Quest Guide: A Lay of the Land

Objective list

• In one round
• Reach the Jiangsu Warehouse
• Find the shipping notes in the foreman's office
• Locate the scanners on the upper floor of Control Tower A6
• Deliver 1 LiDAR Scanners to Shani

What to bring

• A reliable mid-range primary and a sidearm or close-range backup; most quest deaths happen while rotating, not while looting.
• A light-value raid kit. 'In one round' objectives punish greed, so bring enough to survive, not enough to cry over.
• Put any required stash items in your secure slot or the safest inventory space before you queue. Do not trust yourself to remember them after you deploy.
• Enough meds and shields to survive two rotations; multi-location quests punish players who arrive at the final step with no resources left.

Bring these items in from stash

• LiDAR Scanner x1

If one of these items fits in a safe pocket, use it. The easiest way to brick a clean route is to lose the one thing the objective needs.

How to run it

Because the tracker says this must be done in one round, treat the named objective areas as a route: get in, clear the interaction, confirm the update, then rotate immediately. You are not trying to win the whole lobby; you are trying to leave with the quest done.

1. Step 1: Reach the Jiangsu Warehouse

   Make this your opening waypoint. Move quickly, clear only what blocks the path, and do not burn utility before you reach the named area.

2. Step 2: Find the shipping notes in the foreman's office

   Once you are at the point of interest, clear the nearest angle first, then interact. Most misses on this step happen because players sprint past the actual prompt or loot through the room too early.

3. Step 3: Locate the scanners on the upper floor of Control Tower A6

   Make this your opening waypoint. Move quickly, clear only what blocks the path, and do not burn utility before you reach the named area.

4. Step 4: Deliver 1 LiDAR Scanners to Shani

   Do not queue extra looting on the way back. Once the item is in your bag, your next win condition is simply getting out alive.

Where players usually throw this quest

• Starting the raid without a simple, clockwork route. One-round quests fall apart when you improvise after the first gunshot.
• Forgetting a required stash item, or carrying it in a loose slot where one bad decision turns the run into a wipe.
• Finishing the item step and then greed-looting instead of extracting while the objective is still fresh and uncontested.
• Taking a fight on the way out just because you hear it. Quest raids are won by discipline, not by K/D.

Miswired note

Use the named area as your anchor, then plan your extract before you touch the objective. That matters more than another backpack worth of salvage on Spaceport.