Clear Quest Bug?
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I had a problem with clear in a t5 building recently. After searching for a full hour I was on the verge of giving up and calling it a bug when I finally found the culprit: A zombie was stuck in a railing and couldn't move. As his animation was also stuck he was motionless and hard to see if you didn't walk right by him.
There is a bug here, the zombie was stuck. But the quest was working correctly.
Not to say this is the explanation for everything here. Another reason may be that files of old alphas have survived the steam update. If someone constantly has problems with quests he could try to delete the whole Data/Prefabs folder in the directory of the game and then let steam reload it (Properties->Local Files-> Verify Integrity). No guarantee it helps but it can't hurt either.
There is a bug here, the zombie was stuck. But the quest was working correctly.
Not to say this is the explanation for everything here. Another reason may be that files of old alphas have survived the steam update. If someone constantly has problems with quests he could try to delete the whole Data/Prefabs folder in the directory of the game and then let steam reload it (Properties->Local Files-> Verify Integrity). No guarantee it helps but it can't hurt either.
gamerlady
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My friend and I have similar issues with clears, at least for tier 2, 3, and 4 quests. We clear the poi and the quest isn't updated to reflect that. We go through the poi multiple times to look for rooms/areas that we've missed, and the quest still isn't updated. Last night, I think we were down to one zombie and the yellow marker showed the zombie above us in the underground area but below us up top. I think it might have gotten stuck in limbo between two areas. I tried digging to find the zombie, but to no avail.
We've noticed in the past two weeks that the zombies spawn in late when doing clear quests; like, after we've walked through and looted several rooms, we have a multitude of zombies appear in the rooms that we just walked through. We can run the same poi as a fetch quest and don't have any issues with zombies loading, the issue only happens with clears or fetch/clears. So, it appears that this phenomenon only occurs when the player has to clear the poi; whether it is a fetch/clear or a straight up clear. Whenever possible, my friend and I choose buried supplies or fetch quests over clears because of this issue; however, the clear quests are unavoidable in the higher tiers.
The command, "sleeperreset" seems to work; however, it resets sleepers everywhere, including our home bases.
I know I read a new thread somewhere in which a person encountered a similar issue. They deleted the Data/Prefabs folder and validated the files, but it didn't work. They were also advised to use the "chunkreset cr" command, which didn't work for them or for us.
We will try deleting Data/Prefabs folder and let Steam reload it and validate, and let you know how it works for us.
The same/similar bug has been reported and I think that I read somewhere that it was "under review."
We've noticed in the past two weeks that the zombies spawn in late when doing clear quests; like, after we've walked through and looted several rooms, we have a multitude of zombies appear in the rooms that we just walked through. We can run the same poi as a fetch quest and don't have any issues with zombies loading, the issue only happens with clears or fetch/clears. So, it appears that this phenomenon only occurs when the player has to clear the poi; whether it is a fetch/clear or a straight up clear. Whenever possible, my friend and I choose buried supplies or fetch quests over clears because of this issue; however, the clear quests are unavoidable in the higher tiers.
The command, "sleeperreset" seems to work; however, it resets sleepers everywhere, including our home bases.
I know I read a new thread somewhere in which a person encountered a similar issue. They deleted the Data/Prefabs folder and validated the files, but it didn't work. They were also advised to use the "chunkreset cr" command, which didn't work for them or for us.
We will try deleting Data/Prefabs folder and let Steam reload it and validate, and let you know how it works for us.
The same/similar bug has been reported and I think that I read somewhere that it was "under review."
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gamerlady
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Deleting the Data/Prefabs folder and validating didn't work either. We're now noticing that even on the lower tier fetch quests, the zombies aren't completely loading in. I'm guessing that the issue is related to all quests because we can raid and clear a poi, reset it for a quest, and zombies aren't appearing as they should.
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Many thanks. Since the bug has been reported a solution will possibly come from that quarter if they can reproduce, but it will take time.
You might want to check there for any progress or whether the bug report goes into "confirmed" (which would mean it will get fixed, probably still in A20). You could also offer your savegame as a further sample in that thread.
In the meantime if you want working quests you have a few options, all by destroying progress in various ways. After making a backup of your savegame folder you could either clear your configuration (with the game launcher, see the tab "Tools") and start a new game, or just delete your player characters from this game and check out if this corrects the issue.
I’ve been running a single player, quests only game. Turned off horde nights and just doing quests, all the different types. Currently, I’m up to tier 4 at one trader and haven’t been able to replicate any issues. All fetch, clear, fetch & clear and buried supplies work as expected. Next I’m going to start the night missions. Once I finish through tier 5, I’ll move to another trader and start over.
gamerlady
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Okay... Here's what I ended up having to do:
- I deleted my Prefabs folder (again).
- Validated it through Steam (again), and this time Steam said that some files couldn't be validated. I tried again, and the files were validated. This part didn't happen when I tried to delete the Prefabs folder the first time.
- I started a new game (which really sucked).
gamerlady
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The workaround does work on multiplayer, as long as both players have taken the steps above. My friend and I are playing on the "Better Vanilla" mod and haven't had any issues like we did before, and I'm playing on vanilla.
I have encountered a Clear Area Bug as well.
