This mission is supposed to progress as follows:
1. Approach the mission area from the intended path (Johnny will comment that it is a beautiful part of town or something)
2. You get prompted to find the survivor, he speaks a line of dialogue and you pickup, decrypt, and read his shard.
3. You check out the ice bath in the middle
3. Check out the dead body behind the militech crate
4. Boss battle ensues.

HOWEVER if, like me, you just got your legs upgraded at the nearby ripperdoc and decided to approach the area from the rooftops without approaching from the front you never get prompted to find a survivor.
If, like me, you decide to kill the survivor because you don't know what to do next (because nothing is triggering) you break the quest.
You can still leave and come back the intended way, prompting the "find a survivor" objective, this will resurrect the guy you are supposed to talk to, but he will not speak (he just crawls for a second or two and collapses like normal).
You can still loot the shard as per normal, check out the ice bath and the body, but if you kill him before getting the objective to find him like i did the boss wont emerge from the ice bath requiring you to load from before you got there

You also need to check the blood splatter leading to said body, and the bloody mat. It won't trigger until you've scanned everything - took me half an hour to find the bloody mat (which funnily enough, I only managed to do because I'd wandered off to the Ripperdoc, upgraded my legs and decided to see if there was anything on the girders I was missing, and happened to look down).

I'm not sure if killing the survivor is the problem (I think the trigger happens as long as you get the shard). I suspect the problem is more the area design - it's too cluttered, and the scanner is quite happy to refuse to highlight or scan a clue if there's a discarded can in the way, so it's not just an issue of finding the clues, you also have to be stood in the one spot that lets you look at the exact angle the scanner expects before it'll even recognise you're looking at a clue.

Same problem here.

Approached from the rooftops.
No prompt for searching for the survivor. So - I picked him up and dumped him in the dumpster.

Nou when I enter the quest area again. It asks to find the survivor. But he is in the dumpster..
Now I can't complete this mission.

Oh no, trust me i scanned everything too. And when i came back after loading i ONLY had to find the survivor (this time not pre-killed by me), read the shard, check out the icebath and the dead body that johnny appears near and the boss fight triggered as per normal, im pretty sure the bug happened because i killed the survivor befor i got the objective to find him

Exact same thing happened to me, unfortunately it's currently preventing me from 100%

I had the same experience. Upgraded legs, came from the back instead of comming from the front, and that seems to bug the quest ........ I seriously don't understand how can they make a quest in an open world depend on the order the player does something ... this shouldn't happen -_-

just adding myself to this thread, found googling the exact same exact problem.
I was on Hotfix 1.06
Like a dummy I left it and continued with other tasks, now will loose too much progress if I regress.

EDIT: Patch 1.1 didn't fix this unfortunately, went back after update and still the same

+1 This one declining 2 achievements for me damn it :D
#rooftopgang

Definitely bugged on my end and been for a while. Did everything, scanned every thing. I even got to fight the psychopath from the tub but the mission objectives will just not complete. This was due to the “incorrect” order of how I did the quest.

Hell, Flight of the Cheetah quest, Hwangbo doesn’t even show up. I guess he’s under the map or something

I'm chiming in as well, mission's been bugged since before the second hotfix, it's crazy how this kind of stupid mistake gets made in an open world game

#rooftopgang

do you know the shard that the dying guy had on him

Used this solution posted on the CD Red Forum and worked like a charm:

Hi everybody!
I've found a solution in the steam discussions for the bug where nothing happens after already scanning everything.
It worked for me and I could finally finish 100% of the game.
I hope it will work for you too!

I ADVISE ON BACKING UP YOUR SAVE FILE BEFORE DOING ANY CHANGES AS I DON'T KNOW WHAT CONSEQUENCES IT CAN LEAD TO!
ANY CHANGES TO SAVE FILES ARE DONE ON YOUR OWN RISK.

1. download the save editor from https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/718
2. click "Load Save" and choose you save file
3. choose the "Quest Facts" tab
4. if mq_wat_nid_15_clue exists, modify it to 3.
if it doesn't exist, click "+ New Fact", enter mq_wat_nid_15_clue and choose type "Name", and then set it's Value to 3.
5. click "Save Changes" and save the save file back in your saves folder inside a new folder or by replacing the old save you edited (Your choice)
6. close the save editor and open cyberpunk 2077 again.

After doing it, as you approach the area from the front road

Hello everybody! I am a noob chinese. In short, I still have this problem, but mine isn't saying "serach the area", instead mine is saying "Search the Body", and there is that cross thing on my minimap which we all know that it is the dead enemy that we defeated and still has loot on them. However when I move to that body the body is not lootable, and I am stuck there. I tried reloading, and did the Save editor thing that changed the "mq_wat_nid_15_clue" 's value to 3. But it didn't work for me either.

But after a little while I realized that in those quest edit thing, so many file names, that actually "wat_nid_15" is the name belong to this quest.
There is a feature in Cyberpunk Save Editor when you select Quest Facts, in the up right corner there is a "Export to Text" option, when you do that and you got a txt file,

if you open it and then go to "Find", and type in "wat_nid_15" you will find several names that has "wat_nid_15" in them. I believe these are the events that actually play in parts of the quest. And those names has "Blasphemer" (is it mean the cult-y sinister evil symbol? Is that what it mean? because I goolged it and rock bands came up) and has "Signpost" which I don't get.

However it also says "mls body" or "mls shard read" or something, and in that mission there was a malstrome soilder there which in my own save he is always with the orange icon. I am not sure but it could be that "mls" is "malstorme", if that's true than it is confirmed that wat_nid_15 IS indeed the quest facts of the - cyebrpsycho bloody ritual.

Then basically how to fix this quest would be tweeking every single of these names' values.
And obviously it inclueds mq_wat_nid_15_clue since it is a wat_nid_15 as well.

But again simply tweeking that thing's value to 3 didn't fix my "Search the Body" problem.

I'm j ust posting around to share information and hopeing we can figure this out.

BTW this gentlemen's vids I think it is obviously related to this but My brain is not enough to get this done so. Youtube - CYBERPUNK 2077 (PC) SIDE QUEST - DELAMAIN EPISTROPHY FIX Youtuber - Vincio93 (It said I cannot post any links at this moment)

And another thing lol, the save editor is awesome, but why is the search bar's search character so white and shallow lol. I didn't see it at first and all those quest facts I had to scroll them by hand and based on where my txt file is currently scolled to.



Searching for "nid" or "15" pops up several other new things, and so far what I did to tweek some of the quest facts hasn't work for me, every time when I load the game, it is still stuck at "Search the Body", and the body is still unlootable.

I guess if quest facts were to be the key, the only way would be to grab a fresh new save, and thn compare it with the corrupted save.