PSA [spoilers] The quest power from beyond bug

[Among The Clum Trees]

the quests will get bugged if you visit the system before getting the quest and itll remove the marker for the quest making you look for the system manually....its bothersome

[Ilharn]

Not even The system... The Location too

[Bacchus]

Yeah. This happened to me just now on Power From Beyond (Altair I). I’d visited the planet for a bounty mission. Now I just need someone to post the location of the actual anomaly marker and try to land near there.

[Obb]

Same… Well, let’s hope it’s easy found, or else… I suppose the best thing is to take the power sooner that other quests ? It’s always tricky to play a Bethesda game at release lol

[allenosborn1013]

So there's no way to get the power anymore? Until New game Plus? Mine bugged up at numitor

[Obb]

Well, at least for me, it was «just» the map marker missing. So I had to manually find the planet, but after that I was able to go there, land near the anomaly and do the quest as usual. The anomaly was located though, I’m not sure if it’s always the case…

[bilgreen]

In my case I haven't gotten to the NG+ at all yet, and the problem occurred in the first Power From Beyond quest after I completed the main story (The Buried Temple at Masada). I can get the quest by visiting Vladimir at the Lodge. ( He says it's on Dionysus), but I can't get a way point on the Map, and there is no way point icon to land at on the planet, so I have no idea where to land. I tried reloading from before I complete the Masada mission, and Vladimir won't give me any more temple locations. (I have 14 powers from before the Buried Temple mission on Masada). One thing I noticed is that I completed the mission where Barret gets his power before going on the Buried Temple mission. I have seen other posts say that this was the very last mission after all 23 other temples. I have checked, and all the previous Power From Beyond missions are completed. Obviously I have not completed the One Giant Leap mission since I want to have all the powers from the start.

Added Note: With the "Acquire the Power on Dionysus" quest item active, the "Show on Map " button and the "Set Course [R]" button become active and clickable, but they don't do anything.

[Mephitic]

I haven't seen this problem. I've visited quite a few planets that have scanner anomalies (Temples) before being tasked to find them. They are always there. Sometimes the quest to find one will show up spontaneously in the quest list after one of those visits but it will complete just fine.

[Djozar]

Originally posted by Mephitic:

I haven't seen this problem. I've visited quite a few planets that have scanner anomalies (Temples) before being tasked to find them. They are always there. Sometimes the quest to find one will show up spontaneously in the quest list after one of those visits but it will complete just fine.

I concur. Early on, scanning planets is pretty decent xp. So I just got in the habit of scanning planets, happening to find Temples along the way. I noticed, as you did, that they were fairly certain to be on the same planet each NG+ so I can now just go get them out of the way without another trip to The Eye.

[wizwom]

I've got a "acquire power on ... quest" on planet I scanner (Volii Epsilon) and I've got no anomaly marker. I see various gravitational anomalies on the planet, but cannot locate the temple. gutting tedious.

[dalthor26]

I solved the problem in the console -- am aware it disables achievements, but I use BAKA enabler -- to force the quest to restart. This usually generates to a new planet, and actually SHOWS the POI for the temple location.

stopquest 000854E8 ; terminates the existing Power from Beyond quest
startquest 000854E8 ; generates a new Power from Beyond quest and POI

[dalthor26]

Forgot to mention, you have to go talk to Vlad to get the new info. You can actually use the show on map and set course buttons once Vlad tells u where to find it.

[nickolas_fehrmann]

Are you sure there weren't any additional parameters you had to input? I've tried this and it seems to work as intended until I speak to Vladamir again, and he says "nothing yet."

I should have an active quest called Power From Beyond to collect a new power because I just picked up another artifact, and before using these commands I DO have that quest, but I can't finish it because the planet Vlad sends me to has no temple waypoint on the planet map.

All these commands seem to do is remove the broken quest from my active quests, meaning I cannot collect the power associated with the recently found artifact. Will probably go to a prior save from a couple hours ago and try using the commands before even picking up the artifact. If that doesn't work, sounds like the patch currently in beta might fix this.

[dalthor26]

If you've used the commands, and the next planet has the same issue, you've already visited/scanned that one, too. I had a couple of those on my run-thru.

The quest term/reset commands don''t fix the POI issue -- it simply bypasses that specific temple quest. You have to manually give yourself the "missing" powers via console. The two commands above "point" you to the next temple, assuming you have the relevent artifact, and haven't got the POI bug on that planet as well.

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[nickolas_fehrmann]

Following up on my last post, these commands did work, thank you so much.

Reloaded an earlier save, and it is actually returning to Alpha Centauri which kicked off the Power From Beyond quest, not picking up the artifact as I thought. Not saying this is normal or wasn't already a result of bugginess, but that's what was happening.

I tried a couple methods, and what worked was inputting the console commands after picking up the artifact but before returning to Alpha Centauri system. At that point, I did not yet have the Power From Beyond listed in my active quests. When I entered the second half of the commands I DID get Power From Beyond added to my active quests, prompting me to return to AC and talk to Vlad, who finally directed me to a different planet for which I received a Scanner Anomoly marker on the planet map. This is different from what was happening last night, when I was trying the commands after going to Alpha Centauri and already had the active quest. Under those circumstances all it did was prevent Vlad from directing me to the broken planet, or unfortunately anywhere at all.

For those pushing the theory that it has to do with previously visiting the planet/system/whathaveyou, I can only say that the planet for which I now have a Scanner Anomoly marker (Piazzi IV-c) is in a system I have visited but on a planet/moon I have never even scanned much less landed on. This is different from the planet/moon I was previously being directed to but had no Scanner Anomoly marker (Volii Epsilon) which was in a system I had visited and a planet/moon I had scanned but never actually landed on either.

Just FYI, the artifact I was picking up was the one from the Empty Nest quest which introduces Sam Coe. I had 6 powers prior to this quest, which I believe is the correct number despite the powers menu showing 2 undiscovered temples prior to all this which I believe is just a bug also. Initially this all started after picking up the artifact on Volii, where it started prompting me to visit Volii Epsilon, but this persisted along with the specific target planet after reloading a save between collecting these two artifacts; a save which I subsequently deleted. This being my third playthrough (which is the first time I encountered this bug) I chose to put off the main/faction quests and am doing this at lvl 93, so I have a few systems visited already. Going forward I will hard save before picking up any artifacts, and again before returning to AC afterward.

I too downloaded an achievement enabler mod prior to any of this, because in my opinion the idea that this game can even be played without accessing the console is insane, and whoever thought achievements should be disabled for doing so is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥♥♥. For the record, I have no other mods installed nor do I plan to.

[jackshitt]

Yeah, listing this quest as fixed in the beta notes "brag sheet" is disingenuous. If you're supposed to roll back to a previous save (losing god knows how many hours of: "your life!") does not count as a fix (IMO). More like: should (read: may not) reoccur in future playthroughs.