Starfield

50 Achievements

1000

80-100h

Xbox Series

High Price to Pay

Complete "High Price to Pay"

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How to unlock the High Price to Pay achievement in Starfield - Definitive Guide

Tozi Tiberius

TrueAchievements

17 Sep 2023 10:14

This achievement is story-related and cannot be missed. However, there are some important things that can happen during this mission, so I will outline what can go horribly wrong. This will be filled with spoilers, so you have been warned.

Maybe make a backup save before starting this quest, just in case you're unhappy with the results.

The conditions for the mission's outcome are actually determined before you set out on the 9th main mission "Short Sighted," which will affect the locations of your favorite and least favorite Constellation members during the coming crisis. This part by itself does not determine the mission's conclusion, but make sure to pay attention to where the different crew members end up.

After the 10th mission "No Sudden Moves," you will return to the Lodge to drop off the artifact, per usual. This will trigger a forced cutscene with Noel. Punchline: Constellation is under attack! You now are presented with a choice: either defend the Lodge or book it back to the spaceport and fly to The Eye.

This is the critical step: a party member will die at whichever location you don't go to first. So you need to pay attention to where your most valued teammate is. For me, it was Andreja who was on The Eye. If you want to make sure this companion is saved, go through all of the dialogue options saying that you will rescue The Eye. Then the moment you can move, head immediately for the front door. You'll have two conversation choices where you are asked if you're sure you want to leave. Say yes, then hightail it to your ship and take off. After checking on your crewmates on The Eye, you'll be told to return to the Lodge. Upon returning there, the person you had the worst relationship with will die in your uncaring arms.

If you decide to stay at the Lodge, simply wait a moment until you're told to check on one of your companions. An unwinnable firefight will ensue and you'll be forced to flee to your ship. After returning to The Eye, you will instead find a crewmate there who's given up the ghost.

Punchline: everyone will be saved at the location you go to first. Someone will die at the place you go to second. It's up to you to choose who will be on the potential death roster.

You can control who it is who dies as the person you are closest/furthest to will perish if they are at the location you visit second. For example: I stayed to defend the Lodge while Andreja (my wife in-game) was on The Eye. After going back there, she didn't make it. However when I replayed and instead went to The Eye first, I found Sarah, with whom I had the poorest relationship, dead at the Lodge.

I encountered a nasty bug when trying to fly from The Eye back to the Lodge where all landing points in New Atlantis were blocked out. The quick fix is to warp away to another system and then warp back and the bug should go away (just make sure to unload your contraband before returning, as I failed to do. "But officer, my teammate could have used those harvested organs.")

17 Sep 2023 10:14

12 Comments

Your 2nd best companion at the Eye will be the one to die. Not the worst one.

By Fuzzmeister J on 18 Sep 2023 02:51

I don't think its a bug that prevents you do land on the Lodge coming back from The Eye, It could be scripted

By NickCremonez on 19 Sep 2023 23:59

I couldn't land anywhere in New Atlantis. Then going to Mars and back I could land at all stops again. Regardless, it's an easy fix if it happens.

By Tozi Tiberius on 20 Sep 2023 00:09

Damn, wasn't expecting that, lost my favourite companion (Sam). Ah well, that's the beauty of playing a game/mission and not looking at spoilers beforehand!

By JOHN SWFC on 21 Sep 2023 08:10

It was my best companion who was dead. Ugh...

By Apostle92627 on 22 Sep 2023 22:45

Yeh i lost my best companion too as played through this blind, glad in a way though as if i'd read ahead of time and engineered a different outcome, it wouldn't feel right to me but thats my preference of course

By VOODOO85 on 26 Sep 2023 09:52

High-Priced Toupée

By AllOvaMyself on 06 Oct 2023 23:29

Then are probably all Mission from the person who died are failed? Could be Sam for Me but haven’t finished his Quests until now.

Sorry for my bad English

By Rkranl on 31 Oct 2023 03:55

Yes, you can absolutely fail those characters' plot lines. "No Sudden Moves" is sort of a line-of-no-return for the story, so if there's a quest you absolutely must do, finish it first or wait until New Game+.

By Tozi Tiberius on 31 Oct 2023 11:07

This is bugged for me, I have completed the mission along with the following one but it has not unlocked. Is this a known bug?

By II P 4 U 1 II on 26 Nov 2023 10:17

That ain't the way it played out for me. I hadn't done a single character quest for Sarah and she's the one who ate it on the station. So maybe there's more to the selection, but I can guarantee that your lover will die if you leave him/her at the other location.

By Tozi Tiberius on 01 Apr 2024 08:20

Just a correction on who who the 2 people you can save are. Its actually your top 2 companions, not your closest/furthest. Sarah is my closest who I married. When I got to this mission it kept giving me Sam, who was the person who i spent the next amount of time with. I then did all of Barrets quest line until the point where I could romance him but just stayed as friends. Then went back to start the mission and it was him not Sam

By Richster93 on 01 Apr 2024 08:08

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Isaac P2YCH0

TrueAchievements

07 Feb 2024 03:29

Not sure if this is related.
Warning:
Don't decorate your apartment in New Atlantis until you complete this mission, otherwise you will loss all your inventory in your place(including storage boxes, workbenches, weapon racks, etc). It seems like the whole city will be reset during and after this mission and that includes your apartment. This is a bug I've just encountered yesterday and I don't have a save right before this mission, now I just lost my legendary weapons, factions spacesuits, recourses.
Thank you Todd.

07 Feb 2024 03:29

Webb

XboxAchievements

Story-related, cannot miss.

After you’ve unlocked Further Into the Unknown (20G), you’ll start a new thread of quests, starting with "Short Sighted," and concluding with the epic main quest, "High Price to Pay."

Complete the following 3 main quests and you’ll unlock this achievement:

Short Sighted
No Sudden Moves
High Price to Pay