I remember this happening to me as well. Check your transmissions in the second area, and also your active missions.

Vague, but I hope it helps. I had to fly around a bit in the area until I figured it out.

I'm also running into this issue. I do the first mission. see there is another transmission available on the same planet but nothing when I check my transmissions. Nothing in my accepted contracts and nothing under "the list". Not sure what corbin is talking about, you gotta be a little more specific. You say you had to fly around the area, so is there a defense contract or something in the neighboring planets?

Same issue with Bulwark.. and most others at some point or another. It just eventually gives the mission but I've been floating around system to system and returning only to have nothing at the marked planet still.

I'm currently stuck with both these issues, can't get Bulwark or Adder completed. Also can't start Hail, no transmission available.

Originally posted by Weasel:

I'm currently stuck with both these issues, can't get Bulwark or Adder completed. Also can't start Hail, no transmission available.

Same exact issue with those exact two Pilots, can't seem to find their follow-up mission so as to complete it and then proceed to recruit them as rewards. I did manage to get Hail though, opposite side of the IS map in Draconis space iirc, so during my first playthrough I must have missed his mission.

But the issue persists on this my 3rd time playing MW5: can't get Adder, can't get Bulwark. It just seems that the follow-up mission does not appear, spawn, w/e the term. With Bulwark, the issue seems to be whatever was supposed to appear or happen in planet Zdice just doesn't. I get the mission on planet Cavanaugh alright, which can be completed. Then upon traveling to Zdice, nothing, no mission appears. There is just a yellow icon indicating a campaign mission on Zdice, but once there, nothing on Contracts. Nothing in the Barracks tabs either, just thinking that he'd spawn there and be hirable among other potential pilot hires or something. Nope; just nothing. I tried going to planet Zdice first contrary to the transmission instructions see if that spawns the contract mission on Zdice, also got nothing.

I'm starting to think it's either another mod interfering with this one, or maybe planet Zdice needs its own random contracts to spawn so that the 2nd Bulwark mission is among them. I recall a couple of times some independent contracts DID spawn in Zdice, decided to complete them, yet nothing again. Can't be sure what it is at this point. Hope somebody figures it out.

So I started a new game and looked into google and found some more stuff. Turns out from what someone else was investigating is that the quests are tied to your rank. If your rep is too high then the quests may not show up at all.

Basically the quests for pilots such as ADDER have a "recommended" rank to start it and complete it. The issue for all of us is most likely we are going after reaching too high a rank and then the quest sees you are too high a rank and it goofs the quest.

So to get the pilots you have to scour the entire system while remaining under or around rank 5. Here are the two issues here. C-bills and by the time you even reach some of the pilots you're probably already rank 9 or higher.

Because Adder is all the way to the left of the map and others are all the way to the right or in each other corner. Getting chainsaw in Solaris already spiked me up a few ranks by the time I got her because of doing contracts on the way so I don't run out of C-bills just getting there in the first place.

On top of this, if you did decide to just bee line it to the pilots you now run into the fact you are in space designated and designed for people who are already at a high rank. Good luck getting to adder with 3 30-ton mechs and no money.

So this is something I believe the Mod Author has to fix and adjust because it's not feasible or probable that someone will actually make it there and survive. Just the trek alone would obliterate anyone low enough to actually get the quests to run properly.

Hope this helps. This is just what I found online and plenty of people have this exact issue.

So I attempted to use SirSlaughter's suggestion to get the transmissions for all the rank 5 pilots, but not do the missions, just go back to where I was and use the savegame editor to move back in time. Which allowed me to get Bulwark's mission in my objective list but not Mist, and came with the result of my next set of expenses not being due for over 3 years. Couldn't find a way to edit my company rank either. So there doesn't appear to be a viable workaround.

Same issue..
Fresh Game, "Vanilla" unless we count this mod So no conflicts.
And you do not unlock the quests for them "all" until rank 4?
And I am Rank 5 still no continue Missions for Bulwark and Adder. I get part 1 but not part 2.
The quest icon will not show up on the world map nor in the missions tab when Inspected.
(They have an yellow type icon) when you close in. Other than the "world map star icon"

So I assume an "bug".
>>>>>Screenshot: https://gyazo.com/65325495613d61c08badc428242dc46d
As all the other mission have propper icons. This is just "blank"

This issue will need to be sorted by the modder/s I guess.

The issue related to Mist I think is bound to time/rep. As I have gotten him quite late.
Like REP 11/12 or so. (I didn't really look into Mist much as he works for me)

I do hope this gets fixed, I do Love the mod.

