Update: Assignment is now called “Reconnaissance”.
The assignment does not complete if you return to staying back self-destructing/otherwise dying. You need to dock there manually.
Workaround: undock/dock again after self-destructing.
For those type of missions, you will be warped to unknown sector and then they will tell you to go back to station.
Not sure what went wrong for you.
The problem was not reaching the sector they wanted me in (the mission did update accordingly once I reached it and told me to go back), the problem was that it did not complete once I was back (still telling me to go back even though I was).
When I got this mission, on the jump before arriving to the sector it mentioned in the mission, I was sent into unknown space instead. Once I got out, the mission completed
Hmm, I had the unknown sector detour, too, but it only switched to the “return” step when I actually got to the sector. Maybe more bugs than on in this assignment.
I had this mission too and actually it sent me to unknown space right at the first gate, possibly “for real”, but it did complete the mission too (once you jump back through the portal in the middle) - i flew right back and it completed - the bug therefore might not occur reliably
Just had that assignment again on the Federation side and it worked fine this time.
The only differences to the first time that I see are that first time was Jericho side and first time I killed someone in unknown space so was criminally flagged (why do you get flagged in unknown space anyway, do the aliens flag you? :P).
I’ve found out, when you enter the portal in the alien space, while having SpecOps camo enabled, it does not tick the quest, you have to go the route mentioned in the quest, get tosses into unknown sector again, and exit without using any cloaking.
I’ve found out, when you enter the portal in the alien space, while having SpecOps camo enabled, it does not tick the quest, you have to go the route mentioned in the quest, get tosses into unknown sector again, and exit without using any cloaking.
Oh that’s very possible that it was that in my case as well. At least when jumping still reset cooldowns I used to cloak/stealth 100% of the time when not alone in the zone. Nice find!
This is still broken and I finally understood how to reproduce it.
OP updated with new assignment name and correct error description, would be good if a mod could rename/report this.