Bug Report: Missions disappear when I load a saved game

[GeneralVeers]

Title sez it all. Everything else about my character is fine, but any missions I had when I saved the game are gone. Amusingly, for Taxi and Ferry missions, the items and people you picked up to transport do NOT disappear.

So, now, permanently stashed aboard my ship, I've got a couple security crates of unknown stuff (one of those labelled "explosive"), two VIP's, The Must-Not-Die Guy, a large stash of "enlargement pills", a cargo of lotions, and the Daft Punk band. Which sounds great on the surface of it, because I seem to have all the elements of a really good party on board, except the pills don't work as advertised (not surprised at all) and the band only knows eight tunes and has played all of them seventy-three times.

Any fix for this?? Especially to get rid of the band??

[Arc'Xeno (jdsh)]

Had this same bug too on a story mission, now the save is bugged and can no longer continue on that run. 6 hours of time wasted because cannot finish the mission due to enemy ships switching to allied and the last of them being an invincible wreckage that won't explode.

[HunterKiller]

I have this issue as well. I got Ferry items in my cargo that shouldn't be there once I get destroyed. The waypoint is gone and I don't know or, can find the place to deliver them to when I return to the game. Idk how to get rid of them, either.

[GeneralVeers]

Whelp, I did find an extremely obtuse workaround for the problem. As in, "work the LONG way around". If you just go get more cargo missions, occasionally the cargo/passenger you're hired to transport is somebody who's already in your cargo hold from a glitched previous mission. The cargo gets added to your manifest again, but since it's already there, nothing changes. Then, when you complete the mission, the cargo gets removed--and poof, it's finally gone.

The important thing to prevent the bug from recurring, is DO NOT SAVE THE GAME after you load up a cargo or passenger for transport. Save the game first, then take the mission, and don't save again until after Jason Statham gets his money and drives off into the sunset.

[HunterKiller]

I'll try that then. I've just been skipping those missions lately.

[HunterKiller]

OK, it worked for one item in my ship. Having a hard time getting rid of the 'Unknown Cargo,' though.

[GeneralVeers]

"Hey there, HunterKiller. Thank you for the delivery, I'm here to pick up the package."
"Great. It's in the cargo hold."
"Which box is it?"
"It's the Unknown Cargo."
"Wait, wut?"
"The Unknown Cargo."
"What's the label say?"
"Unknown."
"If you don't know what the label says, then what--"
"I meant, the label SAYS Unknown."
"Then what's in the package??"
"I dunno."
"Well, which--"
"Just take the box that says Unknown on it. And gimme my fee."

<five minutes later>

KABOOM


"Oh. Well, now I know what the Unknown Cargo was........"

[HunterKiller]

I still have it. No luck getting rid of it yet.

[GeneralVeers]

I might have stolen your luck--I managed to get rid of the Unknown Cargo yesterday.

Then I noticed the Committee Transcript is back in my inventory. I had taken a Ferry mission, got distracted by a HUGE fight in the Wasteland, forgotten about the Ferry mission, saved the game and exited.

You know what, this is better than an Achievement! I WILL GET RID OF ALL GLITCHED CARGOS!

[GeneralVeers]

YAAAAAAYYY!!

I DID IT!! I FINALLY DID IT!! I GOT RID OF MY LAST GLITCHED INVENTORY ITEM!!!

I got a Ferry mission that turned out to be for ferrying the Committee Transcript--the LAST item that was stuck in my inventory!



It's finally gone. All my glitched inventory is finally gone.

Now I can go back to enjoying the game. :) No, I'm not labelling this as fixed, because the bug that causes these glitched inventory items is still there......... :p

[Mituna]

So I assume freelancer missions being reset on load is not some weird feature then? Because I have the same problem and no idea why - and I have 2 cargo items I can't deliver...
Haven't seen it with side missions, but I haven't tried any of those yet, and the next main mission icon is still there.

[GeneralVeers]

Presumably this "glitch" could be intentional--it's likely there are ways to get yourself into an impossible mission, and if you managed to get stuck with one of those, you would be permanently limited to two missions at a time instead of three, for all eternity.

So, yeah, maybe they designed it that way. Just that they forgot to add the code to take away the special cargo from your inventory when a mission disappears.

[Mituna]

I guess it could... though in that case couldn't I just manually cancel a mission? Or reload an older save? Also, loading not only cancels current freelance missions, it also completely clears all past ones from the log as well, as if I've never done any (though for the purposes of the steam achievement the game does somehow keep track).