Nah... what you described just then sounds exactly like a spec ops mission... either that or an anarchy "massacre tourists" mission.This was wet work.
Like I said, in my experience they tend to involve chasing a fleet of Belugas and Orca from one POI to the next, until you've exploded something like 20 of them.
Thing that irritates me is that they (admittedly, quite justifiably) all try to flee when you show up so you have about 30 seconds to whack as many as possible before they all vanish, and then you have to schlepp to the next POI and do it all again.
Usually good pay and lots of mat's, but the flying from POI to POI (usually on opposite sides of the system) is a PITA.
Not entirely sure I've ever done a Spec Ops mission.
Do they require you to do stuff like scan a surface datapoint to get the target's location?
If so, I've always thought that was too much of a faff, so I give them a miss.
Nah... what you described just then sounds exactly like a spec ops mission... either that or an anarchy "massacre tourists" mission.
I'd explain spec ops, but you just did... chase tourist ships between poi's and kill 20+ of then, for 30-40m credits.
The surface scan ones you mention are "urgent kill order for known terrorist" missions, and yeah, waste of time for the reward because it's naively two missions in one.
Sec, I'll grab some screenshots of wetwork and spec ops.... once my client updates...
So... wetworks (a lot >.>)... these are all for single targets. I've no idea why the surface icon is there, these never actually send you to the surface (grabbed one and verified, target system for the one I took doesn't even have landable planets)
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Of course, there's no spec ops missions on the board right now![]()
Ugh, finally. Spec Ops spawned...I was only assuming it was one of those "chase a fleet of ships around a system" because of how much it was paying.
For Cr45m, it must be some kind of "massacre" mission, rather than a single target, right?
The blurb did have the warning about "these activities are considered illegal in most systems", whereas (IIRC) spec-ops missions say something like "attacking your targets for the duration of this mission will not incur notoriety", so I'm almost certain it was a Wet Work mission.
Ugh, finally. Spec Ops spawned...
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Fly to the system and you get:
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So, you go to the system, and it updates with the targets. It functions just like a massacre, except none of the targets are wanted, and you won't gain notoriety for kills.
Meanwhile Wetwork, you get to the system and you get an update of who the assassination target is. It doesn't say you won't gain notoriety, but if you only kill the target, you won't.
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It's possible you saw a Spec Ops mission with a government/stateful flavour text that included the term "Wetwork"... but outside that, it's generally wetwork = illegal assassination, spec ops = illegal massacre.
Nope, unless you kill non-targets.Do we get notoriety from Spec ops / wetwork missions?
Do we get notoriety from Spec ops / wetwork missions?
Do we get notoriety from Spec ops / wetwork missions?