Denis - "Refurbished Goods" Mission

[digital.death]

Has anyone completed this annoying mission? I get the items from the damn crate after I've dealt with the pirates and make my way back to Cydonia. Get to Denis and the bastard says that I don't have everything. I've done this mission over and over and I don't get what I'm doing wrong; or if this is a glitch... Please help.

[DANEDANGER]

i have run into this issue as wel, over multiple plays and chars, i guess its a bugged mission kinda like the Parcel Delivery random quests. It just somehow breaks down on players and can not be completed

[digital.death]

Oh, ok. I just sold him the junk from the crate anyway.

[Sedmeister]

When you're looting the crate, do it slowly and keep an eye on the mission completion toaster message. The item or items you need to bring back are very specific. In the vast majority of cases (I've done like 30 missions for him, I find them fun with great loot drops) you will need to collect anywhere from 1 to 5 items that are the same but with slightly different mods. For example in one mission, I had to bring 5 Solstices but they were all individually modded.

[digital.death]

Originally posted by Sedmeister:

When you're looting the crate, do it slowly and keep an eye on the mission completion toaster message. The item or items you need to bring back are very specific. In the vast majority of cases (I've done like 30 missions for him, I find them fun with great loot drops) you will need to collect anywhere from 1 to 5 items that are the same but with slightly different mods. For example in one mission, I had to bring 5 Solstices but they were all individually modded.

Ohhhh, okay. That explains a lot. Thank you!
Can I get the specific item anywhere then?

[GorillaMan]

Originally posted by Dead Valentine:

Ohhhh, okay. That explains a lot. Thank you!
Can I get the specific item anywhere then?

Yes you can. I once accidentally sold the pacifiers I was supposed to deliver to him.
When I realized, I just got 5 other pacifiers of random quality from various pirates and I could hand them in to him without problem.

But this also means you should be careful if you have a weapon or item that you use of the same type as he requests. I once lost a unique weapon of the type Solstice (the Ember) because of this. He took that one and 4 others, leaving me with a junk Solstice instead of the Ember.

[digital.death]

Originally posted by GorillaMan:

Originally posted by Dead Valentine:

Ohhhh, okay. That explains a lot. Thank you!
Can I get the specific item anywhere then?

Yes you can. I once accidentally sold the pacifiers I was supposed to deliver to him.
When I realized, I just got 5 other pacifiers of random quality from various pirates and I could hand them in to him without problem.

But this also means you should be careful if you have a weapon or item that you use of the same type as he requests. I once lost a unique weapon of the type Solstice (the Ember) because of this. He took that one and 4 others, leaving me with a junk Solstice instead of the Ember.

Noted.

[Vlad 254]

Originally posted by GorillaMan:

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But this also means you should be careful if you have a weapon or item that you use of the same type as he requests. I once lost a unique weapon of the type Solstice (the Ember) because of this. He took that one and 4 others, leaving me with a junk Solstice instead of the Ember.

On my first playthrough I used the Ember for a long time and absolutely loved it until I finally reached a level where it wasn't as effective anymore but like I said that was after using it for many levels, maybe around 70 I forget. Loved that weapon.

[MadMac]

If Denis needs 5 of something, it will pop up when you get to the location he sends you to.

What I am having trouble with now is that the item and correct amount used to be in the main loot crate at the end. Now there is a single one and the other four are nowhere to be found in that base or on the NPCs killed.

This leads to me traipsing all over that planet looking for more similar bad guys in the chance that they have the extra drops in order to complete that mission.

[poz]

I am convinced this is a bug, which has crept in a few weeks ago somehow. When I discovered the 'Dennis' quests, I couldn't get enough of them - great rewards, high level challenge, etcetera. And the final loot crate had 5 x whatever he wanted in it. Now it does not - it has one...

[NoJustNo]

Starfield has occasional bugs with leveled loot lists. They sometimes work, sometimes do not. Hence the empty containers after lockpicking or why the Mantis suit sucks (it's supposed to be leveled to the player) or why all space suit mannequins contain only this level 1 mining set (also supposed to spawn to the player level but it doesn't).

[jimhunterjr]

These were my favorite missions until it started to only have one copy in the location pointed to by the mission. Unfortunately starting a new game + did not fix it

[jammer_kelly]

I've done 3 of these. Each time Dennis required 5 items, but there was only 1 at the location. Seriously Bethesda, how difficult is it to fix this mismatch?

[ADMIRALPAIN]

Had the same issue, there were only two of the five neccesary items. I've finally given up on achievments and used the console to spawn the missing ones.

You can do so by activating the console (on English/US keyboards via ~ key (below Esc), on German keyboards via Ö, Danish Æ).

Then write player.additem itemid

(replace itemid with the actual ID of the item, which you can either find out if you drop an item on the ground and then activate console and hover the mouse over it, or you can just simply google an id).

WARNING: Using console commands will deactivate the ability to earn achievments.

Video guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxspU5sdUyU

But who gives a damn, this game is an absolute bugfest and since I've read that even the repolished versions of Skyrim got major bugs in a 14 year old game that have already been erased via community patch ten years ago., consoling one's way through the gaming experience and being able to continue vs losing the ability to gain achievments is a small price. If you're diehard into achievments there's an achievment enabler mod on NexusMods for Starfield.

[pike]

the enemies that you encounter whilst liberating the crate have the guns you need to collect along with the weapon in the crate

[merusalem]

Originally posted by Zumbi de Uma Perna:

Has anyone completed this annoying mission? I get the items from the damn crate after I've dealt with the pirates and make my way back to Cydonia. Get to Denis and the bastard says that I don't have everything. I've done this mission over and over and I don't get what I'm doing wrong; or if this is a glitch... Please help.

The mission has been broken for many people since February 2024. The problem is that you are expected to get five identical mission items from the mission container you loot, but the cointainer only has one of them, not five. It has been documented and reported several times since February. Here is an early video that talks about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SutGMOQpK7Q

Some people report to have found the missing four items distributed over the enemy corpses in that mission. When I tested it in May 2024, there was only one item in the overall mission area, not five, even considering the loot from enemies and random boxes.

Some people have reported that you can still complete the mission, if you buy the same item type somewhere, like any Solstice if Denis wants Soltices. These people report that it does not matter what exact version of Soltstice it is - the modifiers to the name do not matter. So, if this is true, you can buy an additional four different Soltstices, and Denis should accept them. Like one that has a burning effect, aniother one that is strong against robots, etc. I tested this in May 2024. At least for me it did not work. An assortment of five different Solstices was not what Denis was looking for.

Some other people report that when they looted the container "carefully", the bug does not appear. I tested it ... the speed did not matter. Unless I missed an option to carefully loot five items from a container that only contains one. ;)