Cant get A Friend of Stalkers Achievement Thread - MISERY mod for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat

Ok, First thing first. This is my first time using this forum, So If I'm not doing something correctly please inform me.
My problem is, ALLL The way back at the start of my playtrough, Gonta seems to have died, ( I last saw him inside the Skadvosk though ), I never found the body, but It seems I still have to inform him about Magpie, as I promised to him, But he's nowhere to be found and there's no marker on the PDA for him, I need to inform him about Flint becouse its the only way I can get the A Friend of Stalkers achievement, and without such achievement, I cant buy a Kolobok from Beard, and without a Kolobok I cant complete Garry's Mission, And If I dont complete his missions I wont get a Bubble at Pripyat and I wont get his good ending.
TL;DR I need a Kolobok and to fix Gonta's issue, ASAP.

In the meanwhile, I'll be hunting some bandits, see if I can gather money for a SSP9.

Fixed, I still need help with Gonta, but Beard finally sold me a Kolobok, No Idea why or how. Maybe he did it by pity.

Kolobok can be found in various anomalies, although rare, it is still possible.
You don't need friend of stalker achievment for kolobok to be sold at Beards store.
One of us achievment or friend of stalker, whatever you call it, can be achieved earlier even without Flint/Magpie quest.

Kolobok becomes available at traders, not only Beard by completing various other quests. It always becomes available before you finish other stuff prior trip to Pripyat. Just keep doing other stuff in game and don't worry much about it.

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You could always spawn Gonta, if he is dead. I think game will crash if he is not. I think it would be zat_b106_stalker_gonta_squad at zat_b106 In the spawner it would look like this Dropbox.com You should be able to talk to him and complete the quest. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. A tutorial on using the spawner is here Moddb.com

botkiller123 wrote: Fixed, I still need help with Gonta, but Beard finally sold me a Kolobok, No Idea why or how. Maybe he did it by pity.

If Gonta has disappeared he probably died somehow en-route back from the wounded Chimera hunting mission. It's possibly it's a glitch caused by a quicksave/autosave too.

Traders, including Beard, improve their inventories as you progress through missions and get achievements. I think the quickest way to get Beard and Hawaiian to sell Koloboks is to help out Duty or Freedom a couple of times, or to have investigated the crashed helicopter in the Jupiter Plant.

The same thing happens to Strider most of the time if you do not select the option to travel back with him. NPC's engage every single thing they see including all unfriendlies like bandits/mercs and get themselves into too much trouble if you're not along. It's best to go with them. You can fast travel back with way too much stuff in your pack after you rescue Mitay or have to limp back or dump some of it otherwise.

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Ok, So I'm trying to spawn gonta but the console says that zat_b106 doesnt exist as a smart name.

Try zat_stalker_base_smart sometimes you need the squad in the top line and the location in the smart terrain.

I managed to spawn him, But he's not talking to me.
The "Press F to talk BS" Thingy is not appearing.

Jasper-Sempai I need you

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This is the first time I've heard of him dying in untimely fashion. Did you travel back from wounded Chimera mission with him? If not and you have a save before that I would travel back with him. Nobody can make him talk to you. Some characters spawn OK and can just carry on as if all was normal, some don't.

I did travel with him back to Skavdosk, Thats where I saw him the last time before he dissapeared.
Does he move from that location afterwards? Isn't there some command or script to trigger the conversation?

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Are you using Quick or AutoSaves? If you traveled back with him he ought to be there when you arrive. Quick saves can eventually corrupt your save games and cause weird stuff; they are to be avoided. The only thing I could suggest is restoring a save before you return back, if you have one and try again. I know of no other way to force the conversation. Like Lomlom said, it sounds like maybe you have a corrupted save game from quick saves, possibly.

I use quicksaves often, And Hardsaves every 10 minutes or so. IDK if that could corrupt my game...
Welp, At least I got a free Saiga.

There is a quick hard save utility Mediafire.com It's made for earlier version of mod, but works fine. The game is not completely stopped while you make a quick save and small errors creep in and corrupt game. You will notice more and more problems like dialogs don't occur, you complete all steps to complete side mission and mission doesn't post as completed, etc. It can be a hard habit to break, but losing a bunch of progress from corruption isn't worth the risk to use them.

Thanks for the link, I'll use that from now on.
But now I have to get the Compass too, And Noah is also dead...
Thanks MISERY!

NVM, Spawned gonta myself, He got me the Compass, So, No way to finish Gonta's quest?

af_compass ... the good news is that pretty much all the people that occasionally die before their bit is done survive in the next release. Pretty much every original bug I know of has been fixed. You can spawn Noah, but it's easier to just spawn artifact.