What destroyed my SRV - AX restoration mission?

ChessChamp

C
Hi all, I've made many AX restoration missions successfully, I always have used the same strategy when doing them.
I leave my SRV 1km away from settlement in cover (hidden low or behind rock or something out of sight from the settlement). And I run in to the settlement from the SRV...

The last time I did it then Elite started saying something like "Maximum distance to SRV exceeded, selfdestruct in 20 sec" and then it counted down to zero and the srv was destroyed! At the very last moment of life of the SRV I think maybe I had the message "SRV under attack" 1 sec later it were destroyed.

So, my question is, what destroyed my SRV? Bug? Have anyone else been through this?
 

varonica

varonica
ChessChamp said:
Hi all, I've made many AX restoration missions successfully, I always have used the same strategy when doing them.
I leave my SRV 1km away from settlement in cover (hidden low or behind rock or something out of sight from the settlement). And I run in to the settlement from the SRV...

The last time I did it then Elite started saying something like "Maximum distance to SRV exceeded, selfdestruct in 20 sec" and then it counted down to zero and the srv was destroyed! At the very last moment of life of the SRV I think maybe I had the message "SRV under attack" 1 sec later it were destroyed.

So, my question is, what destroyed my SRV? Bug? Have anyone else been through this?
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Yeah as NF says, the distance between you and the SRV matters, if it's out of a certain range of the pilot it will self destruct, and note this isn't a huge distance either, maybe a bit over 2kms, 2.5kms or so, so it is possible you left it just on the edge of the distance to the settlement, or it could have bugged as suggested and fallen through the planet.
 

MVBanks

MVBanks
It depends - sometimes when I start to fight Revenants, they detected me, then my SRV was destroyed by scouts, from the air, even when it was 1.4 km far, and hidden. Yesterday I tested the distances, and it was clear that 800m range is the key - scouts will not attack SRV if it's inside this range from settlement, and Revenants can't attack if it's hidden behind the hill. Rocks are not any protection, it looks they are transparent for Revenants.
I never had self-destruct of SRV while on foot, only when I left with my ship and SRV was down at settlement, then at 15 km distance it was self destroyed.
But if you were in stealth mode, undiscovered, then it's really not clear why it was destroyed.
 

ChessChamp

C
I left it 1 km from settlement and had run perhaps 500m away from it, I was stealth - not discovered 500m away from the settlement - everything as usual...
Ok perhaps a bug then dropping through the surface... Hope I don't get it again!
Can I ask, what is the safe distance for landing the ship?
 

ThinkingPortals

T
ChessChamp said:
I left it 1 km from settlement and had run perhaps 500m away from it, I was stealth - not discovered 500m away from the settlement - everything as usual...
Ok perhaps a bug then dropping through the surface... Hope I don't get it again!
Can I ask, what is the safe distance for landing the ship?
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On first arrival to the instance, revenants don't spawn until you're about 500m away from the settlement.
Once they're generated though, it's around 3km.
 
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