I thought that after many Underrail runs nothing could surprise me anymore. This time I decided to go all-in with the pirates as early and as hard as possible – and something weird happened.
Right after starting Expedition and getting the first mission from the Chief, I went to the Aegis landing bay, killed the guards there, stole an Aegis patrol jetski and went straight to the Grim Jetters to join them. Since then I’ve played the pirate route normally: Cleared the Horticulture Center and the Nexus of Technology, and finished “The Rig Attack”. But the professor’s kidnapping and the pirate quest “Interrogate the Professor” never start. Grim has no dialogue option about the professor at all, no matter how often I talk to him after these locations are done.
Some extra info: At the Aegis base, the landing bay is overrun by natives and the Aegis people there are dead, but the inner camp still exists and both Chief and Professor Oldfield are still standing there like normal, as if the expedition never officially ended. So it looks like the “professor kidnapped” event never starts.
Anyone know if this is intended behaviour, or is it actually a bug with the Expedition / Grim Jetters route?
