Beacons are by far my favorite event in EU
A beacon is an item that is looted when mining.....you pick up a strange signal...if you follow it you will find a spaceship guarded by up to 3 drones. When you get to the side of the ship there is a red button...push the button and retrieve your beacon.
Each Beacon has its own land zone and ped value. The higher the value the bigger the robots you must face. Got to the coordinates listed and equip your beacon... A shuttle will then come to transport you and up to a 12 man team to the mother ship
Each Beacon has its own land zone and ped value. The higher the value the bigger the robots you must face. Got to the coordinates listed and equip your beacon... A shuttle will then come to transport you and up to a 12 man team to the mother ship
taking off
When your team has arrived at the land zone make sure that the person holding the beacon is team leader. Any person not in the team who enters the shuttle will be left on the ground at takeoff.
Once the team is all aboard the shuttle drop the beacon into the slot provided and hang on for the ride of your life :)
Once the team is all aboard the shuttle drop the beacon into the slot provided and hang on for the ride of your life :)
The mother ship
Upon arriving at the mother ship you set a self destruct system in action by docking and the team is now on a mission to clear the ship of all robots, collect all the loot held in storage boxes and return to the safety of the shuttle before the ship explodes.
Each Beacon consists of 6 lvls except the 35 ped large and higher which can have the full 7 lvls. The same 7 lvls are on every beacon just the order varies. Example the shuttle is always the first floor and the Boss is always the last. In between will be 4 of the remaining 5 floors. The Pit (which contains the halfway boss which starts with a drone coordinator on a 23 up to high lvl SEG on 42. The reactor or round room, the red floor or pyramid, the pink floor and the maze.
Clearing the ship
Due to a large number of bugged beacons you no longer have to kill all robots on the ship to conquer the ship and gain access to the loot boxes. You have to kill all but one robot to activate the loot feature. When activated a window appears warning you of the impending explosion which leaves your team about 7 mins to loot all the storage boxes.
All team members must be on the boss floor when the destruct sequence is initiated to be able to open boxes. You can now go to the boss floor after the boss is dead and activate your right to loot.
It took us many many missions before managing our first globaling beacon which was the first of many :) Loot is usually just enough return to cover the cost of the beacon with the worst scenario being not recovering the cost of ammo.
All team members must be on the boss floor when the destruct sequence is initiated to be able to open boxes. You can now go to the boss floor after the boss is dead and activate your right to loot.
It took us many many missions before managing our first globaling beacon which was the first of many :) Loot is usually just enough return to cover the cost of the beacon with the worst scenario being not recovering the cost of ammo.
reaching the shuttle safely
Any team members who make the shuttle floor before the mother ship explodes will be returned to the land zone by the shuttle. All others will be killed by the explosion and returned to the nearest revival.