Kings Row police scanner?

How do I get a police scanner in King's Row? I went there at level 5, talked to a detective, and still received no missions. I hear there is a scanner available somehow.

Are you sure you talked to the right Detective? It has to be the one listed in your contacts list.

Once you speak to them there SHOULD be a CB radio interface at the top of your contacts drop down; clicking on that will bring up the mission select window.

What server are you on, and are you online right now?

After I logged back in, the radio was there. I did the 3 in King's Row, plan on doing Atlas tomorrow sometime.

There are none in Atlas, it's too low. Did you do the Safeguard mission that doing three Radio missions opens up? If you stop a villain from robbing a bank ( when you enter the mission, the bank is a dollar sign on the map ), you'll get a jet pack for the King's Row Safeguard. And a Zero G pack for the Steel Canyon Safeguard and so on.

I think he is referring to the Atlas Safeguard.

I tried it, and failed miserably. By the time I knew to look on the map for the Bank, at least 2 minutes had gone by.

Failing a mission isn't the end of the world (well sometimes it is, but not in this case). Just run three more and try again, or try to find a team.

That darn MA-using baddie can be a right royal pain if the all-powerful god RNG is displeased with you and you forgot to bring the proper offering of a break-free. He (the robber that is) loves him some Cobra Strike, it recharges pretty fast, and one of my characters got stunned three times in a row back to back, unable to do anything. Oddly enough though he missed every other attack, so maybe RNG just needed a laugh that day.

OP, if you haven't discovered (or been told) the trick yet, it's this. Blue-side safeguards, RUSH the bank, ignore everything else, the robber's standing in the lobby just waiting for you to move a few feet from the entrance. Let not a single enemy in the bank get out. Red-side it's the polar opposite (unless you're looking to show off your AoE ability), you WANT to meander your way to the bank, that way you can take on the Longbow ambushes at a manageable rate, whatever that is for you. Those ambushes stack, and they WILL follow you.

Redside on teams with with numerous patch and rain powers rushing to the bank can be fun. Run into the bank ASAP and just start stacking the powers in front of the lobby door and watch as Longbow constantly pour into a churning stew of death. Especially with a Hurricane or two to keep them debuffed and unable to run out of the patches.

One further thing to make note of: had you raised the difficulty of your missions? Accidentally raising the difficulty of your missions used to be a recurring problem for new players. Since the system was reworked, it's less frequent now, but it's still something to be aware of, just in case. Particularly on your first character, Safeguard and Mayhem missions can be very challenging at low levels if you're above the default (easiest) difficulty.

Heroes adjust mission difficulty at Hero Corps representatives, while villains do it at Fortunata Fatewavers. Both are found in most city (non-instanced) zones and are marked on the zone map. They allow you to do things like raise the number of heroes to which you're equivalent, giving you larger groups of enemies, and choose whether you fight Boss-ranked enemies as bosses or scaled down to Lieutenants. Personally, I wouldn't recommend raising your difficulty until you get a bit more comfortable with your character's capabilities, but Your Mileage May Vary.