So I finished Special Delivery, but in one of the shipping containers there was a note I picked up. I was a little rushed as I was worried about machines nearby, but I did quickly hit Y and sort of skim the note that said something about a lighthouse. I assumed it pertained the lighthouse nearby to the west of the Special Delivery containers. However once I got to a safe place I opened my log to read it more clearly and I cannot find that note I picked up in my log. Special Delivery is marked as totally finished and none of my active main or special missions seem to have that note about the lighthouse. Does anyone happen to know how I can re-read that note or what it pertained to? It didn’t seem to activate an additional mission or anything.
Usually, if I pick up a mission item and it does not show up in the Log, it is for a future mission I haven’t started yet. And usually, those items are not in the vicinity of a previous mission (unless they start the next mission, which rarely happens, iirc).
But… the mission system in this game has proven to be quite unstable sometimes.
Marksman’s note in The Spotter side mission talks about lighthouse. Perhaps you read that one? Since Special Delivery 2x notes doesn’t hint towards the lighthouse at all.
I didn’t read a note from another mission. I was at the end location for Special Delivery which is some shipping containers on the north shore of Marshlands. One of the shipping containers has a yellow car in it and if you go around the back of the container into the water you can open up the container and then the car’s trunk. There is a lighthouse nearby to the west. Altogether there are three or four containers there but the east-most container is what triggers the end of Special Delivery. Inside there, or the car’s trunk, but I think the first container, was a note laying with other stuff. I picked it up and and it said “Press Y to read more” so I did and it opened the log to the note which I skimmed only quickly, heard machine sounds, closed log and when I went to read it again it’s nowhere to be found. Every time I’ve picked up a note in this game it can be accessed again in the log and it has always is either part of a mission I’m on or initiates a new mission. However after picking it up all my side missions are marked as complete and none of the 3 remaining main missions contain the note or apply, so I am completely stumped.
In this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEKDMETAICQ (at time 3:52) which I just found the player goes through the containers and picks up the note. In this video he seems to activate the note but it still remains on the box but the yellow highlight goes away from it. So I don’t know if he stopped holding the action key before picking it up or it just simply did nothing, but it looked like the latter. When I picked up that same note I got a message in the upper left like you get with any mission item where it says press “Y” to read more and a couple of other options, and had a name for what the note was. When I pressed Y as I said before it said something about going to the nearby lighthouse for some reason or so I was sure of until the note could never be found again in my log. It wasn’t either of the notes related to Special Delivery which I have re-read to make sure. Special Delivery ends after entering the first east-most container.
I do not nor have I seen Gas Run. I also have Lost and Found permanently stuck until they fix it so I don’t know if that has something to do with there being no Gas Run or not.
Your description does sound a lot like The Spotter mission. That one though is from the farmlands. It’s possible that once Special Delivery finished (or your interaction with the note poked the blackboard system to update), the log offered the next mission in the list. (I’ve had all sorts pop up before). Farmlands missions come before the marshlands.
I’ve completed all the base missions. When I go back to those containers, I don’t see any note. I’ve not worked out what it was for.
Here’s the note from the spotter mission, if you want to see if it rings any bells:
Edit: Interestingly, at 3:05 in your video, the gas factory mission pops up.
Is it? Since i found that note (and mission start) at the ammo storage building (2190, -3600), just SE of Viskandets borg ruins (North Coast). Also, listing of The Spotter side mission under Farmlands side missions in GZ wiki is wrong.
I take it back, it pops up a couple of missions after special delivery. I’m getting confused again.
Ok I got the Gas Run mission but whatever that note was in the middle Special Delivery shipping container is still a big mystery to me.
I would not pay so much attention to this video. It is from May and things may have changed since then, particularly bugs fixed in the mission system.
Also, might it have been this bug?
Then you would have seen a mission item from another previous mission.
It wasn’t one of the shipment manifest fragments that piece together to the burnt shipment manifest, right? Because that might appear in the mission list only after that particular main mission is activated. Iirc. And together with the bug I mentioned you would have seen a different/old one.
Lastly, it might just be another bug, potentially a new one. E.g. sometimes map markers get mixed up by the game. Might also happen with mission items.
Unfortunately, my memory about missions is not very good. So I can’t really contribute so much to the collective reconstruction effort.
Yeah I just have no idea, I can’t figure it out. The only useful part of that youtube video is that it shows exactly what I picked up and exactly where it was. Except when I picked it up it disappeared and I got the message in the upper left about it. It was someone’s name [Person’s name]'s memo (or note), and it talked about taking a stand against a machine attack at the lighthouse nearby. Also, the Special Delivery mission had completed when I went in the first container so it wasn’t part of Special Delivery. That’s all I know. I can’t find it in my mission log anywhere. Seems strange they’d use that location for another mission because it seems they don’t do that but anything is possible. I was hoping someone knew what was up with it but I guess I’m in uncharted territory with that one. Maybe a developer will happen along who knows what that note is supposed to trigger or be part of when picked up. We know there’s at least two missions that are messed up, one has a work around one doesn’t, but who knows how many other things have for some reason gone haywire in the mission system, or what those other errors may trigger. My Lost and Found is permanently borked until they release the patch and I imagine it could be causing issues down the line.
Just to make sure: You haven’t got a single mission item in your Log, of current or finished missions, that talks about a lighthouse? Did you have The Spotter already, unfinished or complete?
