Ever since the latest Days Gone update, many of you have been complaining about a story-ending bug: The Days Gone Afraid of a Little Competition bug. The return the silicate to Sarah story mission in Days Gone appears to be broken, not allowing players to continue the story from that point. The locked door bug is an annoying one, for sure. Read on to see if there is a Days Gone Afraid of a Little Competition bug fix.
Days Gone Afraid of a Little Competition Bug | What’s the problem?
As stated above, it appears as though the Afraid of a Little Competition story mission in Days Gone is broken. Many of you have taken to Reddit and Twitter to air your frustrations at not being able to complete the game. No one likes a broken story mission.
Essentially, since the latest Days Gone update, many of you have been unable to complete the game. Simply put, the Afraid of a Little Competition story mission cannot be completed. It appears as though you can play through the entirety of the mission, which involves locating and bringing back a bag of silicate to Sarah on Wizard Island.
The trouble is, when you go back to Wizard Island, the door you need to go through in order to give the silicate to Sarah is locked. No matter how many times you try it, that door just won’t budge. If you can’t give Sarah the silicate, you cannot complete the mission and therefore, the game.
Days Gone Afraid of a Little Competition Bug Fix
Thankfully, there are a handful of general fixes that might just fix the story bug for you. One such fix that might work for you is rebuilding your PS4’s database after loading up the save closest to before you can start the Afraid of a Little Competition mission.
To do this, follow these steps:
- Turn on Days Gone
- Load up your closest save to before you can start the Afraid of a Little Competition mission
- Once it has loaded, close the game down and turn off your PS4
- Boot your PS4 into Safe Mode (hold the console’s power button until you hear it beep twice)
- Choose to Rebuild Database
- After this is all done, load up the same save file that you loaded for the first step
Hopefully, this method should work for you. There are no guarantees, however. You could, if you prefer, try to reload an old save file.
Again, we’d recommend loading up the latest save file before you were given access to the Afraid of a Little Competition mission. Simply reloading into an older save file and replaying through the mission again could well fix it. Of course, for anyone who has gone on and completed a load of map activities while waiting for a fix to be released via an update, neither of these methods are particularly worthwhile.
If these fixes don’t work, however (as they haven’t for some), you are simply going to have to wait for a fix via a future Days Gone update. Fingers crossed the bug is fixed for good in the next Days Gone update. For now, we’d recommend waiting for an update, rather than potentially messing your PS4 up via database rebuilding.
Days Gone Zombie Innovations
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Days Gone's Zombie Waves and 10 other undead innovations
Upon the airing of its first E3 showcase, Days Gone picked up steam for one reason: zombie waves crashing against the ground, flowing as one solid mass of undead fury. While there have been lots of zombie games, the quality example atop the pile run with unique hooks that set them apart from the competition. Here are some examples. -
Dead Rising
A generation ago, just the sheer number of slow zombies in Dead Rising was enough to raise eyebrows. The fact that they existed as a barrier for Frank West rather than a real threat was also innovative. He couldn't stop the invasion, he could only hop on their heads and move around them. -
Left 4 Dead
The special zombies are what sets Left 4 Dead's horde apart from the others. From the explosive Boomer to the destructive Witch, these player-controllable mini-bosses created a new style of co-op fun that games like Vermintide 2 are still riffing on to this day. -
Plants vs. Zombies
Even though zombies are inherently representative of a lot of humanity's fears, that doesn't mean we can't laugh at them. Plants vs. Zombies cast the undead as a comedic obstacle to overcome, a kid-friendly strategy that has led to several successful spinoffs. -
Telltale's The Walking Dead
The Walking Dead is about using zombies as a metaphor in all its forms, and especially in Telltale's seasons-long story adaption. Acting as a looming threat throughout the saga, zombies here aren't the focus, they're just the cause for the chaos. -
Zombie Night Terror
Zombie games can be in any genre, even ones not typically prone to the type of violent gore that these characters generation. Zombie Night Terror is a puzzle game similar to Lemmings, only you're controlling undead walkers instead of cute green-haired creatures. -
Atom Zombie Smasher
Another strategic take on the undead is Atom Zombie Smasher, which is a top-down tactics game where you're trying to evacuate citizens from the map as the swarm closes in. With procedurally-generated cities and buildings that crumble, it's a realistic yet abstract take on surviving the apocalypse. -
Undead Horde
Sometimes, you just want to cause the apocalypse instead of surviving it. Undead Horde has you causing the end of the world by summoning zombies and overtaking villages in a medieval countryside. It's a zombie real-time strategy game if you will, although with fun material gathering. -
They Are Billions
Or, if you want to strategize on the other side of things, you get the ominously titled They Are Billions. It's another unstoppable horde, and you just have to hold them off with your building skills. It's like the circle in a battle royale, only with more teeth and claws. -
Stubbs The Zombie
Back to comedy, no game has successfully captured playing as the undead quite like Stubbs The Zombie. You rip your limbs off to perform moves, you feast on brains and you've got a retro vibe to revel in. Bowling for zombie heads anyone? -
Sunset Overdrive
Zombies don't even have to be the "undead." The zombie mutants from Sunset Overdrive turned due to a soda laced with unfortunate chemicals. It leads to some creative designs, showing that if zombies are here to stay, we can at least get some variety in.
