I did this mission today. My issue was a bandit / stalker blocking the entrance. The reticle was green. Eventually I thought I will shoot him, he fell down and mission was complete. Gaffer was still alive.

Im getting endless waves of monolith soldiers. Pretty annoying

I was able to complete the entire quest. Now once I step foot outside of Zalyssia it starts the entire quest again even though I already completed it.

I managed to get it to work but none of the loot was in any of those bodies

guys after many attempts i found another solution to the bug, when you leave icizac you have to quickly go to sultansk, go to sleep between 8-12 times, fast travel with the sultansk guide to the chemical plant and quickly go to zalissya, there will be no more emission and the whole mission will happen normally.

i solved this bug by making a way to open the door by walking away from zalissya and coming back and hoping that some npc would go out giving me a prompt to open the door, and i went to the left room where the is a stash box that you can open, opening the box somehow makes the npc's go outside, if there is still some enemies inside just open the stash again. worked for me

The music volume is too high.

For those still struggling with the bug same as I, straight across from the town hall, there's a run down, destroyed shack, you can get on top of its roof and start shooting towards the town hall as it's doors will be opened since you are far from it. That should trigger some of the soldiers, not every soldier came out and was aggressive but after running back to the town hall its doors were magically unlocked again. All I had to do was wait by the door as the enemy slowly made their way out and kill any that made it. Hope this helps, this is a seriously stupid bug.

in my quest theres ab optional task that say "ask the stalkers of zalissya if they in need of help" couldnt find them nowhere in the town.

I figured something out not sure if it fixes it but after thet came out and attacked and i was able to get the quest. There is a group of guys in black suits like space suits. They cant die but by a head shot. I lead 1 close to town and killed him. When i went back after chasing gun shots there was a fight happening and some dude kicked in the front door.

the quest at sircaa before was hours long, with no possibility of stashing or selling loot, so i was so stacked after that, i had to go stash and sell somewhere. I crippled towards sultansk what took me quite long, thats where the emission happened for me, i fast traveled to rookie vill and went to sleep, then did another quest and went over to Zalissya beeing completly bugged there are hours of gaming between getting out sircaa and actually ariving in Zalissya. idk lureing them monoliths out just doesnt seem to work for me and if there is gonna be the next emission this gonna be my dead there anyway

Everyones just dead when I arrive, no enemy soldiers, building locked and gun fight sound effects. Got to shout out to Foreigner Bob though, what a name!

Looks like a fun Game G!

Hell yeah! Can't wait for controller support and I will be there with ya bro!

This game seems to be good. Looking forward to it being on console.

First to be Last 😎

eVERYONE WHOSE LOOKING FOR A FIX, IVE FOUND RUNNING BACK FROM SRCCA STRAIGHT TO ZALISYA I COULD SAVE IT, BUT YOU HAVE TO SKIP THE EASTER CHECKPOINT, ID RECOMMEND IT JUST GET AROUND IT, CAUSE AFTERSAVING THE TOWN, I WENT INOT THE CHEAPOINT AND IT KILLED THE TOWN AGAIN.(edit sorry for all caps)

Game breaking shit

I can barely hear what you say the music is so loud.

The issue is that both attackers and defenders flee into the building when Emission starts. If you don't want to get the bug, you MUST head to Zalissya RIGHT AFTER leaving SIRCAA, and reach it before next Emission hits. This way, you will fight off enemies, and will start the quest correctly. Very likely, this is exact reason why some people do not encounter the bug - they simply arrive before the bug precondition is met. But they definitely need a fix for this situation for people who already progressed significantly after leaving SIRCAA and before saving Zalissya.

i love this game but imagine dropping a patch that should solve this bug and its still there, i have it rn, the game itself is so many gb big, how many patches are needed man....

Hi guys i could fix it, you just go to the sphere and get an enemy to chase you to zalissya and some guys will spawn in the town hall (sorry, my English is bad im Mexican)

i kinda formed the same opinion i wont buy it until its ready.

This was the most broken mission I ever encountered in my last 20 years of gaming. I manage do get them out the building by grabing PDA from the building where stash used to be. Then, several quest started spawning and completing in completely wrong orders. NPS triggering wrong quest when talking to them, and all of that with Monolith still in spawn room. I made about 10 attempts at this and could not figure out triggers, in each load, quests spawned in different order. These would also randomly check/uncheck quest progress. I managed to save Zalissya eventually, but don't ask me how I did it. I don't understand why the quest even completed.

Patch 1.0.3- still bug in Zalissya.

