SOLVED: Bug: can't advance "The Best THere Is" CF storyline quest

[Morboth]

UPDATE: Bethesda has patched this in the September 2024 update.

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Hi there! I stumbled upon a bug when doing the quest "The best there is" and I was hoping somebody could help me out:

I spoke with Huan Daiyu up to the point where she says we should meet at her ship (the Jade Swan) to depart to the UC space station. Problem is, I decided to do some other quests and when I returned to her, she seems to be stuck in The Well.

The questline marker points me towards the Jade Swan, but whenever I go, she's nowhere to be found, hanging at the terrace where you first meet her at the Well.

I have tried talking to her, even fighting her, but nothing seems to get her to move - she just keeps saying that we'll meet at her ship and that's it.

I did all the typical stuff: waiting 48, 72 hours ingame... quitting the game, reloading my savefile... did MULTIPLE other missions... nothing. Huan Daiyu won't show up at the Jade Swan.

I would rather not use console commands, as that would imply disabling achievements, getting a mod to re-enable them, etc. Maybe somebody has come across this in their playthrough and knows how to solve this in a less complicated way.

Thanks in advance!

[dbean199]

I'm having the same issue. 2nd game download 2nd character. It's still not fixed. Have never been able to finish the Crimson fleet quest. Have looked for console codes but they are not done step by step for newbies. I've used simple ones but not hookups etc. That and most videos, you can't see what the hell they are typing. Written directions need to have examples.

[Kim]

I'm having the same issue. Whether you have mods or not, whether you do the quest directly or spend times doing other quest, this bug persist. I have multiple saves before and nothing works. Huan doesn't leave the Well.

The quest tells me to meet Huan, i engage the conversation with her in the well, the quest progresse to ''speak to Huan'' mid conversation, but when all the dialogues is spent, the quest marker stays on her, even though she says to meet her at the ship.

Even with console commands, this bug is unfixable. The ship refuse to spawn, and she refuse to move out of The well.

If you want to play around with the console command, help yourself, but save before.

The id for the quest is : 0021d792

To change the stage of the quest you have to use : setstage

The stage is a bit tricky, the order is not simple and you have to navigate and try stuff but basically the moment you have to speak Naeva and Jazz at the Key to come up with a plan to steal the ComStat is stage 200.

Someone who is stuck at the dialogue with Naeva and Jazz at the key would write this in the console :

setstage 0021d792 200

Some people got teleported on the ship by entering :

setstage 0021d792 39

Others used the stage 700.

Its weird, but this spoecific bug with Huan doesn't seem to be able to be bypassed by the console command.

You can see all the stage of the current quest ''The Best THere Is'' for you by typing :

sqs 0021d792

it seems this bug appeared when the DLC launched, and many people are encountering it on Reddit. Doesn't seem to concerne mods, saves, or progress...

[Morboth]

Hi everyone! Just real quick getting back to you:

Some months ago I did manage to solve this using the console and getting Huan to move to the cockpit of her ship and advancing the questline. You should be in the cockpit of her ship and input the following command:

00279201D.moveto player

If that doesn't work, try:

0027921E.moveto player

There is even a video explaining how to use the console to bypass the bug.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxussIR2KvM


Having said that, using console commands voids achievements and I, for one, have an insatiable craving for them, which means that I wasn't quite fond of having dabbled in console commands and everything. Thus, I kept a savegame from before in case Bethesda heeded the bug report I meticulously sent them and lo and behold, they did patch it in the September version! I went on and booted my savegame from before using console commands and there was Huan Daiyu in all her obnoxious glory* in her ship's cockpit.

All I can say is that the bug, as it was on my PC, is fixed. I cannot say for other iterations or forms of the bug which may have different checks and triggers. But the bug, just as it was for me, is completely gone.

* She irks me beyond measure, but we all love her in spite of that or, to a certain extent, because of that, hahaha.

[Ǥɾᴧᴤʆᴧᵯᴧ]

copy&paste from my Bugreport on the same quest.
just to give some more info on the matter:

The problem is related to 2 quests in New Atlantis that want to use landing pad B. This is Sgt. Yumi FFNewAtlantis05 0008E2D9 Search & Seizure (Anansi) and “The Best There is” (21d792) Jade Swan.
Status of the game:
Search & Seizure FFNewAtlantis05 is on standby, but is at level 0 (getstage 0008E2D9 = 0)
“The Best There is” has started and the player should seek out Huan Daiyu in ‘The Well’. I believe this is getstage 21d792 = 400.
Effect:
Up to this point, everything seems to be ok. You talk to Huan Daiyu and after completing the conversation, the quest marker is placed on landing pad B in New Atlantis - but this goes wrong because “Search & Seizure” wants to use the same landing pad. As a result, you cannot continue playing “The Best There Is”. The quest marker might go to landing pad B, but I then had 2 quest markers. One was still on Huan Daiyu and the second was on landing pad B. Landing pad B was empty (no ship spawned). The quest progress was already at stage 500.

At this point there is no way to fix the problem with setstage. Even if you do completequest 0008E2D9 and finish Search & Seizure, The Best There Is will not continue.

I spent about 3 hours trying to advance both quests with setstage commands, but no matter what I did, I could not persuade the game to set “The Best There Is” to the correct state. The two quests seem to clash because of this landing pad B.

