Engineers Salvage missions

[777Driver]

Are the salvage items always at the wreck site? Or do with have to search surrounding areas?

I've been doing these missions and getting quite a lot of good materials, my last mission has spawned lots of good stuff at the crash site, I can't actually see the cargo I am supposed to bring back to the station.

Should I keep searching or is it a bug?

 

[Faded Glory]

Are the salvage items always at the wreck site? Or do with have to search surrounding areas?

I've been doing these missions and getting quite a lot of good materials, my last mission has spawned lots of good stuff at the crash site, I can't actually see the cargo I am supposed to bring back to the station.

Should I keep searching or is it a bug?

I did a lot of these in beta, and on one occasion, none of the appropriate salvage cargo was spawned. If that happened, I'd create a bug report, as I believe it should be close to the crash site.

If some of the salvage cargo spawned, but not enough, reset the instance by getting back in the ship, take off and go to SC (keep the crash site targeted), then return to the crash site and more will spawn.

 

[777Driver]

I did a lot of these in beta, and on one occasion, none of the appropriate salvage cargo was spawned. If that happened, I'd create a bug report, as I believe it should be close to the crash site.

If some of the salvage cargo spawned, but not enough, reset the instance by getting back in the ship, take off and go to SC (keep the crash site targeted), then return to the crash site and more will spawn.

I've noticed that you can respawn the crash site, isn't that an exploit? I can literally get huge amounts of random materials until the mission timer runs out.

Anyway thanks for the advice, I've respawned 3 times and the cargo never appears - The crashed ships cargo rack just has rare materials. I'll check POI's close by. Will submit a bug report if I find nothing.

 

[Tinman]

I've noticed that you can respawn the crash site, isn't that an exploit? I can literally get huge amounts of random materials until the mission timer runs out.

I seem to remember picking up more of an item than needed for the mission during Beta (the ones marked with the mission tag)...the extra items disappeared when I handed in the mission if I'm not mistaken.

Anyway thanks for the advice, I've respawned 3 times and the cargo never appears - The crashed ships cargo rack just has rare materials. I'll check POI's close by. Will submit a bug report if I find nothing.

Never had an issue myself unless some canisters have rolled away. Better bug report it then.

 

[Faded Glory]

I've noticed that you can respawn the crash site, isn't that an exploit? I can literally get huge amounts of random materials until the mission timer runs out.

Anyway thanks for the advice, I've respawned 3 times and the cargo never appears - The crashed ships cargo rack just has rare materials. I'll check POI's close by. Will submit a bug report if I find nothing.

The response I had from support regarding re-spawning to get the correct amount of cargo was that it was "by design". To me it seems a bit gamey, and I hope that given time it will go away.

As I said, if no cargo at all spawns, I think that is a bug. You can see the beta bug report(s) I raised here if you are interested.

 

[DustyArne]

You did scanned the nav beacon right? They reveal the location of the wreckage you need to find.

 

[Chris Simon]

Are you sure you are in the mission POI/USS and not just a random one?

 

[777Driver]

You did scanned the nav beacon right? They reveal the location of the wreckage you need to find.

C'mon mate of course, you have randoms on this forum complaining about 'BROKEN GAME MECHANICS!!!! ' When in reality they have no idea what they are doing.

I made sure I did everything correctly, then came here to confirm that perhaps the cargo may be in a nearby POI

Flew to the nav beacon, updated with location of the planet, go into SC and see a marker for the 'Wreck site' Dropped out of orbital cruise and my ship led me to various false wreck sites until it got a lock. I did these missions during Beta.

Landed the ship and flew to the site - Lots of materials scattered about, the ship's cargo rack is only dropping materials. It would seem that the ships rack should be dropping the mission cargo.

 

[Lowievisser]

Are the salvage items always at the wreck site? Or do with have to search surrounding areas?

I've been doing these missions and getting quite a lot of good materials, my last mission has spawned lots of good stuff at the crash site, I can't actually see the cargo I am supposed to bring back to the station.

Should I keep searching or is it a bug?

me either , find other stuff , but not what i need. sometimes even 2 locations of planets... also , as in missions , at my right panel im now 100% into next fed rank but i dont see missions pop up?

the salvage missions in space work fine... wonder if i miss something on the planets...

 

[Seral]

Same here :| I scanned the nav found the planetside search-location an found the wreckage. And i found the needed materials [noob]

But only 6 of 8...[sad]

I drove around for a while searching for the rest..with no success.

Than I returned to the wreckage and the cargo had respawned.

I think this is a workaround but would be better if mission an loot are synchronized.

 

[D.G.Cerberus]

you seem to be talking about a planetary salvage - not sure whether the mechanics are identical but I had no problem with "space" salvage missions: Having done the scan (Nav beacon or ADS for preference) I flew to the relevant stellar body and cruised around. Relatively quickly " Mission objective signal identifed" or some such message appeared - Blue Nav panel item that I could lock, etc etc......Went there, wreckage, deployed limpets. All salvage requirements met......Plus usually some extraneous other useless commodities - they seem to favour water, biowaste and the like!

 

[DarthLuca]

I also had issues with these salvage missions and thought they were broken. . .
It did turn out that it was ME not noticing the 'New' way it works and that you have to either look at the Nav beacon or D-scan the system to get the mission 'sub'-location. I did maybe find a (possible) slight bug when taking four such missions in the same system (sub-locations vanishing after completing first mission), but re-logging even cured that. So, so far they do seem to be working. (also notice that you have to scroll down when looking at the 'Transaction' screen to see the sub-location (Also NOT obvious)).
(Also see my post on similar/same subject)
Hope this helps and good luck for future missions.