Spoiler: Second Assistant Help

[ModerateOsprey]

Please someone give me tips to get past this damn mission. I think become one of my most hated missions in 30 years of playing video games (sorry devs). It flat out sucks.

Can I just ignore it?

[eMYNOCK]

no, sadly not.. you have to complete it to get additinal projects for your HQ.

i will help and guide you if you want but i need to know were you are stuck right now.

*send you a Friend invite to prevent unnecessary clutter in the topic.

[ArcticISAF]

What part are you stuck at?

If it's the nav beacon/radiation part, best to save just before flinging the nav beacon in, then see if the ship comes to a good area.

[ModerateOsprey]

I keep getting blown up. Not had to drop any nav beacons yet. The penny has just dropped just now to select a weapon mount with no weapons so can now approach and seem to have progressed and am receiving beacon data#

[ArcticISAF]

Yup. There's two ways of going through that part. Turn off the weapons, and hopefully the turrets and such don't activate. Or just blast them ahead of time anyway lol.

After you get all the nav beacons, make a save. You'll have to fling a nav beacon into the radiation field. Back up some, aim at the field, hit boost/travel drive - pause, deploy beacon, unpause and brake. You should see the indicator moving. If it stops/doesn't indicate it's done, fling another in. Eventually it'll say 'come to me' or whatever. Fly very carefully to it, and get in your spacesuit. Stay very close to the ship to repair it. Then get in. And that's basically it.

There is a chance radiation will vaporize your spacesuit for whatever reason (drift too far away? ship didn't move out far enough?) - that's what the save is for.

[ormac]

I figured the defense elements that turned hostile were supposed to. (There's an extra beacon in the collection to scan if needed).