Can anyone please confirm there are no "ASSASSINATE KNOWN PIRATE: XYZ" wing mission of threath level 4 ?

[shodanx]

Yesterday, after about 500 hours of grinding, me and my friend thought, let's try to have some fun with our favourite ships.

Let's try to do a pirate assassination mission.

And we search and searched and all we managed to find were threath level 8 where we just got destroyed.

I estimate threat level 4 is about what we'd need to have some fun in a wing mission.

But, we never found any. Also all the threath level 8 appear to be somehow the same configuration ? One FDL and 4 vultures ?

Isn't that weird ? Those are procedurally generated missions right ? They should have all kind of wing sizes, different ships, different pilot difficulty, but it seems this is not the case ? They're all threat level 8 and almost always exactly the same ships ?

Why does the game with 400 billion star only have one mission pattern ?

Is there a way to just glitch the engine into generating custom player crafted missions ?

 

[GraphiteGB]

Wing combat missions are scaled But Assassinate leaders, lords and generals are not starter missions there end game content they are not low level missions...

Starter wing combat missions are Kill 45-75 ships in point of interest in a wing these do change ships...
You shoot a single ship at a time in the POI... You start with cobras and sidewinders and work up as a team these are level 4-5..
Lower level missions pay less... Thats how you know tthere easy ones as well as the rank not saying Elite or dangerous on the missions screen...

As Combat rank increases so must the ship and skill of the pilot as bigger ships and higher rank ships show up...

 

[shodanx]

I don't want to kill 75 ships, I've already done it many time and that's not what I want do to, I also don't want to use a bigger ship
I want to do an assassinate X threat level 4.

Can you confirm this does not exist in the game ?

 

[GraphiteGB]

I don't want to kill 75 ships, I've already done it many time and that's not what I want do to, I also don't want to use a bigger ship
I want to do an assassinate X threat level 4.

Can you confirm this does not exist in the game ?

Not for pirate lords leaders and generals no as there end game content... there harder levels as 4 players in a wing with fully engineered end game ships play them..,
Edit So only being in a wing of 2 is a disadvantage as normal..

 

[shodanx]

Ok thanks ! That clears that up, I was going crazy trying to find it, like maybe in certain war states or anarchy systems, maybe the game was hiding them.

 

[cmdr milesred]

BTW, this is Horizons.
there are wing and non wing assassinates.
the non wing assassinates are easy, they are usually Threat Level 4, for me they are usually a weak vette waiting to die.
But, they can and do range from threat Level 2 to level 4
The wing assassinates are usually threat level 6 and are usually a full tilt engineered FDL and 3 similarly built Vultures.

If you want to see more of what the game offers, it has far more than 1 mission type.

To begin, I love the wording.
I have played this game since it started.
I don't grind. I play because I enjoy the ships.

Grind apparently is going to be what all gaming will be known as in the future...
Never heard of a game that doesn't have repetitive things in it.
other than Pong.....repetitive till death, but no grind.


Anyway...Learn the game and surprise yourself.

Here is a hint, missions are based off of many things, ONE is Factions residing at Military Bases.
Almost all Military, planetary bases do is pay to go do kills of ALL kinds.
Soo, many factors will combine or not to dictate what the kills are about, where, who.
THIS includes AX missions.
Planetary bases used to get ignored a lot. Yet they have just as much to offer as space stations, some have more to offer.


500 hours...barely enough to cure the paint on your ship

From sept 2014 to Jan2015(when the rest of the world joined the backers), I put in over 5,000 hours. And not 1 second of it was GRIND.

 

[Tikanderoga]

But, we never found any. Also all the threath level 8 appear to be somehow the same configuration ? One FDL and 4 vultures ?

Yep!
Every Assassination mission I took, all level 8 and all the same config. Open fire on the FDL and get that nuked and jump out.

Shields were at 50% when I popped the FDL, took some hull damage due to their phasing engineering.

 

[Bottom Hat]

There was a trick where you could ram the fdl almost until death, and could then kill it and run, but killing it by ramming was a fail.

There are more complex things than my above comment, but it largely stands. They are threat 6 as River and others have said in horizons. But they are doable with experience and engineering. Try the individual ones first, no reason you can't do them in a wing.

 

[CMDRQuainMarln]

There are wing pirate massacre missions in Horizons for as few as 4 ships. If two of you want to play for about an hour and a half to 2 hours, wing missions in the 45 to 55 range are about right. If you find systems with several factions offering 45 to 55 kill wing missions for pirates in a neighbouring system, one kill will count for every mission so long as you take just 1 mission per faction.
This tool can find good locations for you:

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If you want a location I know works for this, go to Fu Point (Outpost so medium or small ship needed to pick up and cash in missions) in the Yemairwar system. Mission targets and in Selkana. For more credits, you can also find a couple more missions with targets in the same system in at Archimedes Colony in Iburodo - also medium / small ship required here. When I've done these, I do combat in a large ship and have a small ship to pick up and cash in missions. It helps that my home system is 1 jump away allowing me to do this.