Early Police Station bug

[Ace-Educator]

I plan to buy the game after 1.6 drops, but it does not seem the police station bug will be fixed.

How do I avoid that bug? Is it still possible to capture it without triggering the bug?

[MTL5]

Can you explain the bug? The only police station bug I know of is when players somehow get inside the police station before they're supposed to, since the front entrance requires hack tools, and they can't complete the quest where they free prisoners because the computer has already been used.

However, I do recall someone saying something about a black screen at the end of the police station quest.

[Ace-Educator]

Yes, that one. That too early, hostages are not there one

[MTL5]

Originally posted by Big Boss:

Yes, that one. That too early, hostages are not there one

There's no known way of fixing it, unfortunately. We can only hope the developers fix it. There are two sides to the problem. One is that there needs to be a fix for people who've already captured the police station. (Which honestly shouldn't be that hard. You just do a check "Is the police station mission finished? Is the police station captured? If the latter is true, and the former isn't, reset the station's status.)

And second, the police station needs to be altered to it can't be captured until the relevant quest.

How did you get into the police station, anyway?

[Ace-Educator]

I didn't. I'm just keeping up with the bugs. I don't have the game yet.

[MTL5]

Originally posted by Big Boss:

I didn't. I'm just keeping up with the bugs. I don't have the game yet.

Ah, I see. Yea, the police station bug happens when people somehow get into the police station before they're supposed to. Entering by the gate requires the player to have a hacking tool that they don't get access to until the relevant quest. I'm not sure how they do it, but it's probably a case of doing a bunch of jumping around to get over the fence. I suppose the reason it's such a problem is that the game has quite a few capture points that require acrobatics to reach. So it's only natural players would try and figure out how to jump into places the devs didn't expect them to.

[bloodylucy]

With other words: If you just play the game normally without trying to trick it or mess it up by glitching into areas you're not supposed to go to, that bug won't occur.

[acidhellscream]

well, this just happened to me and im not really thinking im going to restart the whole game. There's this area on a second story walkway that is parallel to the wall and the "sidewalk" is missing, if you run and jump off you can stick on the wall where the barbed wire is and run along for a bit. Then I just hopped over the barbed wire onto one of those shipping containers and a climbing animation brought me over the wall.

i should have known to reload as soon as I saw a cutscene but nope.

[MTL5]

Originally posted by acidhellscream:

well, this just happened to me and im not really thinking im going to restart the whole game. There's this area on a second story walkway that is parallel to the wall and the "sidewalk" is missing, if you run and jump off you can stick on the wall where the barbed wire is and run along for a bit. Then I just hopped over the barbed wire onto one of those shipping containers and a climbing animation brought me over the wall.

i should have known to reload as soon as I saw a cutscene but nope.

The game keeps the last four checkpoints in the Story menu. There's a very slim chance you haven't played enough to overwrite them.

[❄️The Last Frontier 😊]

Originally posted by bloodylucy:

With other words: If you just play the game normally without trying to trick it or mess it up by glitching into areas you're not supposed to go to, that bug won't occur.

No glitching involved I walked right in and freed him not knowing of this bug and it's still happening years after this thread as I had it happen yesterday was just running around clearly out areas and tasks I had to do and got to the police station I did that area just fought my way in no cheating or glitching cleared that area out then did some more tasks and finally made my way to where the prisoners were being held in the 3 story area with 2-3 heavies in it and cleared that area then went to take a break and when I returned it told me I had to go free Mickey Two Shoes in order to continue and I had already freed him and not it won't let me continue. This is sad that this thread goes back over 5 years and this issues never been fixed!