cant pick up pheromones in point prometeus

[Eil]

soooo, im was playing a + strory mode in survivalist so i can get the "I Chose the Impossible" achiv, aaaaand i cant pick up the big daddy pheromones, neither they higthlight, they are there like they were part of the scene. i tried every thing, i reloaded the saves, closed the game, reloaded a older save (up to hephaetus),i tried looking for a command to give me the pheromones but it dosent have a name for the command (at least that a could find), even reseting my pc and nothing. it wasn t the hardest thing ever (because i have pretty much every thing in the game from the start), but the time it takes. if some one can give me a hand with these bug, i would appreciate it.

pd: sorry for the bad english

[DarkMonk]

Just got the same bug myself, cant loot Big daddy Pheromone samples in point prometeus, playing also on survival. and its a new game plus, when google it it seems some other people also got the same problem, but no answers how to fix it :<

[Eil]

Originally posted by DarkMonk:

Just got the same bug myself, cant loot Big daddy Pheromone samples in point prometeus, playing also on survival. and its a new game plus, when google it it seems some other people also got the same problem, but no answers how to fix it :<

it's seems to be problem with the new games plus, and there's no solution, if the bug happen or not depends of the saved data you chose while creating the new game +,

so i was playing a new game ++ when the bug happend, what i end up doing was that insted of chosing the new game + (the one i chose when the bug happend) i chose the end of the normal playthough, that avoided the bug of happening.

[GamerLeyden777]

I recently experimented with this problem. The MAIN reason for this 'glitch', is because whenever we play New Game+ enough times, we basically collected a maximum number of the pheromone items, therefore, it isn't available to be further collected. I played with a 100% clean slate, and when I got there, BAM! It was available. My recommendation to anyone having this problem is to start fresh again, and after beating the game, and starting New Game+, please reserve a singular save where you only beat a new game the first time, so that way you don't continue having this issue, and you can use the save on ANY difficulty. :) Thought I'd do everyone a HUGE favor here if some didn't figure it out yet.

[Guapo Verde]

There is a solution, you noclip thru the door in Point Prometheus to the bulkhead leading to Proving Grounds, then just walk thru. I feel no guilt being that this is new game plus and had picked them up in the first playthru.

There are other guides on how to use the console commands but I'll sum up my process here.

1. Activate the console by changing the launch options for the game to

-allowconsole

2. Load up your save
3. Press Tab, a little pink text thing will flash in the lower left.
4. put in ghost to get thru the door
5. put in walk to return to normal
6. continue game
7. Kill that sonuvabitch Fontaine.

[NanoEther]

Doesn't seem to be a hard fix, from a code standpoint:
On prometeus level load, reset big daddy pheromone count to 0

There's no need to check what the current count is, as the player shouldn't have any at the start of the stage
you want to use start of stage, not gaining quest point, as the player should be able to pick them up as they did in the first play through
If patched in this way, reloading to before the stage will allow continuing without having to go through hoops

What sucks is I'm in middle of running survivor w/o vita to unlock the last 5 achievements; and I'm not sure if I have a game that will work to start a game+, or if I want to do another run.