Overdrive Initiative Guide #1 - Intel Raid

We've been having a (literal) blast with the new Overdrive Initiative missions and I'm going to put together small guides to help folks out completing the whole chain as they release. Hope this helps - let's smash Xenothreat!!!
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00:00 - Intro
00:21 - Channel Credits
00:55 - What is Overdrive Initiative?
03:12 - Intel Raid Guide
10:39 - Final Thoughts

[@Chooie6]

My org sorted the missions by payout such that you need to have 5 missions with payouts of 10k 12k 14k 17k and 23k which will put your progress at 6/5 rather than looking at the progress numbers. I found out that if you fail to input the codes for the upload phase the servers will overheat and explode and the progress towards the upload that server was doing will be lost.

[@LoudGuns]

Good tip 👍 going to pop a pin in that as it’s a good way to see through the bugs.

[@LittleTed2]

Just about to watch the vid. Beware there are BUGS in this event. I have completed 7 missions that ranged all the way through Lvl 1/5, 2/5, 3/5, 4/5, 5/5. It only records 'completed' Lvl 1 and 5... ALL my Lvl 2,3,4 are 'converted' into being recorded in History as 1 OR 5. I have written in Spectrum and to Concierge. Other in Global have have similar problems. I suggest DO NOT start half-way as I did at Lvl 2/5 then go BACK to do 1/5. Be patient and do them in order even if peeps say you can do them in any order. Also, do it in ONE sitting with ONE group and ONE Leader sharing. None of this was mentioned by CIG in the event website page.

[@LoudGuns]

Yeah there are definitely bugs and the best way we found around it is to go with the lowest person (who hasn’t done any and is solidly on 1/5) then let them share. Tbh though I think CIG will air on the side of caution and as long as you’ve done x amount of missions they’ll count you as completed and give you the award (at the end of the day they wanna sell F7C Mk2’s 😂)

[@Scramblezz666]

Really great feedback, thank you for sharing.

[@shawnc5188]

The buggy “1/5” for all missions can be countered - by ensuring the payment for the missions are different, from 10,000 to 23,000. But you are also correct that a group should stick together to do the entire mission chain together.

[@gambler1ish]

When we started this we had no idea what we were doing so experienced a fail, all that happens is it destroys the attached server and makes the progress go slightly slower, great guide!

[@Skittleshunter64]

Also it makes the other servers overheat faster and monitors in the bunker will still display a code for the servers that are already down so could create more confusion and chaos

[@mdsf01]

As per usual, your explananations are complete, informative and easy to understand. Thank you, once again.

[@tk0pilot]

Legend

[@antoniopaivadasilva2716]

Very good through video! I've been looking for tutorials on how to do these types of missions and they were either too vague or didn't explain it at all, except this one. So good job on this really appreciate it

[@TheBod76]

As allways your guides are great. Straight to the point, well structured and no unnecessary stuff to bloat it up!

[@LoudGuns]

Thanks! That’s what we’re going for so glad it comes across 👍

[@TyrannicalTortoise]

Completed this with a group of 3 had a great time and bagged the heavy armour on the 5/5 mission, this was the best mission I’ve played with SC as it rewards teamwork.

[@LoudGuns]

Yep it’s a great mission tbh and a lot more engaging than the standard ones!

[@bruzzer11]

Always appreciate your videos and your great attitude.

[@LoudGuns]

Thanks Bruzzer! 🙏

[@davidfrancis2163]

Have t watched this yet. But I’ve added to watch later. I’m glad you’re doing this series of videos. As a mostly solo player it will be nice to know if I can do these on my own or will need a group. I can think of no better channel to get that information from. Thank you.

[@LoudGuns]

Cheers David, chances are you’ll need a pickup group to complete this - I think you could solo mission 1/5 but the others you’d seriously struggle on. 5/5 is probably impossible on your own. The good news though is people are very willing to help each other so even if just using general chat you’d get a pick up group to run with.

[@davidfrancis2163]

@@LoudGunsThank you LoudGuns. I'll pop into your discord. I've been meaning to do that anyway. I just wanted to get a little better at the game and piloting before i burden other players so I've been doing most of the game on my own. But of all the orgs i've heard about, I've been most attracted to yours.

