What If All Ospreys Had A Small Chance To Drop Oxium

[Hexerin]

it even makes logical sense, what with oxium being what makes flight a thing.

Edited May 18, 2014 by Hexerin

[nitroz76]

you are misunderstanding logic here.

 

They all do have a chance to drop. Those that didn't drop just didn't drop because of RNG.

 

 

Not all of them will drop.

[Jamescell]

He means like shield leech and mine ospreys. 

[Zeyez]

for me, great

because, for now, only oxium osprey and containers on any map can drop oxium

 

and i hate this

Edited May 18, 2014 by Zeyez

[taiiat]

you are misunderstanding logic here.

 

They all do have a chance to drop. Those that didn't drop just didn't drop because of RNG.

 

Not all of them will drop.

....

 

only Oxpreys(Oxium Ospreys) drop Oxium.

and it's a 100% chance. if you destroy them before they suicide.

 

 

on topic:

i don't really feel that we need more Units awarding Oxium. just spawn them more often in all tilesets and etc.

since they don't spawn that often in many missions. while others, there's plenty.

[zavienh5]

you are misunderstanding logic here.

 

They all do have a chance to drop. Those that didn't drop just didn't drop because of RNG.

 

 

Not all of them will drop.

idiot

 

He means like shield leech and mine ospreys. 

not idiot

 

Me? zavienh5=smartass

[Wallace24]

you are misunderstanding logic here.

 

They all do have a chance to drop. Those that didn't drop just didn't drop because of RNG.

 

 

Not all of them will drop.

yeah, it just so happens that up to this point, shield ospreys and mine ospreys have never dropped a single oxium

 

but if you kill an oxium osprey, yes, you're guaranteed at least 1 oxium

 

 

I think it does make some sense that all levitating corpus robots could be utilizing oxium, and thus could be changed to have a chance to drop it. then again, they also have propulsion systems which means that they don't all really float. so I think we should leave it as is

[Mastikator2]

it even makes logical sense, what with oxium being what makes flight a thing.

I'm sorry but that is not the case.

[DoomsDayDan]

It would make sense for the Corpus to start incorporating oxium into other osprey designs so we'd have a sensical reason for all ospreys to drop oxium

[PeterKha]

I don't know why people have such a hard time with Oxium. They drop more frequently than the Clan Tech resources and I'm sitting on about 1k each of them. I'd be sitting on an overload of Oxium too but I don't do too many Corpus missions and I only farm for it when I need it which at the moment I don't and I'm still sitting on about 300.

[misoru2012]

idiot

 

not idiot

 

Me? zavienh5=smartass

Not so much being a smartass as you are being a $&*^.

 

Yeah, I agree. The grind for oxium is ridiculous, it makes more sense to limit the resource to a specific enemy class (ospreys) than just one specific enemy type (oxium ospreys). 

[Somedude1000]

They probably wont because this games main focus is Grind2win :/

 

Godspeed :D

[(PSN)Bobtm0]

How small of a chance is small enough though?  Shield and to a less extent Mine Osprey are very, very common on any Corpus mission.  If it's super low then it'll do little to aid in the attainment of Oxium, and if it were made high gaining Oxium would be laughably easy.

 

To look at it on the flip-side of things;  If every Oxium Osprey you kill only drops the minimum of one Oxium, you still only have to kill 600 of them for the personal requirements needed to build Zephyr.  Every time one drops more, you're gaining an incredible increase in efficiency really.

 

If the resource in question were used for a great many things then I'd say go for it, but as it stands there is little to no reason for implementing something of this from a design standpoint.  As for the "lore" standpoint, nothing there at all as the other Osprey existed before the Corpus stole the element.