Help With Stealing a Briefcase Side Mission

[Sleeves]

So theres a simple side mission to tail a guy with a briefcase, picture him handing it off, identify the recipient, then steal the case.
Ive done it all but the last step, the recipient has the case in his hand, has returned home, and is just going about his life with the case still in hand.
I decided to just KO the guy and take it but... I cant? I cant just pick up the case, I search his body only to find nothing... how do you get someone to drop what theyre holding? Is searching his body supposed to give me what theyre holding and its a bug?
Right now hes in the shower, with the case in his hand. Nothing I try is letting me steal it from him.

[TheDarkGaGaNite]

Same here. He doesn’t have the case on his person but he’s knocked out holding it

[Iyasenu]

I "sort of" ran into this issue.

Except, I knocked him out right after the exchange took place, still out on the streets.
He DID have the case on him and I could steal it, but graphically he was still holding a briefcase even after I took it off of him. Further searching didn't show any other briefcases, either.

On another, different tailing job, I followed them home. There I followed them in and saw them apparently offload the briefcase on top of their TV.
But, again, their hands still HAD a briefcase.
The briefcase on the TV was the real one, and after knocking them out and searching them (with the weird "phantom briefcase" still in their hands) I found no other briefcase on their person.

In both of those cases, I was able to complete the job, despite the target still appearing to have the briefcase in their hands.
In my experience, this is a visual bug of sorts.

[cuth-FSG]

Hi there,

This issue is high on our priority list, can you please send a report via our bug forum, cole can look into this and work to resolve this.

https://forms.fillout.com/t/toxaznLCR7us

[Kaia]

PSA: knocking a suitcase holder with a truncheon soft locks the game too. use bare hands.

[ToasterUwU]

Knocking him out with your bare hands also soft locks the mission. I just had that happen, then bought a weapon to try again, and same same. I cant pick it up no matter what.

[Kaia]

Originally posted by ToasterUwU:

Knocking him out with your bare hands also soft locks the mission. I just had that happen, then bought a weapon to try again, and same same. I cant pick it up no matter what.

Oh sorry.. for me bare hands was the only way to not softlock, but i guess maybe it does still happen sometimes with bare hands.. Not sure what to advise people then

[Liris]

Originally posted by Iyasenu:

I "sort of" ran into this issue.

Except, I knocked him out right after the exchange took place, still out on the streets.
He DID have the case on him and I could steal it, but graphically he was still holding a briefcase even after I took it off of him. Further searching didn't show any other briefcases, either.

On another, different tailing job, I followed them home. There I followed them in and saw them apparently offload the briefcase on top of their TV.
But, again, their hands still HAD a briefcase.
The briefcase on the TV was the real one, and after knocking them out and searching them (with the weird "phantom briefcase" still in their hands) I found no other briefcase on their person.

In both of those cases, I was able to complete the job, despite the target still appearing to have the briefcase in their hands.
In my experience, this is a visual bug of sorts.

Thanks for this, they had indeed left the briefcase somewhere in their apartment while also showing it stuck on their model. This was an easy solution. Cheers.