Shadow Quarters: Quarantine Zone side objective fails

[Marcos_DS]

In the Quest "Where the Shadows are Deepest of All" (diseased mutants) you have an objective to "Assess the Situation". However upon finishing off the mutant lair, it automatically fails. What i did so far

0) talked to exterminator captain
1) coerced the governor to open the area
2) got in asap before progressing the main quest (got back after every explored system, after exploring about 6 i could enter - no main quest required), means a fight against people trying to leave forcibly
3) Found and talked to the hidden refugees. They told me about the mutant lair (already found with awareness). Let them live
4) Also did the medicine tests.
5) killed the mutants -> side objective "Assess the Situation" fails
6) checked back with the refugees
7) checket back with exterminator captain

So, did anyone manage complete to "Assess the Situation" side objective?

[Flavalicious]

nope same outcome from me. The leader of the station also gives me ♥♥♥♥ for not supplying them food despite my janius quest being completed and the planet supposedly being back in working order. Not sure if its just a text error or if some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ is about.

[Arclight]

Originally posted by Marcos_DS:

In the Quest "Where the Shadows are Deepest of All" (diseased mutants) you have an objective to "Assess the Situation". However upon finishing off the mutant lair, it automatically fails. What i did so far

0) talked to exterminator captain
1) coerced the governor to open the area
2) got in asap before progressing the main quest (got back after every explored system, after exploring about 6 i could enter - no main quest required), means a fight against people trying to leave forcibly
3) Found and talked to the hidden refugees. They told me about the mutant lair (already found with awareness). Let them live
4) Also did the medicine tests.
5) killed the mutants -> side objective "Assess the Situation" fails
6) checked back with the refugees
7) checket back with exterminator captain

So, did anyone manage complete to "Assess the Situation" side objective?

№3 - I didn't even find them. Where are they hiding?

[Marcos_DS]

There is a door where a point of interest pops up - interact with it to talk with them (iirc close to stairs to the lowest level (not map transition to lair, i mean lowest level on current map). But it wasn't enough for the objective anyway :/

[RobOda]

I'm not sure if it is meant to fail?

Or if it will conclude by waiting?

[Flavalicious]

Originally posted by RobOda:

I'm not sure if it is meant to fail?

Or if it will conclude by waiting?

Patch mentions they added missing plague rats to footfall slums. How much you wanna bet you needed to killl them for it to finish correctly? Lol

[Marcos_DS]

Originally posted by Flavalicious:

Originally posted by RobOda:

I'm not sure if it is meant to fail?

Or if it will conclude by waiting?

Patch mentions they added missing plague rats to footfall slums. How much you wanna bet you needed to killl them for it to finish correctly? Lol

Nice i missed that part in the patch notes, certainly something i'll try in my next playthrough.

[preachingToGhosts]

The rats are not part of the quest. It's simply bugged. Choosing to kill the hidden refugees doesn't even activate the proper action--they just lament their impending doom and no explosion ever happens (you can seal them in their home).

Sigh. I absolutely hate bugged objectives in completed quests like this. OCD goes into overdrive.

[RobOda]

No update on this one then?

[Balekai]

I haven't finished the quest (been very slow) but there was a similar issue I reported back in Beta. Probably the exact same thing. It's too bad I can no longer check.

Although I thought back then it was wait for the situation to resolve itself that failed. One of those instances where finishing the quest one way fails the other. As in not a bug you just intervened and failed the latter way of completing the quest. The beta sub marker fail had no impact on completing the overall quest either. Even if you missed the refugees in the one house you could still talk to the Exterminator Captain and pick the "i found some refugees" to get the etude activated for that (i checked in Toy Box). You Captain before and after the fact (repeatable dialogues).

Now it looks like it doesn't make sense with Assess failing and Wait not failing. Unless that was the way it was back then too. In that case as long as you can complete the quest proper just ignore it is my advice. Or wait to complete it I guess. :/

[Flavalicious]

Originally posted by Balekai:

I haven't finished the quest (been very slow) but there was a similar issue I reported back in Beta. Probably the exact same thing. It's too bad I can no longer check.

Although I thought back then it was wait for the situation to resolve itself that failed. One of those instances where finishing the quest one way fails the other. As in not a bug you just intervened and failed the latter way of completing the quest. The beta sub marker fail had no impact on completing the overall quest either. Even if you missed the refugees in the one house you could still talk to the Exterminator Captain and pick the "i found some refugees" to get the etude activated for that (i checked in Toy Box). You Captain before and after the fact (repeatable dialogues).

Now it looks like it doesn't make sense with Assess failing and Wait not failing. Unless that was the way it was back then too. In that case as long as you can complete the quest proper just ignore it is my advice. Or wait to complete it I guess. :/

pretty much the conclussion i arrived to since another quest of this nature where your giving a set of options looks this way.

Honestly bad terminology to mark it as a failed quest. Should just be an alternative note saying something like "Objective achieved through other means"

lol