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test Jul 16, 2024 @ 12:27pm
friends like these stuck?
I still have that quest. I've been to the Freestar embassy and was arrested. Since there doesn't to be any way to access the listening device I did other things for a while. Now when I select that quest again, there is no quest marker.

Is this quest the third one that's broken, or is there a way to get the marker back so I can try to proceed with it? Or is it supposed to be like this and something needs to happen first?

I also can't run the The Red Mile. The host is supposed to announce me and never does.
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Red Ducky Jul 16, 2024 @ 12:55pm 
You may be the unluckiest person alive. It's like you're speed running every bug in the game. Is that the quest where you have to get the Freestar code for the Armistace Archives? Try talking to the ambassador in the Freestar Embassy and see if that allows the quest to proceed.

That red mile bug was supposed to have been patched out. I had it around launch but not since they said it was fixed.
test Jul 16, 2024 @ 1:29pm 
Well, I'm merely playing the game, taking my time. I'm not speedrunning.

I'm supposed to get the codes for the archives, yes. And I keep wondering why they would send some entirely unrelated, irrelevant and unqualified bystander instead of letting their well trained and well payed diplomats deal with it. It's their job, not mine. They are qualified for it while I'm not. It makes no sense whatsoever.

Anyway, I can't find the embassy anymore and don't remember exactly where it is. I guess it must be somewhere in New Atlantis and it doesn't seem to be in the MAST district ... It would help if I could get the quest marker to find the place.

The embassador was pissed even before I got arrested. And I'm still not invisible and probably still have no chance of getting the code. Even when I'm supposedly invisible, I'm always still being detected.

Besides, the whole backstory is extremely bad here. You can not expect players to have grudges against either the UC or the Collective or to even understand them because they had been fighting a war. That embassador is totally unsuited for the job she has and should have been fired 20 years ago right after the war ended.
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Red Ducky Jul 16, 2024 @ 1:46pm 
You can still get the code. You can take it off her lifeless corpse. Nobody will miss her.
test Jul 16, 2024 @ 2:38pm 
Originally posted by Red Ducky:
You can still get the code. You can take it off her lifeless corpse. Nobody will miss her.

I can't know that. It's not something that someone would carry around all the time.

Besides, it doesn't seem to be a good idea to murder her. I was explicitly told not to shoot anyone and doing so seems like a really bad idea. Imagine an archive that is guarded by France, the US and Spain and they all must agree to give you access before you can get anything from the archive. It so happens that the Spanish like and trust you for unknown reasons --- mind you, you don't even have Spanish citizenship and you have no relevant credentials --- and the Spanish already allow access, and only because one of their harbours was attacked by a party the archives may contain relevant information about. The US and the French deny access. They never heard of you and were not attacked at all and fear not an unknown attacker they don't believe in, but that access to the archive would bring about information that could endanger them.

Your 'solution' is to go ahead and murder the French and American diplomats who, strangely, happen to carry their keys to the archive always on their keychain which enables you to steal their keys in the first place. That these diplomats would be that stupid is rather difficult to believe.

Even if they were that stupid: what do you think would happen? That you could just walk into the archive and take the information you want? That's a ridiculous idea.

Whatever key you have stolen wouldn't work anymore a couple minutes after the first diplomat was murdered. If there were a chance you could still somehow get the information from the archive, the French and the Americans would make sure that it would be either moved out of reach or destroyed.

And that doesn't mention the diplomatic incident you would cause. For you all you know, another war might be started for this.
tkwoods (Banned) Jul 16, 2024 @ 2:51pm 
You must have another guest partially completed that is stopping the progression of this one.

Try showing all active markers in the log might should you the one you need.
tkwoods (Banned) Jul 16, 2024 @ 2:54pm 
Additionally, there is a back way into the Embassy basement but I'm not sure the route since I never had to use it. There is also a way to get into the private quarters but again without a marker it's hard to see direction.
test Jul 16, 2024 @ 4:37pm 
Originally posted by tkwoods:
You must have another guest partially completed that is stopping the progression of this one.

Try showing all active markers in the log might should you the one you need.

Which log are you referring to?

How do I know which quests are blocking me? I'm now trying to dock at the chop shop but it's not possible. After talking to the station we're supposed to dock at it, yet there is no option for docking and none for hailing them.

