AoW: Planetfall - Es'Teq Code is not no where to be found

[Eelectrica]

One line summary of your issue
Es'Teq Code is not no where to be found

What platform are you running the game on?

Steam

What operating system do you use?
Windows 10 1909 Build 18363.657
Which version of the game are you running?
1.20

What expansions do you have installed?
Revelations

Please explain your issue is in as much detail as possible.
Doing the first mission of the Revelations campaign, I'm asked to find the Es'teq code. It's not on the map.
There are no more anomolies left on the map and the tombs have all been raided. The map is explored. No where left to look.
I could do a doomsday victory or some other one, but the mission says to find the Es'teq thingy and I'd prefer to do it that way if possible.
Have you tried verifying your files?
Yes

Steps to reproduce the issue
Play the game and look for something that's no where to be found I guess.

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[DireDave]

Thanks for the report, Eelectrica. I relayed the bug to the campaign designer; we will look into it! Sorry for the inconvenience, I'm unsure if your save can be fixed for this issue; doomsday might be the better option at the moment sadly.

 

[Eelectrica]

OK Thanks for that. I've kept going a bit further. Wiped out the Assembly hoping that would do something, but still nothing.
After that I got another anomaly which I researched. I was hoping that was it. I built the crystal altar but still not triggering.
I can upload my latest save if that would help.

 

[Eomolch]

Hi Electrica, I have taken a look at your save, and things went wrong already very early in the mission. The main story line didn't progress for you after the "First Revelations" quest, but I could not yet find out why that would happen (I could confirm that generally the quest still works fine though). So the only way I could find out more about your concrete problem is by getting a save game from very early in the mission when you let Hatyl Es'Ran commune with the "Hand of Rhemenses". (before that action completes)

Unfortunately this means that the entire development of the main story in your play through was cut off at an early stage and you got a very different experience than what was intended. There is also no good way to fix your save game, as too many things in the scripting rely on certain order of events or circumstances, so even if I give you the first quest that you missed things would keep going wrong afterwards in unpredictable ways.

Sadly that means that there are roughly two options for you: 1) Indeed complete the mission with a normal victory (not doomsday, which is blocked! But domination or last man standing would work.) 2) Restart the mission. For the story experience the second option would be much better, but I can understand that after playing 110 turns into the mission you may not want to replay it from scratch.

Still, thanks for reaching out with this problem to us! We will try to find out what went wrong here, but it seems like something that is very hard to track down without a save game from directly before things breaking (see what I wrote in the first passage.)

 

[Eomolch]

I took a closer look and I did find out the reason. The quest that you should get after communing with the hand of Rhemenses had a wrong setting that didn't allow it inside the domain of a player's empire. So what must have happened is that you annexed the "Hand of Rhemenses" sector before completing the previous step. This caused you to no longer get the quest.

Sadly this doesn't change what I wrote in my previous post about not being able to fix your save game, but at least I can now make sure that nobody else will run into the problem again. (Also, if you restart the mission, make sure to not annex the sector before completing the "First Revelations" quest, or wait for the next hotfix update.)

 

[Eelectrica]

No worries. I'll keep going and try for one of the other victory conditions then.
One of these days i'll go back and play through it again. After the next hotfix update sounds great.

Thanks heaps for taking a look though.
Cheers.