So I know this is a common issue and the dead horse has been beaten to a pulp, but after tonight it has just become too frustrating to not talk about. I accepted a "Destroy XX Sentry Skimmers" and it wanted me to destroy 12 of the little buggers in the Ekuru System at Hahn Base. I accepted it last night (19/10/16) and when I arrived at the settlement there were five of the floating turds around. I used my SRV to destroy them, the defense turrets, and even the settlement generator and no more appeared. I logged out, logged back in, and tried to see if they would spawn in- nothing. One time when I logged back in there was suddenly a small mining area near the settlement. Went there and destroyed the two skimmers and the turret that was there and nothing else happened. I flew around looking for those blue points of interest (POIs) that pop up on your ship's radar above 2km of the surface but didn't find anything in them in the SRV. Gave up for the night and tried again tonight (20/10/16). Same issues and I even tried jumping to supercruise and jumping to another system and back to see if they would respawn. Nothing! I tried all the steps I found in the forum and nothing! The last straw for me was when I went to land my ship just suddenly lost its shields as I touched the ground and then blew up. I have a python and the rebuy is ~3,750,000cr. This mission is worth ~3,833,000cr so I tried to finish it but couldn't. So I went back to McKee Ring in GD 219 where I got the mission and it said I was hostile even though I hadn't done anything in this system but when I dropped from supercruise, the station opened fire on me and destroyed me. I raged quit. Losing two ships in one night that I couldn't even regain one rebuy was too much. Frontier needs to fix this bug because it is ridiculous. My final thoughts are also tied to planets in that when I go to land or leave planets, or land at settlements on planets my game will sometimes crash randomly and it happens a lot. My game also crashes a lot if I'm in my SRV and it just freezes and closes out the game. I have a normal XB1 with the current version of the game and a hardwired internet connection to my router which is excellent internet. These issues need to be resolved and I hope they are by the time The Guardians update comes out.
Sentry Skimmers and the lack thereof (Also planetary landings and game crashes)
- Thread starter CMDR Doc Gerbil PhD
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This ^^^^^ tbh your post isn't very useful with all due respect
Havent heard of this issue or bug before and im not sure about the 5 skimmers on every base. From what i remember, smaller settlements usually have 3, bigger ones - bases or cities have at least 6 roaming around. I always use my ship to kill the buggers to avoid the ground defenses (but you have to be flying low, otherwise the missile launchers will send a bunch your way if your high enough in the air). After i kill a set of skimmers, i park my ship outside the trespass line and change game modes, more skimmers!
Also want to mention, if your out there killing skimmers in your SRV, might as well scan the data points to get some engineer mats, only takes a few seconds
Also want to mention, if your out there killing skimmers in your SRV, might as well scan the data points to get some engineer mats, only takes a few seconds
That's the reason why I do these missions using only and exclusively an A-grade Cobra... less than 500k rebuy.
I am really afraid for what happened CMDR... one of the reasons for having labeled you as "HOSTILE" is b/c the mission came from a minor faction and you attacked/destroyed the skimmers belonging to the major/controlling faction [if nothing else happened in the meanwhile, like taking down a major faction ship during an interdiction -> wanted ships do count for reputation].
Get to about 20k from the settlement and land, drive towards the settlements and it pops up Poi and skimmers at a decent rate, easy way to farm the skimmer kills with out having to put a foot near the settlement. Anything more than 29k and it won't spawn skimmers aligned to that faction so they won't count towards your tally