"Raid Planetary Harvester" my solution to the "Steal Secrets" mission with infinite Sentinals.

[Deputy Dawg]

I know there are other threads on this subject but none of them are very clear on the solution to the problem of the infinite Sentinals attacking you as you try to escape the facility. This worked for me and I didn't even have to fire a single shot.

Scenario: You accept a Secondary Mission from the console on your Freighter to steal secrets from a Planetary Harvester. You fly down to the indicated co-ordinates and access the terminal inside the building to download the data files. As soon as that happens a level 5 alert starts and you will be attacked by endless waves of Sentinals. If you try to fly back to your Freighter the Starship Docking Bays will be locked out so you can't fly in to land there. Instead you will be attacked by infinite Sentinal Starships until you die. To make matters even worse, your engines are locked into "dead slow" so you can't escape. If you reload an earlier save, the mission log will be wiped, forcing you to re-start the mission completely.

Solution: As you approach the facility, slow your Starship to the minimum and get low to the ground. Park as close as you can to the doors (do not use the Landing Pad). Run into the building and go straight to the console (do not waste time looking for loot). Download the stolen data and run back to your Starship as fast as possible (do not attempt to fight any Sentinals). Take off immediately and go straight up into the atmosphere. Quickly engage Warp Drive and head to the nearest planet. As you approach the planet, the Sentinal Alert status should drop to 1. Fly as low to the ground as you can and look/scan for a Habitable Building. As soon as you find one get inside as quickly as possible and wait... After a short period the alert status will begin counting down to zero and then the Sentinal Alert will end. Drama over! You can now fly peacefully back to your Freighter and hand in the mission. Happy Happy Joy Joy!

Hope you find this helpful...

Have fun!

[Jerimis]

Call your Freighter to your current planet above your head.

Take all your time you want with looting inside that building, get that console data, and fly with your ship to the few seconds away freighter to safety and to mission complete.

[DeadMeat]

Can't you just leave the planet with 5 stars, encounter sentinels in space, go back down to the planet, land, get out, get back in. Wait for 1 star to end search and go back to freighter.

[DeadSlash]

Originally posted by Jerimis:

Call your Freighter to your current planet above your head.

Take all your time you want with looting inside that building, get that console data, and fly with your ship to the few seconds away freighter to safety and to mission complete.

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[clannagh]

Would dropping a save module after grabbing the data and exiting and reloading work ?

[DeadMeat]

Originally posted by clannagh:

Would dropping a save module after grabbing the data and exiting and reloading work ?

Probably. You could probably run to the save point at the facility and reload to get the same effect. I don't think they include sentinel status in the save data.