What to do to help speed up location of canisters?

[LoonyGeekFun]

I took a mission to locate and retrieve some canisters of rare antiquities and could not find them or receive a mission critical update of where to look.

I took a break and watched a YouTube video where a guy went to the beacon, engaged frame shift and investigated all USS

This was news to me! Lol. I was expecting to get a message on where to look after exploring the system a bit. (A bit of a new commander)

I was excited to try this but after another 90 minutes of going to every unidentified signal source, I parked in a station and went to bed (after clicking "abandon mission")

What advice can you give me for reducing the amount of pain of searching for canisters of stuff for a mission that requires this kind of find and retrieve goal?

 

[goemon]

- the video was old

- scan the nav beacon or use an (advanced) discovery scanner, to trigger the update

- the update will include around which body the "mission USS" will spawn

- fly to body, look at the down left corner, till it shows the body in the line down there.... you'll see for exampel switching from "[system name] Deep Space" to "[system name9 A4".

- throttle down, but don't get below 300 km/s, as yo'll be blind up to 2 minutes if you get below 200 km/s.

- fly in that zone, till the USS spawns. that waiting can't be sped up (and doesn't make good gameplay imho), but will happen in 2-5 minutes

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safey advice: salvage USS can spawn pirates, even if saying threat 0. either jump out and search again, or bring collector limpets to retrieve the canisters before your shields go down.

 

[Stealthie]

Just to add to the above...

The mission goal won't just be a random USS.
After you get the mission update telling you which planet to go to, and enter orbit there, it'll appear as a blue marker and you'll get an audio message saying "mission goal detected" or words to that effect.
The mission goal will spawn repeatedly so even if you miss it the first time it'll pop up in front of you again a few seconds later.

The other possibility is that you have misread the mission briefing and the mission goal is actually on the planet's surface rather than in orbit.
If that's the case, the mission briefing will tell you that an SRV is required to complete the mission.
I'm not sure if the mission notes in your transactions HUD tells you an SRV is required but if you're in orbit of the target planet you will be able to look down at the planet surface and see a "search zone" POI if you're supposed to be retrieving the canister(s) from the surface.

 

[LoonyGeekFun]

- the video was old

- scan the nav beacon or use an (advanced) discovery scanner, to trigger the update

- the update will include around which body the "mission USS" will spawn

- fly to body, look at the down left corner, till it shows the body in the line down there.... you'll see for exampel switching from "[system name] Deep Space" to "[system name9 A4".

- throttle down, but don't get below 300 km/s, as yo'll be blind up to 2 minutes if you get below 200 km/s.

- fly in that zone, till the USS spawns. that waiting can't be sped up (and doesn't make good gameplay imho), but will happen in 2-5 minutes

___

safey advice: salvage USS can spawn pirates, even if saying threat 0. either jump out and search again, or bring collector limpets to retrieve the canisters before your shields go down.

this was very useful thanks a lot! I will try that next time

Just to add to the above...

The mission goal won't just be a random USS.
After you get the mission update telling you which planet to go to, and enter orbit there, it'll appear as a blue marker and you'll get an audio message saying "mission goal detected" or words to that effect.
The mission goal will spawn repeatedly so even if you miss it the first time it'll pop up in front of you again a few seconds later.

The other possibility is that you have misread the mission briefing and the mission goal is actually on the planet's surface rather than in orbit.
If that's the case, the mission briefing will tell you that an SRV is required to complete the mission.
I'm not sure if the mission notes in your transactions HUD tells you an SRV is required but if you're in orbit of the target planet you will be able to look down at the planet surface and see a "search zone" POI if you're supposed to be retrieving the canister(s) from the surface.

I am pretty sure it wasn't on a planet but I know to check for that next time, I appreciate your help!

Loony.