Crashed ships are missing in the recent expedition

[TOURETTETOKYO]

Hey guys, I have a problem, one of the expedition's steps in phase 3 is to fix the crashed ship, but I cannot find one. I search the crash site with the beacon, arrive there, but the ship is missing. All other items are there like they should be. I visited various systems, trying far from the expedition route, but no use. I did like 10 scans and all of those were empty. WTF is going on?

[Johnny in the Clouds]

If you are playing with multiplayer on it is quite possible that unfortunately some crashed ships may have been already been discovered and fixed by other players. It's almost the last week of the expedition and it's possible a lot of players can be online simultaneously. Just for that milestone try starting the game with multiplayer disabled and then go look for crashed ships along the expedition route Just a guess but that could be a reason.

On my PC it can also be very very slow sometimes rendering objects in popular locations, so I turn down base complexity and a few other graphics settings to minimise lag and things. Whether that may help I don't know.

Check too the milestone you are trying to complete is selected in the log and check the prompts on screen hint correctly for the milestone you are trying to do.

[taniwhat]

If you use the teleporters you may also find some players have tagged bases at crashed ship locations. That works multiplayer on or off. So turn MP off as above and check the busier systems (ones on the expedition route).

[Sentient_Pickle]

there's three types of sites a beacon will pinpoint, one has a ship with no NPC and you can claim and repair it, another will have an NPC and you have to fix their ship for a paltry award of one Unstable Plasma, and the third possibility is for there to be no ship at all. It's not a glitch in this instance, just bad luck, but of course NMS has its fair share of bugs and it IS possible for a ship to not be there when it should, I'm just not certain that's what happened to you. Note that finding and putting a brain in a crashed sentinel interceptor also meets the requirements for this mission and the process for those differ.

[TOURETTETOKYO]

thanks, slow pc is not my case. But how I can turn off multiplayer being in the expedition? Is it possible?

[taniwhat]

Options->Network->(somewhere)

I always do that just to avoid griefers anyway.

[Geldric™]

Originally posted by taniwhat:

Options->Network->Multiplayer-> Set to DISABLED

This change WILL NOT magically fix a planet/system you already visited (w/Multiplayer ON). You must jump to a new system with multiplayer DISABLED, then your chances of finding a crashed ship will improve (it's not 100%)
OR
just go to rendezvous five