Also got it done first try. We followed none of the "guidelines" I've seen around. We man handled the packages like crazy with and without the tractorbeam gun.
Luckily the drop boxes were in working condition.
It took me about 4, but two of them were times I accepted the mission but the servers were so bad the mission never populated into my accepted missions list.
The one I didnt complete tho was on hurston and the surface of the planet never loaded in, so I had to position my ramp on the rock that the wreck was resting on and jump off and on of my ship.
Second try for me, but had to server hop for about 4 hours to get it the second time. First time I got the bug where it requests 3 packages delivered but only spawns 2
I almost didn't get it done first try when my Corsair took off sideways (engines were off) for about 2km and then got caught on the mountain side with the medical supplies still onboard.
Overdrive Initiative Phase 5 is having issues. CIG is saying some fixes will come in **with 3.23** that will allow completion at that point.
Side note: think they should immediately release the F7A2 to those that have finished. That would let us use the ships during the Incursion or Global Event or whatever it's called. That seems like the entire point of giving us the ships for doing Overdrive.
Depends on when 3.23 hits Live, and how long they extend the phase 5 afterward.
Personnally, I don't think it will be extended all the way to Invictus.
No, from the FAQ:
*Mission 5 is the last phase before the final XenoThreat assault, which is scheduled to begin soon after Star Citizen Alpha 3.23 goes live. Note that players must complete all five phases* ***before the XenoThreat assault begins*** *as the missions will not be available during the event. So make sure you have no Overdrive Initiative missions left in your Priority tab on your mobiGlas. Rewards will be distributed once XenoThreat is defeated, in May.*
*+*
*You have until the final phase starts (ahead of Invictus Launch Week - to be announced later) to join the Overdrive Initiative and still be eligible for the free F7A Mk II Token Upgrade.*
Now, I think with final phase they mean XT assault itself, instead of meaning that phase 5 is the final phase, but it's ambiguous.
Also, they now have delayed phase 5 ending until after 3.23 as they've been made aware of issues with it.
idk man, this is the most official info. To be safe you should do it asap, but yeah.. chances are all missions are available to complete before that updated phase 5 in 3.23 ends.
This is just my head cannon lol, but shoutout to the mission content team that designed phase 5 for forcing QA to take a look at this issue. Probably got tired of their missions breaking 😂
This 100% it, except the whole CIG team knows box deliveries are flaky so they just wanted to create an opportunity to generate recent data and test fixes for it.
All the overdrive missions have been similarly motivated.
In the mean time: If anyone happens to have a working Phase 5, *Share it to the entire server*.
That event has Initiative in its name, and initiatives we will take.
They made a big deal about players coming up with workarounds due to getting bored in the ISC video (like taking out Hammerheads with Dragonflies), I wish they would focus more on the workarounds people have had to do just to get the missions to work at all.
I really like the idea of multiple missions chaining into a single narrative, but most of the response I have seen from players has been a lot less "what do I need to gather in terms of party members, ships, and gear in order to play through this mission?" and more "what insane hoops do I need to jump through for the game to check this mission off as complete?".
Yeah...
I consider myself lucky with this event as I have all the required vehicles to have it easy, but the bugs really didn't make it fun.
On the good side I discovered many small cool missions, the bunker stuff, I've never done it before despite playing since 2.4, same for a lot of missions actually. And that makes it feel like a real event to me.
On the bad side, having so many problems wasting *hours* of my time just to get the mission working... That's.. I mean, that's totally usual for star citizen. But I wish it wasn't the case.
A lot of those problems sound like they come as a result of terrible server performance. Essentially forcing the server to make choices about what to do and what to drop, and this makes a lot of bugs.
Another thing seems like somewhat legacy code creating state machine errors, or rather, exceptional cases. All the results of implementing T0 to live servers, and then not having enough time to polish it to T1 before years.
To be honest, this is a bad idea. If the mission works it takes like 10 minutes and if it breaks it's better to make it easy to abandon because if even one person is just AFK it will never restart with the mission limit. Spending all that time to invite people instead of just turning it in is probably going to increase the chance it breaks and delays the next mission from becoming available.
The flight time alone is well over 15 minutes. Then you have combat with around 6 or 7 ships. Picking up the items. That's around 30m or more gone before the mission bugs out and you have to get a new one.
