Just noticed on Search and Destroy Intel missions...

[shootinxs76]

So last night I needed to collect some intel and I noticed one of the safehouses had a little white circle around it like the daily missions have.  I hovered over it and it said it had a Critical search and destroy mission (as opposed to the usual just "search and destroy")  I decided to do that section to see what the critical part of it was all about but I didn't notice anything different than any other search and destroy mission.  Did I miss something???

 

[KidGreengene]

Nope... that is standard and what I first read on the S&D missions... one would be "critical". Once you finish that, another one gets that circle around it. I think it offers bonus intel after the mission is complete. So I get my 1 or 2 drops each time and then at the end, it gives me another 4 or so.

One thing I noticed was on the HVT missions, I could have sworn they use to be 5, 10 and 15 costs but yesterday it was 5, 10 and 30.

 

[quinch1199]

Isn't the Critical mission timed and can't be attempted again? (but essentially a normal S&D mission apart from that)

 

[KidGreengene]

I never noticed anything like that but I might just be clueless and never noticed a timer. I'll pay attention to it tonight. Need to get back up to 99.

 

[MurphDog6]

Critical safe houses are there to draw you to them offering up double the Intel token rewards.

 

[ShootFirstPodcast]

Critical Search and Destroys are supposed to be always available, and give you double the Intel Token rewards.  Once you complete one, it's supposed to randomly show up somewhere else.  In theory, it's there to make you move around the map rather than pick one safe house and continue doing S&D out of that one safe house only.

 

[shootinxs76]

OK.  Thanks for the clarification.

 

[quinch1199]

Critical Search and Destroys are supposed to be always available, and give you double the Intel Token rewards.  Once you complete one, it's supposed to randomly show up somewhere else.  In theory, it's there to make you move around the map rather than pick one safe house and continue doing S&D out of that one safe house only.

Ahhh... this plus double the tokens seems logical. 

we can all check tonight! 

 

[Addihul]

Agreed. Best way to do them is to just hop to the one that has the critical. Do the 3 in the zone, do the turn in. Once complete, hop to the next safe house that has the next critical. Rinse/repeat. No point in just going SH to SH doing the ones without the criticals. It's a waste of time. Honestly I'm not sure why they even left it like that for people to figure out. All of the SHs should just come with 2 regular and 1 critical.

 

[RimBlock]

Yep, go for the critical.  You just choose the S&D from the board as normal in that safe house and one of the 3 missions will be the critical.  They tend to be a little harder but not too tricky.  Double intel and sometimes you get bonus intel drops from the AI as well although whether this is due to it being a critical or all S&D have a chance of dropping intel loot I have not checked.

Unfortunately we had the bug tonight with criticals not respawning after finishing one and even a standard S&D not spawning any AI so it could not be completed.  We even moved on to the next one of 3 and then came back and still no AI.  First time I have seen both these bugs TBH.

Seem there may have been an issue with the maintenance today.  Thought challenge mode Clear Sky was meant to be going in. 

 

[quinch1199]

So far the only bug I've had is an audio one where the HVT vendor keeps saying "Sorry, nothing new for you yet" even though the list has refreshed. 

Know what? I've LOVE Massive to get some voice over for these .... nothing fancy, or even long but I'm actually starting to miss Faye's little bit of voice over intro to missions now. Even if its just reading the brief you already read about it.