Vanishing RG-6

I pulled the RG-6 out of the Bloodsucker Village cellar. It is in perfect condition. However, when I transition to Rostok, the weapon is no longer in my inventory. This also happens with the weapon in my primary slot, drawn or holstered.

For some reason RG-6s and VOG grenades (plus a few other items) currently disappear when you leave the map. A workaround is to spawn them in when you reach your destination. Fortunately Voronin will accept a spawned RG-6.

So the lesson here is to take a screenshot of your inventory before leaving Army Warehouses.

Unfortunately it isn't just Army Warehouses, it seems to happen wherever you are if you change maps while carrying these items. There is another mission involving an RG-6, and one requiring some green ration packs. In both cases I lost the items en route and had to spawn them at the destination to complete the missions.

I wonder if there's a text editor I can use to copy the inventory from one save to another? I tried using NotePad++, but that resulting in a crash to desktop. I hate using the spawn menu because I feel like I'm cheating, even though it seems to be the only option for this bug.

Sorry, I can't help you with a save-game editor. That is some way above my level of expertise.

I don't like having to use the spawn menu either, but it is there for a reason: to enable us to get past annoying and potentially game-breaking bugs. StalkerSoup is still being developed on what is essentially the original 32-bit game engine from 2007. I'm not sure if it is currently an 'alpha' or a 'beta' in terms of game development, but it is likely to continue being buggy and unstable for some time to come.

Hopefully TecnoBacon will be successful in his plan to convert the game to run on a stable 64-bit engine, but I don't see that happening for a while yet. In the meantime, all I can suggest is that we use the tools that have been made available to us, and enjoy the game for what it is.

I'm noticing this issue in other transitions, too. Between Radar and X-10 (both ways) I lost my VOG-25s and VOG-25Rs. I also noticed when I quick saved between talking to Pvt. Katz and picking up the document, if I reload the save the document isn't there. I couldn't find it in the spawn menu, so I had to go back to a save before my conversation with him. It's like the engine isn't reading the save correctly. 

Anyway, on to Pripyat.

Hi Kwag_Myers.
Thanks for letting us know about your new findings. I tested Katz' documents and they stayed in my inventory through both quicksave/load and a full save/load, so I think your issue might be something different. (Incidentally, the document is spawnable, but it is cunningly hidden in the RADAR section for some reason - item rad_document7.)

As for the other items that disappear, I assume that there is a common factor between the RG-6, VOG-25 and VOG-25P grenades (however, the RG-6 "Bulldog" isn't affected); but the green Military Ration packs that Syslov requires also disappear. These items all disappear whenever you change map or load a game, but I am not a programmer and I have no idea what could be causing it.

There may well be other items disappearing that I haven't noticed, so please report anything else that disappears in your game.

For anyone else reading this thread; the green military rations are not on the Esc+S menu (that I could see). You must use the Esc+F4 option (in game) and type in irp-b,2.

Edit: I should also mention for those of us new to the mod (and its spawn menus), these items spawn on the floor and not in your backpack (like the Esc+S items do).