Pickup interface unit - scientific discovery help

[Spags]

I landed at the specified station with mission guidance active, but theres no yellow line pointing me to the interface unit? Does anybody know where it is?

[Spags]

The guideline on the ground seems to appear fleetingly in some places, then vanishes when i get closer, effectively making it useless. The interface unit wouldn't also be invisible, would it?

[xXBulletJusticeXx]

I am currently trying to find the interface unit as well.. BEfore docking there is a clear indicator of where to go. Once I dock, there is a split second where the loacation of the beacon updates, but as soon as the interface (of the game) updates and has the option to stand up, the location beacon just disapears.

I have walked all over the station and cannot find the darn thing.

Does anyone know of a way to reset this marker when in "walking" mode?

[Belteguesian]

I'd try the elevator. The position of the Interface unit should be marked and once you get out of the elevator you get a guiding line to it.

[Spags]

the yellow line appears very momentarily on specific locations on the floor im on, so i know its somewher on this floor. i was able to find it after i undocked and redocked, but there still was no guiding line to it

[xXBulletJusticeXx]

Originally posted by Belteguesian:

I'd try the elevator. The position of the Interface unit should be marked and once you get out of the elevator you get a guiding line to it.

This is false, there is no guiding line to it even after exiting the elevator.

Originally posted by Harvesting Spaghetti:

the yellow line appears very momentarily on specific locations on the floor im on, so i know its somewher on this floor. i was able to find it after i undocked and redocked, but there still was no guiding line to it

I got it to work on mine finally. What I had to do was undock, and then I went to the Specific Docking platform that was highlighted by the marker, and I requested and unrequested docking until that specific dock was the one where they told me to dock at.

Once docked there, the interface unit was highlighted for me and I was able to pick it up.

[Troxan]

I just find it with your help.

When I docked, I can see only 1 seconde the objective on the floor. I docked and undocked until I was able to look under the ship while docking where the unit is (it was for me next to the rear right corner of the docking pad number 4).
I hope it will help the next...

[L1ghtX]

Have to say, a year later, as a new player just 2 hours into the game, this bug was extremely annoying and unfriendly to new players. This does not bode well for the game.

The guide line does not work. I was able to find the objective by flying around in my ship looking at my map to find the approximate location, then landing and taking the elevator and clicking on the yellow bold text location, then walking around with my head looking at the ground.

See screenshots:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2438844783

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2438844715

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2438844753

I have tried docking at different landing pads, including the once specified by icon which changes each time entering station area, and also at the pad closest to the item. Nothing generated the guide line.

Also, the item itself pops out of existence if you're not standing close enough to it. Broken quest/game.

[xXBulletJusticeXx]

Originally posted by L1ghtX:

Have to say, a year later, as a new player just 2 hours into the game, this bug was extremely annoying and unfriendly to new players. This does not bode well for the game.

The guide line does not work. I was able to find the objective by flying around in my ship looking at my map to find the approximate location, then landing and taking the elevator and clicking on the yellow bold text location, then walking around with my head looking at the ground.

See screenshots:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2438844783

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2438844715

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2438844753

I have tried docking at different landing pads, including the once specified by icon which changes each time entering station area, and also at the pad closest to the item. Nothing generated the guide line.

Also, the item itself pops out of existence if you're not standing close enough to it. Broken quest/game.

Haha, yeah, I know it is so upsetting. We all know what is happening and they have not been able to fix this.

By the way, if the object is in the middle pads, you will never be able to get the guide line to show up, cus you would need a LARGE ship to land on the LARGE landing pad that it is "on".

I was unlucky to have this happen to me once as well, it through me for a loop for about 20 minutes even though I knew the work around to fix it.

So upsetting.

[Astasia]

To be fair, none of that happened for me. I landed at a random spot in the station in a small ship, hopped out of my ship, and the guiding line brought me right to it. Whatever issue that causes it to not show up is going to be inconsistent and likely more difficult to track down than just a handful of people reporting that it happened to them.

[L1ghtX]

Is it meant to be a "find the hidden item"-type quest? Because there is nothing in the quest text to indicate that. The quest guy doesn't say oh, I lost my interface unit, it fell from my pocket while docking my ship, please find it. Instead it's just like please pick up the unit.

Ok... where is it bud? In the sewer ditch? Of course I should have known to look there, it's where I keep all my important items.

[xXBulletJusticeXx]

Originally posted by L1ghtX:

Is it meant to be a "find the hidden item"-type quest? Because there is nothing in the quest text to indicate that. The quest guy doesn't say oh, I lost my interface unit, it fell from my pocket while docking my ship, please find it. Instead it's just like please pick up the unit.

Ok... where is it bud? In the sewer ditch? Of course I should have known to look there, it's where I keep all my important items.

Yeah, they need to just code it to say "Get me one of these then talk to me" It should not even require us to pick up a specific item on the station floor.. you can just buy them from the market. Really dumb.

[L1ghtX]

Well I necro'd the thread because this bug is still there, so I might as well hijack it.

Very short story:
I picked up the quest item and followed the quest line to the point you have to sacrifice a ship. So I went back to the wharf and bought a ship and saw you can use crew to give orders so I was like cool I'll have this dude follow me in the new ship and he can come on my ship while i send the new ship to its doom with the 3 antimatter things i bought.

Leaving the station I see that ship undock and follow me, sweet! Then as I go a little farther away I F3 to his view and see him derping around running into the outside of the station. Ok, that's a bug but not too annoying.

THEN, when i switch back to my view of my ship I get this beauty:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2441901966

Seriously WTF, a gas miner has clipped me inside of it, and I cannot get out, so it drags me along with it until it enters warp gate. This is totally bogus. Why do I fall for this early access BS. This game is in BETA.

[xXBulletJusticeXx]

you being on the public beta branch has nothing to do with it sadly.

The base game has issues with clipping when you are not there to render ships. Maybe you could have unclipped if you changed view back to your follower, maybe not. That aside, a lot can go wrong in this game due to the scope. Save frequent, save often, and keep many backup saves

[L1ghtX]

I appreciate the sentiment but I'm not actually in the beta branch. I just mean that I have spent more time learning about the bugs and limitations of the engine than about the actual game in my first few hours playing.

[xXBulletJusticeXx]

Originally posted by L1ghtX:

I appreciate the sentiment but I'm not actually in the beta branch. I just mean that I have spent more time learning about the bugs and limitations of the engine than about the actual game in my first few hours playing.

oh haha, I see. Well hopefully now that you have the bad and ugly, you can now see the good stuff