Mutant Collar quest "In the Name of Science" NO FAILSAFE

[Scratch_]

If you do any of the mutant encounters BEFORE getting the quest from Shcherba that have collars on them YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO GET THE COLLARS LATER. i have 3 out of the 4 necessary collars you need. However, 2 of 5 possible encounters to get one I experience BEFORE i got the quest. The Psi-Bayun encounter and the Hyrdroelectric plant Controller. Both of them were supposed to have collars. The bayun collar is softlocked this way if you did it already. The quest waypoint is stuck on the boathouse area where you do the special encounter where you help stalkers kill the bayun. Obviously they are no longer there nor the mutant because I did the encounter already.

Things i tried:
-Spawning in the collars manually through UEtools: DID NOT WORK I spawned in the same Electrocollar item that stacked on top of the other 3 in my inventory assuming that would be the correct one. There is a 2nd SID that lists it as Collar#1Bayun which I spawned in and it DID NOT advance the quest.

-tried force advancing the quest through the console with the quest SID. This did "work" but it sequence breaks the quest and it wont advance through dialogue with Shcherba.

So, this quest is completely broken if you already did the encounters the first time. Now I do NOT remember the Bayun having a collar after I killed it. The collar detector did not beep when next to it and there was no search on its corpse otherwise i definitely would have picked it up. Even if you managed to miss the collar the first time the quest has NO FAILSAFE for this because the bodies despawn and the encounter wont happen again.

Conclusion:
-This is a bug
-The developers forgot about making a failsafe incase of the player not picking up the collars way before the actual quest becomes available.

[C. J.]

I have the four collars, but the quest does not progress. It says I need to get the collar from the Boathouse, but I already got it before and nothing happens...

[La Emperatriz]

They should not have released this game lol.

[RavionHD]

Can we just progress the story or wait until it is fixed?

[Scratch_]

Originally posted by RavionHD:

Can we just progress the story or wait until it is fixed?

This has since been fixed with the current patch "supposedly".

[altomax]

Can confirm that this still isn’t fixed.

[Ryu]

I actually lost all of my collars I had collected when I met Duvupalov(the creator of the collars) yesterday, great now I can't finish the quest.

[str1ct]

Originally posted by Ryu:

I actually lost all of my collars I had collected when I met Duvupalov(the creator of the collars) yesterday, great now I can't finish the quest.

same

[DankyDabz]

This bug has me so screwed. This is game breaking and needs addressed asap. I can't finish the quest because I encountered collared mutants before the side quest now I can't even get the high cap mag for aspb because it's locked behind a door that stays locked until you turn in the collars.

[kingcorey97]

Originally posted by La Emperatriz:

They should not have released this game lol.

it was that or the Devs gave up it already took them like 15 years to make Stalker 2 and they had many sleepless nights to even get this game out they did not care if the game had bugs in it or not which they are fixing the bugs

[Hazzmat]

Originally posted by Poptart:

If you do any of the mutant encounters BEFORE getting the quest from Shcherba that have collars on them YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO GET THE COLLARS LATER. i have 3 out of the 4 necessary collars you need. However, 2 of 5 possible encounters to get one I experience BEFORE i got the quest. The Psi-Bayun encounter and the Hyrdroelectric plant Controller. Both of them were supposed to have collars. The bayun collar is softlocked this way if you did it already. The quest waypoint is stuck on the boathouse area where you do the special encounter where you help stalkers kill the bayun. Obviously they are no longer there nor the mutant because I did the encounter already.

Things i tried:
-Spawning in the collars manually through UEtools: DID NOT WORK I spawned in the same Electrocollar item that stacked on top of the other 3 in my inventory assuming that would be the correct one. There is a 2nd SID that lists it as Collar#1Bayun which I spawned in and it DID NOT advance the quest.

-tried force advancing the quest through the console with the quest SID. This did "work" but it sequence breaks the quest and it wont advance through dialogue with Shcherba.

So, this quest is completely broken if you already did the encounters the first time. Now I do NOT remember the Bayun having a collar after I killed it. The collar detector did not beep when next to it and there was no search on its corpse otherwise i definitely would have picked it up. Even if you managed to miss the collar the first time the quest has NO FAILSAFE for this because the bodies despawn and the encounter wont happen again.

Conclusion:
-This is a bug
-The developers forgot about making a failsafe incase of the player not picking up the collars way before the actual quest becomes available.

thank god im a loot goblin who runs off into the woods before ever doing main missions. bro that sucks. i guess i got off lucky, i was worried i didn't get them all because i missed the prompt where you interact with a merc to buy/fight for his collected collar

[Lifted Seven]

Originally posted by HITMAN:

Can confirm that this still isn’t fixed.

Still not fixed as of January 3rd, 2025

I am stuck, as the mutants are not spawning, I found 2 and they were dead, so I picked the collars up, but it's glitched after that

[Traeba]

eh, it's fine. i have like 5 stuck quests no big deal it's not like i'm missing something. they'll fix it.

having a blast and not stressing about checking off items on a spreadsheet

[NaturallyChimera]

Was hoping the first update this year might fix this. No luck so far on Scherba's side. Might have better luck with the Wolfhound side of things, but I'm not holding my breath.
The *worst part* honestly, is that he takes about 2 minutes to scold you for not having all the collars, despite having 3 collars in my inventory. It's just adding insult on top of a frustrating bug.

[devil_505]

Played that quest yesterday and it worked for me with only three collars. On my first visit I found the Bajun in the village not in its garage but freely roaming with its dogs and had to kill it. Took the collar and had it for ages in my inventory. When I went to Dvupalov he took both collars I had in my inventory.

Later I was playing "In the name of science" and only three markers showed up on the map. Thought I was f*cked but continued playing and after I had collected all three of them "Return to Shcherba" popped up and I was able to finish the quest normally.

[Gurgeh]

I'm stuck with only four collars- when I was doing the earlier 1 collar mission, I realised I'd picked up an extra (wrong) one, so I reloaded & left it on the corpse (can't remember the location).
I hoped today's new patch would fix it, but I just visited the junk cars east of Rostok & there's still no mutant to be found.