Black box mission bug

Bayard

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Hello !

During my last play, a mission has suddendly be given to me : it was a member of the Pleiades ressources Enterprise, at Moni's Hub, in Maia System.

A guy send me a message, asking me to find a black box in some wreck, in system HIP 17692, by finding signals sources.

This system is adjacent to Maia, and the mission was rewarded with 2,7M credits, so I accept it. But there is something wrong.

When I jump in the system, I hear a message like "Mission objective detected". And some blue lines appears. It's in french, but roughly translated it's : "A signal source relative to the mission has been discovered".
So I take a look in the signal sources : I only have Unknown Signal Sources ! Nothing is blue, or with a mission indicator.

So I tried to use the System scan : looking for low signal sources, I searched everywhere in the system during one hour ! And I can't find anything relative to the mission... I don't know what to do, it clearly looks like a bug : something should show but doesn't...

Any tip is welcome, thanks !

Bayard
 

Bayard

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Thanks for your answers !
I tried to scan the beacon, but nothing happens when I come close to it (if I remember correctly you just have to be close for the beacon scan ?
My guess is that's because it considered my objective has already been discovered... :/
And there is nothing blue in ma navigation panel, except the nearby Maia system (i will have to go back there to finish the mission)

edit : I also tried to leave the system and go back, and to disconnect and go back... nothing...
 

Drelthar

Drelthar
Yeah, seems like some time after the FSS got implemented, the Mission signal detected message erroneously occurs on entering a system sometimes.

The bug is mostly that it just shows and plays the message - the rest of the mission goes fine (this affects more than just black box missions)
 

ebbrell

ebbrell
They only appear if less than 1000ls from star. You need the nav beacon to be scanned, then it show them regardless of how far out they are.

And if you damage one of the items, and only pick up 3 of 4 for example you cannot finish the mission.
If this happens, you need to eject the 3 out of your cargo, and re enter supercruise. The mission signal will respawn somewhere else and you can go pick up all 4 items again.

Missions as normal then
 
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Northpin

Northpin
Drop in the Nav beacon, select the nav beacon and scan it - the scan take some 10-20 seconds and you get a message after the scanning finishes. ()
The go in SC and the mission USS will appear in blue.

You dont need to scan the nav beacon if the mission USS is closer than 1000 ls from drop point, but usually they're farther away.
You can also scan all the USS using the FSS and you will eventually find the mission USS, this time in orange - but good luck FSS-ing a system full of NHSS. Some of them have 200+ NHSS :/

Edit: scanning the nav beacon happens by itself, you just need to have it selected and face it. you dont need to press any fire buttons or use any scanners.
 

Riverside

Riverside
ebbrell said:
They only appear if less than 1000ls from star. You need the nav beacon to be scanned, then it show them regardless of how far out they are.

And if you damage one of the items, and only pick up 3 of 4 for example you cannot finish the mission.
If this happens, you need to eject the 3 out of your cargo, and re enter supercruise. The mission signal will respawn somewhere else and you can go pick up all 4 items again.

Missions as normal then
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You don't need to eject the ones you have collected. They are annoyingly delicate though, I rarely use limpets & scooping manually it's very easy to accidentally back into one or go slightly too fast.
 
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