I have just got through the capture the prison ship mission but i did not manage to dock at one of the HDA cap ships in time, Yisha told me to get out of there which i did. The mission guidance asked me to "fly to the Arawn" which had jumped to distress reek, but when i fly to the ship nothing happens i have tried flying close to it, docking with it, docking with all other ships in the convoy etc etc. if i hail the captain he still replies with "prepare to jump out" but all ships have jumped out already! This is very frustrating considering how much time i have put into getting through that mission and the prospect of restarting now has killed my enthusiasm.
oh i can provide a save game also if it helps you pinpoint this bug
Im also having difficulties with completing the jump mission, if i dock and let it jump it crashes, if i let them jump and try to follow it crashes. i have emailed egosoft with save game dxdiag and crash dumps. pretty game breaking as i now can not move further forward in the campaign
well i have tried everything i can think off to force the mission to continue but i have had no luck, leaving sector, docking, commed the ship captain, landing and speaking to the captain in person still nothing!!! game breaking bug for sure as im now in the same boat as you unable to continue with the plot, thus I have given up and im going to restart at a later date.
Lost 2 days of game-time to this - not a happy customer, not happy at all
I have the same problem. I am running 1.12, campaign with no scripts. I posted the following on the steam forums in the bug thread:
BUG and Suggestion
I am currently on the board ship mission. I completed the ship boarding then when it was time to land on a ship before the fleet jumped I was too late. I was in the process of trying to click the board button on the lead capship when the fleet jumped. Now the mission says go to the arawn, or however the capship is spelled. I flew through the highways to the fleets location and when I hail the highlighted arawn the captain says prepare for jump, when I land on it he still says prepare for jump. I have tryed flying away and coming back and reloading the save it stays the same.
My suggestion is put autosave back in and have the quick save go through 3 different slots like in the other X games. This game should autosave when you dock and go through gates/blue highways. I lost my first 2 hours because I thought it was autosaving and now since the quick save only goes in one slot and my game has bugged I have to go all the way back to my last none quick save which was shortly after I went through the gate. If you had the saves set like x3 this bug wouldn't have forced me to replay so much. Either have each quicksave take a new spot or have it cycle through 3 like before, also please put autosave when docking and going through gates and blue highways in!!!
EDIT** suggestion for OP change the title to read broken boarding ship mission so the devs don't skip this thinking its the 100 ecell problem. EDIT***
I am having the same problem. In my case I couldn't make it in time to a dock of one of the ships jumping out. Had to fight off opponents.
So they jumped out without me and I escaped through the highways and then got the mission to fly to HDA Arawn. I did and then this mission is stuck. This fool captain keeps shouting the jump out and the next step doesn't come up. I had the last version in quick save and looked at it without saving, made a backup before that. Now the strange thing happens that the quick save crashes on loading. same with the backup I did restore.
Hours of game play lost since I use quick save a lot because of this broken mission and now I only can load the normal saved files.
I run a normal system that isn't high end but does the job. I have had crashes and got stuck in a mission earlier, which resolved itself. I also have no mods installed. It is a fresh vanilla version.
I just got done with the mission and I had no problem exept a bug (save dump bug) and I made it throu the mission so if you need help or if you want me to make a video how to get by the bugs/crashes pm me back or ill try to get a poll up on my website when i get the site fixed.
When I did the mission I docked on the ship and jumped out to talk to the guy highlighted in the center of the docking bay, I told him to jump, waited a few seconds talked to him again and he said something like "Hang on!" the docking bay lit up in funny bright colors with an engine jump noise and it told me to return to my ship. I looted the docking bay and jumped on my ship and it loaded me into the mission I took out the subsystems on the enemy ship and launched my boarding party and because I ignored the enemy attack ships they killed the Skunk. I'm cooling off right now before I try the mission again in a few.
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Well - looks like I am stuck here as well. Captured the prison ship, was told to dock for jump out........they jumped before I could dock. Yisha told me to bug out. Reached the HDA Arawan, docked - talk to the captain...nothing happens......he just says "prepare to jump!"
Tried everything I can think of, but it seems hopeless.
Seems this mission is broken is most cases, any chance of a reply that it's being looked at. This bug stops the campaign dead in it's tracks - so it's kind of game breaking
The campaign as a whole is bugged out if I'm honest. Not to mention ship AI refusing to trade, having no way to repair a ship, having to silly things just to install a captain on that bucket of bolts and having no instructions on how to repair and refuel the damn thing IF everything by some miracle happened to work correctly.
Oh and to my knowledge the follow up mission is bugged too becaue it involves trading again
Well, they were obviously not tested at all - if they had more of the testers would have received the related steam achievements, this was not the case as prior to release only the first 2 campaign achievements had been widely received. The later missions have not had widespread testing if they had these glaring bugs would have been spotted. I had been having a great time with the game up till this point, now my interest and enthusiasm has been squashed. I'm going to try again but most probably on free play to avoid the mess that is the campaign. I'm guessing I'll miss out on any campaign related rewards but it's a hit I'm willing to take. Fix these bugs egosoft and quick, if you do the backlash will subside - if you don't act quick your game will be regarded as another sim city/ Rome2 with fans abandoning the game in droves.
Broken for me to, captured the ship, missed docking for jump, met up with arawn but no triggering of plot and if I hail the arawn I only get "Prepare to jump out"
Ok further investigation on this shows that docking to one of the HOA ships before they jump allows the mission to continue. If for whatever reason you fail to dock in time and follow along using the highways you are unable to continue the game, please can we get some acknowledgement that this bug us being looked at - the silence from egosoft thus far is deafening.
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