Sanctuary of Darkness Nav Beacon Freeze

[EJB|Qyte]

In the Sanctuary of Darkness quest (Young Gun start, if it matters), the game freezes for an extended time every time I deploy an additional nav beacon (sometimes for upwards of minutes), suggesting that there is something wrong with the calculation determining whether or not a hazardous area lies between the beacons.

Supporting this, I don't see the connection range spheres for the beacons in this quest, like I did in the similar "mark the hazardous areas" quest in The Void.

I haven't seen any other discussion of this issue, but the fact that it's so localized to this one quest, as well as the fact that the game picks back up again as though nothing has happened after several minutes of idleness, suggests that it's not a hardware problem on my end.

[EJB|Qyte]

Update: I see the yellow circles if I have the quest set to active. That does not, however, fix the soft-freeze (music still plays, mouse still moves with the x4 cursor, etc... but I am unable to change anything in-game, even switching in or out of the map menu. Initially, I thought the map was the problem, in fact, since I would often switch to the map immediately after dropping a beacon, at which point the calculations would begin and the game would lock up).

[LeftPaw]

I really hate that mission.

[EJB|Qyte]

Decided to start the mission from the beginning... no issues now. I wonder how a save could get screwed up like that.

[uni790]

Originally posted by EJB|Qyte:

Decided to start the mission from the beginning... no issues now. I wonder how a save could get screwed up like that.

I've had a save get buggered up once so that the gate between luna and earth was non-operational, couldn't be used in any way, and with no idea when it may have happened there's no way to just backtrack before it, lol.

But yea, that mission is awful, in my own playthrough I ended up using a destroyer with 100 beacons and a lot of orders and completed it out of sector(also while afk), you could easily just follow the line of beacons they were so close together, lol

[EXPLODENSTEIN]

I had a save where no hostiles would attack. As fun as it was that I was able to clean out a whole Xenon sector without a fight, I reloaded a previous save and deleted the Xenon one.