BUGGED PORTALS

[Graymancer]

Anyone have problems with the portals? I have found and activated 2 and they won't do anything just says nothing found.

[SmegHead]

Yes Same here and can not find any more info on why? Also had to place resources in portal even though i used it before, will make third time adding resources to same portal? Is this a new thing each time we use one?

[jeff5584]

I had a portal that worked before this latest patch. Now it doesn't work anymore. The "conversation" just repeats over and over, never letting me activate it.

[Lindy Bomber]

Take a look at the experimental branch sticky thread. The patch notes mention a fix for quest portals.

[SmegHead]

not doing the quest portal? just trying to use a portal.

[dphipps3]

I have a portal that I have properly activated and used once. After I returned, the portal cannot be used again, the game just returns to the "sentinels inbound" message or one of the other 2 messages, and again gives me the option to activate the portal...and continues to loop around in this same fashion. Not a quest portal

[CompletedSpoon]

Same problem. Never ending loop.

[Graymancer]

Let us hope that HG fixes this problem. Today I managed to use a portal Twice but when I returned to where I came from, the portal was gone.

[Eternie]

Thing to remember is the portals have become useless anyways.

As if you find all the glyphs and get a portal to function. Where it takes you, you cannot place a base computer and you cannot access the galaxy map in that area. So no way to easily get back to that system.

You can explore that particular system and leave a beacon, then have to return where you came from and set a marker and still do that 1000 - 3000 warps required to get there ... or until you lose interest.
Also with losing the data that you upload you'd have to say what's the point, certainly fun for a while.

[Yuki]

You could still use them to get the ships or multitool you want, or visit bases of people you havent added on steam.

Portals aint just a shortcut to the galactic center- thats the Nexus.

And to do so you usually have a small teleporter in front of a portal so you dont have to search for a new one every freaking time.

But now- those are bugged. To me and about everyone i know in NMS as well. As described above.

[Ǥɾᴧᴤʆᴧᵯᴧ]

Portals are fixed in the latest 3xperimental version

[Saebria]

I am unable to complete a main quest. The one where you have to go through the portal for Artemis or at least to see what is on the other side. I haven't tried to today but i noticed yesterday during my play through. The text keeps repeating until you choose to walk away and wait. It didn't matter how many times that I activated the portal. I would just get caught in a loop. I sent it in as a bug. Hopefully others will too so maybe if they have enough people informing them of this then they will get it fixed.

[demo]

Originally posted by Saebria:

I am unable to complete a main quest. The one where you have to go through the portal for Artemis or at least to see what is on the other side. I haven't tried to today but i noticed yesterday during my play through. The text keeps repeating until you choose to walk away and wait. It didn't matter how many times that I activated the portal. I would just get caught in a loop. I sent it in as a bug. Hopefully others will too so maybe if they have enough people informing them of this then they will get it fixed.

Yeah, same quest here..
I`ve just tried switching to the 3xperimental branch and was able to complete the quest.
I can confirm they seem to be fixed in that branch.
(Thanks Ǥɾᴧᴤʆᴧᵯᴧ !).

To change over, look at the properties for NMS, and enter `3xperimental` in the beta tabs code field, then restart steam & it should load up.

[alexanderjc7325]

I had the same issue and temporarily switched to experimental mode and was able to go through the portal and complete the quest. I went back to the normal mode and everything is fine now.

[Rexxer]

Originally posted by Eternie:

Thing to remember is the portals have become useless anyways.

As if you find all the glyphs and get a portal to function. Where it takes you, you cannot place a base computer and you cannot access the galaxy map in that area. So no way to easily get back to that system.

You can explore that particular system and leave a beacon, then have to return where you came from and set a marker and still do that 1000 - 3000 warps required to get there ... or until you lose interest.
Also with losing the data that you upload you'd have to say what's the point, certainly fun for a while.

Ancient portals were always like that from the beginning, nothing new. They are only for visiting, not relocating. However, there used to be a trick you could do from an early update: there are occasionally "inhabitable outpost" sites which have a single claimable base computer in a flattened circle of land. Claim it and you can build a base in this new part of the galaxy. However, because you still can't connect a base transporter to it (because of the Portal Effect), you can only visit that base via the Ancient portal. If you want to connect the distant base to your base transporter network, you'll just have to jump out there the long old fashioned way. Once it is in-network, though, it is always there.

[Rexxer]

Originally posted by Kookie3:

Anyone have problems with the portals? I have found and activated 2 and they won't do anything just says nothing found.

Once opened, a portal will stay active for quite awhile and it can be used repeatedly on the original activation charge. I just logged on from a pre update game and the portal I activated several months ago is still active.