[Bug / Issue] Mission "Bounty - Raider Base" cannot be triggered or completed (GPS inside mountain)

I tried this but it didn't work. Left a bunch of batteries though. lol. Was oddly a bit satisying as well. ;-p

Argh, posted my reply above on the wrong post.

I tried this but it didn't work. Left a bunch of batteries though. lol. Was oddly a bit satisying as well. ;-p

The same thing happened to me - I blew up the entire base. But the mission is still not completed!

I ended up building platforms just above/below the targets starting from the mountainside and placed my warheads on those.

Thanks for this idea. But did it work for you? Did the mission complete?

Unfortunately no... But it was kinda therapeutic. ;-p

I just had to use the debug menu to complete the contract after having the same problems you all did.

Enable debug menu with Ctrl+F12, select Contracts from the right hand Gameplay tick boxes, then scroll down on the left side to Active Contracts then hit the Finish active contract button.

Thanks for that David. Unfortunately I used the debug menu briefly for a pretty simple task and my game started crashing periodically and I had never had any crashes previously or after playing from a previous save file. Not to mention the annoying banner that pops up every time you load a save file after you do it. I do hope they add a toggle to disable the banner in the future and feel sure they will but I know thats very low priority.

I've seen multiple times/places where turrets (multiple) have been stated but I've only seen 1 turret. Could that be the problem is there supposed to be another turret thats not spawning or is spawning incorrectly?

I did this mission earlier today.

The first time I went out to it, it did not complete the first time I went at it, with the grinder and took out the cockpit, batteries and engines of the craft. And the turret. I figured this probably malfunctioned because I pulled the batteries out of the base first which might be connected to how the game detects if it's destroyed or not.

The second time, I just took the grinder, took out the turret, and then sheared the entire platform off expecting the fighters to just slide off and crash into the ground. Didn't happen, it behaved as though they were parked to it. So I again went and just used the grinder straight through the cockpit and batteries and it cleared.

My guess is that the game is expecting you to do something specific to clear it, and it might depend on an invisible object detecting that specific objects are in the grid, and at least in my experience going into the cockpit and just turning the battery off might have not been enough, and destroying it afterwords didn't clear it, it had to be destroyed while powered.

TLDR: Mission Complete. My advice is: Do not TOUCH the Large Battery right next to the turret, before destroying all other targets. Do not disable it, cut power, do not take power cells from it, avoid even looking at it ;)

Long Version:

So last night I managed to complete this mission. As a last-ditch effort I wanted to try what David have suggested, just to get on with it, despite consequences of using debug mode. It turned out I didn't have to use his method, the mission completed as expected. I don't think I did anything different this time, compared to the first time I tried it a few days ago. Because I tried it 4-5 times before without success, I was not thrilled about it and decided to get to the point as quickly as possible.

Parked my ship at a safe distance and out of the harm's way, I took the grinder and did this. Sneaked up from below the platform, though the grates (grinded them down). Sneaked up to the closest container with the lockers inside and some beds etc (look like living quarters), accessed the locker's inventory and disabled (power off) the turret via the "control panel" tab. There is only one turret on the grid (to answer Engineer #9 question). Then I took the grinder to the turret itself and completely dismantled it. I did not touch the large battery next to it, not even a scratch so that the power it supplies to the rest of the base is not interrupted even for a second. Afterwards I believe I went and grinded down all 4 large hydrogen tanks in the back. Then I proceeded with the 3 small fighter ships parked on the platform in front. Each fighter I grinded in the same fashion. Starting from the back and worked my way in towards the front, in a straight line, grinding the 2 medium-sized thrusters (propeller and upward thruster) then whatever is next, I think it's a cargo container(?), proceeded forward and kept grinding including the battery below the cockpit and the cockpit itself last. I stopped there and went after the next ship. When I grinded down the last ship's battery I think that's when the mission has completed. I am not sure but I believe I did not have a chance to get to the last cockpit at that point, but don't quote me on that, I just don't remember at this point, as I was super surprised and happy that it worked, I saved the game and went for a smoke ;)

To touch on what Kisai said, I believe he might have a point with the triggers and power at the base. The Main Battery at the base, the one right next to the Gatling Turret. After I read his response this morning, and thinking about it, all my previous failed attempts (even the first "silent" one with the grinder), I believe the Main Battery was always destroyed or grinded first, because it's right next to the only threat to the player, the turret, so it's a priority target. As I say "first", I mean in the process of shredding the turret with bullets or blowing it up with rockets, this "main" battery is VERY likely to get disabled, damaged or even destroyed. This action, as Kisai pointed out, might break the logic by witch the mission detects mission success or lack of it - failure. And as I recall in all my previous failed attempts that is exactly what happened, meaning the battery was not operational or destroyed before I got the chance to work on the tanks or the fighter ships. Last night after the mission completed I was not thinking much about it, about what was different, I figured there might be some kind of a hidden timer in play, that counts down the time it takes to "tick all the invisible checkboxes off", and the fact that this time I did this rather fast compared to my previous attempts, it might have been that. But Kisai's message made me think his explanation is more "elegant" compared to my theory.

