[BUG] Pharos tower - elevator to security area (progression locked)

[Turnspit]

So I've just finished the office area of the Pharos tower mission (mission 10 I think?) and am tasked to take the elevator to the security area.

I'm a tad lost however where to go from here.
The elevator from where I came from just takes me between ground level and office area.

In the office area, there are sealed elevator doors with "security" written on the ground, but I don't seem to find a way to open them.

Am I missing something, or might I have encountered one of numerous bugs?

[Deludo]

There is a block of 4 elevators in the middle of the office map. The front two take you down and the bottom two are Red and locked off but if you interact with the panel you can call them down and ride them to the security level. Here is a screen shot https://gyazo.com/d83fe786f25a3974d7d9646c18679a0b

[Turnspit]

Originally posted by Deludo:

There is a block of 4 elevators in the middle of the office map. The front two take you down and the bottom two are Red and locked off but if you interact with the panel you can call them down and ride them to the security level. Here is a screen shot https://gyazo.com/d83fe786f25a3974d7d9646c18679a0b

Thanks!
Then I indeed seem to have encountered a bug.

I have the same active quest in the top corner, but no symbols on the map or the play area and can't interact with the elevators either... Might need to load another save game right before this quest...

[Mnemic]

Did you kill the WY-Commandos by yourself or did you open the vents to let the aliens in? There are many threads about this Mission and how it can softlock you because there seems to be some issues with event triggers.

From what I've seen mostly people report this because they avoided to open the vents and killed the commandos themself, mostly.

[Turnspit]

Opened the vents on both rooms and let the aliens kill the WY-commandos. I'll just try and load an earlier save to see if just the trigger for the elevator might just somehow got stuck/bugged.

[Mnemic]

Yeah... it's a mess to find out what causes these problems by trial and error. Lucky you got a save you can revert to.

For some people one of the Main Objectives (finding the keycard) never been flagged as finished yet they were still able to continue with the mission. But after finishing it they couldn't progress because the next mission never showed up due to this objective still being unfinished.

If you retry check your objectives and make sure they are all flagged as finished. The elevator and keycard thing seem to be different issues but just to be sure.

[Turnspit]

Sadly I was a bit too quick - I did tons of trial and error to get the elevator to work beforehand, like returning to base, driving around in the APC, ... and now I'm stuck with a ton of autosaves, but none before clearing and defending that control room, right before being task to take the elevator.

This is what I'm facing:
https://i.imgur.com/PoFThN4.png

Sooo... am I locked out of further progressing the game?
Is there a way to completely reset the mission?
Or will I have to put the game aside and wait for a fix hopefully to land soon?

[Doom]

Can you not click on the elevators to call them down?

[Turnspit]

In the screenshot my pointer is on the elevator door, I've also tried pointing at the terminals... Nothing to interact with...

[ArterialSpray1066]

Heya, I just had a similar issue. None of the elevators to the security floor worked, either on that floor or on the ground floor.

In my case I had made a save after killing the final merc so loaded that.
After loading that save found that if I went straight to the elevator on that floor, one of the two doors would let me summon the elevator. If I went down to the ground to extract or drop off the synth I was dragging around, then none of them would be intractable.

Doubt that helps in your case at all, but thought it might help anyone else who stumbles into this bug before they overwrite all their saves.

[Turnspit]

That's good to know...

Sucks that I don't have a previous save point anymore... :-(

[O-REN V]

Did anyone get this resolved as im stuck at this part cannot access security room, only save before hand is to the mission before really dont want to have to do everything again 😂

[Turnspit]

I was hoping that the recent patch would've resolved this issue, but I seem to be out of luck...

Still no way of accessing that elevator...

[TheW3tBlanket]

Originally posted by Turnspit:

I was hoping that the recent patch would've resolved this issue, but I seem to be out of luck...

Still no way of accessing that elevator...

Having this same issue and hoped this patch would fix it but I think I'll have to restart my whole playthrough since I only have my two saves that are near or after the completion of the mission.

[Diminish]

Same issue, I cannot interact with the elevator

I opened all vents and killed commandos using xenos
Tried extracting and coming back, tried doing side missions, tried not taking the synth down

Nothing works

[Diminish]

Still bugged after patch