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Anonymous

9 years ago

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Quests with random locations

These stupid quests when you don't have any markers and you have to find 3-6 things on the map and scan/destroy/read datapads. Why did you put them in the game, devs? I really don't understand why wa...

TECHound
9 years ago
A little tip, this worked for me, I go so frustrated by the volatile canisters mission that I almost gave up, but then I happened to drive by the same spot where I found the first one and look and behold, it had actually respawned so I could destroy it again and get one step closer to the end of the task, for fun I saved my game right next to that spot and hit the "Load Last Save", when it had loaded the save the canister was not there, but instead there was a crate with one of the "Mouse" datapads on top of it, I took the pad, saved my game and used "Load Last Save", sadly this time there was nothing there, but I used "Load Last Save" again and now there was a volatile canister there 🥳

So it seems these objectives share the same spawn point and that they can actually respawn randomly at the same spot, after a couple of more saves and "Load Last Save" I got all I needed for both tasks, was a bit frustrated that I didn't get any map location for the stash from the mouse task, but I figure that it might have been because I already looted it at some point as I had already been over most of the map 🤭

I actually use the same method to get all the Nomad paint jobs and weapon mods from the vendors on Nexus 😬

Anonymous

9 years ago

@Elina112 wrote:

Does anyone feel the same way?

No one. 😉

TECHound

9 years ago

A little tip, this worked for me, I go so frustrated by the volatile canisters mission that I almost gave up, but then I happened to drive by the same spot where I found the first one and look and behold, it had actually respawned so I could destroy it again and get one step closer to the end of the task, for fun I saved my game right next to that spot and hit the "Load Last Save", when it had loaded the save the canister was not there, but instead there was a crate with one of the "Mouse" datapads on top of it, I took the pad, saved my game and used "Load Last Save", sadly this time there was nothing there, but I used "Load Last Save" again and now there was a volatile canister there 🥳

So it seems these objectives share the same spawn point and that they can actually respawn randomly at the same spot, after a couple of more saves and "Load Last Save" I got all I needed for both tasks, was a bit frustrated that I didn't get any map location for the stash from the mouse task, but I figure that it might have been because I already looted it at some point as I had already been over most of the map 🤭

I actually use the same method to get all the Nomad paint jobs and weapon mods from the vendors on Nexus 😬

Anonymous
9 years ago
@TECHound wrote:

A little tip, this worked for me, I go so frustrated by the volatile canisters mission that I almost gave up, but then I happened to drive by the same spot where I found the first one and look and behold, it had actually respawned so I could destroy it again and get one step closer to the end of the task, for fun I saved my game right next to that spot and hit the "Load Last Save", when it had loaded the save the canister was not there, but instead there was a crate with one of the "Mouse" datapads on top of it, I took the pad, saved my game and used "Load Last Save", sadly this time there was nothing there, but I used "Load Last Save" again and now there was a volatile canister there 🥳

So it seems these objectives share the same spawn point and that they can actually respawn randomly at the same spot, after a couple of more saves and "Load Last Save" I got all I needed for both tasks, was a bit frustrated that I didn't get any map location for the stash from the mouse task, but I figure that it might have been because I already looted it at some point as I had already been over most of the map 🤭

I actually use the same method to get all the Nomad paint jobs and weapon mods from the vendors on Nexus 😬

Bingo. I found out really quick I basically just needed to drive around in a big circle once I figured out a couple of spawn points and I wrapped up all of these quests on each planet pretty quickly. Didn't even have to load a save. Doesn't mean I liked them though. AAA games have been doing this since before Skyrim. Even though the Witcher 3 is one of my favorite games, it had the same garbage fetch quests. Devs put them in as filler and to encourage exploration - both terrible reasons.
- VladVonCastein
  9 years ago
  Gosh this is so dumb!!! LOL thanks for the tip, but think this is gonna be my last playthrough... 100% viability for all planets now, 2 more loyalty missions, 1 more ark left, main missions and I am done... Gonna be the 1st human spectre after this, am done with pathfinding driving around the dessert and told off by ingrates isnt fun for me anymore.
- Deckard_Red
  9 years ago
  I only became frustrated with these missions after I'd finished everything else on a planet, usually I thought they were a nice reason to force you out of your Nomad whilst exploring a planet. For some reason on Voeld I didn't find any (because I stayed in the nomad a lot) until the planet was mostly clear, that was annoying. I can see their intention to try and reward you getting out of the vehicle, but not having a 'zone' to look for them was a bit silly.
  
  It might be my imagination but I'm sure when you 'completed' some of them it stopped camps of that variety being populated making it a bit easier to identify whether it was worth visiting from long distance.
  
  What annoyed me more was that almost all of them were 'Ryder well done, if you find 3 of these I'll show you a navpoint' it was always 3 times, the only break in this was Little Mouse I think, I would have liked more variety and less formula.