Rumour has it you need a system with a DA star, 85% bumpy planet with 7 Odyssey settlements. The settlement name needs to start with a 'Z' and be on the darkside of planet. The controlling faction needs exactly 69% control of the system and have 'burger' in their name. There is also a bunch of states required and once you manage all that there is a 0.1% of it showing up in a security data port.
Can you tell us if Smear Campaigns are in game yet? Anyone find one with the update?
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Nah, I tried that first week. I think it's something more complex
So you're saying we just need a bit of Push? Domino Green would certainly agree...
This was precisely the point I was attempting to make.
What concerns me is that two rather useful upgrades are (presumably) locked out at present:
Quieter Footsteps (suit)
Audio Masking (weapon)
At this rate, the two most useful mods for a sneaky sniper will be unavailable until after that player has unlocked everything else in Odyssey with his rather unstealthy build, unless he's extremely lucky and manages to find appropriate premodded equipment.
Quieter Footsteps (suit)
Audio Masking (weapon)
At this rate, the two most useful mods for a sneaky sniper will be unavailable until after that player has unlocked everything else in Odyssey with his rather unstealthy build, unless he's extremely lucky and manages to find appropriate premodded equipment.
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Yeap, this bugs me the most
You get an engineer that asks for covert ops, yet the engineer that facilitates this is locked behind 40 opinion polls (where on earth this number came from) then 8 Smear Campaigns - that apparently should be in the game, yet they aren't
Some people ... just don't enjoy a challenge 
Some people ... just don't enjoy a challenge
There is no challenge anyways (not complaining tho)
Not with a G5 Maverick and a G5 Tormentor with Range, Stability and Silencer *()
*( Still undecided about the 4th mod on the Tormentor (wobbling between Stowed reloading and Magazine Size, while scope and hip fire accuracy are also tempting)
)Is this why we haven't found Raxxla yet?Some people ... just don't enjoy a challenge
I have started thinking if smear campaign plans are in game but we cannot find it what might be the reasons.
1. Low chance to drop in data ports. But with the rate that we are looking for opinion polls at least some one would have notice them. Unless the chance is 0.000000000001%.
2. Special conditions - specific settlement type with specific faction state. But then the amount of player going to all type of settlements and random faction state. The conditions should be extremely rare combined with low drop chance. Or even more insane combination of more than one state. Anyone having clue what is the rarest faction state?
3. Dropping only as mission reward given by faction in particular state and requiring high reputation. We should also consider checking missions from Odyssey settlements.
Any other ideas?
I've checked quite a few and not seen anything - others should check though as it's easy
Could be - or low reputation. Slush Funds and Kompromat are examples of things I've only seen 'asked' from missions (never as rewards). And those sound similar to Smear Campaigns.
Yeah, though as you said most states are not that rare - maybe Natural Disasters - but Smear Campaigns only really make sense with Elections, not Natural Disasters. Another idea is that they're only available from active settlements in high security areas (as ppl are less likely to be scanning these). Or one of the rarer government types - Communism makes sense for Smear Campaigns (he says, hoping the mods don't whack him for politics
)There is no point in being logical. If Elite were logical opinion polls would be springing up in settlements in a election state.
I can assure you. I have tested every single combination possible with settlement type and system state. They were dropping before two patches ago. They are not dropping now. It doesnt matter that Zac says they are in the game but super rare. Cause they are simply not dropping as of two patches ago till now. Before yes. Now no. That's after a couple hundred hours specifically wasting my time looking for them again. In every single possible building type and state. Including powered down and powered up states. With bodies on the ground and without them. Smear campaign plans just do not drop anymore. There have been hundreds of us looking for far too long.
If they were in the game currently no matter the rarity this engineer would be unlocked by now. Or there would at least be reports of finding more smears over the last almost two weeks.
If they were in the game currently no matter the rarity this engineer would be unlocked by now. Or there would at least be reports of finding more smears over the last almost two weeks.
Where is your screenshot of the smear campaigns again?
You know the drill: pics or it didn't happen...
I dont need you to believe me when I had multiple people in my voice comms in discord when I called the download out by name then made fun of it. The joke was on us.
And yet despite clearly remembering this you've failed to disclose where you were or what you were doing at the time. All easily available from your logs. I guess you were at Raxxla and don't want that revealed eh?
Y'know... While I'm of the opinion that there is no reason to not believe the devs when they tell us something about the game they made, in this instance there are just too many hardcore players in this community to believe that not a single person would have found an SCP in the last 2 weeks, so when Zac says "...many players..." when actually its "ALL players" are having trouble finding it, you create a situation where people who normally do not believe in tinfoil conspiracies--e.g. like deliberate throttling of player progression without telling the player base--start to doubt and consider the possibility.
Heck I'd even say it be a better thing if the devs came out and said "Hey guys, something broke, my bad, we'll fix it soon" even if it wasn't actually broke but just poorly implemented. Here not only do you waste people's time who believe you and keep looking, but you sow doubt about honesty.
The only fix is that we are told roughly what it is that one needs to do to find one of these, and the moment a single player finds one and reports it (before the next patch), all ill-will and doubts about honesty are mitigated (it won't ever go away, the damage tends to be permanent in a way)
Edit: I guarantee you, the moment you toss us a bone, someone WILL find it very quickly; this community is pretty amazing that way
also emphasis on "before the next patch", we've already been effectively told that 'everything's fine, its all working, just the difficulty setting is alittle high is all', and this is damage control for that statement.
Heck I'd even say it be a better thing if the devs came out and said "Hey guys, something broke, my bad, we'll fix it soon" even if it wasn't actually broke but just poorly implemented. Here not only do you waste people's time who believe you and keep looking, but you sow doubt about honesty.
The only fix is that we are told roughly what it is that one needs to do to find one of these, and the moment a single player finds one and reports it (before the next patch), all ill-will and doubts about honesty are mitigated (it won't ever go away, the damage tends to be permanent in a way)
Edit: I guarantee you, the moment you toss us a bone, someone WILL find it very quickly; this community is pretty amazing that way
also emphasis on "before the next patch", we've already been effectively told that 'everything's fine, its all working, just the difficulty setting is alittle high is all', and this is damage control for that statement.
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