug I hope I can raise my question here. Currently I'm doing the Road to the foundation main quest where I have talked with Deggy but I've sided with Spark so I have to go to the Spark camp in Pripyiat. Looks like Richter is dead because when I go to the spark camp I only see Scar, but he is not starting the discusson and I cannot talk with him. How can I fix this issue? I tried to use UEtools and look up for quest ids and SIDs but non of them helped.

[humble ibex]

I think i managed to join spark without realizing when or how I did it? I don't even remember there being an option for when this occurred. I'm currenlty at the quest "Dawn of a New Day" and have been told by spark to "Let the zone know you're one of us now."

When did I join this faction? I'm struggling to remember when I had a choice between them and anyoen else. Also, am I locked into this now?

[glossy robin]

i think when u show the unusual PDA to Scar after u got tricked at Dark Valley is when u start siding with Spark

[humble ibex]

Ahhh, shoot. Well, guess i got a whole other playthrough to do something else then

[glossy robin]

also i help Spark stalkers when Ward attack the Ranger Station after came out from Great Swamp even though i didnt show the PDA to Scar... i might as well have sided with them lol

[warm gull]

Hello first of all sorry for the bad english
I have a problem, namely when I want to get out of the underground of Sircca I have to go through this bubble but when I go in I only get into this tunnel-like part. I come out briefly and am attacked by a few wild boars, but I immediately get back into this tunnel thing. Sometimes the game crashes and an error message comes up and sometimes it just stays in this tunnel thing.
Can someone help me to solve the problem. I would be very grateful to him or her who could help me.
Greetings

Übersetzt mit DeepL https://www.deepl.com/app/?utm_source=android&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=share-translation

[lime hearth]

I had this happen twice the only way I was able to help it was to make sure I move as little as possible before the teleport happens

[bronze shale]

So when are you guys going to fix "answers come at a price" mission it been bugged for a while I can't progress.

[graceful marsh]

when is the next pach coming the game has soft locked me in malechite by spawing enemies on top of me

[stable elbow]

Doing subtle matter main quest. I’m at the X-03 facility. I’m checking Kaimanov’s office and I picked up a file with a key card but the mission has not progressed despite checking the whole room. The objective keeps asking to search his office. Any advice?

[little heath]

One of the main quests "visions of truth" I'm having issues with talking to Scar at the secret entrance to Malachite, to which Scar doesn't spawn at all (tried reloading older saves & even using commands to spawn him but nothing). Anyone know how to get past this point to progress? (using PC)

[drifting wraith]

ok ive done this quest a dozen times now. trying different dialogue combos each time. i am tired of this stupid boss fight. what do i have to do to get fausts corpse to show up so i can move on and keep playing the game? when i look it up this bugs been around for awhile but have yet to see a suggestion other than to try a specific dialogue combo (i tried).

[stable elbow]

For the project Y ending do I tell colonel I’m not the enemy or escape ?

[modern lark]

i had the same problem with a different quest and had to download a mod that gave me ue dev tools to tell the game i finished that quest step

[lone quartz]

i have a quest objective in the red forest and the entire area around it seems to be a radiation kill zone. am i supposed to bring in 40 anti-rads or am i missing something, is it bugged maybe?

[radiant hare]

What quest exactly? Trying to reach Doctor on the island?

[lone quartz]

no, "an act of mercy". getting to the cable tunnel.

i have an upgraded SEVA suit btw in case that helps

[radiant hare]

Hmm, I do t remember any radiation there, just entered a basement without a problem. It’s an underground mission, have you found an entrance and facing radiation down there?

[lone quartz]

no, i couldn't even get into the area. it's the surface that's super irradiated for me

like i literally can't go 10 seconds without popping an anti-rad and i only carry five so it's not nearly enough

[surreal plank]

Assault on Duga mission

Siding with Ward route clearing checkpoint

What weapon(s) was the most useful in completing this god awful mission?

Should I bring 3? An AR, Shotgun and a sniper?

[cloud scaffold]

Awesome looking update, sadly I don’t see them specifically talking about “In search of past glory” quest blocker 😦

Maybe I’ll be able to finish this game one day

[simple wave]

Did they fix Strider not SPAWNING?

[torpid helm]

For people wondering, in the duga raid when siding with the ward the D4 double doors are still bugged and stay closed, resulting in a progression block.

[young steppe]

1.1 zalissia fix -- new game required?

[cedar spindle]

An Invisible Threat still bugges

[viscid cave]

I am stuck at Military Mole after fight with Korshunov. Strelok just refuses to talk about main quest

[pulsar nimbus]

Same for me.

[cloud scaffold]

Incase anyone else has the same issue, downloaded patch 1.1 and can confirm "In search of past glory" is not fixed with this patch Dvupalov is still not wanting to talk. Goodluck and happy holidays

[rare rapids]

Same here

I guess maybe its cuz i am using save from the old version of the game, cuz I already Finished it and wanted to do the rest of the endings

[strong laurel]

First playthrough before 1.1 was fine but I'm on my second playthrough and the SIRCAA doors after you wake up and find Zotov shot are closed. Dalin is standing there and nothing is happening. Reloaded different saves before the wish granter visions but still nothing. Any ideas?

[rare rapids]

I think its a mojor issue for everyone on differents qusts, me also involved in this issue so i guess developers should fix this pretty soon

At least I hope so xd

[grizzled tangle]

Still can't give the collar to Richter during A Minor Incident. He's NOT by the boathouse. Not in Rostok either

[dusk totem]

I still can't find Fausts body, was that patched?

[potent garden]

I'm stuck on the boundary quest - Richter is dead...

[slim wave]

Also having the same issue, haven’t tried post patch but hoping it’s fixed

[limber sonnet]

Does enyone have this bug with Malachite where the after misson with scar and defending Malachite from ward, guide NPC is missing and main entrances are blocked?

[strong laurel]

My game just did tiny update. Going to see if it fixes the problem.

Edit: nope.

[viscid cave]

Malachite becomes Ward's territory after that mission. You can't use their base anymore

You can fast travel inside there by another guide. But to get out you have to use underground path

[split robin]

Once you get to Garbage can you get back to Lesser Zone? I realized I should have brought more loot with me

[strange quartz]

Yes, you are allowed to free exploring the whole Zone

[split robin]

Is there some trick involved? Do I just go over the bridge again and getting through the building is easy enough?

I want to try and find a beefier silenced weapon before I go clear out the first base in Garbage, the pistol isn't cutting it....

[split robin]

Can I reach the trader at red forest before completing the mission to save the freedom dudes?

[bitter bone]

Get to the sawmill part of Back to the Slag Heap mission is bugged. Have a ton of progress between now and the last main story event. How do I fix? (Xbox)

[dull bobcat]

am i the only one that has a crash during "An Invisible threat" cutscene with dalin and korshunov at the chemical plant? ive been waiting for a fix since launch week and 3 patches later its still not fixed. incredibly frustrating esp after a patch with 1800+ fixes lol

[winter spire]

launched the game today and now Richter is gone/disappeared and I cant progress the main quest anymore? Anyone else facing similar issues.

[proud crest]

@solid pike after killing colonel Korshunov the quest froze, tried to reboot 10 times Richter is not there the shooter does not speak. help

[worthy bolt]

Ouef

[rich willow]

Hello hello

Is there a main quest in Cordon?

[icy heath]

Back to the slag heap completely bugged for me. Can't get inside the sawmill then it randomly transports me inside but there's no NPC to progress the quest.

Just when I was starting to enjoy it too.

[icy heath]

Yeah NPC's are invisible sometimes for me or they just aren't where they are supposed to be. Completely unplayable for me right now.

[icy heath]

Same issue here, I've asked in multiple channels and no one is being helpful at all. I'd raise a ticket and then play something else.

[median storm]

Heyy soo there’s a scripted scene when you first arrive lesser zone… so you talk to ward and at some point Skiff says the exact same line twice on the dialog… wondering if it’s intended? 🤔 kind of fits but not quite

[median storm]

To be more precise it’s the first dialog you get for the first main quest with the ward

[jovial folio]

Yeah, I'm not going to lie, doing visions of Truth again to see if the bug at the secret entrance to malachite is fixed and this might just be my least favorite Story Mission of any game ever.

[jovial folio]

Thankfully the bug appears to be fixed, but boy oh boy do I not want to do that mission anymore.

I don't know if it's just because I'm not that great at first person shooters, but soloing a seemingly endless flood of Ward exos is pretty low on my list of hopes and dreams.

[ebon locust]

yes

[rich willow]

Nice

[winged junco]

I'm having a bug in "The Boundary" mission but ||instead of Richter being dead as I've read while googling my issue, it just tells me the Monolith assault isn't over (despite it being over) and the water tower door is locked||. It gives me an orange pointer like 100m from the base about the assault but there are no enemies. did anyone encounter this? (I did get the radio message warning of the assault upon exiting the building). I tried reloading before the fight to no avail.