[@Hawkit]

This has been by far the best guide for the event that i have watched so far! Kudos

[@LoudGuns]

Thanks Hawkit! 🙏

[@tylersutherland6492]

Keep up the hard work man absolutely love ur vids and im glad you covered this about the F7C/A

[@LoudGuns]

Cheers Tyler! Still not sure how I feel about the F7C mk2 - first impressions are good, but I’m really interested to try out the F7A. I think medium fighters are a bit underrated, so will be cool to see how it stacks up.

[@tylersutherland6492]

@@LoudGunsYeah I think that the F7A will be pretty powerful, maybe on the level of the F8C

[@SCTimbal]

Fantastic run through, thank you!

[@LoudGuns]

Cheers mate! 🙏

[@PulseStar5k]

I am on wide screen : the video is stunning 👌

[@wb2463]

I did these the other day with a rando I met on my server, it was good fun. We were lucky to have the missions go fairly smoothly for us (apart from having to server hop to get the 4th mission to pop up) but I know that for missions 1 - 3 we were the only people on our entire server to actually be receiving the missions in the first place, so there's clearly a problem there. Also we did the entire mission chain (excluding the 3rd mission) with only 2 people and its perfectly doable like that if you cant get a larger group together, it just takes longer.

[@rurallawwildwest9679]

Corsair, full power to shields an turret is no problem. Use crates to block elevators if you want to solo after you clear the initial batch.

[@migtin688]

I have found the cooling station farthest from the hack terminal is no audible if you are at the terminal. However, the terminal screen displays a warning banner at the bottom when one (or more) starts the over heat process. You do here the critical alarm from the unit farthest away. Failed entries results in a 5 second cool down. Failure to start cooling destroyes the cooling unit. No damage to you if you are right on top of it when it fails.

[@user-hj3tt6dj1s]

great video, thanks

[@davewills6121]

How many, and what time span are the missions and sets spread across, befor we can upgrade to an F7A?

[@SepulcherGeist]

Pretty good video. I had no idea this mission when like this. I hope we can do this with just two people...

[@epicfailville4091]

You can. The person reading the screens has gotta be moving fast and be familiar where all the screens are located though.

[@LoudGuns]

Yep I know some people have done it - more people will just give you an easier time though so if you struggle reach out for more help in global chat or come join a discord like ours

[@spcrowe]

Nicely done

[@LoudGuns]

Thanks mate 🙏

[@karn_son]

Thank you for the video, it's helpful info! For what it's worth in 1/5 as you fail codes the upload pauses and servers melt, fail enough and they all melt causing mission failure. You can get the mission again, just have to wait for it to pop. No idea what happens if you fail further on in the chain.

[@LoudGuns]

Ah I assume it’s the same, just that the length of mission and rate of failure is higher so more chance of burning out all the servers 👍

[@urbnctrl]

Realizing this is gonna become a super lit data hacking mission ran from inside the mercury star runner.

[@TonyKureWorld]

Why I gotta come here to find out how to do this damn mission I just spent 40 minutes in a bunker wondering why the damn upload wasn't working

[@belowaverage7539]

You can easily solo those bunker turrets in a constellation with laser repeaters as well if you have one.

[@AquilesPal]

I was trying to make it solo. Doesn't seem posible to complete it alone, I guess. Is it time framed? In my first attempt the mission failed, I had to do 2 uploads (a yellow marker was on) on upper levels. I don't know what I gad to do, as guards kept me from getting there

[@rugaro8846]

same thing yellow marker on upper level lol

[@channelname8623]

is there a fix for none of the screens showing the blue box popup with 4 digit code, after turning off/on cooling for a server and it prompting for the code?

[@XxExtreme]

Exactly what i was look for

[@LoudGuns]

Nice, glad to help! 👍

[@Power5]

Mission is decent but really just a slightly longer bunker clear out mission. After a couple it was redundant and just knocked it out to get the full completion. Most of the enemies were typical stuck in elevator NPCs so using the enemy weapons was more than enough firepower to complete these missions.

[@Skittleshunter64]

Also what i was wondering, do you just need to do 5 missions in total or all the 1/5 - 5/5? Because ive done like 10 missions but they were all 1/5 - 4/5 but never got the 5/5. It did say on the hud that im at 5/5 but the mission in the mobi glass showed that they were 1-4/5 levels as well as their payout.

