Cannot finish 16/16 mission, lost portal

[Kilderok]

Soooo I can't continue and/or finish story mode due to being unable to re-find the portal necessary to complete it. It's the mission 16/16. I've seen a lot of people having issues with this mission because just like me, they turn away and go finish a few things before continuing it and lose track of where the portal is. (Some way of re-tracking missions would be a nice tool for this game...it is a huge game after all, seems like a no-brainer mechanic really) Any suggestions to fix this I have found do NOT work and I've been stuck trying to re-find the one portal that will work for about a week now.

I'm about to start a new play-through after putting almost 150 hours into this game already. Kinda wish I didn't have to but in order to find out what the heck is going on in this game I'm going to have to unless one of you can help me figure this out. I'd call this sort of issue game breaking in a way. Reeaally sucks guys. I want to love this game but man, if this is fixed I can't imagine what it WAS before this. I've seen news about it, but to experience it must've been a different kind of frustrating. It would be different if this wasn't a story progressing mission, I might let it slide but having this huge wall up between me and the rest of the story just because I wanted to get a few things done beforehand is headache inducing.

[dphipps3]

If you travel far from the location, you might be able to use the "p" menu to reset the mission. Use the portals to fly to stations far away, go to the P menu, and see if you can't reset the mission. If that doesn't work, try marking 16/16 as the active mission and look at the starbase portal interface. It might tell you which location is that mission. Sorry if you've tried these things, and good luck.

[tkwoods]

What does the quest log entry say to do?

[Kilderok]

@dhipps3 Yeah, that's the answer on all the topics I found on this mission, it didn't work. I traveled to a far side of the galaxy and nothing was able to be reset, I've had 16/16 marked as the active mission the whole time I'm trying to figure this out, nothing. I'm to the part where I need to trace the leylines to the portal (don't know how I'm supposed to do that, there aren't leylines to be traced) and walk through the portal since I already unlocked it. Doesn't even mark it on my map. Tried the starbase portal, no go. Thanks for the effort though, and thanks for the well-wishing regardless. :3

[Kilderok]

@tkwoods It says to trace the leylines to the portal and walk through the portal, but as you could guess, there are no leylines to trace. I already had the portal unlocked and active and ready to go, buuuut I can't find it anywhere. An icon telling me where the portal WAS would be nice. Already tried unlocking a different portal but to no avail.

[dphipps3]

The "leylines" are just a series of alien monoliths or whatever. If you have a beacon, you should drop one at a portal once you've activated it. I don't suppose you asked the portal for its glyph coordinates when you activated it? And wrote them down? (I've had to portal back to previous glyph coordinates because I forgot to write the name of the system down in my notes...) Maybe there was something specific about that world with the portal that you remember, like a predator or two? Was it frozen, or toxic? Or maybe you didn't look for animals at all but just visited milestones?

If you carefully go back through your discoveries menu you just might see something that looks familiar...

[tkwoods]

Originally posted by kilderok:

@tkwoods It says to trace the leylines to the portal and walk through the portal, but as you could guess, there are no leylines to trace. I already had the portal unlocked and active and ready to go, buuuut I can't find it anywhere. An icon telling me where the portal WAS would be nice. Already tried unlocking a different portal but to no avail.

So you followed the three markers to the monoliths, then went to the portal but didn't go though it... The marker turned off because you reached the marker...

Well without an active marker it won't show in the teleport list as marked...
Even if you find the system it will be hard to find a portal

Not impossible but very hard to get back to it.

If you can remember anything about the system to help reduce the search like what faction, how many planets.. You could go back through your list or use the map to retrace your path. If you get lucky use a signal booster to find a monolith then use it to find the portal...

But still a lot of searching and getting lucky.

[joenova23]

I have the exact same problem. Playing the Beyond update. I was working on the leyline tracing mission, "16 / 16". I found the portal, but I didn't have all the necessary elements to activate it. So, I walked around the area near the portal to gather them; roughly a 1000u radius around the portal. There were lots of good elements laying around, so I was stocking up, beyond just getting what I needed for the portal. I then called my ship, and flew back to the marker, and....the portal structure was GONE. The marker was still there, but there was a complete absence of the portal itself. I flew away, to see if I could get it to re-render. But no dice. I left the planet and came back. No dice. I left the system and came back, no dice. I re-started my computer. No dice.

Needless to say, I am PISSSED. I've been playing this game since day one, and I've put up with the all the bugs and slowly refined features, etc, etc, etc. I've restarted the game fmore times that I can count in the last few years. I'm a very patient person. But this BS has me PISSSED OFF. At this stage of development, this kind of crap shouldn't be happening. I even filed a bug with Hello Games. No reply. If I had a physical copy of the game (I'm on Steam), I'd probably incinerate it. That's how sick of this game's BS I am.

[Lazer]

I don't know if it will help. My friend also had this problem for a week and couldn't fix it. We have a main base outside portal (not same one the quest was pointing to) so I decided to use portal for myself and he was grouped up with me nearby. Somehow it reset his quest after I went through the portal. He was able to complete it and move on to next quest The Purge.

[GamerJ5]

I hate to necro a post this old but this is a super frustrating problem. I actually had the game crash when I was supposed to be finding the portal and when I relaunched it, the waypoint was gone. I searched the entire area and never found a portal so I gave up. No matter how far I flew, I never got a reset button like I'd seen with other quests.

I copied the glyph ID of the world and was earning glyphs as I made my way toward the center of the galaxy with the plan to warp to the portal from the other side and hope that fixed it. However, instead, I just jumped through the galaxy center and when I got to the new galaxy, my quest was reset at the point just before I got the waypoint for the portal leylines (finding the distress signal). So this is another way to fix the issue, just jump to another galaxy. Though, I would also advise bringing along a lot of wiring harnesses for all the repairs you will need to do, but it's better than starting back at finding Artemis or never completing the quest at all.

[cogvos]

Originally posted by GamerJ5:

I hate to necro a post this old but this is a super frustrating problem. I actually had the game crash when I was supposed to be finding the portal and when I relaunched it, the waypoint was gone. I searched the entire area and never found a portal so I gave up. No matter how far I flew, I never got a reset button like I'd seen with other quests.

I copied the glyph ID of the world and was earning glyphs as I made my way toward the center of the galaxy with the plan to warp to the portal from the other side and hope that fixed it. However, instead, I just jumped through the galaxy center and when I got to the new galaxy, my quest was reset at the point just before I got the waypoint for the portal leylines (finding the distress signal). So this is another way to fix the issue, just jump to another galaxy. Though, I would also advise bringing along a lot of wiring harnesses for all the repairs you will need to do, but it's better than starting back at finding Artemis or never completing the quest at all.

Regarding all those repairs, it is only tech in your current ship and active multitool, along with any tech that is not in your exosuit supercharge slots that breaks. You can store tech and this does not break, and you can have a second sacrificial ship/multi-tool just for jumping through the galaxy centre. Once in the new galaxy you can swap to a different multi-tool, call an unbroken ship and re-install the stored tech from you exosuit. If you have a freighter you can then fly to it and your broken ship - the one you went to the galaxy centre in will be in the hanger.