[silk raven]

hey guys did someone encounter an issue where dvupalov doesn't speak wiht you after quest in search of past glory after the lab where you give him some documents? The aspirant Scherba isn't there either

[sullen crescent]

Any fix?

[clear talon]

Hello,

after the patches I'm giving Stalker 2 another chance.
I am still at the beginning and have the possibility to hand over the sensor to ||Sotow or Richter||

I would be interested to know who you gave it to and why?

||One is a soldier and so it seems more against Stalker to me and the other is a Stalker who helped us at the beginning...||

[sullen crescent]

up to you - you can roleplay this. if you are worried about decisions, you may want to look up a faction guide, what the ward & co are and what their ideologies are.

But essentially, there are 3 parties, one who want to lift the zone, enhance it and keep status quo.

[clear talon]

Can you explain to me who the 3 parties are?
The ones who want to maintain the zone will probably be the stalkers?
Haven't played Stalker 1 yet (unfortunately) and went straight into 2.

[grand yacht]

my game also bugged out, the colonel didn't spawn 😦

[strong yarrow]

@clear talon you're in the "POSSIBLE spoilers" channel by the way. You should ask here to avoid potential spoilers - #⭐┃nospoilers_general

You'll have multiple chances to do quest for all parties until a main story quest where you need to make a decision. I suggest just pick what interests you since you'll be learning about them anyways rather than spoiling yourself here. You can always do another playthrough and side with a new faction.

[little heath]

after the patch it gotten fixed

[bitter bone]

Raised a ticket this morning. Got nothing

[icy heath]

Me too

[agile edge]

how do ppl talk to Roosevelt? mf wants smoke, it's on sight

[cedar shale]

Quest "cherished desire," after he made a wish to the Monolith the cut scene does not start, because Dalin did not sing, I can talk with Korshunov, but then the dialogue will stop and you need to close the game, after patch 1.1.2., who faced?

[umbral patio]

hey, did you by any chance manage to solve this one? 🙏

[rich willow]

Sdalgers

Can I free-roam in Duga despite the radar being on?

[worthy bolt]

any clue for the price goes up story mission. supposed to examine worshkop and there is this annoying flashbang anomaly around it. insdie is nothing but door that needs keycard. i got no clue about keycard. was i supposed the get it earlier or is it hidden is some crack in the wall?

[nova jay]

Add controller support for generic controllers please

[sick talon]

Hey, just wanted to ask: what about Charon's fate in STALKER 2?
Is he alive? Is he in the game? (the only spoiler I need)

[hard mural]

you can acertain, hes dead

as he should be

dont even bury him

[young steppe]

idk I talked to him fine, got x5 key card and everything. He shared some nice booze with me

[cloud scaffold]

its past that quest, sadly

[cedar shale]

Quest "cherished desire," after he made a wish to the Monolith the cut scene does not start, because Dalin did not sing, I can talk with Korshunov, but then the dialogue will stop and you need to close the game, after patch 1.1.2., who faced?

[teal spindle]

How do you progress in the “Visions of Truth” quest? I have to follow Korshunov, but after the cutscene ends he teleports to the Chemical plant and is not interactable from there.

[slender shale]

anyone know a way to fix the mission back to the slag heap? cannot open the door at the sawmill, and I am already been exploring all over before continuing this quest to unlock the round 4 of the arena in rostok? If there is a debugging function in UE tools that :"fixes" or restarts the mission using UE tools, that would be wonderful.

[teal spindle]

My game is soft locked because of this, Idk how to proceed

[thin hazel]

Ugh... I guess I gotta wait till at least monday to have the quest Wishful Thinking fixed right?

It seems it's just broken for everyone

[gleaming dust]

So what the actual hell am I supposed to do at the end of the game when I have to fight granite squad in a literal execution chamber?

Someone please help

[green terrace]

Stuck on the mission "Dark Times". The Doctor just keeps telling me he is busy. And no way to progress any further. The only reason I thought I'd go back to the main story is cause the side mission "in the name of science" is bugged for me as well. This is extremely frustrating and rather disappointing 😞

[sullen crescent]

Well, you get in touch with them in Stalker 2 as well, but a quick dive down into a stalker-wiki and read the "about" section gives you more condensed info than i could give, since it has been years i played the previous games and memory may fail me.

[worthy bolt]

is Borodulin bugged?

[daring fractal]

anyone knows the ID for the quest "Take shelter from the emission" ? I'm trying to remove the quest marker with the console cause it's bugged

[daring fractal]

u just have to find another entrance (it's not far)

[hasty thorn]

i think this guy varan is dumb. i killed roosevelt, took his pda, and now whenever i try to talk to varan, roosevelt’s pda is taken from my inventory but valtran is just like “oh i don’t believe you i need the pda” even though it gets taken from me

[stoic crater]

Any fix with the wishful thinking bug? Were dr dalin only respawn and dont say anything, colonel was missing and all doors were locked 🫠

[magic heath]

Is the boundary quest bugged or am I missing something ? It says “ find a way into Pripyat “ and I’m in Pripyat at the base but the quest is still ongoing telling me to find a way here

[sweet wind]

It wants you to go there through a specific point. You must have somehow gone past the mission checkpoint area for it.

[waxen lintel]

Is there a bugs channel? I am at the quest "A Minor Incident" in a Ward playthrough, and when I get to STC Malachite, it has "friendly" IPSF guards. The base is being really weird about locking up due to a threat or not, and if I get too close to any of the IPSF guards, they go hostile. Wiping out all of them sort of works to get into the base, but they respawn very quickly, including right as I enter the base, meaning I have to deal with 20 RPM-74s every time I leave or come back. From my Spark playthrough, I know that the IPSF is supposed to raid the base at some point, at least in that timeline, so I'm not sure if it's related to that, or if it is supposed to be spawning in Ward guards instead. Also worth noting that on my way in, maybe 200 meters from the base, a roaming a-life group of IPSF spawned in and was hostile, which might have effected the rest of the faction members in the area. Definitely inconvenient enough to make me want to put the game down until a new patch hits.

[near iron]

Lol health on 3 spam 3

[thin hazel]

Let's hope the patch today fixed it!

[near iron]

Whos the third? There's spark and ward but who else

I thought third choice was you go your own way and do essentially nothing

[stoic crater]

Yeah 🤞

[thin hazel]

I got just one hour before the whole holidays flurry, I'll do a quick test with a save

[plush rover]

for me, this update ruined the save, i cant continue .. im at back to the slag heap, and when i come to meeting, no one speaks with me, and i get teleported inside, .. and ofc scar is not there

[thin hazel]

Aaaand... still bugged 😦

I'd say: just don't go to SIRCAA for now and have a bit of fun with exploring the cement factory and chemical plant, maybe even a bit beyond that

[plush rover]

i explored whole map before i started story ... 😦 i cant play pretty much now since quest not working

[thin hazel]

If you are on PC you can brute force the quest/quest stages with some console commands

I loaded a pre-SIRCAA save waiting for an eventual patch or something, so now I'm exploring and taking my time, also cause most of the map changes after SIRCAA... but if I end up wanting to know more, I guess I'll trek to SIRCAA and if it's still bugged I'll do that

[plush rover]

how can i open console ? i need to forcestart only this cutscene

[thin hazel]

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1hiegmd/stuck_in_d2_hall_on_wishful_thinking_main_quest/?share_id=lxZkF8KtAedN7nEsgBL0C&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1

And more specifically

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1I_FLCSbK4&ab_channel=Holo

Should explain it all

[rare isle]

i got softlocked in the back to the slag heap quest where i cant enter the ||wild island shed||

[plush rover]

i had same issue, now im stucked at part where i should met dubny in noons base.... quest u talking about i had to fix thru console command

unplayable .. in last 2 hours havent had a single quest thats not broken

[rare isle]

dang

[teal spindle]

Anyone have any solution?

[plush rover]

same issue with different quests, npcs teleporting right after cutscenes for some reasons.... or are not at spot where thez shjould be

[teal spindle]

Even if I go to where he teleported to, I can’t speak with him to continue the quest

Least I’m not the only one having such an issue

[plush rover]

i used console, stazed where i was able to when he will speak to me, and it started cutscene/talk usually.. might worth a try if u on PC

[teal spindle]

How do you use the console? And what are you supposed to type in it?

[boreal ocean]

has anyone ran into an issue where they cant talk to prof. ozerzky during the "a minor incident" mission

[plush rover]

check the few comments up from brando, it explains it, you need a mod for it .. once u have it u activate it ez, theres a posts for missions codes and commands also }make a manual save before trying)

[wise granite]

Why is Zalyssia abandoned in my game and everyone dead!? I did not get any mission telling me to go defend it 😵😭

[outer pier]

Quest is broken anyway. You better off lol

[clever glacier]

One of my friends has a bug in sirca were dalin is not spawing. Can someone help?

