Additional Objectives And Opportunity Cost

[Ailia]

There are 10 mission types, 7 of which can have additional objectives.

 

The exempt ones are Assassination, Endless defense, and Exterminate.

 

The other 7 types, it depends greatly when the objective change happens in the mission; most happen after you complete the first objective, but exterminate can be triggered at any point between starting and entering extraction. Some may make the mission faster such as exterminate on a Mobile Defense, while often times they extend the mission time by 50%-100% or more and the reward by 0%.

 

Have had extermination trigger while walking across the extraction room and having to backtrack and kill over 90 enemies. Assuming up until this point you are a few minutes into the mission, aborting and rerunning would be faster than hunting them down across the map and running back again.

 

The other compound issue is when you run Spy and an additional Spy or Deception while solo, you can't carry both cases solo exponentially increasing the ammount of backtracking to complete the mission.

 

Suggest limiting extermination objective change to pre-completion of the objective, makes Lotus seem phsychotic at times switching between a rescue and mass murder, this includes first-part completion such as retrieving the hostage, and starting the first timer on mobile defense.

 

Further suggest adding additional credit reward for completing a mission that had an additional objective to disincentivise aborting the moment you get a secondary objective that would take more time to complete than rerunning.

 

Finally suggest preventing Spy from having an addional Spy or Deception objective while solo due to the undue burden on a solo player.

Edited April 22, 2013 by Ailia

[VeNoM0619]

Agreed, I made a post about this before as well:

https://forums.warframe.com/index.php?/topic/32203-missions-and-their-rewards/

 

Someone added the suggestion of making them optional.