Technical info: The mission was completed on a save that was not "clean", meaning this was NOT my first attempt at it on this save. As I said, I tried it multiple times, and after each time I gave up, I went and Abandoned it at the mission terminal taking other available missions. Yesterday as I was sneaking up to the base, I still saw some Steel Plates at the bottom of the mountain, ones that I did not picked up hours ago, from my previous attempts when I was grinding the whole thing to the ground. This mission was second to last to complete. The other not completed mission at the time was the "Advanced Building - Blueprints". I have already travelled to the next station and after realising few missions needed Gatling Turret to be built, I travelled back and started trying this mission again. Other than that, I did NOT activate debug mode on this save, ever. And I do not use any mods on this save.

Hope this helps someone in the meantime before hopefully it gets resolved in the following patches.

This is a bug that got pointed out in this report already: https://support.keenswh.com/spaceengineers2/pc/topic/55257-disable-the-renegade-base-cant-complete-contract

TLDR: it's bugged but you can complete it if you abandon and accept the mission multiple times. worked for me on the 2nd try, for the OP it worked on the 5th try.

to save time on the possible multiple tries you have to do, what i did was: grind gatling turret, grind the cockpit, storage (was in the way) and battery of each fighter, grind the 4 hydrogen tanks.

with the fighters, my guess would be if the cockpit is gone, it counts. can't say if the battery needs to be destroyed because of the order i did it in - maybe somebody can confirm - but you definitely don't have do grind every single part and piece of armour like i did after it didn't complete the first time.

best of luck engineers

Just saw this in discord from "stonelords"... *WOW*

https://discord.com/channels/125011928711036928/1316082591274762271/1527395182830551111

Ultimately all the bugs/issues with this mission and the previous raider base mission seem to about the strategy taken.

If using a hand gun on everything works, then that also means the handgun is too powerful since that means the enemies would be able to chew threw any player ship in seconds the same way.

The thing to note about the video above is that they did not attack the battery of the base so that means this is probably the strategy the developers thought players would take. Someone who prefers stealth would likely pull the battery or turn the battery off to shut down the turret, and then so the same with the shuttles. But that doesn't clear the mission.

To me a fun way to destroy those ships would be to be able to take over the turret and use it to blow up the shuttles if I didn't have a weapon.

"Fun" ways to destroy the base should still clear it, so my guess is that the game doesn't consider them destroyed in some situations because pulling the batteries "turns the grid off" when the grid would likely have unlimited power while the mission is operational. But destroying the battery first, and then the turret doesn't see the "grid" as destroyed.

That handgun seems like a creative tool rather than an actual ingame thing... no idea but at least i still can't craft it, many many hours after this mission.

About the mission completion itself: i encountered a very similar bug on Kemik many hours later doing a mission (can't recall the exact name) something "renegade mining operation". very similar setup, you have to destroy a smelter, 2 hydrogen tanks and a mining ship that is parked on a platform. on my first run i destroyed the battery first to switch off the gatling turret and then went about to grind down the objectives... did not complete whatsoever.

then i remembered that Marc Bartman (few posts above) pointed out this theory about not touching the battery and that it could interfere with the blocks not being registered as taken out. So i did exactly that, sneaked around the whole mountain, grinded every block needed to complete the mission - while the turret was still actively shooting at me (just run sideways btw, it will miss you constantly) and the mission completed!

so i think my theory about these bugs is now just like Marc pointed out. Keep the energy grid intact while destroying your objectives, otherwise it won't register the destruction properly.

in general, there really seems to be a pattern on these "destruction" missions related to a base. I never had any problems to complete these "destroy a ship in space" missions you get a bit later. very straight forward... you blast them until the reactor/energy is gone and done. (oh yeah, btw, one of the missions stated this even as a requirement - so i guess on the fighters, all that matters is destroying the battery probably)

about the "fun ways" to destroy it... i don't believe any of this is intended and there logically should be many ways to complete it... my first attempt actually stealing one of the fighters and using it's gatling gun to shoot the rest ;)

i hope they can find the cause of this bug soon so all of this is possible