Vision of Truth Bug

[Riskie]

Hello,

I have 40+ hours played so far and I am loving the game. However I have encountered a bug which has completely prevented me progressing any further.

When doing the 'Visions of Truth' quest I was able to progress to the point where I have cleared the NW checkpoint and Scar has asked me to meet them at the secret entrance. Every time I approach Scar he becomes hostile and begins attacking me and I get a quest which advises that the scientists think I'm a Bogeyman. I do nothing except approach him.

Here's what I have tried so far:
- Loading previous saves and progressing through the quest again, ones during previous steps in this quest and ones completely before it. The behaviour occurs each time.
- Leaving STC Malachite, sleeping and waiting for the quest for the scientists to 'complete' and advise me I can now talk to them, then heading back. The same behaviour occurs.
- Tried sweeping the facility completely to ensure there's no enemies I have missed. This was slightly out of desperation, but I also saw a Reddit post of someone saying this helped.

Seems I am hardstuck on the main story, unless anyone has any suggestions? I would rather write the game off than restart in the hope this might not happen again 40 hours in, as much as I don't want to as I am genuinely enjoying it.

Thank you!

[aGryze TV]

I just got to this quest, have you restarted the game? (as in closing and relaunching it?) I had a weird bug at the institute level, i'll keep you updated on if I experience the same thing... maybe Scar is supposed to betray us? I wouldn't be surprised KEKW

[Riskie]

Originally posted by aGryze TV:

I just got to this quest, have you restarted the game? (as in closing and relaunching it?) I had a weird bug at the institute level, i'll keep you updated on if I experience the same thing... maybe Scar is supposed to betray us? I wouldn't be surprised KEKW

Thanks for your reply. I have tried restarting and it yielded the same outcome. I've raised a ticket with Stalker 2 support on the official website now, so I'll update with any progress if it's made and hopefully someone else has any ideas in the meantime.

Thanks

[Riskie]

UPDATE:

I decided to ignore the main quest and go exploring for a while collecting stashes and doing a few unrelated side quests. After roughly 3 days in game time I went back and Scar no longer tried to blow my head off, allowing me to proceed with the quest.

Hope this helps anyone in future.

[STmaddog151]

everytime i go to meet him hes just not there. im like wtf no matter how many times i reload earlier saves he just not there at all.

[Assail]

I think that the end of happyness for everyone has a bug in it that allows or causes this bug. Because the key thing that faust is using in that machine your probably supposed to grab that as well as that necklace key.

[Atreyurox]

Originally posted by Riskie:

UPDATE:

I decided to ignore the main quest and go exploring for a while collecting stashes and doing a few unrelated side quests. After roughly 3 days in game time I went back and Scar no longer tried to blow my head off, allowing me to proceed with the quest.

Hope this helps anyone in future.

Just wanted to say thank you man. You saved my run. 30+ hours in game and I was about to rage quit and wait for a patch that may never come. Slogged my way across the map and rested for 3 in game days and came back and sure enough, Scar no longer is hostile.

[AK Kai'Sama]

Its not a bug. While clearing the enemies you might kill one of the friendly guards, this gives you a side quest called "Hostile Factions". The mission tells you that the scientist see you as hostile and Scar is part of the scientists. Just lay low for a few days and the faction wont see you as hostile anymore.

[Falkrum]

Bug is still there, the only way I manage to pass it is to using console to trigger finishing this quest. Use "UETools" to activate console.
1.

XDKFinishQuest E09_MQ01

- command will finish Vision of Truth quest
2.

XStartQuest E10_MQ01

- command will trigger next quest Dark Times