How Do You Intercept A Ship?

[Dr. Feelgood]

Very new player here...

I'm so frustrated right now trying to figure this out.

I'm brand new to this, and have spent almost 2 hours flying around Flint Station trying to find someone called Benny Webb that I'm meant to take it.

He's in an Orca, and keeps popping up as a New Contact randomly around Flint Station.

I get near him, get out of Supercruise, and he's not there. I jump back into. Supercruise and he's not there either, then I have to fly around what seems randomly until he pops up as a New Contact again, then I rinse and repeat the frustration.

How can I successsfully track down and engage a target like this?

This is like my second mission, I'm almost out of fuel, and I'm almost over this game that I had really been looking forward to playing.

Please help!!

[Steve]

It's been a while since I've done an assassination, but if I recall correctly what you'll want to do is simply jump to supercruise, throttle down to 0, drift at 30km/s until Unidentified Signal Sources pop up. Target those, drop down into them as you would approaching a station, and in short order your target should appear in one of these instances.

Do not engage your target near the space station. You will be turned into swiss cheese by the station and its contingent of defenders.

If you're seeing your target in supercruise and you wish to interdict him, you will need to have a module called a Frame Shift Interdictor installed on your ship. A basic one should do, nothing too fancy or expensive. Once equipped, make sure to set it to a firing group. Then, jump to supercruise, target your prey, get behind him and relatively close (may have to chase him for a few minutes before you can get close enough), and hit the interdictor's fire button that you set in firing groups. This will bring up the interdiction minigame, where you keep your circle on the target.

Succeed and you will join your target in being spun out of supercruise and into normal space, where you may happily murder him.

(To set a module in firing groups: Hit 4, tab over to Firing Groups by hitting E a time or two, then scroll down to highlight the module you wish to set and hit Space - once for Firing Group 1, twice for Firing Group 2, thrice to reset. There's only two firing groups, and I believe they're bound to L and R mouse respectively.)

[Nolo Contendere]

As for how to refuel, you can literally do that at any station you dock at. Just go to star port services.......

[Dr. Feelgood]

Originally posted by paonebp:

It's been a while since I've done an assassination, but if I recall correctly what you'll want to do is simply jump to supercruise, throttle down to 0, drift at 30km/s until Unidentified Signal Sources pop up. Target those, drop down into them as you would approaching a station, and in short order your target should appear in one of these instances.

Do not engage your target near the space station. You will be turned into swiss cheese by the station and its contingent of defenders.

If you're seeing your target in supercruise and you wish to interdict him, you will need to have a module called a Frame Shift Interdictor installed on your ship. A basic one should do, nothing too fancy or expensive. Once equipped, make sure to set it to a firing group. Then, jump to supercruise, target your prey, get behind him and relatively close (may have to chase him for a few minutes before you can get close enough), and hit the interdictor's fire button that you set in firing groups. This will bring up the interdiction minigame, where you keep your circle on the target.

Succeed and you will join your target in being spun out of supercruise and into normal space, where you may happily murder him.

(To set a module in firing groups: Hit 4, tab over to Firing Groups by hitting E a time or two, then scroll down to highlight the module you wish to set and hit Space - once for Firing Group 1, twice for Firing Group 2, thrice to reset. There's only two firing groups, and I believe they're bound to L and R mouse respectively.)

Thanks - will try that now!

Originally posted by Nolo Contendere:

As for how to refuel, you can literally do that at any station you dock at. Just go to star port services.......

Thank-you! I was looking too far into it - it's on the Home Screen at the Starports.

[Steve]

Originally posted by Nolo Contendere:

As for how to refuel, you can literally do that at any station you dock at. Just go to star port services.......

Not ALL stations, mind you! It's prudent to make sure an unfamiliar station has refueling services (or whatever services you require at the time) by bringing up the System Menu and highlighting the station in question to bring up its information.

I can't tell you how embarrassing it is to call the Fuel Rats because the station didn't have a gas pump. But I bet they find it hilarious.

