Overcome The Zalissya Bug In Stalker 2

[@grimsurvivor2394]

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.

[@Jsizzle21k]

@@grimsurvivor2394 also same can’t progress anything there

[@grimsurvivor2394]

@Jsizzle21k hope this gets fixed for my next play through.

[@Jsizzle21k]

@ same dude especially because it’s a starting area I would love to save it instead of just keep running by it knowing it’s still there for a side

[@morbid6944]

Same here can't get inside the building. Bob sat there telling you to go in but the door is locked.

[@stephenkelly6072]

Same here town is moot and I need a place to sell and dump gear!!!

[@Chevalier_knight]

My issue is nothing spawns to kill

[@OG_Stu]

Explore the buildings where the traders were, and they will spawn. I think the trigger is bugged, or just poorly placed. I also have a bug after this mission where I need to storm the checkpoint at the radar station thing with the soldiers, but another event doesn't trigger.

[@squeemhaymmeemhaym9686]

@@OG_Stuexploring didn’t do anything for me.

[@Kraxt0n]

@@Chevalier_knight pick up lonels pda in the half broken building where the stash is in zeliseia. If u already have it, drop it and come back it'll respawn for some reason for this. Play the audio and you can progress.

[@per3eushigh710]

@@Kraxt0n man i sold that PDA😭

[@Kraxt0n]

@per3eushigh710 shouldn be an issue. Go buy it back from who u sold it too, or check and see if it respawned under the table

[@WhenIBlip]

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.

[@soulsynthesiscreations]

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!

[@patm97]

After persistence, i managed to lure out the monoliths and win the firefight, now theres a friendly NPC standing in the doorway preventing me from entering the building and competing the quest.

[@Dr-Mike-Oxbrown]

Same. Did you manage to find a way around this? I've done all the side quests all that's left is to fight off the monoliths. I really don't want to fail a quest because of a stupid bug. It messes with my ocd 😂

[@pixelfodder]

@@Dr-Mike-Oxbrown Yeah I'm stuck here too after the new patch. Can't find a way in and the UE5 Tool mod isn't updated to the new patch so No Clip doesn't work either (on PC)

[@buysteven420]

Happened to me so I tried my hardest to open the door and jam myself into the little space. I had and quick saved and load but it work and they ran outside letting me go inside

[@lthead]

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!

[@The_WitcH90]

Sucks to hear that's still happening after the patch! I was really hoping they would fix this!

[@loicdoublier2371]

Same...

[@colonelace2901]

So basically what bugs this mission is the spawns. The monolith and the defenders Spawn inside the no fire zone for some reason which is the area where this guy in the video is shooting thru the window. how i worked around this bug is i just waited at the door for a painfully long time and the monolith soldiers walked out one by one painfully slow. If you manage to shoot thru the windows which i cant for some reason. Shoot the Masked armored Soldiers except the one in the Exo suit which is guy named Foreign Bob i think his name is. They're mixed together with the Defenders of the town inside so watch your fire. BUT even if you finish the quest the Town will still fall. even if you get the Mission success dialogue. idk. Annoying ass bug

[@The_WitcH90]

I think it's a issue between the stalkers kicking the door open and the monolith coming out, several times the stalkers bugged into the building and if they are inside, there's no one to kick the doors and release the monolith soldiers 🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️😅

[@dazecm]

This all seems to be related to why there's no A-Life 2.0 in the game. The devs just implemented a cheesy spawn system that causes problems. The A-Life 2.0 system isn't broken, I don't think it's even implemented and were hoping nobody would notice and the current NPC spawn system contributes to bugs like this.

[@lentinant]

It's not a spawn. Enemies spawn outside the building. However, when Emission arrives, the AI logic leads them inside to hide. Which makes them stuck there.

[@brandonashley5872]

I never had any problem starting this quest, I won the firefight and did all of the side quests around the town related to the attack and then i headed north and Gaffer came over the radio and said that Zalissia had beaten back the attack and was open for business. Then 5 seconds later he came over the radio and said zalissia had fallen and there was nothing to be found there but death, so then I turned around and went back to find Gaffer, Mykalivich and Lens all dead and warlock just gone.

[@bgrass360]

I'll save you some time have a save before all that's done and wait for the patch. I've searched everywhere for other solutions unless your on PC just wait for the update

[@lentinant]

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.

[@fallout293]

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....

