[2.3.9] *Spoiler* Mission Blade Hunt doesn't start

[XiRiith]

Hello,

I've got a problem : the mission "Blade Hunt" doesn't start...

I met Gus Kahern and tried to solve his problem with Mier de Rivesh. I have choosen to try to find the blade of De Rivesh's ancestor stolen by Blackeye the pirat.
The mission says that I need to recruit Elsa Narima as an officer to hunt Blackeye :



So I returned to speak with Gus Kahern and hired Elsa as an officer :



As you can on the screenshots, she is the story character and she's an officer in my crew.

But when I went back to my current mission, the game didn't consider she is in my crew (the text of the mission "Blade Hunt" remains the same as in my first screenshot) and the Navigate or Waypoint buttons lead me both to the world where are the two protagonists, Mier De Rivesh and Gus Kahern.

If I try to speak again with Mier De Rivesh he offers me normal mission as any contact but doesn't speak anymore of his ancestor and the blade I must find.
If I try to speak to Gus Kahern, he only reminds me the bargain we have together.: 10000$ in exchange for the blade.
Coming back again to the Current Mission screen doesn't change anything : the screen is the same as my first screenshot and the mission remains stuck as if I haven't hired Elsa Nariman yet.

[fallen]

XiRiith - looks like the entire mission is badly bugged -- there are no steps.

What map seed are you playing on?

I will probably need the saved game folder for analysis.

[XiRiith]

In fact I didn't find odd there was no steps because at first i didn't have Nariman in my crew... 

I play on the Default Map, seed : st-v01-32-4-190827144
Custom difficulty.
Saved game folder sent to your e-mail address I found on Discord
Feel free to contact me by e-mail if needed, I'm always happy to help 

[fallen]

XiRiith - wait, you were able to take the mission without getting Elsa onboard?

[XiRiith]

If I remember correctly : after I land on the planet, Gus Kahern and Elsa Nariman approched me to explain to me their problem. I promised to talk to Mier De Rivesh. I talked to Mier De Rivesh and I said I will try to recover the lost De Rivesh blade: it was at this moment that the mission appeared in my Current Missions telling me I need Elsa onboard as officer. Then everything happened as I said in my first post.

[XiRiith]

I think the problem is that after I hired Elsa and took her onboard, when I come back to Mier De Rivesh I don't have a pending mission to accept :

[fallen]

XiRiith - ok, thanks for the extra details.

[XiRiith]

fallen Fixed in 2.3.11
 


I loaded my save with the new version and out of curiosity clicked on Mier De Rivesh to see if this time he finds that Elsa is onboard and yes ! it works (before, there was no mission in this panel) :





and it's finally the mission I wanted :




IMHO : the name of the mission change (from Blade Hunt to Pirate Hunt) is a little weird and doesn't help to keep track on what we are doing... but it's a small detail 

Thank you !

[fallen]

That is really odd but I am glad it worked!!!

Sorry I didn't look closer at this -- now I see that "Blade Hunt" is a Personal Objective not a mission -- this is just a reminder to you that if you return with Elsa to talk to De Rivesh, he will offer you the "Pirate Hunt" mission. Personal Objectives never have more steps, they are just pointers to something story-related you might want to do.

Did you talk story with Mier and then the mission appeared?

[XiRiith]

Jul 15, 2018 9:03:12 GMT -5 fallen said:

Did you talk story with Mier and then the mission appeared?

Yep !

May be I've got some damaged game files and when Steam updated the game the problem went by itself... I can see no other reasons because I try to reproduce the problem and all work as intended each time: now the mission starts everytime I speak to De Mier after I take Elsa onboard



BUT you're gonna hate me  because I found another problem with this story :



- first time I did the two parts and got the blade and the void-sextant ► no problem



- 2nd time I did the void-sextant part but not the blade part and I came back to talk to De Mier, gave him the void-sextant, talked to Gus Kahern and Elsa chose to stay in my crew.

Then I went to retrieve the blade, went back to De Mier, talked with him again and here comes the problem ► the dialogs said i've got the choice to give the void-sextant or the blade... but i've already given the void-sextant. And Elsa was thinking as she hadn't already made her choice to stay or not onboard.







However, the choice's window to give the item to De Mier which follow the dialogs is correct and doesn't offer the choice to give the void-sextant :





- 3rd time I did the opposite : blade part but not the void-sextant part, came back to talk to De Mier, gave him the blade, talked to Gus Kahern and Elsa chose to stay in my crew.

Then I went to retrieve the void-sextant, went back to De Mier, talked with him again and same problem ► the dialogs said i've got the choice to gave the void-sextant or the blade... but i've already given the blade. And Elsa had already chosen to stay with us.

No problem neither with the choice window for which item to give to De Mier : only the right choice (the blade this time) or nothing.



In the three cases, the dialogs are the same as the one we can see if we retrieve the two items and then go to talk to De Mier. I guess there are only missing some tests before displaying the dialogs.

[Cory Trese]

Glad you figured it out!

[XiRiith]

fallen Sorry to bother you again but it's just to remind you that in v2.3.19 the 2nd problem I mentioned is not fixed (as Cory's comment is not clear to me if you consider the problem fixed or not) :
if you do the 2 parts of the story (recover the Blade and the sextant) BEFORE going back to De Mier there is no problem, but if you do one part (any of the two) then talk to De Mier and then do the other part and talk again to De Mier the dialogs are incorrects:
1) they don't take into account that we have already give one of the two items to him
2) they don't take into account neither if we have already talk to Kahern and Elsa had chosen to stay with us

You can find the screenshots are in my post just above the last Cory's post.

[fallen]

Thanks, this is on our list to investigate and fix!

[fallen]

Jul 27, 2018 12:46:53 GMT -5 XiRiith said:

fallen Sorry to bother you again but it's just to remind you that in v2.3.19 the 2nd problem I mentioned is not fixed (as Cory's comment is not clear to me if you consider the problem fixed or not) :
if you do the 2 parts of the story (recover the Blade and the sextant) BEFORE going back to De Mier there is no problem, but if you do one part (any of the two) then talk to De Mier and then do the other part and talk again to De Mier the dialogs are incorrects:
1) they don't take into account that we have already give one of the two items to him
2) they don't take into account neither if we have already talk to Kahern and Elsa had chosen to stay with us

You can find the screenshots are in my post just above the last Cory's post.

Thanks for the full stack of details. We have improved the dialog to have more switches and states based on the exact state of your rewards and it now performs gracefully in these situations!