"In the Name of Science" Collar bug?

[Scratch_]

So i got 3 of the 4 collars. The 4th collar you are supposed to get by killing a cat a village near the swamp with a scripted encounter with other stalkers. HOWEVER, I came across this encounter WAY BEFORE I acquired the quest to get said collars. Im fairly certain that when I killed the cat the first time there was no collar on it to acquire at the time so I thought nothing of it. Now I have the quest to acquire said collar and the location is now empty. I thought maybe the corpse of the cat is still there with the collar on it but it has De-spawned now that it is much later in the story. Is there anyway to acquire said collar to finish the quest or am i completely ♥♥♥♥♥♥. We are talking like a 25-30 hour difference in when I encountered it the first time versus right now. Anyone else find a solution or come across this issue? Thanks

[Big Bearded Reaper]

I would only recommend this for getting the achievement tied to this sidequest, otherwise just wait it out until there is a patch that fixes this quest.

First command will complete find the collars step. Second command will start the next step to talk with Scherba. Enter them separately;

XDKFinishQuestStage E08_SQ01 E08_SQ01_Wait_For_Your_Reward_From_Shcherba true

XStartQuest E08_SQ01_S2

The problem is that if you got the collars before doing the main mission "In Search of a Past Glory" (which is very likely if you explore before doing missions), they are all given to Dvupalov. The missing markers wont show up since you already killed/took the collar and gave the collar away. For me, Dvupalov took the collars of the Psy Bayun & PsuedoGiant just bc they were in my inventory when I gave him the Controller collar for the main mission.

[BTGbullseye]

Originally posted by Big Bearded Reaper:

I would only recommend this for getting the achievement tied to this sidequest

What about the yellow durability gauss gun you get as a reward ? I would consider that very worth it. Besides, you could just tell him the command to spawn the right collar into his inventory instead of trying to get him to skip over the mission entirely.

[Big Bearded Reaper]

Originally posted by BTGbullseye:

Originally posted by Big Bearded Reaper:

I would only recommend this for getting the achievement tied to this sidequest

What about the yellow durability gauss gun you get as a reward ? I would consider that very worth it. Besides, you could just tell him the command to spawn the right collar into his inventory instead of trying to get him to skip over the mission entirely.

Can get gauss guns from multiple other places, so its not worth possibly borking your save over that

I would if that worked, but it doesnt. I've spawned every collar in the game into my inventory and it doesnt complete the quest stage. Havent been able to find an ID for the specific collared mutants to spawn them in either. I'll try spawning them on the ground again and picking them up tmr, but it kept CTD when doing that.

[Ivraas]

So it's a bug or we suppose to bring all at once? I only have this when talking to hamster, and the quest to bring the collars is still active.
Show electronic collar> which leads to
-What do you know about the client
-[leave}I'll bring them later.

I remember pseudogiant in one of the quests have collar but i just run off after freeing him from hangars and numerous deaths, since he eat all my ammo and still kept going, is it why i can't now give the collars to the Hamster? Or because i found a few collars before i activated the dog hunting quest in Zalisja?

[TEKK3N]

It should respawn, just go to another area relog and go back to the area.

[[☠] Ataru [☠]]

Originally posted by Poptart:

So i got 3 of the 4 collars. The 4th collar you are supposed to get by killing a cat a village near the swamp with a scripted encounter with other stalkers. HOWEVER, I came across this encounter WAY BEFORE I acquired the quest to get said collars. Im fairly certain that when I killed the cat the first time there was no collar on it to acquire at the time so I thought nothing of it. Now I have the quest to acquire said collar and the location is now empty. I thought maybe the corpse of the cat is still there with the collar on it but it has De-spawned now that it is much later in the story. Is there anyway to acquire said collar to finish the quest or am i completely ♥♥♥♥♥♥. We are talking like a 25-30 hour difference in when I encountered it the first time versus right now. Anyone else find a solution or come across this issue? Thanks

The problem with this quest happened to me too.
Basically I found 5 collars, not 4, what at least I have 5 collars in my inventory. When I try to finish the quest by handing them in, it doesn't give me the option.

(solved using one cheat, so change 5 to 4 as quantity have solved)

[BTGbullseye]

Originally posted by Big Bearded Reaper:

Can get gauss guns from multiple other places, so its not worth possibly borking your save over that

Yes, but this is the first one you can get legitimately.

[Ivraas]

Originally posted by ☠ Ataru ☠:

The problem with this quest happened to me too.
Basically I found 5 collars, not 4, what at least I have 5 collars in my inventory. When I try to finish the quest by handing them in, it doesn't give me the option.

(solved using one cheat, so change 5 to 4 as quantity have solved)

Dude, i know you didn't say it to me but it damn works, i was able to give them to the hamster and get rid of the quest.
It's getting annoying with all that broken quests sitting in my pda i can't do anything about.

