u/ObjectiveLength969

I ended up finding the crystal completely by accident before finishing the murder quest and the captain telling me that it was missing. I told him I found it before the quest to find it actually started, and the game doesn't seem to acknowledge that I have it.

Am I supposed to place it somewhere in the engine room (It's so fucking dark in there I just can't tell), is there a dialogue option somewhere that I'm missing, or is the game just softlocked?

The latest development update said it'd be today, but I haven't seen anything yet; last update to the default public game version on Steam was June 25th of last year.