Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos - Now What? No clues or clues in game!

[wmgibsonfan]

I've been wandering all over Night City with this mission active. The game tells me to 'wait for Mr. Hands to call'. He's called with a couple of gigs for me, but he never mentions anything about this mission. If I get bored and call him, there are no dialog options other than 'catch you later'. 'Time is Eddies' he solemnly intones. Duh!

So I figured that I had to just wait for the game to decide to move on to the next mission. I've done Side Jobs, taken down cyberpsychos, responded to NCPD scanner calls. No bugs that I can see, except for the fact that nothing is happening WRT the mission.

Is my inference correct? Is V just killing time waiting for Reed to construct a plan for an op to ambush the convoy and rescue Songbird? If not, where does V need to go, or to whom does he need to speak to get this t hing moving. Last but not least - why the effing eff does the game not tell you?

[UrMumsBoyfriend]

Can you mark this for spoilers and/ or move it to the dedicated spoilers section as this is a late game PL mission we are talking about.

Help for the mission:

if I am correct and your on the Max Tac convoy raid prep, you would've needed to either complete all side gigs for mr hands and have 15k Eddie's to spare or progressed the main game story enough to have a friendship with judy Alvarez (more options on top of those two, just the two I was offered in my playthrough)

The mission requires you to recruit a netrunner for the raid (the netrunner does nothing they just provide info on the convoy route), I know there are multiple people you can go to for the information but they all require some form of progression requirements to unlock.

If you have completed all Mr Hands side gigs check your messages to see if you haven't had a MR hands mission message sent to you that got buried, or give him a call to see if it activates his offer

[wmgibsonfan]

This very morning, I called Mr. Hands once again, even though I'd done so many times and had made no headway, and he offered me the services of a netrunner and demanded $15,000! I can only infer that the completion of the gigs he gave me inclined him to be more generous - or something! I gave him the money and he sent me to Japantown, where I talked to Yoko (the netrunner that V went to 'way back at the start of the 'real' game) and I acquired the data from her. I've called Reed and I'm on my way to meet him and take on Max Tac and rescue Songbird.

I remember refusing his offer once before, and I know I did because I have a message in my logs from Carol Emeka, who was one of a group of people that V saved from gangoons at one point. In the message, she explains why she felt she couldn't get involved. I don't remember why I approached her, but that doesn't matter now.

Thank you for taking the time to respond - you're a choom!