Padlock Icon and not getting action button prompts

[browny_l]

I noticed a couple hours into my playthrough i am getting this padlock icon appear . For some reason it stops me getting prompts to loot items , open doors and talk top NPC's . I get it inside and outside of safe zones and the only way to resolve it is to open up the inventory and close it and then for like a minute the icon will go away and i get my action prompts back but then it reappears and i lose the prompts . Getting abit annoying me having to open and close my inventory every minute

Image below of padlock icon

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/51323468309663641/4DAB3C51BF684A0E78B70030B234C7148697D49A/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false

[Norbi15]

same case here; opening a map help once

[Priestess No.1 Stalker]

do you find a solution ?

[browny_l]

Originally posted by Blazing Sky:

do you find a solution ?

The only thing ive seen that works temporarily is to open your inventory and close it again.

[Beacon]

I experienced this too and could only fix it by reloading an earlier save, which did fix it.

[browny_l]

Originally posted by Beacon:

I experienced this too and could only fix it by reloading an earlier save, which did fix it.

See im several hours into my playthrough and i dont wanna go back and waste time :/

[Beacon]

Originally posted by browny_l:

Originally posted by Beacon:

I experienced this too and could only fix it by reloading an earlier save, which did fix it.

See im several hours into my playthrough and i dont wanna go back and waste time :/

I know it's annoying, it depends how long ago it appeared - it seems like thankfully the game keeps a long list of auto/quicksaves, so try going back a few and keep trying to find when you still had a HUD and no padlock.

[browny_l]

Originally posted by Beacon:

Originally posted by browny_l:

See im several hours into my playthrough and i dont wanna go back and waste time :/

I know it's annoying, it depends how long ago it appeared - it seems like thankfully the game keeps a long list of auto/quicksaves, so try going back a few and keep trying to find when you still had a HUD and no padlock.

No ive been fighting against this bug for most of the save , i thought it was an icon when you go into safe zones i'd have to start all over again and im like 6 hours deep now F doing that i aint got time to re do it .

[browny_l]

Originally posted by Beacon:

Originally posted by browny_l:

See im several hours into my playthrough and i dont wanna go back and waste time :/

I know it's annoying, it depends how long ago it appeared - it seems like thankfully the game keeps a long list of auto/quicksaves, so try going back a few and keep trying to find when you still had a HUD and no padlock.

Through testing i have managed to figure out what causes it and its whenever i go into the pause menu when i come out thats when the padlock appears

[browny_l]

I figured out how to fix it . The bug occurs when you try to talk to an NPC whos doing pushups at the Hazard sign storage area . If you kill him it fixes it .

[Colonel_Black]

I seemed to get the bug when I tried speaking to a NPC who was playing the guitar
(Xbox Game Pass PC)

[browny_l]

Originally posted by Colonel_Black:

I seemed to get the bug when I tried speaking to a NPC who was playing the guitar
(Xbox Game Pass PC)

Yeah i think it might be both because ive heard something similar , anyway , if you kills that NPC it should fix it .

[Jo Lacastagne]

Originally posted by browny_l:

I figured out how to fix it . The bug occurs when you try to talk to an NPC whos doing pushups at the Hazard sign storage area . If you kill him it fixes it .

Was this too for me.

I had to went back after few missions and kill all those poor guys haha

Reported the issue to the devs

[Alpoc]

I found a mod that will fix this problem:

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1gw5eao/comment/lyvxe6w/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

This bug was driving me nuts and this fixed it without having to go back and hunt down the pushups guy that caused this.