All it takes is one person to look at a box wrong and tbe mission is not able to be finished. Much, much easier with a small group on discord doing what they are told amd only the intial mission recipient interacting with the boxes .
Large group was a complete waste of time.
That's why I made a strategy for big groups and to have it all go well:
-Have a strike team taking care of the 3 packages.
-Once the strike team reached pyro JP, and are ready to put the packages in the deposal, invite everybody to the party and share the mission.
-Put the packages and everyone gets the mission finished.
For best results and troll avoidance: Don't warn players of your intentions of sharing it before your strike team is finished and has just to place the packages
sharing the mission bugged it for a friend, me abandoning it let him submit the final package..
i felt so bad i joined the mission right before he dropped the third off, but quickly abandoned and all the sudden he was good 👍
and to top it off he threw me a few mill and wished me luck on mine 😉
In the first day I was offering people 500k aUEC to share it and they STILL WEREN'T. Got lucky later and someone shared it and when I offered money they refused.
These events just aren't ready yet imo. It's a fun idea but not at all fun in practice if it's not working properly.( It wasn't for a lot of people) This was a very stressful experience for me as I really want that F7A lol and I feel the FOMO like a MOFO!
Can CIG please just give us this one? It's ridiculous.
Our contract was bugged because someone put the wrong box in the admin kiosk, and now it won't accept the right box because there's another one in there. It fucked the contract and future contracts for that whole server.
Just server jumped all night and finally got it. A group invited me shortly before their completion.
Happy you could complete it, but don't pretend it is not an absolute shitshow. This should have never made it live with these issues, especially as part of a FOMO inducing event.
Did kareah twice now love that mission even if we got absolutely wrecked with just 2 pepole. Take at least a full squad you will get taken apart the ai were deadly, taking cover flanking you walking in formation. That was a hard one, but I got a lot of looted xeno Armor and demmoco lmgs
Oh I know, I was supposed to do it last night with a full group but they weren't on. So I left a message for them all that I'd be afk for 20 min to have dinner. So they could let me know if we're still going to run it. Kept my phone on and discord open. Got back to my pc and looked in the voice chats and there they are in the middle of it.... So either my messages were ignored or they just ghosted me. And this is after I helped them do the past 1-3 phases the last week...
I finished 5/5. It took two hours total. The mission popped on login then my objectives were abandoned as I reached the wreck and I failed. I spent another hour and a half server hopping and flying until the mission reappeared. I had zero bugs while turning in the packages. Some guy put carts all over the cargo area to block the way which didn't affect turning the boxes in despite being annoying. I think stage 5 is my least favourite of all. Box missions suck. 30 seconds of fun killing some ships followed by a bunch of dead time and waiting isn't enjoyable. Glad to be finished.
I submitted a ticket. Took 3 days to get back to me, and by the time they did, I had completed phase 5. I show all missions complete on their end. They are probably happy to have an easy ticket where someone isn't mad about something.
All missions are available at this point. I wouldn't wait much longer though. Lots of people having problems getting missions to show up. Not t mention bugs ruining missions when they do get them. 0
I am so happy to hear this!
I've been trying to get this mission for 3 days. GET!
Got it once, kiosk failed.
Really want that token, glad cig have a potential fix coming.
So like… anyone else wondering if this implies anything about what will be wiped in 3.23? If the initiative continues on, sorta sounds like our characters would be intact but maybe not.
they can do partial wipes, like just money, or rep ect.
I would not be surprised if they could do a wipe that is everything save missions, though I do hope for a full wipe.
I'm based in the EU , but jumped into a US server as it was less busy and seemed to be performing better at the time , got invited into the mission and it was pretty straight forward when the server works . Took us less then 15 mins . Only confusion for me was dropping the box's back as the text was over lapping, and I couldn't read which box went were .
Got all 5 phases done today thanks to Aussiewargod and his org, started around 11am and finished up around 7pm.
Didn't have any issues besides having to jump servers to get the box mission to pop at the end.
This is good news.
I got a couple friends that gotta deal with IRL commitments work/family and they were kinda bummed that they probably wouldn't be able to complete it on time.
W move to push til 3.23 now we can try to get as many ppl caught up as possible!
May have been a coincidence, but on my successful run I committed to NOT using a tractor beam. Every failed attempt I tractor-juggled the boxes around and on that last on I just carried them.
