'Infiltrate the Data Link' missions being broken by 'Log already accessed' scan output

AECFXI

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Trying to get myself access to the Sirius system for that engineer. I head over to the Takurua system where there are 3 different Sirius stations and a grab a bunch of missions from all the stations to start banging out. I don't mine or trade, and the only remaining mission type was "Infiltrate the Data Link". Boy they had a bunch of them at every station!

It wasn't a problem to do the first one. It was at an in-system megaship and I honestly don't understand why I was given max +++++ rep for it, it barely took just a few minutes to just scan some log node on the ship with no threat, crime, nuance, challenge, or anything else that stood in my way. It could have been done in an unfitted sidewinder.

But then another one of my missions required me to scan the data link on that same megaship. Even if I turn in the previous mission and close+re-open the game, I find that when I try to scan that megaship's log node I can't fully scan it again and I get the message "[...] log already accessed". It seems I am no longer able to complete the other missions.

If somebody knows a straightforward resolution to this, I would strongly appreciate it. If there isn't a resolution, this needs to be fixed. This can't be yet another unspoken piece of knowledge you need to know about and work around. This is mission-breaking bug and I have good and f'd myself on my Sirius corp reputation by taking out missions that can't be completed and will end up failed.

Anyway, I'll go ahead and submit this to the issue tracker if nobody has a resolution. Would appreciate ya'll voting on it when it goes up.
 
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AECFXI

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Voted, thank you for finding a current issue for this. If other folks could toss it a vote too, it would be appreciated.

Oops, this issue tracker item is actually not the bug I'm reporting. This is somebody's issues with a single mission that don't include my problem with multiple missions.
 
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AECFXI

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I took out 18 missions and could only complete two, the rest are all duplicates of just the two different megaship scan missions. 16 failed missions for the Sirius corp faction. And there are tens more missions for the same two megaships available from the Sirius Corp mission brokers in this system. And this is to get reputation to access to an engineer, not something I can just walk away from.

I keep thinking, oh this is less important than the performance issues they're prioritizing. But honestly, this sucks. I can't even play the baseline space game properly. I really wish this would get some attention and get fixed.
 

ꝁestrel

ꝁestrel
This exact thing happened to me in Sothis/Ceos. I picked up a bunch of infiltrate data link missions, was only able to complete two of them, and had to abandon all the rest. I don't remember how many but was a lot. 8-14 missions or so :(

It's such an obvious and easy to hit bug.
 

sqzbox1

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Known bug it seems. I moaned loudly a little while ago and nothing has been done. However, do not despair my friends. It is actually just a confusion in the game. What you need to do is this - take an external copy of the missions, that is, write it down - system and ship to scan - and work off that. Even though the transaction screen tells you that you have completed a particular system's ship log scan, it may be lying to you. Ignore it. Work from your own list. You CAN still get them all done.
 

AECFXI

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sqzbox1 said:
Known bug it seems. I moaned loudly a little while ago and nothing has been done. However, do not despair my friends. It is actually just a confusion in the game. What you need to do is this - take an external copy of the missions, that is, write it down - system and ship to scan - and work off that. Even though the transaction screen tells you that you have completed a particular system's ship log scan, it may be lying to you. Ignore it. Work from your own list. You CAN still get them all done.
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I'm struggling to understand exactly what you mean by this. Could you explain it a little more?

I turned in one mission, restarted the game left the system and returned to it, all of that and when I come back to the mission-specified megaship again and scan the data log module again, my data link scanner stops halfway thru the scan and tells me "[...] log already accessed". The game won't let me scan it again no matter what I do.

In the above issue tracker link, replication reports are referring to this bug even though this bug isn't referenced in the issue tracker item. Someone said scanning nodes on random megaships that aren't the mission-assigned megaship apparently completes the broken missions for you? I'll give it a try and see what happens lol.
 

AECFXI

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Wow, I can confirm that if I scan the "Log Uplink" on any megaship, it completes one of my "infiltrate the data link" missions. How carelessly was this mission coded??

At least this is a viable workaround. Just have to find 16 megaships LOL.
 

sqzbox1

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AECFXI said:
I'm struggling to understand exactly what you mean by this. Could you explain it a little more?

I turned in one mission, restarted the game left the system and returned to it, all of that and when I come back to the mission-specified megaship again and scan the data log module again, my data link scanner stops halfway thru the scan and tells me "[...] log already accessed". The game won't let me scan it again no matter what I do.

In the above issue tracker link, replication reports are referring to this bug even though this bug isn't referenced in the issue tracker item. Someone said scanning nodes on random megaships that aren't the mission-assigned megaship apparently completes the broken missions for you? I'll give it a try and see what happens lol.
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The game gets confused about which mission you have completed and "completes" the wrong one in the transactions tab. But actualyy. if you haven't really done it, then you can still go there and complete it. The inverse of this is that it leaves as "uncompleted" the ones that you actually have done. So if you go to one of those then you will get the "read already" message. Just keep your transaction tab manually - on a piece of paper.
 

