1.06 didn't change anything, i think it's a realy marketing move to call it ''patch''.
Still stuck, still can't play the game.
I had some faith in this company, now it's gone.
Still stuck, still can't play the game.
I had some faith in this company, now it's gone.
In steam it's a hotfix. As I understand it only fixes saves problem (about 8mb size).
I somehow got the mission to activate. All I did was went to the Pacifica zone and did the side quests, or any undiscovered mission. I don't know if this will work for anyone else, but give it a try.
That was a quest behind the clothes shop I guess. There's some posts about it here.
I have the same bug on my 1st playthrough , had to start another character because you can't continue the story without this quest , i think all main quests are tied to your level or streetcred level , if it is too high it will not trigger. Quest difficulty might be a factor here.
On my 2nd character it triggered with no problems ... this needs to be fixed ASAP.
On my 2nd character it triggered with no problems ... this needs to be fixed ASAP.
Hi..
I've the same problem here. I'm level 50 SC 50 and more than 65hours in this game.
I cant reach this call si i'm blocked.. it's very frustating i rly enjoy this game and i want to finish it but i cant.. i have nothing more things to do and i dont even Know if cdproject knows this bug and if they will fix it asap because this bug has been reported since 12 december on this forum..
Thank you for more explanations
I've the same problem here. I'm level 50 SC 50 and more than 65hours in this game.
I cant reach this call si i'm blocked.. it's very frustating i rly enjoy this game and i want to finish it but i cant.. i have nothing more things to do and i dont even Know if cdproject knows this bug and if they will fix it asap because this bug has been reported since 12 december on this forum..
Thank you for more explanations
Not a solution, but it could lead to one or at least a bandaid fix (although only for PC players unfortunately): If anyone plays through this mission and gets past the "Answer the call" part, please save then and there and open the metadata file to look how the next part of that mission is called.
The part that currently is the biggest problem is classified as the following...
"quests/main_quest/act_01/q110_01_voodooboys/01_fixer/03_answer_call_from_fixer"
Now if we can just see what the next step in the quest is we might be able to skip forward without having to end the quest outright or otherwise mess up the quest chain.
I'm currently at 55 hours of real playtime (67 hours due to attempts of troubleshooting the issue at hand) and are just as stuck as many others. And I honestly don't want to abandon my character or start a new one if this bug exists and makes progressing through the game a gamble.
The part that currently is the biggest problem is classified as the following...
"quests/main_quest/act_01/q110_01_voodooboys/01_fixer/03_answer_call_from_fixer"
Now if we can just see what the next step in the quest is we might be able to skip forward without having to end the quest outright or otherwise mess up the quest chain.
I'm currently at 55 hours of real playtime (67 hours due to attempts of troubleshooting the issue at hand) and are just as stuck as many others. And I honestly don't want to abandon my character or start a new one if this bug exists and makes progressing through the game a gamble.
I think, all the save info is in .dat file. But I don't know, how to open it.
From the json file in my save:
"activeQuests": "6B577A51814903CA",
"trackedQuestEntry": "quests/main_quest/act_01/q110_01_voodooboys/02_make_contact/01_go_to_chapel",
"trackedQuest": "LocKey#8632",
"mainQuest": "LocKey#8632",
I'm just after Mr. Hands called me.
First time I also run into the bug. What triggered it for me I think that I started the quest immediately after I run a gig for Mr. Hands. A few minutes later Mr. Hands called me but it wasn't about the main quest but about the gig I just ran and my main quest got stuck in the Answer call phase.
I loaded a previous save and after the gig I waited for Mr. Hands to call me about it and called him about the VDB just after that.
I hope this helps.
.json file doesn't change anything, sadly. I tried to change some strings, but as expected nothing changed. I think it's the .dat file where's all this located.
My problem with this quest connected with Two wrongs makes us right Gig. When i finished that gig i dont get a call from Mr. Hands but it's completed anyway. Now when Mr. Hands call me about main quest, he talking about that gig and not about main quest. So i have save before i called mr hand. Apparently i need a method to trigger his call about gig. Dont know how thou
Thanks for answering, but unfortunately it seems that those affected just need to wait for a fix. Still appreciate the effort.
As it seems that overlapping calls are one of the causes for those issues CDPR could implemented easy solutions to prevent those bugs in the future by assigning missions with priorities, with active tracked missions having a lower priority than main missions so that main missions calls would always play out first before anything else happens. But to be frank, this nonsense should not happen in the first place as the sheer density of activities will inevitably lead to overlapping calls for a majority of players.
I have the same problem on PC, but with completely different quests. It also spreads for me and eventually even makes it so i can't do any dialogue, or throw grenades or double jump. Has to be a general bug in the phone code, but weirdly it seems to be rare in the way we get it, and i have not been able to figure out what triggered it because i had like 8hr window between saves somehow....
Damn, this bug is really, REALLY bad. Up until now I kinda enjoyed my experience on PC, despite all the criticism the game got, and almost all of the problems for me were just strictly visual hiccups. So I could excuse those. But this thing is much, much more serious.
