Unable to progress in Third Story Mission

With the riot guards, that one's an easy one. You've got to be 110% sure the riot in Min security has finished. Station a regular guard there once it's clear. Once you've totally cleared minimum security then you can move on to medium. Then it's the same with max. You've got to do them completely in order.

I'll have to look into replicating the building issue though. Are you able to give me any more information on what the workers are doing instead? Are the trucks coming through okay?

Nat D11

You could try firing the workers and hiring new ones. I know its a pain but I have ran into similar problems with people just lost in space as it were, like they were qued to do something but somehow just got glitched for whatever reason. Had a nurse holding a needle for 2hrs just standing at wall till I fired her and another nurse got a needle and helped the guy.

Still not sure what's stopping the workers but the riot is definitely the issue I think it is. Your inmates are upset enough that the riot will just break back out unless they're sufficiently suppressed. I cleared the first riot area at least twice, just to have them get mad again almost immediately and almost kill a guard just for fun. I can't remember without loading the game back up, but is Lockdown available in this story mission? If so, that should help quite a lot with keeping the recently-rioting inmates from flaring back up again and stealing prison keys (the jerks!).

Nat D11

Huh. It allowed me to progress to the western block immediately after satisfying that requirement. You won't be able to go south until the end. I think the last time I played that one I was on Xbox so I'll load it up on PS4 shortly.

Nat D11

Might wanna double check the shower area in the first section. Sometimes it will turn white but there will still be rioting prisoners hidden in there. Always run your riot guards through every section regardless of the color to ensure that all prisoners are subdued. You also might wanna run the guards around the outside of a building to make sure you don't miss anyone out there. That should help you insure that everyone is safe as well.

As for the buildings not being fully constructed. Sometimes in the story mode I have noticed that a building doesn't wanna complete without a door. So make sure you stick one somewhere on the edge of the building. You can always move it later if you wanna change the location of the door.

Hope this helps.

I can't replicate it at my desk. I'm going to play it a bunch of times on my home PS4 over the weekend and see if I can figure it out.

Nat D11

Yeah I actually had this problem at one point myself and I tried everything to get it to work. I had to restart it to get it to work. If you are using the downloaded version of the game have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling the game itself? It's the only other thing I can think to suggest for now.

Is the storage area or the delivery area full by chance? Either way you could try deleting the storage area and see what happens, see where these scab workers linger without their precious storage area. I remember playing that story mission myself and having problems on ps4, I will also go play it again and see if I can help further.

I think you can dismiss your riot teams and recall them again.

Ok... here is what I have figured out:

Once you clear the first ward you are supposed to get a phone call and they give you the chance to secure the cell block by hiring more guards and using deployment to place them in the ward you cleared. Make sure you hire the max number of guards you can and then deploy at least 8 guards for this section of the prison and make sure you spread them out to cover each section of the ward. This should trigger the next objective which is to build an infirmary and a morgue and hire 5 doctors.

Once the infirmary/morgue objectives are completed it should trigger the next part which involves the security room. If all of your riot guards are dead then you can select some of the regular guards and have them enter the Security room (this is the reason you should hire as many guards as you can when given the chance during the first deployment). Once you get a guard in there you will go through the story sequence and after its over you should have the ability to freely dismiss and recall your riot guards. Push down on the D-pad to access the Riot guards, choose the squad of guards to dismiss and hit square. Once you have done this you can recall them by hitting up on the D-pad and hitting x for each squad you need to recall.

From there you should be able to go into the next ward of the prison and quell the rioters there. Once all the sections of this ward are cleared (except for the hostage crisis area) you should be given the chance to hire and deploy more guards to keep control of this ward of the prison.

You should now be able to send your riot guards to the last ward (section on fire) and clear the northern section of the building that isn't on fire and that should trigger the last part of the hostage story. After that part of the story concludes you should be able to get firemen and stop the fire, build an armory and staffroom and continue whatever is left to do to finish this story mission.

If the game isn't working this way then it maybe the typical issue I have found over the years with the difference between disc and digital games and is why I prefer digital 99.9% of the time. Somehow for whatever reason because the discs are hard coded sometimes the updates just clash with it and cause unexpected errors. It sounds like that is what is happening here as both my husband and I have played this mission through without errors since the day 1 patch and we both play the digital version of the game.

Glad you got it solved and you can move forward (if you haven't already).