Also, sometimes our memory plays tricks on us. I have been there. Although I was so sure about a fact it turned out it could not have been that way (that item talking about a lighthouse, e.g.). For example you first say
and later
I am saying that because in the only two vids I found showing the doc getting ‘picked up’, it did nothing (not showing a prompt on the screen, not starting a mission). Meaning either it is an empty/bugged one or it belongs to a mission not gotten yet or already finished.
To deliver 2 more pieces to the puzzle:
- The Gas Factory pops up because it is the first mission in the Log list and none is tracked.
- The Last Stand is selected now as it is at position 3 where Special Delivery was before (which is part of the bug I reported).
That’s not how the game works. The mission completes on opening the first box in the first container of your choice, I think. And this is common with GZ, there can be additional items. The mission has a specific end goal, it is not item completion.
You might notice that in all the vids out there, the players only have one mission item collected, out of two. I bet that the doc in the second container is the second mission item.
In the earlier videos it does not do anything as the mission is already completed. That probably is how it was back then. Now it disappears and the game prompts you to read it. But as the mission has changed positions in the Log list - due to it being complete - a different mission item is being displayed.
The note you have read should be an old one from your log, as stated in my bug report (which does not cover this exact situation, but still). This line of yours does fit:
If it is the second item for Special Delivery, pressing Y would trigger a completely different mission item as the mission itself changed position.
Or it is a completely different one, due to another bug, either with the Log system or this particular mission.
Do you have a second mission item now for the Special Delivery mission (after restarting the game you should have, as the game currently seems to automatically fill in any missed items; which is kind of unfortunate in my mind, I’d like to hunt down the missing items after completing the mission). What is it?
At any rate, I had it quite a few times with this game that I could not seem to find a note or mission item I seemingly had picked up. It was an ‘old’ mission item I had missed at some point or a ‘new’ one for a mission I had not already started, but which would not start the quest and, hence, could not be displayed.
Long story short, my preferred explanation is:
- the note in the second container is the second mission item for Special Delivery (it might even look similar if you revisit it now)
- due to the bug I reported, a different mission item got displayed, one you already had collected
- whether it actually contained something about a lighthouse comes down to your memory (not saying you are wrong)
I’m more confused than ever now. Haha. By the way that’s not my video just a video I found that showed someone trying to pick up the paper which shows what and where it is.
Special Delivery: I reached the final destination for Special Delivery. I went into the east-most crate, the one opposite the one with the car in it. When I entered and walked up to all the stuff it said mission complete, gave me experience. From that point on Special Delivery was a completed quest with no dots that could represent missing mission items. That’s what happened.
I looted what I wanted in that container, then looted the rest of the containers. In one of them I found the note that can be seen in that youtube video I found. I picked it up and it put a message in the upper left… somebody’s name’s letter, or note or whatever it was. I hit Y to read it and said something about a lighthouse. It had nothing to do with the lighthouse mission that happens earlier in the game which I had already completed. It was something else. Of course the whole problem is I don’t know what. I’m pretty confident it said something about a lighthouse because when I saw that I had not gone to the lighthouse just a little ways to the west of that point and I thought, a-ha, it’s sending me on a little quest to that lighthouse just over yonder. I closed the log to make sure I was safe. I opened it again but there was no new mission as I would have expected when picking up a new note. I have not been able to find that note as part of any mission. That is why I am asking if anyone knows what exactly the note is and what mission it belongs to, the one that is shown being picked up in the youtube video. The only problem with the youtube video I found is that when he picks it up it doesn’t go in his inventory and there is no message, so that video is only good for showing exactly what I am referring to. It seems pretty strange if they would stash a mission note somewhere that is specific to another mission if it wasn’t meant to continue on. It has to be in the log somewhere because I hit Y and read it initially when the alert was on the screen. I just wish someone else was close in the game so they could pick it up and tell me what it says and where it gets filed in the quest log, or if it’s some bug that is supposed to start a mission that doesn’t. There doesn’t seem to be any reason for that lighthouse to be there nearby so a quest sending you there might’ve made sense.
That part is clear.
Ok, that is your memory. But do you know that entering this first container unlocked the second mission item? Did you check on that back then? Or could it have been the note in the middle container?
I think it could. Hard so say. Because atm the game will auto-complete missing mission items after a game restart. At least on PC.
And I know that there is a bug that shows a wrong mission item if you respond to the Y/read prompt just after the corresponding mission had completed. Maybe because the Log list order only gets update (after mission finish) when you open the log. If the Y/read prompt is based on mission order, that will lead to the display of a completely different mission item, based on mission order in your log.
Clear now?
The video is old and the game acted differently back then. I am quite sure this item belonged to a mission that was either already finished or not acquired. And remember, Special Delivery was finished then, too. Apparently, the game did nothing in this case back then.
If you went thourh all your mission items, and you trust your memory and you were not able to find this note, it is either completely meaningless (remnant from a mission abandoned by the devs) or it is a mission item for a future mission. I can’t really say. It would be bad item placement then, however, as the game does not make sure that you have this other mission already when you do Special Delivery, and it does not start this new mission either.
I am sorry I cannot remember what item it was. And I am not at home, rn. Can you tell me/us what the second mission item of Special Delivery is? Is it a note? Is it a location (compass symbol)? So that we have that one out of the way.
I repeat: If you pick up an item for a mission you haven’t gotten yet, it will not be in your Log until you do so. Mission starts are specific, it seems, not every item does it. This is different in other games.