Help with escape pod mission.
- Thread starter pikman80
- Start date
Scan the nav beacon or use your FSS and look fro a coloured Signal Source circle (indicates it is mission-specific).
The only occupied escape pod salvage missions I have done were surface salvage so nav beacon scan told me which body - approaching that detected the surface POI - maybe you need to DSS map the body these days - don't know.
The only occupied escape pod salvage missions I have done were surface salvage so nav beacon scan told me which body - approaching that detected the surface POI - maybe you need to DSS map the body these days - don't know.
Thanks for the response. I have scanned the nav beacon, but it never showed a coloured signal source, (from what I have seen). Without that, I can't seem to locate a point of interest.
Signal sources don't show up until you are near them (1000 ls, I think) If it is a big system a FSS might give a better idea where it is.
As para said, it's a surface mission so a planet is highlighted in blue in the nav panel
This is wrong
yeah, well. i do the blackbox/artworks missions often and to find the signal sources:
- scan the nav beacon (sometimes)
- or: use the Discovery Scanner
- Activate the Full spectrum scanner (with me the key "ä", but may vary with country)
- the "signal homing bar" (??) put full to the left to identify USS
- move around the system, sometimes a small circle pops up. you can home in with mouse-left -> identification of an USS (degraded, high emission...)
- one USS here will be displayed in ORANGE -> thats the mission USS, home in to identify.
- After the identifcation back to the cockpit (backspace)
- the new mission USS is in the nav panel in BLUE
Those are two unrelated methods - either nav beacon scan (will reveal which body to go to - will then show as blue in the nav panel) - or - use FSS to scan for signal sources, look for the coloured circle, that will be your mission USS. So the nav beacon for surface salvage and SS - FSS only for signal sources (space salvage).
Sorry if I didn't make myself clear in the earlier post.
Yeah, you were clear. I always played on PS4, so the switch to pc, for me, is a change. I still use a controller to play, but just for flying. Couldn't grasp using the keyboard for doing that. Still learning the key configuration.
I'm logging on now, so I'll take a look again. I'm pretty sure I'll be able to figure it out lol
I generally when available take multiple missions such as locating black boxes and others that are similar. I've found that where as sometimes ones can simply locate their objective by only using the nav panel, and if so, don't bother with scanning the beacon. That if one or more objects in a system do not show up on the nav panel, one must scan the nav beacon. I've found that more often than not, I have to, thus now, I just take the minute and scan the beacon regardless.
In not all cases, but most, one has to scan the beacon, it will not show up until one goes into super cruise. And then it may not appear exactly where one thinks it should, meaning one will have to scroll down through the nav panel to find it. I generally if and when possible, accept multiples of back box or similar mission. Sometime, they will be more than one in a system. When arriving at the system, scrolling through the NAV panel might show one or two, but unless one scans the beacon, then jump to super. If there isn't at least one, prior to scanning, they will all show up after the scan and while your in super. Leaving super will often cause them to disappear, reentering will cause them to reappear.
Ok, so I just realized that even though I was at the nav beacon, I didn't have the beacon itself selected.