Stuck at "Kill aliens" in "All Hands On Deck"

While playing through The Kinzie Gambit's second half, All Hands on Deck, I get reproducibly stuck at the section where you board the enemy ship and are told to clear up a bunch of enemies (video).

How can I deal with this?

1 Answer

This seems to be a problem with the two free DLCs you can get for Saints Row 4 on Steam.

1. Sigh and close the game. Restarting from a checkpoint or through the whole mission won't help.
2. Locate Saints Row 4 in your Steam library and right click, then click Properties.
3. Head to the DLC tab and uncheck "Saints Row IV - Reverse Cosplay Pack" and "Saints Row IV - Thank You Pack", like so. If you have more DLCs than this, it's probably better to remove them all at this stage and re-add them later.
4. For good measure, switching to Local Files tab and verifying the integrity of the local cache can't hurt.
5. Launch the game again. The game will warn you about your successful removal of DLCs.
6. Play through the entirety of Kinzie Gambit and All Hands on Deck again. Sigh.

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