PREPERATION:
Have your party leader accept each mission and share with everyone else.
- If two people accept a mission, they will get different locations, so don't do that (this applies to all phases except phase 3 as explained below).
- Suggest a minimum of 3 players
- Bring A LOT of ammo (think 100s of mags)
- Do not forget your med guns, food and water
- GRIMM: Bring tiger claws with you as well. You can use them in Phase 1 (so far)
- GRIMM: You can find some really cool armor in the FPS style missions. Make sure you make time to loot what you can
SHIPS:
I found the Redeemer, Corsair and Ares Ion/Inferno to be the best choices for this event. If group is big enough, bringing a C8R or Cutlass Red is a nice addition to heal injured players. Upgrade your Quantum Drive, you will be travelling through all of Stanton. Get good shields and guns, you will be fighting Hammerheads and turrets.
TIME:
About 6 hours or so, give or take.
EVENT DESCRIPTION:
Consists of 6 phases, each phase has a number of stages.
GRIMM'S NOTES:
Each stage of each phase can be spread all over Stanton so take that "Upgrade your Quantum Drive" seriously!
Also recommend you have one ship store a ton of supplies for the group. Preferably a ship that won't be engaging enemy forces.
- For our Phase 1 I used my C8 Pisces as a sort of supply ship.
EVENT PHASES:
PHASE 1
-5 stages. FPS battles.
-Bunkers. Go to bunker, destroy hostile turrets, eliminate hostile XT npcs.
-Find the one engineer in civilian clothes, kill him and loot his chest/legs for a key, take key to server room.
-The hacker must select the GUNT (or Tigerclaw if you couldn't find the GUNT) and equip it. Then hold F and insert it into the terminal
-One person monitors the server room, their job consists of watching for servers heating up.
-The other players need to run around the bunker looking at screens for a blue error pop up, which has a server number (S-123) and code (1234) they need to shout out in party chat, which the server room player can then input to cool down that server and continue the upload.
GRIMM'S NOTES ON COMMS DISCPLINE
If you are the hacker (in the server room) and you see the screen light up with a red line call "CODE" in Discord
If you are one of the searchers after CODE is called you should state "SEARCHING" in Discord
The terminal will have a BLUE section on the screen. This will have the code listed in it
When you spot the terminal with the BLUE call "EYES" and then read out the code
Once the hacker has entered the code they should state "COOLING" to verify all is good
PHASE 2
-3 stages. Space battles.
-Bounties and collection of a key to drop off.
-Go to location, kill the ships (think MRT/HRT level bounty), get out of your ship into EVA, go to the marker for the key, grab key, deliver key to a certain drop off location
-Stage 3/3 Mission includes a Hammerhead - be careful.
GRIMM'S NOTES:
Ghost took an Ion and Vane took an Ares Infero.
While they did coordinate together they basically shredded the enemy all the way through.
PHASE 3
-5 stages. Space battles.
-Incursions. Big space battle vs 4 hammerheads and about 20 other ships.
-Seems to be server wide, is not shareable (so every party member needs to accept the mission on their own).
-Go to location, kill all the ships. If server very populated and many others outside yoru group competing to complete this phase, don't worry, just kill at least 1 ship and you will get stage completion.
GRIMM'S NOTES:
The missions can be bugged but once you get into the groove of a server that is working they are no problem.
Once I Found as erver that worked I barely had to travel outside of the Hurston area.
I was using a full laser build F8C, with full military upgrades for everything except the QDRIVE (which I would recommend you do in case you have to travel)
Vane was using his Ares Inferno with upgrade to the QDRIVE and didn't have to reload once
Get in; kill a smaller escort ship then start helping with the rest.
Took about an hour to complete all 5 since they spawn within minutes of completing the last one
PHASE 4(A)
-3 stages. Space battles.
-Commlink.
-Go to commlink, kill 3 ships. Get out of your ship into EVA and enter the commlink, shoot the mines laid all over to clear a path to the computer.
-Start the commlink recovery (no need for tigerclaws, no need for monitoring the screen)
-Head back to your ship.
-Hostile ships will spawn in waves, prioritize killing the Vanguard ships, as they disrupt your commlink recovery, then kill rest of ships.
AFTER ACTION REPORT (GHOST AND VANE)
Mission is fairly accurate to the description of the initial reports with a few additions:
- There is an initial security force that likely booby-trapped the array, apparently they are tasked with keeping a watchful eye on it, they are consisting of two medium fighters
- Vane reported two Sabres
- Booby-traps are almost everywhere within the array, but you only need to clear a path to the screen
- The QRF (Quick Reaction Force) starts popping in once you get close enough to the screens
- There are hammerheads on it
- As soon as the mission is done the array's defenses become active and start shooting everyone.
PHASE 4(B)
-1 stage. FPS battle.
-Security Post Kareah.
-Go to SPK, stop their hacking device in central computer room; after, you will see a marker to a tigerclaw closeby, grab it and enter it in the central computer. This will start an upload.
-Waves and waves of angry XT npcs will attack you. Have at least one party member watching the upload screen (there will be at least 1 interruption you need to clear on screen).
-The rest of the party members run around and kill.
-Very very fun, very very deadly. Do your best to survive.
-At the end of upload, click RESET. Leave.
GRIMM'S NOTES:
This will only pop for you once you have all 3 levels done of the PHASE 4(A) missions
We went in with about 7-8 people. It was a bloodbath
Bring as much ammo as you can carry as well as med pens, med guns, multi tool; your full assault kit
HEAVY ARMOR IS A MUST - INCLUDING BACKPACK (for bullet soak)
PHASE 5
-1 stage. SPACE BATTLES, FPS and package delivery.
- The ships are usually around the wrecks. Sometimes agro, sometimes not
- The FPS battles take place inside the ships. Be careful; especially in the Starfarer wreck
-3 packages need to be picked up and delivered to a location.
-You go to a wreck site with some XT npcs. Kill the npcs, pick up the 3 packages, take them to drop off location.
GRIMM'S NOTES:
This phase is buggy as hell - BE WARNED this may take several attempts to complete (as of April 12th, 2024)
I made 7 attempts and only 1 of them completed but as you can see below the info doesn't show.
- 1 with VANE and GHOST and one of the packages was withdrawn so we couldn't complete with just 2 out of 3
- 1 with another random group where the server 30k as we were on the way to Pyro with all 3 packages
This phase also allows for major griefing. If someone hides the packages at a crash site you will never find them
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