[@izzyano9549]

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

[@morbid6944]

same

[@DoomOfConviction]

Wtf I get messages that Zallisja is under attack but when I get there nothing happens, nobody is fighting and everything is closed and gone. This is the buggiest games I’ve ever played and I play games since the 90s!

[@naturstoned2422]

had this too, for me it worked to go to the southern entrance to the village. For some reason this triggered a spawn of some monoliths attacking the town hall. After i killed them the survivors open the doors and you can talk to them. They give you some new quests (mostly optional) and after that you get the achievement for defending the town. However aparently there is a nother bug that leads to failing the mission when you leave the area.

[@SStoge21]

I got it to work but after when I saved Zalissya, I leave town he say it’s now fallen and no reason to come and the town is gone. wtf is going on?

[@eyesack6845]

Same that's the bug I was looking for

[@supercrazydude2565]

For real, this is the bug I’ve been having too.

[@seanowens3153]

Yeah this is the true bug.

[@mugenlakais6345]

Took me forever to find a solution to this bug. I had to download the UETools mod on Nexusmods. I first left Zalissya and walked outside until you hear "zalissya is safe" on the radio. Go back to Zalissya and do the following: UETools_Ghost (so you don't get killed by following commands) UETools_TeleportTo (just like this with no coordinates) UETools_TeleportTo 783729.06, 756685.00, 1621.93 (tp to clear sky base, but I assume any remote location might suffice) UETools_TeleportTo 401922.22, 549398.50, 698.31 (tp back to zalissya) and finally UETools_Walk Worked for me, following this exact order. Seems like the glitch is caused by a random area being stuck in/under/around the map during the defense part, so when you leave the area it just counts as you losing, but if you teleport far away, it removes that enemy NPC.

[@Csilk]

@@seanowens3153 me four. they better fix this shit on the first patch because its holding me up from advancing the story. (i know i could just ignore)

[@squeemhaymmeemhaym9686]

GET THE PDA FROM THE 1ST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING WITH THE STASH IN IT. PLAY THE PDA. THE DOOR ACROSS FROM THE POLICE STATION BUILDING WILL NOW UNLOCK, I KILLED HAMSTER AND COULD PROGRESS THE QUEST.

[@velimirminchev1630]

there is no pda there

[@squeemhaymmeemhaym9686]

ALSO EVEN IF THE LOCKED DOOR TO THE SMALL UNDERGROUND SPACE WITH HAMSTER IN IT IS LOCKED, YOU CAN GO RIGHT UP TO IT AND THROW A GRENADE THROUGH IT!

[@Kraxt0n]

@@velimirminchev1630 pda where uncle lyonels stash is in zalisia is what they mean. If you already picked it up drop it from your stash, leave the area, come back and it'll be there. Play the audio from the pda. They will spawn outside (the inside mfrs will still be there was when I figured this out anyways, until the raid time came after the side quest to kill uncle).

[@moonbear2130]

@@squeemhaymmeemhaym9686worked for me, throwing grenades through the door down into the cellar killed hamster and the main doors were unlocked, thanks

[@dazecm]

Hamster is inside the cellar area where they all go during an emission. The door is locked but you can see down the stairs between cracks in the door boards. If you shoot through those cracks into the area below, it will aggro them to the door. Shoot them both and the Zalissya door unlocks for some reason. Thing is, you killed Hamster and he is involved in Warlocks quests so I'm not sure this is the way to solve this crappy Zalissya bug.

[@ThirdEye-47]

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.

[@katsu_the_edgehog]

Thanks! The emission fucked it up, skipping saving that one guy from main mission and straight going to zalissja helped me

[@dzelziic]

Thanks for this - it did work after teleporting right to Zalissya :)

[@ThirdEye-47]

glad i could help guys, the 2 guys from the bunker were still bugged for me and both fell and died as soon as they walked into the main building, so looks like we cant get the perfect ending for the village but its better than nothing.

[@Kraxt0n]

Go to where the stash is in the half broken building, pick up lyonel or whatever dudes name is pda. Make it play voice, and it should progress the quest. You can't kill people inside, no matter what you do. But picking up the pda does something strange to make it progress. Hopefully someone tries this, and makes it easier to understand. Using dudes actual name and the location of the broken building I speak of (if u already have his pda drop it, pull it from your storage, wherever it is just drop it) it should re spawn there under the table where the generator is.

