Investigations: Fix Missing Progress

Strength Limit: use Volkov’s Signal Grenade

1. Select the relevant Strength Limit step and inspect your personal stash for Volkov’s Signal Grenade supplied by .201.
2. Bring that specific grenade, call its separate supply drop and open the drop.
3. Check the tracker afterward. Regular supply drops no longer count for this step; opening another player’s ordinary drop is not the stated solution.

Sources: Update 0.4.0.201

Check the contract before you deploy

1. Check the Monolith for the Investigation unlock you need. Unlocking a contract and selecting it as active are separate steps.
2. Open Investigations and activate the contract. If all three active slots are occupied, deselect one before selecting another.
3. Read the current objective for its location, target, weapon, interaction, and extraction requirement. Bring the relevant equipment.
4. Select your own equipment rather than Provided Equipment. Choose a raid mode and location allowed by the actual objective.
5. After performing the required action, check the tracker. If it explicitly requires extraction, keep the required item and extract before treating the step as complete.

Sources: SiNisterFPS beginner walkthrough: 28:12–33:21 · Update 0.4.0.93

Match the symptom to the next check

Sources: Update 0.4.0.93 · Update 0.4.0.115 · 250 Shades of Liberty

Use the map marker, then the interaction prompt

In the Optics discussion, community manager MajorMcDonalds explains that Investigation targets are marked on the map. For its stairwell photo, the camera tooltip appears when you are close to the required spot. Use that prompt to confirm the position before taking the photo.

1. Select the relevant Investigation and inspect its marked area on the map.
2. At the building, check connected floors and stairwells for the required interaction or camera prompt.
3. Confirm progress in the tracker before leaving the area. If the prompt never appears, recheck the active step and location rather than photographing arbitrary scenery.

Sources: Optics Investigation discussion

Missing Trap: check inventory and your spawn

1. Activate the correct capture contract and select personal equipment before deploying. Leave space for its supplied tool.
2. At spawn, inspect your rig/pouch and backpack. If the Trap is absent, inspect the nearby-items list and ground before leaving. October 16 replies said inventory delivery was fixed, but an October 28 player still reported a missing Trap and replied “Got it” after ground-check advice. Do not rely on either location alone.
3. Move the Trap to quick access and check its placement interaction before approaching the target. The October 15 Flowerman clip demonstrates placing a trap beneath an alarm flower and shooting the flower from a distance. It does not show extraction or the final contract count, and predates the .201 dash change.
4. Read your contract’s capture and extraction conditions. If the tool is still absent or inaccessible, keep the contract, map and spawn details for a bug report; do not buy an unrelated item expecting it to replace the supplied Trap.

Sources: Trap location discussion, October 14–16 · Domnaut: Flowerman trap, October 15

Use the current contract and raid indicators

• Hover over a contract in the list: update .173 makes its map icons and zones pulse while dimming other contracts and map layers.
• Open Raid icons are amber after .173. Read the subtype label as well as the color.
• The Provided Equipment loadout check now lists selected Investigations that cannot be completed with that gear. Check that list before queueing.
• Escape from Dogorsk can now count for Investigations that require visiting the standard Dogorsk raid, under .182. Other objective conditions still apply.

Sources: Update 0.4.0.173 · Update 0.4.0.182