Little feedback.
Played Emergent Missions 4.2.0803 Search and Destroy mission and oh boy - it was FUN, real fun
Took one to hunt SCA Plunderer, and everything went smoothly. Got navigation sightings from some TEL Yagogoaogogogog and started to look for my prey.
Haven't found him in a place where latest sightings (30 min ago) were placed, so I set up an alert. Four minutes later one of my satellites found and reported his presence.
I tracked him down, but his enabled travel drive made it difficult for me to scan for a while. But I finally made it.
When he was revealed, near station started to shoot at him and two minutes later TEL destroyer passing nearby joined the party.
Then it was a matter of time to destroy it. My share in destruction was small (9/100) but I was very pleased with the party.
This mission felt very immersive and alive. I like the fact that there is scanning step, it makes whole operation more varied.
Also a timer, although it gives a lot of time - is a nice addition.
There's small typo in reward text - "upto" instead of "up to"
It would be cool to have a variant of this mission without given ship ID (but e.g. to compensate it with bigger reward).
Thing is that mid game+, when satellite network is pretty extensive - it's easier to find target by setting a global alert on ship's ID.
The Search and Destroy mission is just great.
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I also tried the Patrol mission, that didn't appear in previous versions.
Found a few little things.
First - mission offer wasn't cleared after time and changing multiple sectors. Once it showed up - it stayed.
Also, which surprised me a little bit - got Patrol mission from ARG when i was quite far in TEL territory:
https://i.imgur.com/NvXgzZt.png
Finally I took one Patrol mission and found that after the conversation (step 1 of mission) mission correctly proceeds to step 2 (support phase) but dialog option doesn't disappear
https://i.imgur.com/HkNVs1g.jpg - so I could activate it again and then mission ends and I got the reward.
So loaded this mission again and used the conversation option only once.
But then in the support phase the ship I was suppose to support was slowly (148 m/s) flying down the ecliptic:
https://i.imgur.com/RJu6gDx.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/yEg1Pzd.png
Waited about 5-8 min but escort time has not changed and ship was flying down all the time.
So I wasn't able to finish this mission.
One thing I was missing is the "mission/phase complete" sound (or whatever it is called) when missions change phase/completes.