Waterfall Expedition beacon needs repair

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beacon needs to be repaired. played the mission... made it to the waterfall & got told to build the platform. but the beacon is ther on the hotbar & instead of deploy, it says repair. i thought maybe fell too hard & broke it. So i dropped it & checked the crate for a new 1.... empty.

tried it a 2nd time. the beacon needs repair as soon as i got it from the crate. so i went to the waterfall again, thinking i must be missing something. Same thing.

so i checked the walkthroughs & forums. nobody else seems to have this issue.

Under consideration Missions Suggested by: gvegas (03 Jan, '22) • Upvoted: 03 May, '22 • Comments: 5

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26 Mar, '22
BeepBeeps
I have over 525 hours in this game. Icarus is a broken game. Especially for Solo Players. During the Waterfall Expedition the component that was to be deployed was damaged by lighting. It and I were struck after removing it from the create. instead of Deploy, it now said Repair. After Teching up to Tier 4 and making a new one in the crafting bench. The new one also needs repair. On the subject of the Repair Bench, you need a Talent for it and this game is already stingy on Talent Points. This is the second attempt at this mission. The first time the device just disappeared. This also has happened to me in several other missions. The disappearing Device Dilemma. If the servers cannot make the necessary adjustments to remember my game. Or adjust to its own gameplay. ( If the AI feels it is necessary to break a device, I should have the opportunity to repair or replace it.) I am thinking I really do not want to play this anymore. Too many things go wrong in this game that I have no con
26 May, '22
Fangbracken
Had the same issue today. Picked up the beacon, and from the very first it would not go in the backpack G slot, instead just a regular slot, and 'deploy' was not an option.
26 May, '22
Fangbracken
I left the previous mission by dropship, and attempted Waterfall Expedition again. Same thing, the very first time I get to pick up the beacon, it is broken and undeployable.
28 May, '22
Fangbracken
I finally figured it out. The videos I had watched were from when the beacon only fit in the backpack slot, which threw me off. Also, the beacon doesn't have the usual 'deploy' option. You have to put the beacon in one of your 10 slots and then use it.
04 Jul, '22
Kat C
Thank you Fangbracken... you helped solve a problem with the beacon for the Waterfall Expedition mission that was driving me crazy. I'd read a gaming guide that said I needed to drag it to my G-slot but I couldn't do it. The beacon would only go into my inventory, and my partner had tried to do this mission too but had been unable to deploy the beacon from his inventory when he got to the location. After reading your suggestion I placed the beacon on one of the keys on my hotbar and was able to easily place it onto a wooden floor that I'd set up on the rock at the river location. It worked perfectly and so again, thank you so much!!