No more R5 cores in Excavation?

[JohnViande]

Hi there,

My Hieracon runs have been, let's say, unusually bad today. I did not see one single R5 core pack in more than 100 rotation A excavators (I stopped counting after that).

I'm not usually questioning the existence of certain loots when I'm having bad RNG moments, but... 100? With a 25% chance of getting them? That sounds pretty wrong to me.

So, have I missed an entry in the latest changelog or something? Did they break something loot-related when they fixed the Tactical alert loot tables yesterday?

 

 

[(XBOX)TheMadCash]

8 minutes ago, JohnViande said:

Hi there,

My Hieracon runs have been, let's say, unusually bad today. I did not see one single R5 core pack in more than 100 rotation A excavators (I stopped counting after that).

I'm not usually questioning the existence of certain loots when I'm having bad RNG moments, but... 100? With a 25% chance of getting them? That sounds pretty wrong to me.

So, have I missed an entry in the latest changelog or something? Did they break something loot-related when they fixed the Tactical alert loot tables yesterday?

 

 

 

I dont know but im starting to get the feeling gold cores are gonna be more precious to obtain as we get more updates. 

[Rydian]

Jumped into a public mission, very first reward was a pack of cores, second reward was a T3 key.

Didn't go past two extractors though.

[(PSN)skullblits69]

Play the TA, 8 missions 8 rewards of cores

[DeMeritus]

I think it depends on your RNG seed and such.

[Silvus-Sol]

4 minutes ago, DeMeritus said:

I think it depends on your RNG seed and such.

In other words, RNGesus took a look at the OP and was like "Hey, you see this guy? F*** him. No cores!"

[armlesspotato]

21 hours ago, (XB1)Cash201293 said:

gold cores are gonna be more precious to obtain as we get more updates. 

DE Mentioned they are implementing a way to turn junk mods into fusion cores

 

[Sorkheff]

Excavs have been merciless lately. No explaining it really, I imagine if the drop tables were nerfed, data miners would of let us know by now. But yeah, doesn't matter where or how long, cores have been elusive. It just hurts right after they nerfed power cells.

[(PSN)wonderwoman814]

Ok if this is true de needs to take their time with the update lol 

[Medereyes]

The drop rates of fusion cores have definitely been decreased, but not to 0%. I believe a recent dev stream mentioned that DE wants to shift players who want to farm cores toward sorties. Hope you enjoy sorties.

[Silvus-Sol]

2 minutes ago, Medereyes said:

The drop rates of fusion cores have definitely been decreased, but not to 0%. I believe a recent dev stream mentioned that DE wants to shift players who want to farm cores toward sorties. Hope you enjoy sorties.

This trend DE is currently on, of taking options away and forcing us to play how and where THEY want us to play, needs to stop. Pigeonholing players and removing their freedom is a very quick way to lose them. I love this game, but this... this is not good.

[yiLuxiON]

17 minutes ago, Medereyes said:

The drop rates of fusion cores have definitely been decreased, but not to 0%. I believe a recent dev stream mentioned that DE wants to shift players who want to farm cores toward sorties. Hope you enjoy sorties.

25 R5 cores for each duplicated reward is nice, but still unfarmable. You can only get such a reward at most once per day and not even everyday. That 30-60min it takes to complete all 3 sortie missions is better spent on dedicated excavation core farm.

R5 core rewards in excavation seem to have dropped over time. Nowadays im looking at 5-10 cores average per 1000 cryotic. It used to be double this amount.

[PnOyLeeT]

1 hour ago, yiLuxiON said:

im looking at 5-10 cores average per 1000 cryotic. It used to be double this amount.

^ this just got real!

 

and max prime mods just up their prices from 500p to 700p and if this continues they will up even more .. gg for vendors :) yay!

[(XBOX)Grihaly]

8 hours ago, (XB1)Cash201293 said:

 

I dont know but im starting to get the feeling gold cores are gonna be more precious to obtain as we get more updates. 

