Missions are the main source for Drop Pods. There are different kinds of missions and your current progress can be inspected in the Hangar. They can be completed in casual PvP and CO-OP, but not in PvP-Custom Games or SOLO mode.
Any mission can be completed on any map and progress for multiple missions will be tracked in parallel, even when they have the same objective (ie. the Quick mission "Capture Gamma X times" and the weekly mission "Capture Gamma Y times", will both gain progress each time Gamma is captured). However, there are certain missions which are bound to specific maps; ie. Play X games in The Rift or capture X Mines can obviously only be completed in a rift map or a map that has mines.
Some missions have multiple objectives. In that case all objectives must be completed before the reward can be claimed.
Event Missions[ | ]
The current event mission revolves around playing 6/25/60 games in the Awakening game mode to obtain unique rewards.
Campaign Missions[ | ]
The story line of the game is told through campaigns. To complete a note of a campaign, each Mission of that note must be completed, in descending order.
Weekly Missions[ | ]
Each week, on tuesday at 10am (pm?) UTC, a fresh set of five missions will be offered, which must be completed in descending order. While the missions increase in difficulty, the later ones also offer better rewards.
The rewards for the first 3 missions is an Epic or Crew Drop Pod, for the 4th the player gets 10,000 Elite Exp or another Crew Drop Pod and for the final mission one of 250 Platinum, an Implant Pod with 5 random implants or a Crew Pod containing one random Crew member.
Quick Missions[ | ]
Quick missions are short missions with easy objectives that award Drop Pods. Once finished, the next will be available at 10 pm UTC. Progress is tracked indefinitely, however, a reroll to a differend missiontype will be available once per day if no progress is made.