Fuck this game so much right now.
After DAYS of searching fruitlessly (because it was bugged) for a Habitable Base, they fixed the bug today and I was able to warp back to the planet I like, scan from my ship and find the base computer in minutes! I was so freaking overjoyed. I literally have spent hours since NEXT went live flying around trying to find a place where I could recreate my old base from the archive.
So I land, interact with the computer, and tell it to recreate my base. BAM! There it is in all it’s shining glory (OK, so it’s just four circular rooms and a couple of connecting corridors). But, most importantly, there are all my storage containers filled with all my resources from before NEXT. WHEW!!!
So I walk into my base, and am immediately struck by the fact that there is no longer a floor in any of the rooms, just grassy field underfoot. Weird, but OK. None of the terminals are manned either, so I interact with each and the correct alien appears. Cool. I see no teleporter, and the base computer seems to have replaced the little guy that sold blueprints, so I interact with the base computer but all it lets me do is upload or delete my base. Hmmm…how am I supposed to get blueprints and stuff for my base? Ah well, I walk outside and spend 20 minutes resorting all the stuff in my storage units (much of which was converted over to the new resources). Then decide to go play some more and come back to base building later.
The moment I step outside the base confines…I have two wanted levels and angry sentinels are heading my way. WTF? I jump in my ship and leave, flying a little distance away until the searching message goes away. Then I set down someplace else…and am immediately attacked. Uh-oh. I see text on my screen and realize that the attacks seem to be tied to the base weapons master quest that is still active in my quest log (no way to abandon it). The text reads to kill 8 sentinels. Fine, I blow the two tracking me out of the sky. The counter now says 2/8. So two more show up with the robot dog looking sentinel in tow. I kill all three of them. 5/8. Two more show up…with a Walker. I knock down the drones…but can’t even dent the Walker. I get in my ship…I fly around the Walker shooting it with photon cannons, infraknife accellerators, rockets and plasma beams. Numbers fly off it, but it doesn’t seem to be getting any weaker. Finally I say fuck it and fly away. The sentinel search counter hits zero, everything clears…and the quest text resets. DAMN. I put the quest focus on something else and decide to go mine some resources to replace what I lost in the fight.
As soon as I hop out…the cycle starts over again. Wanted level 2, 2 drones incoming. Shit. So I hop in my ship and fly into space. No ships seem to come after me…so I figure I’m good. I warp to another system just to be sure my wanted level is cleared. Land on a planet in the new system…BAM, cycle starts over. I’m trapped in the quest…sentinels will not leave me alone until I complete it, apparently by killing the walker that is impossible to kill.
I go to reload my save to a point before the base restore, thinking maybe if I restore again and delete the weapons terminal it will kill the quest. Only the last manual save says Yesterday…despite my having saved several times at points of interest tonight. Looks like my choices are either lose hours of work, or reload the current save and find some way to chew through 6 drones, a dog sentinel and a walker without running away. Even if I do that, there is no guaranty they will no longer be aggro everywhere once the counter reaches 8.
It’s like nobody at Hello Games even considered people with current saves might want to play the game using their existing character. So many bugs with existing characters. I guess we are supposed to just start over every time they update the game? That fucking sucks. I really like what they’ve done with NEXT, but the issues with existing saves are killing this for me. I also ran into the frigate repair bug…I have a frigate that still shows one more repair needed despite my having repaired everything I could find onboard that was broken.