[@JarrydSecretly]

Originally posted by Poptart:

So i got 3 of the 4 collars. The 4th collar you are supposed to get by killing a cat a village near the swamp with a scripted encounter with other stalkers. HOWEVER, I came across this encounter WAY BEFORE I acquired the quest to get said collars. Im fairly certain that when I killed the cat the first time there was no collar on it to acquire at the time so I thought nothing of it. Now I have the quest to acquire said collar and the location is now empty. I thought maybe the corpse of the cat is still there with the collar on it but it has De-spawned now that it is much later in the story. Is there anyway to acquire said collar to finish the quest or am i completely ♥♥♥♥♥♥. We are talking like a 25-30 hour difference in when I encountered it the first time versus right now. Anyone else find a solution or come across this issue? Thanks

I had 3 of them in my inventory and when I did in search of glory. It took all 3 out instead of 1. So now i only have 2 markers on my map. Garbage and Malchite. So idk if i should go collect the 2 and try to hand them in and it should work but it just doesn't seem likely as my game bugged hard this save. I inspected the weird bolt during an emission and when i went to do 2cd Duga mission my game perm crashed from an emission. Thankfully i had a save before the inspect of the weird bolt. Only lost like a couple of hours and a couple side quest i didn't feel like redoing. But I re did the main missions and Drunko guy bugged out and couldn't hand in the blueprint. So ive had to use commands to progress. So irritating. idk how the game doesn't detect you have multiple collars and you only need to hand in 1 like wtf. I got paid like 14k for them though so idk its all chalked.

[DarkFire]

This quest is bugged for me too. The mission directed me towards a location in the lesser zone where 2 stalkers want me to help take out a mutant that's in a building. I agree to help, enter the building and... nothing happens. No mutant, so I can't get the collar so I can finish the quest.

YET ANOTHER broken side quest.

[Jethro66]

I have 4 collars and it says mission updated and nothing???were do you go??

[Skulls]

Originally posted by Big Bearded Reaper:

I would only recommend this for getting the achievement tied to this sidequest, otherwise just wait it out until there is a patch that fixes this quest.

First command will complete find the collars step. Second command will start the next step to talk with Scherba. Enter them separately;

XDKFinishQuestStage E08_SQ01 E08_SQ01_Wait_For_Your_Reward_From_Shcherba true

XStartQuest E08_SQ01_S2

The problem is that if you got the collars before doing the main mission "In Search of a Past Glory" (which is very likely if you explore before doing missions), they are all given to Dvupalov. The missing markers wont show up since you already killed/took the collar and gave the collar away. For me, Dvupalov took the collars of the Psy Bayun & PsuedoGiant just bc they were in my inventory when I gave him the Controller collar for the main mission.

These commands worked to move things along and I also used the following command to give myself the missing collar:

XCreateItemInInventoryByID Electrocollar 0 1 1

[str1ct]

Originally posted by Skulls:

Originally posted by Big Bearded Reaper:

I would only recommend this for getting the achievement tied to this sidequest, otherwise just wait it out until there is a patch that fixes this quest.

First command will complete find the collars step. Second command will start the next step to talk with Scherba. Enter them separately;

XDKFinishQuestStage E08_SQ01 E08_SQ01_Wait_For_Your_Reward_From_Shcherba true

XStartQuest E08_SQ01_S2

The problem is that if you got the collars before doing the main mission "In Search of a Past Glory" (which is very likely if you explore before doing missions), they are all given to Dvupalov. The missing markers wont show up since you already killed/took the collar and gave the collar away. For me, Dvupalov took the collars of the Psy Bayun & PsuedoGiant just bc they were in my inventory when I gave him the Controller collar for the main mission.

These commands worked to move things along and I also used the following command to give myself the missing collar:

XCreateItemInInventoryByID Electrocollar 0 1 1

spawn this collar by command not working for me

[Bombatomica]

I think i encountered a bug too. I collected the collar near the Brood, but the blue indicator doesn't go away. Now i'm stuck because i got the other three, but i previously collected two and gave them to the doctor whatsoever (dont' remember the name), so.... stuck.

[Kirk]

Originally posted by Big Bearded Reaper:

I would only recommend this for getting the achievement tied to this sidequest, otherwise just wait it out until there is a patch that fixes this quest.

First command will complete find the collars step. Second command will start the next step to talk with Scherba. Enter them separately;

XDKFinishQuestStage E08_SQ01 E08_SQ01_Wait_For_Your_Reward_From_Shcherba true

XStartQuest E08_SQ01_S2

The problem is that if you got the collars before doing the main mission "In Search of a Past Glory" (which is very likely if you explore before doing missions), they are all given to Dvupalov. The missing markers wont show up since you already killed/took the collar and gave the collar away. For me, Dvupalov took the collars of the Psy Bayun & PsuedoGiant just bc they were in my inventory when I gave him the Controller collar for the main mission.

Quick question. I took a gig from the Barkeep in Rostok, to take out bandits who were disrupting his supply routes and the bandits were in that same area where that 2 feet giant is with the collar on its head so I killed it, but now I came to the "In Search of Past Glory mission" and I have 2 collars. One from the cat at Wild Islands and one from the giant.

If I give the 2 collars to Dvupalov I won't be able to continue the next mission? Since you said the monster doesn't show up.