(BUG) No checkpoints or saving for Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos mission

[Great Dane]

(Spoilers for said mission)

Might be speaking into the ether, but this is really annoying when you have 30 minutes of progress reset for a mission. Last save is right before you enter the motel before you fight MaxTac, and from then on there are zero checkpoints. Made it to the secret Militech lab and made some good progress avoiding the spider mech and performing stealth, only to be spotted by the spider and instakilling me. No problem, always like a little challenge and hide and seek is fun, but there is no checkpoint and i get sent right back to the motel preplanning the MaxTac fight. 30 minutes of progress wiped. Anyone else experience this? Thought I'd share since I can't seem to find a way to report a bug to CDPR.

[Kantermoose]

you know you can manual save your game or hit f5 for a quick save.

only mission i am aware of is the secret ending that does not allow this. could be the case for this mission as well which sadly equates to "get good" - maybe lower difficulty for this mission ?

[Great Dane]

Originally posted by Kantermoose:

you know you can manual save your game or hit f5 for a quick save.

only mission i am aware of is the secret ending that does not allow this. could be the case for this mission as well which sadly equates to "get good" - maybe lower difficulty for this mission ?

Yeah I should add I've already tried saving/quicksaving, and it prevents me from doing so. I just think that with all the other missions in this game having checkpoints in between fights and dialogue sequences, why would CDPR make this the mission that has none?

[Kantermoose]

same as the secret ending then.

So 3 difficulty spikes, smasher fight and 2 missions.

[charly4711]

There is something wrong on your end, because I sure as hell didn't have to do the MaxTac fight after every time getting killed by the spider bot. There definitely were checkpoints. I mean wrong in the sense of restarting the game/computer or something.

[berkut1988]

Just encountered this bug. In my case last save is before opening the MaxTac truck. Anyone find a workaround?

[SiM]

Originally posted by charly4711:

I sure as hell didn't have to do the MaxTac fight after every time getting killed by the spider bot.

Happened to me today. Died to the dog and lost 90 minutes of my life. Hope I died earlier so I didn't wasted so much time. Was wondering why the game went this hardcore mode for so long. It didn't happen the second time tho, no work around needed for me, just re-load the game.

[Porkhammer]

Yeah if you can't save, just restart/reload the game. It should restore its functionality.

[NeliusXander]

This just happened to me. I couldn’t save and I just figured I was doing something wrong. Then instant death, no auto save, back the hotel.

[CorwynCorey]

Old bug, never quite sorted out (though certain missions do trigger it more often, the rescue of Evelyn for example).
Cannot call, cannot summon a ride, cannot save... reload last save immediately, should fix itself.