[#5934] Casino Module Blueprint Mission Bug (Drek Wadda Missing)

[XeniousThe2nd]

Version: 9
Language: English
Base Game + DLCs (no mods)
Game Start: Smugglers Paradise

Issue at hand: Hello, I am currently stuck with a bugged mission to acquire the Casino Module Blueprint from Drek Wadda..

• I recently build a habitation module onto one of my factories and got a mission to meet a guy 'Drek Wadda' and acquire a blueprint for a casino.

• I met with said NPC.

• It wanted me to get a racing ship, I did.

• I delivered the racing ship.

• I hired a suitable pilot.

• I then had to help Drek Wadda to look for a ship he had been tracking (I am assuming belonged to the opposing racers or whatever), I did.

• I instead discovered a stable anomaly.

• I then had to fly through the anomaly, discover Drek Wadda and destroy some mines (saving Drek Wadda), I did.

• After all of this, I was asked to travel through the anomaly and Drek Wadda would follow me.. (I flew through the anomaly but for the life of me, I cannot remember how many times. Regardless, that objective was registered as complete, Drek asked me to meet him and talk.)

Finally, and this is where I am stuck, I have to return to Drek Wadda at his casino and speak with him. I returned and he wasn't there.
I've left and came back a couple of times, however, still no sign of him.
I've rendered the mission 'inactive' and then back to 'active', this didn't help.
I've tried flying back to the Nopilion and Silent Witness areas to see if he was flying about but couldn't find him.
I have tried canceling the related research and starting it again but nothing.
When I click on the station his casino is in, there are a bunch of names in yellow, his is not included.

There are also no Guidance markers ie yellow line or highlights. Initially there was, it led me back to his casino, although as soon as I entered (and he wasn't there) the guidance vanished upon reaching the destination.

I'll include a copy of my game save..

Link to Save File: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/qdwgxr3y ... nw1ou&dl=0



System Specs:
Operating System: Windows 11 Home 64-bit
PSU: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-12900K (24 CPUs), ~3.2GHz
Memory: 32768MB RAM
DirectX Version: DirectX 12
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER



Any help or advice would be appreciated greatly!

Thank you.

[Alan Phipps]

@ devs: I loaded the save in my vanilla 9.00 game and can confirm no Drek in the Gambling Den and now no mission guidance with the mission active either. The player does not own the Gambling Den blueprint and so the mission now seems to be in a broken state.

[XeniousThe2nd]

Is there a way in which I could 'reset' or spawn the NPC?

[Alan Phipps]

Wait for the devs to look into the save and see what's wrong or went wrong. If they can come up with a fix that prevents it happening and also hopefully fixes broken gamesaves then they will.

Trying to fix such things yourself via edits, even if apparently then working, risks an underlying issue being passed on undetected to all future saves in that chain and eventually crashing the game totally.

[XeniousThe2nd]

Can't argue with that logic/wisdom! No problem, thank you.

[XeniousThe2nd]

Hello!
Any news? Would love to complete this mission and have access to the blueprint..
Ultimately, I'll settle with being able to spawn said NPC.

[CBJ]

If there were news, it would be posted. Asking for updates will not make anything happen quicker.

[XeniousThe2nd]

Excellent!