Read that in the voice of a loving mother who has just discovered her favourite child has done something highly disappointing.
Correcting some misinformation about unlocking Terra Velasquez
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Read that in the voice of a loving mother who has just discovered her favourite child has done something highly disappointing.
By guess is exactly that.
Just unlocked her today and confirm It was immediately after my 6th covert heist. To that point I only had 3 covert thefts. I'm basing these numbers in my Journal as parsed by EDDiscovery: "Mission On Foot Production Heist Covert MB" for 'Heist' and "Mission On Foot Heist Covert MB" for thefts.
I'd originally written off unlocking her and ultimately Odin as 'not worth the effort' but after progressing from "Avoiding Paul Blart and his scans during courier missions" because who has time to wait? To, "Things start going missing around the settlement" and the sequel "Things even went missing in locked buildings on the same day someone let a visiting CMDR tailgate them through an open door (but we know pilots fed types obey the law)" Building myself a G5 suit with quiet footsteps, enhanced tracking and night vision for assassinations, I realised I had all the tools for these missions too. Actually came to enjoy them and knocked out all 6 in one sitting.
I don't kill wandering workers if I can help it though, too much hassle dealing with the bounties. If there's another container nearby, like a catalyst control or something, I open that then run to my target, sometimes they'll agro on the distraction and I can slip away. If not, I just activate shields then aggro them so they don't close the container, then just dance around cover until the door is open so I can grab it and run. Out the door and onto the roof to break their pathing, without the alarms its rare that the rest of the settlement has any idea something's up, and Its just a stroll to the ship.
I'd originally written off unlocking her and ultimately Odin as 'not worth the effort' but after progressing from "Avoiding Paul Blart and his scans during courier missions" because who has time to wait? To, "Things start going missing around the settlement" and the sequel "Things even went missing in locked buildings on the same day someone let a visiting CMDR tailgate them through an open door (but we know pilots fed types obey the law)" Building myself a G5 suit with quiet footsteps, enhanced tracking and night vision for assassinations, I realised I had all the tools for these missions too. Actually came to enjoy them and knocked out all 6 in one sitting.
I don't kill wandering workers if I can help it though, too much hassle dealing with the bounties. If there's another container nearby, like a catalyst control or something, I open that then run to my target, sometimes they'll agro on the distraction and I can slip away. If not, I just activate shields then aggro them so they don't close the container, then just dance around cover until the door is open so I can grab it and run. Out the door and onto the roof to break their pathing, without the alarms its rare that the rest of the settlement has any idea something's up, and Its just a stroll to the ship.
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I'm struggling with this. The text in-game is still not 100% clear, but when I read it it gives me the impression that you have to do a total of 6 missions, of either Covert Theft or Covert Heist missions.
I've done 4 Thefts and 3 Heists (both Covert) as per my Inara mission log, and despite logging, shutting down the game several times I didn't receive the unlock. It's quite annoying, but then I remember I got the notification for Hero Ferrari with a time delay (to the extent it felt out of nowhere).
I wonder now whether the requirement is either 6 Covert Theft, or 6 Cover Heists? Not a mix between the two? This is so unnecessarily frustrating. And I don't particularly enjoy these missions to begin with anyways.
I've done 4 Thefts and 3 Heists (both Covert) as per my Inara mission log, and despite logging, shutting down the game several times I didn't receive the unlock. It's quite annoying, but then I remember I got the notification for Hero Ferrari with a time delay (to the extent it felt out of nowhere).
I wonder now whether the requirement is either 6 Covert Theft, or 6 Cover Heists? Not a mix between the two? This is so unnecessarily frustrating. And I don't particularly enjoy these missions to begin with anyways.
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But if I read @Rat Catcher 's post on the previous page correctly, he unlocked her with 6 Theft missions?My guess is covert theft is bugged (as in not counted), so you have to do 6 covert heists then relog.
Basically same thing as the 1st post
Edit - I just double checked my mission log, seems I've done 5 Covert Theft missions... so to test my theory I only have to take one more. Will give that a go and see later on.
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Oh yeah, post 18 also mentioned missions taken from NPCs might not count. So gotta take them from the terminal too.
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I ignore those eejits with questionable body posture usually, so they'd all be from the terminal - but yeah I noticed that so good to know regardless.
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Done another Covert Theft mission, bringing that to 6. Not a biscuit. Might end up unlocking it via the god-mode method aka the Frontier support ticket
Done another Covert Theft mission, bringing that to 6. Not a biscuit. Might end up unlocking it via the god-mode method aka the Frontier support ticket
Yup, sounds like thefts are still bugged.
Should have done heists.
Just to quote myself from the OP
Its really messed up, but 6 heists should get you what you need and FD have confirmed its only one or the other, not both required.
You could just raise a ticket. Show them you qualified, make them unlock it for you. They have that power.
It's unlocked for me after doing both. If it doesn't work for him after he's done the same I'll send a ticket.
All of this could be avoided if they would just add a simple x/y counter to these requirements when looking at the engineer.
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How do I get a time machine around here?
Agreed, it seems like a no-brainer.
In the meantime, if you use a Journal Parser tool, it makes it easier to go back and filter out the exact mission type: "Mission On Foot Production Heist Covert MB"
I don't think the concourse NPC's have 'MB' in their missions. "Mission On Foot Heist Covert MB" also exists, and sounds like the right thing, but that's actually a covert theft mission.
Remember, missions dated before the referral don't count either.
The lack of counters is just shocking.
Just go read the latest Hotel California thread, you'll feel like you are back in 2014!
Didn't FD confirm it's OR, not and?You will see - this one tends to cause disagreement
Obviously it's bugged but I've given up responding to the comments on my video about this, telling me I'm wrong.
Given no single player has a counter to physically record the progress and whether it works or not (and when it triggers, what those counters are), all we can be certain of is FD said you need just six of either type and that there's a bug with it. No one can verify or test this because no one knows which missions count, do not count, are bugged, are not bugged and no one knows what their official count is when it works.
Bit rubbish it's still not been fixed though.
Well... crap.
FD support confirmed it is OR.
Also it has been shown many times that you can unlock with just 6 of one type.
So it seems like the problem is the counter doesn't count a lot of the time.