When the quest is nearly done some yellow dots appear on your compass right?
What happened to me and my friends is that when those dots appear, and we get near to one of them, no zombies appear. One time this happened it was in apartment_blk_6_flr I think, I can't remember the exact name. It was a T5 Clear Quest.
However, recently we encountered it again, yellow dots appeared, 3 I think, and 2 of those 3 dots, the enemies spawned but on 1 dot, nothing happened when we got near, no spawns. This one is in skyscraper_02 I think. Not sure if the map matters but yeah, it happened to us twice already. This is also a T5 Clear Quest.
So far we've encountered this twice which are both T5 Clear Quests.
When the quest is nearly done some yellow dots appear on your compass right?
What happened to me and my friends is that when those dots appear, and we get near to one of them, no zombies appear. One time this happened it was in apartment_blk_6_flr I think, I can't remember the exact name. It was a T5 Clear Quest.
However, recently we encountered it again, yellow dots appeared, 3 I think, and 2 of those 3 dots, the enemies spawned but on 1 dot, nothing happened when we got near, no spawns. This one is in skyscraper_02 I think. Not sure if the map matters but yeah, it happened to us twice already. This is also a T5 Clear Quest.
So far we've encountered this twice which are both T5 Clear Quests.
plzkthxbye
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(I have the dangerous cities modlet and random wandering hordes mods installed)
I'm having an issue now in the Crack-A-Book Tower T5 POI (skyscraper_02). I've done this POI many times, and I always take the same route. For some reason, when I entered through the window like normal, none of the zombies inside spawned (and I DID start the quest by clicking the exclamation point trigger thing - I got the quest objective in the upper right of the screen too). Then, after trying to make noise and stuff and find them, they suddenly spawned when I was in one of the upper rooms.
I did have some cops spawn outside and enter before the sleepers started spawning. They cops damaged some of the POI areas also before the spawning started. Is it possible that if a block that a sleeper is supposed to spawn on is somehow destroyed before that sleeper spawns on it, that sleeper won't be able to spawn? Some zombies/sleepers spawn in the first area you enter for this POI - they spawn on the roof, on top of glass panes. I think some of those panes were broken before the sleepers actually started spawning. Perhaps that's the issue?
Here's a screenshot after I've cleared the entire POI, gotten the end loot, etc. I've wandered all over this area, and can't get anything new to spawn:
ETA: I failed the quest by moving away from it (after this screenshot was taken), and the yellow marker remained. I had to save/exit, and reload the map to get it to disappear.
I'm having an issue now in the Crack-A-Book Tower T5 POI (skyscraper_02). I've done this POI many times, and I always take the same route. For some reason, when I entered through the window like normal, none of the zombies inside spawned (and I DID start the quest by clicking the exclamation point trigger thing - I got the quest objective in the upper right of the screen too). Then, after trying to make noise and stuff and find them, they suddenly spawned when I was in one of the upper rooms.
I did have some cops spawn outside and enter before the sleepers started spawning. They cops damaged some of the POI areas also before the spawning started. Is it possible that if a block that a sleeper is supposed to spawn on is somehow destroyed before that sleeper spawns on it, that sleeper won't be able to spawn? Some zombies/sleepers spawn in the first area you enter for this POI - they spawn on the roof, on top of glass panes. I think some of those panes were broken before the sleepers actually started spawning. Perhaps that's the issue?
Here's a screenshot after I've cleared the entire POI, gotten the end loot, etc. I've wandered all over this area, and can't get anything new to spawn:
ETA: I failed the quest by moving away from it (after this screenshot was taken), and the yellow marker remained. I had to save/exit, and reload the map to get it to disappear.
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You could go to the bug report section. Click on the red banner and then click on link and it will take you there. On the righthand side you will see the various categories for bug reports.
In my experience, we tried following the correct path of the POI instead of just busting through anything, going around randomly. Lo and behold we got to finish the clear quest in all areas where we encountered the bug. It was more than a week ago so I can't remember which POIs those were.
We stopped playing for now though, after encountering a bunch of profile-related bugs.
We stopped playing for now though, after encountering a bunch of profile-related bugs.
Dagger Digwillow
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I am currently having this issue even on level 2 clear or clear and fetch quests. Has anyone found an answer for this in which you can save the server?
Ever since I had a power shortage at home, SOME quests will not show the remaining zombies. I've experienced it with quests of all tiers, even in tier1 small houses.
I think it's relevant to mention that actually I almost lost my save file. I had to fix it by doing this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkteeH5gR6s ...
I think it's relevant to mention that actually I almost lost my save file. I had to fix it by doing this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkteeH5gR6s ...
Roland
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Most likely your save file was damaged by the power outage. There could be other issues you’ll come across if you continue on that save.
You might try starting a new game and try a few quests to see if the problem persists. If the new save looks clean then you’ll have to make the decision to either start over with your new game or keep going on the damaged one and just live with the quirks.
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I am trying to delete the region files that do not have my base and fort in them. Thus far I have been able to complete a clear quest without issue, but it remains to be seen if it is repeatable as I go further. I followed the instructions in the below link and I also made a backup of all my region files just in case. This will reset all the things you have done in other regions (ie mining, harvesting, etc).
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