Mission 4 War Factory

[SenecaAthena]

Find the Kraken shipping manifest
Vault is empty. Bummer. Restart

Sabotage The Smelting Vat
Empty vat smashes into side with no effect. Bummer. Restart

Really? Is suspect now the Steelwork controls suddenly fail to be sabotaged? Am I not supposed to advance to mission 5? Wonky. VEEERY wonky.

[steen]

I have a problem with the war factory level. I've completed all tasks, but the extraction point doesnt activate. Has anyone else had this problem and maybe found a solution? I've run the level 3 times now with the same result...

[V,HS]

Okay! In addition to making sure to overhear the conversation by the vat switch to get that objective to complete, I was able to get the exfiltrate to work by going back and destroying the pump (northwest corner of map, by the scrapyard), which was an "optional" objective I had totally missed (I'd already done the other optional). I also made sure to listen in to the conversation of the two soldiers in the pump building, just to double-down on trying to keep it from glitching again. After this was done I ran back to the exfiltration point and it worked. Good luck!

[Strigoi1958]

Thanks for kindly posting that Nancy. That might save a lot of frustration for a lot of people. I sent to an award

[OP3NGL]

finally got through the damn mission, my method, backup save game, (my cloud sync not working).. dont know why. uninstall game, restart pc, reinstall game, overwrite savegame, load the mission again, this time round the vat animation works... jeez

[Strigoi1958]

It seems like a lot of work but thanks for finding another solution :) I gave an award for you taking the time to do it and post for others

[Oswuld Leofric Vivadirr]

have you by any chance tried saving the game before restarting the mission and then reloading your save file. works for most of the buggy kill targets that for some reason or another get failed for no reason and sometimes works with buggy medals not popping too.

[pablo.vizzi]

Same here, yet!!!

[Rune]

Originally posted by NancyAtChaseHQ:

Okay! In addition to making sure to overhear the conversation by the vat switch to get that objective to complete, I was able to get the exfiltrate to work by going back and destroying the pump (northwest corner of map, by the scrapyard), which was an "optional" objective I had totally missed (I'd already done the other optional). I also made sure to listen in to the conversation of the two soldiers in the pump building, just to double-down on trying to keep it from glitching again. After this was done I ran back to the exfiltration point and it worked. Good luck!

Good find, I also missed this, however I just tried it and it did not work for me unfortuantely. In fact I can't destroy the pump northwest because the objective won't trigger properly. I always get stuck on either pump and it doesn't matter what order I try them in. I think I will wait for a patch since I've already spent 6 hours on this map, and it's getting quite frustrating since I'm literally stuck and can't continue the game. One misstep and the entire playthrough is FUBAR due to the bugs.

[friendlyjoe]

Having the same trouble. I have done everything that I am supposed to do to destroy all the factory sites but the game will not acknowledge any of them as being done. Additionally, I even killed the double agent with a landmine. I searched his body even but the mission list still shows him alive.

If a player had to do things in a very precise order and enter at very precise locations, the mission should inform of us that. Either that, or the things like the dang Furnace should blow up no matter which way we enter from.

Frustrating beyond being fun anymore.

[strangebirds]

I can echo that War Factory seems to be entirely dependent on conversations finishing. I had one attempt bug out because Karl interjected "He's carrying something I want" which stopped the conversation script (so the vat then would not activate)! I ended up successful by creating saves as I was approaching each objective location and after the objective completed - ended the level with twelve manual saves. Super frustrating that this level in particular requires you to listen to every conversation to completion (esp. Ehrlich's as they talk for 3-4 minutes).

(my ultimately successful path went south from the start and looped counter-clockwise. Manual save when entering objective area. When a conversation triggered, I would approach and hunker down until it finished. After the objective was completed and the next one triggered, I would create another manual save. If something went wrong, I would reload the autosaves first, before reverting to one of the manual saves if the autosaves seemed to be bugged. I also incapacitated or killed everyone, as sometimes alerted enemies never stop "searching" and seem to break scripting for themselves and others (if they are stuck in the way of another NPC). It took a very long time.)

[Strigoi1958]

@strangebirds Very possibly a solution, all my failed attempts I entered from the north. I have given you an award for kindly posting a possible way around this annoying glitch

[Zeph]

Right now there are a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of bugs relating to objectives and collectibles just not spawning. Better off messing with Jaeger mode, you can get a feel for the maps while messing with players lol

[friendlyjoe]

Well it is June 5 and still not fixed. I eliminated or knocked out EVERY enemy and went 4 times to each factory location to be destroyed. Still cannot destroy them. So, as of right now I can only play the first third of the game :(

Question: Since this mission is so obviously broken, HOW did it get past testing? Or was there NO testing?

[Zeph]

Originally posted by friendlyjoe:

Well it is June 5 and still not fixed. I eliminated or knocked out EVERY enemy and went 4 times to each factory location to be destroyed. Still cannot destroy them. So, as of right now I can only play the first third of the game :(

Question: Since this mission is so obviously broken, HOW did it get past testing? Or was there NO testing?

Oh, they knew it was there. This was tested and found. It just wasn't deemed important enough to delay release. People are getting through to later missions. A majority of bugs on release are all pretty well known to devs.

[Strigoi1958]

TBH, I have permanently deleted SE5 from my steam library but.... it is entirely due to the fact that the game lacks sufficient sniping for me to be able to enjoy it as a sniper game. It is a good game and the majority of it appears to be guerilla fighting going building to building either stealth or gung ho, guns blazing... and on those point it is a fairly good game, but at my age :) time is too precious to spend on games that do not make me want to play all day.

As far as bugs and glitches go, games have come a long long way from when I started playing (40 years ago) they are incredibly huge and have a ridiculous amount of detail which is still absolutely amazing to me, I truly appreciate all the work that goes into making any game. But I think teams like rebellion that (probably) employ a few hundred people could beta test a game of this size for 2 years and still not find the glitches that a few million players will find in a day or two :)

Zeph is correct that sometimes launch dates (especially when a new game is bundled with a console launch or new GPU) means games can be released with known issues that will become a priority. A lot of people are getting through the mission, and probably it did not show up before release, so it might need some kind of investigating to find out just why some of us cannot progress, or some guaranteed alternative needs adding (maybe blow up the smelter using the panzerfaust in the armoury/ ammo room). I still enjoy SE especially 4 and have been a fan since the first SE came out. I'll still buy SE6 pre-order and hope it is more long shots and sniper focused.

Having seen a lot of great game developers disappear over the years, (Bullfrog why did you disappear before Dungeon Keeper 3 :( ) I will still continue to buy games from smaller companies to support a series even if it has a new direction or glitches.