Melting the ice planet

[=DeadShot=]

1.Found the ice planet. It says I need to about the local Mechanicus representative to get better auxpex. Can someone help me?
2. Where to get the idol for Frog Trader achievement?
3. How do you solve the bottomless pit ? To get the achievement?
4. Where is Salis Prime? in act 4? Or act 5? Because Act 2 map I didn't find the planet.

[Balekai]

Originally posted by angelraid:

Originally posted by Dark:

How did you fix(?) it with Toybox?

Fiddled around w/ the quest/rumor/contract triggers in toybox and there isn't any indication that a reward such as the one the other guy mentioned should be provided. Completing the rumor just causes the interactable icon on planet to be removed, and completing the contract has the same effect as just doing it normally, save the resource cost I suppose. Either way nothing else I could find seems to mention or tie back into this event.

For reference the quest is called "In the Footsteps of History" (Rumor) and "Melting the Ice" (Contract)

Given that, and the fact that the other guy didn't bother to actually answer the question about where he found that info, I'm gonna go out a limb and say he just made up a bunch of BS.

It's that, or they misunderstood something in the game data, or there's more to it than just completing those certain quests (which can already be done in game basically). It's very common from my own research into buggy stuff for people to just leave everyone hanging without actually confirming what they found in detail. Which can end up being true, but because they just didn't care enough or didn't want to go through the hassle to show their work, they just leave it be. :/

When you look at dialogue previews for planet stuff there's usually etudes activating to add resources or add new pickup/explorable etc. One might need to find those etudes/triggers whatever via toy box by searching something like "meltingtheice."

[Balekai]

I looked into it myself. Using Search and Pick which is the most reliable way to investigate things as it includes everything in the game.

After looking at the planet pre-melting it shows "IceMelting_q" etude or quest started when you go through the dialogue.

So I went to Search and Pick and searched that.

There are about a dozen findings. I quickly messed around with two loot flags for icemelting that one could start.

The first one after activating it and keeping it at 0 counter, buggered the planet and allowed you to rescan it showing nothing thereafter (for planet UI).

Reloaded (or maybe i used locked the flag again can't remember... from 3 minutes ago lol) and started the next loot flag that can be started. Lo and behold after clicking the planet a new explorable icon showed up. After clicking the new explorable icon a Weapons extractor location appears that you can extract and mine. For me it adds 7 weapons.

So another situation of someone just not being specific enough to help anyone or help/clarify the issue lol. They were telling the truth though and I guess, got us to look at it more closely so there's that. :)

Edit: Ok completing the Rumour manually with toy box (which I guess it part of the problem, can't be done in-game and is why we still have the means to go through melting dialogue over and over)m THEN adding the first icemelting loot flag, makes 3 loot icons show up on the planet that cannot be explored by me (I will try some more stuff). My suggestion after doing all this stuff is to just do the quest for the achievement, then roll back to a previous save since it's obvious bugged and not completed. Also bug report the above.

[Dextix LT]

Its bugged, like HALF this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ mess of a game.

[MoreEvilSquid]

Originally posted by Morganaa:

Originally posted by =DeadShot=:

Ok thanks. How about the :
2. Where to get the idol for Frog Trader achievement?
3. How do you solve the bottomless pit ? To get the achievement?
4. Where is Salis Prime? in act 4? Or act 5? Because Act 2 map I didn't find the planet.

the not so bottomless pit needs psyker background, you will get a willpower check option to dominate the pit and you go to salis prime in act 4. Where is that ice planet btw?

You don't need psyker background for the bottomless pit. Without it you don't dominate it but instead follow along with a number of additional checks - the path I followed was where I ended up eating a part of myself (if you eat any other "person" then you'll find the real-life person outside of the pit is now gone forever).

[SoundsOfNight]

You get an achievement and that's it.

[zeta]

1/3 achievements are bugged, so if you are hunting for achievements, don't bother (yet)- just enjoy the story and come back later.

[holy-death]

I did the contract to melt the planet, but for some reason the game still treats the planet like it's covered in ice. I guess it is still bugged...

[Magni]

Originally posted by MoreEvilSquid:

You don't need psyker background for the bottomless pit. Without it you don't dominate it but instead follow along with a number of additional checks - the path I followed was where I ended up eating a part of myself (if you eat any other "person" then you'll find the real-life person outside of the pit is now gone forever).

Not forever. Just go back to your ship and you cna search for them. They evne get a permanent +5WP out of it.

[Balekai]

Originally posted by holy-death:

I did the contract to melt the planet, but for some reason the game still treats the planet like it's covered in ice. I guess it is still bugged...

It's still bugged because there was no patch to possibly fix it this week. Hopefully it will be fixed in the patch coming early this month. Anyways to summarize the issues keeping this quest from being fully implemented:

1. There's two loot flags for the quest that do not activate after finishing the melting contract. One loot flag is for a Weapons resource and the other loot flag is for 3 caches. Both flags need to be activated by Toy Box options to show up in the current game build on the Planet.

2. The Rumor itself for Melting the Ice does not finish when you complete the contract. It looks like it's supposed to be completed because when you complete it manually with Toy Box, the planet icon for the melting event finally disappears. Also the 3 loot caches (if you enabled their flag) will only appear on the Planet once that Rumor is completed too. This is probably because the loot caches and the initial event icon take up the same event "slot" on the planet so the Rumor hides them.

3. The 3 caches even if you get them to show up, will have no actual loot. It looks like this was either not completed, or the other 8ish flags I noticed in Search and Pick are what add the loot via scripts, and can't be done with Box.

4. The Weapon resource shows up regardless of the Rumor being completed if you activate the loot flag for it with Toy Box. You can properly extract the weapons from it with an extractor with no issues.

Now this whole thing may be a case in which all of the above was intentionally cut, and we just get an achievement as a reward only for release. I doubt that because of the buggy Rumor and that in of itself, may have caused them to overlook the rest of the quest and not see that it was incomplete or mistakenly forgotten.

[Tryalbyfun]

Originally posted by Kingcrowley:

how to melt the ice planet?

Hi there it is a contract that you can complete once you ask the mechanicus for help. Not sure its benefit it might materialise in part 5

[Davross1983]

Once you get the message to seek out the tech priests for help to melt the planet it unlocks a contract that melts it but as of yet nothing else has happened save i got the achievement

[Balekai]

Just a quick update:

The Melting the Ice event was fixed in the June 26ish 2024 Patch. The contract properly advances the event on the planet and we can now decide to pillage it (cargo) or report it for reclamation (unlocks an extractor site for Weapon resource).

[REhorror]

Originally posted by Balekai:

Just a quick update:

The Melting the Ice event was fixed in the June 26ish 2024 Patch. The contract properly advances the event on the planet and we can now decide to pillage it (cargo) or report it for reclamation (unlocks an extractor site for Weapon resource).

Wow, that's a long time fix, the reward seems kinda....underwhelming doe.

[Dextix LT]

Originally posted by Balekai:

Just a quick update:

The Melting the Ice event was fixed in the June 26ish 2024 Patch. The contract properly advances the event on the planet and we can now decide to pillage it (cargo) or report it for reclamation (unlocks an extractor site for Weapon resource).

Took them half a year, damn, must have been a really difficult bugfix.

[Cat]

Probably more so really low priority, they had enough awful bugs to root out before minor things like this one.