Or is this another buggy mission? I'm starting to think that Starfield may be as bad as Baldurs Gate 3 which is an unfixable mess that should never have been released before a complete remake.
tkwoods (Banned) Jul 16, 2024 @ 5:12pm 
Originally posted by test:
Originally posted by tkwoods:
You must have another guest partially completed that is stopping the progression of this one.

Try showing all active markers in the log might should you the one you need.

Which log are you referring to?

How do I know which quests are blocking me? I'm now trying to dock at the chop shop but it's not possible. After talking to the station we're supposed to dock at it, yet there is no option for docking and none for hailing them.

Or is this another buggy mission? I'm starting to think that Starfield may be as bad as Baldurs Gate 3 which is an unfixable mess that should never have been released before a complete remake.

Any of the Companion quests could do it. Not sure how to tell. You'd need to finish them one by one and see.

In the quest list at the bottom are some buttons that allow all or active quest markers to be displayed.
tkwoods (Banned) Jul 16, 2024 @ 5:13pm 
Additionally, do the dialog slowly, don't get in a hurry and skip. Make sure you answer the correct question to trip the quest step as done.
Krash Megiddo Jul 16, 2024 @ 5:53pm 
I had a bunch of stuck quests like this on my first playthrough. I forced the game into NG+ to not lose any levels, XP, skills and since then my quests have been working, for the most part.
tkwoods (Banned) Jul 16, 2024 @ 6:30pm 
Originally posted by Krash Megiddo:
I had a bunch of stuck quests like this on my first playthrough. I forced the game into NG+ to not lose any levels, XP, skills and since then my quests have been working, for the most part.

I gave only ever had Sarah's quest bug out but that was before the updates. The only other times I've had issues is trying to speed through the dialog and not let the system progress.
Krash Megiddo Jul 16, 2024 @ 8:58pm 
Originally posted by tkwoods:
Originally posted by Krash Megiddo:
I had a bunch of stuck quests like this on my first playthrough. I forced the game into NG+ to not lose any levels, XP, skills and since then my quests have been working, for the most part.

I gave only ever had Sarah's quest bug out but that was before the updates. The only other times I've had issues is trying to speed through the dialog and not let the system progress.
I always speed through the dialog and never noticed a correlation with bugged quests, but its something to keep in mind now that you mention it.
Is this really a current version of the game? I find your problems with the game unusual.
What you shouldn't do in Bethesda games is abandon quests and play other quests. At least that's what I learned in Fallout and it seems to apply to Starfield as well. You should keep one quest in focus and solve it.
If the OP can't solve these quests, then only console/queststage or NG+ will help.

Anyway, the FC embassy is straight ahead and then left when you leave the MAST. The map should help... and if you don't have a map, you're not playing the current version of the game... which I find weird...
test Jul 17, 2024 @ 12:28am 
Originally posted by tkwoods:
Originally posted by test:

Which log are you referring to?

How do I know which quests are blocking me? I'm now trying to dock at the chop shop but it's not possible. After talking to the station we're supposed to dock at it, yet there is no option for docking and none for hailing them.

Or is this another buggy mission? I'm starting to think that Starfield may be as bad as Baldurs Gate 3 which is an unfixable mess that should never have been released before a complete remake.

Any of the Companion quests could do it. Not sure how to tell. You'd need to finish them one by one and see.

In the quest list at the bottom are some buttons that allow all or active quest markers to be displayed.

I'm not aware that I would have a companion quest and that there are any.

When a quest is blocking others, that must be shown in the quest overview. Otherwise we only get stuck. How crappy is this game??
test Jul 17, 2024 @ 12:40am 
Originally posted by tkwoods:
Additionally, do the dialog slowly, don't get in a hurry and skip. Make sure you answer the correct question to trip the quest step as done.

I'm not skipping. I have no way to tell which dialog option would mark a step as done.

The Starjacker quest is simply stuck where I'm supposed to dock at the Chop Shop after the guy we kidnapped talked to the station. The options for docking and hailing are not there. The 'friends like these' doesn't show any quest markers and I have no idea where the embassy is. The runaway quest cannot proceed because daddy isn't talking. The Entangled quest was also stuck and required me to clip through a wall because the NPC I had to talk to was unreachable behind a wall.

Maybe I could try to proceed with another quest but after three quests not working, what's the point? This game sucks badly.
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