JoshuaSlowpoke777

Am I supposed to be getting a companion’s initial commitment conversation almost immediately after completing their personal quest and romancing them?

For context, I’ve been doing Sarah’s personal quest and the latter half of the Vanguard questline concurrently.

Immediately after I romanced her and then fast-travelled, I got the option to commit. Not that I mind, but I don’t know if the relationship moving that fast was intentional game design lol

Last time, I reverted a save, and MUCH later, the issue happened again.

But this time, I think I’ve noticed a common thread between these two instances of the bug cropping up.

The last time it happened, one of the things I did involved doing a survey quest on a random planet with life, with an active companion (one of the Constellation companions, in this case).

The second time, I was on a genetic sampling quest (not spoiling how you get that classification of quest) on another such planet with another Constellation companion.

I don’t know how much of this common thread could be causing this bug, but for those who’ve had to revert saves over it, I hope this revelation helps somehow, wether through general caution or further testing.

Dunno if my save is just borked and I’ll have to revert or what, but I can’t seem to find Barbacoa Wraps (and possibly other damage-reduction foods) in my inventory immediately after crafting it. If it helps, I’m currently on Sarah Morgan’s personal quest. I was a little further along, but I reverted to a prior save when I realized I might be a tad underleveled (and thus woefully undersupplied) for dealing with some of the enemies in this quest. (I just reached level 50). Thus, I’d need damage reduction food to survive the quest, but it’s problematic that it’s not showing up in my Aid tab.

So for some reason, I can’t pinpoint what causes this bug, but it seems like the quest log activity that normally appears when you board a hostile ship is no longer appearing, and that may be correlated with the fact that these ships somehow have no crew. Like, at all. No pirate crew, no captain, just an abandoned ship.

I’m concerned this could be a prelude to worse bugs, and others have seemingly experienced this bug, but also been unable to pinpoint the cause.

All I know is, most of what I’ve done prior to the bug becoming evident involved completing the quests “Exorcism” and “Peacemaker”, surveying several planets, and doing this with Sarah Morgan as my companion.

https://imgur.com/a/vZ86jTb

Edit: I guess Lemmy doesn’t want to render an Imgur link in spoiler text

All I know is, I don’t want to get anywhere near “high price to pay” until I’m done with the side content completely.

In the first main quest of >!high isle!< (dunno if a certain other site’s spoiler text works here), one of the objectives involves reactivating a lighthouse. The priestess controlling the darned thing then proceeds to stand directly in the now-active light while giving you info related to the quest.

For example, why do things like domestic cats and dogs seem to nap and sleep for longer than humans or elephants?

For context, a while back, I started adding a lever to the bottom hopper of a mass smelter.

That way, if I smelt a bunch of things, and then pull the lever so there’s a little bit left in the furnace, I can pull it for the entire value of what I just smelted.

Does that still work, or do hoppers remove XP value from smelted items completely now?