Companion Missing?

[Nigrescence]

I'm pretty sure this is part of the game, but I don't know how it works. Do they just disappear for a few days and come back? I've rested for two and he hasn't returned.

[Tarkov]

They are in the NAR Prison. When my companion Olivier gone missing, I killed myself using radiation chamber and changed some of my choices. When I woke up he returned. I don't know if there is any other way to free them from prison

[Nigrescence]

Originally posted by TARKOV:

They are in the NAR Prison. When my companion Olivier gone missing, I killed myself using radiation chamber and changed some of my choices. When I woke up he returned. I don't know if there is any other way to free them from prison

It would be nice if there were another way to do it. Maybe if you had a special mission at the binoculars when it happens to infiltrate the prison to get them out. But that's also weird because how would you know they're at the NAR Prison?

I feel like this mechanic could use some refinement. It makes sense that they might occasionally be captured, especially when sending them to scout mission critical spots. But this is such a weird and unsatisfying way to resolve it.

[Legileg]

You can rescue them from the NAR prison, there are several ways to get into it in the game. Chamber is an expensive and hard-to-get endgame solution.

[Zaris]

Originally posted by Nigrescence:

It would be nice if there were another way to do it.

Just start any random mission, run into a NAR soldier and let him kill you and voila you're in the prison, get your items back and talk to your companion in the cells to free them. At least this is the supposed way to do it but it's buggy right now and you can sometimes not talk with them in the cells that's why the way to use the radiation chamber is the only way / fastest way right now.

[Nigrescence]

Originally posted by Zaris:

Originally posted by Nigrescence:

It would be nice if there were another way to do it.

Just start any random mission, run into a NAR soldier and let him kill you and voila you're in the prison, get your items back and talk to your companion in the cells to free them. At least this is the supposed way to do it but it's buggy right now and you can sometimes not talk with them in the cells that's why the way to use the radiation chamber is the only way / fastest way right now.

Thanks. I'll just hop in my chamber then. I wonder, with the way the tunnel works at its core, if I even have to change a decision to fix it. Might be worth experimenting with.

EDIT: Just used the chamber and did not change anything. He appeared back at base when I woke up. I think this is a reliable way to fix it. By the nature of the tunnel having to reset reality, restoring things, it overcomes whatever reality used to have the companion captured. I guess. It's a neat trick. I suspected this because before when I first entered the tunnel at day 10 I had changed nothing in it but suddenly companions had their attitudes adjusted for events that happened before they joined me (this happened upon entering the tunnel). Guess it's just a big ball of wibbly wobbly timey wimey... stuff.