Retrieve witness bug

[Keks Offender]

Had to extract a witness to reduce investigation meter, got him all the way to the van safely and he ended up being just out of reach for successful mission completion, no matter what I did he wouldn't move, had no choice but to escape without him and fail. I have a clip if it helps. Ffs

[AnzioM]

Necro, but this exact same thing just happened to me and inadvertently caused me to fail a run. Pls fix this bug, devs.

[Keks Offender]

Originally posted by AnzioM:

Necro, but this exact same thing just happened to me and inadvertently caused me to fail a run. Pls fix this bug, devs.

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[blitzy44]

I also ran into this yesterday. He literally just stood a bit outside and would not move. I moved away and it said go back but he still never made any moves to the van. I quit out and re did the mission and it worked fine.

[CaptainLagbeard]

Because of things like this, the game could use the ability to restart a mission in a more legitimate manner... You can just use task manager to close the game to restart one currently, but you shouldn't need to do that because of the AI.

[PlebNC (UK)]

Is extracting the witness actually required? The goal is to silence the witness so the choice is between extracting them or killing them. I haven't tried killing as I assume extract is preferable but theoretically a dead witness is still a win.

[Keks Offender]

Originally posted by PlebNC (UK):

Is extracting the witness actually required? The goal is to silence the witness so the choice is between extracting them or killing them. I haven't tried killing as I assume extract is preferable but theoretically a dead witness is still a win.

Unsure of this, but the mission seemed quite adamant about extracting the witness, I don't know if it's to dispose of the body off-screen or something.

[Slayer]

Originally posted by PlebNC (UK):

Is extracting the witness actually required? The goal is to silence the witness so the choice is between extracting them or killing them. I haven't tried killing as I assume extract is preferable but theoretically a dead witness is still a win.

Yea that's never been clear to me!
The map objective is to "kill witness", yet the mission objective is to "rescue witness".

I have yet to complete that mission so don't know if they are the same task (ie rescuing then counts as killing) but I have always though the same when it pops up:

If the goal is to "kill witness"...then surely, doing that in the mission itself would count.....they're dead!

Some in-game clarity on this would be useful I feel.

[TheNightglow]

Originally posted by Slayer:

Originally posted by PlebNC (UK):

Is extracting the witness actually required? The goal is to silence the witness so the choice is between extracting them or killing them. I haven't tried killing as I assume extract is preferable but theoretically a dead witness is still a win.

Yea that's never been clear to me!
The map objective is to "kill witness", yet the mission objective is to "rescue witness".

I have yet to complete that mission so don't know if they are the same task (ie rescuing then counts as killing) but I have always though the same when it pops up:

If the goal is to "kill witness"...then surely, doing that in the mission itself would count.....they're dead!

Some in-game clarity on this would be useful I feel.

I assume its half cut or not-yet-implemented content and the initial idea was to have both as separate missions
as nasara talks about police having snatched up an asset he wanted to acquire (as in he wanted to recruit a person but the police got there first) but then the UI talks about a witness that needs to be silenced and after the mission says 'it send message' or something like that

I belief there were supposed to be both a rescue and an assassination mission but only one was implemented and the UI right now is just a wild mix of both missions

[Vizzy]

just quit the game or end task the game by task manager for a better play through i do that when things get so glitchy or so unlucky instead of failing a run