This scenario is so bugged it manifests differently to many people. When I get to Zalissya there's not a single Monolithian to be seen which I can shoot. Some people say to kite some Monolithians to Zalissya from another area on the map so that guards can fight them and this unlocks the door, but if I do this, the Monolithians seem to not follow you into Zalissya far enough for the NPCs that are there to engage in combat. I get the feeling the devs really rushed this out the door and only put in enough development effort to make sure early stages of the game are bug free. Once you get 30+ hours in however the game turns into a bug-ridden turd, despite patches 1.01, 1.02 and 1.03, Zalissya is still broken for me.

You are a shining example of a player or hero who will disregard all moral standards for the sake of a cool gun or armor. And the game is testing you for this. It's better for the stalkers to survive in Zalissya. I wouldn't trade their lives for any weapon.

Guys I fixed mine. I did 2 thinks I don’t know which one worked. I ran around the town for a couple of minutes, and went to the bunker in front of the town hall. I shot a guy through the gaps in the door, and turned hamster aggressive. Went back to the town hall and I could open the door, got the quest and finished it. The town is running kinda buggy, but everyone is alive except for the guy in the bunker and hamster, RIP. Hope it helps :))

I found a solution, but it require you to install console command mods. You can force this quest to start ( or reset it using save and reattempt it ) by using " XStartQuestBySID E07_SQ01 ". Hope this help

So a True Stalker Game 🤣 The dabehalte deleting anomaly is a new one for me

Does anyone know how to stop the random non-stop psi attacks? It’s literally game breaking in my play through. I tried reloading/saving ect..

Being an American i have to say this...... Listening to your honest review to the game is like comparing sugar/watered down American news to raw BBC coverage of world events. I love the straight forward honesty. That's why i follow you Geri..... Cheers!

I saw a fanboy in the steamforums telling us to "treat it as a early access and stop whining" This is why we get broken games on release, this is a 1.0 FULLY RELEASED game....and im suppose to stfu and take it dry without consent. Alright idiots, alright, you did this.

I sometimes wish that I knew how Geri really feels about things. Hahahaha

Hell yeah brother! I will wait for you to say it is fixed. Saves are important for sure!

Only solution i found to this was to move to the chemical plant and then i got a radio msg saying that zalyssa had fallen. Then i could go back and loot the gear and put it in the stash. I found no PDA there, so i couldnt spawn the guards. Bob and the others was just chilling outside the locked door. So this was the only outcome i could do it seems.

For me, the pharmasist and bob are sitting outside of the city hall, and the doors are locked.

So I have been having the same issue where people are already sitting outside the doors. And they're locked and I'm on Xbox so all I did was stand in front of the doors and underhand tossed a grenade. Towards the road and it blew up and the doors were unlocked for me.

So for me it worked to do this quest before the sphere. I’m going to finish all the requests and then go to the sphere.

A single player story mode game shouldn't have issues with saving, that's literally game breaking, are you meant to play 150 hours just to get threw 50 hours of story?

I want to try this game out, but I think I'll wait until some more patches come out

the quest doesn't even begin for me just radio chatter and requested for aid. then when i arrive everyone's sat down exhausted and the doors are locked.

For some reason these soldiers aren’t attacking me and the door is locked. Should I kill them?

My bug is that I’m hearing ghost shots and have floating stalkers so idk

After doing testing here was my fix for the following problem: My issue was no enemies spawned and the dude said “come on in” the door wouldn’t open. You HAVE to enter the eastern checkpoint and find the PDA on a dead body. I don’t know why, but after leaving that I kept moving and entered through the eastern way to zalissa. If you were like me and left Sircaa only to haul ass through a guide to chemical plant to repair equipment and sell extra weapons you’d be WRONG. More testing needed to confirm certain things but whatever you do. After leaving richter SAVE YOUR GAME don’t be like me and have to reload all the way right before the conversation with the lady.

for anyone still experiencing the bug, teleport straight here once you leave sirca and make sure an emission doesnt hit before you get there, the emission is whats causing the glitch, if you dont have a save before that emission i suppose youd have to use console commands instead, im using wemod to teleport there for anyone that doesnt wanna use console commands to do it.

The bug I'm having is that after I complete the quest line I get a new objective to return to Zalyssia and when I do nothing happens

if you're talking, why the fuck do you play music BRAINS

Stand at the south entrance to the town behind the branches on the ground they should come out slowing but surely

The patch notes of 1.0.1 state "Fixed multiple issues in the On the Edge mission, including idle NPCs, stuck doors, and the Monolith attack progression." but it's still bugged for me, lets me complete all of the activities but as soon as I leave Zalissya I get called to return to defend the town, I head back and no one ends up attacking. If I leave the town far enough I get the radio call from Gaffer that Zalissya has fallen. Quite frustrating!