Can you ignore first flashpoint?

[Fallenkezef]

I did the first Flashpoint and as a Capellan loyalist didn't much care for it. Doesn't help that I hate escort and base def missions.

In a new playthrough would I be able to ignore the first flashpoint and still have further ones spawn? Or do you have to complete the first to make others spawn?

 

[commuterzombie]

Flashpoints will continue to spawn from a randomised pool of available Flashpoints throughout the course of your game. You don't need to complete a Flashpoint to have another one pop up later, you can safely let undesirable ones expire.

 

[mjbroekman]

To expand on what @commuterzombie posted... Flashpoints are completely optional. You can ignore them entirely. The only time you will stop being able to play them is when you've completed all 18 successfully. And the only reason for that is the fact that they are removed from the available list when you complete them. Ignored Flashpoints will come around again in the future if you don't complete them.

 

[BunglingLummox]

Ignored Flashpoints will come around again in the future if you don't complete them.

This right here is valuable information. I've been forcing myself to rush heavier mechs to take on high-level flashpoints, but if I knew they'd come around again I wouldn't have bothered.

 

[Flying Dice]

Yeah, I turned the spawn rate and simultaneous-available way up in my current campaign, I've seen them cycle through ~25 in my first year.

 

[Ole122]

One thing I did ask myself: I had a multi-mission Flashpoint (Headhunt it was). One of those with 2 or more parts that are NOT consecutive drops. Did the first part. Left the second one and forgot about it. Part 2 disappeared due to time running out. Will it come back?

 

[mjbroekman]

One thing I did ask myself: I had a multi-mission Flashpoint (Headhunt it was). One of those with 2 or more parts that are NOT consecutive drops. Did the first part. Left the second one and forgot about it. Part 2 disappeared due to time running out. Will it come back?

Good question. I think the answer is yes, but as the full Flashpoint, not just 'Part 2'. I have left a Flashpoint in the middle, but haven't had the followup expire on me before I got back to it. Are you sure that it actually expired? If you click on the system it was in, does it say "Flashpoint Active"? If so, you can click that and pick up the next part. If not, then you didn't complete the Flashpoint and it should be reshuffled into the available list.

 

[Ole122]

Nope, not available any more. Got like 4 or 5 active ones, but Headhunting Part II is not one of them. Guess I'll have to hope that it gets shuffled back in the deck.

 

[mjbroekman]

So, I just failed the second mission in The Steel Beast (that happens when you take a 2 skull lance on a beefed up 3 skull mission, but hey... sometimes you have to be daring). The OpFor had 2 TDRs, a ShadowHawk, and a Wolverine (in addition to the 5 turrets and nebulous reinforcements). My Jenner was CT cored (but the pilot survived!!! Yay(?) 95 days in the med bay) and my Trebuchet had most of it's weapons destroyed, so I decided on withdrawing because I couldn't see how a 2x LL Panther and my own Wolverine were going to be able to push through to the end. It turned out it was a Good Faith withdrawl, but because it failed the mission, Darius popped up and cheerfully told me that I might get another shot at it in the future.

 

[BunglingLummox]

I think the answer is yes, but as the full Flashpoint, not just 'Part 2'

Darius popped up and cheerfully told me that I might get another shot at it in the future.

Further to this, I can confirm that you can see failed flashpoints again, and they reset to the start of the chain.

I failed the flashpoint "White Lies" on the third stage (three skulls my arse, it dropped two full-armour lances on me including no lights and a Highlander). Literally the very next day it popped again. I hadn't even left the system.

 

[Ole122]

Same here. Failed Headhunt, redid it. So that's one question asnwered.