Quest Item disappeared, now stuck with no way to evacuate

[Elm]

I was playing on Venus, fetching some stuff or another (believe it was to retrieve Pcpu?). Got a mission item from the bottom floor, but due to having taken on the entire swarm that comes at 1000 quasi 2 floors above, I decide to not leave just yet and retrieve some more of the items dropped by the swarm.

I go up to the next floor (the 3rd floor in this case). But had to stop there, so I quit and saved, but when I returned I was back on the 4th floor at the elevator, without the quest item and without any stuff that would allow me to evacuate.

My question is simply, how the hell do I fix this without dying? Cheat engine? I haven't found any console commands so I can't approach it from that angle.

I would rather quit playing for a month than to lose what I worked so hard to get (this was my first 1000 quasi-wave ever after all)


Also, future suggestion; make it so once the quest item is in your inventory, it is marked as essential, stuck or something of that length so it cannot disappear at all.

Or hell, make evacuating without a blueprint or such thing give you something like -10 reputation with the corp you were working for rather than completely prevent evacuation.

[doujinftw2]

try demand to talk to the quasimorph manager about your missing item

[pgames-food]

hi did your backpack get badly damaged?
i know with a vest, if the durability goes too low it will start dropping items on the floor.
if you can, make a backup of your profile save folder, and then try loading it up again and search around all the rooms just in case it fell to the floor. (there is still sometimes a small gfx bug which shows a Loot icon on dead enemies, even if there is no loot, so its possible that it might do the same in reverse so check bodies too for nearby dropped items tab - maybe you can find it..
you can eat meats etc just to search around and in any case, once you find it or not, you still have the save you backed up. :)

[phoagne]

Originally posted by Elmithian:

I go up to the next floor (the 3rd floor in this case). But had to stop there, so I quit and saved, but when I returned I was back on the 4th floor at the elevator, without the quest item and without any stuff that would allow me to evacuate.

What was the state of the 4th floor? Was it cleaned or was it like you weren't there yet?

[Elm]

Originally posted by phoagne:

What was the state of the 4th floor? Was it cleaned or was it like you weren't there yet?

It was cleaned. Well, what part of it I went to were cleaned and littered with the dead.

Hell, the morphine I dropped for the quest item was still on ground where I picked up the quest item at. Tbf, it was exactly the spot where the quest item had been, so maybe that might have caused the eventual error when it reloaded the save?

Either way, I am going to do a full search through the map just in case I missed something. Maybe Pgames is right and I dropped at some point back while doing inventory management, but somehow I find that unlikely since the option to evacuate was at the elevator when I went up the floor.

[phoagne]

Originally posted by Elmithian:

Originally posted by phoagne:

What was the state of the 4th floor? Was it cleaned or was it like you weren't there yet?

Either way, I am going to do a full search through the map just in case I missed something. Maybe Pgames is right and I dropped at some point back while doing inventory management, but somehow I find that unlikely since the option to evacuate was at the elevator when I went up the floor.

Could you before it send us your save?
C:\Users\%username%\AppData\LocalLow\Magnum Scriptum LTD\Quasimorph
And if you won't find the item I'll report it to the devs.

[Elm]

Originally posted by phoagne:

Could you before it send us your save?
C:\Users\%username%\AppData\LocalLow\Magnum Scriptum LTD\Quasimorph
And if you won't find the item I'll report it to the devs.

Will do

Edit. Actually, how do I go about sending ye the save file?

[Elm]

Edit2. Ugh, I made a stupid mistake and managed to blow myself up. I was just walking to where the quest item was supposed to be. Sigh.

Welp, I was just about to get the save when that happened (just saw yer comment, replied/edited it and misclicked when I reclicked to the game and boom) >_<

I will just mention that when I loaded the save on the 3rd floor elevator room, for some reason the doctor's jones bag was on the ground where I loaded. Maybe the items have similar values?

[Eastersimulator]

when this happens again check your map maybe its marked with a yellow x if you lost it
(never happened to me just a guess)

[phoagne]

Originally posted by Elmithian:

Edit. Actually, how do I go about sending ye the save file?

Either upload somewhere and post the link or you can create bug report in our discord server: https://discord.com/invite/hb5QdAA4yN
But I guess it's not an issue anymore.

[pgames-food]

hi phogane, just as a check - are quest items flammable?
(i know that regular items can burn up if you set fire nearby, maybe the devs can check if quest items are flammable too?) maybe they could be set to never burn and be indestructible - or if you burn it by mistake, you fail the mission and extract usually :)

[phoagne]

Originally posted by pgames-food:

hi phogane, just as a check - are quest items flammable?

No, they shouldn't be.

[pgames-food]

Originally posted by phoagne:

Originally posted by pgames-food:

hi phogane, just as a check - are quest items flammable?

No, they shouldn't be.

ah ok thanks

[phoagne]

Originally posted by Elmithian:

I go up to the next floor (the 3rd floor in this case). But had to stop there, so I quit and saved, but when I returned I was back on the 4th floor at the elevator, without the quest item and without any stuff that would allow me to evacuate.

I've tried to replicate it few times but couldn't. Although maybe I didn't have enough floors.
If you'll manage to do it again - tell us for sure!