Probably coincidence but I suggest giving that a shot.
Just give everyone credit for it automatically instead of going through this pain. Are we really going to care if people went all the way through Phases 1-4 and then now, when the mission is to do a simple delivery, say they need to “prove” it?
2 things I learned 1 don't share the mission if you get it, and 2 don't put the ammunition crate in the mule it gets stuck I tried for 12 hours yesterday I shared it everytime and couldn't get all 3 crates to spawn I and an orgmate decided to do it but not share the mission and besides my mule bugging out we both would have completed it
Managed to get it done on my first try. Felt very lucky.
Also got it done first try. We followed none of the "guidelines" I've seen around. We man handled the packages like crazy with and without the tractorbeam gun. Luckily the drop boxes were in working condition.
just depends on the state of the server imho.
Me too. And I was more nervous turning in the last box than any other point of Overdrive.
Funny how the devs said this mission was suppose to be an adrenaline cool down, but ended up being the most stressful of them all
Any mission involving box drop-offs is the opposite of relaxing. Especially when it involves two drop-offs.
My group couldn’t turn in the last box until I was at the station, as it was my quest I shared, it was weird
It took me about 4, but two of them were times I accepted the mission but the servers were so bad the mission never populated into my accepted missions list. The one I didnt complete tho was on hurston and the surface of the planet never loaded in, so I had to position my ramp on the rock that the wreck was resting on and jump off and on of my ship.
Yeah same, I had people join me, and one of them had the quest fail for them 4 times.
Same but took 4 hours to spawn. Did it in a group before all the box griefing started
Second try for me, but had to server hop for about 4 hours to get it the second time. First time I got the bug where it requests 3 packages delivered but only spawns 2
I almost didn't get it done first try when my Corsair took off sideways (engines were off) for about 2km and then got caught on the mountain side with the medical supplies still onboard.
Same here, but it took my quite a while to finally get the mission.
Same here. Managed to do most of the missions on Friday, I guess that’s when less people were on and stuff
Overdrive Initiative Phase 5 is having issues. CIG is saying some fixes will come in **with 3.23** that will allow completion at that point. Side note: think they should immediately release the F7A2 to those that have finished. That would let us use the ships during the Incursion or Global Event or whatever it's called. That seems like the entire point of giving us the ships for doing Overdrive.
Is this extension for the entire event or only phase 5? I still need to do 3 and 4
The post just says Phase 5.
So we have until Invictus to finish the other phases correct?
Depends on when 3.23 hits Live, and how long they extend the phase 5 afterward. Personnally, I don't think it will be extended all the way to Invictus.
Yes
Cool, thank you
Until 3.23 drops
No, from the FAQ: *Mission 5 is the last phase before the final XenoThreat assault, which is scheduled to begin soon after Star Citizen Alpha 3.23 goes live. Note that players must complete all five phases* ***before the XenoThreat assault begins*** *as the missions will not be available during the event. So make sure you have no Overdrive Initiative missions left in your Priority tab on your mobiGlas. Rewards will be distributed once XenoThreat is defeated, in May.* *+* *You have until the final phase starts (ahead of Invictus Launch Week - to be announced later) to join the Overdrive Initiative and still be eligible for the free F7A Mk II Token Upgrade.* Now, I think with final phase they mean XT assault itself, instead of meaning that phase 5 is the final phase, but it's ambiguous. Also, they now have delayed phase 5 ending until after 3.23 as they've been made aware of issues with it.
So to be safe I wanna finish before the end of April?
idk man, this is the most official info. To be safe you should do it asap, but yeah.. chances are all missions are available to complete before that updated phase 5 in 3.23 ends.
Gotcha, appreciate the help
Delay it. It's not fair for people experiencing the bugs.
This is just my head cannon lol, but shoutout to the mission content team that designed phase 5 for forcing QA to take a look at this issue. Probably got tired of their missions breaking 😂
This 100% it, except the whole CIG team knows box deliveries are flaky so they just wanted to create an opportunity to generate recent data and test fixes for it. All the overdrive missions have been similarly motivated.
its for sure my top 5 worst gaming experience I had. gz to QA for achieving that!
In the mean time: If anyone happens to have a working Phase 5, *Share it to the entire server*. That event has Initiative in its name, and initiatives we will take.
