Anaconda assassination missions bug?

[Elerion]

Hi

I'm recently having problems with 50% of assassination missions.
(I guess after one of the updates after 1.2)

Usual behavior was:
- Take mission
- Go to the first system of the mission
- Check USS (Usually 1 or 2 is enough) and get update from NPC where the target is.
- Sometimes, an alternative was offered by another NPC.
- Go to the target system and find Ananconda. (Usually in 2 - 3 USS checks), or complete the alternative.


Now the following happens:
- Take mission
- Go to the first system of the mission
- An alternative was offered by NPC
- NPC telling where the target is is nowhere to be found. (Often I found clean ships in USS that usualy update mission, but there is no communication from them.)
- Ananconda is also nowhere to be found, and only alternative can be finished.

Did someone else notice this? A bug?

Oh yes... If found, these Anacondas are no longer Elite only, and some are way too easy to kill. (One did not manage to take a single shot at me.)

E.

 

[Faybs]

Assassination missions are currently broken, if you get the NPC giving you an alternative the original target vanishes and there's no way to complete the mission.

 

[Tono Kopec]

This is a known bug, unfortunately

see known issues list

 

[bsnaylor]

as said, they are broken atm, it's on the known issues list.

 

[Zplintz]

It's a known broken mission issue (in case you didn't understand the previous posts)

 

[JeffRyan]

It's a known broken mission issue (in case you didn't understand the previous posts)

Yeah... it's broken.

 

[CMDR Derrida]

Anyone know if they've fixed this yet? I love these missions and it's so frustrating when this happens.

I don't find that they always fail after a counter mission, but sometimes they do. I think in the last 20 I have done, about three have failed, so not too bad, but darned frustrating when they do.