Grouses body is disappearing! *Spoiler alert!* Thread - MISERY mod for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat

Hey everyone!
I got a little but very annoying problem, and wanna know if you know the workaround for it. After the thing with the bloodsucker lair (I cleared it with a shotgun and a grenade... like a boss) Tremor went missing. That's the mission. When I go to his hideout, there he is with Grouses dead body on his table. This, however is very practical of the player as a USS sniper, since Grouse actually has a high powered sniper rifle (TRG-42) in his inventory (and you are free to loot the body). However, soon after doing this I was eaten by some mutated dogs, so I quickloaded the point where I left the Skadovsk for tremors hideout. Now when I come in to collect my sniper rifle again, there is only Tremor, Grouses body is missing. Shit. So I loaded a hard save (which was luckily almost at the same point) and tried it again.
No luck.
My suspicion: After initially looting Grouses body, it was empty and despawned. And now it won't spawn anymore, since the save and load features are somewhat broken.
(It can happen for example that you make some stalkers hostile, and after loading again they still are hostile...)

Now I'm just asking if you know a way to get Grouses body back. Is there a console command that let's me spawn the body? I wouldn't consider that cheating since the body and it's content should belong to me.

I still have a savegame from before I told Beard that the Bloodsucker lair was eliminated. Should I try that one?

Not getting that rifle because of a bug, after holding it in my hands already would be too frustrating for me to bear.

Please help. This is really an issue for me...

Edited by: Freak_at_war

When there are bodies on the ground and you make a save, and then reload that save, they will despawn, along with any loot they had on them. I have a feeling this effects quest-related ones as well. There's not much you can do short of reloading before Grouse's body is "placed" in the world. If that still doesn't work for some reason, you can get one of the spawn menu mods and give yourself the TRG.

alright thank you a lot uberhen
I will try that first thing after finishing work

Huh, didn't even think that Grouse would have decent loot; I wasn't worried about the missing body. Bugger. Maybe I'll spawn the rifle somehow.

Does anyone know at what point the body is added?

For me the body was never there, Tremor was facing the wrong direction from the table working on nothing and the table had no body on it. I had to make do with the 2 survival kits, 4 large glucose, 3 tetnus, 5 army medkits etc I lucked into during that quest. Which is still a shame, as a sniper I'd have loved to have that weapon.

Does anyone know how to maybe give a command to place the body anew, or can you at least tell, when the body was placed? After telling beard that the bloodsuckers are dead, or before?

I can't speak toward Grouse for certain, but I found the body of Danilla just after I had killed the bloodsuckers, before the meet grouse popped up IIRC. I had forgotten about the door so I didn't try to go in that early, wound up going to the barge talking to Beard and then going back to the map marker and dragging the then empty body of Danilla around for awhile before I remembered the door. So I think that the bodies may all be placed just after you gas the bloodsuckers, even though I only have my recent experience to base this on. I think the body lacks the proper flag to be considered a quest related item, and so it is being removed while we are outside a 200 unit radius from the docks.

I couldn't live with the result of not having a second chance on this beauty of a sniper rifle, so I did the following. I went back to the bloodsucker lair autosave, killed all the bloodsuckers again (the corpses inside provide sufficient grenades and even a shabby shotgun with just enough buckshots), stashed away all my gear in one of the stashes inside the lair, and went back to the Skadovsk.
I found out the following:

• After finding the lair, you separate from Grouse, the quest updates to: "Meet Grouse later". That's the point where Tremor vanishes from the Skadovsk, and the corpse would spawn, but only if
• you are in range (AI-Life Range: default=350(?)) of Tremors hideout.
• after loading a saved game that was made within this "spawn-range" Grouses body will be gone, Danila's not. So it is definitely a bug.
• The weapons held by the corpses are random!
• If you save just outside the "spawn-range" before you walk inside for the first time, and find a weapon that you don't like on both corpses, you can load that save, and a different random weapon will be in both corpses once you walk inside the spawn range. (This might be seen as abuse.)

Although this is not the way the game should be played, I could not live with the fact that the game betrayed me about this rifle, so I did the "respawn-run" over and over again, in the hope of having luck and finding the TRG-42 again. I had no such luck up to now. I found a wide array of all the different assault weapons with all the highest attatchments aswell as several SAIGAs a Groza and Protectra and also a collection of customized battlerifles like the FN FAL. I will keep trying to spawn the TRG-42 though.
One run consisted of the following steps.

1. Load a savegame (about at the distance of the place with the chimera quest.)
2. Run to the Skadovsk
3. tell Beard about the success at the Bloodsucker lair (idk if that is necessary, but its a matter of seconds)
4. sleep 2 hours (since I just eliminated the Bloodsucker lair, and the door to Tremor is still locked for at least a few ingame hours thereafter. This is to give Grouse time to realistically walk back to the Skadovsk and then get killed by Tremor)
5. run to the hideout, loot both bodies
6. (optional) Out of frustration over the loot, shoot Tremor in the head before he has a chance to explain the situation.
7. repeat

(Edit: concerning point 4: you have to sleep 2 hours! seemingly you can't just do other stuff in that time, you really have to SLEEP.
normally I would get into the Skadovsk at 16:40~ and then sleep until 18:40~ and then go to the hideout.
Now I tried staying awake until 18:40 and it didn't work, the hideout was locked.
I also waited outside the spawn range until it was 18:40, with the result that I had to sleep until 20:40 to actually get into the hideout.)

You see this is a tedious process in which every run takes about 5-7 minutes. Maybe someone can think of a shorter way to do it? Maybe set loading range to only 10 meters and then ony having to run 10 meters every time you load?

(Offtopic: is the poisonous gas container still available, even if I killed them suckers differently already?)

Edited by: Freak_at_war

Yeah it happened to me too, the doctor was operating with empty table! So what were the Grouse's loots? If it's not important i'll leave this one into the darkness of Misery.

Freak_at_war wrote: Does anyone know at what point the body is added?

AFAIK the whole 'Tremor" incident can be done immediately after you go through the lair of the bloodsuckers with Grouse, without destroying the lair.

Also if you kill all the bloodsuckers while in their with grouse, the mission is complete and you can get the reward off beard. The gas/documents will still spawn regardless but you will be stuck with it if you pick it up.

Edited by: Yastiandrie

I was wondering why I never found his body in there, is it odd that Tremor wasn't in there either? (This is after finding Danilla's body). If nothing important is on his body I guess I can live without it... Still an annoying bug though, could have been useful loot to be had...

I am also having the same problem, and it seems so is everyone else, as I have watched some youtubers playing misery 2.0 and for everyone of them grouses body is missing, and when Tremor commits suicide his gun doesn't even go off, you just hear a click. Does anybody know roughly what loot you would usually get from grouses body and how much it would be worth then I can just spawn it in.

Wow... i totally didn'y know that Grouse had a nice sniper rifle on him (and i'm sniper class), a pity!
I hope this bug will be fixed in next releases or unofficial patches (if it can be fixed)