Drug Dealer Simulator 2 – Known Issues Guide [Solved]

Here you will find a list of game bugs and issues for which solutions have already been found.

How to Fix Known Issues

Gameplay Issues

• FOV may be set incorrectly to 0 / Visuals in the game may be very blurry

How to avoid / fix: Avoid setting the FOV in the game settings accessible from the main menu. Set the FOV in the settings while already in the game to avoid this issue with FOV being set to 0.

• Individual translations not being correct in certain languages

How to avoid / fix: Can’t be fixed by the player, working on it. 

• Minimap markers do not match those on the map

How to avoid / fix: Can’t be fixed by the player, working on it. 

• There are places where death causes a black screen – when the player drowns under a waterfall near a cave in the Jungle, near a pier in Port Town

How to avoid / fix: Try to avoid dying in water. 

• A player is blocked when he / she is sitting in a vehicle and a thug or police officer approaches

How to avoid / fix: Can’t be fixed by the player, working on it (although it is best to get out of the vehicle ASAP when enemies approach you to try avoiding this bug). 

• In hideouts with running water, cancelling the creation of an item that requires water dumps water into the substance storage which clogs the stash and may prevent further crafting

How to avoid / fix: Don’t cancel running crafts that require water in crafting stations when in hideouts that have running water.

• Morphine vial not producing correctly at DIY Table

How to avoid / fix: Best to produce this item one at a time.

• Player moves out of city after being defeated by cops/gendarmerie in Big City

How to avoid / fix: Don’t get defeated by cops/gendarmerie in Big City. 

• Can’t set up a dealer in Bahia De Oro – Favela District

How to avoid / fix: Can’t be fixed by the player, working on it. 

• On some resolutions, parts of the UI do not look correct making it impossible to use it correctly

How to avoid / fix: Change resolution to a different one in the game settings.

• Player cannot use pause menu while in vehicle

How to avoid / fix: Exit the vehicle to pause the game.

• Opponents are able to attack or interrogate the player through walls when one escapes from them into a building

How to avoid / fix: Be careful when entering buildings while opponents are triggered on you – try to avoid standing close to walls.

• Incorrectly displayed order in the calendar – nothing will show, just a black rectangle

How to avoid / fix: Try to avoid setting meetings in the calendar for the next day in a time slot close to the current time in the game.

• Crafted mix cannot be discarded from the crafting query

How to avoid / fix: Can’t be fixed by the player, working on it. 

• In the crafter’s UI there is no option to delete the created mix

How to avoid / fix: Can’t be fixed by the player, working on it. 

• The “Show more” button in the UI of phone booths/landlines does not work properly – it does not expand the list of recordings

How to avoid / fix: Can’t be fixed by the player, working on it. 

• Parts of hideouts where putting furniture is impossible despite the lack of clear counter-indications

How to avoid / fix: Can’t be fixed by the player, working on it (it is advised to place the furniture wherever that’s possible). 

• Substances for drug production can be given to dealers

How to avoid / fix: Simply don’t give substances used in producing drugs to dealers since they won’t be able to sell them to clients, provide your dealers only with drugs.

• Once a character is selected in the character selection menu, the player has no option to select another character

How to avoid / fix: Restart the game and create a new cartel once again.

Questline Issues (Spoilers Alert!)

• There is nowhere to put the items for the torpedo

How to avoid / fix: Can’t be fixed by the player, working on it. 

• If we die by Jean in the cave the dialogue with Benita gets blocked

How to avoid / fix: Don’t die killed by Jean in the cave.

• Buying a hideout “Storage Unit” in Dueno del Mar does not pass the mission “Buy a hideout in Dueno del Mar”

How to avoid / fix: Buy another hideout in that region.

• “Dirty work” – After exiting and returning to the game, the marker disappears

How to avoid / fix:  Don’t exit the game during that quest, complete it before you quit the game.

• The quest “Use your pass to enter the city” is not marked on the map

How to avoid / fix: Can’t be fixed by the player, working on it. 

• Thugs from the cave can attack us after choosing their side

How to avoid / fix: Can’t be fixed by the player, working on it. 

• The quest “Help Benita raid Ramon’s hideout” can be completed without fighting Ramon

How to avoid / fix: Can’t be fixed by the player, working on it. 

• When the player sails the yacht to the accoutant Billy’s villa, the accoutant can be duplicated

How to avoid / fix: Don’t rush to the villa when meeting with the accountant.

• Death by Jean activates the wrong plot path

How to avoid / fix: Can’t be fixed by the player, working on it. 

• “Hire a Distributor” task is completed without any employee being assigned to the distributor’s table – the moment you enter the table’s UI, the task completes

How to avoid / fix: Can’t be fixed by the player, working on it. 

• Quest “Create Dealer’s Cabinet” updates incorrectly

How to avoid / fix: You need to assign the dealer to the cabinet for the quest to complete.

Co-op Issues

• When a car passenger leaves the game, the car is locked permanently

How to avoid / fix: While being a passenger in a vehicle don’t close / quit the game.

• Text messages from customers may appear without a visible sender title for the session guest

How to avoid / fix: Consult your host on from who and from where the orders come from since he / she should see message titles correctly.

• Characters are not correctly assigned to players relative to their choice

How to avoid / fix: Can’t be fixed by the player, working on it. 

• Customer messages, the number of messages to listen to and the number of active quests disappear for the guest from the HUD when exiting and rejoining the ongoing game

How to avoid / fix: Wait until you receive another message from a client, a new message to listen to appears or a new quest is obtained – UI should update correctly.

• It’s impossible to pause the game in co-op mode

How to avoid / fix: Can’t be fixed by the player, working on it (the easiest way right now would be to quit the game to the main menu). 

• If a guest leaves a session with active customer deals, the remaining player in the session will not be able to handle the customers in question in any way

How to avoid / fix: Don’t leave the game with active / scheduled customer orders, leave the game once all active orders have been dealt with.

• Dealer (or distributor) and customer icons disappear from employee workstations for guests after save & load making the stations temporarily unusable for the guest

How to avoid / fix: Game host should interact with the unusable for guest worker station and reset it completely by reassigning all employees and clients. After that the guest should be able to use it correctly.

• After loading the gameplay, the guest map is foggy, even though it was uncovered before saving

How to avoid / fix: Can’t be fixed by the player, working on it. 

• “Give money” function when interacting with another player in a session does not work properly

How to avoid / fix: Can’t be fixed by the player, working on it. 

• Players cannot be invited to co-op sessions via Steam

How to avoid / fix: All invites should be handled through the game UI.