AECFXI

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Alright, I had to visit literally a slight majority of all the known megaships to be able to do it, but I finished 14 of my 16 missions and blew my Sirius rep out of the water doing it - all while defying many people's suggestions I fail all of these glitched missions and farm standing efficiently. It brought me to the Pleiades and I saw many Thargoid-attacked megaships that now has me interested in AX combat!

sqzbox1 said:
The game gets confused about which mission you have completed and "completes" the wrong one in the transactions tab. But actualyy. if you haven't really done it, then you can still go there and complete it. The inverse of this is that it leaves as "uncompleted" the ones that you actually have done. So if you go to one of those then you will get the "read already" message. Just keep your transaction tab manually - on a piece of paper.
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Your workaround does indeed work, but the glitch isn't what you think it is. It's much more general. Any "Infiltrate the Data Link" mission can be satisfied by scanning almost any megaship's log uplink node (there were only a couple megaships this didn't work with of the ~17 I visited). It doesn't matter if the megaship is a mission target or not, nearly any one will do. But it can definitely be helpful to look at other mission targets because they'll tell you where a megaship is and it's pretty difficult to figure out how to find them.

I'll be frank about my general thoughts on this mission: in its current state it should be removed from the game, and it was a degrading abuse to the players to have allowed it into the game in this state. It should only be reintroduced once all of the bugs surrounding it are fixed. The multiple missions targeting the same megaship that can't be completed after the first one except by this absurd workaround. The empty mailbox message. The lack of a colored highlight for the target megaship. The lack of clarity that you need to scan the "ship log uplink". The way you can complete the mission by scanning any megaship's log uplink. Shame on you fdev for having released a mission in this state.
 
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ꝁestrel

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AECFXI said:
Any "Infiltrate the Data Link" mission can be satisfied by scanning almost any megaship's log uplink node (there were only a couple megaships this didn't work with of the ~17 I visited). It doesn't matter if the megaship is a mission target or not, nearly any one will do.
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Damnit. Damnit. Damnit.

Damnit.

Damn.

It.

Also, thank you.
 

Sighman

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Don't take more than one of these missions at a time.

If you take two, go scan a different megaship from the first one.
 

Ingram

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Never do any missions that asking you to put or upload something.
There are chances after you upload or insert mission item, mission server still consider you haven't done that, EVEN WHEN YOUR HUD SAID DONE.
If you have to, upon mission accomplished (you thought), open APEX or galaxy map. If you still see your current location tagged with mission marker then mission server already screwed up. In such situaion if you are doing inserting physical items you still have chance to fetch it back to your backpack, then kill and restart client, you have to play that mission again.
 

Belandriel

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Ingram said:
Never do any missions that asking you to put or upload something.
There are chances after you upload or insert mission item, mission server still consider you haven't done that, EVEN WHEN YOUR HUD SAID DONE.
If you have to, upon mission accomplished (you thought), open APEX or galaxy map. If you still see your current location tagged with mission marker then mission server already screwed up. In such situaion if you are doing inserting physical items you still have chance to fetch it back to your backpack, then kill and restart client, you have to play that mission again.
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It is really sad that this is considered a good advice... ridiculous. FIX YOUR ING GAME DEVS!!!!!!

There is MORE frustration than fun in this game!!! Again and again and again and again..... I was forced to fail SO many missions, because the game is bugged as hell. That also makes statistics absoinglutely useless!!!
 
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Mogen Teras

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Belandriel said:
It is really sad that this is considered a good advice... ridiculous. FIX YOUR ING GAME DEVS!!!!!!

There is MORE frustration than fun in this game!!! Again and again and again and again..... I was forced to fail SO many missions, because the game is bugged as hell. That also makes statistics absoinglutely useless!!!
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I would argue that FDev have considerably bigger problems to focus on right now with odyssey, especially considering they are likely operating on a much smaller staff size than pre-launch.
 

Belandriel

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Mogen Teras said:
I would argue that FDev have considerably bigger problems to focus on right now with odyssey, especially considering they are likely operating on a much smaller staff size than pre-launch.
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That is absolutely right. But I am, too. And that is the sad part about it! There are so many known and very old bugs still around that it makes me mad! Half of the missions are just ed up in some kind of way.

Another example (and I've got THOUSANDS if you like): yesterday I took on a LEGAL mission to kill a known criminal. When I entered said system, someone offered me double if I killed someone else instead, and when I accepted I realized that it was a clean target. Great! How about letting the player know about consequences and ALL conditions BEFORE accepting a mission? Ah forget it... I think that will never be implemented.
 
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andyxeno

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Damn! Late to find this info :( I have just stacked 14 of the same missions to scan datalink on Aquarius class tanker ktf 895 in robigo and have only managed to complete the first transaction. even if i logout and in again i'm told i've already accessed the data link so unable to complete rest of the missions. Pretty poor from the devs
 

myothershipisacobraiv

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I find the fact that this has not been disabled or removed (in lieu of being, you know, fixed) pretty indefensible.

Four missions, four ships.

1 Banner
1 Lowell
1 Gordon
1 Naptha

The Banner successfully completed a mission a day before.

Scan Banner - Log already accessed
Scan Lowell - Log already accessed
Scan Gordon - Success, Completed
Scan Hogan - Success, No change to my other 3 missions
Scan Naptha - Success (not completed before next step)
Scan Banner - Log already accessed
 
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