Raid missions (exterminate members of a faction X)

[denispage]

I've got a mission (RAID) that I need to exterminate members of a faction in a system.

In the description they say that I need to find them in settlements.
I've been in all, and didn't find any member of the faction.

Does anyone figured out how to complete this mission?

 

[PeacefulPunching]

I am having the same issue. The only mention of the faction anywhere is the quest description. Beyond that, they don't seem to exist.

 

[Sighman]

Can you use Inara to find a system where that faction has a presence? It wouldn't have to be the same system where you take the mission.

 

[PeacefulPunching]

I can find them on there. I went to a new system to check the settlements again and still they were not at any of them. I should say I also went to where the Raid told me to go and there was nothing again.

 

[denispage]

Can you use Inara to find a system where that faction has a presence? It wouldn't have to be the same system where you take the mission.

The game already says where the system that the faction operates. The issue is: Where in the system?

 

[[VR] Enexemander]

Yeah, I was in Tabit trying to exterminate the cartel there. I flew to the only settlement they controlled, and killed the wanted marauders there. Guess what? Lol none of them were cartel, apparently.

Probably the new "hunt down x faction pirates" missions that aren't worth doing.

 

[denispage]

I can find them on there. I went to a new system to check the settlements again and still they were not at any of them. I should say I also went to where the Raid told me to go and there was nothing again.

I've been going out and in the system and visiting every settlement and find no one from the faction.

 

[PeacefulPunching]

I've been going out and in the system and visiting every settlement and find no one from the faction.

That's what I did as well. They just aren't there.

 

[NUSQUAM]

I had to manually check each planet settlement in the system map only to arrive to a deserted location. I think the mission type is just broke.

 

[denispage]

They released a hotfix just about not. Let's see if they fixed this mission.

 

[INSTG8R]

Have you “scannedl” the people you’ve encountered? granted anyone I’ve scanned doen’r give much info but may “trigger” something

 

[Andro]

Just wanted to pop in and affirm that Halo 3 is the best Halo game

 

[[VR] Enexemander]

Have you “scannedl” the people you’ve encountered? granted anyone I’ve scanned doen’r give much info but may “trigger” something

Yep. They all had bounties, but I admit I wasn't paying attention to faction. I tried to do it twice at the same location. The first time with the SRV, the second time completely on foot and using the new scanner thingy on them after clearing the area.

Also I noticed if you kill dudes with the SRV, their corpses despawn as soon as you step out of the SRV. That was a weird discovery.

 

[denispage]

Just wanted to pop in and affirm that Halo 3 is the best Halo game

Can't argue that!

 

[Mogen Teras]

Had the same issue. Not a single settlement in the indicated system was controlled by the target faction. So I just abandoned the mission.

Frankly the way the game directs you to on-foot missions is abysmal.

 

[Aquilonius]

Oh, good. I'm not the only one. Has anyone found a fix for this yet? I thought maybe restoring power to the settlement (the ones I've visited all seemed to be abandoned) and was able to do it a couple times, but still didn't seem to have any effect.

 

[Retropolitan]

I think the problem with these missions may be that criminal factions seem to always be in negative states that shut down their settlements - as noted above, you might go to the correct place but find it empty except for scavengers.

 

[Deleted member 115407]

I've got a mission (RAID) that I need to exterminate members of a faction in a system.

In the description they say that I need to find them in settlements.
I've been in all, and didn't find any member of the faction.

Does anyone figured out how to complete this mission?

You have to be careful and ensure that the target faction actually owns a settlement.
If they don't, you might try finding them at random POIs. This works especially well if the target faction is a criminal faction.

It would be nice if these missions could just be merged with mayhem/massacre ship missions, so they could be completed on ground, air, or in space.

It would also be nice if these missions gave you populated horizons-type (or odyssey-type) POIs to go shoot people at.... just in case.

Then again, it would be nice if someone at FD had thought "Hey, what happens if someone goes to a ground CZ and just starts shooting missiles at it???", but then we don't want our expectations for the game to be too unrealistically high now, do we?

 

[Ydiss]

I think the problem with these missions may be that criminal factions seem to always be in negative states that shut down their settlements - as noted above, you might go to the correct place but find it empty except for scavengers.

Yes, this is the issue. They're generating incorrectly. They should be generating for settlements owned by opposing factions in neighbouring systems, much like the massacres in our ships are generated. They seem to only generate from where the opposing faction has a negative state, as you've correctly surmised. And this does mean that they will exist in the target system but it'll be in active and so empty of any targets.

It's a bug (or maybe it's an oversight that just doesn't work very well)

Avoid these and just choose the massacres or raids that give you a specific settlement target. They all work pucka.

 

[Deleted member 115407]

Avoid these and just choose the massacres or raids that give you a specific settlement target. They all work pucka.

Here's the problem - I think that this is the ethos of the Elite player community, and I think it harms us in the long run.

We find a bugged mission type or mechanic, one or two people go and write a bug report, everyone else just shrugs their shoulders and says "Eh, I'll just avoid that mission template until it's fixed". Frontier then looks at their numbers and says "Well, nobody really runs Kill the People missions, but hot damn do they love space truckin!"

And just like that, nothing ever gets fixed in this game.