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Game broken. Probably because of mods but I've been tinkering with it for ages now and still can't get it to even start let alone play. 

Mine felt like a failure because my character is always trying to help everyone, but I ended up with an ending where the only way to complete the game was to either set off the nuke or destroy Far Harbour. 

It all went wrong when confronting Dima about Avery. I initially selected an option about moving forward after what he'd done, but Nick suddenly chimed in with a negative comment, so I changed tack and persuaded Dima to confess what he'd done. Which led to his execution, though my good deeds for Far Harbour also persuaded them to not attack Acadia. However this upset Nick as I previously persuaded him to give Dima a chance. 

So unless I wanted to destroy Far Harbour (which would have been even more out of character), I had to set off the nuke, though I did it my persuading Tektus to allow it rather than just turning the key and running. However this angered Avery and asked me to leave no matter how I justified it. 

I'll post the full solution, it's up to you how much you read.

The trick here to remember is, store any blocks you find in the workshop; you're going to need a lot to just get around the room yourself. 

From the start, cross over into the middle area. Grab all the blocks you can including those that can be taken from the walls. You especially want the one to the left of where you crossed over from. Direct the beam through the hole you can over to the next platform. 

Build another bridge over that way. Now, I think it's recommendable at this point to, from your current position, build another bridge to the left, facing back towards the way you started, and grab the excess blocks from the platform in that corner. Once you have them return to the previous platform, reclaiming your bridge as you go. There are also several blocks on this platform that you can grab. Direct the beam towards the next firewall by adjusting the height of the central pillars and then build yourself a bridge. 

You're now wanting to direct the beam all the way to the right so it lines up with the long redirection thing. You'll have to cross to the top middle platform and clear some blocks. Providing you've done everything right up until this point, the beam should reach it's target and redirect in such a way that it's now changed to vertical. 

You now have to go back to where you started this area.

Once there, face the middle platform. You want to cross to the right from here. If I recall there is a redirection block just waiting to be grabbed. Take it and make your way over to the beam. The trick here is to first destroy the high firewall by aiming the beam up high using the redirection block. Once it's gone cross over and grab it and then go and reclaim the last redirection you used. You can't leave it there this time as you need the beam a bit lower to hit the target on the final firewall. Once you've cleared the way so the beam is unobstructed, make your way as low as you can on this side and block the beam's path until you can redirect it through the gap in the blocks. You want the beam to be only just above the highest block in the gap. Once it's through it's only a matter of using one redirection block to send the beam over the to right of you towards where you started, and then the last one to hit the last firewall. If you got the height rights it should be, if I recall, three blocks up from the 'ground'.

Hope that makes sense. 

The fifth puzzle gave me trouble as well but it's actually mostly linear. I can tell you the solution if you like, I've done it twice now. 

Just remember that the trick with the later puzzles is that you can't expect to be able to place things and then just leave them there: especially the re-direction cubes need to be moved in order to get the beam where it needs to go.