Start stockpiling for the inevitable economic core depression of 2016.

[(PSN)OppneusKorsuss]

So, any hard evidence of this "nerf", or are we just pulling things out of our asses?

[Kuestenjung]

6 hours ago, Silvus-Sol said:

This trend DE is currently on, of taking options away and forcing us to play how and where THEY want us to play, needs to stop. Pigeonholing players and removing their freedom is a very quick way to lose them. I love this game, but this... this is not good.

 

I get your point, but I think it´s the opposite. By reducing the rates of cores in excavation DE is increasing your option for corefarming. Excavation was the fastest way to farm cores by miles and now it´s more en par with Survival and interception.

But DE should put the 2/3/4 r5corepcks from the Void in the starchart too. Playing a mission with starting level 19 and not 20 and only getting 1 single core is not amusing.

[(XBOX)TheMadCash]

11 hours ago, armlesspotato said:

DE Mentioned they are implementing a way to turn junk mods into fusion cores

 

Right but something tells me that its gonna be more complicated than we think. Besides if we have to transmute more than 1 mod to make it a fusion core. Probably won't even be worth it. Yes we have junk mods. But something tells me they gonna make it so it won't be entirely easy to get 50+ cores from junk mods.

[(XBOX)TheMadCash]

7 hours ago, (XB1)A Frikn Grizzly said:

Start stockpiling for the inevitable economic core depression of 2016.

Ha! Who you telling? Lol 

[Xc0oL]

You need R5 cores...

Jump to sorties , you will get them

session 5 , played everyday , soo far 8 " R5 core packs"

guess i wont get that sheeva blade.. :(

[Zebiko]

TA seems to be the only place to get 5 R5 cores now :( I can't do sorties cus I don't have the mods or R5 cores to rank up those R10 mods...

IDK why they are nerfing these drops cus it seems you need thousands of R5 cores to rank up all the mods in the game.

[LightPillar]

If DE makes acquiring R5s more time consuming and in places like sorties I will just step away from the game.

[JohnViande]

6 hours ago, Xc0oL said:

You need R5 cores...

Jump to sorties , you will get them

session 5 , played everyday , soo far 8 " R5 core packs"

guess i wont get that sheeva blade.. :(

Don't worry, I'm doing the sorties every day. I'm getting the R5 packs quite often and I'm happy about it, but dude, that's just not enough. I've been playing for more than a year and I've so far only managed to get 2 primed mods to level 10 (of course the essential non-primed mods are all 10). The amount that we need for everything is just unrealistic.

 

10 hours ago, (PS4)OppneusKorsuss said:

So, any hard evidence of this "nerf", or are we just pulling things out of our asses?

For now, I think it's just straight out of our asses, but if almost everyone here has noticed a "nerf", there may be something going on. Honestly, when I opened this thread I was expecting people coming to say "bad RNG bro, I just got 35 cores in a 2500 cryo run", but reading the answers creeps me out.

At least they could've told us the tables were being changed, I wouldn't have wasted 8-9hours of farming for 0 core. Did they really think nobody would notice? Not telling would just be plain stupid, I'm still hoping I've been having the worst RNG and R5 cores still have a 25% loot chance in Excavation rotation A...

 

Edited March 12, 2016 by JohnViande

[Friede]

Hmm yea I did notice that I haven't been getting as many cores on Triton lately...had to do the event to get my r5 cores because Triton refuses to drop em :S

[Keltik0ne]

I'm sure it won't be long before the russian hack monkeys get the blame for this too.

 

It's probably just Sheldon.

[Rydian]

Did a run to 12 units without explosions (so 6 A rewards), two core packs.

[Coaa]

Go do Phobos - Zeugma, it's always yielded far more cores then hieracon ever has. No idea why people flock to Hieracon still unless they really want the keys too. Zeugma will give you less T4 keys but you'll be rolling in cores.

My average 2k run nets around 15. I've gotten 45 at 2k before. Hieracon has never been even close to that for me on average, but i do get more t4 keys.