Help Getting Back to Pripyat Stalker: COP

[xXMeadows49Xx]

Hey everyone. I would appreciate some help because I accidentally went to Pripyat without doing any of the missions to get there. I went to the Jupiter plant and found some documents and it spawned me in the underground tunnel with some guy (I'm assuming a stalker or duty member) who was leading me through it until he died. I made it the rest of the way to Pripyat and there was a squad ready to go out and fight the Monolith soldiers but I told them to wait because I wanted to get a SEVA Suit first. I paid to travel back to Yanov and there is no way to get back. So I found out about going to the crash site (Stingray 1) and started the mission. I am not on the "Pripyat 1: Speak to Zulu" mission but he isn't there! Is there no way to return to Pripyat? Starting a new game should hopefully not be considered an option because I have over 60 hours into the game.

[Cujo]

That's crazy. The sarin gas should have killed you in sections of the tunnel, necessitating a SEVA suit, as in base COP it's the only closed respiration suit there is. I honestly have no clue how you managed to trigger the quest to get to Pripyat and get through the tunnel of gas. In the base at the Laundromat, there may be an NPC named Gary. He can take you back to Yanov for a fee, but you have to advance the story a mission or two first. Just keep checking the main room, he'll grab you in a chat bubble if you get close enough to him once he spawns there. He'll thank you if you gave him the Meat Chunk/Kolobok (He's the one in the scientist bunker) and offer to lead you to Yanov for free. That way you can go back home.

Gary should take you both ways, when you travel between zones he will stay there with you until you choose to go back.

TBH this is crazy enough to sound like a modded game, I have never heard of these sorts of bugs in base game vanilla.

[xXMeadows49Xx]

I'm actually playing with the Misery mod. I read a comment someone posted on another thread somewhere else that you can go to Pripyat by finding the documents in Jupiter (which is what I did by accident while exploring) but that was all that the person said and it was back in 2015. So is it a for sure thing that Gary will lead me to Pripyat? Zulu isn't there when I try to find him for the Pripyat 1 mission so I don't know what to do about that.

[xXMeadows49Xx]

All that Garry will say is "Man, I really want to go to Pripyat!" with no option to go there or anywhere else

[Heresy]

Originally posted by xXMeadows49Xx:

I'm actually playing with the Misery mod. I read a comment someone posted on another thread somewhere else that you can go to Pripyat by finding the documents in Jupiter (which is what I did by accident while exploring) but that was all that the person said and it was back in 2015. So is it a for sure thing that Gary will lead me to Pripyat? Zulu isn't there when I try to find him for the Pripyat 1 mission so I don't know what to do about that.

If you didnt have a closed breathing suit i think you would of died down there. Did you happen to cheat at all? Its possible you broke your playthrough by doing unnatural things.

If you didnt break any rules then idk what happened since ive never experienced that issue or any other broken quests either.

[Bes]

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[xXMeadows49Xx]

I did not cheat at all. I was exploring in Jupiter before I knew about the missions and it took me there when I found the documents. I was wearing an SSP-99 Suit though.

[Redrick]

You can use the developer console to teleport yourself to Pripyat.

Navigate to your gamedata folder, then configs > debug and find the file xrs_debug_tools.ltx, open it in a text editor

Change it so that the top of the file now looks like this
[plugin]
enable = true; false

save the file, run the game, open your save.

Once loaded hit ESC to go back to the menu and press S, this opens the debug console

On the far left in in the console box type
level pripyat

game will teleport you to Pripyat

When done edit the above file to reverse the plugin back to false to get rid of all the debug text on the screen.

reference: https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-misery/forum/thread/misery-debug-menu

Side note the SSP-99 is a closed circuit suit, that will be why you were able to travese the level.

[xXMeadows49Xx]

Cleaner-667 I actually figured it out by going back to the Jupiter Plant (without loading any saves or starting a new game) and walked onto the closed off underground passage. It didn't do anything so I was about to give up trying and then as I walked off of the platform toward the wrecked cargo truck, It asked if I wanted to go to Pripyat. So I made it back to Pripat and did some more missions and now I have Garry to take me back and forth! However, I am now stuck on the Find The Missing Recon mission because his body dissapered. Is there a way to fix this with your debug method? His body is gone because I was about to do the mission and when I got there I got bombarded by both bloodsuckers and a controller so I decided to do the One Shot mission and the Lab X8 Documents mission. When I went back the Recon's body was nowhere to be found and I cannot progress through the game until I figure out what to do. If you do know what to do about this, please be specific; I am not as techy as I would like to be when it comes to debugging and console commands and what not but your comment was very descriptive so do continue in the same manner, thank you for your help!

