New Frontiers - Race to mars mission buggy?

[Frederik]

I'm not sure if race to mars, the final mission of the new frontiers dlc, is buggy for me. Everytime russia launches a rocket, I get the option to stop it through a raid. When the US launches a rocket, thats not the case. I get the mission the first time and maybe the second, but after that it just stops appearing.

Is that how it's supposed to be? Because I feel like when thats the intended time limit, this mission is really hard

[KodeMonkey]

I agree it is buggy. What happened to you happened to me on my first attempt. I was wary to try again since that 5th mission takes so long to play through, but I eventually completed it. On my next play through I rushed building everything in the space complex using Set Emergency Job function in the Teamster buildings to get materials to the complex as fast as possible. I was able to outpace the other nations on our second launches by a long ways, I was almost half ways to Mars when the next country launched their rocket. I didn't need to rush though, because this time I was given the option to sabotage their missions a second time which I didn't get in my first play through.

TLDR: If you rush you should be able to do your second launch before the other nations so you wouldn't need the sabotage missions in the case that the scenario glitches out.

[KodeMonkey]

Also, wait to sabotage the other nations until they are about 2/3 the way to mars. This will extend their delay while you get your second (or third) rocket assembled.

[Frederik]

Thanks for your help! I'll try that next time

[KodeMonkey]

It looks like today's Hotfix 23.2 fixed a blocking issue in Race to Mars mission which prevented a quest from recurring. I bet it fixes this problem.