Sabotage

Sabotage Missions require players to reach an objective, and then destroy it before heading to extraction. The objective that needs to be destroyed differs depending on the mission's tileset.

Variants

General

On the majority of tilesets, players must find a reactor room, and destroy the reactor core. To destroy the reactor core, players will need to expose the reactor core by activating a control console, then proceed to destroy each of the cylinders sticking out of it. Missions taking place on Grineer Shipyards feature a slightly different reactor design, which has much larger cylinders on a stationary core.

The missions that require the destruction of the reactor core have a chance of triggering the Timed Extraction event upon completion via the overhead message "Ship Integrity Compromised", while the missions requiring destruction of Grineer Mining Machines or Toxin Injectors will not usually trigger a timed extraction.

Grineer Asteroid

If the mission takes place on a Grineer Asteroid, players will be tasked with finding and destroying a number of Drilling Machines scattered around the map. Up to 4 Drilling Machines can be found during a mission.

Grineer Forest

If the mission takes place on a Grineer Forest, players will be tasked with finding and destroying a Cicero Toxin Injector. Instead of destroying it directly using weapons, the Injector must be activated to enable its overdrive systems, which will initiate a countdown timer until its destruction. Players must then defend the Injector from enemies until the Injector has finished its countdown. If the player has an Antitoxin in a Gear slot, they may put it into the Injector before activating the overdrive, granting them an additional reward at the end of the mission depending on the potency of the antitoxin used. Using Antitoxins will extend the time needed to defend the Injector however, with more potent antitoxins having longer times, thus players should consider between having additional rewards or having faster and easier missions.

Grineer Sealab

Main article: Sealab Sabotage

Infested Ship

Main article: Hive Sabotage

Missions taking place onboard Infested Ships require players to destroy three Infested Hives, they are protected by five Infested Tumors each that must be destroyed before the hive can be harmed. Each destruction of a hive will increase the Infested spawnrate as well as triggering an environmental hazard, depending on the type of Hive destroyed. The hazards range from Lowered Gravity, Laser Hazard, Turret Activation, Cryogenic Leakage, Clouds and Fields.

Orokin Sabotage

Main article: Orokin Sabotage

Orokin Sabotage takes place on Orokin Void and Orokin Derelict tilesets, where the objective is to close a Void portal allowing Corpus or Grineer troops entry into the Void. Closing the portal involves a mixture of Defense-style gameplay, and Assassination where a special miniboss must be killed in the process.

Corpus Archwing Sabotage

Taking place on the Archwing Trenchrun tileset, this mode sees players fly through a severely damaged Corpus Ship to destroy the reactor core. The reactor room has eight Auxiliary Power Cores that must be destroyed to expose the two larger Primary Power Cores that are the main objective. Deadly crisscrossing beams activate whenever each auxiliary core is destroyed, making the area more hazardous.

Fomorian Sabotage

Main article: Fomorian Sabotage

Fomorian Sabotage is a special Sabotage Alert variant that involves using Archwings to engage and destroy a Balor Fomorian before it reaches a Relay. Each Fomorian Sabotage mission has a timer displaying the time until it reaches the relay, along with a health counter showing the percent of health it has remaining.

In order to participate in a Fomorian Sabotage mission, a player must have an Archwing available, as well as a Fomorian Disruptor equipped in their Gear menu.

Reactor Sabotage

Main article: Reactor Sabotage

Introduced in Update 18.5, this Sabotage variant replaces sabotage on the Grineer Galleon and Corpus Ship tilesets. In this mode, the player must sabotage the two coolant stations of the reactor before destroying the reactor itself.

On corpus and grineer ship sabotage if you insert the fuel cell into the reactor, you have to destroy the fuel cells that pop out and the ship explodes, essentially giving you a timer and rooms starting from the reactor room become extremely hot, dealing lots of damage over time to tenno inside them. Additionally, you must hack a terminal to unlock a blast door on the way to extraction, the console is the same console you used to hack in old spy missions.

If you extract and insert a coolant cell, you will have to defend the reactor as the coolant floods the system. Afterward, the ship freezes and ice hazards appear, and you are free to proceed to extraction without any kind of timer.

If you freeze the ship then put in the fuel cell, you will have to defend the reactor a second time. Once the process is complete there will be magnetic anomalies all over the ship, although the freezing ones remain. The magnetic anomalies will reflect projectiles and will take 0 damage if attacked, but cannot be destroyed. The blast door will close as if you had only put in a fuel cell, but there will not be a timer or rooms that drain your health. Additionally, gravity is lessened just like the nightmare mission condition.