[Dr. Feelgood]

I just got taken out by this massive ship that pulled me out of Supercruise and shreadd me and now am back at a system far away from where I should be :(

I'm really not off to a good start with this game.

[stationjaguar]

Give it some time feelgood. Since you just began your flying a space turd. Find yourself a nice safe illegal contrabond mission that will earn you lots of credits. As to how to do that safely you will need to go into silent running near the station your delivering said nice and "safe" cargo, and get in there like a bat out of hell!!!

[Steve]

Originally posted by Dr. Feelgood:

I just got taken out by this massive ship that pulled me out of Supercruise and shreadd me and now am back at a system far away from where I should be :(

I'm really not off to a good start with this game.

Very rarely is anyone good at anything their first time around. You'll get the hang of it.

[stationjaguar]

If you continue to have problems shoot me a pm via steam and I will try to join you in game tomorow. As of right now I'm far away from the starting area or I'd offer assistance now.

[Dr. Feelgood]

Thanks guys.

I think I'm just gonna scrap this Contract - it's literally about to run out of the 3 hours I had to complete it :/

Everytime I get close in Supercruise he just goes to ludicrous speed and I can't catch him, and I haven't found that attachment that lets me intercept Supercruising ships yet.

[stationjaguar]

Originally posted by Dr. Feelgood:

Thanks guys.

I think I'm just gonna scrap this Contract - it's literally about to run out of the 3 hours I had to complete it :/

Everytime I get close in Supercruise he just goes to ludicrous speed and I can't catch him, and I haven't found that attachment that lets me intercept Supercruising ships yet.

Start going after those kinds of contracts once youve got an Eagle thats "well" fitted and you have a frameshift intediction drive that's sold at most outfitters. Untill then SPACE TRUCKERS ALL THE WAY!!!!

[Steve]

Originally posted by Dr. Feelgood:

Thanks guys.

I think I'm just gonna scrap this Contract - it's literally about to run out of the 3 hours I had to complete it :/

Everytime I get close in Supercruise he just goes to ludicrous speed and I can't catch him, and I haven't found that attachment that lets me intercept Supercruising ships yet.

Start small. Take pirate cleanup contracts. You won't take any heat from the local authorities for smoking pirates (provided, of course, you have scanned and identified them as such - in order to do that, simply wait in supercruise for an Unidentified Signal Source to appear, drop into it, target whatever's flying around in there and just fly close enough to start the scanner going), and they help you rank up your reputations with local and main factions while you earn cash for a better ship.

[Sapyx]

Assassinaiton missions are the hardest possible to win at in a starter ship. The target is usually in a farily large ship and usually has a couple of heavily armed warships as escorts. You don;t need to destroy the escorts but they will likely shred a starter ship before it even dropd the shields on the target.

This game does not scale the missions it offers you; they are entirely randomly generated. There are plenty of missions offered to newbies that newbies are simply incapable of carrying out, at least without some expensive modifiications to the starter Sidewinder. Assassination missions are one; mining misisons are another.

[Legion]

Originally posted by Sapyx:

Assassinaiton missions are the hardest possible to win at in a starter ship. The target is usually in a farily large ship and usually has a couple of heavily armed warships as escorts. You don;t need to destroy the escorts but they will likely shred a starter ship before it even dropd the shields on the target.

This game does not scale the missions it offers you; they are entirely randomly generated. There are plenty of missions offered to newbies that newbies are simply incapable of carrying out, at least without some expensive modifiications to the starter Sidewinder. Assassination missions are one; mining misisons are another.

Also avoid mercantile contracts that require you to purchase a type of goods and return to the station in question. The profit margin is usually not worth the trouble of sifting through the galaxy map until you find a station that sells the product you are looking for. In the starter ship you may not even have the range to reach such a station. Privateering contracts to pull over convoys and steal their cargo can be frustrating as well.

Generally the safest missions to start with are salvage, combat with pirates, data couriers, light cargo transport, and illegal goods transport.