IMPOSSIBLE to pass mission to open the water valve

[riptide]

I'm stuck on this mission. It's ♥♥♥♥♥♥ design:

I always arrive there before nightfall which means that volatiles spawn as I'm on the way to open the valve. You can't outrun them with the buggy so they always latch onto the buggy and kill me. The buggy suffers damage during these trips so after a million reloads from the deaths caused by volatiles it ends up COMPLETELY BROKEN and drives slower than walking pace so it becomes useless.

There's a bed IN THE SAME ROOM you're given the mission to open the valve but you can't use it before you rescue the quest giver who gives you a TIMED mission to open the valve which means you HAVE to leave immediately. I already restarted the Following once due to getting into this situation and repaired the buggy with screws I got from the farm where you steal the buggy. I refueled it too so it was ready for the trip, but the timing with the volatiles spawning at night prevented me from progressing.

Is there a way to pass the time in the Following BEFORE getting the timed mission to open the valve? That would solve my problem.

The only way I can imagine completeing this mission is during daytime and I can't seem to pass the time in the Following.

[perfvillain]

Mine is broke like this as well, we need a patch!

[Shrimp]

I had the same situation. But whenever I had volatiles on my buggy that I couldn't shake off, I just get out of the car, threw a flare and killed them with my modded angel blade machete (1246 damage). You seem to have a lot of playtime, so your character should be skilled high enough to not be afraid of volatiles anymore.

By the way, you can heal yourself while driving. This should save you over long distances, even at night.

[Seanspeed99]

You can definitely do this at night. I had the same problem. Was sunset when I started, but playing with the minimap off, I lost my way a bit along the way and died. Restarted me right where I had to leave, but time of day progress was continuing so it was basically nighttime for my 2nd run. Dealt with some volatiles and got killed.

You can definitely outrun them, though. You just need to keep your momentum up. Dont run into anything where you'll stop or slow down significantly, cuz they will likely catch you. And you can take a *bit* of damage from them and still get away if you're going fast enough. It only took me 3 tries, but it's totally do-able. And I was playing on Hard as well.

[Frachu]

You can just wait for sunrise. When you are doing this mission time is just going on so if you fail it like 3-5 times night will end.

[riptide]

I figure I'll just let the game wait until sunrise before accepting the mission with the timer.

[Hangsolo]

I just kepted loading and ran around to gte some repair items and once day hit I jumped back in and finished the mission with about 4 seconds to spare ha ha....lame mission in my opinion...

[Full On RC]

This has happened to me too. I'm stuck. Night was falling just as I started mission and I crashed. The nightcrawlers totally wrecked my Buddy as I tried to back up from the tree I crashed into. Now when I start my buggy is F&*Ked and slower than walking pace. No Screws or bolts to repair.

[Francis_Mallman]

We're now seeing thread after thread about this issue.

OP, I loved Dying Light... I mean, I loved it... but I actually gave up on The Following last night because of this 'issue'.

Essentially, the auto-save placed me in a no-win situation. Something I've not experienced in a game since probably the early 90's.

When I began this mission, my buggy was in great shape. Unfortunately, I didn't make it to the objective in time, and my buggy took a beating along the way. Instead of restoring my game with a healthy buggy, the game actually restored me with the countdown timer running AND a broken buggy.

Just unbelievable.

To make matters even worse, the mission was supposed to take place during the day, but the game restored me to a point at night. Meaning I now have impossible to kill zombies swarming me, a completely broken buggy, and two minutes to get to someplace I can't.

Shockingly, amazingly, incredibly, unbelievably, people here at the forum are... get ready for it... actually defending Techland for this. They're saying to people, 'get good' - instead of acknowledging the obvious design flaw.

Just when you thought you'd seen everything.

[quixoticaxis]

Let me be clear: the design of this mission is poor, yeap :-/

But you can comlete it even without a buggy (just remember where the final point is and run/hook yourself to the goal). Even running above pipes you'll still get there with some time left.

[Francis_Mallman]

Originally posted by quixoticaxis:

Let me be clear: the design of this mission is poor, yeap :-/

But you can comlete it even without a buggy (just remember where the final point is and run/hook yourself to the goal). Even running above pipes you'll still get there with some time left.

You simply don't understand what the OP is saying.

For some of us the game is restoring us at night. I had literally three night crawlers attacking me instantly, and was dead within five seconds.

And, no, restoring a player to the beginning of a timed driving sequence with a COMPLETELY broken car is not acceptable.

This is not a debate. Basically, this is a bug report.

If this isn't a bug... but is actually a part of the game... then Techland has just embarrassed themselves.

[krazyleroy]

Originally posted by Hangsolo:

I just kepted loading and ran around to gte some repair items and once day hit I jumped back in and finished the mission with about 4 seconds to spare ha ha....lame mission in my opinion...

this works. you can scavange fuel and screws/repair items from broken down vehicles instead of trying to get to the watervalve at night. you'll fail when the timer runs out, but you get to restart keeping all you looted, plus 30 minutes or an hour gametime has passed. do this a few times (maybe 5 times--don't remember) til it finally loads after sunrise and you'll be set to repair and refuel, then complete the mission.
it's harder than some missions, but very do-able

[Francis_Mallman]

Also, OP, thanks for posting this.

I actually considered (last night) just restarting the campaign from scratch - which is what you did.

I feared that I'd end up in the exact same no-win situation however, which is exactly what happened to you. I'm glad I didn't restart, because I was already furious with the game.

Honestly, people - don't defend this. Just don't.

[ufo]

Originally posted by Jocko:

Originally posted by quixoticaxis:

Let me be clear: the design of this mission is poor, yeap :-/

But you can comlete it even without a buggy (just remember where the final point is and run/hook yourself to the goal). Even running above pipes you'll still get there with some time left.

You simply don't understand what the OP is saying.

For some of us the game is restoring us at night. I had literally three night crawlers attacking me instantly, and was dead within five seconds.

And, no, restoring a player to the beginning of a timed driving sequence with a COMPLETELY broken car is not acceptable.

This is not a debate. Basically, this is a bug report.

If this isn't a bug... but is actually a part of the game... then Techland has just embarrassed themselves.

I totally agree.
Same here. broken car + night + nightcrawlers + level difficult = instant death

[quixoticaxis]

Originally posted by Jocko:

Originally posted by quixoticaxis:

Let me be clear: the design of this mission is poor, yeap :-/

But you can comlete it even without a buggy (just remember where the final point is and run/hook yourself to the goal). Even running above pipes you'll still get there with some time left.

You simply don't understand what the OP is saying.

For some of us the game is restoring us at night. I had literally three night crawlers attacking me instantly, and was dead within five seconds.

And, no, restoring a player to the beginning of a timed driving sequence with a COMPLETELY broken car is not acceptable.

This is not a debate. Basically, this is a bug report.

If this isn't a bug... but is actually a part of the game... then Techland has just embarrassed themselves.

I understand what OP is saying, I've done it on foot AND at night. And, as I previously stated, I also think it's a mistake in mission design. BUT it's totally possible to complete the mission this way (but I didn't play on Nightmare, so if someone thinks it's impossible on nightmare, I can't comment on this).

[Francis_Mallman]

Also, how on earth... yet again... did the so-called 'professional reviewers' not identify this flaw?

In days of old, Computer Gaming World (this was a magazine, btw) would have been all over this nonsense.

Lame. Just very, very lame.