Just Like the Good Old Days - Lodochka not spawning

[Kamu]

First stage of the quest, Lodochka is not spawning near noontide base for me to rescue him from Mercs, no quest marker, nothing. Has anyone experienced this and found a fix to get him to spawn?

I have tried using UETools to reset the quest and no luck, i tried completing it which breaks the main quest line progression.

[no name, no luck and no skill]

If you finish this quest, you might learn that door to his bunker won't open, breaking it one more time.

[Fang]

Same here. :D Guess that's it until they patch it.

[Kamu]

Originally posted by no name, no luck and no skill:

If you finish this quest, you might learn that door to his bunker won't open, breaking it one more time.

I am unable to start the next quest even if i wanted to skip it, the quest line just bricks itself totally

[Fang]

Did you side with Strider? This fixed it for me: https://www.xbox.com/en-US/play/media/iJ7GZNGeLM (It's an XBOX video).

Someone on Reddit recorded this. You don't actually have to speak to the professor, you can bypass this part of the quest by doing what the person does in the video. Just enter the Noontide base (That's the monolith base on Wild Island, you've been there before) via the front door and go from there.

You will get the coordinates to go to Scar after picking up the item and it will skip the "speak to professor Lodochka " objective.

Mind you, this game has a lot more broken quests. :( But so far I've been able to progress the main quest again.

[Kamu]

Originally posted by Fang:

Did you side with Strider? This fixed it for me: https://www.xbox.com/en-US/play/media/iJ7GZNGeLM (It's an XBOX video).

Someone on Reddit recorded this. You don't actually have to speak to the professor, you can bypass this part of the quest by doing what the person does in the video. Just enter the Noontide base (That's the monolith base on Wild Island, you've been there before) via the front door and go from there.

You will get the coordinates to go to Scar after picking up the item and it will skip the "speak to professor Lodochka " objective.

Mind you, this game has a lot more broken quests. :( But so far I've been able to progress the main quest again.

omg, i done that but didnt pick up the item previously, it works thank you!

[Richard Bah]

Install https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/64 for console, come to Lodochka bunker, and use in console:
1. XStartQuestNodeBySID E07_MQ01_Trigger_PlayerNearLodochka
2. XStartQuestNodeBySID E07_MQ01_TeleportCharacter_LodochkaToContextual

And quest be work

[Bobalitchuba]

This happened to me even after saving the professor and taking the object.
when I get out I did a fast corner to go to the stash at nootide base and leave from behind.
The professor didn't appear at the bunker. the trigger for him appear is at noontide base at the main/first stairs when you first enter there, near the "medical" room, just passing there will trrigger the professor call on the radio calling you to his bunker.

[n0mad23]

This one (and subsequent side-quest following) seem to be mostly radio call cues and don't appear in the journal. Made it all rather more challenging than necessary and left me wondering if it was bugged or a dev choice in the end.

I rescued the professor initially but after completing the quest instead of pushing on to the next objective, I went back to his bunker to see if he had a reward or something. It never was a mission objective (and he gives you another addition to the main quest).

[Finlandse]

I managed to accidentally find a solution to this while playing.
if you go to the southern part of the noontide (monolith) base on wild island and follow the path of sunken trains eventually dialogue with prof lodochka will trigger. im not 100% sure if this is recreatable but i managed to still complete this part of the quest by doing this.