stuck between floors and outside my freighter - very stuck! < RESOLVED >

[Pul Myfinger]

EDIT: see comment #21 for resolved description


I sent the following msg to HG support, but don't expect to hear back until after Monday. Maybe the community has some ideas ... ?

I am stuck between floors and outside my freighter. I was building my base on freighter, logged out and on return to the game, fell through the floor and outside the freighter.
- I tried reloading ALL my saves
- I am not using mods
- gun won't fire, so can't kill myself
- have wandered and jetted around looking for access
- have tried to add doors, corridors, structures with little success
--- I was able to add one door, but could not enter
- and so on ... etc.
I am genuinely stuck and can't figure this out

[Marzipan]

Never heared of that one, sorry. But if I land on a planet and fall through the ground after exiting the ship I keep my jetpack boosting during the reload to stay on the planets surface... dunno, maybe that would help?!
(Haha, your third step is good! I wonder how you would do that even if your gun was working :) , but is your lifesupprt not depleting when you walk/jet around? I never tried it, but this might be a way if you think about going in THAT direction.)

[Pul Myfinger]

Originally posted by Marzipan:

Never heared of that one, sorry. But if I land on a planet and fall through the ground after exiting the ship I keep my jetpack boosting during the reload to stay on the planets surface... dunno, maybe that would help?!

Hey! thanks for the reply. I tried your suggestion, but no luck. Still stayed outside the freighter. Lately, been trying to wiggle thru the floor and close enough to my ship so I can hit E. No luck there either. Thanks for the suggestion.

Nothing is depleting so looks like life support will last just about forever. Also, it was the grenades I was thinking about for possible self-kill. Don't think that would work tho, even if I could launch a few.

[deRuyter]

If I remember correct this is a old bug thats been around since the freighters and basebuilding. How come reloading your older saves failed? Also since you mentioned you tried wondering around, did you try the spot where you glitched trough?

[Pul Myfinger]

Originally posted by stronke:

If I remember correct this is a old bug thats been around since the freighters and basebuilding. How come reloading your older saves failed? Also since you mentioned you tried wondering around, did you try the spot where you glitched trough?

I was building cube rooms and added a save point in a cube room. While running around, I would return to that save point and save, so all my saves were there - nothing from within the freighter body - so much for diligently saving to protect from crashes - 'best laid plans ....'

Since I glitch directly to the exterior of the freighter I have no access. I cannot even see the cube rooms I built! And yes, I did try that spot :-(

[deRuyter]

So everytime you load the game you automaticly fall back trough the floor in the cube rooms?

[Pul Myfinger]

Originally posted by stronke:

So everytime you load the game you automaticly fall back trough the floor in the cube rooms?

Yup ... most annoying

[deRuyter]

Been trying to look if there is a noclip command/mod but it does not look like it.

[Marzipan]

Probably I am picturing your postion wrong, but can you sneak back in through the hangar doors with approaching ships?

[Pul Myfinger]

Originally posted by stronke:

Been trying to look if there is a noclip command/mod but it does not look like it.

Thanks for trying to help. I keep attempting different tactics, but nuthin' yet.

[Pul Myfinger]

Originally posted by Marzipan:

Probably I am picturing your postion wrong, but can you sneak back in through the hangar doors with approaching ships?
(I´ve edited my first post a bit. Just in case...)

Tried that - can't quite get to the entrance. Funny way to do it if I could! :-)

[Marzipan]

I was building a little bit in the back of my freighter during the last minutes (normal mode). I haven´t done that before but as I went through my options I realized that, unlike you (different mode?), I cannot build a save point there. The game won´t show it to me in the menue (same for other things like beacon etc.).
You said you´ve tried to "wiggle thru the floor" to reach your ship with E. If you do something like that close to the back of the freighter and since you are in some kind of "no mans land", maybe you can place another save point thru the wall or the door that you were able to build at one point and try your luck with that one?

One last thought from my side: There is also a way to remove base building restrictions in the game. I don´t know how it is done, how complicated it is and if it can be used maybe temporarily to build a way back inside your freighter. I´ve seen people "expanding" their freighter bases to the outside with landing pads etc. here in the forum; maybe something worth to check out...

Other than that, good luck on monday! Trying out other game modes until then might be nice. I wonder how HG is handling something like that and if you can keep your current savegame progress for the most part...

[Pul Myfinger]

Originally posted by Marzipan:

I was building a little bit in the back of my freighter during the last minutes (normal mode). I haven´t done that before but as I went through my options I realized that, unlike you (different mode?), I cannot build a save point there. The game won´t show it to me in the menue (same for other things like beacon etc.).
You said you´ve tried to "wiggle thru the floor" to reach your ship with E. If you do something like that close to the back of the freighter and since you are in some kind of "no mans land", maybe you can place another save point thru the wall or the door that you were able to build at one point and try your luck with that one?

One last thought from my side: There is also a way to remove base building restrictions in the game. I don´t know how it is done, how complicated it is and if it can be used maybe temporarily to build a way back inside your freighter. I´ve seen people "expanding" their freighter bases to the outside with landing pads etc. here in the forum; maybe something worth to check out...

Other than that, good luck on monday! Trying out other game modes until then might be nice. I wonder how HG is handling something like that and if you can keep your current savegame progress for the most part...

That you did not build a save point is likely a good thing. I did it (Normal mode, btw) by placing a planter tray and then sticking the save point in the trays bed. All this worked fine in my planetside greenhouse.

Good suggestion about a new save point placed thru a wall. However, I can't seem to get it to take. Anything that I can build seems to get sucked into another dimension, ie, disappears. Anything I prev built is invisible.

I know about editing the file to be able to expand ones base. I've tried it both on and off against this problem without effect. There doesn't seem to be a separate freighter-base setting.

I do hope HG can help as I worked too hard to get what I got and don't want to start over in Normal. IMO, Permadeath is not rewarding and Creative is fun, but a playground; maybe Survival. Maybe it's time to go back to Elite Dangerous?

Thanks for the help ... good suggestions. I will try again tomorrow,

[p0pt@rt]

Originally posted by Pul Myfinger:

I was building cube rooms and added a save point in a cube room.

That's the root problem... freighter bases don't support saving and funky things happen when you try... at best, you're locked behind the airlock doors that won't open and let you out because they first have to be opened from the outside as you're entering your base... Unfortunately, unless you have a backup of your saves somewhere, you're going to have to start your game mode over... :(

[p0pt@rt]

the only thing that could possibly be done is to jetpack as soon as the game loads and try to get to a ledge or something, which I'm sure you've tried already.. the problem is your bases doesn't have a collision file loaded to it till you enter the base from the hangar of the freighter (same thing that trips the airlock doors to open).. so when you load inside your cuboid rooms, they're not physically there, just visually there.. You need to try to jetpack to the main cylindrical room, and even then you're still going to be locked inside the freighter.. which brings me back to the delete your current save and restart; unless you have a backup to restore to..

[RazzleWin]

It would be nice to be able to build a save point in your freighter base. As well as building one in your planet side base. As to building a save point in my planet base I 1st build a door to the outside then with the door open I build a beacon just outside on the ground. Then I delete the door and build a cube room in it's place. I then have a beacon inside my base