Do people actually enjoy hijack missions?

[Grimraüst]

I've been trying to progress the story and every time I see hijack missions in the path I get this sense of dread because no one is ever doing them and the mode just seems awful. Idk who thought it was a good idea to have a payload mission where you escort a big PoS with an endless horde of enemies but this mode is terribad. One of the most irritating things is that it drains your shield to escort it.. and that also causes it to take damage. I was just doing one where you're in the snow and every time you try to attack the enemies in front of it, it just runs you over and respawns you behind it.

[Pakaku]

Mod for shield capacity, hop on top of the cart, shoot at mobs, probably the most relaxing game mode as far as I can say

Maybe go into recruit chat and ask if there are any Hildryns to help you out

[player7112]

You can also craft and deploy a shield drone specter to boost your shield too.
As for frames with no shield such as Inaros, it will drain the health instead.
But for early stages, try recruiting chat for assistance.

I don't really enjoy hijack mission tho, but the mission was easy.

[neock]

just use nidus. he has no shield so it drains his health. he regens so fast tho its bairly a problem for him. use his larva to drag all hostiles to a corner. problem solved

[Thundercracker]

i'm not a fan of hijack, no. nor spy, rescue, and sabotage.

i like exterminate, defense, mobile defense, capture, excavation, and survival.

[uni790]

If you're having trouble with it, buffs and heals work on the core, summon the corpus shield drone ally to constantly recharge your shields, and push your own shields as high as you can.

[lowgrav]

if your doing grineer hijack do note as the thing is suspended above the ground on a rail and is out of reach from melee units so if you use a loki and use his 4th to disarm all enimys then sit on the unit the enimys cannot phisicaly do anything but look at you with angry thoughts if you kill the enimys they will respawn with guns again so try to minimize that

[Donitsi]

Power up your mods. Sounds like you can't kill the enemies fast enough and if you have a warframe with high shield I would recommend using that or one that doesn't have shield at all because objective will drain health instead.

[stobe1212]

to be honest. i had bought hildryn before i got my first hijack so i had a BREEZE

[xPEDx]

Theres only about 2 of them missions or so, my hate is the one that you need to hold 4 or more positions on solo. unless i got an army of different spectors its impossible, or very expensive on salvage to build the army.

[lowgrav]

Originally posted by xPEDx:

Theres only about 2 of them missions or so, my hate is the one that you need to hold 4 or more positions on solo. unless i got an army of different spectors its impossible, or very expensive on salvage to build the army.

if you talking about interception there is ways to do that solo by capturing the enimys and luring them around the map with you and only killing the melee units and the units that are capping the tower after you have done that the remainder will just stand outside the cap area shooting they wont move from their spot as the lure is keeping them pinned

so in summery start mission cap 1 tower cap the enimys move from tower to tower capturing more enimys as you go chill at tower with those you trapped (eg vauban vortex suck em up make sure strength is as low as possible so they take longer to die to respawn)

[Vayde Knyght]

I enjoy Hijack missions, but they don't really give you anything, so the only reason to do them (other than the fun of it) ends up being clearing out the star chart or doing a sortie.

As others have mentioned, you can always ride on top of the objective and just focus on shooting, dismounting when shield management (or opening blast doors, in the Grineer Hijack missions) becomes necessary.

Yareli's Merulina can power the objective;
Trinity's Blessing, Mag's Polarize, Styanax's Rally Point, Harrow's Condemn, Caliban's Lethal Progeny, a Sentinel (any sentinel)'s Guardian, or Raksa Kubrow's Protect can refill your shields swiftly, off the top of my head.

You can also just mod for high shield capacity and/or fast recharge, and try to give your shields space often enough to recharge without being fully drained, as the recharge delay is significantly longer if your shields are entirely depleted.

If you just want to get it over with for a resource investment, grab the Small Squad Shield Restore blueprint from the Market, and throw some Ferrite and Credits at that blueprint here and there until you have a decent handful of them, slot them into your Gear Wheel (and optionally make sure you have an easy-to-reach keybind for that slot in your Gear Wheel), and pop a few of those throughout the mission.
Also, popping 8 of the Small Shield Restores (each is worth 140 shields if you're in range for all 4 of their pulses) at the beginning of the mission, before engaging with the enemy or anything, will give you 1,120 points of overshields, just shy of the 1,200 cap.
(Of course, if you have access to a higher tier of the Shield Restores, so much the better. The Large Shield Restores, for instance, can get you to the cap of 1,200 overshields with just one of them.)

Good luck!