[@squeemhaymmeemhaym9686]

Lmao this worked and the dudes in the building killed some one on our side while shooting me and the town turned on me for no reason lmao.

[@Kraxt0n]

@squeemhaymmeemhaym9686 restart, the dudes inside will stay inside and more will spawn outside. The mfrs inside never shot one round until raid time came from monolith mfrs. P.s. the raid has some really good rifles.

[@squeemhaymmeemhaym9686]

@@Kraxt0n I got past it with a few restarts and odd tricks and your pda thing. But I got the sniper that’s about it.

[@Kraxt0n]

@@squeemhaymmeemhaym9686 after u got done, sleep in zalisya. Then do the raid the monoliths do on them, kill the fuckers. And leave quite a ways, tell me if the leader says "don't come here, nothing but death". Bc it acts like I failed that mission but he gave a speech about the main character in the main hall. So I don't know wtf to think. If I go there, dudes dead. And they attack on sight. Never shot any stalker (besides those who did me dirty or had a nice weapon) *none that matter or would turn them on me*.

[@squeemhaymmeemhaym9686]

@@Kraxt0n yeah about 45 mins or so after I saved them all and he thanked me I heard on the radio nothing but death if you go there. I said fuck it and kept playing the main mission. Just playing for fun anyway.

[@AndreiMax]

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.

[@sir-londo5537]

It’s so annoying, I missed on this quest due to the bug, plus an hour later while I’m doing the main story, I got killed by a mutant and then got stuck on the loading screen, 30 mins of trying to start the game and yep still stuck on it. Tried loading a different save file that’s 5 minutes apart and issue still persists idk what to do 30 hours of gameplay 😭

[@brandonashley5872]

My game refused to load once and I tried reloading an older save to no avail, the only thing that worked in my case was restarting my PC

[@kaynehenderson9171]

Chemical plant area has a bug that doesn’t allow you load back into the game. You gotta load back into a save that isn’t at chemical plant. Basically either use codes and activate god mode or don’t die.

[@sir-londo5537]

@@kaynehenderson9171 yep as you said, loaded an older file and brute forced through the whole area without dying.

[@OMGITZFUTUR3]

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

[@RP-77]

Yeah, we all having that bug. I haven’t played in days because the game doesn’t want me to progress.

[@Hobopaladin]

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.

[@Eight-Bites]

They get stuck in the building if you fail to get there before an emission hits after finishing up Sircaa. The real problem though, is that no matter what you do the town will fall. At first I was just going to skip over this, but I decided to push into the building to stash all of my loot from Sircaa and the whole run over. I took Warlocks gun and stashed it along with all the other Monolith loot, and am just now hitting th point to defend the town. I'm gonna be sad that the town will be gone sure, but I'm going to make at least 50k from all of this loot.

[@zedrick8066]

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)

[@arnoldtm31]

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.

[@narcisomezquita7277]

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.

[@junigaming69]

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

[@suprah956]

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.

[@deima5589]

I managed to figure this out on my own, but even after completing the quest and getting achievment for it. After some time I got a message on radio that the town was safe. Playing further the game, randomly on the radio I was told that the town has fallen. If I return to the town, remaing stalkers are aggresive and will try to kill you.

[@thundergod2645]

Same, what did you do just keep going?

[@deima5589]

@@thundergod2645 Ignored the town until I completed the main game. Now on my second playthrough, this time the mission wasn't bugged.

[@dazecm]

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.

[@ZorcoLP]

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

[@Romualdos666]

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.

[@USMCAggie07]

Thanks for the disclaimer at the beginning lol. I appreciate that.

[@Hahayoutubebanme]

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.

[@FoxysGameNetwork]

I can't even shoot though the windows. I immediately tried that when I came across this bug the first time.......

[@kthec1298]

i have now the problem that as soon as i get to far away from the village there will be a radio call that says that Zalissya has fallen, when i get back to the village the people are still there but they start attacking me, also when im defending the village there is one spot in the village where i can hear gun shots but there is no one there

[@allenwatkins5995]

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.

[@morbid6944]

When I try doing that with nades they don't go off and the ground just eats them

[@Titi2009ish]

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.

