safeguard side missions badge credit
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Posted on: 2010-11-02 10:59 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
Side missions will always spawn no matter how many are on the team, so if you're not getting any when you're solo then that's must be a bug.
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Yeah, you just need to find the right guys to kill I think to get the side missions.
And it's a pain. On my badge character Mouse Police I ran radio missions and bank missions in PI for several days in order to get all of the badges. :/ But by the end I knew where to find the mission mobs in my sleep.
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Form a badge team like we are supposed to do in order to get badges in a convenient timeframe.
It is more difficult because you have to find someone with the mission that has the badge you want and who is willing to reset their mission over and over again. Also super sidekicking makes it more "fun".
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There are specific spawns around the map that, when you finish them all off, will give you a "key" for a side-mission. These groups are always different from the rest of the enemies. For example, in Brickstown, the primary enemies you'll face are Council, but there are a few Nemesis spawns that have side-mission keys.|
Originally Posted by Organica
Yeah, you just need to find the right guys to kill I think to get the side missions.
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The full list of what to look for can be found here: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Safeguard_Mission
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My toon Bank Master has most of the side misson badges and I have done them all solo,sure its a case of find the right guys to unlock the missons and do them time and time again but you can get them just keep trying.Vidotmaps can show you the locations of all the side missons if you have trouble finding them find it a very usful tool for finding stuff like that also badges as well.|
Originally Posted by M_i_n_e_r_v_a
So I found out from tech support that during safeguard side missions, only the player that clicks on the final object gets credit toward badges (eg, Fire Marshal, Bomb Squad etc). I also tried soloing the bank robbery but no side missions spawned. So, heroes are left with the options of: 1) depriving fellow teammates of badge credit in order to be the final one to click; or 2) play a ridiculous amount of bank missions (in themselves a time investment to get) so that all players have an equal chance to earn badge credit. Just wondering what everyone thinks...
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I didn't know only the clicker gets credit. That needs to be addressed. I've always talked teams into doing side missions in bank job in order to get the badge. If those haven't been counting towards the badges, then I'll stay solo on those.|
Originally Posted by M_i_n_e_r_v_a
So I found out from tech support that during safeguard side missions, only the player that clicks on the final object gets credit toward badges (eg, Fire Marshal, Bomb Squad etc). I also tried soloing the bank robbery but no side missions spawned. So, heroes are left with the options of: 1) depriving fellow teammates of badge credit in order to be the final one to click; or 2) play a ridiculous amount of bank missions (in themselves a time investment to get) so that all players have an equal chance to earn badge credit. Just wondering what everyone thinks...
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At this point I know where all the mobs who give side missions hang out in each safeguard, so it's easy to do the bank then run to the side missions and complete those, avoiding as many of the other groups scattered around as possible. Easier for some ATs than others, of course.
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Depending on your level, you'll get between 2 and 5 side missions on each Safeguard - you need to defeat the "key" mobs to unlock them.
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Originally Posted by M_i_n_e_r_v_a
So I found out from tech support that during safeguard side missions, only the player that clicks on the final object gets credit toward badges (eg, Fire Marshal, Bomb Squad etc). I also tried soloing the bank robbery but no side missions spawned. So, heroes are left with the options of: 1) depriving fellow teammates of badge credit in order to be the final one to click; or 2) play a ridiculous amount of bank missions (in themselves a time investment to get) so that all players have an equal chance to earn badge credit. Just wondering what everyone thinks...
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When I was running through Mayhems for my main badging character after I18 I noticed that got shared team credit for most of the activities except (notably) arson credits for the Firebug badge. I ended up having to farm the PI Mayhem like 6 times in a row just to get credit for that one badge. According to the Pargonwiki page on Firebug that how it was supposed to work.
Basically I didn't see anything that wasn't WAI as of a couple of months ago.
Are you suggesting these things are broken right now or that Safeguards specifically are broken?
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I duoed all the safeguard missions with an SG-mate, and we didnt reset anything, i don't think, just stealthed thru the intervening radio missions in short order. It was the PI map. After 2 or 3 runs, we had the locations down pat. If you have Fly, it's pretty easy to spot the 'stand-out' mobs (arsonists are carrying torches, gun-deal guys are carrying crates, etc).
I think it took us 2 or 3 sessions, but I don't remember it being all that toruous.
Now the PvP kill-badges, however...sheesh. We still don't have those 
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We think you've made a small error. The spawning of side missions is fixed - a specific number will spawn based on which safeguard mission it is. See the Safeguard Missions Page on ParagonWiki. The column in the chart named 'Active Side Missions' will tell you how many side missions are present on that map. It is random WHICH side missions will be there, but there will always be that many.
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Originally Posted by M_i_n_e_r_v_a
I also tried soloing the bank robbery but no side missions spawned. So, heroes are left with the options of: 1) depriving fellow teammates of badge credit in order to be the final one to click; or 2) play a ridiculous amount of bank missions (in themselves a time investment to get) so that all players have an equal chance to earn badge credit. Just wondering what everyone thinks...
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Thank to all for replying. The mobs that everyone's referring to to get 'keys' I assume is the 'vandal' spawns that flash on the screen occasionally (and are marked with the red star on map)? Those are always different from the main map villains. Thats who I was defeated in order to spawn a side mission. If thats the case, I have no idea what's wrong.
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The vandal spawns are just for bonus time - the key mobs that trigger the side missions are static mobs at fixed locations on the map - they'll be doing some emote that's linked to the side mission - like wheeling around bombs for the sewer bombing mission, or carrying torches for the arson misison and so on.
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Originally Posted by M_i_n_e_r_v_a
Thank to all for replying. The mobs that everyone's referring to to get 'keys' I assume is the 'vandal' spawns that flash on the screen occasionally (and are marked with the red star on map)? Those are always different from the main map villains. Thats who I was defeated in order to spawn a side mission. If thats the case, I have no idea what's wrong.
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@Golden Girl
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Also, the key mobs will always be a specific enemy type. Each safeguard mission has a different enemy type. The Paragonwiki page I linked to has that information in the chart.
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Download and install vidiotmaps map pack and hey presto! Every key bearing mob gets marked on the map with a different colour square (tied to the sidemission type) and a colour star burst for the mission door.
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If you're on later today, I can log on and walk you through one of them to show you where the mobs are.
@Golden Girl
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So I found out from tech support that during safeguard side missions, only the player that clicks on the final object gets credit toward badges (eg, Fire Marshal, Bomb Squad etc). I also tried soloing the bank robbery but no side missions spawned. So, heroes are left with the options of: 1) depriving fellow teammates of badge credit in order to be the final one to click; or 2) play a ridiculous amount of bank missions (in themselves a time investment to get) so that all players have an equal chance to earn badge credit. Just wondering what everyone thinks...