Devil's Choice - Cry Havoc

brigadooom · May 2013

The part where you're to progress to Incubation Room 2, and destroy the Incubators, is bugged - the console you have to click to blow them up, like in the first room, isn't anywhere to be found. The folk in the incubators whom you are (I assume) meant to save (it's not shown as an objective at this point, unlike the previous room), are non interactable.

So, I beamed up and tried the mission again from the start and found some more bugs.

1) The mission waypoint for blowing up the first group of incubators is pointing to the wrong place. It's saying it's at the south wall, when in fact I'm looking at it against the east wall.

2) Later on, I died, and it respawned me in a respawn point I hadn't yet unlocked on this re-playthrough.

3) I fight my way backwards to the next objective (rig the second pylon) and I'm trapped behind a door I've not yet unlocked, due to the respawn bug in 2).

4) There's a random incubator subject not in an incubator, being super creepy in Incubator Room 2 (Can I have him as a BOFF/sickbay adornment? :P).

brigadooom · May 2013

Five attempts now and it keeps breaking at the same spot. There's nothing to click to destroy the second set of incubators after having killed all of the Elachi in the room and its adjoining corridors.

brigadooom · May 2013

Still borked after May 8th patch.

rextorvan36 · May 2013

so is the defence of New Romulus, it just won't complete. (as in I can't hand in the mission.)

brigadooom · May 2013

After today's unscheduled maintenance I could progress to Incubator Room 3, but the old problem of being stuck killing nonexistant incubators is now in that room. Still stuck.

balordezul · May 2013

Ya I can't hand in the mission either but made it through the base just fine.

fataiityx3 · May 2013

Like the OP I was unable to get through the 2nd door. Waypointed area has no console to shut off the canisters/chambers. I jumped and wall-hugged the whole room trying to find if it was in a wall or in the floor, no luck. Going to restart mission in a few minutes and see if I can get any farther.

locozoco · May 2013

rextorvan36 wrote: »

so is the defence of New Romulus, it just won't complete. (as in I can't hand in the mission.)

I have the same issue with this mission. I completed the mission to the end and have reentered sector space and can not turn the mission in to the contact. I noticed in the mission journal, that there is a check mark within the "Hail New Romulus Box", but it is grayed out and I can not click it to turn it in there either.

And, that fight is WAY TOUGH at the end.

ksbaker · May 2013

I had the problem turning it in at the end. It let me turn it in though when I went beck to the sector block it started in.

I also found the end fight to hard... In the end I was doing suicide runs since blowing up my ship next to the enemy was the only way to do any damage.

rextorvan36 · May 2013

I finally managed to hand this one in as well. Although the weird thing is that I did it by going to starbase 39.

rikerbeard123 · May 2013

RE Cry Havoc,

Yep I've tried it twice, had the wrong respawn happen first time round then in the third room I killed all the Incubators but it didn't complete the objective..(or one fell in a hole in the floor!).

I would add to the bug list above also that the Elachi like getting stuck in the tubes with their victims!!

rikerbeard123 · May 2013

Third time lucky it seems! Only change was I went through the rooms more slowly and less aggressively; after killing the incubators/burning the pods in the third room the door/not door opened!

rikerbeard123 · May 2013

Or not... Having defeated the Elachi fleet my Boff said 'well done, let's leave the system' (to paraphrase) so I left by clicking on the option in the dialogue... And now I have no way of turning in the mission! The Admiral doesn't care that I have ticks next to all the objectives... What kind of man is he?!

EDIT...

So I flew back to AC as described above, Khev told me the fleet was flying to NR and we had to follow them (again) and then the Admiral hailed me to turn in the mission. Not such a bad bloke after all.

gpgtx · May 2013

go to starbase 39 it will complete then it is a bug

thomaselkins · May 2013

I've played Cry Havoc about 10 or 15 times now and I still can't beat it. I'm currently stuck on Incubator 2 because it won't let me release any of the prisoners. They're not highlighted and I can't interact with them in any way. The Vulcan Captain is also missing from his incubator all together this time.

colonelchenchuan · May 2013

wondering if its a spawn issue.

