How do asassination missions work now?

[m0rl0ck]

I just took two.

First one, i was in the system at the appointed time scanned the nav beacon and no location message. Dropped into the the nav beacon and the mission target started shooting at me.

Second one, in system at the alloted time, scanned the nav beacon, no location message, found the target in supercruise, had no interdictor equipped so i just waited for him to drop out. As i was following him, he dissapeared, no wake, he just dissappeared. Scanned the nav beacon, dropped into it, no sign of him there or in supercruise.

So how do i complete asassination missions now, post 3.03?

 

[Hadet]

They just don't. Most of the time you end up fighting a fully engineered Corvette too.

 

[m0rl0ck]

They just don't. Most of the time you end up fighting a fully engineered Corvette too.

I have killed more than one of those and it takes a while to grind them down, but im fine with that. I just need to know what FD has done to the target location procedure or if they have yet again screwed up something that was previously working.

 

[crushdepth]

Assassination has been broken forever.

 

[Werewolf13]

So, y'all are saying that the Advanced Discovery Scanner no longer locates the evil doer?

Bummer!

 

[Mohrgan]

I have found that there might be something amiss with the ADS Honking procedure. I need to test the honk again with a mission, and wait for to be within the listed time frame. For me, it seems, I need to drop in, and scan the Beacon, rather than just honk the system. Once I have some parameters down, I will likely write up a bug report.

P.S. I am very sure, even when I take an Elite ranked mission, that I haven't seen an Engineered 'Vette. Just Dangerous and above, with SCB's and Plasmas. Don't confuse some of the effect warnings, like "Hull Breach" warnings with being Engineered. Many weapon types trigger warnings, without being Engineered.

 

[m0rl0ck]

Assassination has been broken forever.

They were working for me up until today.

I have found that there might be something amiss with the ADS Honking procedure. I need to test the honk again with a mission, and wait for to be within the listed time frame. For me, it seems, I need to drop in, and scan the Beacon, rather than just honk the system. Once I have some parameters down, I will likely write up a bug report.

I was in the alloted time frame and even dropped into the beacon to scan it with the ship scanner, no joy.

 

[Terry Bruge-Hiplo]

I picked up a mission last night, went to the nav beacon and, upon scanning, received two mission failure messages and two failed assassination missions appeared in my transaction tab out of nowhere. It's like there were two alternative targets offered, both of which had 0h 0m to complete, both got auto-accepted and insta-failed. The original mission still gave a destination body, though.

Anyone else had this?

 

[ForeverN00b]

I did 12 wing assassination missions earlier. I heard about the ADS bug but I always used the nav beacon method. No change from before....except half the time the ship I was hired to kill was clean until he fired on the innocent vessel in the instance.

If anything, for me the mission USSes came faster. In one or two missions my target found me at the nav beacon, which was just fine by me (a real timesaver).

I still made a decent grip of cash and g5 mats from the wing missions but the wanted status is sometimes bugged. I can't speak for solo assassination missions.

 

[Finn638]

I picked up a mission last night, went to the nav beacon and, upon scanning, received two mission failure messages and two failed assassination missions appeared in my transaction tab out of nowhere. It's like there were two alternative targets offered, both of which had 0h 0m to complete, both got auto-accepted and insta-failed. The original mission still gave a destination body, though.

Anyone else had this?

I had something similar happen in 3.0.1, I was blowing up distribution ships in an anarchy system distribution centre for mats and scanned one of the nearby beacons. Suddenly I had a message with "Mission failed", which was for an assassination mission I never picked up. It got auto-accepted and auto-failed instantly.

 

[Falcon_D]

Solo assasination missions seemed to be working for me. Picked up 2 before the 3.0.3 patch and managed to complete them with the usual ADS scan method.

 

[m0rl0ck]

Solo assasination missions seemed to be working for me. Picked up 2 before the 3.0.3 patch and managed to complete them with the usual ADS scan method.

The were working for me too then and they are not working now. Have you tried any since 3.03?

 

[CMDR CPT. Boris]

i have been doing assassination since 3.0
i go to the nav beacon, scan it
Then i have an update to where i can find my target in the system
When arrived i just wait a bit in supercruise and wait for the USS mission target

Drop in, deploy hardpoint and kill these terrorists scum

Managed to do one by myself yesterday.. not an easy task (it was yesterday after the patch)

1 cobra
1 aspx
1 fdl
1 eagle
1 vulture
1 corvette

I lost my shield and a bit of hull but thanks god my fighter was useful


I have done maybe 20 of them (mostly with my friends) and i report no problem related to their accomplishment

best of luck cmdr

 

[Dommarraa]

There is now a Bug Report you can contribute to

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...-Location-not-available?p=6541644#post6541644

 

[CMDR Gizmo]

Assassination has been broken forever.

In which regard? For me reliably worked every time .. ( til now I maybe should add).

 

[m0rl0ck]

There is now a Bug Report you can contribute to

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...-Location-not-available?p=6541644#post6541644

Its not worth the trouble, any attempt to fix it will almost certainly break something else. It seems to me that the dev team have reached the limits of thier competence. I think a new lowering of expectations is in order

 

[verminstar]

Assassination has been broken forever.

No actually they were working fine up until yesterday...now theres no more mission markers. Honking doesnt work and the nav beacon scan doesnt work...now its jump in and hope to get interdicted or just by chance actually find them after spending three times as long searching fer them.

They are broken basically ^

 

[galahad2069]

Pre-3.0.3 I always got the mission target message in SC after honking (on the rare occasions when I had an ADS).
Without an ADS I had to scan the Nav Beacon about 80-90% of the time, but sometimes the message arrived right upon entering the system. I never knew if it was "working as intended".

I've done approximately 4-5 "kill pirate lord" wing missions since 3.0.3, and in none of these cases could I get the message without dropping into the Nav Beacon. It never arrived in SC, not even when my wingmate used his ADS.

 

[sqzbox1]

Its not worth the trouble, any attempt to fix it will almost certainly break something else. It seems to me that the dev team have reached the limits of thier competence. I think a new lowering of expectations is in order

Sadly I am coming towards the same conclusion. Stuff that was never a problem has suddenly been broken. PP sniping for example. Also, I don't know if you have noticed, but when they brought back (supposedy fixed) the issue of not being able to effect the throttle going into hyperjump they fixed it on the analogue but not the digital - which is to say, you can use the throttle on your controller but the keyboard is ineffective. Anyway, more stuff like that - it's kinda disappointing. This one here with the missions notification missing is just totally out of left field. How on earth could they break that?