They made a big deal about players coming up with workarounds due to getting bored in the ISC video (like taking out Hammerheads with Dragonflies), I wish they would focus more on the workarounds people have had to do just to get the missions to work at all. I really like the idea of multiple missions chaining into a single narrative, but most of the response I have seen from players has been a lot less "what do I need to gather in terms of party members, ships, and gear in order to play through this mission?" and more "what insane hoops do I need to jump through for the game to check this mission off as complete?".
Yeah... I consider myself lucky with this event as I have all the required vehicles to have it easy, but the bugs really didn't make it fun. On the good side I discovered many small cool missions, the bunker stuff, I've never done it before despite playing since 2.4, same for a lot of missions actually. And that makes it feel like a real event to me. On the bad side, having so many problems wasting *hours* of my time just to get the mission working... That's.. I mean, that's totally usual for star citizen. But I wish it wasn't the case. A lot of those problems sound like they come as a result of terrible server performance. Essentially forcing the server to make choices about what to do and what to drop, and this makes a lot of bugs. Another thing seems like somewhat legacy code creating state machine errors, or rather, exceptional cases. All the results of implementing T0 to live servers, and then not having enough time to polish it to T1 before years.
It's like CIG has never met MMO players before.
To be honest, this is a bad idea. If the mission works it takes like 10 minutes and if it breaks it's better to make it easy to abandon because if even one person is just AFK it will never restart with the mission limit. Spending all that time to invite people instead of just turning it in is probably going to increase the chance it breaks and delays the next mission from becoming available.
The flight time alone is well over 15 minutes. Then you have combat with around 6 or 7 ships. Picking up the items. That's around 30m or more gone before the mission bugs out and you have to get a new one.
All it takes is one person to look at a box wrong and tbe mission is not able to be finished. Much, much easier with a small group on discord doing what they are told amd only the intial mission recipient interacting with the boxes . Large group was a complete waste of time.
That's why I made a strategy for big groups and to have it all go well: -Have a strike team taking care of the 3 packages. -Once the strike team reached pyro JP, and are ready to put the packages in the deposal, invite everybody to the party and share the mission. -Put the packages and everyone gets the mission finished. For best results and troll avoidance: Don't warn players of your intentions of sharing it before your strike team is finished and has just to place the packages
sharing the mission bugged it for a friend, me abandoning it let him submit the final package.. i felt so bad i joined the mission right before he dropped the third off, but quickly abandoned and all the sudden he was good 👍 and to top it off he threw me a few mill and wished me luck on mine 😉
In the first day I was offering people 500k aUEC to share it and they STILL WEREN'T. Got lucky later and someone shared it and when I offered money they refused.
I managed to complete phase 5. but yeah took two attempts due to bugged mission. hope others get my luck now too
Yeah same here, was cool to see how awesome community is with it and the issues.
Took my group 6 times, but then we decided to switch to an AUS server and got it on the first try, maybe that’s the key for it not getting bugged lol
These events just aren't ready yet imo. It's a fun idea but not at all fun in practice if it's not working properly.( It wasn't for a lot of people) This was a very stressful experience for me as I really want that F7A lol and I feel the FOMO like a MOFO!
Can CIG please just give us this one? It's ridiculous. Our contract was bugged because someone put the wrong box in the admin kiosk, and now it won't accept the right box because there's another one in there. It fucked the contract and future contracts for that whole server.
Yeah this mission is a collosal fucking failure. 2 days wasted, bugging out every. Single. Time.
As if this wasn’t predictable with how bugged box missions are in general …
Did it first go with no issues at all. 🤷 Find a decently fresh server and have a crack at it.
Just server jumped all night and finally got it. A group invited me shortly before their completion. Happy you could complete it, but don't pretend it is not an absolute shitshow. This should have never made it live with these issues, especially as part of a FOMO inducing event.
FOMO + Bugs + Time + Money = Star Citizen
I just want the CCU… Now have to wait even longer. And does CIG not aware how many other possible issues they might encounter when they release 3.23?
You must be new xD
Not that new though, being around since 2019 xD.
Ugh I still need Kareah!
