What are the "Combat Aftermath" USS good for now??

[JetsonRING]

They used to drop medium-high level materials but now, after the update mostly all I get are these "scan da ship" scenarios which only pay a "small" increase in REP and something called "Security" or even, when I dropped into one today, a funereal procession! Am I missing something? Do combat aftermath USS give any advantage or real reward anymore or are they completely useless now?

 

[moorison]

I noticed a change too: Expected a few materials but got a mission to transport a black box, which would have been fine if a had cargo space. I suppose the name was reused since high grade materials will be found in the usual signal sources that spawn more predictably now.

 

[Stealthie]

You can still get the half-decent stuff at Threat Level: 0 USSs.
If it's TL: 1 It'll be a "scenario" [/yamiksvoice]

I think one of those broke the messaging system a little bit, earlier.
I arrived at one, got the "scan the ship" message, accepted it, scanned the ship but then nothing else happened and now I've got a permanent "1 unread message" indicator in the comms HUD which won't go away.

As it turns out, I made it go away by quitting the game, reinstalling Fallout 4, downloading some new mod's for it and getting stuck into that instead.

 

[JetsonRING]

I noticed a change too: Expected a few materials but got a mission to transport a black box, which would have been fine if a had cargo space. I suppose the name was reused since high grade materials will be found in the usual signal sources that spawn more predictably now.

Like you I had no cargo space (Sidewinder) and declined the "retrieve black-box canister" scenario. The NPC CMDR offering the mission was quite butt-hurt about it but, flying around in a system in WAR state with someone else's black-box in my cargo hold is just an invitation to get shot at. o7

 

[Miko]

What makes it cheap is that you get a mission to retrieve a black box which is right in front of you. So nothing special, just FD making it look like they put hard work into some new sub mission types when the reality is it is just a random black box drifting in space like before. Oh well, the rep increase is a plus I suppose.