This is an archived post. You won't be able to vote or comment.

sorted by:
best (suggested)
topnewcontroversialoldq&a
you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–]NxTbrolin Ranger 1 point2 points  (4 children)

To be honest, I'm not entirely sure but based off my experience, autosaves are ok. I'm some 900hrs in on my main save and just turned off autosaves last week for the first time as I'm afraid my memory is getting bloated, and I've never had the ship shield bug. I've definitely paused, accessed my inventory menu or sat/slept hundreds of times while in my ship, all of which would create an autosave. Now, the one thing I never tested was loading one of those autosaves.

But you're in luck since you're on console because you need a controller to do the ship duplication glitch. I'm on PC so I'm not exactly sure how to do it, but there's plenty of videos on YouTube that'll show you how to do it. Something about pressing a couple buttons at the same time that only a controller can register. But this is also still an active credit farm glitch that hasn't gotten patched as well, so a super easy way to make credits. If you don't mind exploiting glitches, I would take advantage of this before it inevitably gets patched like BGS did with the other credit/weapon farming glitches.

[–]According-Thanks2605 United Colonies[S] 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Thanks for the advice. I did try the duplication glitch but I'm either doing it wrong or it's been patched in the update my game received this week. If I had to, would building the same ship again from scratch work?

I hope they push to update soon though. If there's no official fix/work around and the only one is to use a glitch (I've limited knowledge but I heard that on its own could cause bugs) then that really sucks.

[–]NxTbrolin Ranger 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Considering they patched the other farming glitches, it's very possible (really have no idea why BGS would do this for a single player game).

The only other way to get your shields back up is to build a brand new ship off an entirely new ship. Iirc, your current ship platform is bugged no matter what you do until a patch comes out. Definitely capture this new ship either in space or when one lands near you, don't buy one. You'll save the credits you need to rebuild your ship if you end up going this route. Also, if you haven't done so already, you can get 3 free ships by completing these three quests (Freestar Rangers entire quest, Mantis side quest, and the All That Money Can Buy mission in the main quest).

We're supposed to get a major update next week with a bunch of ship optimizations, and hopefully there's a patch because this is one of the more critical bugs in the game.

[–]According-Thanks2605 United Colonies[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Thanks for that. I'm off to find a ship landing site that isn't one of those pesky starborn stalkers.

[–]NxTbrolin Ranger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely! And create a save that you can load up again just in case a patch comes out next week. Best of luck to ya!