(PC) Scavenger Bot Missing...

Hi, 

Firstly i wanna say in my eyes, DS3 is a truly worthy sequel to what to me is one of the best games this generation, Dead Space 2. What a great job Visceral have done giving DS3 a shadow every bit as big as DS2's. 

However like all great works, it is not completely free from flaws, some very minor and very few serious.

But one such flaw is the scavenger bot problem, its a big one and I have heard many of the same reports.

My details are like this:

Firstly, I'm on PS3.

• When did the Bug occur?

3 days ago. Some time between doing the last 2 chapters and starting new game plus. The last time I remember having 3 perfectly normal, functioning scavenger bots was during chapter 18 or 19, I don't think I was able to deploy a bot during 19, but I know that as I finished chapter 19 I was still waiting on one of my bots to return, and when I started a new+game+plus I was down 1 bot, so I assume the "bug" occurred between the bot being deployed late in chapter 18 and starting new+game+plus.

• What did you do before you experienced the Bug (please be as detailed as possible)?

I was playing as normal, on impossible mode, enjoying and soaking up the story, I was not rushing, just trying to get the most out of it. I don't just mean "enjoying the game", but finding all collectibles I could, picking up every scrap of health or ammo I could find, killing necro's and deploying bots at every possible opportunity. I followed the natural progression of the story all the way to finish, no quitting, loading or restarts. I did die numerous times during chapter 19 though. Upon finishing the game, I actually started a new game in hardcore mode first, I played upto chapter 5 then save and quit. After this I wanted to start a regular new game plus so I could continue building my Isaac, building better weapons, finding resources and getting 100% completion for all collectibles, etc. As soon as I had control of Isaac I noticed I had 2 bots instead of 3. Obviously it is explained to you when you start a hardcore run that your starting completely fresh, so no alarm bells then, but in regular NG+ this seemed wrong, especially when I arrived on the terra nova where you find the first bot, I thought he might add to my inventory then, but no luck.

• What did you expect to happen?

This is pretty self explanatory, I expect to have 3 scavenger bots after unlocking 3 scavenger bots, I really hope there is a solution to this very soon. Personally I want to stay clear of the bot upgrades, I feel quite strongly that they dilute the purity of the Dead Space experience, DS has always been hard, you had to fight for every inch of progress and every upgrade was earned. I know the Dead Space I know, remember and love would be a lesser experience if I turned to these assistance tools, but with a bot down that's a 33% reduction in overall efficiency, not to mention all the extra time wasted having to back track to a bench after 2 bots return rather than 3, with all these factors and extra time wasted that figure is much closer to 50% less productivity.

Like I said, I don't want the bot upgrades, but this kind of major glitch will force the hand of many players and its just not fair. The pacing of Dead Space has always been superb, but being penalized so severely by this glitch really starts to make it feel like a grind, a word I've never had to use in the same sentence as Dead Space. 

Please fix it promptly EA/Visceral, Dead Space is truly one of the best franchises of this generation, don't let this small mark become a bloody smear across our visors as we look forward anticipating what great future may yet await this brilliant series.

Kind Regards,

thedarknessof66,

Space Engineer,

Loyal Dead Spacer.

I had 3 bots, now I only have 1 after doing new game+ co-op mode. The other two are gone and will not return, no way to get them back. Redoing the missions where you get bots didn't work. When I open the scavenger bot menu it only says I have 1. Where'd they go lmao? 

How do  you fix this ??????

Yes... "Bump" indeed! lol

This problem emerged quite early, and your right, there have been so many posts about it, but NONE of them are getting any attention. i fear that this will just become an accepted flaw... but boy how I hope this is not the case!

On the plus side, this glitch does seem to be limited to the continuation of existing game modes, ie, for me NG+, but with others its happening after coop...

Nonetheless, if you started a new game on hardcore, pure survival or oldschool mode, this should reset your bots to the normal story progression.

This is far from a solution as i plan to keep going with my NG+ until i get 100% completion, so i still need to endure about another 1.5 playthroughs like this before i start all the other more challanging game modes.

Please give us a fix soon Visceral and or EA...

OK, so when i joined Co-op on Prolouge, palyed a bit, then exited, i started to lose scavenger bots, only 1 i lost so far, but i fear of losing more, so i basically avoide co-op play which really annoys me since i WANT to play co-op, but can't because the last time i did, i lost a scavenger bot, LATER ON! and the other thing is that sometimes the voices would get really choppy like some one had WAAAAY too much sugar, but this only happened twice, and was actually pretty funny, but a thing to be repaired nonetheless, also, when i played as carver in the 2nd co-op exclusive mission, when i used my locator around the middle of the mission, my locator would say my partner is about 50+ meters away from me, when he actually is right next to me! I don't know whether or not it's part of the mission, but if it isn't please deal with it, and if you can deal with the rest of these issues, i'd be happy to play co-op again.

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I am also having this issue.  I beat the game twice on hard, playing impossible and one of my bots disappeared.  I called and spoke with a tech, and he is looking into it.  He suggested everyone post on this forum, so the creater will make a patch.  The more people that post, the more likely it will get fixed.  In the mean time be patient, and enjoy the game.  Hit me up on xbox  Zollinger11b