Is there no other way to fix this?
There’s still no way to quit, restart, or replay missions so if they get softlocked you’re out of luck.
It’s working. I deleted my profile and reached the farm now. They spawned 
thx for your help, guys!
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I suggest you make a backup save if possible so you won’t have to start from the beginning again if another mission gets softlocked. Unfortunately it’s quite a common occurrence.
Machines not spawning, I exited out of the game completely and uninstalled and reinstalled it, I can’t get it to work at all, anything I can do to fix it? This is on Xbox series x
Moved to report thread.
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The key is on the table in the house, kitchen, I believe. You can see the key even before you are able to pick it up. You can’t pick it up until you kill the four Runners, but they don’t seem to spawn. I completed the mission solo and they were there and I got the key, but when I played with a friend, the Runners don’t spawn.
I had a friend start playing a couple of weeks back and he encountered this issue at Stenhaga. The only way around it was for him to reset progress and start the game again.
XbSeries S
Dark Skies update, started game over on new world with new character, got to Stenhaga farm quest “the farm” went to clear machines and none spawned in. The icon is there indicating location and quest updates showing 0/4 machines killed but no machines spawn to kill.
Multi-player set to invite only, with myself as only one playing.
1 player just me.
Advise? Bug? Help please?
That bug was supposed to be fixed in this update. Apparently it wasn’t.
The only way I’m aware of getting around this is to start a new game again and maybe it’ll work the second time.
Very strange. I played thru this mission without problems when testing. Can anyone else confirm if this issue still applies for PC, or if this is some kind of console-exclusive problem? 
having issue machines not spawning first time they spawned after dying there were no machines
need help
Moved to existing report thread covering the issue.
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I am also having this problem on PC. 2/4 of the robots spawned, but the other two never did. I left the area and came back, reloaded from the main menu, restarted the game and my computer, and nothing seemed to fix it. At one point I came back and there were 3 robots there, but when I killed them it didn’t change the counter on the screen so I am still stuck unfortunately.
I’ve encountered the same issue on xbox one. Got game via gamepass.
No machines spawns…so are stuck!
Only solution is what?
Any difference playing it installed or cloud? I play cloud
Load new world then go back to original, if that doesnt work then just play the new world.
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Tried that…got some spawns, but killing them didnt count 
Never ending story
That did work for me Thanks!
Well, that kinda sucks, I already spend 2h into the game (I’m a completionist, Looter and Explorer), so at the point I had reached the farm, I was already 1,5-2h into the game. It would not be hard if it were just a generic side mission, like the Hunter one, where you get the Rifle… but for a Main Mission it’s still bad.
Even if I now skip all the Exploring and Side Missions for the beginning and get straight to the farm, who going to say that it will work? Like Grimwrath said, he did the reset, the enemy spawn, but then not counting… I really don’t want to replay the same 1,5h over and over again… and who gonna saying, it will not be happening again in later missions? A Restart Mission Feature that was already wished and feedbacked, are something I would demand.
Unlikely, you do know they did the last update in December right? Your last hope would be the January hotfix.