Starfield modders fix Terran Armada progress blocker bug that punishes you for visiting one particular space station

It's been Terran people's enjoyment of the updates apart

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A quest-breaking bug has been stopping some Starfield players from progressing in the Terran Armada DLC Bethesda released earlier this month, but thankfully there's a now a mod offering a headache-free fix for it. The issue, which sees your Terran Armada quest progression locked around the time of a mission dubbed 'Into the Void', looks to be caused by simply having paid an early visit to a space station from the Free Lanes update that dropped alongside the DLC.

As a number of players on the likes of Steam and Reddit have reported over the past couple of weeks, this progression blocker early in Terran Armada appears to affect only those who've visited Anchorpoint Station prior to starting the DLC. According to one affected player, the result is that you're subsequently unable to tell a barkeep a codephrase during 'Into the Void', and thus end up softlocked, but at least stuck with a robot companion who'll listen to any moaning you need to get off your chest.

While some potential workarounds using console commands have been worked out, modder EgoBallistic has taken it upon themselves to put out a proper fix folks can use until Bethesda release an official one. Their creation, simply dubbed Into the Void Bug Fix, "fixes the conditions" on the quest in order to ensure it triggers properly regardless of any Anchorpoint side questing you've done. It should even retroactively fix saves in which you've already encountered the issue, setting 'Into the Void' running the moment you load in if it detects that should be the case.

As for the technical specifics behind the bug, EgoBallistic explains:

The 'Into the Void' quest has two mandatory location aliases that are not flagged as 'Allow Reserved'. It appears that at least one of the side quests in Anchorpoint reserves one of those locations. This can cause 'Into the Void' to fail to start. This patch changes the flags on those aliases to 'Allow Reserved' so the quest will start regardless. It also includes a script that fixes the bug retroactively. If 'Lost Luxury' was completed, and 'Into the Void' is both not running and has not been completed, it will start the quest.

The mod's free of requirements aside from the Terran Armada DLC itself, though EgoBallistic does reccomend you install it using a mod manager. The uptick in attention that's come with both this second DLC and Free Lanes looks to have been a boon for Starfield's modding scene so far, even if things are still lagging behind the RPG's massively modded siblings Skyrim and Fallout 4.