[untold dew]

Have you guys made it to the part where skif busts it down and oils up? I think I chose the wrong option because now he's married to a bloodsucker

[stray dew]

anyone else not getting quest after finishing Wishful Thinking on side of Ward?

[stray dew]

apparently dalin is supposed to be there but he isnt

[sand spoke]

Ayo is scar mission fixed already? Back to slag heap

Bro no way, at this point I'm just doing side activities and getting gear. I want to progress so I can do new arena missions

[rich willow]

Is it possible to access Cordon through the southern-most of the Lesser Zone?

[drifting acorn]

Yes

You can go pretty much anywhere but a few spots as soon as you leave lesser zone

[rich willow]

Nice, thanks!

[pale lark]

hi, i have to ask, im getting some issues with the mission Dead Frecuency, i have the warden badge, but when i go to icarus theres no wards on the entrance, and then when i enter suddenly i get i shot by someone, i tried to sleep, fast travel and so, but didnt work for me yet, i need some advice 😅 (btw i sent this same msg to seeking-for-advice, but just realize that maybe it belongs here) ty ;D

[hoary yoke]

yes. the quest law and order is supposed to start. and it doesnt. so im just stuck in sircaa. while the noontiders and ward perpetually fight.

i fixed the first part with console commands. now im stuck wandering around the burning facility with no fix so far

idk console commands to start law and order

[summer herald]

Has anyone else had problems with "Seek and you shall find" quest?
Since the last update it can't commence at all after "A needle in a haystack"
On my first run it initiated right away, got a message to check my personal stash. Now I'm all the way up at Slag Heap and still nothing...

[sage dock]

im on my 2nd playthrough and im reading some guides to help me with decision regarding either to kill Roosvelt or Shah (on my 1st playthrough i just bought the information) and all the guides says it doesn't matter if you kill them but that's not entirely true right? Like if you dont kill Roosvelt he appears again in Cordon.

and there is potentially a follow up from Shah as well i may have missed.

[winged junco]

I don't know about the shah but if you kill Roosevelt in the Cordon mission it's just bandits in his place (and they're immediately hostile)

[bleak flicker]

Ok the game last quests are way too long, it feels like the Devs didn't know when to end their game, || we do multiple boss fights against important characters and then we have to clear corridors filled with monoliths armed with gauss rifle that one shot you, doing weird objectives which I have no idea why I am doing them anymore. The game should have just ended with a cinematic after the last boss fight, no need to make it longer with useless nameless ennemies ||

[bleak quartz]

I am soft locked on the quest "In Search of Past Glory" at the point where I am supposed to hand in the blueprint for the Suppressor to Dvupalov. I cannot seem to select Dvupalov or hand over the blueprints in order to progress. I have seen others have the same issue here, on Redit, and on steam but I see no answers on how to fix the softlock outside of the normal fix for everything "go to earlier and earlier saves". Any one found a real fix for this ?

[alpine lodge]

I do not know exactly where to take this issue, but i am unable to continue the main quest line past "back to the slag heap" where i need to go see scar for the first time at the sawmill. When i arrive, the sawmill is "locked" and i cant get in or trigger the cutscene to talk to the spark members. there are some NPCs outside just sitting there, talking to one of them teleports me to the inside of the locked sawmill. where there are 2 spark members and a loner with the special patch whatever. Scar is nowhere to be seen and i cant progress. I have played past this point before, and i think my current new save is broken.

[young steppe]

go to youtube if watching cinematics is all you want lol. I enjoyed it a lot and it wasn't that hard, even though I'm playing on Veteran and I'm not that good of a gamer

[young steppe]

probably need to try an earlier save, sorry haven't encountered this bug

[alpine lodge]

when moving through streloks ending, there is a room with three granite / monolith on a higher floor with gauss rifles, alongside dozen other monolith soldiers, unless you have multiple max physical protection artifacts it seems very difficult if not impossible to get past

[alpine lodge]

i did, went back to an earlier part of the quest where the ward hadnt moved into the slag heap yet. still found the same bug

ill see if i have a save from before varans questline, otherwise it might be over

also the ward helis rotor doesnt spin lmao

[young steppe]

what I did:
Don't jump down
Use a gauss rifle + X7 (coz you need to run)
Shoot enemies with gauss rifle (remember you can shoot through metal plates too)
Try to shoot the snipers first (just check where they r shooting from and shoot in that direction, I couldn't see anything but u can shoot through metal plates so it's fine)

If you have X7 or exo, even without any artifacts (I had none), and even on Veteran, the gauss does not one shot you. So:
Run to them, try to shoot someone with a gauss, run back, heal. Rinse and repeat 10-15 times. Done. Took me like 2 tries

[alpine lodge]

idk man, i couldnt do it. I had a maxed freedomer exosuit with 4 lead containers and tons of artifacts. i used the EM-1 you get from killing scar but it just didnt feel fast enough. Maybe i didnt utilise the thin wall enough tho. Can the enemy not shoot through either?

[young steppe]

The enemies can shoot through and you can shoot through

[young steppe]

(worth noting: x7 should be in good condition for you to not get one shot on veteran, but you get exo diamond(almaz) and x7 in the beginning, what I did is I walked in exo diamond all the way killing granite soldiers but not the last the hardest granite squade, and had x7 with me, and then dropped the exo and used x7 for the final fight with granite)

[alpine lodge]

yeah, you get another x7 suit before meeting with injured strelok

but i never had enough max rad pro artifacts to be confident enough to use the x7, since you cant upgrade it at all

is it only the chemical artifact that has maximum rad pro?

[young steppe]

you can upgrade it a little bit, when you get it for first time. there's a mechanic there

[alpine lodge]

all the upgrades where grayed out, i couldnt click any of them

[young steppe]

Interesting. I was able to upgrade. Even put 1 lead container

[young steppe]

idk I was really unlucky with artifacts this playthrough lol, I didn't find ANY artifacts that gave more rad protection than "weak", literally none, even though I found over 20 unique artifacts including 3 legendaries. So I just didn't use artifacts that much in this playthrough

[alpine lodge]

damn

theres a chemical artifact that gives you both max rad and chem pro. I got it in the north garbage "poisonous hole" anomaly

[young steppe]

Gonna be a bit busy soon for an unknown amount of time, so wanted to finish the game asap. Maybe will do a 2nd playthrough when more patches and maybe some DLCs come out, like half a year or year later. Will do it more properly, exploring everything, and maybe pick ward's side at first (I did spark -> kaymanov/faust/skif ending)

[young steppe]

ye next time gotta look for it lol. Thanks for the advice

[alpine lodge]

im gonna see if it breaks because i dont help the ward with the monolith pda

itd be kinda sucky if thats whats breaking it

nah, after going back a few saves when im one mission earlier, i showed korshunov (who is invisible lol) the monolith pda, i get the badge, i go to the sawmill. Same bug

[young steppe]

sad to hear man. honestly the latest patch introduced a lot of bugs too

[alpine lodge]

yeah, i was getting excited to get back into lodochkas bunker after sircaa, cos that was bugged in my last playthrough. but nah i guess not

[bleak flicker]

It's not hard, it's just that I don't see the point of fighting random enemies after the climax of the final boss fight, really kill the pace

[young steppe]

everyone has their own way to orgasm climax, sad to hear s2 didn't hit the right spot to you but this is not a common complaint

[bleak flicker]

Don't get me wrong, i love the game

[winged junco]

I played on Stalker difficulty, but I'll confess the two times I've come past this room I shot down 3-4 of them (enough so that the door opens) and made a run for it 😭 the Granite soldiers who have the high ground and Gauss rifles triangulating you are insane

[alpine lodge]

theyre pretty ridiculous in my opinion

[mental hearth]

Anyone got a solution for Visions of Truth where Korshunov teleports to Chemical Plant after the cutscene where he ||shoots Ozersky||?

[topaz pollen]

I have no idea why I can't talk to solder during Hornet's nest I cleared enemies but he is not talkable to

[devout kelp]

I am locked out of the main quest : ||wishful thinking||
I reloaded few saves back and still repeats the issue

it doesnt let me advance after || talking to the wishgranter and killing sircas men and going to the door after says its locked, and i cannot talk to Dalin, his dialogue comes as regular stalker "What's new around the zone?" ||

[worthy bolt]

Stuck on: in search of past glory

Explore the experimental pavilion objective, where you drop down to a controller mini cutscene and then swarmed by Psy dogs, then shortly after I crash. Tried 100 times and I always crash

[warm copper]

anyone know of any hard blocks where you dont get the key to the north checkpoint?

