BUG: Game not letting me research Astral Rift, says I don't have the tech even though I researched it.

[Tucanan Plantoid]

Title says it all. I researched the Astral Exploration tech and now I cannot research the rift in my territory even when using a scientist with Astral ability.

[Prikkiki-Ti]

If the same scientist is on a council position it won't work.

[Tucanan Plantoid]

That is not the problem. The problem is I have already achieved the research but the game thinks I have not researched it and the game is not showing the option to research it again.

[Bermag]

Do you have Astral Sphere (get it from a situation) tech? I also thought my game was bugged. There are two Astral techs. One is Astral Harvesting which will let you get the Astral rift resources and then Astral Sphere which will actually let you explore the rifts.

[Anti]

I'm having a similar issue. I'm 300 years into the game and have completed eight rifts over the last session, but post-patch (today), I'm unable to enter any rifts *or* complete current rifts. It simply says that I lack the technology to do so, but it's clearly visible in my completed research list (even if I didn't already complete a dozen rifts a few subjective hours ago).

I'll try rolling back the patch. I have no idea why this would (or could) happen.

[veryinky]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3093364827
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3093361244
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3093360869
Same issue.

Astral Rifts broke for me at some point, trapping two of my scientists while they were exploring them for over a century. Game now says I don't have Astral Sphere tech, 15 rifts scattered throughout the map can not be interacted with. Saving, reloading, issue persists.

[Mennan]

Did you start a new game to see if the patch changed some files around and now games using the old patch don't work?

[Anti]

Originally posted by Mennan:

Did you start a new game to see if the patch changed some files around and now games using the old patch don't work?

I thought it was the patch due to timing, but while researching the issue, I found multiple people from 2-4 days ago reporting the same symptoms - rifts suddenly stop working somewhere in the late game, often with scientists mid-rift. Of note, when viewing the rifts through the situation log there's still a green checkmark next to "Requires Astral Rift Technology", so the game still recognizes that the research is there - it's "just" the map where rift tech seems miraculously absent, like a single broken line of code somewhere that's failing to pass the information onward.

One person made note that this might have something to do with rifts that were previously owned by now-terminated factions, so that might be one of the triggers. Perhaps the rift glitches out somewhere between one's save and the next load when the original owners aren't present anymore - like a cache thing, perhaps.

I haven't had a chance to test or start a new game, but it's the only clue I've found. Unfortunately I was playing on Ironman so I couldn't bounce between saves to find a point of emergence.

Hopefully something here is useful to someone.

[Last Ex1Le]

+1

[nosep]

Originally posted by Anti:

Originally posted by Mennan:

Did you start a new game to see if the patch changed some files around and now games using the old patch don't work?

I thought it was the patch due to timing, but while researching the issue, I found multiple people from 2-4 days ago reporting the same symptoms - rifts suddenly stop working somewhere in the late game, often with scientists mid-rift. Of note, when viewing the rifts through the situation log there's still a green checkmark next to "Requires Astral Rift Technology", so the game still recognizes that the research is there - it's "just" the map where rift tech seems miraculously absent, like a single broken line of code somewhere that's failing to pass the information onward.

One person made note that this might have something to do with rifts that were previously owned by now-terminated factions, so that might be one of the triggers. Perhaps the rift glitches out somewhere between one's save and the next load when the original owners aren't present anymore - like a cache thing, perhaps.

I haven't had a chance to test or start a new game, but it's the only clue I've found. Unfortunately I was playing on Ironman so I couldn't bounce between saves to find a point of emergence.

Hopefully something here is useful to someone.

"I also have the same problem playing in Ironman. I hope they resolve it in another patch or something. Greetings
My three scientists are waiting for a prompt solution to the problem, hahaha

[Kharyza]

how to fix this?