Frustrated with Contagion Mission

You have to travel to about the middle of the map, there is a crossing, take the road that leads north. Its very steep and you'll have to use 6x6.
Just follow the roads, the gray lines on the map.

Also, that mission really sucked. 

You can drive there.
Is there an issue with following the map marker on the screen?

Assuming you're on Console, the stick press is so handy.

Fucking THIS^

Contagion is probably the worst bait and switch "seems important" side mission.

Shouldn't this be in the spoiler section?

So, maybe I am missing something but I didn't have a problem with this at all.

1. The disease (frogot the name) has 3 stages, the first has symptoms like cryo sickness, which are not very severe (Ryder had those probably even during the first mission). The second stage makes you paranoid but not necessarily physically sick. The third is where Becker is when we meet her. At that time, she was already on the shuttle.
2. When I talked first to Cpt. Dunn and then to Harry (that his name? The Doc anyway) and they brief me on the situation, I got the feeling that this happened a while ago already. I mean, Charlie apparently revived her, sent her on her way and then they still had to find out about the whole disease (which they mistook for cryo sickness at first), then they needed to contact Ryder, then I needed to get there, be briefed and so on. When we take the scans in the docking area, what we see could be hours or even days past. IIRC, nowhere is it mentioned that this just happened (and SAM seems to be able to generate very old scenes through the scanner somehow, as evidenced by
So, Becker may have had quite the head start on the Tempest, even when we start playing catch up.
3. Security: Security seems to be exceptionally light on the Nexus. Basically, everyone there seems to be trusted (which is very weird after the uprising). This can be seen not just in this quest but all throughout the game
And we don't really know what Becker's official function in the initiative was (or what Charlie the idiot set her up with). So it's not implausible that she could get a shuttle.

What I find more outrageous about this quest is how stupid Charlie was for apparently setting his aunt up for the initiative behind the authorities backs (which even might be understandable) but WITHOUT then running all the proper tests himself at least. He even works in a medical profession, he should really know better.

But that's just in line with the general stupidity of all characters in this game. IMO, everyone who signed up for the Andromeda Initiative is a grade A idiot (Ryder included), so I have come to terms with these sorts of things a long time ago.
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Space magic

Oh that's right, forgot about that guy. Well, at least in my case, it wasn't a problem, since I went to a few other systems before catching up to her.

But yes, Kodiaks do have FTL drives. You can see it after the ME2 prologue, when Shepard, Miranda and Jacob leave the Lazarus station in a shuttle and fly to Minuteman Station.



Why not? Well, at first, I wanted to see if I could help out the OP but since that was already resolved and I saw your post, I just thought I'd give my perspective.

There is more quest like this, both Turian Ark and Asari is spreading their pods and shuttles all over the place, but only on planets where they are habital. Some of the planet system scanning should have been also good place to dump, dead people in pods, no we take a detour to Elaaden then dump shit there and drive all the way back to our habital of choice;)

Easily done by suspension of belief.

Thanks Melbella, Beetle and Serza. I will go now and (with copious amounts of coffee) see if I can find this road through. And sofajockey - the problem with the map marker is me. And the fact it kept taking me off the map. I don't even get Joker telling me I've gone too far and should turn around. But larval form of Shepard is nothing if not persistent so we will continue together.

I despise this mission and I've done it twice. But start at the OUTPOST head North/Northwest. It's a little drive but not ridiculously long. It's just over a large ridge. There will be a small encampment/House, whatever you want to call it on the right if your coming from the South., which you should be.

But this mission needs to go away. I don't like it.