Ok seriously wtf? Am I missing something or is this game really poorly designed? I'm doing the affinity mission called the repair job where I have to go on a fetch quest for 3 different items. The game doesn't specify the exact location of these items. Do they really expect you to search the entire maps listed for hours for those items? You can't even cancel the mission if you don't want to go through that. Is this really how the game is designed or am I missing something?
Which items? There are a few steps in the quest. I assume it's this part?
"Use FrontierNav to gather five white cometites."
"Gather two energy tubes from puges in Primordia."
"Gather four cruise deflector AiRs in Oblivia."
Puges are the droid robots belonging to the Prone aliens. You can go back to the site of one of the earlier chapters to kill them and get those drops. Alternatively you can go to the multiplayer lobby area of the barracks and buy the tubes from the console there, I think. Uses reward tickets.
You likely haven't been to Oblivia yet. The cruise deflectors are really easy to get, they're common items from the blue diamonds right at the entrance to Oblivia. Just in the course of walking into where the game says the items are, you'll probably get them by accident.
The white cometites are the worst part. You can only get them as timed deliveries from FrontierNav, from mining sites you have set up, specifically at FN Site 115 and FN Site 118 in Primordia, or at FN Site 219 in Noctilum. You just have to get lucky, every ~15 minutes of active play time (I don't think you can just leave the game on overnight). When I started this mission I already had 2 of the 5 you need, it took a long time to resolve itself.
Everyone hates this quest and gets tripped up by it. It teaches the lesson to always,
always save your game before accepting an affinity mission, since they can't be dropped.
Also...if you had simply said that you were hungry instead of offering to help, the quest would've ended immediately.
