Thargoid Kill and Missions (hydra)

Flying Peanut

Flying Peanut
I got into the hobby of filling the battle bar for the thargoid war at some ground stations with fellow commanders. A full bar means the hydras spawn.

To enhance the rewards I take on several hydra missions for 1 or 2 hydras.
At a ground station there is usually a spawn of 2 hydras. This means that all my missions should be competed by the second kill. I have however noticed that this is not the case. In my last round I risked live and limbs on the first hydra to go in for a repair and re-arm. As I was returning to the hydra, I could see my wing just finishing it off it off as I was watching the explosion from the distance. I got the reward for the kill, but not the reward towards the missions.

The second hydra I was up close and got the kill reward and it was rewarded to the missions as well.

Why was the first kill not rewarded to the missions? I have seen this a couple times even with missions not completing at all. I was thinking that a mission was not restricted to the system and can be completed in other systems.

What is happening? Can anyone give an insight as to why, or is the game just bugged and I am out of luck.

Elaborate:
Mission of 2 hydra from Workers of Aowicha Values Party
2 hydra kills in Gliese 9035 where this faction is present

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No kills counted toward this mission.


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Flying Peanut

Flying Peanut
That's kinda disappointment. Taking out the hearts and give it hell, to not be rewarded the mission kill. It kinda makes sense, but then it also does not.
I'll change the play style somewhat to be around when the thing goes down.

Still the second kill, which was rewarded to missions, was not rewarded to that mission above. Do you have any theory behind that?
 

Flying Peanut

Flying Peanut
Got it ... After another round without picking up new missions, the missions I had got completed.
So many missions that I got confused. Thanks for pointing it out!

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Landorin

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I experienced the same thing recently. For some reason, only the progress was counted for shared missions (killing scouts). Any mission I accepted myself did not count. Regardless whether it was cyclops or Hydras (not sure about scouts). Some time ago this always counted reliably. It was not necessary to have the kill shot, that's a myth. Has worked for so many others. As long as you got a few shots on it (like on NPC pirates) the kill counted. I guess it simply got bugged recently.

And yeah, having multiple missions with the same kill goals is a different matter. Unlike in the past a kill only counts for one mission, not for several ones at the same time anymore.
 

Ned Flandalorian

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It's worked this way for at least the past two years. Maybe you were lucky enough to be teamed with better focused players in the past (teammates kill shots also count for your missions regardless of whether they're shared).
Kills will still contribute to multiple missions as long as they're from different factions. The amount of credits/materials you can get for killing a single hydra right now is ridiculous.
 
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Flying Peanut

Flying Peanut
Today I played and we killed quite some Hydra's. I got the credits for the kill, but now towards the missions. The last set of 2 hydras it happened again on the first one. I then restarted the whole game and logged back in for the second hydra. For that one i got the kill and the mission credits.

Sometimes there is wonky stuff going on.

I do think that similar missions from the same faction only get credited to one.
 

CMDR Evolution

CMDR Evolution
I've known about the broken mechanics for a long time where we do all the hard work, then our ship weapon reload happens and someone else gets the lucky kill shot.

But for Thargoid settlement conflicts it's absolutely terrible. Some players in open know exactly what they're doing with getting that special kill shot and essentially stealing the kill statistic.

Here's a bug thread which may be very related - https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/55741

The bug is as the journal files are not recording the Thargoid kills and so nor are any 3rd party tools like INARA etc. I added a vote and comment yesterday and suggest for everyone here to add their vote / comment there too please, to hopefully help this all get some traction. If Frontier allowed assists to be classed as kills as an easy-to-fix solution, it would make the combat mechanics a lot more fair across the board o7

Ned Flandalorian said:
It's worked this way for at least the past two years. Maybe you were lucky enough to be teamed with better focused players in the past (teammates kill shots also count for your missions regardless of whether they're shared).
Kills will still contribute to multiple missions as long as they're from different factions. The amount of credits/materials you can get for killing a single hydra right now is ridiculous.
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Oh cool, I didn't know that! Thank you CMDR o7
 
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