Newcomer / Intro Planetary scan mission: target inside a cliff?

Thanatiel

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I've tried to do planetary scanning missions.

For my first one, the reward text was telling me to return to $##DestinationStationName; ... it feels like QA missed that one, but that's only a minor issue.

For my second one, the base was spread on a cliff. I could see the inside of the building models from below.
No SRV could have reached that, except very briefly.

After a few minutes trying to find a way to reach the objective, I've abandoned the mission.
  • Is this kind of issue common?
  • Is threre a better way?
  • Should I give up on that mission type?

Thanks.
 

hems303

hems303
Not common but it does happen from time to time... sort of spoils the feel of the game..... I'm afraid it is the downside of heavy use of procedural generation* of 'assets' and sometimes where the terrain height is very variable the asset (building) fails to visually 'bed in' giving rise to a weird floating hollow structure 😢

N.B. Though without 'Proc Gen' we'd have a very much smaller galaxy to explore and mission in. o7
 
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Coldshot

Coldshot
Thanatiel said:
Should I give up on that mission type?
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Nah. Mission bugs will happen (in other types also), but in my experience it's not so frequent that you should need to avoid any particular type. Most of the time resetting the instance will "fix" whatever the problem was (in this case, spawn the base in a different location). Another example is missions that require you to collect a various quantity of something (black box or whatever) and return them to the mission giver. Sometimes it may want 4 of the item but you only find 3. So, you can jump out of the system and go back, and whatever you're after should spawn again (allowing you to collect the remainder), for as long as the mission is still active.
 
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Dommarraa

Dommarraa
These missions are my bread and butter as they give High Inf for so little effort, you can do them from your ship. Bugs like this are a very rare occurrence, so dont be put off, there are several mission types are ARE too bugged to be bothering yourself with, but not this type
 

Coldshot

Coldshot
Oh yeah, now I recall that some mission types are indeed consistently bugged. Though I can't recall any specifics, except one I believe is the kind that has to do with megaships? Been quite a while since I've bothered with any of those.
 
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