House of Abyssal Ripperdog quest

[andy]

Quest given by Ezzran to collect and health check four ripperdogs. I can find ripperdogs near him with no way to get them in their cages, He mentions a "moon" where they are let free also.
Anyone have any idea how to complete this quest?

[chaney]

Go to the locations indicated, I think they have a specific order which was given one at a time in the HUD. When you get to each place, there may be more detail given. One example: a switch INSIDE the cage.

[gilesey]

It seems that it's important to do things in the correct order. I spannered this quest by exploring the moon and messing with the switches before talking to Ezzran.

Had similar problems with the pirate quest in the desert moon. I cored and took over one of the abandoned POIs that was later used in this questline and spannered that one too.

So if you want to run all these intro quests on the starter moons, always talk to the guy first is my advice.

[andy]

The first time I accepted this mission no waypoint indicator to the first cage was given. It was unclear that the cages were even on the same planet as the quest giver. It wasn't until I reloaded from an earlier backup and installed the detector that I saw the cages. Then I went back to Ezzran and accepted the quest, then the waypoints showed up.

[Commisar Jon Fuklaw]

Originally posted by gilesey:

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That's the one real problem with RE. Following one's goblin brain and just looting everything in an efficient manner is punished by quests breaking. I don't blame RE for it, since the framework it's built upon is in no way robust - the same problem would exist if Eleon had made use of the dialogue system for making POI-related quests without first making significant changes to how entities work.