[wind bluff]

Rush the fallen pillar to the ladder and climb up disregard those little psy shits 👍

[torn basin]

MERRY CHRISTMAS

[dusk plaza]

Any tips on how to beat ||Granite Squad|| im playing on vet and getting my destroyed over and over

[old shoal]

GRENADES

[topaz pollen]

pro tip on new game early inventory before knock out do not activate scanner go around through window and put your loot in that stash safe after waking up you get decent weapons few brand new AK74-us and 416 happy hunting stalkers

[fiery cliff]

someone know how i fix Dalin vanishing when in Malachite in Visions of truth when going with the ward?

[viscid cave]

I used Scar's gauss rifle, which drops just before this

[uncut turret]

Is there any work arounds for happiness for everyone. I'm at talk to Star but the apartment building is locked

[coral ocean]

yo is there a fix for talking to the stalker in the water tower part of the boundary quest? i havent had it fix yet even after multiple patches

[broken cradle]

Hi guys, i have a question because i supose there is a bug here, after talking with Richter we have to go to sawmill and then talk with Scar, the thing is that when i reach the door nothing happens and then a few seconds after i got teleported and i get stuck, there are some npcs but no Scar and i cant finish the mission... #📸┃screens_and_videos message thats the place im talking about, do you know if there is a way to fix it or force the quest to finish?

[stiff pawn]

Is anyone else stuck on the back to slag heap part of the main quest after the latest update

Same here from above

It's broken for me and I just found out after sleuthing in Reddit etc that it is likely linked to a previous main mission where the colonel was missing in my cut scene (voice there but not character)

It's a known thing and I have submitted a ticket to their support.

[broken cradle]

yep, i had the same issue, i couldnt see the coronel, i made my decision and continue the mission until the point i got stuck before meet Scar, i already sent a ticket talking about the issue

[split jacinth]

I’m stuck on the main story mission. Answers come with a price. Cannot progress The guy we’re supposed to contact is dead and the mission is failed and cannot move forward in the story. One hell of a bug that’s unfixed.

[broken cradle]

i was thinking on maybe put a mod to force success the quest, it would be recommendable in this case? because i dont know how much time this is gonna cost in order to get fixed.

I mainly play on ge force now but i have the game installed and is a little bit playable but not enjoyable, so, i could install the mod if it existr like a command box and success the mission... The only thing im afraid of is that maybe it could give me more issues in the future and lost the achievements.

[worthy bolt]

having issues with Visions of Truth after ||taking the item from Fausts body and bringing it to Dalan in x17 a cutscene plays out where colonel executes a scientists and asks the two of you to follow him, he then dissapears and reapears in the basement of the chemical plant taking his PDA in and out of his pocket and only giving generic dialogue instead of continuing the quest.||

[wary nebula]

anyone having an isssue with Answers Come at a Price mission. when it says fine Colonel Korshunov I go into the plant and a small group of guards attacks me? and all the doors are locked. iv done all the side missions in the area but i cant get to the colonel to initate the rest of the mission

[stiff pawn]

I was actually thinking to use console commands to spawn in the character to get it fixed

Maybe I will have too wait for a patch to avoid losing achievements and maybe making things worse etc

[nocturne mirage]

btw why clear sky was disbanded ?

[brazen badger]

anyone who went past the Attack on the Duga mission any you get that "awake" effect where skifs eyes are initially closed and opens up when you load a save?

alright cool glad im not the only one

alright sounds good ill keep on playing and hope for the best cause sometimes i save right before an encounter. Not being able to see anything when your being shot at is an experience

[stone elk]

Anyone else having the zotov not spawning bug in wishful thinking ?

[quasi anvil]

I have this bug in once more unto the breach (siding with the ward) where the room that the tunnel opening should be has its door locked.

[round pewter]

Can't find a channel to report bugs, so I'll post here:

In "Back to the Slag Heap", the cutscene where you meet Scar won't trigger.

And in the main quest where you meet Kurshonov for the 1st time, he was invisible to me.

@ebon lichen

[round pewter]

Appreciated 💪🏻

[broken cradle]

same issue as me, i didnt still playing, i dont know what can i do now sahshash

[agile tusk]

@worthy bolt I'm having this same issue. Korshunov dips out to Chemical plant and Dalin stays gawking at the corpse. Idk what to do.

[ocean rampart]

question for main quest. In 1 of the main quest where you'll go and get the Emitter for Scar, there's an Optional main quest where you go to Sphere(?) to get ANOTHER Emitter.

What was the point of that optional mission if you just smash it when you see Scar?

[rain cypress]

like the good old day quest bugged

skipper the merc doesnt appear, cant talk to professor

[round pewter]

I'll just wait for the next patch

[quasi anvil]

Update: kept talking to zotov without skipping through the dialogue and when i came to the duga the door was open

[zenith igloo]

Currently stuck on the same issue, been trying on and off for 3 hours now to force my way through that point

[acoustic canyon]

So after I show the Colonel the unusual PDA and then Richter says he wants to talk, I can't find him and the mission marker is suspended in air 8 meters up near the crane.. Does anyone know how to fix this / find Richter?

[proud spear]

if you are where I think you are, climb the crane 🙂
edit: wait no, the crane climbing involved going through a lot of tunnels and such, and the mission markers guided me throughout
isn't he just outside the double doors?

[acoustic canyon]

I checked at the doors and he wasn't there either, then I saw someone on reddit say he was at the boathouse so I ran over there and he wasn't there too

[rain cypress]

i finally pass "like the good old day" quest, but that merc "skiper" never show up

[rain cypress]

"just like the good old days", its name is so ironical, Stalker 2 is just as buggy as trilogy games

[restive escarp]

I think it is the time you have to go through the tunnels and whatnot to get to him on the crane

[loud grail]

I had to play a new game for the mission to work

[signal marsh]

||in the mission "happiness for everyone" during the sub objective where you have to fight off the monolithians, I kill all of them, but then the quest doesnt progress?||

[vernal crescent]

Back to slag heap just crashes on me constantly

[winged junco]

I had this issue, In my case there was an enemy glitched in a truck, keep running around you might hear an enemy left somewhere.

[uncut vessel]

I have question for the decision in wishful thinking I was wondering does ward or noontide which one has the most side quest and stuff to do this is my first play threw

[glacial shard]

Hello guys. Maybe someone encountered a bug in the "The frontier" quest? Stalker (Richter) is not on the water tower after the fight with the monolith Replaying the mission, sleep does not help

[deft charm]

spankydoughdandy has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[wooden totem]

I think Strelok might have autism

[solar imp]

i was enjoying this game before the faust boss fight thank you to the genius designed this awful boss. how am i supposed to win this? i won it once because the ai was just stupid and crouched next to a box and let me shoot it but literally everytime i ads at faust my game starts stuttering and i have to press escape and resume game for it to go away. genuinely unplayable.

[broken cradle]

omg

[solar imp]

good job at creating the most infuriating gaming experience of 2024, from having to restart my whole save to having to reload old saves repeatedly to get things to load correctly, and now a boss that not only stun locks me constantly as im trying to run from grenades but also borderline crashes my game when i aim at it.

cant believe i wasted the time before my shift hoping i would be able enjoy playing this game again

[barren yarrow]

Game ran kinda crap for me during that fight too but I still managed without major issues despite also running out of ammo for all my guns

The answer was grenades

[zenith igloo]

I did this, 24 hours later still stuck lmao

[worthy bolt]

@agile tusk did you fix the gawking dalan? I left and did some side quests and came back and it fixed itself. Only different thing I did was I kept my eyes on the colonel and he didn't disappear, he stops at the top of the stairs and talks more.

I also used to jump the railing he kicks through, I instead walked around after watching him stop at the top of stairs.

[torn lava]

So, I gave the sensors to ||Richter|| in Zalissya, but I still didn't get the Combatant disassembly cutscene to play after meeting ||Korshunov|| at the Slag Heap. Instead, his guard stopped me at the door but then ||Korshunov|| talked Skif into taking a seat and the conversation carried on as if when you give the sensors to ||Zotov||. Where did I go wrong?

Also, ||Korshunov|| was invisible

[barren yarrow]

Sounds like many things went wrong there but not what you did I think 😂

[torn lava]

Are you replying to me or someone else?

[barren yarrow]

It was you. Honestly IDK what happened. It sounds like a bug, because I also did that path and got the correct cutscene

[torn lava]

Oh

Honestly I don't know what happened. I read somewhere that if you're somewhat geared the guard won't beat you up but Skif will beat him up instead and that's what happened for me. I had a maxed out Sunrise suit, but when I loaded a previous save and left it at the stash it still played out like that

[barren yarrow]

Hmmm, interesting. I definitely got beat up there

[torn lava]

Yeah for me, the guard stopped Skif at the entrance, but (invisible) ||Korshunov|| told him to let Skif in and take a seat, then he played the sensors audio from his PDA and told the guard to search Skif. When the guard approached, Skif beat him up

I didn't kill any Wardens when infiltrating the factory before meeting ||Scar|| either, could it be that my reputation wasn't tarnished enough? Their patrols were still friendly to me right before meeting ||Korshunov||

[harsh socket]

yo anyone get the bug where faust just doesnt spawn on Happiness for Everyone, apparently hes supposed to be on the roof but theres literally nothing up here

yea theres supposed to be a cutscene as you enter the roof but nothing happens lol

[agile tusk]

I loaded a save before the cutscene and its worked for me for some reason. Sorry I don't have an answer.

