Griefed by player buildings

[DrMauser]

Alright i need some advice on this because its ridiculous. Midway through a nexus mission, some player seemingly built a base around me which i couldn't target through the build menu to report (it said There is no building, even though i was surrounded by walls). The only way to get out was to alt F4 and load back in, which apparently restarts the mission from scratch.

Since players are griefing the mission, i cant complete it. How do i get around this? Sidenote: This playerbase is retarded.

Edit: This is the "Save the lifeform" nexus mission. I've restarted and i'm at the point of collecting the Encrypted Communication Control Unit but the game wont let me decrypt it (since i've already passed this step previously) so i'm now completely unable to progress the mission despite restarting.

[SaD-82]

How...could he build a base around you?
I mean...it takes some time, to build a building. What did you do meanwhile? Being afk? Then the simple solution would be: Don't go afk while doing such missions. Just do them, be on the move and no one will be able to put walls around you.

[DrMauser]

I wasn't afk, i was at the point where you decrypt the unit at the terminal (it looks like a floating Galaxy Terminal) and i was suddenly inside a player made room with 2 other people who couldnt get out. It was literally within 2 minutes as i was in the terminal menu when it happened. If its not possible i would assume some kind of hack to build so quick? How can people build a base that cant be targeted to be reported?

[GAMEDRIX 🦴]

they are using mods obviously, that sucks, try another lobbies ? That's weird.

[SaD-82]

Originally posted by DrMauser:

and i was suddenly inside a player made room with 2 other people who couldnt get out

Somehow this made me laugh hard.
I imagine the other players asking you in a hoarse voice to free them, because they are trapped inside of this base for two days already. :D
It's a bummer for you, I know, but this picture somehow is hilarious.


As for why this happens - good question. Maybe a sync error. At the moment the ODS has problems which can result in some strange results. Maybe this is one.
Or some people actually did discover a new way of hacking as not being able to report a base sounds fairly familiar in regards to the expedition rendezvous points.

As you can't do this mission anymore (which is a bug on HG's end), there is nothing you can do about it, unfortunately. If you could this mission again (and it wouldn't bug out), you could do it at a later time as this usually ends in pointing you to a new spot, based upon real time and other player instances.
You could try it after logging out and restarting the game again.
And disabling multiplayer - this would be my advice for doing Nexus missions at all. Especially weekend missions.

[wkitty42]

are you saying that you didn't look in the quick menu and see the "report base" options? they should have been there...

[Geldric™]

What @DrMauser is describing can happen quite easily. It only requires two things:
1: A weekend event
2: Multiplayer enabled

The way NMS processes information is like batched or queued. So you can def land on a planet & within a few seconds (10-15] have a fully formed base around you that was not there when you landed.

Now I don’t know if it’s due to a slow cpu, internet, geographic location, etc. But it def happens.

It is also super easy to fix, simply activate your quick menu & go past photomode to report base. If there’s a base, you will always have this option.

[RiChuF]

Originally posted by DrMauser:

Alright i need some advice on this because its ridiculous. Midway through a nexus mission, some player seemingly built a base around me which i couldn't target through the build menu to report (it said There is no building, even though i was surrounded by walls). The only way to get out was to alt F4 and load back in, which apparently restarts the mission from scratch.

Since players are griefing the mission, i cant complete it. How do i get around this? Sidenote: This playerbase is retarded.

Edit: This is the "Save the lifeform" nexus mission. I've restarted and i'm at the point of collecting the Encrypted Communication Control Unit but the game wont let me decrypt it (since i've already passed this step previously) so i'm now completely unable to progress the mission despite restarting.

This playerbase is retarded huh

[⚜ Maître de Bredouille ⚜]

I didn`t know someone is able to build a base element if another player is in the way.

I can't really imagine the surroundings, but if you are still in contact with the planetary ground, that at least one Gek gets through, try to use the terrain manipulator to create an escape tunnel

What a crap. Multiplayer really spoils the character...

[Kryldost]

Happened to me once, i had my minotaur on AI following me and the building loaded after I got to the npc. I was able to enter my minotaur and fly out of the structure safely.

[Jananton]

Well, I just had this happen to me with the same rescue mission and I have multi-player disabled always.
The base is somehow "teleported" in when you access the terminal to decorrupt the communication device. I was lucky that I had parked my ship next to the terminal because you can hardly find it in between all those ♥♥♥♥♥♥ message balls that everyone seem to plop down everywhere and that I still have to see even with multi-player disabled. (Hello HELLO GAMES could you fix that please)
I could enter my ship and just flew away, but as said, I was lucky. ;-)

[Know Won]

how do you report invisible base? too many cheats
OFFLINE play seems more and more the way to go. Hello games are trolling / griefers themselves at this point.

[Geldric™]

Originally posted by Jananton:

Well, I just had this happen to me with the same rescue mission and I have multi-player disabled always.
The base is somehow "teleported" in when you access the terminal to decorrupt the communication device. I was lucky that I had parked my ship next to the terminal because you can hardly find it in between all those ♥♥♥♥♥♥ message balls that everyone seem to plop down everywhere and that I still have to see even with multi-player disabled. (Hello HELLO GAMES could you fix that please)
I could enter my ship and just flew away, but as said, I was lucky. ;-)

YES, exact same thing. The base(s) do not appear until you defeat the corrupted sentinels & access the terminal. Then wham, it just appears around you. This was on the weekend mission.

HG def changed how the game generates terrain & bases at a mission POI. So they prevent the base from initially blocking you but once the mission flag is set to return to the stranded pilot, the area is “unlocked” and all buildings are generated

[[LZ]Icy]

I had this happen too , Same place probably , Just walk around inside a lil but n jump around. the walls disappeared after 2 minutes or sonething for me.

[Dr.Abscondus]

Are you playing on the Experimental Branch? They fixed some of these Nexus mission issues with bases there. If not just report it to Zendesk so they know about it. Complaining here won't help. https://hellogames.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000520485-I-have-an-issue-to-report

[Hawkeye]

This is some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ right here. Not playing multiplayer and got griefed by the same ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.
Get RID OF MULTIPLAYER ALTOGETHER HG!!!