"Fast travel is currently unavailable to this location"- avoid 'destroy crimson fleet' missions for now

[Red Yeen Lion]

I have been playing for roughly 12 hours. had a lot of issues with space travel in general, the tutorial kinda sucked on that regard, but nothing compared to, what i can only assume is, this bug or bad game design, that seems to have soft-locked me.

I had made it as far as New Atlantis, did some missions, explored the town, messed around briefly with the ship building. i had taken a mission to destroy crimson fleet ships in narion. "step one, go to any planet in the narion system. step 2. locate and destroy the crimson fleet phantom. so i set out in my ship, traveled to my mission marker in the system, the mission marker located next to Deepala.

when i finished the fast travel, i found that i wasn't near the correct planet, Deepala, it brought me back to Kreet. it checked off the first step, yet i couldnt see any enemies anywhere. so i tried going to where the marker was near deepla. "fast travel is currently unavailable at this location" ok, so i landed on kreet, took back off, no fix. traveled back to new atlantis. no fix. now i literally cant even leave the orbit of new atlantis, and no guides ive looked up have solved the issues. im not overweight, my fuel tank is full. i literally can not progress the game.

[OneNineDeepSilence]

I don't understand what you wrote and also I'm newbie at this game, but so far what I've seen is that you have to advance main story first, won't allow to do side quests at certain points. All I'm doing is main quest, but never advanced past Constellation headquarters first meeting, because restarted for various reasons (that's on me, won't go into details), but can't just go and explore and ignore main quest.

[Tarya]

I thought I solved this... the quest travel marker took me to the correct system mentioned in the quest, to a moon. Nothing there, went through all moons of that planet. Nothing. Reading a quest again, it said planet.... ok going through all planets in that system. Met few grimson fleets, but not the one required by the mission. I'll let you know if I figure this out.

Edit: Went through all the moons of every planet on that system. No luck either.
Sorry, seems the locate and destroy crimson missions are bugged. Unless someone has some insight?

[KrisTowFur]

Originally posted by Tarya:

I thought I solved this... the quest travel marker took me to the correct system mentioned in the quest, to a moon. Nothing there, went through all moons of that planet. Nothing. Reading a quest again, it said planet.... ok going through all planets in that system. Met few grimson fleets, but not the one required by the mission. I'll let you know if I figure this out.

Edit: Went through all the moons of every planet on that system. No luck either.
Sorry, seems the locate and destroy crimson missions are bugged. Unless someone has some insight?

IM HAVING THE SAME ISSUE CURRENTLY

[Dragonsblade]

The only blocks I have found to fast travel have been, trying to fast travel when docked at a ship/station, or when on a mission and I need to talk to an NPC, or need to go through each location. For example - the Barrett mission, I was in the lodge, and I could fast travel to the location. I had to go out the door, then to the docking area, lift off from planet, and then go to the location.
Not sure if it helps your situation any.

[EzRyder]

Originally posted by Red Yeen Lion:

I have been playing for roughly 12 hours. had a lot of issues with space travel in general, the tutorial kinda sucked on that regard, but nothing compared to, what i can only assume is, this bug or bad game design, that seems to have soft-locked me.

I had made it as far as New Atlantis, did some missions, explored the town, messed around briefly with the ship building. i had taken a mission to destroy crimson fleet ships in narion. "step one, go to any planet in the narion system. step 2. locate and destroy the crimson fleet phantom. so i set out in my ship, traveled to my mission marker in the system, the mission marker located next to Deepala.

when i finished the fast travel, i found that i wasn't near the correct planet, Deepala, it brought me back to Kreet. it checked off the first step, yet i couldnt see any enemies anywhere. so i tried going to where the marker was near deepla. "fast travel is currently unavailable at this location" ok, so i landed on kreet, took back off, no fix. traveled back to new atlantis. no fix. now i literally cant even leave the orbit of new atlantis, and no guides ive looked up have solved the issues. im not overweight, my fuel tank is full. i literally can not progress the game.

right, you can not fast travel to Any Where you have not already been
in this case you need to 'set a course' and Travel to the Planet first

from space around Kreet select Deepla and hit X, you will get the popup to Travel there not fast travel

[Goof]

tbh, i dont know why everyone keeps saying that its boring 12-15 hours in. After the first hour or so i was killing cops and pillaging villages and having tons of fun. after the first 10 hours, i already had 3 ships and was a part of the crimson fleet

[LetsPlaySkyrimLE]

For those who are unable to progress in the mission "Destroy The Crimson Fleet Wraith on the Solar System XXXX", here is a solution.

First, go to the solar system where this Crimson Fleet Wraith is supposed to be, whatever that solar system is.

Second, when you reach that system, make sure the mission pointer doesn't appear! If it appears, travel there (with the ship's gravitational jump).

Third, after the gravitational jump and with your ship in the new location, the enemy ship or ships should appear or a new mission pointer should appear indicating that the Crimson Fleet is still in another location in that planetary system. If this is the case, do a new gravitational jump and you should now find the enemy ship(s). If this happens, you just have to eliminate the enemy ship(s) and you have completed the mission. If the ships do not appear, then move on to the next step.

Fourth, if the enemy spaceships do not appear and you cannot make a new gravity jump to jump to the place where these enemy spaceships are likely to be, this means that a bug occurred when this question was registered and you will have to use the game console to finish it. In that case, and only in that case!, open the game console by pressing the '`' grave key on UK keyboards, or the '~' tilde key on US keyboards.

Fifth, with the game console open, type the command "setstage 01ef957 100" (without the quotes!) and press the Enter key. You should receive the message that the Crimson Fleet Wraith has been eliminated and that the mission is over. If by chance you do not receive this message and the mission remains uncompleted, then use the "setstage 000e87aa 100" command. One of these two commands will have to work. After that, press the key you used to enter the game console again to exit it. Save the game.

Sixth, look for a new mission station at any bar in the big cities and accept a new mission to destroy the Crimson Fleet Wraith again. This is just for testing and now this quest should go well, without you needing to use console commands.

In Starfiel, unlike Skyrim where you could only have one mission active to eliminate an enemy of the same type, it is possible to have two of these missions open at the same time. With the code 01ef957, used in the first command I indicated above, you are completing the number one mission of this type of mission, destroying the Crimson Fleet Wraith. With code 000e87aa, you are completing mission 2 of this type of mission. That's why I say one of the codes has to work.

Attention! Use this command on the game console only after confirming that you flew to the planetary system where this Crimson Fleet Wraith is supposed to be and that you can't find it in any way. And keep in mind that if you don't use the Baka Achievement Enabler (SFSE) mod, which is on the Nexusmods website, your Steam achievements for Starfiled will be lost as soon as you enter a command on the game console!

Have fun!