Solo Game Bugged After Playing Co-op

[Philamon]

So I played the game solo mostly and it was fine. Then when I joined a friend and helped them get to where I was and progressed further my solo game is now bugged. I cannot get a way point to my next mission. The metro and taxis no longer work, and the only thing I can select is side quest, some of which I did already. Is there a fix for this game breaking bug as I can no longer progress in the game?

[JackBaldy]

Honestly, I'd recommend having a co-op only character and a single-player only character. Co-op has way too many bugs, including what you've just experienced. In theory, the game is not supposed to save any story progress to the clients of an online game. No one but the host, essentially.

However in practice, it actually does save progress for the co-op clients. It does it in a way that isn't complete though. This leads to issues like the one you're having. If you don't have a backup save file, you're out of luck unfortunately.

Only thing I can suggest is to perhaps keep that character for whenever you're joining someone else's game, and make a new character that's strictly single-player only. Obviously not an ideal solution, but the game has so many bugs in co-op including this game-breaking bug.

[Philamon]

Originally posted by JackBaldy:

Honestly, I'd recommend having a co-op only character and a single-player only character. Co-op has way too many bugs, including what you've just experienced. In theory, the game is not supposed to save any story progress to the clients of an online game. No one but the host, essentially.

However in practice, it actually does save progress for the co-op clients. It does it in a way that isn't complete though. This leads to issues like the one you're having. If you don't have a backup save file, you're out of luck unfortunately.

Only thing I can suggest is to perhaps keep that character for whenever you're joining someone else's game, and make a new character that's strictly single-player only. Obviously not an ideal solution, but the game has so many bugs in co-op including this game-breaking bug.

Thanks for the reply, and unfortunately I figured that would be the case. For now the game is uninstalled, as that save game had over 15 hours of gameplay that I am not looking to replay right now.