Workaround:
I loaded an older savegame in which “The Best There Is” had not yet been started. I simply flew off the “Siren of the Stars” again and traveled to New Atlantis. Just for your information: Search & Seizure Quest was already on standby (getstage 0008E2D9 = 0) - I then played Search & Seizure for Sgt. Yumi and completed this quest normally. Then I flew to Siren of the Stars again (played through the quest) and then to “The Key”. I completed Siren of the Stars and started “The Best There Is”. After that I was able to talk to Huan Daiyu normally and the quest marker was placed on landing pad B and the ship “Jade Swan” was spawned correctly. It only worked in this order. There was no way to play Search & Seizure when “The Best There Is” was already started.
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The way I see it, these two quests collide with landing pad B in New Atlantis and both try to spawn a ship (Anansi and Jade Swan), which fails if at least Search&Seizure is already on standby (Talk to Sgt. Yumi).

[Kim]

Thanks for all your answers. I will keep looking for a solution, i won't give up.

I haven't gotten around fixing the bug in my case. I did not start the quest '' Search & Seizur '' yet. And I don't have that quest in my journal. Maybe I need to think about doing it. I will see and come back



My quest tells me to ''meet Huan'' at The Well, and the quest marker is on her head. I meet her and engage the conversation, the quest progress as soon as i do to ''speak to Huan''.

When the dialogue is spent, she tells me to meet her at the ship. The ship doesn't spawn, the quest marker doesn't move and stays on her head; and the objective still says ''Speak to Huan'' even though the dialogue is spent. Huan stays in the Well.
No matter what i do, i cannot get it out of her. i have used every console command to set various stages to this quest without success. I even killed everyone to try to make her move.

Even loaded very old saves and the bug is still there. I have never encountered any bug this during my entire playthrough this is the first time. I feel like this could be an easy fix, but i can't put my finger on it quite yet.

[Ǥɾᴧᴤʆᴧᵯᴧ]

is there another quest from Sgt. Yumi on standby? and is it possibly "Search & Seizure"? if so, then you had reproduced "my" bug with this quest.
as i said in my bug report for Bethesda: no setstage command worked, even the quest stages for debugging were useless...
if you cannot solve it by loading an older savegame then you may have to go through Unity without the Crimson Fleet quest

[Kim]

I looked into the "Search & Seizure" quest and found something interesting.

I didn’t have this quest in my journal, and I hadn’t completed all the smaller tasks from Sgt. Yumi. But I decided to go ahead and start the quest chain until he finally gave me "Search & Seizure."

it is a small quest given by the Sgt. Yumi not far from the landing area. This quest requires you to track down a ship suspected of carrying contraband. You receive a few clues and must pick a suspect from four suspected ships when speaking with Sgt. Yumi. The ship you choose will appear on Pad B for you to search. One of the ship to choose from is Huan’s ship, She is featured in this quest.

If you have "The Best There Is" quest in your journal while doing "Search & Seizure," Sgt. Yumi ends up acting just like Huan and bugs out. He has a quest marker above his head, but no ship spawns, and he runs out of dialogue options. The quest "Search & Seizure," becomes impossible to finish.

However, if you complete "Search & Seizure" before starting "The Best There Is," the quest works properly and you can make ship spawn on the Pad B !! without issues.

This to me is a dead giveaway that we are dealing with nothing more than a quest compatibility problem. It’s highly possible another quest might also be causing this bug with Huan. Since "The Best There Is" in your journal prevents "Search & Seizure" from spawning ships, i suspect another quest is also stopping Huan’s ship from spawning?

I tried loading a save where I hadn’t yet started "The Best There Is" and completed "Search & Seizure" without any problems. But when I returned to continue "The Best There Is," I encountered the same bug again. So, I still can’t progress with Huan—she stays in The Well, tells you to meet her at the ships, but the quest marker stays on her, and her ship doesn’t spawn.

The stage for the quest bug is 500. The next stage, where you should board her ship, is 600.

[Ǥɾᴧᴤʆᴧᵯᴧ]

would you kindly send a bug report to bethesda? and dont forget to link this thread :)
thank you *g*
("would you kindly" is from bioshock and you are programmed to obey when you hear that phrase! 8=))

[NASSAN]

Hello. I see that everyone is suffering with this the best there is mission. I would ask everyone to report this in the appropriate place!!! Because we paid for a product and they solve it. All other missions went smoothly for me, but not this one. My game is original. I already reported the error, so far I only get the usual response.

If anyone has an easy solution or a way to jump ahead, that would be great.

It would be nice if someone could create a way to skip the dialogue if there are such errors.

[Morboth]

I changed the name of this thread because my issue was solved by Bethesda back in the September update. I kindly ask people not to refer this thread to Bethesda in any bug report. It is probably a different issue producing the same result, which invariably requires a new ad hoc thread.

[NASSAN]

This is interesting!!! Whatever I do..it doesn't work, all other missions are fine!! But shouldn't we report the bug?? Then could you add some way to the creations so that we can skip the buggy mission part!!!

I think it's perfectly fine to report the bug because I paid for the game.

[Morboth]

You definitely should report the bug, just make sure not to link this post in particular, as it could be misleading, for my specific issue has been fixed. But by all means, you should definitely file a report!

[NASSAN]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxussIR2KvM

In a given world, this is worth nothing!!!!

[Ǥɾᴧᴤʆᴧᵯᴧ]

I don't think it's a problem if you link this thread in a bug report. Anyone with common sense will be able to assess the relevance of the individual posts. But you don't have to link this thread either if you have described your problem sufficiently in the bug report. I've already written one with the above content anyway.

And @Nassan: If you have read this thread, you will realize that console commands are not always a solution. And if that's the case, then every player has a manual savegame that was made before a quest and can load it.

[NASSAN]

Ǥɾᴧᴤʆᴧᵯᴧ Nothing worked, I repeat, nothing!!! I did everything!! This is very annoying, yes I have already sent a bug report, they came back with the usual text.

This is quite serious because there are over 100 missions and I have never experienced such a serious error!!! But they can't solve this here, which is interesting to say the least.