Guide / Tutorial Need help with Assination mission - Cook Terminal +

[aioun]

Hey all,
I've recently built myself a new fighter that I love (Krait MK), and took on my first assisnation mission to kill "Salacious" at Cook Terminal +. I'm supposed to "Interact with the hub access terminal datalink at Cook Terminal + to find your targets location."

Ok, so the only terminals I've ever interracted with, are on planets at a data access terminal. Cook Terminal is a civilian outpost. I can't find any terminal to interact with or scan or anything.
1) Am I at the wrong place? Is there some settlement called Cook Terminal + that I can't find?
2) is there some way to scan a station, or a module I need to install?

I'm not sure what to do.

 

[B.Roberts]

Hey all,
I've recently built myself a new fighter that I love (Krait MK), and took on my first assisnation mission to kill "Salacious" at Cook Terminal +. I'm supposed to "Interact with the hub access terminal datalink at Cook Terminal + to find your targets location."

Ok, so the only terminals I've ever interracted with, are on planets at a data access terminal. Cook Terminal is a civilian outpost. I can't find any terminal to interact with or scan or anything.
1) Am I at the wrong place? Is there some settlement called Cook Terminal + that I can't find?
2) is there some way to scan a station, or a module I need to install?

I'm not sure what to do.

There's bunch of "Cook Terminals " in the bubble . Which system you are talking about?

 

[aioun]

Hi, so i actually found it. landed on the planet, and tried to scan the data terminal on the settlement. It was above my "pay grade" for mission ,but with my kitted out ship i thought i could do it.
First problem, the skimmers respawned like crazy, i couldn't keep up.
Second problem, boosting shields and just barging in, absorbing the skimmer and defense turrets hits, I managed to scan the data point. then it gave me some 30 second count down towards loosing the data, which as I'm racing away with shields fully depleted, being chased by skimmers, i couldn't connect back to my ship in 30 seconds.
So I've lost the mission 9 times now.
How am I supposed to complte these?

 

[B.Roberts]

Hi, so i actually found it. landed on the planet, and tried to scan the data terminal on the settlement. It was above my "pay grade" for mission ,but with my kitted out ship i thought i could do it.
First problem, the skimmers respawned like crazy, i couldn't keep up.
Second problem, boosting shields and just barging in, absorbing the skimmer and defense turrets hits, I managed to scan the data point. then it gave me some 30 second count down towards loosing the data, which as I'm racing away with shields fully depleted, being chased by skimmers, i couldn't connect back to my ship in 30 seconds.
So I've lost the mission 9 times now.
How am I supposed to complte these?

If you have to scan something on the planetary outpost use your SRV, not your ship. Land outside safety perimeter and drive your SRV straight into the base. Skimmers will not attack you until you finish your scan. Scan that terminal from SRV and run. Don't bother shooting back. Once you far enough recall your ship and fly away. You will gain bounty for what you did (usually 100 - 300cr or so) and you will have to pay it off .

 

[Factabulous]

Timed beacons mean there are more beacons to scan to get the data. Learn to use Google, it really helps.

 

[d8veh]

If you get blown up in the SRV, you don't lose anything. It's the quickest way to get back into your ship and carry on with the mission. As soon as you're in the SRV, dismiss your ship for safety and a quicker exit from the planet.

There are all sorts of different ways to do these missions. Did you try using dumbfire missiles to take out the generator, which shuts down the turrets. You can also nuke all the skimmers with them, but they will probably start to respawn after 2 minutes.

 

[Krieger]

I think you scanned the wrong beacon. Beacons that start a timer are for acquiring encoded materials or opening gates on the base. You need to scan three of them before the timer times out. Each successful scan increases the timer.

In an assassination mission you can see the beacon as a white blip on your ship's scanner when you are about to enter the tresspass zone. Sometimes there are more than one blip so be careful to choose the right one from the target list. It's easiest to scan the beacon from your ship but you have to get real close: less than 50 meters. (If you like the challenge use the SRV.) Immediately after you scanned the (correct) beacon you should get an inbox message from the mission giver telling you the location of your assassination target. Don't bother to fight anything on the base just boost away.

 

[Para Handy]

....... I can't find any terminal to interact with or scan or anything.
........

........ then it gave me some 30 second count down ....

That was a data point if it started the countdown, not a hub access terminal.

It should look like this: