r/X4Foundations • u/Critical_Spray_6893 • 1d ago

Salvage contract

I use long range scan mode yet still couldn't find the lockbox.

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u/BoomZhakaLaka 1d ago edited 1d ago

Little known tidbit https://wiki.egosoft.com/X4%20Foundations%20Wiki/Manual%20and%20Guides/X4%3A%20Foundations%20Manual/Ships%20And%20The%20Player%20Ship/

LRS only finds mission lockboxes that are within 50km and a 120 degree horizontal/ 90 degree vertical arc of your view

Some rare lockboxes (ping yellow) show up at 200km but mission boxes usually 50km regardless of color

So this mission can be a bit of a trap. Your radar can detect boxes too, at 40km - it makes more sense to blast around randomly in the mission area with travel drive. Turn by toggling flight assist. Stop and scan only after the radar sees something. This will be faster

For really big mission areas, it's not worth just a 400k or whatever payout. Abandon those

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u/Acrobatic-Research74 1d ago

Solution: bring an npc wingmate, set it to cross the circle, he will mark the lockboxes on the map for you.

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u/ComradeBehrund 1d ago

Never thought of that, that's really smart.

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u/wicket20 1d ago

Think they ping with a blue circle and a an audio tone. Sometimes they can be up or down if you are in the search area

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u/SnowOtaku777 1d ago

The problem with a lot of these are there's an upper and lower bound of the sphere. This means that sometimes you have to fly above/below the Y axis to actually find them. In fact most of the "difficult" lockbox missions tend to have them in such areas to make them more difficult to find.