From what I have see: (Been trying to find a work arounds So far so good...)

Bulwark: Looks to be working Rep related. Got him on REP 13, but I think you get him before.
Screenshot of missing mission now showing up: https://gyazo.com/c4f0eabbd088d0506f3d8cf56dc9421d

Adder: Looks like a missing mission chain/link.

Mist: Looks to be working Time/rep/zone related. Got him on REP 13 or so.
(Obtained Super late game to see, year 3072...)

Hail: Looks to be working Time/rep/zone related. Got him on REP 13 or so.
(Obtained Super late game to see, year 3072...)

So looks like the "recommended" rep does not effect you in a negativ way... you just need to wait for the "correct level/date/event"

But Adder is still broken for me tho...

So you're able to get them at a level higher than the recommended rep? Some were reporting it needed to be at the rep exactly, not the usual rep above x limit

Originally posted by Pode:

So you're able to get them at a level higher than the recommended rep? Some were reporting it needed to be at the rep exactly, not the usual rep above x limit

As you can see yes, higher REP levels made the missions pop up. But Adder is still a mystery.

REP 5 = NO GO
REP 13 = YES SIR

Just did the Adder mission 3 times in a row.

1 time lvl 13
1 time lvl 5
1 time lvl 4

Still no progress on the 2. part of the quest. So I think Adder is broken.

Finally managed to get Bulwark on my 4th play-through in Career mode with a reused prior save from my 1st vanilla MW5 blind completed campaign. I started 3015 from Steiner space. After some missions it is now around 3024 and I have used pilot Bulwark enough; same basic deal, levels up as expected, very decent addition, nice to have. I got Bulwark from his missions in planet Zdice as a Rank 4~5 I believe per my save files and from what I recall. Encountered no issues.

Then I decided to go for Adder. Didn't work on my current play-through as I return to planet Lothario. I am now Rank 15 - same deal as before: go to planet Lothario, get his mission to start, complete mission, then the game prompts the icon for Part 2 of the same mission, and voila no mission appears, and the "Contracts" option doesn't show up, meaning the mission does not even load. Tried traveling back and forth even the max 76-day out and return trip to Lothario with no luck. No mission. Might as well not even spend the C-bills and time to get there in the 1st place.

So I decided to load a prior save specifically for Adder. Again, loaded my old save, went to an industrial hub planet in Steiner space first, prepared some mechs, accepted Bulwark's mission just because (this is b4 I got Bulwark), and then immediately headed for Adder in the periphery. I am just rank 4 at this point. Mission loads, it's a demolition mission on Lothario, same deal, I complete it without a zinch. And then... nada. Part 2 of the Adder mission doesn't load again. No "Contracts" option loads either. Tried the same thing, move via jump ship on map out and back to Lothario... nothing. One interesting thing to note: Adder's mission is a recommended rank 5 mission, and I undertook it as rank 4, so I am below the level it recommends. It's a 175-ton-limit mission, and I went with one assault and one heavy mech for exact weight match. As a result of completing Adder's mission, the game ups my rank to rank 5. Even with that and considering I hadn't gotten Bulwark yet in this prior save that I loaded specifically for Adder, the game still did not load the mission's part 2. Adder remains elusive.

At this point I don't know what else to do. I might try to get the mission as soon as I can if I reload the very first saves I have where I am barely rank 2 and still haven't gotten the prompt to get the elite pilots (that comes until the MRB accepts you and you can get Cantina missions, you don't get it before it seems) to see how this mod behaves. I am happy I got Bulwark, and I've gotten all other pilots when I complete their respective missions (have't gotten to neither Mist nor Hail yet anyway so there is that) but it is a bit disappointing to still be stuck on Adder's mission part 2.

I will try to get Raider next soon as I complete a few more contracts in the region. Then I will try to focus on getting pilots Hail and Mist. I think they're on the opposite side of IS space, so we'll see. I expect to be able to recruit them despite reports that they can also present "problems" by other posters in this thread and elsewhere. I'll keep reporting and checking this thread.

People on Nexusmods asking the same thing:

https://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/10268608-330s-pilot-overhaul/page-93#entry125490465

https://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/10268608-330s-pilot-overhaul/page-97#entry129365991

(these are the only posts I could find on a quick search that ask but I would guess there are others there)

The poster I linked first is also doing tests to get Adder.

I guess Adder is jsut unfinished.