[@LoudGuns]

I think technically you need to get the actual 5/5 (the one with 6 uploads). That being said it’s quite buggy particularly if you move around groups at all and I would imagine CIG will be quite forgiving (they do want to sell ships after all!)

[@avm7253]

TIP: Correct !! If you kill the civilian engenier in the bunker he will have a hack key to loot in case you forget it

[@dmitrygalyutin7767]

So do you get the f7a upgrade after completing these 5 missions, or after completing all missions of all phases? Considering putting in the effort if it’s not the latter. i just don’t have the time

[@LoudGuns]

I’m afraid it’s the latter - all missions from all 5 stages 👍

[@TheHectate]

Regarding missing the code: a server will overheat and become deactivated. We had this happen when we couldn't find the code (glitched or were we just unobservant?). This appears to reset the transfer time since a new server has to start uploading. From what I recall, an overheated server will be visually different as well; smoking and stuff. Additionally, I hear that you can lose all the servers to fail the mission, though that didn't happen in my group.

[@LoudGuns]

Ah makes sense - I saw the server explode at the end of some of the missions but didn’t put together that that could happen during 👍

[@raymondape]

When does phase 1 of overdrive end? The FOMO is real for that upgrade kit.

[@aimesblack]

Great video as always! Don't know how i feel about how often they do extra salles now in addition to the usual once over the year that in combination with them laying off staff makes me kinda question there financial situation. Could be way off doe.

[@LoudGuns]

Cheers Aimes! I don’t think there’s too much to worry about though (published accounts are all solid and the letter from Chris that dropped this week cleared up a lot of layoff speculation). If anything I think it’s likely that they’re gearing up for the marketing spend on Squadron 42 and are trying to build a war chest for that.

[@thomasmitchell4155]

To answer what happens if you miss a code, the server will fry and you will have that upload fail and reset the progress for that specific upload (I.e if you are active on 3/4, the upload will fail and you will remain at 2/4 and another server will take over the 3/4 upload attempt). I will say that it forgiving but while not tested, you probably have like 1-2 code fails before you lose the mission.

[@Matrixomega]

Do we know how many of these events are there? Until we get the ccu reward?

[@LoudGuns]

I’m not sure but they did hint at a new event weekly and I think this all builds to Invictus which is in about 5 weeks time.

[@spawnandbatman6975]

Aren’t we supposed to get the armor as well besides the ticket for the f7c upgrade?

[@LoudGuns]

Yep that got added the week or two after the ODI launched 👍 this guide just predated the change

[@Power5]

I am so curious to see how they rebalance old ships with so much power creep in new ships. This is the same size ship as the mk1 medium fighter but has heavy fighter firepower. Pretty sure the F7A mk2 has 600dps more burst firepower than the Vanguard series when both are equipped with max size laser repeaters. In sustained firepower the vanguard eeks out 30dps more damage. Vanguard carries an extra 4 s3 missiles but we know how effective those still are in game.

[@LoudGuns]

This is definitely an element to be considered but there is always the final lever of power balancing - price. In game UEC and Reputation cost will mean that some ships are allowed to be simply better than others on certain measures - it’s not like say a moba where all champions have to be equalised.

[@broader80]

JFYI, each time you don't complete to input the code in time, the corresponding server is destroyed. Loose enough servers and you can't complete the upload => Mission failed

[@mracicot]

Very frustrating event. Completed 1 of 5 three times, 4 of 5 twice, and 5 of 5 twice. Got the ‘mission completed’ message on 6 of the seven missions (one of which we had 3 servers blow up - only two of us played that mission and I had 3 servers beeping at once on two of the uploads). One failed to be recorded in my mission history at all. Two of the three #1s show as completed and one shows as failed. One each of the #4s and #5s show as failed and one each show as completed, giving me a total of 4 completions… I haven’t seen 2 of 5 or 3 of 5 pop yet. I wasn’t always the one accepting, so I’m sure that’s part of the problem. I hope to see the ones pop up that I haven’t seen yet, but…

[@gonzo7188]

Dang I hope I can get into a group mission Tuesday.

[@LoudGuns]

As far as I know these will be live for the whole 5 weeks or so (so when phase 2 comes in you’ll still be able to do phase 1) so don’t sweat!