[proven breach]

Frosty, are you talking about visions of truth? Where dalin just up and vanishes after getting to the dead body?

[hollow agate]

So if u side with Strelok you can’t use the regenerator on Spirit basically leaving him to die or is this a bug?

[dull bobcat]

my game has been crashing without crash report since launch week. around half way into the story during the cutscene on "An Invisible Threat" when meeting with dr dalin and korshunov at the chemical plant. crashes everytime when you hear agatha begin dialogue. is my save just cooked or have they still not fixed this mission?

[lavish aspen]

Question is this bug? I am in mission "back to slagheap" marker shows to go to sawmill (meet Scar) but when i go there I cant enter the building and in one moment I will be teleported inside but no Scar...

[lavish aspen]

nvm "XTeleportNPCToPlayer Scar" resolved

[keen forge]

is there someway i can skip a mission?

[worthy bolt]

As in a main mission?

[keen forge]

yes they just stand stil in the misson with the duga, lagging like crazy and i have just reinstall and that did nothing to fix it :/

Assault on the Duga

its not going anywery when i come to Secure the Checkpoint in the mission

they just stand stil

[wooden totem]

you’re supposed to beat up the ward members at the factory

[torn lava]

Figured as much. Started a new game and I just made it to the Slag Heap for the first time after killing every single warden at the factory

[harsh socket]

anyone have a solution for this?

[torn lava]

If you're playing on PC and something like that happens (can happen in many quests), the best solution is to install the mod that enables the use of UE5 console commands and spawn Faust on your location, that should trigger the cutscene

Personally, I had that happen once when I had to meet Scar at the sawmill. He didn't spawn, but when I forced him to spawn on me while I was standing right outside, it triggered the cutscene

[harsh socket]

cool, what's the command (and where does he usually spawn)?

[torn lava]

Command is XTeleportNPCToPlayer (NPC ID), but I'm not sure what Faust's ID is. You'd have to look it up. If you spawn him anywhere near where the cutscene usually triggers, that should move the story forward

Try "Faust". Scar's ID is "Scar" so perhaps all main characters have really obvious IDs

[harsh socket]

Nothing happens

@torn lava

[torn lava]

Might be the wrong ID then. Make sure that you're entering it right because it should teleport Faust right to your location

[harsh socket]

it is faust

i looked it up, it seems faust just didnt spawn at all so you cant teleport an unspawned npc, i tried XSpawnObjBySID Faust 1 false and that didnt work either, he just spawned as a normal npc with no cutscene and he just stands still

let me try an earlier autosave

[torn lava]

So it spawned a Faust, but didn't do anything? Beats me, honestly. An earlier save might work

Unless there are multiple versions of the NPC?

[deft charm]

kazbodnar has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[harsh socket]

loading an old save worked, wonder what f'ed it

[torn lava]

I'd just chalk it up to the game still being far too green and move on. At least it didn't brick your game or something...

[harsh socket]

ye

[vernal crescent]

Just had a random group of people kill the shah

[raven fog]

The mission to defend the starter village is bugged for me. All enemies and friendlies are trapped inside the village hall.

[young steppe]

Spirit? You mean Strider? We can't save him

[young steppe]

what version did you start this playthrough on?

it's a known bug that was mostly fixed (but not entirely), but for all fixes to work you need to start a new game on the latest patch

[raven fog]

Seriously? Guess I'm putting the game down for a bit then. I'll play Helldivers until more patches come out and maybe a few mods

[young steppe]

You haven't answered my question. What version did you start your game on?

Also, it's a side quest that you can safely skip and there's 10s of hours of other content in the game that works fine, including the main story, but you do you of course

[raven fog]

I can't remember. Pretty sure almost 1.0 or the patch immediately after

[hollow agate]

No when u go to talk to spirit to get into Pripyat normally if ur with Spark or the Ward u have to use the regenerator to get the info but if u side with Strelok he gives it to u for free and just waits to die for some reason

[worthy bolt]

So does the regenerator become non mission related so you can dump it after that encounter?

[hollow agate]

If ur with Strelok the game just deletes it out of your inventory after u go towards Rostock after escaping the chemical plant

[acoustic canyon]

My game turned into a slide show after ||leaving Sircaa|| does anyone know why?

[errant coral]

Mine as well as entering it, place is HUGE im sure its just because all the NPC's are loading in and out

[acoustic canyon]

It still is lagging after leaving it to go to the next quest

its like permanent...

[errant coral]

and obviously you've restarted your game ?

[errant coral]

idk if this discord even promotes it but personally stalker is poorly optimized for anything below an above average pc. I play with multiple performance mods and a lot of settings changes both in-game and in nvidia panel

[acoustic canyon]

Yes

[acoustic canyon]

Im using multiple performance mods, (ini and pak tweaks) and it ran fine before but when I got to ||Sircaa|| it all fell apart

[hasty mist]

"Kill the sterlok"

[young steppe]

Oh this happened to me, so I was confused. That's kinda stupid. So you can only use regenerator if you do the Spark path right?

Or I guess also Ward. My next playthrough is gonna be ward so hopefully gonna see it

[young steppe]

Ye so maybe you wouldn't have problems if you started a new playthrough on the latest patch. But would need someone to confirm that it's fine on the latest patch. But there are certainly less bugs e.g. ppl not stuck inside anymore

[young steppe]

anyone found solution to Richter not spawning?

[deep trout]

The doctor ending is super weird as to WHY Skif did what he did if the silver lining of all this plot line was “leave Britney^w Zone alone”

[unborn acorn]

Odd question guys but I’m genuinely curious. When do you actually head north to the Rostok and other areas as part of the main story? I feel like I’ve done so much and there’s still so much of the zone I’ve literally never been to. I know you can explore anywhere u want but when does the game actually direct u north? I just went to the SIRCAA building so you know what I’m up to

[unreal escarp]

someone seen situation that zotov is not spawning in sircaa ?

[slender shale]

similar in your situation except its Dalin that is not spawning instead of Zotov, in the mission Wishful Thinking at SIRCAA.

Despite the fixes, they never fixed lots of missions so I ended up trying to figure it out by archiving any possible missions and mission names that are bugged out never to allow to finish your progression. So in the spirit of things which happened to you, my best advice is to either wait for the next patch or... do the alternative using console commands which I did to fix the Wishful thinking Mission and fixed the issue.

Best luck to you (If you are dabbling on console, just.... making backups before changing anything. Asking possible solutions here should any issue happen later down the line whlist using a command UE prompt and people here will flame you here for using it so...)

[sick goblet]

Hi, for xbox, theres a work around for the vision of truth quests, before getting back to malachite and triggering the cutscene on the ward side.

I reloaded a save prior to triggering the cut scene, was out wandering about until an emission happen, started the cut scene and Dalin didn't dissappear. It took 3 hours of exploring for the emission. I didnt fast travel or sleep. When the emission happened I went back to the quest without fast travel.

Emissions apparently happen when you find an artifact.

Sorry if this is the wrong channel

[paper jewel]

Anyone know how to fix the bug where your teleported into the barn with star in the mission back to the slag heap? Every time I approach the saw mill it teleports me inside and I can’t progress

[sick goblet]

are you pc or console? @paper jewel

[paper jewel]

Console

I saw fixes for it on pc but none for console

[sick goblet]

I got past this, dont remember a bug, Im on Xbox,

[shrewd urchin]

does cordon region in stalker 2 have any main quests?

[unreal escarp]

I completed all achievements without cheats in my first run , so I have a right to use any mods ( except ending achievements)

[worthy bolt]

Anyone else side with Spark/Noontide and notice the name of the rifle in the stash at Rostok given you basically by Spark, as well as the model. I had to replay that part because I missed the Hornets Nest, then I did it again and noticed the little Easter Egg. Man, sometimes I think I’m dense 😂.

[cyan bear]

hi guys - just a simple question. and - can you please avoid further spoilers?
A lot of people mentioned Zalissya defense which was bugged before.
Is that mission after the initial events in SIRCAA ?

[worthy bolt]

AFAIK. But when you hear the distress call run like crazy to Zalissya.

[young steppe]

yup

[young steppe]

why would he need to "run like crazy"? there are no time limits on when you can start the quest

[young steppe]

Emissions don't happen when you find an artifact

[sick goblet]

ok the workaround still works. emissions reset the world.

