The Boundary Richter bug

[Fried_Icee]

In the mission the Boundary you have to fight off the monolithians at yaniv. Then go speak to the stalker in the water tower but when I go to speak to him it gives me no indication or button to talk. In a video he is standing but for me he is sitting on his bed eating or smoking. I have tried going back through multiple saves which did not work. I’m not sure what to do from here. I cannot do anything else in the game since it’s a main mission.

[echarpeur]

Same, have you find a solution?

[Fried_Icee]

Originally posted by echarpeur:

Same, have you find a solution?

No I have not. I hope someone has figured out something.

[Aluorine]

Same. I also tried sleeping but that didn't work either

[Fried_Icee]

Originally posted by Aluorine:

Same. I also tried sleeping but that didn't work either

hopefully since other people are having the same issue they will have it and other bugs fixed soon with a bug fix update.

[Fried_Icee]

I might have found something for people having an issue someone on reddit posted this “ So apparently it does work but you cannot shoot the monolith :D. Here's what I've did:
- Rollback the save before talkin to the leader.
- Start the quest to go to the tower.
- I've used cheat engine here to give myself godmode and speed time x10
- Go outside hide the gun dont do anything at all and just stare at the fight until the guards actually do their jobs.
- After that proceed to the top of the tower and it should be fixed.
- Mind that the dialog is kinda bugged here and it doesn't appear when standing straight before the npc but insted it's kinda on a weird angle to the left of the bed.”

If the first option doesn’t work I would also try this method.
-Load a save game before all this.
-Speak to the boss at Yaniv Station then fasttravel away, wait a bit.
-Fast travel back to Yaniv, trigger the monolith fight but DON'T fire just a single shot.
-Let the guards do the work, you might have to take aggro sometimes cause if you are not in combat nothing will happen.
-If you do not take part in the gunfight and then walk to Richter he will talk. I hope one of these two will work for people trying to solve it. I’m gonna test these and will respond if it worked for me or not

[Fried_Icee]

Thank god I have finally figured it out the second way works but it takes a bit but if you run away till it completes the fight the monolith and then run back it should work. Also be on the left side of richter to talk to him

[Fried_Icee]

It won’t give you the option to talk to him until your at a certain angle so be between richter and his desk and it should work for you

[Fried_Icee]

If you are still having problems and these solutions didn’t work. Try here: https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/s/Lvd6Ko9adQ
This is where I found these two solutions

[bit]

I found a different solution. I suspect reason why we are having this issue is due to mission being situated in a late evening, so it is dark and it is easy to mistakenly shoot someone from Yaniv. If you do - Richter becomes your enemy. However, if you take extra care to verify each enemy (put away the scope, verify crosshair dot is not green), then Richter talks no problem. I tested this multiple times and it worked.