Oxylus: The search and rescue sentinel that is terrible at Search and Rescue.

[DeeDeetheSpy]

First, the good part: This thing is absolutely WONDERFUL for fishing. In that it shows me fishing spots and lets me and my messed up eye sight see where fish are. A+ Fishing buddy. Everyone should want one when fishing.

 

Now for the title: This thing is terrible for what it is labeled to do. It points out where containers are and sits there quietly and maybe attacks a baddie that comes at me. I expected it to help with contravention stuff and it does NOTHING for contravention. In fact Helios is more useful for Contravention because it will at least do a "chime" and then highlight the target... until I hit max scans for my codex. Does nothing for Rescue Missions. It does nothing to help me search for things. it is... useless for anything except being a fishing buddy.

Here is my suggestions:

Conservation: First is to make tracks bright and visible. Just like with fish. Make animals bright just like fish. And that crappy gun? Maybe get it swapped out for a "Tagging" gun that will let us see where they are and leave a trail behind.Then special color radar markers for animals. Its something experimented with on Saryan and her spore. I think it would be more useful here.

Rescue: Simple one here. Rescue missions! Easy here, When you're in range of the rescue area, the guy "highlights" so we know which cell they are in. Boom. Rescue buddy.

Search: So there is mission subtypes and missions where search we are searching. Sabotage, disruption, sometimes exterminates, and Simaris hunts. So with Simaris, have the trail bright and visible with out having to break out the scanner. the containers from Sabs and exterminates, have them highlighted through walls so we can find them quickly (maybe even rare containers everywhere!) and once they are opened, they stop being highlighted. Then Disruption: Have the disruption person bright and visible right away. 

Attacking precept: A special one that targets animals right off and tranqs them

Just throwing stuff at the wall here, seeing if anything sticks... As it stands though, really wish this was more useful.

But hey! It scans plants now! fully nonsarcastic, thank you for adding the scanning of plants. That is good.

 

 

[trunks013]

I thought you were talking about the rescue mode LOL you mean when you go for conservation right ?

Yeah totaly this needs to highlight wild life in a certain way, shape , form or at least emit a sound when there is one near by like when helios is scanning them.

[(PSN)Ravenger-MRIB]

I agree wholeheartedly that there should be a mod for either the Oxylus or another Sentinel that highlights conservation targets.  It hasn't been much of a problem, for the most part, on the other Open World maps, but its very easy for your target to get stuck within the geometry of the Cambion Drift or just become impossible to differentiate them from the enemies you're supposed to protect them from.  As for tracks, having them show up the on within close proximity to your frame on the radar would be a God send.  I'm partially colorblind so sometimes differentiating some of the colors from background elements is nigh impossible.  And no, the colorblind options do not help in the slightest.

 

The rest, are kinda hit or miss.  The rescues can be overcome with auto hacking, especially with the new helminth ability, and the hidden crates and such are hidden for a reason, so just marking them outright would defeat the purpose.  As for auto tranqing, that is a bit much, i think it would be much more feasible to just have better versions of the tranq rifle added as higher tier faction purchases.  Perhaps one that adds a constant glow to a target while you're aiming rather than the current ping system for easier target acquisition, another that rather than having a projectile is simply a hit scan weapon to make taking down the flying targets at a distance easier.

[Laveillon]

4 minutes ago, (PS4)Ravenger-MRIB said:

hidden crates and such are hidden for a reason

While i agree on your viewpoint, getting them spawning is somewhat of a slim chance. You missing the said container is way higher. If someone is willing to sacrifice their sentinel's usefulness to get these rare crates, then i would say they should be rewarded. Remember, you need to roll a good one with RNG to get them spawned. It's not like we would get these crates in every second or so missions.

To the OP, yes some serisous QoL update is needed for the little flying thing.

• The Conservation idea is a no brainer, i NEED it now!
• The Rescue one can be explained pretty easily, Lotus can do a wide range frequency scan on a whole grineer galleon, i don't see why we can't have a pocket tool that can locate prisoners.
• The Search, hmm... I guess there may be possibilites to improve, but right now i don't really need those. Loot and Enemy radars do it well for me. Maybe pondering on these points and giving more detailed ideas on how to improve them can prove useful.

Also, i may be one of the few Tenno, who enjoys sedating wild animals to secure their well being. If you really want to go that way, make it so, that i can turn it off. If, these ideas will be implemented in the first place.

[DeeDeetheSpy]

I was really looking over it's description and throwing stuff out there. Really just want it to help with Conservation. The other stuff was just going by the theme of "This is to help with search and rescue" as written. So what searching do I do in the game? What rescuing?

 

 

Oh, also search for those little statues and emblems. Highlight those too!

[Brouge]

10 hours ago, DeeDeetheSpy said:

But hey! It scans plants now! fully nonsarcastic, thank you for adding the scanning of plants. That is good.

You guys happen to know where to get the precept mod?

[DeeDeetheSpy]

18 hours ago, Brouge said:

You guys happen to know where to get the precept mod?

over at Sims. 75k rep

 

[Rantear]

В 27.08.2020 в 19:38, DeeDeetheSpy сказал:

Conservation: First is to make tracks bright and visible. Just like with fish. Make animals bright just like fish.

While it is most likely unrelated to the Oxylus, some kind of QoL changes soon are coming to the conservation, no information about what changes tho.

[Hobie-wan]

Very much yes on having Oxylus highlight critters like he does fish. I'd be fine with having him be unable to attack hostile mobs when kitted out for conservation duty. One could drop a specter if they needed someone to watch their back while solo hunting critters. Lots of great stuff in the post. @DeeDeetheSpy

[xcrimsonlegendx]

Didn't it used to have a conservation precept but people whined that it was useless so it was replaced?

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On 2020-08-27 at 7:38 AM, DeeDeetheSpy said:

Just throwing stuff at the wall here, seeing if anything sticks... As it stands though, really wish this was more useful.

I only use the Oxylus in Open World configs.

An auto-mining precept mod that grabs the minimum amount from each deposit (no gem bonus) would be great. Oxylus can be both a fishing buddy and mining buddy (primarily what I'd use it for — not a Conservation / Floof fan).

For the Conservation mini-game, maybe give the Oxylus a Sentinel weapon + precept that lets it do average tranqs (automatic).