Problems with starting autophage questline. (Echoes)

[Legolover72]

HI, this is my first forum post ever!
Ive played NMS on and off since release so im pretty well versed with the game. i am however struggling horribly to get the Echoes or autophage quest to show up for me. According to a reddit post you have to;
1. complete artemis quest
2. start running a settlement
3. complete trace of metal quest
4. find an echo locator
5. find and *clear a harmonic camp
6. last, warp to any system, and the quest should start with a comms call.

* not sure what the OP meant by clear but i assume i need to unlock the screen that checks for dissonance spikes. (ive done this 20 times at least) ((already have multiple sentinal ships))

The only thing that i believe is holding me back is the fact that i might have bugged the Artemis questline. I thought i completed these, as i made the final decision on his fate via Nada's special terminal. Now i have two Quests that say "The Space Anomaly"
The first reads; Visit your old Friends, purchase tech blueprints or new base parts, take missions from nexus, bla bla bla
The second reads: Continue to investigate -null-
Share the burden of Artemis' fate with Nada, summon the anomaly ect...

Neither quest will complete, talking to Nada and Polo does nothing.
I found one short thread on reddit where two people talked about this issue, i tried the recommended fix and it didnt help.

Anyhow if you made it this far, i appreciate you. any tips would be amazing! Thanks!

[Nimsosim]

Originally posted by HellRazer:

HI, this is my first forum post ever!
Ive played NMS on and off since release so im pretty well versed with the game. i am however struggling horribly to get the Echoes or autophage quest to show up for me. According to a reddit post you have to;
1. complete artemis quest
2. start running a settlement
3. complete trace of metal quest
4. find an echo locator
5. find and *clear a harmonic camp
6. last, warp to any system, and the quest should start with a comms call.

* not sure what the OP meant by clear but i assume i need to unlock the screen that checks for dissonance spikes. (ive done this 20 times at least) ((already have multiple sentinal ships))

The only thing that i believe is holding me back is the fact that i might have bugged the Artemis questline. I thought i completed these, as i made the final decision on his fate via Nada's special terminal. Now i have two Quests that say "The Space Anomaly"
The first reads; Visit your old Friends, purchase tech blueprints or new base parts, take missions from nexus, bla bla bla
The second reads: Continue to investigate -null-
Share the burden of Artemis' fate with Nada, summon the anomaly ect...

Neither quest will complete, talking to Nada and Polo does nothing.
I found one short thread on reddit where two people talked about this issue, i tried the recommended fix and it didnt help.

Anyhow if you made it this far, i appreciate you. any tips would be amazing! Thanks!

Continue to investigate null. This is what you need to do.

The Space Anomaly is always there.

What I would do if I were in your situation.
Hit Esc and make sure Continue to investigate null was selected in my log.
Then get in my ship and head into space. Scan, pulse jump, wait a few minutes, anything but panic.

[Shadow Strider]

Originally posted by HellRazer:

HI, this is my first forum post ever!
Ive played NMS on and off since release so im pretty well versed with the game. i am however struggling horribly to get the Echoes or autophage quest to show up for me. According to a reddit post you have to;
1. complete artemis quest
2. start running a settlement
3. complete trace of metal quest
4. find an echo locator
5. find and *clear a harmonic camp
6. last, warp to any system, and the quest should start with a comms call.

* not sure what the OP meant by clear but i assume i need to unlock the screen that checks for dissonance spikes. (ive done this 20 times at least) ((already have multiple sentinal ships))

The only thing that i believe is holding me back is the fact that i might have bugged the Artemis questline. I thought i completed these, as i made the final decision on his fate via Nada's special terminal. Now i have two Quests that say "The Space Anomaly"
The first reads; Visit your old Friends, purchase tech blueprints or new base parts, take missions from nexus, bla bla bla
The second reads: Continue to investigate -null-
Share the burden of Artemis' fate with Nada, summon the anomaly ect...

Neither quest will complete, talking to Nada and Polo does nothing.
I found one short thread on reddit where two people talked about this issue, i tried the recommended fix and it didnt help.

Anyhow if you made it this far, i appreciate you. any tips would be amazing! Thanks!

You also have to reach a new galaxy to trigger the questline... If you've never left Euclid, it wont start
(you can return to Euclid to carry out the missions if you want to, but you have to have at least set foot in another galaxy)

If the Artemis path missions are bugged, then I recommend you submit a report to Hello Games... https://hellogames.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new
They may take a long time to get back to you though (took about 3-4 months when I reported similar issues) so you may want to start a new save in the meantime

[gNg]

If you've decided Artemis' fate by uploading/not uploading the Mind Ark at Nada's terminal, you should have The First Traveller mission showing in your log? If so, select it and return to space and you should be contacted by Apollo which will then advance the mission to the next stage. If that's not the case, then this wiki link might help you work out what you should be doing...

https://nomanssky.fandom.com/wiki/Storyline

In order to trigger the Autophage missions, you need to complete The Purge, which is the final stage of the Artemis Path and interact with a terminal at a Harmonic Camp. Once you've done both those things, it should start after you've warped a couple of times - though you must be in your starship not your freighter or you won't get the message that starts it.

You don't need to own a settlement or complete a Trace of Metal.

[Foxglovez]

I f you checked out really old info on the autophages, it did require trace of metal and settlement but there was mutiny in the ranks and they dropped those requirements. Folks demanded end game content, HG gave it to them, folks had a sheeetfit as they wanted end game with absolutely no prerequisites. lol Fun times.

I found that after getting to the new galaxy and after jumping a few times then the autophage quest popped when I least expected it. A combo, I believe of having the quest highlighted and praying to the rng gods one last time in a more threatening tone. ymmv