Bug in Support expansion by killing known terrorist?

[Uname654]

Picked up one of those: Support expansion by killing known terrorist Blah

I was told to go to system something and scan a specific land base com blaa blaa blaa.
Went there, scanned, got a bounty on me, paid that off and went to the system I was told in a new text message.

Now I am in that system. Scanned the NavB, been here for a while. Yawn.
Took down few bad guys at the NavB, collected mats and credits for fun until I got fed up, jumped to random system and then back.

If I look at the Mission slip: Currently unknowns, scan required.

Did the same, scanned the NavB blaa blaa. Pew-pew-pew... Few more millions earned, mats collected.

Scan what? OK, so I did the full system scan (D-scan) and then FSS'ed all the signals sources until there was nothing left.

Nothing. "Currently unknowns, scan required."

Logged in/out. Jump, scan NavB...

Nothing.

 

[Vedmo]

I’ve done maybe 20 or so of these in the last couple weeks and had 1 that gave up on trying to complete after experiencing the same thing you’ve described.

 

[the100thmonkey]

It's a bug.

Equip an FSD interdictor, find the target in supercruise and interdict them. Then shoot them.

AFAIK, that's the only way to complete the mission.

 

[Jmanis]

Picked up one of those: Support expansion by killing known terrorist Blah

I was told to go to system something and scan a specific land base com blaa blaa blaa.
Went there, scanned, got a bounty on me, paid that off and went to the system I was told in a new text message.

Now I am in that system. Scanned the NavB, been here for a while. Yawn.
Took down few bad guys at the NavB, collected mats and credits for fun until I got fed up, jumped to random system and then back.

If I look at the Mission slip: Currently unknowns, scan required.

Did the same, scanned the NavB blaa blaa. Pew-pew-pew... Few more millions earned, mats collected.

Scan what? OK, so I did the full system scan (D-scan) and then FSS'ed all the signals sources until there was nothing left.

Nothing. "Currently unknowns, scan required."

Logged in/out. Jump, scan NavB...

Nothing.

Have you tried scanning the various planets in the system? You might have an inbox message alluding to needing to find the target "the old fashioned way"

 

[Uname654]

This is how it looks like.

 

[Uname654]

It's a bug.

Equip an FSD interdictor, find the target in supercruise and interdict them. Then shoot them.

AFAIK, that's the only way to complete the mission.

Find the target in supercruise? How do you do that?

 

[Uname654]

and here are 2 messages, I received.
Scan done,
received the second message and jumped to Maorsi.

 

[Koma Pahu]

It's a bug.

Equip an FSD interdictor, find the target in supercruise and interdict them. Then shoot them.

AFAIK, that's the only way to complete the mission.

Is if confirmed as a big?

Maybe it’s intentional to get you to use FSD Interdiction. There’s nothing in the mission to indicate that - I had one exactly like the OPs on Sunday - but it’s not the first time FDev have forgotten to explain how to actually do something.

 

[varonica]

Is if confirmed as a big?

Maybe it’s intentional to get you to use FSD Interdiction. There’s nothing in the mission to indicate that - I had one exactly like the OPs on Sunday - but it’s not the first time FDev have forgotten to explain how to actually do something.

Done a number of these, never needed an FSD interdictor, they should tell you that in the mission data if it does, like the on foot salvage missions tell you that you will need a Maverick Suit. Many of the time you will get a mission target in the nav panel, sometimes you won't, then you may need to use the FSS to scan the system for an orange USS type mission target and fly towards that, sometimes you will need to drop into it, sometimes you get interdicted on the way to it. But they definitely don't need interdictors. I have had a few that took a while to pop up but they always did in the end.

 

[Koma Pahu]

Done a number of these, never needed an FSD interdictor, they should tell you that in the mission data if it does, like the on foot salvage missions tell you that you will need a Maverick Suit. Many of the time you will get a mission target in the nav panel, sometimes you won't, then you may need to use the FSS to scan the system for an orange USS type mission target and fly towards that, sometimes you will need to drop into it, sometimes you get interdicted on the way to it. But they definitely don't need interdictors. I have had a few that took a while to pop up but they always did in the end.

It’s the first time I’ve had it, and I’ve done a fair few of them. I checked all the bodies etc. but didn’t check to see if they were in SC. I went and did something else, checked in again and then abandoned it once I’d unlocked the engineer.

 

[varonica]

It’s the first time I’ve had it, and I’ve done a fair few of them. I checked all the bodies etc. but didn’t check to see if they were in SC. I went and did something else, checked in again and then abandoned it once I’d unlocked the engineer.

Yeah, definitely need to check using the FSS, sometimes that's the only place they show up.

 

[Vedmo]

Yeah, definitely need to check using the FSS, sometimes that's the only place they show up.

That's the one thing I did not do in the occurrence I assumed to be a bug. I'll try it if it happens again, thanks.

 

[varonica]

That's the one thing I did not do in the occurrence I assumed to be a bug. I'll try it if it happens again, thanks.

Yeah it's a funny thing, if the person you are looking for is associated with a planet that will show the planet in the nav panel as a target no matter how far away it is, but if they aren't and the USS is in open space thousands of ls from anything, then it won't show a target USS in the nav panel until you get to within 1k ls, but it will show that target USS in the FSS no matter how far away it is!