[young steppe]

Don't worry bud, up until and including sircaa is like the first third of the game, there's still a lot of the story & content left. Main story led me to all locations except Cement factory. Maybe if I was siding with Ward I would also go there, not sure

[worthy bolt]

Because I took my sweet time Pre patch and it bugged on me. Other people seem to have the same issue after the patch afaik.

[young steppe]

Interesting, thanks for sharing. It was bugged for me too but in a different way than for others (everything was fine but then the 2nd wave just wouldn't spawn). But I started game on 1.0.0 and then waited until 1.1.3 to do sircaa/zalissya, but as it turned out you need a full new game on the last patch for the fixes to work properly, so I still don't know if this quest is fixed or no

[worthy bolt]

You’re welcome and It’s fixed, or it should be because I started a new game post patch 1.1.3 and it worked for me, I just didn’t want to take a chance. Same with the side mission from Mateus where you gotta get the artifact for him.

[shrewd urchin]

where exactly? im at the cordon region and there's no main mission just one side quest from the merchant.

[young steppe]

well, you should first do your current main quests lol. Then at some point it's gonna lead you to cordon. It's like middle/2nd half of the game

[errant coral]

just a big ass place and theres no direct setting to decrease render distance only the quality you know, my game was able to run at around 40-60fps in ||sircaa|| because my PC is okay but yeah i have like 4-5 different mods to enhance performance

[woven kindle]

I have experienced a glitch with the ad astra quest. The chimera that spawns just disappears into thin air after being shot several times. No body to be found. I don’t know if it is supposed to be a hallucination or what. But luckily after about 20 tries I was able to just outrun it and make it to the bunker to hide from the emission and start the Cutscene. Anyone else have this problem. That whole marsh mission was a nightmare

[frigid helm]

Has anyone had issue with the mission Bringing Scar the emitter? I go to the marker location and his guys are all around but the marker doesn’t react when I cross into the building and I can not find Scar, himself, anywhere in the building.

Did I screw up going to the Sphere first?

[worthy bolt]

Man, I’ve had the Chimera not even spawn for me this last time, and the time before last. Not sure if its appearance is tied to a certain time of day, as I was there during the day the last two times I was there.

[paper jewel]

Anyone have any recommendations? I’m unable to progress any further in the game until it’s fixed so any help would be greatly appreciated

[sharp echo]

Yes, I do, cannot progress, is outrageous the devs hasnt fixed it?

[sharp echo]

I have an Xbox Series X and if the devs cannot fix the problem, they should refund. In wich universe you buy aproduct, you cant use and people go on holidays, Its disrecpectfull to costumers.

[burnt wedge]

I have been trying to explore the workshop in the Price Goes Up mission but i keep getting killed by this star anomaly that immediately appears and blows up in my face. what do i do?

[slender shale]

Is it the person in question missing? Cuz when you reach within a certain 30 to 20 metres of the barn, there should be a comment that person makes before reaching that barn. If it doesnt do that then it means the mission is bugged. Best to re access the mission or even the mission before that onto your saves to fix it.

Advice to the future since I also had to endure this bug as well: whenever you start a new main mission, immediately save and make a back up and dont overwrite it.

I assure you if you got that bug, you most likely get the bug further down the line that bricks your progress. Hint: SIRCAA. and swamps

Good luck

[burnt wedge]

i cant outrun it or anything

[slender shale]

want me to spoil you where to go in that workshop? (outside)?

Imperative to help you

[worthy bolt]

That’s the flashbang anomaly. Throw your bolt.

[burnt wedge]

theres a lockdoor and i think im supposed to look for the key

[burnt wedge]

oh, my thing wasnt beeping whenever it was nearby so i thought the bolt would be useless

[slender shale]

permission to give you spoiler and I will tell you where to go so that you dont have to deal with that anomaly flash

[worthy bolt]

Nah it’ll help a little

[burnt wedge]

ok

[slender shale]

you are not supposed to go to the locked door to progress the mission. That locked door is open at the end of the mission to leave the workshop

Which means, the pathing to get to the workshop is somewhere else. Its outside the workshop

[burnt wedge]

okay thank you, i would've been wasting my time looking for a key

[slender shale]

that locked door can only be opened using a PDA that you obtained inside the workshop with the code in it hence at the end of the mission

[heady briar]

Hey dude just wanted to thank you for posting this. After nearly 80 hours on this current run, I got stuck here (among many other places) and this fixed it for me. Cheers and happy new year!

[cyan bear]

Did you also get stuck after the 'thank you' speech?

[paper jewel]

Did everything described and still no luck 😦 guess I’ll just have to wait till the devs patch the bug. I even went back 4 hours in my save and still didn’t work

[limber ridge]

hey guys, Im on the quest "A minor Incident" trying to talk to Professor Ozersky, but it wont let me, any ideas? This is my 2nd play through and I didn't have this issue the first run.

[crimson minnow]

Hi, is there a way to fix/trigger to continue/work around for Anwers come at a price? I arrive at the gate to the spot and the NPC just...stands there. Nothing worked to fix it and I cannot progress with the quest. If I try to enter the base using another way and stand on the marker nothing happens and NPCs turn hostile.

[young steppe]

Yupp

[cyan bear]

no workarounds yet, right?

I tried previous save and waiting for the 'zalissya is safe' message before walking into the room, but no change.

[zenith igloo]

Did you do the mission before or after an Emission?

[cyan bear]

Uhm, that's a pretty strange question because pretty much every quest you do is always both before and after emission.

[zenith igloo]

Well it seems that the mission to Zalissya has most chance to succeed without the bug if you sprint to it right after SIRCAA, that's what i mean. If an Emission hits it seems to bug it as far as i'm aware. It bugged hard on my first playthrough but when i just ran for Zalissya it seemed fine

[cyan bear]

I think the fix you referring to applies to a different bug in the same mission

[slate mulch]

Going to Zalissiya after SIRCAA and before an emission strikes is the only way I’ve found to complete the mission without it glitching

[zenith igloo]

Exactly

[slate mulch]

Same goes for In the Name of Science, when you need to go to Brain Scorcher to look for some collars.
If you obtain the quest, and then screw around and let an emission hit, you’re half-screwed

[zenith igloo]

It's a bit of a backwards fix, but that's the only thing that worked for me

[zenith igloo]

Meanwhile i'm just stuck on my second playthrough lol

[slate mulch]

Rushing like crazy, running like there’s a devil going berserk in your trousers’ back pocket, only fix that worked lol

[slate mulch]

How ?

[zenith igloo]

I can't progress in Once More Unto The Breach

I've managed to cheese my way through 1 locked door only to be held back by another locked door

[cyan bear]

Glitching how? Because I beat the defense, but the quest doesn't end properly. I had no issues with enemy spawning.

[slate mulch]

On my save, even after the first two patches, Monolithians were chilling in the main building
Same at the Brain Scorcher for the collar, the mercs were hanging out inside a building, not interacting besides the “What’s new in the Zone” line

[cyan bear]

just ran into another blocked quest in the Sphere lol (not a blocker but Solder is supposed to be around and he's just nowhere to be found, also soldiers that are supposed to be hostile are just standing there)

[slate mulch]

It seems to happen when you reach Solder before the main quest sends you there … sorry for you :/

[cyan bear]

do I even miss anything?

[young steppe]

the thing is, I started on 1.0.0, then waited until 1.1.3 to do sircaa and zalissya. Which you shouldn't do coz for some fixes you need to restart for them to work

So if you start a new playthrough, it might work fine, some people reported here that on new playthrough started on latest patch zalissya works fine. I might found too but probably not soon lol, taking it slowly this time

[strong sluice]

Quick question about the main quest where you defend Zalyssa from the Monolithians. I finished the game ages ago and haven't played on like 4 or 5 patches and I'm wondering if the mission is still bugged?

Probably not but it's worth an ask for my next playthrough

[zenith igloo]

We were actually talking about that earlier. It still seems bugged for some people, the best way to get around that so far is to just rush to Zalissya as soon as you get out of SIRCAA and before any Emissions hit

[strong sluice]

Yeah

[rose phoenix]

I’m stuck on the mission, in search of past glory, I cannot give the suppressor blueprint to prof dvupalov :/

[grave kiln]

Use google? Or yt?

[strong sluice]

Just sneak through, get to it and take it. Then sneak out

[cyan bear]

Is the control lever near emitter intended for other path? or to turn it off later?

[sonic mist]

I was actually going back there to get some screenshots after sircaa and on the way there I heard dude over comms yelling zalissya was gone, I got no prompt or anything

No emissions either is the weird thing, I was reading up how to get to defend em cuz of the infinite chat deal lmao

[unique bloom]

I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place
Should i side the ward or noontide?

