BUGs: How to avoid them [1.1.0.25]

DDS has bugs, and some of them can be avoided.
I'm creating this guide to avoid further useless communications between players, and with devs.
Possibly improving your gameplay experience too ! Ctrl-F to search key words.

First and foremost!

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Saveoften 30mg

the SAFE drug.

The most efficient pain-reliever in buggy games ( "Betezda" Fallouts" hehe).

• Save like auto-saves do: keep saving 1-2-3-4-5 then back to 1-2-3-4-5 so you always have 4 previous saves and can find a stable save before your bug.
  
• But don't leave the game, save & quit , with orders hanging. many bugs can occur next time you load a save with orders hanging (client un-served).

Glitches.

• Don't exploits glitches! or you might complain and cry and all that ♥♥♥♥ when they'll be fixed. Instead, if you use them, be prepared like a clever ninja, to learn and play the way it was meant to be played.

Some bugs can be "fixed" by your own.

• Try a quick reload of your latest save.
  
• Or just quit the game and restart (always better).
  
• For the worst bug which can't be fixed ( reload and game restart not successful): Starting a New game should fix most of them.

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This is not an official guide but it is the one and only (and First) bug-solution guide about this game.

Must's you need to read.

If you never played DDS before: Saving unlocks a bit later i think @ level 2, so just plan on non-stop 10-15min(or so) play until you unlock it and can Save.
Other stuff unlocks later with levels. be patient.
The mortar/grinder is not unlock-able, it's just available the next (or second next) morning(NewGame). The lady-vendor doesn't work the 1st day or in the night and doesn't work on SUNDAYs.

After 1pm (13h) @ level 20:
Client and cops stop ordering/searching if you had a "LaBellena" call from Eddie until you get there and speak to the boss.

Mouse and HUD disappear.

It's not a bug, the controls-keyboard(shortcuts) layout doesn't include the "H" shortcut which toggles HUD.

H = HUD

Pitcoins disappear! Obsolete

Patch2 or 3 fixed it.
Pitcoins is VIRTUAL cryptocurency, so it's not something you keep in the pockets or bags.
It's on your shadycom account. It's only use, as for now, is to stretch further your limit of order with eddy if I understood right. It will be used for more stuff in the future.
Pre.Patch: Pitcoins glitch/bug makes your pitcoins disappear after quiting your game session.
No use for them yet or it's not worth the expenses.

• YOU MUST not worry about it.

Dropping a stack of "med-boxes", spray cans, 10x100g.

When using the drop function to drop your 12x ibu boxes or other stacks it will divide them into multiple single boxes and not a single stack. This can result in having some of these boxes spawn outside around your hideout, and on the roof! You can't retrieve the ones on the roof of your appartmenet and a few othere places! (except: Club WestDeadtown and Desert WestDeadtown warehouses + Bad Asia garage + Supermarket house + old-market + the 3 east oldtown. rly we can
go on all of these roof).

• YOU MUST be aware of this and not use the drop function for more than 4x stacks.
  
• Instead: place these (auto-stack-dividing) items in a storage furniture or on one of your many workstations(shelves, etc...) using the "drug placement mode".

Equipment removal bug.

• YOU MUST TAP F and not hold F , to remove you equipment without flaws.

Storing your not-empty bag in a cupboard/dresser. OBSOLETE

OBSOLETE or NOT ? patch3 Fixes it. BUT recently saw people complaining about losses. and empty bags... carefull !
Pre.patch3: This is risky and sometimes you can't see inventory in the bag anymore, sometimes it re-appears, it's not safe! you want to know this before loosing things and going mad.

• YOU MUST Only store empty bags/suitcases .

sry not much more to add here for now.

Chill

YOU MUST.

‼ Trouble launching DDS (11-12-13th gen)

Drug Dealer Simulator launch issues

I have no responsibility if you mess up your "hacks", steps, values, manual changes etc..

GAME WON'T START with Intel 11th gen, 12th or 13th gen CPUs.
• DeCozXP created this video tutorial on how he fixed launch failure on i7 11th gen:
  https://youtu.be/Lul7DZcbB9A

After some feedback, this solution works for some 12th and 13th generation CPUs.

Weed stuck at 100% (old saves)

1.1.0.25
Your weed plants which should be ready to harvest are actually seedlings again, but the model or something is stuck... (it's not showing the real state)
The patch made the growth cadence longer.

• YOU MUST just play, check for watering them maybe IDK and return in 4-5 days to see, if then, you can harvest them.

LUCKY one dude advanced the answer/solution for OLD SAVES:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/682990/discussions/1/3187988018487815878/

RAID bug

1.1.0.25

MUSIC omg...

• You must return to apartment and save before reloading the game

This will debug the music, but also the stuck van and or cops.

Reputation and prices

in version 1.0.7.19

I had clients from low expectation area complain for my ectasy price at 11$ when I'm level 20 and have already 1/3 sales Rep and the price is below that mark (like in the middle of the green portion).

What I think is the problem (what I've experienced):
Have some drugs disabled but leave them overpriced.
Set your enabled drugs price in the "green" and even very generous.
With slower ordering, the clients will complain for the price and order low amount of the enabled drug fairly priced.

• You must not let drugs prices too high. It will affect sales of ALL drugs (yeah WTF).
  
• Yeah... all drugs, enabled or disabled: the overpriced drug will affect all drugs.
  
• So if you raise the price of 1 drug more than the others, it will aftect not only that drug, but all of them!

Client/Dealer not interracting. standing there.

1.0.6.8
If you have a dealer or clients not interracting anymore and it's bugged for ever.
Nothing I know can fix it. sorry.
But to avoid it:

• You must finish all your active deal/order before 'saving and quitting' the game.

p.s: noob info: You don't have to answer clients. You can just ignore their messages.
They only start to loose patience if the order is active.

"Work your way up to one of the local gangs" stuck not completed

EDIT2: new infos on this:
Reloading a save after la ballena meeting, doesnt grant you call again.
source: Amphy on discord: arrested after meeting la balenna, and reloaded a save.
Edit3: I tried (edit2) but it did not work... can't confirm this.


If it helps: I have noticed the call from eddie about the gangs triggers only after I unlocked Slums. (I kept locked sectorB and slums. to avoid the call, level 38 no calls until I unlocked slums). So maybe the bug happens on runs where they speed unlock areas by spraying and giving samples. having the level/xp and areas to get the call. But not enough level/xp or task completed to get the mission.

Edit:
To avoid the call, you need to keep 6 areas and stick to them:
West and East Oldtown
2 Towers and Old Market
Stink
+ Kennel OR Slums (not both)

Combine dried marijuana [Obsolete]

endgame patch fixes this.

Along with Dr.Wondertainment and previously with many other on the forums,
We have tried to find the cause and a solution to this.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/682990/discussions/1/3088898048345812050/

Can't put the same mix together. (combine batches)

Note: made before mixers,etc "capacity patch" which increased the capacity of some equipments/instruments.

This one is tricky: It seemed like you could not put 2 (same) mixes together (combine/stacking) cuz they are not considered the same batch and indeed they are not from the same batch! true!

You need to use exactly the same name, composition/ratio and steps/order of mix.
So your mix-details should show the same order of ingredients and ratio. EXACTLY THE SAME. And it NEED to be applied with 0 loss so that the ratios don't mess up.
Once applied (named, and mixed THE SAME) your mixes should be combinable in packages/bags + jars/containers + crystalliser/dryers.

• I use "no-loss" instruments: Mortar(50g) and Large Lab Mixer(300g), and Flask. It sure helps keeping round numbers!

So you can't combine mixes from the mixing tray, sorry young dealers, first you need to grow in levels to unlock the drug store / pharmacie and get the Large Lab Mixer(300g).
The smaller "electric mixer 150g" has losses like the mixing tray, so it's worthless: it has no ability to produce constant same mixes/batches.

BEFORE PATCH:
Fill up the crystallizer and how to make crystalls out of a powder-mix.
You need 2 fluid "Flask" mixer "150", A batch of any powder-mix (200g to 300g) + a bottle of Acetone.
In order:

• Add exactly <A>g of Acet. per flask/fluid-mixer.
  
• Add exactly <B>g of mix to each flask/fluid-mixer on top of the acetone.
  
• Name your drug here before applying mix -> COPY ctrl-c the name and PASTE ctrl-v to name the second flask <- , and now you have exactly two dissolved mixes with the same amount and name.
  
• Add/combine the 2 identitical liquid solutions to the crystallizer.

<A> = 1g minimum (to trick the game it will be a liquid solution).
<B> = 124g maximum. (to fill the crystalliser with 2 exacts same batch). For the dryer: 149g max to fill the flask.
I like to use (5g Acet/120gMix per flask), otherwise the acetone bottle is dead cheap!
+ it make the 125g per flask nice and ready to fill in the crystalliser and your 300g batch will be down to 60 exactly half of 120g you need for 1 flask.

