How do I know what kind of mission I'm joining?

[Urban Shaman]

If I pick the matchmaking option I'll get throw into a random game. It MAY be a game that hasn't yet started and people are still running around on the super destroyer - in that case? All's good.

But more often than not I'm thrown into an in-progress game where I must pick strategems without the ability to check the mission type. There's a tab at the top, sure, but it seems to be locked and I can't peek at what the objectives are.

And I'm going to be taking different strategems for a defence-oriented mission vs an assault mission.

How do I tell what kind of hell am I being thrown into?

[Maeda]

If you're joinning via quickplay, you are unable to see which mission you're in if the host and it's players already dropped and are in mission.

Starting your own campaign or joinning via SOS (The white icons in the map) is the only way to tell.

I could be wrong but if you use voice communication while selecting the stratagems, I think the host can hear you and reply with voice communication. (Voice communication only since you selecting stratagems doesn't allow you to use/see text chat)

[SpidersInABirthdayCake]

You gotta guess based on what stratagems your team is running.

[CedricO]

Ive also run into this issue. Probably something on that massive list of 'things to do' that the devs have, alongside keeping their servers from exploding after getting 30 times the players they were expecting.

[Shrapnel]

You dont.
You dive and find tf out, citizen!

[Urban Shaman]

Originally posted by CedricO:

Ive also run into this issue. Probably something on that massive list of 'things to do' that the devs have, alongside keeping their servers from exploding after getting 30 times the players they were expecting.

OK, so it's not only me going crazy thinking "I must be daft because I can't figure it out"...

On that note I DID notice that you can sort-of, kind-of see the map which MAY have objective icons visible. That can (but doesn't need to) be helpful in figuring out the mission objective.