"Talk to Jackie" Heist Mission Bug

[FullBlownAids]

I've hit a game breaking bug and can't proceed. Jackie is nowhere to be found and I also can't enter the Afterlife Club. Have I just lost 6 hours of gameplay?

[orcaa]

Really ? You don't save more often than at 6 hours of gameplay ? I save before and after every mission/gig or 5 minutes or so.
Anyways, you can check when your last checkpoint was and see if that helps at all.

[5A 65 72 6F]

Got bugs a few times during my playthrough, occasionally the game won't trigger the event, just load the latest autosave.

Also sometimes the game won't let you save, you can brute force autosave by using the car/bike back stash.

[FullBlownAids]

Originally posted by orcaa:

Really ? You don't save more often than at 6 hours of gameplay ? I save before and after every mission/gig or 5 minutes or so.
Anyways, you can check when your last checkpoint was and see if that helps at all.

Sorry, what i meant was that I took a load of time doing the gigs and so I would lose all of that data.

[Rabidnid]

Originally posted by FullBlownAids:

Originally posted by orcaa:

Really ? You don't save more often than at 6 hours of gameplay ? I save before and after every mission/gig or 5 minutes or so.
Anyways, you can check when your last checkpoint was and see if that helps at all.

Sorry, what i meant was that I took a load of time doing the gigs and so I would lose all of that data.

You should be fine with just reloading a previous save. Do not speak to Jackie on the phone beforehand as that did trigger a bug that could cause him to disappear.

[Bogmore]

Load an autosave. personally I've never had this.

[Rabidnid]

I usually have about 90 manual saves by the end of a playthrough.

[Bogmore]

There are 20 autosaves so the OP should load one of them.

[The Dapper Dragon]

You can really tell who started playing games before the advent of Autosave. I'm hitting F5 after almost every thing I do.

[credenza27]

I am having the same exact issue.

At the end of the first half of the heist, Jackie accelerated his motorcycle and glitched into a barrel. The mission progressed so I continued. Did a side mission real quick.

Then I got to the Talk to Jackie part, and it just rings and he doesn't pick up. No option to text him, and even though I'm tracking the mission in journal, it's not highlighted yellow on the phone hud icon like it should be.

I frequently manual save and overwrite existing. Tried reloading previous save, tried loading oldest autosave available. Tried calling everyone else in contacts. Tried forwarding time and sleeping (maybe he was taking a nap? lol).

Idk what else to do. 19 hours in and the only main quest is broken and game is unplayable help

[GussMcDuck]

Lol... Still broken in 2025... Thanks Hideyoshi Oshima!
(In the Heist I sprinted past Jackie to see Easter Egg Kojima - returned to Jackie to "Talk to Jackie"... *autosave triggers* - now he just stands there with no way to proceed lol... Ended my 2nd playthrough, cause I am not loading going ~5hrs back (I know you can technically get to this point in a fresh new game like in ~2hrs, but I decided to do all of Watson in an entirety before "getting Keanud".)