[@gonzo7188]

Cool thanks Loudguns. See you out there.

[@vikovitch]

i tried this mission. i have a budget pc. it did not go well. but before it really went not well, i can tell you that if a server overheats then the upload switches to a different server and the first server is unuseable.

[@Jhedeye]

If you fail to enter the code in time the firewall overheats and disconnects from the server and your upload progress resets. Thankfully just the upload youre on, not the entire thing. It will be down and not possible to bring it back up. It feels like thats a fail mechanic, but with 10 servers youd really have to mess up.

[@TheValkian]

What is the helmet you're wearing?

[@LoudGuns]

At the end and in the thumbnail? That’s the XT heavy one that you’ll find in the 5/5 mission or this chain.

[@chandley]

Just to answer what happens if you dont find the codes: The servers overheat each in turn, and once they are all overheated/destroyed, the mission fails. Ask me how I know :)

[@Libertas_P77]

This is vaguely cool as an event series, but also I think the reward will be a gigantic nothingburger. There’s no way they can have a ship that only a small subset ever get to access that is so OP it can for example outdo a crewed Hurricane, which is what some people are claiming. Then it becomes pay-to-win, which hopefully nobody is in favour of.. ultimately I’m all for a lot more achievement / play related unlock of things, because pay-to-win would be a terrible path for Star Citizen to go. As it is, the ship pledge model already means a major advantage after each wipe for those of us with for example large cargo haulers, salvage, mining etc from the outset instead of just a starter ship.

[@LoudGuns]

I think there should’ve been a more meaningful in game reward like an armour set or something - I’ll be advocating for this from the next vid onwards 👍

[@StevenBalboa-bh6pt]

Wait so you can’t just buy the f7m mk11 without doing missions ?

[@iKennectz]

You can buy the F7C Mk2. The upgrade token is to turn that ship into the F7A Mk2

[@Skittleshunter64]

Is your Org NA orientated or EU also?

[@LoudGuns]

We are proudly global! I would say we’re about 45:45 EU and NA, then we have 10% or so from OCE and Asia.

[@ezekielhudson5769]

If all servers overheat the mission fails

[@Ricardojmsl]

I always found keys to run thhe bunker, always with a npc engineer loot himm open the vest o pants and you find the hacking key to run the mission.

[@LoudGuns]

It’s like 99% likely you’ll find one; but we did have one mission where we screwed up and didn’t bring one, then ofc couldn’t find a single one in the whole place 😆

[@chrictonj9503]

👍

[@Snigadin]

Shame you didn't record the "Carrack event" 😆

[@LoudGuns]

Haha I think I managed to miss that since I was trying to have smaller clips to work with 😆

[@merc9nine]

Where is the card

[@0Metatron]

I’ve been forced into filthy PVE gameplay, I need to take a long shower This is unacceptable

[@LoudGuns]

There needs to be a PvE slider 😂

[@0Metatron]

😂😂

[@Tacticalpanda757]

anyone wanna go through this? first time being back on in 2 years

[@JulesVega_]

Hmmm, I wonder who you're talking about with multiple accounts? lol

[@LoudGuns]

🤔

[@davewills6121]

Multiple accounts?.....many of us have multiple accounts, ive 5 accounts...'dont you?

[@iamnickdavis]

Lol, i thought this was some Intel hard drive storage solution video.... its not.

[@LoudGuns]

Well welcome to Star Citizen content my friend!! 😂

[@Zer0cul0]

WTF? How did you do the mission when the quest system doesn't work? Like seriously the devs must never had played this game because it's impossible to actually do any of these missions.

[@Corey-mm7jw]

i need friends huh

[@LoudGuns]

Friends are out there!

[@Bnryzombie]

This sounds like a grind. No thanks.

[@angelsideuk6197]

Yet another thing you can earn but only if you buy smh

[@LoudGuns]

I think there should’ve been a purely in game reward (an armour set or something - the XT heavy armour is cool af in my opinion). I’ll be advocating for this from the next vid onwards since there is still plenty of time for CIG to correct this.

[@angelsideuk6197]

@@LoudGuns i agree, im beyond fed up of these sale events honestly

[@toniecuffia3422]

"promosm" 😡