Gamebreaking Bug: "Lost At Sea" - Missing NPCs (Possible Solution)

[AEdwardian]

I have encountered a bug that has made it impossible to continue the main storyline.

I got as far as the mission "Lost At Sea" on Eva's Hammer where you need to find Wyatt/Fergus, who has gone missing. I was doing this in the Wyatt Timeline. Everything seemed to be going alright until I left to run some of the side missions elsewhere, before finishing "Find Wyatt". Upon my return, I found that I could not advance the plot any further as I could not find any of the "essential" NPCs that you need to speak to, like the Professor, Horton, or Paris Jack. None of them are rendered into the game and where they should be appearing, after checking a playthrough video, is simply blank. I also see "Find Wyatt" as the objective twice over in the journal, one completed and one pending. Reloading the game did not help and I have no save from before i did this, so now I am stuck with no way forward.

[Khan]

I have the same problem. Went to try an assassination mission, now horton is gone and Paris Jack is nowhere to be seen. I don't have any earlier saves.

[biei]

Same here, main NPC is missing

[AEdwardian]

A possible workaround was posted[bethesda.net] on the Bethesda forums, after I brought up the issue there too.

You continuing forward as if you talked to the necessary NPCs. You can consult a playthrough video, but you eventually need to find your way to a vent in the floor in the shooting range.

[NIKENIT]

It is possible if you are in the Wyatt timeline. I'm in Fergus one, and you CANT shoot in hangar until you have this quest (you have to melt a box with the laser to get past it). And the quest is bugged. Making game progress 100% ruined. Great. And my latest and ONLY MANUAL save (quicksave uses a single slot, GJ devs) is from 5 hours before. Im not giong to replay all these missions on max difficulty again. Gj devs.

[morrritz]

Also in Fergus timeline and have a bugged lost at sea quest. So I'm basically ♥♥♥♥♥♥? No recent save. Several hours to play again. No thanks.

[☢FarCry☢]

I'm fuc*ed too, in Fergus timeline. OMG, last time I saw gamebreaking bugs... about 10 years ago.

[Niklas "Tatsuki"]

Same here(Fergus timeline), spent hours in the district missions and now am not going to restart just because of this sh#t. We need you to fix it Bethesda!

[Zutroy]

Same problem here, but with Fergus. I retrieved Fergus' arm and then went on district missions. Now all the interacting NPC's are gone and I can't trigger the next mission. The workaround for Wyatt's timeline doesn't apply, nor does the suggestion to reload a save in the patch notes since all are after or during the district mission.

I'm inclined to doubt that a fix for this will come in a future patch... but I don't want to redo everything. Brutal.

[Bigbadabum]

I had the same problem with the Fergus timeline and I found a way through. I went to the hangar and jumped on the little table between both crates. Then I crouched on the table by pressing the forward and crouching keys. Suddenly my char slipped through the little gap between the table and the railing. After collecting Fergus arm, I went to the Kreisauer Club and could continue the mission. That was a lucky punch, yay!

[Dirty Dingus Magee]

Same issue here, did 12 of the district missions and last manual safe is back at the start of NO - game's good but no replay several hours good, bummer.

Edit to add : Bigbadabum above is right, you can jump onto the table and crawl forward into the vent without having to shoot the box. I think you need the Constrictor Harness, sounded like it was being used when BJ slid in there. Quest marker won't update till ou go back to the club where Fergus should have reappeared.

Cheers Big!

[Zutroy]

Originally posted by Bigbadabum:

I had the same problem with the Fergus timeline and I found a way through. I went to the hangar and jumped on the little table between both crates. Then I crouched on the table by pressing the forward and crouching keys. Suddenly my char slipped through the little gap between the table and the railing. After collecting Fergus arm, I went to the Kreisauer Club and could continue the mission. That was a lucky punch, yay!

Nice, this worked! And as Dingus said, you need the constrictor harness.

Thanks all!

[morrritz]

Yes, it worked for me as well. Thanks alot!

Originally posted by Bigbadabum:

I had the same problem with the Fergus timeline and I found a way through. I went to the hangar and jumped on the little table between both crates. Then I crouched on the table by pressing the forward and crouching keys. Suddenly my char slipped through the little gap between the table and the railing. After collecting Fergus arm, I went to the Kreisauer Club and could continue the mission. That was a lucky punch, yay!