Rewards

Many kinds of Sabotage missions contain Resource Caches. For each cache collected, the squad will earn additional rewards depending on the kind of Sabotage mission. Like Spy Mission Vaults, these additional rewards will not be revealed until the mission is completed. On the mission completion screen, cache rewards will be marked with "Identified"

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• Earth
• Hive
• Reactor
• Sealab
• Void
• Deimos
• Archwing

A		B		C
x2500 Credit Cache	100%	x3000 Credit Cache	24.35%	Health Restore (Large)	30.2%
		Endo x100	24.35%	Endo x200	30.2%
		Detonite Ampule	12.18%	Neurodes	15.1%
		Ferrite x300	12.18%	Bite	3.67%
		Neurodes	12.18%	Hastened Deflection	3.67%
		Rubedo x150	12.18%	Link Fiber	3.67%
		Kubrow Egg	2.58%	Link Redirection	3.67%
				Link Vitality	3.67%
				Maul	3.67%
				Forma Blueprint	2%
				Forma	0.5%

Locations:

• Cervantes, Earth

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A		B		C
x3000 Credit Cache	33.33%	x5000 Credit Cache	30.98%	Endo x400	35.49%
Endo x200	33.33%	Endo x300	15.49%	Enemy Sense	15.49%
Thief's Wit	16.67%	Mutagen Sample x3	15.49%	Neurodes	15.49%
Nano Spores x1000	16.67%	Plastids x350	15.49%	Neurodes x2	15.49%
		Contagious Spread	5.64%	Firestorm	4.51%
		Fever Strike	5.64%	High Voltage	4.51%
		Infected Clip	5.64%	Shell Shock	4.51%
		Pathogen Rounds	5.64%	Mutalist Alad V Nav Coordinate	4.51%

Locations:

• Naeglar, Eris

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• Tier 1
• Tier 2
• Tier 3

A		B		C
x2500 Credit Cache	100%	Endo x400	62.06%	Endo x80	15.1%
		Alloy Plate x750	12.65%	Endo x150	15.1%
		Circuits x750	12.65%	Gallium	15.1%
		Polymer Bundle x240	12.65%	Morphics	15.1%
				Neurodes	15.1%
				Endo x160	5.5%
				Gallium x2	5.5%
				Morphics x2	5.5%
				Neurodes x2	5.5%
				Argon Crystal	0.67%
				Nitain Extract	0.67%
				Tellurium	0.67%
				Xiphos Fuselage Blueprint	0.5%

Locations:

• Ishtar, Venus
• Terminus, Mercury
• Gradivus, Mars

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A		B		C
x5000 Credit Cache	100%	Endo x400	62.06%	Endo x600	34.6%
		Plastids x300	12.65%	Gallium	15.1%
		Polymer Bundle x300	12.65%	Neurodes	15.1%
		Rubedo x350	12.65%	Orokin Cell	15.1%
				Gallium x2	4.4%
				Neurodes x2	4.4%
				Orokin Cell x2	4.4%
				Tellurium	4.4%
				Argon Crystal	1%
				Nitain Extract	1%
				Xiphos Engines Blueprint	0.5%

Locations:

• Ker, Ceres
• Thon, Ceres
• Adrastea, Jupiter
• Calypso, Saturn

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A		B		C
x10000 Credit Cache	100%	Endo x400	62.06%	Endo x600	41.42%
		Circuits x400	12.65%	Gallium	12.58%
		Plastids x300	12.65%	Neurodes	12.58%
		Rubedo x400	12.65%	Orokin Cell	12.58%
				Argon Crystal	3.67%
				Gallium x2	3.67%
				Neurodes x2	3.67%
				Orokin Cell x2	3.67%
				Tellurium	3.67%
				Nitain Extract	2%
				Xiphos Avionics Blueprint	0.5%

Locations:

• Rusalka, Sedna
• Cypress, Pluto

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A		B		C
x3000 Credit Cache	40%	x5000 Credit Cache	30.98%	Endo x400	20%
Endo x200	40%	Endo x200	30.98%	Gallium x2	15.49%
Polymer Bundle x300	20%	Plastids x300	15.49%	Gallium x3	15.49%
		Battering Maneuver	4.51%	Oxium x250	15.49%
		Mobilize	4.51%	Tellurium	15.49%
		Patagium	4.51%	Firewalker	4.51%
		Piercing Step	4.51%	Ice Spring	4.51%
		Rending Turn	4.51%	Lightning Dash	4.51%
				Toxic Flight	4.51%

