100% soft locked

[Dysdopia]

I am trying to get the commrades Hammer pistol, but I apparently already killed the people who dropped it and they wont respawn. Am I just soft locked because I missed one minor detail?

[Eyks]

the word the OP means is "Missable".

[Titan Awaken]

Originally posted by Dysdopia:

Im not saying that its not my fault, im just asking if its possible to fix or not. I thought it may have been impossible to undo my mistake and to me that sounds like im locked out of 100%.

Well if you want to stick by the straight and narrow, your only options are to:

1. Reload an earlier save (if you have one still) before you killed the goons.

2. Start a new game and do it right this time round.

If you don’t have an earlier save and if option 2 takes too much time/effort, the only path you have left is to use mods and third party programs to get the pistol or its blueprint.

Regardless of what you end up choosing or if you end up choosing at all, it’s your prerogative at the end of the day; it’s your game so you get to make the rules.

[Izzy Wit Da Uzi]

If you have CET installed, use this console command:

Game.AddToInventory("Items.Preset_Burya_Comrade",1)

[darren.reid]

I somewhat disagree on the softlock definition people are badgering you over: a soft lock is something that locks you out of some content, and it almost ALWAYS is because the player did something, by accident or intent, that the game does not account for. Normally it means you cant progress the game beyond a certain point, but I'd say using it to say "I can't get 100% anymore because I missed something earlier" works fine.
Wiktionary: softlock: "A situation where a game remains apparently playable, but further progress or action, especially those that would undo said state are impossible, typically due to a design flaw or glitch."
Soft locks don't necessarily mean that NO progress can be made, just that you are locked out of SOME progress or actions, like 100% completion, getting a side quest, etc. Streamers use it all the time this way, saying they softlocked themselves out of some game content because of a badly timed save etc.

[landmass]

Originally posted by darren.reid:

Wiktionary: softlock: "A situation where a game remains apparently playable, but further progress or action, especially those that would undo said state are impossible, typically due to a design flaw or glitch."

This is what people are correcting OP on. There is no design flaw that stopped them from acquiring the weapon, they simply didn't grab it.

[Titan Awaken]

Originally posted by darren.reid:

Wiktionary: softlock: "A situation where a game remains apparently playable, but further progress or action, especially those that would undo said state are impossible, typically due to a design flaw or glitch."

Soft locks don't necessarily mean that NO progress can be made, just that you are locked out of SOME progress or actions, like 100% completion, getting a side quest, etc. Streamers use it all the time this way, saying they softlocked themselves out of some game content because of a badly timed save etc.

Let’s go by that definition since it’s the one you chose. I immediately spot two fatal flaws that make the OP’s situation not a softlock.

#1

but further progress or action, especially those that would undo said state are impossible,

Well first off if the OP didn’t pick up the pistol the first time round because they forgot, they had plenty of opportunities to reload an autosave or a previous manual save to correct their mistake.

Reloading an earlier save indeed “undo(s) said state” and thus it was not impossible for the OP to correct their mistake.

Not a softlock by your provided definition.

#2

typically due to a design flaw or glitch.

A player forgetting to loot something isn’t a design flaw or glitch. It is literally a textbook example of human error.

If I put a chicken into the oven but forget to turn on the oven, is it a design flaw or glitch of the oven or just plain, old human error?

[xNothing]

This is the difference between "the store is closed" or you "drove to the parking lot and left, it must be closed" You are not softlocked, there are ways to reattain the item.. Easy way = mods hardway = revert to where you goofed