New2this mission type, tips would help

[Blue Mars]

hi elite dangerous commanders,

i came across a mission to " Liberate 8 hostages" held by Lefr

i am assuming he is in a ship.

so my idea is to have a hatch breaker limpet on my ship and a collector limpet controller on ship...

so is the strategy to ... hunt and find and then...

disable him and his power plant then use a hatch breaker and limpet controller to " Liberate 8 hostages " ?

it is threat level 4... what ship engineering might i use...thanks...for tips

 

[Avvie Rayne]

hi elite dangerous commanders,

i came across a mission to " Liberate 8 hostages" held by Lefr

i am assuming he is in a ship.

so my idea is to have a hatch breaker limpet on my ship and a collector limpet controller on ship...

so is the strategy to ... hunt and find and then...

disable him and his power plant then use a hatch breaker and limpet controller to " Liberate 8 hostages " ?

it is threat level 4... what ship engineering might i use...thanks...for tips

Best way to deal with these missions is to really not do them. They can be very difficult to do consistently since some ship will have point defenses, making hatch breakers hard to land, if not impossible. It's honestly best to abandon the mission and pick another one. Your rep will get hurt a little but that won't be a problem.

If you want to still do the mission, I use the operations multi-limpet controller: Has hatch breaker and collection limpet controllers in one module.

Find ship
Hatch break him
Deploy collector limpets
Collect mission cargo
Leave

Don't kill the target, because if for whatever reason you can't collect all the cargo, you can leave the instance and return to try again. As long as the target ship is alive and you haven't collected all the mission cargo, you can do unlimited tries on it. If you can reliably disable his drives without killing him that will help, but don't attempt it if you're not confident.

Also, it won't be just the mission cargo that drops, it'll also be other stolen goods, so you might have to set the other cargo on your ignore list as they appear so your limpets won't go for them.