The acetone will evaporate, there is no loss in product, just the acetone.

Here a "crystalisation" in progress:


Here a result after crystalisation:

Hit [ I ] for work station manual - STUCK out of workstation mode.

If you got Hit [ I ] for work station manual message stuck when you are not in workstation mode:
You can debug it by:

• QUIT and RELOAD the game/save. You can save before leaving.

Off-center mouse cursor / Double cursor

If your mouse cursor is not working correctly like it's off-center:

• Try and reset your resolution in your in-game graphic options.

you might need to do this once-in-a-while if you use alt-tab I guess.

Equipment removal, I lost equipment !

If you HOLD F to remove/store equipment from workstations, your item will vanish, disappear for ever and not be stored.

• YOU MUST TAP F and not hold F , to remove you equipment without flaws.

patch 1.0.6.: Holding F just hold the item ready to place right away but it doesn't store it in your "inventory". you can loose it by exiting workstation mode while you had the equipment in "hands".

Tasks/Objectives not completing correctly.

These bugs can be fixed by reloading your save, (you can freshly save before reloading no need to loose progress for this).

• Visit / checkout the furniture shop. -> Reload save/game-session and talk to furniture shop guy.
  
• Possibly other "visit / checkout" objectives.

Items get stucked.

Patch2: the item drop function now drops below the player. Some of the following bugs may be irrelevant now

Where you can't be/go
Roofs.
Invisible obstacles could be a huge box or a plane or "wall". These invisible obstacles, in levels/world design, are for optimization and performance of game-play.
So if you found one (bad luck lol), just don't take the risk to overshoot or undershoot your bag over a fence/wall, which has an obstacle on the other-side your bag could land on.

/!\ spot far to the border kennel-downtown on containers
Rooftops next to wall in supermarket area east, when throwing bags from east oldtown.
Also an invisible cube in the police station parking just at the gate downtown side. your item will hang on top of the cube, you might be able to jump and grab.

Gang Meeting, Can't sit with the boss.

You have encountered or might encounter a bug where when go meet LaBallena or Keiji for the first or second time(after a reload of previous save), you start the conversation and when you should sit, you can't sit, there's no option to sit.
And you can't continue the conversation "event/mission".

• It can be "reset" by reloading the game (quit and restart) and load your save.
  
• I tried just loading last save and the bug was still there, you need to close the game and reload your save after a game restart.

Gang reputation bug. Pre.Patch3

The game is not fully completed, and this is more like a: hang in there, it's not finished. :-P
Patch3 did change/fix a few things about it adding gang leveling.

Pre.Patch3: Work-around to have again some work/rep with the gang:

Originally posted by SammySolo:

I tried something to get around the bug and it seems to be working so far.. What I did was I kept telling Gustavo to meet before I put the drugs in the dead drop, decreasing my Rep to zero. Then I did a couple drops for them, and now it seems that my gang rep is increasing as normal.

I did it on a couple different saves, it works!!

Ty SammySolo for the contrib.

Can't find my client! Client invisible.

Is it around here ? (see screenshot, supermarket area)


If so, then your client is underground bellow the street.

Mobile Phone doesn't read messages

This was already in the Free Sample.
Future game development will not include readable messages on the phone.
DEAL with it. 😁

Dropped Single Money stack too big to fit in any bag/pockets. [Obsolete]

1.1.0.25 make this obsolete FINALLY OMG THEY DID IT -- stack of 5000$ in inventory ... clap clap.

Patch 2 fix: Backpacks/Suitcase/Dufflebag now have more space and can carry more.
But you can still manage to ♥♥♥♥-up if you want or are careless (I assume it's helps but if the max stack isn't limited it will happen sooner or later). The maximum money-stack you can pick-up is about 29'000 (safe). /!\ newest patch change everything with bags and weight-volume. This information isn't correct anymore.

• So first, fill in your safes and cupboards(cabinets, dresser), then fill in each pockets(max 6, and YES put your points in pockets ASAP) to divide your money in stacks of 400. then drops those 400 bills stacks one by one. EZ

My opinion for a fix: Limit money stack and separate them in the suitcases and bags. or Dropping money Auto-Splits a single stack into 5000$ stacks if the original stack count more than 5000$.
And add a "money placement" mode on workstations to safely place money. also in stacks nice and tidy (with 3-5 models of a pile of cash, like small cash-pile to huge, it will save resources).

