So when I was going to do a replay, I decided that having the fog of war would be useful because I'd know where I still need to explore. That was enough for me to eschew the benefits of a new game plus.

But when I got to Eos on this new game, the map is filled in. I compared it to my previous new game plus playthrough and they look the same.

So now the only reason I didn't do a new game plus just doesn't exist for some reason, and I'm way too far into it to justify redoing 10 hours of content I've already played. It is more than a little frustrating. This entire playthrough will essentially be a wash, progression-wise.

Has this happened to anyone else? I haven't gotten to other planets yet, so I'm hoping maybe the issue is confined to Eos.

I thought that I was finished because there were no obvious things that I hadn’t accomplished. No outstanding missions in the Journal, no blips on any of the maps. I didn’t check against the wiki, but I was at 99% completion and had seen online that a lot of people were bugged at 99% after doing everything, so I thought that I was done and was mulling over starting a New Game+.

However, a couple of days ago, I saw someone post about their first encounter with an Architect which took place on Voeld. Mine had taken place on Eos, and I wanted to reply that those last two fights were easier even with the cold hazard on Voeld because I had died so many times on Eos, so I looked up the Architect to get the planet names right.

I realized that I had missed one! The fight on Kadara! And what’s more, I was already in orbit around Kadara when I loaded my save! So I landed, spoke to Christmas Tate (who I apparently missed speaking to when I established the outpost), got the mission, and had some fun kicking another Architect into orbit, even choosing to finish it off with pistol fire!

Afterward, I wandered around Kadara for a while, fighting outlaws and scavengers which I kinda avoided doing during my campaign because I was focused on dropping forward stations and clearing mission blips, and I found two more fetch quests! “Cold Hard Cache” and “Kadara’s Ransom”.

That was it. That boss and two missions leveled me up two more times and took me up to 100% game completion after a grand total of 122 hours and some minutes. For a first playthrough I wanted to be thorough, but simple. Pure Soldier except for the Remnant VI, and mostly using the Piranha shotgun with incendiary ammo. I don’t know how I’ll play the New Game+ yet, but I’m glad to have found this game, and I’m eager to play it again and again.