Apex Taxi Broken AI/Pathing (Permanently Trapped in Apex Taxi)

Velvet__Crowe

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Hello, and good <insert time of day here>.

So I've run into a bit of a problem. I was riding a taxi to Zhou Genomics, but now it seems my taxi driver has lost their mind and is continually cycling between setting up a landing vector, and an escape vector. In effect, they're flying in circles. They've been doing it for a half hour, with no sign of stopping anytime soon. It's the first time I've seen this bug, but it's also the first time I've used a taxi to go to a planet with rings.

So far I've tried returning to main menu, as well as completely restarting the game.
I've attempted to boot into Horizons, hoping to recover to my own ship, a space station, whatever isn't flying in circles on a taxi. No dice. The Recover to Orbit had no effect, I assume because I was on a taxi, not on a planet with my own ship.

So, I rebooted Odyssey only to discover... that my taxi still refuses to properly path to Zhou Genomics, instead sticking with the high skill, definitely going to work landing strategy of flying in a neverending circle.

I don't know where to report this bug, so I'm putting it here in hopes it'll be seen and/or moved to the right place. And in the meantime... I'm having a friend come attempt to destroy the Apex taxi so I can get on with playing the game, and hopefully that doesn't instantly fail half my missions, as dying is wont to do.
 

Velvet__Crowe

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UPDATE: It turns out that my friend cannot see the taxi, therefore cannot interdict it, and therefore cannot destroy it. So unless there's some magic eject button I haven't seen yet, I'm trapped on this taxi forever.

UPDATE 2: As of this posting, my game is literally bricked. There is no way to get off the shuttle, and the shuttle will not land. It's been flying in circles for an hour, with no sign of stopping. So, if anyone who encounters this bug reads this and is wondering what the solution is... there isn't one. Submit a support ticket. Add your story to the Issue Tracker. Log out. Walk away. There is nothing you can do, and the bug isn't going to correct itself. Your game is literally unplayable because of broken taxi AI.

UPDATE 2.5: Apparently one possibly solution to this bug is to multicrew with a friend, and then have that friend destroy the ship with you onboard. This didn't work for me, but others have said it has worked for them. So this may be a Your Mileage May Vary solution. Good luck to anyone who sees and tries this.
 
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Gendo Ashina

Gendo Ashina
Im having the same exact issue, I was able to see my friend from the taxi though. I engaed the wingman nav lock from the comms panel and when he got close it made the taxi drop out of supercruise. At first I could see his ship and he tried to kill me, but the taxi kept re entering supercruise before he could kill me. Now I still drop out but he only sees my signal with no ship in the instance.

I have no idea
 

MihaT

MihaT
So I'm stuck in the apex shuttle. Relogging to "horizons" does not help - save the game is not loaded. Wrote in support of FDev. He left the AI-pilot to fly, and he went for a walk. I'll see what happens. So far, the situation is hopeless.
 

Wolfmain

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Apparently a possible workaround to this has been found. Multicrew into a friends ship (have them invite you to crew) and then get them to selfdestruct, which will kill both of you. Apparently you'll respawn out of the taxi somewhere. Obviously, make sure the ship is either a worthless one or you can pay for a rebuy.

I don't have 100% confirmation that this works but it's worth a try if nothing else is working.
 

Gendo Ashina

Gendo Ashina
Wolfmain said:
Apparently a possible workaround to this has been found. Multicrew into a friends ship (have them invite you to crew) and then get them to selfdestruct, which will kill both of you. Apparently you'll respawn out of the taxi somewhere. Obviously, make sure the ship is either a worthless one or you can pay for a rebuy.

I don't have 100% confirmation that this works but it's worth a try if nothing else is working.
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I will test that in a few mins and report back
 

Gendo Ashina

Gendo Ashina
Wolfmain said:
Apparently a possible workaround to this has been found. Multicrew into a friends ship (have them invite you to crew) and then get them to selfdestruct, which will kill both of you. Apparently you'll respawn out of the taxi somewhere. Obviously, make sure the ship is either a worthless one or you can pay for a rebuy.

I don't have 100% confirmation that this works but it's worth a try if nothing else is working.
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I can confirm this works!

I could kiss you!
 

Gendo Ashina

Gendo Ashina
MihaT said:
So I'm stuck in the apex shuttle. Relogging to "horizons" does not help - save the game is not loaded. Wrote in support of FDev. He left the AI-pilot to fly, and he went for a walk. I'll see what happens. So far, the situation is hopeless.
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If you can join your friendship and multi crew and then have him blow up it will send you back to your ship. Saved me two days of sitting around doing nothing
 

Just_Zis_Guy

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Wolfmain said:
Apparently a possible workaround to this has been found. Multicrew into a friends ship (have them invite you to crew) and then get them to selfdestruct, which will kill both of you. Apparently you'll respawn out of the taxi somewhere. Obviously, make sure the ship is either a worthless one or you can pay for a rebuy.

I don't have 100% confirmation that this works but it's worth a try if nothing else is working.
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I just tried this four times, and always ended back up in the Apex Shuttle.
 
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