Sniper Junction return bug

[christopher_doolan]

I have the same bug as reported by Infant Annihilator:

Going back to Sniper Junction
When I go back after looting the first time I get no audio or visual clues from the sniper shots. I try baiting shots, I wait, I get nothing. I just have to cross and hope that I don't get shot. I lost a character because of this, pretty disappointing for a 5 year old game.

Using latest Mac OS Catalina update.

[Malli]

Originally posted by christopher_doolan:

pretty disappointing for a 5 year old game.

Damn I hate it when a game that's been out for years suddenly somehow gets a bug after a big update! Absolutely unacceptable and inappropriate! -s

[burnsj52]

I got it as well.

First time you can hear the shots, when you go back, and think you are safe, blam!!!

[Barrelz]

You dont hear it when he shoots you? Or you dont here him shooting periodically? Becuase I think the reason he was spam shooting before was becuase of that NPC he is targeting.

[Absolute Ego Dancer]

Originally posted by Barrelz:

You dont hear it when he shoots you? Or you dont here him shooting periodically? Becuase I think the reason he was spam shooting before was becuase of that NPC he is targeting.

Yes, on the first visit he's shooting constantly because of the wounded guy near the fountain. However on subsequent visits you should be able to bait the sniper into firing by standing very close to the edge of a cover. But there seems to be something wrong now, because there's no indication that the sniper is firing or not, which makes it incredibly difficult to time his shots, when running from cover to cover.

Very annoying indeed.

[Quantifiably Inert]

Was not even addressed in hotfix.......I have the same issue and am sad

[rbvinny]

I have it too

[Barrelz]

Have you guys reported it to them? Send bug reports to this address [e-mail]

[[G4N] G4liant]

I did two days ago.

[burnsj52]

And it seems that in the latest update, either I"m incredibly lucky, or the sniper only shoots at people the first night. Just went though and back the second time going through there and I couldn't hear shots, and my character didn't get hit, so...?

[Pinky the Clown]

I'm having this problem as well, which is frustrating because I wasted resources on a saw blade to come back and cut the grate, and now poor Marko had to limp home lethally wounded and empty-handed.

[burnsj52]

And it looks like the shooting is back. I have no idea, no rhyme or rea-
Wait!!! I had a problem in that if a non-starting player used a shovel it was fine, but I had to un-equip players that joined up at the shelter after day 1 to get them to actually use the shelter. My starting person didn't get shot, but someone who joined later was nearly killed. I wonder if that's some kine of a link.

Anyone else having non-starter characters not notice that they can use shovels with them when they scavenge?

[Barrelz]

Originally posted by burnsj52:

And it looks like the shooting is back. I have no idea, no rhyme or rea-
Wait!!! I had a problem in that if a non-starting player used a shovel it was fine, but I had to un-equip players that joined up at the shelter after day 1 to get them to actually use the shelter. My starting person didn't get shot, but someone who joined later was nearly killed. I wonder if that's some kine of a link.

Anyone else having non-starter characters not notice that they can use shovels with them when they scavenge?

I have had that shovel bug. If you click on the shovel in backpack inventory unequip then reequp it, it should sort it.

[burnsj52]

Yes, but it ONLY happens to new people who come join your shelter, not your starting people. Have any of your starting people been shot by the sniper after the first Sniper Junction night? I'm curious if they might be related.

[Barrelz]

Originally posted by burnsj52:

Yes, but it ONLY happens to new people who come join your shelter, not your starting people. Have any of your starting people been shot by the sniper after the first Sniper Junction night? I'm curious if they might be related.

Not for me. It affected my original characters. I didn't even take the fourth person in. But that's just the shovel bug. I completed this playthrough without even going to sniper junction, so never experience an issue with it.

[M(i)ech]

I'm experiencing same bug in Sniper Junction.

I restarted second visit to Junction multiple times to try to figure it out, but I'm not having much luck. What I observed seems to fit "no visual or audible clues about sniper fire unless you actually get shot" hypothesis the most.