Are excavation missions a joke to DE?

[CaptainCheetah]

Very often i find myself sitting for 3-5mins to get a powercell. sometimes there are no enemies at all and even if some come there's no enemy with P.CELL. i've been facing this since a long time and also whats the point of putting another dig site 700m away? its basically the same tileset joined 2 or 3 times. fix the battery drop rate.

[kiksunator]

I agree 100% that this is an issue that needs fixing ASAP. There was a time when excavation missions worked just fine, now it's a cluster#*!% of buggy AI that's stuck somewhere which leads to zero enemies (not just powercell carriers).

I'm not 100% sure when this all started, but I blame the AI pathfinding change/patch that clearly doesn't adapt to all gameplay situations correctly.

I'm not blaming any one person here, just trying to make a point that this issue should not be ignored much longer.

[Tora.Prime]

Excavation missions need a lot improvement, even the way to activate an excavator is dumb

[Vahenir]

Some maps are worse than others too. I think the worst i had was one i did at fortuna where the enemies spawned on top of the mushrooms and got stuck. This was before i had my archwing, so it was extra annoying. 

[7.T.]

At least when solo, spawns on Everest slow to a crawl. It gets to a point (Dig #5+) where its 1-2 Grineer per minute.with a 50% chance of it being a dude with a battery.