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Capture is a Mission type requiring the player to find a person of interest, incapacitate them before they escape, and capture said target before heading to extraction.

Mechanics

Players must first locate the Capture Target (Grineer Target, Corpus Target or Nullifier Target), who typically spawns in a room used exclusively for the Capture mission type (though the Capture Target may spawn in a "generic" room that is used regardless of mission type). Once the Capture Target spots the player, the Target will immediately start running away to avoid capture, ultimately making his way to a ship or a safehouse. If the Target reaches that location, players will no longer be able to capture him, failing the mission. In order to actually capture the Target, players must attack him until he kneels, remaining still until the player interacts with the downed target, transferring him to a safe location. Players can head to extraction once the Target is successfully captured.

The Capture Target runs faster than most Warframes, is immune to most Warframe abilities, and will have an ability to evade his pursuers (such as Radial Blast or  Smoke Screen). Coupled with incoming enemy fire (who will ignore the target regardless of faction allegiance) and having much more health than the enemies present, players must get close in on the target quickly before they leave the map, where the mission will fail.

Once the target has fallen for 30 seconds, he will enter a bleedout state for the next minute. If players do not complete the capture before then, the target will die and fail the mission.

Capture missions may turn into Exterminate missions after the target has been captured. This is accompanied by Lotus saying "Change of plans, ignore your original objective, leave nothing alive". Exterminate missions of this type appear to have a much lower amount of kills needed to complete than normal.

Legacyte Harvest

Main article: Legacyte Harvest

Introduced in Update 38.0 (2024-12-13), players must fill a gauge to draw out the Legacyte capture target from hiding. This variant is endless.

Locations

Enemy Types

Since Update 19.0 (2016-11-11) Capture enemy types are split into 3 tiers: Easy (1-10), Medium (10-20), Hard (20+). Unlike other mission types, the tier does not affect the reward given from capturing a target.

Corpus Nullifiers and white-suited Corpus Targets (capable of creating a  Snow Globe-esqe barrier) do not appear on lower level Capture missions.

These white-suited Targets often wield the  Glaxion, which seems to do far more damage to players than normal.

Notes

• The Capture Targets drop Credits as they're attacked.
• Capture Targets cannot be  Banished by  Limbo, but can still enter the Rift Plane by walking into a  Cataclysm.
• Capture Targets cannot be  Mind Controlled by  Nyx.
• Capture Targets will flee the moment the Lotus tells you that you have found them, regardless of if the capture target itself has actually seen you or you have seen it.
  • Due to this, it is impossible to score stealth damage bonuses against the target.
• Once the target is alerted, all enemies will become automatically alerted, making stealth kills impossible after this point. Enemies will also move to your position if you decloak from stealth, and there is no way to "reset" this alert status.
• When capturing a Nullifier Target, be aware that their nullifier shield will regenerate if it was dispelled without destroying their nullifier drone. If you are invisible or have a defensive ability on such as  Iron Skin, it will be removed upon entering the shield, allowing enemies around to attack.
  • Due to these targets releasing non-allied units like Shield Ospreys due to a bug, enemies may focus their attack on that enemy instead of you while you capture the target.
• Some Grineer Targets possess shields as well as armor, being the only non-boss Grineer enemies to do so.
• Similarly, all Corpus Targets, including Nullifier Targets, have armor, being among the few Corpus units to have such a commodity.
• Targets cannot be knocked down, but can be ragdolled by slam attacks from the  Jat Kittag and other weapons.
• All capture targets have significantly more health, armor, and shield than their level implies. In fact, some have double the stats of that level making higher level capture targets resist several shots from weapons like the  Tigris Prime.
• You can trap the capture target using  Gara's  Mass Vitrify to trap the target and keep it from running away, making the objective easier.
• The Capture mission type has a built-in anti-farming mechanism which reduces affinity from capturing a target to a flat 250 affinity (instead of up to 3000 affinity) if the player completes too many Capture missions of the same tier in a row.
  • Completing a non-Capture mission or a Capture mission of a different tier is usually sufficient to reset this mechanism and restore affinity rewards to their normal values.

Rewards

Drop Tables

Unlike other mission types, all capture missions outside of the Void pull from the same pool of rewards regardless of level.

• Normal Missions
• Void

Rewards
Ammo Drum	11.06%
Rush	11.06%
Health Restore (Large)	10.84%
Fast Deflection	10.84%
Fast Hands	10.84%
Magazine Warp	10.84%
Quickdraw	10.84%
Trick Mag	10.84%
Vitality	10.84%
Omni Ammo Box	0.34%
Molten Impact	0.34%
North Wind	0.34%
Pressure Point	0.34%
Shocking Touch	0.34%
Stretch	0.34%

Locations:

• Mantle, Earth
• Venera, Venus
• Elion, Mercury
• Ara, Mars
• Skyresh, Phobos
• Horend, Deimos
• Lex, Ceres
• Ananke, Jupiter
• Abaddon, Europa
• Cassini, Saturn
• Ariel, Uranus
• Copernicus, Lua
• Galatea, Neptune
• Hydra, Pluto
• Isos, Eris

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• Tier 1
• Tier 3

Rewards
Lith A6	13.33%
Lith G13	13.33%
Lith M9	13.33%
Lith N16	13.33%
Lith P9	13.33%
Lith W4	13.33%
Lith X1	13.33%
Aya	6.67%

Locations:

• Hepit, Void

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Rewards
Meso A7	6.67%
Meso E6	6.67%
Meso F5	6.67%
Meso G8	6.67%
Meso N17	6.67%
Meso T7	6.67%
Meso V10	6.67%
Neo A13	6.67%
Neo G8	6.67%
Neo L4	6.67%
Neo P7	6.67%
Neo Q1	6.67%
Neo W2	6.67%
Neo Z11	6.67%
Aya	6.67%

Locations:

• Ukko, Void

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Affinity

Affinity rewards scale with mission level, up to a maximum of 3000 Affinity, and are given for capturing the target. The Steel Path Capture missions will always reward 3000 Affinity on target capture.

Bugs

• There is a rare bug where when the Corpus capture target cloaks itself it will be cloaked permanently. This could possibly occur because of host or client lag.
• Sometimes, when an assassin/death squad appears, the capture target may glitch if the person capturing him dies and the death squad leaves. Usually it will make the target appear outside the map.
• Void capture targets will sometimes deploy units like Shield Ospreys to protect them, although these units are occasionally not allied with the caster or with the Corrupted faction, and therefore do not provide any benefit to the target.
• Targets may fall out of the map after being ragdolled if flying out of bounds, in similar locations where the player is teleported to the previous location after falling out. This can result in the mission failure, more commonly the target will teleport back to the location before being ragdolled.
• There is an uncommon bug where the player can actually kill the capture target. Although the target is "dead", an invisible body will still remain in its place and let the player capture it anyway, thus making it purely a visual glitch that does not affect gameplay.
• After the target has been captured, it is possible to still perform stealth kills on Hydra, Pluto.

Trivia

• Because a capture target will only flee once the lotus exclaims you have found them (aka getting within 100 meters and aiming the reticle near their position) you can simply avoid looking at them such as the ground or moving backwards, and get close to them to avoid them from running entirely.
  • This also prevents enemies in the mission from becoming alerted as well.

Media

Capture as seen in the lobby (U9)

Patch History