[arottweiler]

I can't imagine how that could happen. When you find the documents at the plant you then need to speak to Nitro to trigger Road To Pripyat and I've never seen Duty or Freedom inside the plant. The actual travelling to the tunnels is with a cut scene. Still, typical of Misery to do something like this.

[xXMeadows49Xx]

Cleaner-667 is there a way to spawn the missing sentry back into the game with that method? I cannot find his body at all. If I am able, what do I type in console box?

[Redrick]

sounds like you're having a heck of a time with this play through. Items are one thing but I don’t know how to spawn NPCs or bodies sorry, you need the item code and f***s me if I can find a listing anywhere.

Have you visited the area he was for a bit to see the controller spawns to trigger the rest of the quest anyway. If not you’ll just have to roll back.

You can try posting on the moddb forums, someone with way more knowledge than me might be able to help.

[arottweiler]

Originally posted by xXMeadows49Xx:

Cleaner-667 is there a way to spawn the missing sentry back into the game with that method? I cannot find his body at all. If I am able, what do I type in console box?

You can work out the name of an NPC to spawn them but isn't there an autosave or hard save after arriving in Pripyat you can go back to? There's another mission where the NPCs despawn which can stop you from progressing.

The problem is the corpse of the NPC doesn't trigger the next part of the mission it's killing the controller that appears that does that so respawning the corpse might have no effect. Have you been in the little room next to where the sentry is killed to see if the Controller is there? It might trigger the next part of the mission so is worth a try. Also, do you have the mission in your PDA and are there any map markers when it's the selected mission?

The unique name of that controller will be listed in the smart terrain file for that area but I don't have it activated to check what the smart terrain file is for that part of the map. I could have a look so it can be respawned with the debug menu but I'm not even sure if that will enable you to kill it and trigger the next part of the mission and there could be other mission glitches. Start a new game and consider this game a detailed tutorial.

[Redrick]

xXMeadows49Xx went to X8 and back so I dare say the autosave will be useless.

On that note, X8 is a main story mission done after the Sentry. Is it possible you can just continue without bothering with the Sentry. X8 is basically the last mission before the evacuation, have you spoken to Kavolski and seen what happens. Might get lucky.

[xXMeadows49Xx]

Thank you for all of the comments so far! I about all of your comments: There is no controller in the area. There was before I decided to do the other missions first after I died from it and bloodsuckers. My PDA will show that I have the mission but the mission does not appear on the map. I have all of the Lab X8 documents but if Kavolski is the one who gave the sentry mission, he says nothing more to me accept about the sentry. I would try to use the debug menu but I do not know how to enable it. I've tried but maybe I did it wrong.. if anyone can be specific about how to spawn the controller I will give it a try.

[arottweiler]

I suspect if that even if that controller can be respawned there isn't going to be the script assigned to it that updates the Sentry mission when it's killed but it will be interesting to see if it works. If you have not used the debug menu before the first thing to do is get familiar with it and try spawning something else. Make a few hard saves in a row during your current game in Pripyat and then start a new game so you're back on the Yanov map. This is just for testing so you don't need to be doing any missions again and can go back to the Pripyat saved game later. This is just to get used to the debug menu.

I found this the most useful when I was learning how to use the debug menu:

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-misery/forum/thread/tutorial-misery-211-debug-menu


When the debug menu is active you should be able to hit ESC and then S to open the spawn menu. When that is working read this and see if you can get any of the squads to spawn. In the meantime I'll try to find out the name of the controller but I'm not playing Stalker right now so need to dig out the disk. I had forgotten about this post and found it just now while searching about NPC spawning but it comes in handy as a reminder.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/41700/discussions/0/1484358860954790941/

Controllers don't have many predators and I've never seen another mutant attack a controller in Misery so it's possible the controller in the Sentry mission is wandering around the map waiting to be killed for the mission to update in your PDA. It would involve scouring the map but save often and it will probably see you first, kill you and then you can reload.

Edit: Had a look and the smart terrain at the grocery store is pri_a21_smart_terrain.

The only mention of a controller in this file are:

pri_a21_chasouoi
pri_a21_kontroler

I tried spawning each one at the grocery store and it doesn't work. Start a new game and work towards the Leader achievement. 60 hours is a lot but Misery is very replayable.