[wooden totem]

you can always do one run with one and then another run with the one you dont choose

[unique bloom]

Does it matter who i choose in the mission wishful thinking

[wooden totem]

afaik not much is diff besides which quests you get

[unique bloom]

Thanks bud @wooden totem
Which would be beter in aspects of the ending?

[wooden totem]

the choice to choose between noon and ward doesnt affect ending

the choices you make in certain quests after you meet a certain someone (27 quests in iirc) do

[rose phoenix]

My main quest line is bricked at in search of past glory

I’m going back hours just to try and fix this 🤦‍♂️

[worthy bolt]

What happened?

[rose phoenix]

Stuck at in search of past glory, cannot give dvupalov the suppressor blueprint

[worthy bolt]

Did you try running around, leaving and returning or waiting? I kid you not I had an issue with The Boundary. It wouldn’t update so I went to see Degtyarev. He wasn’t there so I went back to the bugged mission marker, ran past it and it updated.

[placid lantern]

is anybody getting mad fps drops during faust battle?

[strong sluice]

Nah

[worthy bolt]

Is Garry supposed to disappear from Yaniv after you get to Prypiat? Or is it a bug?

[rose phoenix]

Yes I went and did side quest for 2 hrs came back and still nothing

[rose phoenix]

Where is degtyarev

[rose phoenix]

I don’t even think I’ve met him before

[worthy bolt]

||Prypiat||

[rose phoenix]

Idk how to get there without proceeding thru this quest

[strong sluice]

It's locked until the end game

[eager igloo]

hey can someone help me something aint working with my game on a main quest

im on an invisible threat and I went to the marker to take the emitter to scar and hes not there I looked it up a cutscene was supposted to play but didnt

also I cant fast travel

and the save button is greyed out

[gentle kraken]

Load a auto save and it will fix that bug happened to me yesterday

[eager igloo]

still kept happening

i just went back to the last manual save and helped zalissya

[gentle kraken]

Damn I’m stump then on that, sorry that didn’t help

[eager igloo]

ya I reloaded 4 different saves and nothing changed

[echo viper]

Hello, I'm seeking a bit of tech assistance with 'The Last Step'.
||In the mission, there's a cutscene of you going down the elevator with Korshunov, after it ends, he disappears.||
Anyone know how to fix this? I've already reported it to the S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 Site.

[feral trellis]

I'm at the main mission "A Minor Incident" "Ask Richter about the scientists"

He just says "Later, okay?". For some players he is there but dead, for some he is not there at all and for some players like me he just says this phrase. Game is out for 6 weeks now and they still not fix this?

[echo viper]

Disregard, he appeared

[echo viper]

Most of the bugs they have now is likely due to

the small fact

they're in a country that is actively in the middle of a war.
Although, I do understand your frustrations.
The most I could say is look up the problem, there is usually a solution.

[green storm]

Ward attack on duga is broken. Faust doesn't appear. Anyone else had this?

[dusty ice]

Can someone translate this plz ? ||https://ibb.co/yFPvgFC|| thx

[cyan bear]

Do not trust his [words ???]
He's behind everything.
Kill him!

Something like that

[dusty ice]

THX

[unique bloom]

Is it possible to change faction after doing wishful thinking?

[barren yarrow]

Yes, eventually

[unique bloom]

Where exactly and when🤣

[barren yarrow]

Pretty far into the story... I think it will be pretty obvious though. You will get clear choices like you did in wishful thinking

If you want specifics then during the quests ||Subtle Matter|| and ||Dangerous Liaisons|| and ||The Last Wish (depending on your route so far)||

[weary nexus]

The bridge across the water is not spawning to clearsky when being under emission and chimera lol..

Maybe cause i ran out of swamp to sell loot after turning off last psi tower

[restive escarp]

Is it not possible to save ||Spirit if you sided with Spark during The Boundary? I have no option to help him|| like I’ve seen others have, even with the device.

[kind ether]

Been sitting in a spatial anomaly teleport thingy for like 10 minutes now, The one right after you get teleported infront of a bunch of boars, Is it bugged or something?

Had the same issue yesterday but I thought it bugged out because I died to the boars, I definitely didn't this time though

[fresh mango]

To be exact, you lock in at these three. Picking "Eternal Spring" in Subtle Matter locks you with Spark ending, Surrending to the colonel in Dangerous Liaisons locks in the Ward ending, and shooting the doctor locks in the Strelok ending, while allying with no faction and letting the doctor live locks in the Embrace ending

[lavish aspen]

there are no bridge across bay you need to go around through swamp dont fight chimera just run to next building

[tall stream]

Lol restarted the game as drowned didn't spawn and I had guns disappear from my stash, just did the find solder mission got 3 psz7 armours and a pa10 gas mask can't get much better than that

[lime tangle]

Back to Slag buggggg !!!can't progress this quest, I've tried reloading saves, restarting and everything, there's no radio comms when I arrive at the Sawmill and I just get teleported inside the Sawmill without Scar being there and then I can't get out... Please tell me anyone has a solution to this bug? play on xbox !!

[sharp echo]

WTF, this is compeltely unreal, cannot porogress through Sawmilll quest on Xbox, when will they refund the game? its unplayable.

[stable geyser]

can someone explain why faust instanly died when i shot his lamp on his waist

[sharp echo]

You try to go further in the game, making side quests and nothing, you are stuck. And the divs still on Hollidays.

[sharp echo]

We are toasted, the devs doesn´t care about this. I think maybe I screwed when I bought an Xbox Instead of a PS5

[lime tangle]

the problem is the emissions! Yes, I play via Xbox cloud gaming, I have a PS5 but currently no cool game out there! Let's just wait for gta 6 🤣🤣 I'll try to do it one more time, otherwise stalker is dead for me

[cyan bear]

so Malachite becoming hostile is a well known bug?

ok, never mind.. for some reason my malachite markers are red, but the base is open and everyone is friendly

[slate mulch]

Depends who you side with
But there’s a bug, even if you side with Spark, at some point during the defense of the Malachite base you’ll get a prompt saying the scientists think you’re the boogeyman.
You’ll get another prompt a bit later saying they’re in love with you again, without any action from you. Dont pay attention it will fade away ..

[cyan bear]

i didnt notice any prompts.. but apart from the red color everything works as it should.

[restive escarp]

Yeah, if you sided with Spark they turn red/orange after that quest. In theory it’s because Ward takes over. But in my save, the Chemical Plant is still white/neutral while Malachite is orange.

[cyan bear]

I'm really trying to follow the story and even though I know some of ukrainian language I struggle to grasp what exactly is going on.

I mean the Monolith story is pretty straightforward but all the stuff with Spark is just confusing as hell. I sided with them only because it made more sense in the moment.

Scar ||seems to go full nutter right after you join them||

[slate mulch]

It only gets worse
You can change your mind at some point

[kind ether]

Still stuck on this, Even after trying some "fixes" from reddit, It's the one right after you interact with hermann

[slate mulch]

Spark wants to ||access the Shining Zone, some sort of “positive side” of the Zone, and make it open to anyone||. The more it goes, the more fanatical about it they sound.

[celest epoch]

Does anyone have a workaround for the double doors that wont open in Once More unto the Breach?

[worthy bolt]

He’s a nut job. I don’t even want to get the Skif ending or whatever it is because I can’t stand him, and going against the Ward was a pain as it is.

[pastel cave]

I am so pissed about ||learning the fate of the OG Spark members near the finale, they were so cool in Call of Pripyat||

also obligatory ||R.I.P Noon||

[pastel cave]

Skif ending is vastly different from Scar ending

they are mutually exclusive

[slate mulch]

I’ve betrayed Scar and his silly group of friends in my first playthrough, it’s been a while and I forgot what happened to the original Spark group … I remember the picture in the bunker, that’s about it.

Do you mind refreshing my memory ? What happened to the original Spark ? ||Hermann|| was part of them, Ozersky, … ?

[pastel cave]

You help Topol and his gang while playing as Degtyarev in Call of Prypiat.
Topol is the guy who gets ambushed by Controller, to keep them alive you have to kill Controller only.

Topol, Mace, Snake and Spirit are the OG members of the Spark, originally Loners forming a band to help out Ecologists/Scientists with their research in the Zone

In Stalker 2 ||you will only encounter Snake as being mortally wounded in the bunker near the end of game (being guarded by Loners in exoskeletons where you help them out against Monolith) and after reading PDA when Scar is being goofy next to a skeleton (you know which scene) you can read PDA right in front of the said skeleton to find out that the all of the members except Snake (which you see prior) are dead

Skeleton himself is a man named Marshall, who also joined the OG Spark after some time, they got killed off by Monolith/C-Con"

Scar is basically a pretender leading an army of sheep, and the end goal is 1)Stick it to Ward, terrorizing them 24/7 and 2)as you already know, be in the state of Eternal Spring. They are impostors lead by a lunatic||

[slate mulch]

Riiiight I remember now, the whole scam behind Scar’s “Spark”.
Many many thanks.

