Orokin Sabotage is a special variant of the standard Sabotage missions, accessible only via Orokin Sabotage Void Keys. This Sabotage mission requires players to shut down an Orokin Portal that allows the Corpus and Grineer to access the Orokin Void.
Mechanics
Players are tasked with finding a portal room that holds a Void Portal that connects the Orokin Tower or Orokin Derelict with another location. Upon reaching the room, players must reverse the portal's polarity by activating two generators in sequence, which is achieved by hacking the designated consoles within the portal room. Upon activation, each console must then be defended for a short period of time from enemy attack until each generator contributes 50% power to the portal. After defending one console, the other console must be activated and defended in the same manner to complete the reversal, that will then allow players to cross over to the other side.
Crossing the portal will bring players into another portal room containing a Torsion Beam Generator that leads out into a planetary tileset, where they will need to hunt down and defeat a miniboss that holds the Void Key necessary to close the portal. Once the Key is acquired, it must then be brought back into the portal room and inserted into the Torsion Beam Generator that will initiate a 20-second countdown, where players must cross the portal before the countdown ends. Players can then head to extraction upon completing this objective.
Resource Caches
An optional secondary objective present in Orokin Sabotage missions gives the task of finding three Resource Caches that take the form of Grineer or Corpus Lockers within the Orokin Void or Orokin Derelict portion of the mission, which contain valuable treasure. These lockers, which can be identified by having white lights instead of red or green, are usually hidden within hard-to-reach and secret areas that may require parkour or mobility skills to use. The lockers emit a distinct hum that can be heard if they're within the vicinity, which can aid in determining their location.
The first resource cache discovered can contain Void Keys, while the second has a larger chance at obtaining rare resources, and the third cache discovered can offer rewards like Forma, Fusion Cores or Prime parts/blueprints (The Prime part/blueprint being randomly chosen from the mission's reward table). Opening a cache will provide the uncovered reward to all players present in the mission, even if only one player is physically present at the resource cache.
Tiers
As with all Orokin Void missions, Orokin Void Sabotage missions come in four tiers. However, each tier is unique in having a different planetary tileset to which the Void Portal leads to, which also determines the type of enemy encountered on the other side.
- Tower I Sabotage connect to the Grineer Forest tileset, populated by Grineer.
- Tower II Sabotage connects to the Corpus Ice Planet tileset populated by Corpus.
- Tower III Sabotage connects to the Grineer Settlement tileset populated by Grineer.
- Tower IV Sabotage connect to the Corpus Outpost tileset populated by Corpus.
- Orokin Derelict Sabotage connects to the Grineer Shipyard tileset populated by Grineer.
The miniboss encountered on each mission is determined by the dominant enemy faction. Tower I, III and Derelict missions have the sister pair Sprag and Ven'kra Tel as the miniboss, while Tower II and IV have Lynx as the miniboss.
Notes
- The Void Key picked up from the mission's miniboss has similar properties to a Dragon Key, and can confer a weaker version of the Hobbled effect of reduced movement speed to the player while it is carried. The key also applies a max shield bonus of 20% when picked up by the player (if the key is used or dropped the extra shield becomes overshield).
- The possible extra Prime part/blueprint should all 3 caches have been found is drawn from the same Loot table as the mission itself.
- Unlike normal lockers resource caches are treated as loot containers and thus appear on the mini-map when using loot radar mods such as Thief's Wit and Loot Detector. This can make finding the caches a lot easier
Trivia
- Orokin Sabotage was introduced in the Operation Gate Crash event.
Bugs
- Rarely, attempting to pick up the Void Key may disable the use key (default X ) for the rest of the mission, preventing the Void Key from being picked up.
- Sometimes the Torsion Beam Generator may not accept the Void Key.
- Dropping the key then picking it back up might fix it.
- The key may fall in an unreachable area sometimes.
- On very rare occassion when the portal closes the game may believe the players are still on the other side resulting in a failure.
- Sprag and Ven'kra Tel have been known to fall through the map floor and get stuck inside the map.
- Killing Sprag and Ven'kra Tel with a shotgun will usually ragdoll the body, causing the void key to ragdoll with it.