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Author Topic: AI core-related tutorial softlock  (Read 246 times)

Ruddygreat

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AI core-related tutorial softlock
« on: March 22, 2025, 09:30:09 AM »

This just came up on the discord - it's possible to softlock the tutorial if you forget to actually take the gamma core from the probe & then lose track of the containers that have the core in them.

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Re: AI core-related tutorial softlock
« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2025, 10:19:58 AM »

The core is not actually required for the tutorial mission to progress, the game just pretends that it is :)
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Re: AI core-related tutorial softlock
« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2025, 10:49:28 AM »

hm, that doesn't actually seem to be the case on .97-RC11?
started the tutorial, rushed through everything, got to the probe, took nothing from the loot window that the core spawned in (is this a meaningful distinction vs just forgetting to take the core?*) & the quest hasn't updated + the person on ancyra just has the "do you need anything else?" dialogue

*EDIT - just took everything except the core and had the same outcome, seems like it's definitely broken.
« Last Edit: March 22, 2025, 10:52:52 AM by Ruddygreat »
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Re: AI core-related tutorial softlock
« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2025, 11:24:09 AM »

Ah, my bad, I misread what you're saying - you need to grab the core to advance the mission to the next step, but you don't need to actually hand it in, so e.g. if you sell it by accident, it's fine.

Edit: and, yeah, I suppose it's possible to break the tutorial this way! But, well. I think there are probably other ways to do that as well; it's not very on-the-rails in general.
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