Major bug: Marlow's story mission, door to the planet doesn't open

[Pluto]

I've tried loading a past save and everything, but when Marlow begins his story and the mission starts, nothing happens. The signal scanner works, and the sounds that go along with the big door opening happen, but the door doesn't actually happen. I've tried restarting the game, putting graphics on the lowest possible settings, etc. If the fix is for me to restart the entire game, I'm just not going to play it anymore lmao. Playing on Hard cause I like a good challenge, no way in hell am I going through all of that again even if it is on easy with mods.

Would love any help ya'll can give.

[Dayve]

Originally posted by Peendnids:

I've tried loading a past save and everything, but when Marlow begins his story and the mission starts, nothing happens. The signal scanner works, and the sounds that go along with the big door opening happen, but the door doesn't actually happen. I've tried restarting the game, putting graphics on the lowest possible settings, etc. If the fix is for me to restart the entire game, I'm just not going to play it anymore lmao. Playing on Hard cause I like a good challenge, no way in hell am I going through all of that again even if it is on easy with mods.

Would love any help ya'll can give.

Make sure your frames are locked to 60fps. If your monitor's refresh rate is 60 then you can do this by turning on v-sync in graphics options. If not, you can do it manually from your graphics card control panel (usually in the bottom right of desktop, near the clock).

If that alone doesn't fix it, turn all graphics to lowest possible, including resolution, whilst keeping fps locked to 60 to get past the door, then you can turn them all back up (except for fps, leave it at 60 always for this game otherwise you get gamebreaking bugs).

If either of those don't work (I'm confident locking fps will work) then worst case scenario you can restart that mission from the beginning and then try again with the above fixes. You definitely won't need to restart the whole game though.