Important plot bug information

[Embe]

Greetings.


(1st) - Fine job on the game, Egosoft!

(2nd) .... Such a fine job, in fact, that I've been playing for 2+ weeks sans plot. Unfortunately, I think I may need to restart. I left off at an early point in the plot, when you're supposed to visit Freedom's Reach. I see the individual I need to talk to on the comms, but when I select him, I get no reply, just a quick flash of the "viewscreen" where he should be speaking.

Does this sound like a bug that breaks the plotline, or some other issue?

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.


MB

[Embe]

Oops, forgot to include my system info - just in case.


Athlon 2500, 333mhz
XP Pro OS
ATI 9700 Graphics Card
1GB Ram
Sound Blaster XGamer card
Game version 1.2.01

Thanks again.

[ben.may]

I've got a problem with the plot mission where you are supposed to rescue saya from the pleasure complex in Teladi Gain.

When you are trying to sneak into the station through the hole that was just made by a crashing space ship I get like maybe 10-15 seconds of maneuvering before the scene cuts out and I get a blank HUD for a few seconds then the "the end " screen comes up as if I'd just been killed.

Is there a limited amount of time to complete this mission or something? I think there is a bug that somehow thinks I have SETA on at this point

I am also experiencing this, and it's driving me nuts.

I even went to the trouble of reloading to an earlier point, and giving it a few more tries. Then, after seeing the above post, I tried setting the SETA factor to x2, incase that helped.... it didn't.

For reference I am running Patch 1.2.0.1 on;
Intel P4 300.
1Gb Ram.
Win XP Pro.
Nvidia 5600 256Mb (minimum graphics settings).
+Gigs of free drive space.

[X-it]

Greetings.

I decided to try and finish the plot since I got tired of not being able to trade with the Paranids.

- I finished the plot ok, but like the others I ended up with 1% hull. No problem as I had lots of money.

- I don't know yet if I have those crazy Novas chasing me, as I had to jump out of Argon Prime after fixing the ship to help one of my UTs (no time for parties... )

I'm a bit interested to know what the bug really was with the plot? Obviously it can be completed. Was it the 1% hull part? Or have I done something wrong by completing the plot that will cause a lot of errors in the game as I keep playing on from now?

Any specific information of why we should not complete the plot would have been appreciated.

Regards,

[Ziba]

all the missions finish ok, at my computer. and i ran latest update from start of the game. Only this is after the "Party" meaning end of final mission, u end up in a Buster (even i started final mission in a Centaur) and the buster is busted up (1% health 0 % shilde)

And a copple of angry argon ships who turned enemy and mess up my rank with argon race
(even i dident have any argon enemy before last mission )
Ps: meybee the trick to avoid to get killed at the end of final mission, is to start it in a more robust ship as centaur?
i heard many get killed, if they start in lesser ships, and try finish last mission.

[X-it]

Ziba: I think I've seen a tip about starting the mission in your spacesuit. Then when the mission ends all your ships will be intact, and you'll end up in a Buster. Free ship! I wasn't sure of when I should do this when I started, so I didn't do it.

And it doesn't matter what ship you start in since you get different ships for the different tasks as you play the mission. I got killed once as well in the final objective, but that was mainly because I didn't know what to do and ran out of time. You'll never use your starting ship during the mission.

Finally, regarding my own status: As I've been playing for a few more hours now after completing the last mission, I've killed 5 or 6 Novas that were chasing me, and 6 Busters as well (all of them in Boron Space). I think I had Federation Guardian 86% earlier (+/- a couple), but now I have 24%...

Oh well, what is done is done. I was warned in this thread after all (although it didn't say anything specifically about this in the first post). Just hope there aren't any more Argons after me. Things are finally back to normal, and my UTs have started trading in Paranid space.

[drunk weasel]

In the mission where you have to rescue Saya from the pleasure ship I have released the escape pod and followed the waypoint to the end but nothing happens, I just kept flying through it. Also I found that sometimes when I hit a wall I would pass right through it and end up on the outside of the level, anyone else had that problem?

[Michael Mc Alea]

Me 2

[Michael Mc Alea]

as in am stuck with never getting the 'i'm ready message'

[Expletive-Deleted!]

In the mission where you have to rescue Saya from the pleasure ship I have released the escape pod and followed the waypoint to the end but nothing happens, I just kept flying through it. Also I found that sometimes when I hit a wall I would pass right through it and end up on the outside of the level, anyone else had that problem?



Theres another six pods to release and these are situated deeper in the complex, when you release the first 6 pods, there is a message from saya(well about once every 10 retries that is!) saying now you just have to find the rest of the pods, once found and released you will get a video sequance, at which point the game will probably ctd .
Hope this helps

[Kalah]

PROBLEM: Chasing Kyle through the asteroid is difficult. I frequently somehow end up OUTSIDE the tunnel, unable to get back in. If the Kha'ak get too close, I die. If I end up outside the tunnel and try to fly to the end of it, I die.

Having gotten this far, I don' really want to pack in; I want to finish the game!

Any help? Any way of "cheating" my way through the tunnel or something?

[Rapier]

Please post gameplay question in the main forum.

You should be able to find some threads there that already offer advice on this particular problem, using whatever search engine helped you find this thread.