I remember Topol and the Controller ambush

Isn’t it Spirit, the guy in the tunnel in Limansk, instead of Snake ?

[pastel cave]

you are absolutely right, its Spirit (Дух) , not Snake. My bad

[slate mulch]

And …. Speaking of the skeleton scene, in the TV room.
There’s this screen, with the memory transfer …..
Scar isn’t Scar anymore. It’s not the Scar we played in Clear Sky. It’s a new one, reprogrammed, like all the others you can see the personal files of in one of the endings. I just figured that out lmao

(Can’t upload the screenshot for whatever reason)

[pastel cave]

Yep , the last bits of his sanity are long gone. Also arguably out of all of the bad endings in the game (all of them are bad), his ending is the worst one

[slate mulch]

Definitely the saddest and worst ending
Strelok’s isn’t much better
Ward’s is scary, but Skif gets what he wants (it’s so silly lol), ||the Zone collapses||, an agency gets potentially unlimited power
Skif/Kaymanov ending is apocalyptic in some way, but it’s the one that makes the most sense somehow. Getting rid of some old icons, sparing some others, and as in any other Stalker game, ||the Zone wins||

Fun fact, there are some other games in which the bad ending is the canon one. Metro 2033 comes to mind.
It’s only bad endings here so no risk taken 👀

[worthy bolt]

So there is 5? Ward, Strelok, Dr. Kaymonov, Scar and Skif?

[slate mulch]

Skif/Kaymanov is the same. You side with Kaymanov, but Skif …. well, it’s all about Skif in the end 😋

[pastel cave]

well also its heavily implied that ||Doctor is long gone and it was actually Faust leading Skif on to activate Zones across the globe||

[pastel cave]

DLCs will have to make one ending canon , my bet is that ||Skif ending will be the canon one, it gives many opportunities for the future installments of Stalker franchise||

[slate mulch]

The more I think about it, the more possible it seems.
The truly successful Controller …

[pastel cave]

its too mindf@ck of an ending, this was my first ending and i got it yesterday

after that i went to do Strelok's ending, it was horrible as well

[slate mulch]

I’m now thinking about these guys who survive emissions so well … Scar, as well as Strelok. Two agents, and with “class 5 psi-resistance” to survive in the pod.
||Skif|| makes it to the pod too so …. agent ?
There are two other characters being either class 5 or emission survivors : ||Korshunov||and Degtyarev
… ||more agents|| ?

Exciting isn’t it ? 😆

[pastel cave]

so what we got is basically

1. ||Zone is everywhere in the globe and Faust has actually won, it is up for the humanity to be one with the Zone or perish forever.||
2. ||Strelok isolates himself, Skif and the rest of the Zone from outside world, becoming Monolith 2.0||
   ||People who are stuck insize Zone will either starve off or kill each other for the same food.||
3. ||Zone is not necessarily destroyed, but rather neutralized and under the full control of the Ward who responds to SIRCAA, who already responds to 🇺🇦 government (which is showcased to be corrupt in thus franchise, like the other governments)||

||Skif gets his new apartment but now is under total control of the Ward, going full 1984||

4. ||Zone stays as it were and Scar creates an illusion where everybody is happy , except people like Skif are either zombified or dead||

this shit is so bleak, you can't make this up 😭
i was already sad at ||Noon turning to Monolith||

[slate mulch]

So pessimistic indeed
Regarding #4 in your post, what if it’s the same fate for everyone in the zone ? Skif is both ||happy and zombified||

#2 really hurts … ||Strelok as the Monolith’s voice, everyone stuck in there til death, that’s gonna be some serious battle royale going down there||

[restive escarp]

I don’t really view #2 that negatively. They already have the borders closed in theory, and look how effective that’s been.. All Skif needed was a crack in the wall. I think the plus is Strelok attempts to halt the experiments that keep causing the mutants and chaos to begin with. But we don’t really know how any of these scenarios will play out in practice, I presume a DLC will give more definitive on which is the “preferred” route.

[woven kindle]

I disagree. It wouldn’t make sense because the mutants are gone? What woudl the DLC be Lost in New York oh look at the pretty anomaly. No more monolithians? No more mutants? Come on let’s think here.

The only ending that could or would be cannon, is the strelok, the zone is basically the same just with him as monolithian, which gives the antagonist. He locks it down so it is basically all existing stalkers vs the monolithians. Cate match, Monday not Raw style, hell in a cell lmao.And everything is same other than that. So skif could come back and kick his ass. There is really no recourse for the other 3. And no where to go.also the theme music plays in strelok so it makes sense that woudl be the hint that is it.

[slate mulch]

Your opinion is very valid too. That’s a good sign regarding the quality of the endings we have. There’s no good one, and all have very decent arguments regarding their potential canonicity.
Ward’s ending, with ||the end of the Zone as we know it|| is a good way of having closure, without closing the door to DLCs and spin offs.
Same goes for Scar’s ending, it doesn’t close any door.

Can’t wait to see the DLCs ! So much to explore still, having 100% achievements doesn’t mean you’ve seen it all … what about this very specific hotel, or the various outposts I didn’t dare to approach in my noob suit 😆

[south storm]

im pissed you cant ||save spirit ||

[lilac vault]

Main quest issue:

||An act of mercy: Is there a downside to killing anyone? The first guard wont move, I can't sneak anywhere past.||

[slate mulch]

The quest giver gives a fair amount of Koupons if you don’t kill anyone
You can lure the guards by throwing a bolt somewhere

[lusty frost]

how is it implied? the only thing that comes to my mind is doctors sudden gray hair at the end?

[pastel cave]

The part where ||Doctor takes off his coat at the end of Skif ending, only revealing to be Faust this whole time||

[lusty frost]

aha, u mean it this way, i thought that to imply smth means to give hints to smth (english is not my native language)

[pastel cave]

Well, we aren't exactly sure what happened to Doc in time between Shadow of Chernobyl and the 2nd game

||Was he dead this whole time? Did Faust take over his skin before/during the events of Stalker 2? Does killing Doctor in Strelok ending actually kill Faust or just another one of this projections?|| This leaves more questions than the answers, just enough hype till the release of the story DLC/s

[lusty frost]

why mutants gone? they can still reproduce and if something bad happens in the zone she can react to it. BUT skiff is now controlling the zone. that basically means that he is still not immune to just get angry at smth and create some bad stuff everywhere in the world.

[junior flower]

hello, has anyone been having problem with side quest not being able to complete and causing the quest giver to completely remove the dialogue option to take on more jobs aftwerward.Ive encountered this bug first at rostok thinking that it's fine since it only effect the barkeep and now after a while owl also have the same bug and hera the next

ive used eutools and it breaks my game

[worthy bolt]

AFAIK you just get less coupons.

[ripe skiff]

same here. i'm hoping they fix it soon

[fresh mango]

He gives 22k

[worthy bolt]

Isn’t the reward higher if you just grab the device and spare everyone?

[fresh mango]

22k is the bonus amount for no killing, added on top three couple thousand you already get

You can honestly just run and spam medkits you still make 18k after repair costs

[rose phoenix]

Stuck on same mission? And yeah I had to uninstall it cus there was nothing I could do

[ripe skiff]

yeah so im just waiting for stuff to happen

[deft charm]

sxw_9 has been warned

Reason: Posted an invite

[worthy bolt]

I call a vote to ban @deft charm 😂

[polar vortex]

Encountered a bug with the mission "Just Like the Old Days" wherein the mercs don't show up, and when I talk to the doctor he gets hostile.

[polar vortex]

So I managed to get around this bug by just going towards Wild Island first before going to the Sphere, but the part where the mercs who are supposed to stop me after getting the emitter still don't show up.

[slate mulch]

Been playing through the Skif ending again today
What’s interesting is, ||after the emission in the Dr’s dome, Richter says Dr Kaymanov’s body is nowhere to be found. And when you connect to the Noosphere, you see him turn into Faust. So, it seems to imply the Dr sequence has two different meanings : when you’re killing him following Strelok’s desire, you do really shoot the doctor. But sparing him actually means you spared a vision, which kinda makes sense since his dome is surrounded by small psi emitters.||

[pastel cave]

maybe ||Doctor dies the exact moment Skif runs into his house when the emission starts to hit Doc outside||

[winged junco]

Question about the Combatant AK blueprint in Back to the Slag Heap. I started my 2nd playthrough in which I've given the scanners to Richter in Zalissya at the very start (gave them to the Ward in my 1st playthrough).
I just finished Back to the Slag Heap and Korshunov didn't give me the AK (it wasn't featured in the cutscene at all and wasn't on the table), but according to online guides I should've gotten it, was there something I missed? I did get a different cutscene from the one I had in my first playthrough but apparently there's a third option and I missed it, but idk how lol.

[worthy bolt]

Did you show him the unusual PDA?