[@demoniclaw5162]

still stuck on this even the power plant put me in a never ending chat I went back 6 hours and still nothing reloaded many times over a strange thing the glass you break in the building with all the people stays broken when reloading old save files or auto saves ya that is how many times I reloaded I noticed something like that

[@sean.3909]

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

[@phillychee21]

All the stalkers defending are blocking the door for me…

[@jordanantrim4414]

Mine says I shouldn't attack our people blah blah blah. The second i shoot my gun. Seems like this quests uber messed up.

[@Disable-Gamer]

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..

[@Adam-ny1ky]

Psi protection

[@alexmorriss123]

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

[@jimenezsandovalerickramses982]

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 :))

[@hakenaton9031]

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

[@MightnightSamuraiSake]

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

[@falthnir1825]

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

[@TheGammacron]

what did you all do in common?

[@hellkiller.7773]

I can't shot in the town and I can find gaffer??

[@midnyghtson]

Im getting endless waves of monolith soldiers. Pretty annoying

[@josephdelre1630]

The music volume is too high.

[@Anotherrandomperson44332]

Also there is a sniper team of 3 on the cliff to the west

[@jensenames]

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.

[@---Vector]

Patch 1.0.3- still bug in Zalissya.

[@Turtle_Inc]

I had go to zalissya before doing the hornets nest. Was the only way it worked. It might have to do with the weather event that happens when you go into the compound. Sends them all inside together lol

[@Turtle_Inc]

And then it still broke because the town was deemed dead after I completed it and got the achievement

[@AngryAuzzie]

Damn, wish I could hear what you were saying

[@DS-vy3me]

bro there is no soldiers to kill thats a big part of the bug lmfao...bros save is not bugged to be able to explain how to help

[@Kraxt0n]

@@DS-vy3me pickup uncle lyonels PDA from where that stash is in the room with the loud generator, roof is broken. Pda is under the table there. Play the audio, quest should progress. If u have the pda drop it, and leave to force spawn it.

[@AssassinHDLT]

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)

[@nephidriver]

I can’t even shoot in

[@Svatlex]

This game is so bugged omg And it looks like it's from 2008 (UE is good, but animations etc. so basically everything devs had to do themselves) and they sell it for 60 bucks??

[@mooncheese7002]

They could've sold it for 70 bucks but atleast they didnt hop onto that trend. Fingers crossed the upcoming patch is gonna fix most of the issues 💪

[@reanukeeves4436]

It might " look like its from 2008 " because it is insanely graphicaly demanding ( also poorly optimized ) and your computer is not capable enough ? . I play on RTX 4070 SUPER in 3440 × 1440 max settings and the game looks crazy good. But it is total bug filled mess

[@hitmanzirelli7079]

Where is warlock I want his gun😂

[@eyesack6845]

You can get in the building without doing all this. Just enter the old bar and for some reason enemies will spawn and the door will open.

[@seimorbutts8705]

Just took your advice and it worked,but when I go to talk to the people it wants you to talk to, it just give the regular dialogue.

[@Chevalier_knight]

Iv tried that but nothing spawned

[@nephidriver]

Yeah the bar isn’t doing anything

[@eyesack6845]

@@Chevalier_knight Sorry it didn't work

[@joaquinperez9382]

The bar worked for me too for some reason that triggered the guys to spawn, i'm stuck in a Main quest now lol

[@burrito673]

Holy glitch, I got it to work When I came into town I got the message to help zalissya but no quest icon appeared. Main building was blocked with a ton of guys inside marked as friendly regardless of their faction. I stood outside that door and jumped and shot the door/glass with around 100 rounds until they started to just pour out of the building to the sound of the shots or my footsteps After killing all the hostiles the mission proceeded as normal. My guess on why 100 rounds was needed the AI pathing is fighting between being interested in the noise you make outside VS trying to fight the guy directly infront of them inside of the safe zone. Hope this helps SIDE NOTE: After fully liberating the town, I walked down the road to explore and after getting far enough I herd two radio calls “Zalissya is now safe for anyone looking for a place to hide from the monolith” Then right after I got “Zalissya has fallen, there is nothing left for us here” I came back and all the stalkers tried to kill me. Update coming out tmw If this gets fixed I’ll be one happy stalker.

[@USMCAggie07]

Thays pretty cool.

[@aidancreager4095]

Game breaking shit

[@USMCAggie07]

FIRST lol

[@fabgans1623]

Je suis rentré dans le bar et j'ai attendu 5 minutes et après c'est bon 😉👍🏾