Zalissia has no monolith in it, no one is attacking.

[Klaynes]

I got there in time. There's a bunch of people in the main building but door is locked. No monolith are outside attacking. The shop and other buildings are full of dead bodies.

I guess I just lose this town forever?

already reloaded earlier saves a couple times.

[Fluffy Newfoundland]

Yes, it's bugged for everyone, the Monolith spawn inside the bulding with the folks you're supposed to protect, so nothing happen.

Your safe bet is to load a save before getting too close to the town before the radio call asking for help.

[SpidersInABirthdayCake]

Reload a earlier save and STAY AWAY from Zalissya so as to not trigger the mission. It's all cooked and there will be no survivors. Simply stay away from the town until they fix it (Which sucks).

[🚛 Akehiko ⬛️💀🟧]

It should ( maybe ) fix itself by it's own after you sleep or use a guide to travel

Same thing happened to me when I went to Zalissia and monolith were inside the train station just vibing, after sleeping they despawned and attacked the town normally ( then got stuck again )

Why did the devs decide to make you unable to pull out a gun in certain areas is beyond me

[Klaynes]

Originally posted by SpidersInABirthdayCake:

Reload a earlier save and STAY AWAY from Zalissya so as to not trigger the mission. It's all cooked and there will be no survivors. Simply stay away from the town until they fix it (Which sucks).

I was in the monolith facility when the call to save them came in. I don't think you have to be close to Zal to trigger the quest.

I reloaded the save I made while still in the facility, right after the 1st radio msg about the attack, and ran all the way to Zal again. Same thing. Long run too.
This sucks.

[lockwoodx]

Congratulations.. you discovered the emperor has no pants.

[SpidersInABirthdayCake]

Originally posted by Klaynes:

Originally posted by SpidersInABirthdayCake:

Reload a earlier save and STAY AWAY from Zalissya so as to not trigger the mission. It's all cooked and there will be no survivors. Simply stay away from the town until they fix it (Which sucks).

I was in the monolith facility when the call to save them came in. I don't think you have to be close to Zal to trigger the quest.

I reloaded the save I made while still in the facility, right after the 1st radio msg about the attack, and ran all the way to Zal again. Same thing. Long run too.
This sucks.

I had loaded a save before the attack after realizing it's unwinnable. I haven't gone into the lesser zone since then and I haven't got any message to come to defend yet so I believe it's a distance trigger.

[Fox Tail]

Honestly better off reloading your save before going to SIRCA and just not doing any main story quest until a modder patches it. As it stands once SIRCA triggers majority of the map completely bugs out, the whole warden town south of SIRCA is completely empty, saving Zalissia is impossible and if you sided with the warden faction your game gets hard locked by a bug making it impossible to finish the main quest line. Also the already broken AI breaks 100x worse.

[Fluffy Newfoundland]

Originally posted by SpidersInABirthdayCake:

Originally posted by Klaynes:

I was in the monolith facility when the call to save them came in. I don't think you have to be close to Zal to trigger the quest.

I reloaded the save I made while still in the facility, right after the 1st radio msg about the attack, and ran all the way to Zal again. Same thing. Long run too.
This sucks.

I had loaded a save before the attack after realizing it's unwinnable. I haven't gone into the lesser zone since then and I haven't got any message to come to defend yet so I believe it's a distance trigger.

It is, i think it's like 1.5 km away from it.

Don't get south after the X-18 lab in Garbage and don't get to (maybe?) get to the Prof being tortured in the Muet shop during the main quest.

[SpidersInABirthdayCake]

Originally posted by Fox Tail:

Honestly better off reloading your save before going to SIRCA and just not doing any main story quest until a modder patches it. As it stands once SIRCA triggers majority of the map completely bugs out, the whole warden town south of SIRCA is completely empty, saving Zalissia is impossible and if you sided with the warden faction your game gets hard locked by a bug making it impossible to finish the main quest line. Also the already broken AI breaks 100x worse.

Good thing I went for a Spark play-through.

[SakujoSakujoSakujo]

Everyone's at the town hall having invitation-only party.. Obviously, "anomaly, not a bug" said all of those people getting their game soft-locked.

[Meddle92]

I love all of these amazing youtube videos from complete unknowns flooding my recommended feed telling me how amazing this game is whilst this kind of ♥♥♥♥ keeps happening to me.

[=.KoG.= Big Worm]

fix for me was:
stand in front of bugged building, facing the road. walk to the intersection, go right and walk out of town. walk a bit (200m) beyond the zalissya sign. turn around and WALK towards the building again. try it a few times, worked for me.

note: you also might have to redo this step, to get all monolith stuck in the building to come out. you can pass it eventually.

my problem is a few missions later that is bugged :D

good luck ,stalkers

[Dupa]

Its VERY buggy. Heres how i solved it (using UE tools, nothing else worked for me):
https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1gz8kia/comment/lzjhozo/

[atrox]

Originally posted by Darq:

Originally posted by Fox Tail:

Honestly better off reloading your save before going to SIRCA and just not doing any main story quest until a modder patches it. As it stands once SIRCA triggers majority of the map completely bugs out, the whole warden town south of SIRCA is completely empty, saving Zalissia is impossible and if you sided with the warden faction your game gets hard locked by a bug making it impossible to finish the main quest line. Also the already broken AI breaks 100x worse.

What bug

This one: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1643320/discussions/0/4626981323674855870/

[127.0.0.1]

Here is the solution that helped me.
I used my old save, right after finishing the "To the Last Drop of Blood" mission
Then, rather than working to complete "Just Like the Good Old Days" - go to Zalissia and monolith will start showing up and the door will open once you kill them.