Earliest I can get into the Cargo Bay?

[meow]

Specifically the area with Igwe.

Is that strictly scripted to only happen at that point in the main quest or can I get into that area earlier?

[Varenvel The Festive Dinosaur]

not sure , but i ignored a lot story across my play , and i got into suprizingly "a lot places" , only place i know you 100% cant get to without story is crew quaters

To others i managed to get one way or another by eventualy getting a keycard

[8-Bit Zombie]

I would imagine the earliest you could try is when you first unlock the Talos Exterior; simply fly over there and look to see if the cargo bay is ruptured and whether or not you can move a shipping container into the open bay to gain access. I had assumed it was story locked and never bothered trying, but it could be possible.

[meow]

Originally posted by 8-Bit Zombie:

I would imagine the earliest you could try is when you first unlock the Talos Exterior; simply fly over there and look to see if the cargo bay is ruptured and whether or not you can move a shipping container into the open bay to gain access. I had assumed it was story locked and never bothered trying, but it could be possible.

It's sealed tight as of Psychotronics (I went to check it as part of the Million Dollar Caulk Gun quest)

[Irantu]

You can go from the G.U.T.S. to the cargo bay via a small tunnel, but the area with survivors will be locked down for the moment. I remember there being an unpowered door leading to the loading bay where you first enter the area after saving Igwe, but I didn't have the mods to force the door open. Then again, the doors leading to the survivors will likely remain locked.

[Woudo]

Originally posted by RipVan:

I remember there being an unpowered door leading to the loading bay where you first enter the area after saving Igwe

Leverage doesn't work on it.

[FalseGiraffe]

I believe that's the door that in a note describes being welded shut, maybe. I also went to the cargo bay relatively early but the survivors just said that they needed me to turn the power on if I recall right.

So basically you can get into the area, but whether it does you any good or not is another question :)

[Breach]

You can't get into the "real" cargo area - where the survivors are - until the explosion.

[peter.tron]

i was watching a youtube guy doing a walkthrough, and he was trying to get into the cargo bay from talos I exterior.

his main station map showed that there was a route, no locked airlocks etc, but he was flying about and there was no indication outside that he could get in to the cargo bay.

very odd.

[SlamifiedBuddafied]

You have to complete a portion of the story to access the cargo bay, no matter what, for the cargo bay eruption to trigger. It is a story required piece to access.