Southern Cross Improvements?

[Jivebot]

I brought siobhan a suggestion to make the device fire twice. I ran the cable down to the generator.

Then she got mad at me for convincing Buela to keep up her research and kicked me out of her lab....now what? The objective just keeps saying "Improve the device"

[Jivebot]

Ok, WTF am I now locked out of Southern Cross? I went to go find the computer parts for buela and now it's greyed out

I was on good terms with everyone but Siobhan

[Jivebot]

Wow. So i'm just completely effed at this point no matter what I do.

Leave? Locked out.

Agree to help Buela negotiate? Buela is betrayed without one drop of dialogue or option for me to do anything...I guess i'm just relaxing and watching Siobhan sell her out? Then i'm back to being locked out after a breif chat with the Kalgoorlie guards.

Shot Siobhan with the weapon? Everybody dies and i get a fast forward to chapter 3.

This whole section needs work.

[BadAstronaut]

Hey Jivebot - we hear you, and agreed. It's going to be a big focus of an upcoming patch.

[MrEdwardnigma]

Where do you even find this cable?

[Jivebot]

Not sure, sorry. I got so pissed about how all my progress in Southern Cross got railroaded I ended up uninstalling.

I respect the Dev's comments about seeking to address it, eventually. I figure i'll poke my head back in in a few months and see if my save is salvageable or not at that point.

[wendigo211]

Originally posted by MrEdwardnigma:

Where do you even find this cable?

Once you pass the tinkering check to realize you need the cable, talk to Siobhan and she'll give you one.

[Apatuha]

This never got fixed. No dialogue for Buela's betrayal, more of it - got cut off from Kalgoorlie totally - no traders path of stuff like this, just no options to speak to guard

[BadAstronaut]

Originally posted by Apatuha:

This never got fixed. No dialogue for Buela's betrayal, more of it - got cut off from Kalgoorlie totally - no traders path of stuff like this, just no options to speak to guard

We're on this next. It's been a long time coming and sincere apologies for the delay. We've been delayed in part by not being able to get things live in multiple languages (localistion costs, primarly) so we have been focusing on bugs and polish improvements that do not require translations.

Now that we're working in English only (see latest dev update) we can proceed with the literally hundreds of improvements we've been sitting on.

[Harabec]

Hope the update is soon. Im greyed out too

[Harabec]

and blocked from Kalgoorlie

[Redd]

I can't solve this quest either.
And if I go to chapter 3, quest is considered as abandoned.

[Jivebot]

I'll reinstall and finish the game when this gets fixed. But yeah I was pretty pissed so I stopped playing back when I first ran into this.

Hell it's been so long now I might have to restart. lol

And please don't make it so that my character just sits there like a moron watching Buela get betrayed. I do remember that the whole reason Buela asks us to tag along is to explicitly make sure she's got some muscle on her side in case they try to screw her.

And at that point in the game i'm a mean punchin', gun slingin' magical pyrokinetic with super tankin' powers. I'm reasonably confident me and the team can handle whatever the hell a enemy diplomatic delegation can throw at us.

[Stranger]

This is still broken. I just ran into this very same scenario when I got the parts to fix the computer.

[BadAstronaut]

Hi everyone - as mentioned on our Discord, I'm now back from holiday and will be responding to everything on Steam.

Southern Cross is a high priority area for us. It has received a lot of criticism for some of the ways the player can interact with the characters, the lack of certain choices and as mentioned by Jivebot an inability to roleplay how they want in certain key moments.

Just note this is a BIG task and won't be a matter of weeks, but more like months, given the way the tendrils of all characters and quests run into each other in Broken Roads.

We've got a ton of feedback and specific advice for redesigning a lot of Southern Cross, though, from George Ziets and Olga Moskvina (see our previous update posts for more info) and now that I am back at work, this is what is happening next.

(Please note I did say this on 30 November while we were working on our end of year patch which went live shortly before the studio shut down for our Christmas break. We've been back at work a week now and prepping a bunch of things which you can read about now in the #general channel on our Discord, or wait for our dev blog and Steam update later this week)

[Jivebot]

Cool. Again, still lookin' forward to coming back and finishing(Well, at this point, restarting) the game.

A suggestion: I understand that maybe for whatever plot-reasons you NEED Buela to get screwed here.

I generally dislike being railroaded but if you feel it's necessary all I ask is don't make me hold "the idiot ball"

Make sure there's a good, credible reason why my Superstrong, melee-rushing, shotgun-toting battlemage and his entourage(which may or may not include up to two additional gunslinging battlemages if I recall correctly) is failing to prevent this

At this point in the game, we're far past being the scrubs who couldn't defend the starting town. Our group is rocking at least three bonafide mages, and a bunch of gunslinging badasses. We should not get rolled over that easily.