Hello, recently I got the issue with this car not being there even if I had never been to the place in my two playthroughs, but after seeing Deconstructing the Game mentioning in a stream there was a free car there I decided to go there to just find the crime scene. After investigating a bit about the topic and seeing different takes in why it may or not spawn I loaded the save from my first playthrough and got the car with it. This may or not be a bug so I open the discussion to why it may or not spawn in this topic. Now I'll explain the differences between my playthorughs.
Second and current playthrough:
-Nomad
-Now at Act 3.
-Every Badlands task and scanner activity completed.
-I did the I'll Fly Away task (more on this later)
Fisrt playthrough:
-Also Nomad.
-Every Badlands side quest and gig completed but not the scanner activities
-I missed the I'll Fly Away task.
-It is an after Star ending savegame.
-Every sidequest and gig that appears on the map completed.
My theory is that maybe when I completed the I'll fly Away task I got close enough for the Colby to spawn, but I did not trigger at the time the Trauma Team AV leaving, I just ignore the place until a two days ago I went there for the car and saw the AV leaving but no car. So most likely the trigger area for one thing is much bigger than the other and just getting in the general area but not really getting close would make the car spawn and thus disappear after some time.
Some people say that the car may dissapear for spending too much time from the moment you enter the Badlands or completing some of the Nomad quests but it seems it is just related with getting to the vicinity of the area as my first plpaythrough was far longer the current one and both have those potentially related quests completed but the I'll Fly Away one, I don't think the task is related, but it forced me to pass by there.
Second and current playthrough:
-Nomad
-Now at Act 3.
-Every Badlands task and scanner activity completed.
-I did the I'll Fly Away task (more on this later)
Fisrt playthrough:
-Also Nomad.
-Every Badlands side quest and gig completed but not the scanner activities
-I missed the I'll Fly Away task.
-It is an after Star ending savegame.
-Every sidequest and gig that appears on the map completed.
My theory is that maybe when I completed the I'll fly Away task I got close enough for the Colby to spawn, but I did not trigger at the time the Trauma Team AV leaving, I just ignore the place until a two days ago I went there for the car and saw the AV leaving but no car. So most likely the trigger area for one thing is much bigger than the other and just getting in the general area but not really getting close would make the car spawn and thus disappear after some time.
Some people say that the car may dissapear for spending too much time from the moment you enter the Badlands or completing some of the Nomad quests but it seems it is just related with getting to the vicinity of the area as my first plpaythrough was far longer the current one and both have those potentially related quests completed but the I'll Fly Away one, I don't think the task is related, but it forced me to pass by there.
