Game breaking Order 38 bug?

[IDDQD]

Hi, I detonated the bomb by throwing it into the lake, but I can't deliver the 9 containers of emergency cargo. Everything at the South Knot City terminal is greyed out and not selectable except the Private Locker.

I've tried resetting the cargo and picking it up again at the Private Locker in Knot City to deliver again, and I've tried reloading a previous save to before meeting Fragile at Distribution Centre, but no luck on either of those. There is also a waypoint that directs me to the lake I detonated the bomb in after it has already been detonated, but I've no idea why?

What are my options here? Am I missing something trivial and simple?

I don't have time just now, but tomorrow I will try and reload a save from before even accepting Order 38, but I will lose many hours of progress, so I thought I would see if there is something simple I've overlooked first.

[deltahazer]

After you hoik the thing into the tar lake, do you get a set of cutscenes about the previous bombing?

I can't think of any actual troubleshooting to try beyond what you say you've already done, but if you send a bug report about it you might include the answer to that question to help the bughunters narrow down which flag is failing to set properly.

[IDDQD]

Yep, I did get all those cutscenes. Where do I find where to send a bug report?

This is how South Knot City looks for me

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3458518247

[Kuma]

Have you tried just continuing the main story? The city might be in that state because you have an important objective pending.

You can also try to redeploy the mission cargo, this will return all items to the locker where you got the mission from.

[deltahazer]

Originally posted by Kuma:

Have you tried just continuing the main story? The city might be in that state because you have an important objective pending.

You can also try to redeploy the mission cargo, this will return all items to the locker where you got the mission from.

Unfortunately, the mission the OP is stuck on IS the next part in the story. The order to take Supplies from Lake Knot all the way to South Knot, when Higgs shows up pretending to be part of BRIDGES and gives Sam the suitcase nuke disguised as a regular cargo. Can't even take on that mission until the preceding ones are completed, and can't take any other "Orders for Sam" at the same time as that one, either.

And they already tried redeploying, it didn't help.

[IDDQD]

I'm actually not too sure what happened, but when I loaded up my most recent save it started me at Knot City and when I opened the terminal it immediately initiated Order 38 mission from the beginning.

So I went straight to Fragile at the Distribution Centre, then the crator, then South Knot City and everything was fine.

I did lose about 1-2h of playtime where I had completed 2 sections of road that I had to re-do, which is why I find it weird my most recent save was where it started me at the beginning of Order 38. Maybe it was just a restart of the game that untangled something?

But oh well, at least I can continue on...

[deltahazer]

Originally posted by IDDQD:

I'm actually not too sure what happened, but when I loaded up my most recent save it started me at Knot City and when I opened the terminal it immediately initiated Order 38 mission from the beginning.

So I went straight to Fragile at the Distribution Centre, then the crator, then South Knot City and everything was fine.

I did lose about 1-2h of playtime where I had completed 2 sections of road that I had to re-do, which is why I find it weird my most recent save was where it started me at the beginning of Order 38. Maybe it was just a restart of the game that untangled something?

But oh well, at least I can continue on...

That's a weird one, alright. Glad it sorted itself out in the end.

Two other things though-

1) As a fossil from the early days of gaming myself, I got a good chuckle over your userID. Along with a head shake at the thought of how many newer gamers might not know the significance of it...

2) Why did it take 1-2 hours to complete two sections of road? Are you talking about doing entire stretches from one intersection to a destination rather than just two auto-pavers? Or were you constructing in off-network areas and hauling craptons of materials in multiple trips from other shelters? (asking seriously, I'm not trying to mock)

[IDDQD]

Originally posted by deltahazer:

Originally posted by IDDQD:

I'm actually not too sure what happened, but when I loaded up my most recent save it started me at Knot City and when I opened the terminal it immediately initiated Order 38 mission from the beginning.

So I went straight to Fragile at the Distribution Centre, then the crator, then South Knot City and everything was fine.

I did lose about 1-2h of playtime where I had completed 2 sections of road that I had to re-do, which is why I find it weird my most recent save was where it started me at the beginning of Order 38. Maybe it was just a restart of the game that untangled something?

But oh well, at least I can continue on...

That's a weird one, alright. Glad it sorted itself out in the end.

Two other things though-

1) As a fossil from the early days of gaming myself, I got a good chuckle over your userID. Along with a head shake at the thought of how many newer gamers might not know the significance of it...

2) Why did it take 1-2 hours to complete two sections of road? Are you talking about doing entire stretches from one intersection to a destination rather than just two auto-pavers? Or were you constructing in off-network areas and hauling craptons of materials in multiple trips from other shelters? (asking seriously, I'm not trying to mock)

Heh yeah, Gotta love the ol' DOOM games, they were some of my first experience of PC gaming in the mid-90's!

There was a couple of other things I think I lost out on, I also had to re-do the Cosplayer missions to get them back on the Chiral Network. But yeah, whenever I go past the 2 MULE camp's that spawn a healthy amount of ceramics and metals I always clean them out to put towards paving the road network which I was doing myself until I found out about connecting online :/ Now, it only took me an hour to complete from Craftsman all the way to the Distribution Centre North of Mountain Knot City since the outposts were partially filled.

[deltahazer]

Originally posted by IDDQD:

But yeah, whenever I go past the 2 MULE camp's that spawn a healthy amount of ceramics and metals I always clean them out to put towards paving the road network

Don't forget about delivery orders that send metals or ceramics- the facility puts part of every delivery into the stockpile you can access, so doing those (or using your bots if you're going another direction) orders can be a handy way to help "reload" those destinations after you've cleaned them out. ;)