sunbeam timer won't go off, haven't used any cheats.

[kirschwasser]

i deactivated the QEP before sunbeam, and the timer is now in the negatives. any way i can hide the timer or is it stuck in my save now? i was at the island when it hit zero.

[bongerman85]

thats peculiar, also dont be surprised at what happens with this event even when u perform this task.

[bongerman85]

also whatever is going on with the sunbeam doesnt really affect the gameplay anyway. it just points u in a story direction.

[bladerunner97]

I know this is an old thread but yesterday I had the same problem of the negative countdown timer that would not go away. These are the chain of events.

On Day 9, Sunbeam sent me coordinates and later, started a countdown to a landing point.

On Day 11, Sunbeam told me that they could not land due to the debris field up in orbit and that they were leaving. That's the end of that I thought. But the timer went into negative numbers.

Today I searched for a solution and found one that worked.

I entered precursorgunaim in the game console to trigger the landing attempt. Sunbeam came in, got blown up and the timer disappeared. Problem solved.

[dreamrider]

It gave you the "debris field" message because you had somehow arranged to disable the QEP before the Sunbeam sequence was committed (after the 2nd or 3rd Sunbeam message, I think.)

It does not always trigger that unending countown bug, but on rare occasions it does.

(Possibly because you disabled the QEP after your Day 9 message, but before your Day 11 message?)


This is a pretty old thread. It might have been better to convey your found solution in a dedicated new thread with just your own post. It avoids certain kinds of confusion over recent updates, etc.

[bladerunner97]

Originally posted by dreamrider:

This is a pretty old thread. It might have been better to convey your found solution in a dedicated new thread with just your own post. It avoids certain kinds of confusion over recent updates, etc.

I hear you and understand. Then I would have been blasted for posting about a known problem along the lines of..... "this is a known bug and has already been answered. Do your research". Which I did and why I posted on a bug that is still present to this day.

As for the cause, you are probably correct. I did disable the gun before the Sunbeam sequence. But I still had them come in for a landing after they told me that they gave up.

But it is of no matter. I have solved my problem. Just thought I'd mention my solution for others who may have the same problem, who may search and find this thread. The bug/glitch is, after all, still not fixed.

[someone]

Originally posted by bladerunner97:

I entered precursorgunaim in the game console to trigger the landing attempt. Sunbeam came in, got blown up and the timer disappeared. Problem solved.

I have the same problem. Thanks for you variant solving the problem

[bongerman85]

Originally posted by someone:

Originally posted by bladerunner97:

I entered precursorgunaim in the game console to trigger the landing attempt. Sunbeam came in, got blown up and the timer disappeared. Problem solved.

I have the same problem. Thanks for you variant solving the problem

being paused while the timer is running seems to cause the game to glitch if the game is paused pass the end of the original timer. I ran into this bug a few months ago. good to see how to fix it. thanks.