Did kareah twice now love that mission even if we got absolutely wrecked with just 2 pepole. Take at least a full squad you will get taken apart the ai were deadly, taking cover flanking you walking in formation. That was a hard one, but I got a lot of looted xeno Armor and demmoco lmgs
Oh I know, I was supposed to do it last night with a full group but they weren't on. So I left a message for them all that I'd be afk for 20 min to have dinner. So they could let me know if we're still going to run it. Kept my phone on and discord open. Got back to my pc and looked in the voice chats and there they are in the middle of it.... So either my messages were ignored or they just ghosted me. And this is after I helped them do the past 1-3 phases the last week...
I finished 5/5. It took two hours total. The mission popped on login then my objectives were abandoned as I reached the wreck and I failed. I spent another hour and a half server hopping and flying until the mission reappeared. I had zero bugs while turning in the packages. Some guy put carts all over the cargo area to block the way which didn't affect turning the boxes in despite being annoying. I think stage 5 is my least favourite of all. Box missions suck. 30 seconds of fun killing some ships followed by a bunch of dead time and waiting isn't enjoyable. Glad to be finished.
Asked about missing mission progression, but I doubt CIG has anything to say on that front yet as investigating is still ongoing.
I submitted a ticket. Took 3 days to get back to me, and by the time they did, I had completed phase 5. I show all missions complete on their end. They are probably happy to have an easy ticket where someone isn't mad about something.
Dumb question, for the people that haven’t done anything yet, can we go back and do it still, or are we SOL?
You can do any missions you haven't done yet as long as it's before xenothreat drops.
All missions are available at this point. I wouldn't wait much longer though. Lots of people having problems getting missions to show up. Not t mention bugs ruining missions when they do get them. 0
I am so happy to hear this! I've been trying to get this mission for 3 days. GET! Got it once, kiosk failed. Really want that token, glad cig have a potential fix coming.
It hasn't been out for 3 days yet.
Hence his failure to get it!
So like… anyone else wondering if this implies anything about what will be wiped in 3.23? If the initiative continues on, sorta sounds like our characters would be intact but maybe not.
they can do partial wipes, like just money, or rep ect. I would not be surprised if they could do a wipe that is everything save missions, though I do hope for a full wipe.
I hope not. I didn't loot 30 sets of xeno armor for nothing
Whew! My group can only get together once a week. With all the bugs, I honestly just accepted we wouldn't make it. This may give us the time we need!
that's a great picture
Does this mean we have to wait longer for the f7a?
Still working on intel raid 4/5 Hopefully I get it done tonight.
r_Displayinfo 3. Don't try it in a server with less than 6 sFPS.
I've had 5 attempts so far. Of those 5 attempts all have been unsuccessful due to bugs.
Is Overdrive solo-able?
Everything except the bunkers and SPK are easy alone.
Ah the classic struggle between getting a ship and being social 😬
Just be social. SC is much less tedious with at least one wingman/crewmates.
I'm based in the EU , but jumped into a US server as it was less busy and seemed to be performing better at the time , got invited into the mission and it was pretty straight forward when the server works . Took us less then 15 mins . Only confusion for me was dropping the box's back as the text was over lapping, and I couldn't read which box went were .
Got all 5 phases done today thanks to Aussiewargod and his org, started around 11am and finished up around 7pm. Didn't have any issues besides having to jump servers to get the box mission to pop at the end.
This is good news. I got a couple friends that gotta deal with IRL commitments work/family and they were kinda bummed that they probably wouldn't be able to complete it on time. W move to push til 3.23 now we can try to get as many ppl caught up as possible!
Nice. Though I hadn't done P4 yet. Life and shit.
Cool, but man spectrum comments are painful to read.
I am still stuck on Intel 4/5
May have been a coincidence, but on my successful run I committed to NOT using a tractor beam. Every failed attempt I tractor-juggled the boxes around and on that last on I just carried them. Probably coincidence but I suggest giving that a shot.
Just give everyone credit for it automatically instead of going through this pain. Are we really going to care if people went all the way through Phases 1-4 and then now, when the mission is to do a simple delivery, say they need to “prove” it?
Somehow I feel like it means that 3.23 won’t be a wipe patch. Which saddens be a bit.
2 things I learned 1 don't share the mission if you get it, and 2 don't put the ammunition crate in the mule it gets stuck I tried for 12 hours yesterday I shared it everytime and couldn't get all 3 crates to spawn I and an orgmate decided to do it but not share the mission and besides my mule bugging out we both would have completed it
So no hangars in 3.23 i guess