Cannot find pirate mechanic

[Sarkoth]

I have searched the map twice over systematically, which took 4 hours and he is the only character that apparently did not spawn anywhere on the map. I have unlocked EVERYTHING else, including the top tier commanders of all 3 enemy factions. Is the spawn location fixed for "Mechanic Joshua" or do I have to comb over the map a third time to avoid another entire playthrough to get all the surveyors? Any chance he just bugged out? Playing on PS5.

[Muppetpuppet]

Hmmmm hey should likelt spawn close to bannerless/pirate settlments. You have any of those left?

Also you likelt need to have bannerless as your dominant faction..

But I guess since you already have everyone else.

Try restarting the game fully (so no silent hibernation). That will reset the spawnjng system and flush out any bugs.

If not join the discord so I can analyze some screenshots while I look at my code :)

[Sarkoth]

Many thanks for the reply. The only thing that helped was to restart with another saveslot. This time everything spawned as intended and I made sure to drop anything else and beeline for every yellow question mark as soon as they appeared. At the same time, even although I apparently don't get any new events anymore, I missed some of the random events that I had during the first playthrough, like getting the shock lance and getting the lightning defense tower from the mad lector.

Just a stab in the dark here, is there any chance that there is an event cap that is being filled by having all DLCs unlocked? After I got all characters unlocked I flew around another hour for good measure and did some stuff, but the mad lector never reappeared again. The first time in the second playthrough he appeared after already having absorbed the Mancers completely, so I don't think that was the trigger.

[Muppetpuppet]

hmmm only thing I can think of is some sort of bug in the systeme where it fully gets blocked..

Wars will sometimes block events that have certain requirements, like being a near another faction or having a starting harbour exist (if you conquer all, some events cannot spawn for instance).

but gonna have a think, what this could be.. There have been some updates on PC that will likely come to console in january, but nothing that touched this.


all in all it's a pretty complex sandbox, and sadly I cannot "retreive" console save files, so I can recreate your issue and analyse in code. (which sucks) so I will keep an eye out for the same issue on PC, and then see if I can get that save to test and analyse..

[Sarkoth]

Apart from that I really loved your game btw. It's definitely a labour of love and it shows in every little tiny bit.