I think I've tried everything that is possible for me to do from provided solutions. I tried to sleep five times, then go out and go into a car - didn't work. Then I tried the 'waiting in Pacifica' method - I was doing that for 2 hours and it also didn't work. Then I went back, did the sleep trick again, but - of course - the problem is still there. "Anwer the call from Mr. Hands".
Can't go back unfortunately. This mission was just waiting for me and I ignored it for about 30 hours, doing side stuff and other main missions. And just today I realized that it is probably bugged. I REALLY don't want to lose that much f'n progress (and I couldn't even if I wanted to, because my save don't go that far back). Unfortunately, the trick with other Mr Hands job is also not an option for me - I already did his question mark mission. So now I'm waiting in the car still and hoping for a miracle that probably won't come.
CD Projekt - PLEASE, fix this bug. Or provide some workaround (for example, if I called Mr Hands myself it would work or something, because right now he just doesn't answer). This problem is absolutely game-breaking and much more serious than visual glitches.
I would probably send my save file to them, but kinda don't want to - I used some mods and console tab. I''m 99,99% sure it isn't their fault though, seeing as so many people have the same problem as me. Still, CDPR would just probably say "start a new save without mods" and be done with it or something.
If any of you will find ANY solution to this problem (maybe skipping this quest objective by editing some files in the game or something?) I would be really grateful. This sucks, because I really poured too much time into this game (I think I'm on 80 hours played now) and repeating all of it from the start is an absolutely devastating thought for me. It also sucks, because we can't be even sure if they are working on that problem now. I would like to wait for a patch but it's possible that this bug just won't be ever fixed.
Well, meanwhile I'm still waiting in my car in Pacifica and hoping that this stupid call will eventually come. Ugh.
Update: Waiting in Pacifica didn't work for me. Tried to brute force it and waited for much more than 1,5 hours recommended in the video (probably close to 4 or 5 hours) and it just didn't do anything. Mr. Hands still won't call me.
I'm done with this thing. If they patch it then great, if not, I will just play other games and discourage everyone from getting it now. Bugs and glitches I can understand, but critical error like this, that can break the MAIN STORY in such a bad way that there isn't even any unoficcial workaround, is absolutely unacceptable to me. I'm a writer for small gaming website in Poland and right now, if I would have to review this thing (thank God I don't), I would probably give it a 1 out of 10. Won't do anything like that, because I realize it isn't really fair to the product as a whole, but damn, it is so unbelievably frustrating.
I think I've tried everything that is possible for me to do from provided solutions. I tried to sleep five times, then go out and go into a car - didn't work. Then I tried the 'waiting in Pacifica' method - I was doing that for 2 hours and it also didn't work. Then I went back, did the sleep trick again, but - of course - the problem is still there. "Anwer the call from Mr. Hands".
Can't go back unfortunately. This mission was just waiting for me and I ignored it for about 30 hours, doing side stuff and other main missions. And just today I realized that it is probably bugged. I REALLY don't want to lose that much f'n progress (and I couldn't even if I wanted to, because my save don't go that far back). Unfortunately, the trick with other Mr Hands job is also not an option for me - I already did his question mark mission. So now I'm waiting in the car still and hoping for a miracle that probably won't come.
CD Projekt - PLEASE, fix this bug. Or provide some workaround (for example, if I called Mr Hands myself it would work or something, because right now he just doesn't answer). This problem is absolutely game-breaking and much more serious than visual glitches.
I would probably send my save file to them, but kinda don't want to - I used some mods and console tab. I''m 99,99% sure it isn't their fault though, seeing as so many people have the same problem as me. Still, CDPR would just probably say "start a new save without mods" and be done with it or something.
If any of you will find ANY solution to this problem (maybe skipping this quest objective by editing some files in the game or something?) I would be really grateful. This sucks, because I really poured too much time into this game (I think I'm on 80 hours played now) and repeating all of it from the start is an absolutely devastating thought for me. It also sucks, because we can't be even sure if they are working on that problem now. I would like to wait for a patch but it's possible that this bug just won't be ever fixed.
Well, meanwhile I'm still waiting in my car in Pacifica and hoping that this stupid call will eventually come. Ugh.
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Update: Waiting in Pacifica didn't work for me. Tried to brute force it and waited for much more than 1,5 hours recommended in the video (probably close to 4 or 5 hours) and it just didn't do anything. Mr. Hands still won't call me.
I'm done with this thing. If they patch it then great, if not, I will just play other games and discourage everyone from getting it now. Bugs and glitches I can understand, but critical error like this, that can break the MAIN STORY in such a bad way that there isn't even any unoficcial workaround, is absolutely unacceptable to me. I'm a writer for small gaming website in Poland and right now, if I would have to review this thing (thank God I don't), I would probably give it a 1 out of 10. Won't do anything like that, because I realize it isn't really fair to the product as a whole, but damn, it is so unbelievably frustrating.
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