JoshuaSlowpoke777

Yeah, now that I think about it, I do carry a couple pistols and rifles on my hotbar, AND another shotgun, and one microgun. Any number of which could still be loaded.

…Yeah, at this point, I may just put the painblade away and either find a gun for that hotbar slot or enjoy the extra carry capacity lol

Okay, another option has come to my attention: I could start actually investing in combat-tree skills enough to go for Rapid Reloading.

Yeah, I pretty quickly rearranged the rooms to put the reactor further back, so I could put a thicker drive near the engines.

That, and I swapped the reactor and drive locations so I could get a better reactor brand without sacrificing a couple engine mounting slots, because I don’t think 3 Supernovas will be enough.

And all it cost me was some unnecessary passenger space. Guess the crew’s sleeping in shifts lol

Kepler-R

I mean, from a gameplay perspective, it makes sense, but it strikes me as hilarious that a companion could decide that they love me in the first place one minute, and after a brief trip from Jemison to Mars immediately start discussing the topic of marriage.

Yeah, being a supposed “heir to the Romans” wouldn’t make anyone “superior” in the slightest. Romans had quite a few flaws themselves.

Besides, I could argue that the metaphorical blood of Roman influence is splattered evenly across the walls of the world, meaning all remaining humans would be heirs to Rome, by that logic.

I question just how many of us, if any, really would give Kotaku articles the time of day anymore, given what may be a reputation for over-the-top opinion pieces.

Oh, I Just was saying that surveying planets in general while you have an active companion can risk triggering the bug (maybe it even is triggered by actual combat with miscellaneous alien critters, can’t confirm that, though).

The quests related to surveying planets or critters are fine, as long as you don’t bring a companion.

However, if you want to try the quests I’ve used for this testing, both are radiant/miscellaneous quests you can get after completion of the Vanguard questline.

I tested boarding using a quest you can get by talking to Commander Tuala in New Atlantis.

The objective that gives you the gene-sampling quest involves talking to a guy named “Perceval” (you’ll know him when you go through that questline)

Based on further testing, something that can happen while with a companion during planet surveying seems to potentially trigger the bug, quest or no quest.

So the companion is relevant, the quests are not.

Update: it seems to have happened again, but this time I noticed something. Both this incident and the last incident were preceded partially by a period of surveying a planet with life, with a companion by my side (Barrett, this time).

I may have even been on a surveying quest the first time, and a genetic sampling quest for the second.

So the common thread seems to be that this bug is somehow correlated with surveying a planet and/or combat involving alien wildlife.

So what seems to have been happening is that, after crafting something with the cooking station in a Stroud-Eklund Mess Hall module specifically, it’d eat the required materials and give you nothing like a faulty vending machine.

But replacing that module with several smaller ones helped because other modules’ galleys still work, as do non-ship cooking stations.

So, just an update: it seems that the bug seems to pertain to the Stroud-Eklund Mess Hall ship module specifically. I replaced that module with several smaller modules, two of them with galleys, and those cooking stations DO work.