Locations:

• Desdemona, Uranus

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• Tier 2 Caches
• Tier 2 Relics
• Tier 4 Caches
• Tier 4 Relics

A		B		C
x5000 Credit Cache	100%	Endo x400	62.06%	Endo x600	60.29%
		Circuits x400	12.65%	Neurodes	18.88%
		Plastids x300	12.65%	Bullet Dance	3.67%
		Rubedo x400	12.65%	Argon Crystal	3.67%
				Gallium x2	3.67%
				Neurodes x2	3.67%
				Orokin Cell x2	3.67%
				Nitain Extract	2%
				Xiphos Avionics Blueprint	0.5%

Locations:

• Stribog, Void

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Rewards
Lith G10	13.33%
Lith C11	6.67%
Lith G9	6.67%
Lith P8	6.67%
Lith R5	6.67%
Lith T10	6.67%
Meso A5	6.67%
Meso B9	6.67%
Meso G6	6.67%
Meso H5	6.67%
Meso H6	6.67%
Meso M4	6.67%
Meso W3	6.67%
Aya	6.67%

Locations:

• Stribog, Void

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A		B		C
x10000 Credit Cache	100%	Endo x400	54.48%	Endo x600	55%
		Circuits x400	15.18%	Neurodes	25.29%
		Plastids x300	15.18%	Bullet Dance	4.42%
		Rubedo x400	15.18%	Argon Crystal	4.42%
				Gallium x2	4.42%
				Orokin Cell x2	4.42%
				Xiphos Avionics Blueprint	1.01%
				Nitain Extract	1.01%

Locations:

• Marduk, Void

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Rewards
Neo K6	12.5%
Aya	12.5%
Axi A17	6.25%
Axi A18	6.25%
Axi B7	6.25%
Axi D5	6.25%
Axi G11	6.25%
Axi L6	6.25%
Axi P6	6.25%
Neo F3	6.25%
Neo K7	6.25%
Neo S18	6.25%
Neo W1	6.25%
Neo Z10	6.25%

Locations:

• Marduk, Void

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A		B		C
x3000 Credit Cache	28.57%	x5000 Credit Cache	30.35%	Endo x400	23.12%
Endo x200	28.57%	Endo x200	30.35%	Argon Crystal	19.36%
Thief's Wit	14.29%	Neurodes	15.18%	Neural Sensors	19.36%
Mutagen Sample x3	14.29%	Bane of Infested	4.42%	Orokin Cell	19.36%
Nano Spores x1000	14.29%	Cleanse Infested	4.42%	Enemy Sense	3.76%
		Expel Infested	4.42%	Master Thief	3.76%
		Smite Infested	4.42%	Argon Crystal x2	3.76%
		Neurodes x2	4.42%	Neural Sensors x2	3.76%
		Mutalist Alad V Nav Coordinate	2.01%	Orokin Cell x2	3.76%

Locations:

• Formido, Deimos

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Rewards
Conductive Blade	25.81%
Glacial Edge	25.81%
Tempered Blade	25.81%
Astral Slash	3.76%
Comet Blast	3.76%
Meteor Crash	3.76%
Nebula Bore	3.76%
Quasar Drill	3.76%
Zodiac Shred	3.76%

Locations:

• Galilea, Jupiter

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Notes

• After sabotaging a core in either the Corpus Ship or Grineer Galleon missions, the entire level can become noticeably darker owing to lights being shut down, presumably due to lack of power from the now-destroyed reactor. There is also a chance of fire hazards breaking out.
• Getting all 3 caches in Reactor Sabotage missions has the potential to reward Nitain Extract and Xiphos parts.

Trivia

• The only Corpus Gas City Sabotage mission, located in Amalthea, Jupiter, has a reactor room that houses 53 MOA Cabinet Spawners, the largest number in a single room ingame. This gives the Amalthea reactor room the best chances for hacking multiple friendly Shockwave MOAs.

Media

• Sabotage as seen in the lobby (U9)

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Patch History

Hotfix 19.5.6 (2017-01-04)

• Fixed "Open 3 Caches during any Sabotage mission on Uranus" Neptune Junction task not completing.