No Man's Sky Blighted Expedition: Phase One: Liberation Mission Bug Fix [Bug]
I ran into an issue where I couldn't complete the Liberation mission in Expedition 6 so I thought I'd post it here in case anyone else needs help.
The bug: Upon completion of the freighter battle in the Liberation mission, the mission is not completed. Subsequent battles at not counted towards mission progress.
My understanding of the bug and the fix I worked out:
Go to the Expedition tab, select Phase One, then select Liberation. This will switch you to the Log tab and mark the liberation mission as active. Exiting the menu, you should get a notification at the bottom right for the Liberation mission. There are 3 cases here that you can encounter and it can be tricky to get the right one so I'll explain.
Case 1: There is no active freighter battle in the system you're in.
The notification will read something like "Keep exploring new systems until you encounter a freighter battle".
Case 2: There is an active freighter battle but you are not in the correct system.
The notification will read something like "The mission objective is in another system". Completing the battle in this case does not progress the mission, it only changes the notification back to Case 1.
Case 3: There is an active freighter battle and you are in the correct system.
The notification will read something like "Kill 8 pirates" and will count down with each kill.
I got stuck in a loop between Case 1 and Case 2 because, though I was being told the mission was in another system, there seemed to be no way of telling which one. However, there is a way, it's just not obvious.
Get a new freighter battle to spawn. The going understanding of how to do this is to wait 3 in game hours and warp 5 times.
If you are not in the correct system this should land you in case 2. Ignore the battle and go to your galaxy map.
Go back to the first few...