HELP! My friend cant summon the anomaly on his 200 hour save

[Zefnoly]

Is his save a lost cause? He dont feel like playing again after not finding a single way to get the button to summon the anomaly appearing. He has a backup of his save where he is in the middle of an anomaly mission related to get the first zoology archivement (he somehow forgot that you should upload your discoveries) since he has done all the discoveries on severeal planest already he just finished the mission by uploading all the creatures on one of them.

Then the mission tells him to talk to polo at the anomaly and that "signal" is detected related to the anomaly. Here's the thing... He cant find it anywhere. And the mission just tells him to talk to "station inhabitants" which I guess means the anomaly habititants because he has already tried talking to normal station NPCs in his current system and they behave normally.

We are currently lost and his 200h save is now stuck in a way where he cant ever buy upgrades again. And starting over is out of question as he will rather just quit playing the entire game than restarting over a 200 hour save. His save was backed up before the new update by the way. So we tried to go back to earlier backup and redo mission to no avail. The summon button is never acessible inside his ship. And he is stuck on a mission telling him to talk to polo and enter the anomaly. Without the ability to summon it.

What are we supposed to do? It dishearten me because he doesnt even feel like playing with me unless its fixed and I understand him. It works well on his creative save he just made. Just not this one.

[Zefnoly]

We really need help now!

[Gorbush Creepgood]

What if you summon it for him?

If he joins your game and you summon it? That won't work?

Also, you could try just warping around from system to system, sometimes the anomaly is just "there"..

Good luck anyways

[Zefnoly]

Originally posted by Surfing the void:

What if you summon it for him?

If he joins your game and you summon it? That won't work?

Also, you could try just warping around from system to system, sometimes the anomaly is just "there"..

Good luck anyways :LIS_pixel_heart:

Sadly we already tried but anomalies are client only for specific reasons. If you summon it other players wont see it unless they summon one themselves. Its only visible for the player that summons it.

[Defektiv]

Do you have any community missions in your log? If you select a community mission in progress and scan with C while you're flying in space, Nada will warp the anomaly in automatically whether the mission is completed or not.

[WaGo15]

have you summoned the anomaly?

[Zefnoly]

Originally posted by Defektiv:

Do you have any community missions in your log? If you select a community mission in progress and scan with C while you're flying in space, Nada will warp the anomaly in automatically whether the mission is completed or not.

Its not my save but my friends save. And no, he does not have any community missions active.
He has also tried to scan into space the way you said but nothing happens.

Originally posted by WaGo15:

have you summoned the anomaly?

Yes ive tried to summon it while he is in a game with me. But he cant see it because as I sad, it doesnt show up for him. He need to summon it himself but the button to summon it is not on his quickmenu.

[Zefnoly]

Bump

[Gorbush Creepgood]

Originally posted by Zefnoly:

Then the mission tells him to talk to polo at the anomaly and that "signal" is detected related to the anomaly.

what do you mean signal is detected?

[Zefnoly]

Originally posted by Surfing the void:

Originally posted by Zefnoly:

Then the mission tells him to talk to polo at the anomaly and that "signal" is detected related to the anomaly.

what do you mean signal is detected?

He has this info box in the corner of his screen (the one that normally contains mission information) and it says that "signal detected" from anomaly. And that he needs to talk to "station inhabitants" but the anomaly isnt anywhere to be found, and he cant summon it either as the anomaly summon button is completely missing from his quickmenu.

And yes we thought it possibly meant normal station inhabitants but they act normally and are to no help besides the normal stuff they do.

[Defektiv]

Last thing to check.. the parameters for spawning the anomaly used to be 2 hours or a minimum of 3 jumps to get it to spawn automatically. I would try that as a last resort. Because the only other thing I believe it could be is a really old bug that stagnated game progression at that point during Awakenings. I personally had that one and needed to edit my save to force the game stage to progress before the anomaly would warp in. That was a long time ago though.

[Gorbush Creepgood]

Originally posted by Zefnoly:

Originally posted by Surfing the void:

what do you mean signal is detected?

He has this info box in the corner of his screen (the one that normally contains mission information) and it says that "signal detected" from anomaly. And that he needs to talk to "station inhabitants" but the anomaly isnt anywhere to be found, and he cant summon it either as the anomaly summon button is completely missing from his quickmenu.

And yes we thought it possibly meant normal station inhabitants but they act normally and are to no help besides the normal stuff they do.

have you tried the communicator?

[Zefnoly]

Originally posted by Surfing the void:

Originally posted by Zefnoly:

He has this info box in the corner of his screen (the one that normally contains mission information) and it says that "signal detected" from anomaly. And that he needs to talk to "station inhabitants" but the anomaly isnt anywhere to be found, and he cant summon it either as the anomaly summon button is completely missing from his quickmenu.

And yes we thought it possibly meant normal station inhabitants but they act normally and are to no help besides the normal stuff they do.

have you tried the communicator?

Yep. It is greyed out and cant be selected. No communicator signal.

Originally posted by Defektiv:

Last thing to check.. the parameters for spawning the anomaly used to be 2 hours or a minimum of 3 jumps to get it to spawn automatically. I would try that as a last resort. Because the only other thing I believe it could be is a really old bug that stagnated game progression at that point during Awakenings. I personally had that one and needed to edit my save to force the game stage to progress before the anomaly would warp in. That was a long time ago though.

We will try and see if it helps.

[Zefnoly]

Originally posted by Defektiv:

Last thing to check.. the parameters for spawning the anomaly used to be 2 hours or a minimum of 3 jumps to get it to spawn automatically. I would try that as a last resort. Because the only other thing I believe it could be is a really old bug that stagnated game progression at that point during Awakenings. I personally had that one and needed to edit my save to force the game stage to progress before the anomaly would warp in. That was a long time ago though.

We warped 4-5 times... Made no difference. No anomaly spawning, no communication signal, and stil no button to summon it in the quickmenu.

[WaGo15]

when he goes to the warp screen, is there maybe a system with the anomoly ion?

[Hoku]

Hello! I just had a very similar issue, and I'm unsure if it's the same issue.

For the apollo quest line i had to talk to a multi-tool vendor. I was told to go into outerspace to find this vendor.

I tried for more than 12 hours to fix it myself.

Someone suggested I join a multiplayer game, go to the other players system, and then highlight the quest. It resolved the problem instantly. Hope this helps. If you need someone to create a save file on wahtever difficulty you are on to port to let me know and I'd be glad to pass along the favor that was done for me earlier!