Broken Scientist Quest

[Deadwards]

I am stuck with the hiring a scientist quest and cant progress any further. Theres just a floating waypoint marking where the game thinks my scientist is supposed to be but theres nothing there.

[Blackwater Jack]

Are you sure your in the correct factions system? If I remember correctly you have to be a Korvax system for the scientist. I had a issue until realized I was in a Vykeen system.

[Fluffy]

Its not broken, its a bit puzzling. You need to read everything, and if i can remember correctly, when you are at that point, other quest will help you solve the one you are looking to solve now.

[Mr. Bufferlow]

Have you gotten the antimatter BP yet. You need to do awakenings mission before seeking the scientist.

[japp_02]

To find the scientist you need to exaclty follow Awakenings mission and make sure the right mission part is always active, in that case a blue icon will appear over the head of a Korvax NPC in a space station, I think you don't even need to move to a Korvax system if a Korvax is located somewhere in the space station (check that). If no icon appears, make sure the mission is active in your log or re-activate the mission, the mission system often gets confused. Or you have to move in the next Korvax system and - re-activate the mission to get an icon.

There are a lot of bugs with the scientist, mainly causing him not to speak with you anymore to continue the quests. The solution is usually to dismantle the construction terminal and rebuild it, and if this doesn't work you would have to dismantle the terminal, delete the base, rebuild the base elsewhere and rebuild the terminal. (At that point the NMS Save Editor is most useful because you can backup all base constructions and place them elsewhere).

[MisterDynamic]

Anybody find an answer to this? I have the same problem. My waypoint is at the entrance of the korvax starbase. Literally where your ship gets pulled in to park. Then, when I'm parked and inside the base, the waypoint stays at the entrance. I've done everything people have suggested to do and it's still the same. Anybody find out anything?

[Chilla]

Originally posted by japp_02:

To find the scientist you need to exaclty follow Awakenings mission and make sure the right mission part is always active, in that case a blue icon will appear over the head of a Korvax NPC in a space station, I think you don't even need to move to a Korvax system if a Korvax is located somewhere in the space station (check that). If no icon appears, make sure the mission is active in your log or re-activate the mission, the mission system often gets confused. Or you have to move in the next Korvax system and - re-activate the mission to get an icon.

There are a lot of bugs with the scientist, mainly causing him not to speak with you anymore to continue the quests. The solution is usually to dismantle the construction terminal and rebuild it, and if this doesn't work you would have to dismantle the terminal, delete the base, rebuild the base elsewhere and rebuild the terminal. (At that point the NMS Save Editor is most useful because you can backup all base constructions and place them elsewhere).

^^^ This is spot on ^^^
Keep the mission active in the menu and keep talking to Korvax in different locations. I couldn’t find a scientist recruit via the “beaker” hud icon for the mission, but I did find one on a trading post on a random planet.

[Dude]

Originally posted by MisterDynamic:

Anybody find an answer to this? I have the same problem. My waypoint is at the entrance of the korvax starbase. Literally where your ship gets pulled in to park. Then, when I'm parked and inside the base, the waypoint stays at the entrance. I've done everything people have suggested to do and it's still the same. Anybody find out anything?

Did you ever figure it out?

[chance]

Originally posted by MisterDynamic:

Anybody find an answer to this? I have the same problem. My waypoint is at the entrance of the korvax starbase. Literally where your ship gets pulled in to park. Then, when I'm parked and inside the base, the waypoint stays at the entrance. I've done everything people have suggested to do and it's still the same. Anybody find out anything?

i had that same issue . i used commercial planetary charts to find a trading outpost in a korvax system. just kept jumping to different trading posts til i found a scientist. it progresses the quest as well. just talk to to as many korvax at the trading posts as you can. you will find one.

[Whip]

It's 2021, there are pets now, but this GD progression quest is still broken.

[Mr. Bufferlow]

Originally posted by chance:

Originally posted by MisterDynamic:

Anybody find an answer to this? I have the same problem. My waypoint is at the entrance of the korvax starbase. Literally where your ship gets pulled in to park. Then, when I'm parked and inside the base, the waypoint stays at the entrance. I've done everything people have suggested to do and it's still the same. Anybody find out anything?

i had that same issue . i used commercial planetary charts to find a trading outpost in a korvax system. just kept jumping to different trading posts til i found a scientist. it progresses the quest as well. just talk to to as many korvax at the trading posts as you can. you will find one.

The usual culprit is during that portion of the game you get tons of new "missions" which may be just crafting the latest BP you got. I have had the active mission change while I was changing back to the one I wanted. It is a problem area of the missions.

Once you have the right one selected...at the right time...you get a icon and once you get to the station it actually puts an icon on the right Korvak. That said, for a first play through the shifting mission motif gets a huge thumbs down.

[knighttemplar1960]

In addition you don't have to have that quest active at all. Having it active just gives you a way point which may or may not be pointing wrong. If you have the science terminal built you can just talk to all the Korvax you meet in any faction's star system and eventually one of them will be a scientist that you can hire.

[Kobs]

^^^ I had the same problem with an armorer, I visited 50 different space station looking for a "titled" armorer when in fact any Vy'keen title can be your armorer you have to talk to them. Probably the same with all of them

[Davidov]

I had this same issue. The quest tracker kept telling me to go to a specific space station. I talked to everyone in the station several times. I went back to my base, tore it down, rebuilt it etc. It still pointed me to the same spot.

I finally gave up and just picked some random Korvax galaxy lightyears away and wound up talking to some random guy at the space station who just happened to be a scientist!?!?! So don't give up, just keep hopping to as many space stations as you can in Korvax galaxies and talk to EVERYONE.

[Connor]

So just like some of the guys on here have said, I just went to a Korvax system, ignored the waypoint for the space station and just went down to one of the planets and found an outpost. Talk to everyone you find and eventually came across a scientist. There's no rhyme or reason and its a pretty poor mechanic but I got there eventually

[tkwoods]

Originally posted by Coco:

So just like some of the guys on here have said, I just went to a Korvax system, ignored the waypoint for the space station and just went down to one of the planets and found an outpost. Talk to everyone you find and eventually came across a scientist. There's no rhyme or reason and its a pretty poor mechanic but I got there eventually

Many get confused between the Overseer "Hire a scientist" and the Scientist "Hire a scientist" missions in the log. You need to make sure the Scientist one is selected.

But other than that most Space Stations have a scientist lurking around as well as on planet trading posts. I even found one at a Colossal Archive.