PoE and Snitch Drones.

[Lancars]

Could you calm down on the Tusk Seeker Drone's at higher levels? I run into a group and i get like 3 of them crapping out drones that instantly flare and when their backup arrives they toss out more and more drones. It gets way out of hand way to fast. And grineer being hitscan and you having no cover in most places they just hit you non stop.

Atleast with the corpus their snitch sticks can be killed and their projectiles can be dodges.

Allows us to shoot the flare or something and give us more control. Barely anyones doing the bounties when i'm playing cause they are annoying to fight.

[Leqesai]

5 minutes ago, Lancars said:

Barely anyones doing the bounties when i'm playing cause they are annoying to fight.

I assure you this is not the reason people aren't doing bounties. Many players have done tons of bounties over the years they have been available. POE bounties simply aren't popular content because a great many players have already maxed their rep and/or obtained all the goodies from bounties and the faction vendors. 

I've never really had an issue with the snitch drones. When you say "higher level" are you talking about steel path bounties? Because steel path for pretty much everything except survival missions is (and has been for a long time) dead in the water.

You can also just cheese most/all bounties with Amesha and a good primary weapon (kuva bramma/zarr etc.)

[Genitive]

They could put a cooldown on the drones. I don't know, maybe 30 seconds.

And they could also have a marker, like the Corpus sticks or grenades.

[Frendh]

 Personally not have had any problem with the beacon drones. But I have not done all that many runs in steel path.

[Lancars]

18 hours ago, Leqesai said:

I assure you this is not the reason people aren't doing bounties. Many players have done tons of bounties over the years they have been available. POE bounties simply aren't popular content because a great many players have already maxed their rep and/or obtained all the goodies from bounties and the faction vendors. 

I've never really had an issue with the snitch drones. When you say "higher level" are you talking about steel path bounties? Because steel path for pretty much everything except survival missions is (and has been for a long time) dead in the water.

You can also just cheese most/all bounties with Amesha and a good primary weapon (kuva bramma/zarr etc.)

I was doing it cause i had finally decided to get another Caliban for the Helminth. As for higher levels. Anything higher level. But for some reason these snitch drones tend to be tanker then the the soldiers in the area. 50 and above bounties. They only seem to want to do corpus ones anyway. So i have to wait till the night to get caliban pieces.

[Lancars]

18 hours ago, Genitive said:

They could put a cooldown on the drones. I don't know, maybe 30 seconds.

And they could also have a marker, like the Corpus sticks or grenades.

I'd like this instead of the random sharp difficulty spike that happens if they get that flare off within a second you have to react to their deployment. Cause like i said next thing you know they got 4 more drones deployed from them coming in and those 4 arrives spawn more drones and it becomes just madness.

[EinheriarJudith]

On 2022-08-17 at 4:01 AM, Leqesai said:

I assure you this is not the reason people aren't doing bounties. Many players have done tons of bounties over the years they have been available. POE bounties simply aren't popular content because a great many players have already maxed their rep and/or obtained all the goodies from bounties and the faction vendors. 

I've never really had an issue with the snitch drones. When you say "higher level" are you talking about steel path bounties? Because steel path for pretty much everything except survival missions is (and has been for a long time) dead in the water.

You can also just cheese most/all bounties with Amesha and a good primary weapon (kuva bramma/zarr etc.)

i dont do the bounties anymore because they are boring. they do not scale to the player in their covered area. and there are still bugs. its like when people complain about corpus prox just being a taxi when they want corpus prox to be like grineer skirmishes which are actually fun.

open tile bounties (except zariman. love those) imo need another rework. they should remove the hybrid onslaught, the drone escort, fix a few of the bonus challenges, remove defense, and actually incorperate mining, fishing, and conservation into their objectives (fish caught, minerals mined, animals capped not specific like deimos dont need to make it annoying).

[Lancars]

3 hours ago, EinheriarJudith said:

i dont do the bounties anymore because they are boring. they do not scale to the player in their covered area. and there are still bugs. its like when people complain about corpus prox just being a taxi when they want corpus prox to be like grineer skirmishes which are actually fun.

open tile bounties (except zariman. love those) imo need another rework. they should remove the hybrid onslaught, the drone escort, fix a few of the bonus challenges, remove defense, and actually incorperate mining, fishing, and conservation into their objectives (fish caught, minerals mined, animals capped not specific like deimos dont need to make it annoying).

Yea. The drone is STILL bugged. Then you get the caches in caves which slow or halt the whole mission. So far i've never had trouble in any of the other open world missions and this is plain to see that PoE need to be mechanically overhauled, either by replacing those missions with something better or going over those 2 missions.

for the drone they should have it on a repair platform so it sticks out better and have checkpoints along the way. Something.

[Frendh]

I solo farmed Caliban no problem. While I am quite stacked, I did not run optimized builds and loadouts. I think I used Loki, snipetron vandal, akarius, Nami skyla prime and Odonata.

Only phase that might cause me trouble is the one where you need to keep a percentage up by killing enemies. Sometimes it spikes like crazy in some areas without me being able to find any enemies.

I actually like the drone escort phase because you can actually do something to decrease the time it takes to finish the mission. Drone, cache, prisoner and assassination phases are the best ones for me. I don't like waiting objectives.