I had a drone one try get stuck INSIDE and incubator. They get stuck in the hallways in the pylon thingies sometimes.

thomaselkins · May 2013

I've seen the enemies and even bridge officers get caught in the hallway pylons. Once Tovan got stuck in an incubator. I just played and failed again for the 20th time so I guess I'm done with that mission until the next patch. This time I hit respawn and jumped forward to a spawn point I hadn't unlocked yet so now I can't go back because all the doors are locked.

mustachemav · May 2013

Still having OP issue

Bump

thestormsong · May 2013

I must have gotten lucky, since I could complete the mission on my first try. However I did have issues with the "release captive" interact button, mushroom people standing outside their incubators, and I also could not turn it in after completing it - had to go back to Alpha Centauri.

argent007 · May 2013

i'm stuck on the part where i have to kill the incubators in the second incubation room

brigadooom · May 2013

I'm again stuck at the Incubators in the second room, which is weird as the other night I had managed to progress enough to get suck in the third room.

cratchmaster · May 2013

I'm having the same problem. After I could not progress in the third room, I turned off the game and reloaded it. This time, however, I got stuck in the second room.

brigadooom · May 2013

I somehow managed to get to Incubator Room 3 again, and while being struck by the same bug, my boffs would sneak through the still-locked door on the way to Incubator Room 4/Station Commander room.

They killed the bad guys at the start of that corridor but that didn't do anything to progress the mission, so I don't think any Incubators had snuck through.

tpalelena · May 2013

I tried it 3 times, had all the problems described above.

Once respawning in the wrong place, at two others the incubator's deaths not registering.

brigadooom · May 2013

Before Tribble went down to patch I tried the mission a few more times.

At first I thought I'd try and count the number of Elachi Incubators in room 2 to see how many there were, in case some were disappearing (there were 20). However I didn't count how many I killed, but that became moot as I got through to room 3 again.

Here I ran into the bug others have been describing, where NPCs, ally and enemy alike, get stuck in various columns in hallways. Dying and respawning fixed that, but still it's better it doesn't happen at all.

I cleared out room 3 at a leisurely pace, but still nothing triggered and the mission broke again. I think I saw two red dots on the minimap - elachi incubators - simply disappear, which my boffs or I hadn't killed. Maybe they fell through the floor?

The door at the end of room 3 is still porous, and I tempted the already-aggroed baddies through it to come kill me, which led to my respawning on the other side of the door, locked out of room 3, but able to progress to room 4, where I could kill the waves of NPCs, but the boss wouldn't trigger (clearly because of the prior objective still awaiting completion).

Also, my shoulder cape things stick out through my EV suit. :P

brigadooom · May 2013

I finally managed to complete it. I noticed the objective markers shifted very slightly when I entered each incubator room, so I started killing the elachi only when I was *inside* each room's green circle. Seemed to do the trick for every room after room 2.

zenthian01 · May 2013

brigadooom wrote: »

I finally managed to complete it. I noticed the objective markers shifted very slightly when I entered each incubator room, so I started killing the elachi only when I was *inside* each room's green circle. Seemed to do the trick for every room after room 2.

This worked for me as well. might be a work around.

hagar3 · May 2013

This is still bugged. got stuck at incubator room 2 twice so far. gonna try what u guys suggested as a workaround

Ok that worked and I was able to finish the mission

talgeeze · May 2013

Incubator kills aren't registered if the current objective isn't to kill them.

taerian · May 2013

I encountered the same bug, and i noticed on the 2nd try that it doesn't go from kill incubators to release captives which allows you to access console for overload to burn the room.

ghostwasp21 · May 2014

did anyone else have problems beaming back to the ship after killing the elachi commander?

i killed him, started the cascade reaction and nothing happened...... im assuming i was supposed to get a beam up message.
i tried beaming up manually but it made me restart the mission.

any advice?

Devil's Choice - Cry Havoc

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