Pre-Patch2 and still today patch 1.0.7.19 Many players dropped a single stack of money too big to pick up afterwards, and could not pick-and-divide any amount.

New Patch makes this obsolete 1.0.7.19
/!\ patch change everything with bags and weight-volume. This information is not completely correct anymore.

They did patch something you can move money only by 9999$ in 1.0.7.19. But you can still drop more than that..... (it's the other way around! HellooooooooOOOOooo lolol)

Double light switch [Obsolete]

1.0.6.10 THIS SEEMS FIXED in LATEST PATCHS
Light Switchs in hideouts start to bug and fail AFTER loading from a save during the same game session.

• Avoid Reload (pro-dds ninja)! or save and quit the game, restart the game/load your save.

Check the wiki! & other guides.

They've added a wiki online!

DDS Wiki's main page[drugdealersimulator.wiki]

Other guide I made:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2421231656
Cartel Shortage Discord https://discord.gg/7ZVCEVcHjR
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2421959885
xent's basic guide: covers what you need to know as a brand new DDS player.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2065932078
Holyvision's .... "Mega master workstation guide" :-P
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2066249567

End Note

This is not an official guide as: it's not generated by DDS Team. You can rewrite the informations, in your sections or posts as it is universal. But, I took the time to put this together, whether I have found bugs and their workaround alone or not: I wrote it like this, so if you copy-paste and or have found, in this guide, usefull stuff to share, you must link the guide using the SHARE button/widget. (at the top of your steam window, or bellow the title, next to Rating and Favorite).

Pls give a thumbs up rating to give this guide more visibility.



Help welcome for translation, filling in missing bugs/work-arounds and updating the guide every patch

Update of this guide is not scheduled, I'll update it on the go, day by day when I collect new infos.

These are the [Official]bug-fix-update notes for the next previous current patch:

Currently showcased: "NONE"

Originally posted by Official DDS communications/announcements:

patch

Change log

[16.03.21] removed a few previously patched bugs.
[17.03.21] improved information several sections.
[19.10.21] added a section: Combine dried marijuana

[27.02.22] updated some section according to patch 1.1.0.25. Added 2 new bug/solution occuring on 1.1.0.25.

[bUrnIt]

Ghost DEA RAIDS
Not the action raid with flashbangs .
If you get the "ghost" raid (hideout locked and no more furniture).
Accept the loss as:

Your careless exposure got the attention of _ *spin* _ and they took the opportunity to rob you while you where gone.


spin-wheel Ghost Raid [www.online-stopwatch.com]

SPIN possible:

Meth-heads
Coke-heads
Junkies
Shady neighboors
Rival Gang/Dealer
Corrupted authorities (finance investigation department / bad cops)


As you need to buy back the rent: interpret this as: damage repair cost .

[BrunelliA]

I need help please: in my hideout at the old market (the shop) all my furniture and drugs vanished and it says that I cannot use the save point, like if I do not own the place. any help? i didn't notice with my previous savefile and it was already like that, so I cannot turn back

[hauy]

There is a bug I experienced a lot which is not mentioned.
I don't know when this feature is added, but you can go from sector B to Sector C through a gate which is normally electrocuted. It is near the exit of night club. You can switch the electricity off from the electric transformer cabin nearby. After switching the power off, you can open the no longer electrocuted gate and go to sector C with only clicking to E.

However, if you press W until you spawn, game gets bugged and screen turns black. It works if you hit ESC but you can't see anything in game. I don't know whether if it's because I pressed W while waiting to spawn but it didn't happen if I just don't click anything.

[bUrnIt]

@Klaceyes hey Thx for the info ! and sharing this. will add.

[Klaceyes]

the "not launching game" fix worked on an i5 13600k, i think you can add the 13th gen too on the title of that solution

[bUrnIt]

updated the guide with 2 new bug/solution according to 1.1.0.25
-money drop bug is now fixed as stack of 5000$ finally is a thing.
-the weed grow on oldsaves is glitched but harvestable.

[bUrnIt]

Hey fellow Dealers: I created a Discord for I created a BOT:
Cartel Shortage gameplay mode (by me) is now on discord with a BOT spinning for you.
https://discord.gg/7ZVCEVcHjR

[bUrnIt]

<3

[DuowO]

Life saver Thank you <33333

[DevilDog]

this guide had more effort that the team that made this game