Cannot find bike outside of Zernaskaya Village after restarting a new save despite owning Dead Zone DLC

[Schrothom]

Hi dev,

I've played Tunguska back in March this year but stopped for a long time, I remembered seeing the bike outside of Zernaskaya Village and I'm able to repair it and use it. I got back into the game recently and decided to start a completely new save and this time the bike does not spawn outside of Zernaskaya Village, is this a bug or was there any changes to the game flow?

[Rotorist]

the bike has been hidden until you find the key to it which is in lake cheko. it’s available to all players. but if you start ng+ you will get the key to the bike right at the beginning of game, and the bike will be there from the beginning

[Six]

Interesting. It appeared for me after I got the task of 'meet Roman'. I didn't have the key yet (from the place where you get it from).

[Rotorist]

Originally posted by Six:

Interesting. It appeared for me after I got the task of 'meet Roman'. I didn't have the key yet (from the place where you get it from).

yea at that stage it’ll unlock the bike for you

[Schrothom]

Unlocked the bike, thanks dev!

Another question, will Serum Order expiry lead to reputation penalty? I am aware that declining Serum Orders will lead to reputation penalty, but I am not sure if expiry will have the same consequences. If so I would like to have the feature of choosing if I want to take on Serum Orders if I know I can fulfill it instead of having the Serum Orders automatically accepted but I do not have the time/material to source for the Serums.

[Rotorist]

Originally posted by Schrothom:

Unlocked the bike, thanks dev!

Another question, will Serum Order expiry lead to reputation penalty? I am aware that declining Serum Orders will lead to reputation penalty, but I am not sure if expiry will have the same consequences. If so I would like to have the feature of choosing if I want to take on Serum Orders if I know I can fulfill it instead of having the Serum Orders automatically accepted but I do not have the time/material to source for the Serums.

well you know, if you don't explicitly decline (the purpose of which is to free up the order slots for the new orders, if you know you can't fulfill the current ones and don't wanna wait), nobody knows about you being a supplier :) So there is no consequence for waiting it out. These serum orders are made as public announcements, so it's for everyone really.

[Schrothom]

That's great! I was under the pressure of chasing deadlines for Serum Orders, thanks for clearing my doubt :)