[spolier] does the community actually like Kuva farming?

[Hypernaut1]

i played the quest, read the wiki....and i still dont get it. What am i suppose to be doing? ive only done it in a group, and have no idea how efffective i was.

[NobleParadox96]

ok... how it goes is that you have to be in operator form to do this, when it starts to extract the kuva cloud (black and red cloud) look at the direction the braid is pointing then you should see the cloud, you have to dash through the cloud as your operator to deal damage then repeat the process 4 times.

 

other than that, the community would be entertained by the kuva farming if it weren't for the ridiculously low spawn chance

[Hixlysss]

Just now, NobleParadox96 said:

ok... how it goes is that you have to be in operator form to do this, when it starts to extract the kuva cloud (black and red cloud) look at the direction the braid is pointing then you should see the cloud, you have to dash through the cloud as your operator to deal damage then repeat the process 4 times.

 

other than that, the community would be entertained by the kuva farming if it weren't for the ridiculously low spawn chance

This. I'd like to do more kuva farming if it wasn't so RNG locked. Need a steady supply of kuva, specially because we have something to sink our kuva into (rivens)

[NativeKiller]

No, I don't like it.

[PanicPrime]

So basically, that machine will make a noise, one of the tendrils will point in a direction, you keep an eye out for the kuva (red smoke ball) and intercept it before it reaches the machine. You do this by pressing 5 to go into operator mods, then dashing through the kuva.

 

To answer the question, no from me. It's mind numbing grind, and seems designed to force us to play missions we traditionally avoid because they are not remotely fun. Will they give us an endless mode like excavation? Of course not, they want to encourage us to play non-endless missions! And by "encourage" I mean "force". At least give us an endless alternative that has half the hourly rate of income and see what people prefer, eh?

 

And no, none of this was made obvious from the quest as far as I can tell. The community figured it out on their own.

Edited November 21, 2016 by ChasePanic

[Hypernaut1]

6 minutes ago, NobleParadox96 said:

 

 

ok... how it goes is that you have to be in operator form to do this, when it starts to extract the kuva cloud (black and red cloud) look at the direction the braid is pointing then you should see the cloud, you have to dash through the cloud as your operator to deal damage then repeat the process 4 times.

 

other than that, the community would be entertained by the kuva farming if it weren't for the ridiculously low spawn chance

ive read that...yet when i solo, its a confusing mass of enemies, jumping guardians, warping operators/WFs, clunky running and running out of energy. 

maybe because i play with a controller it makes it 10x harder, but so far its been extremely confusing to even get a handle of whats going on. Only Kuva ive gotten has been piggybacking off of others.

question- do i need to kill guardians? maybe i spend too much time focused on them

Edited November 21, 2016 by Hypernaut1

[Noobverest]

Nope I don't like it, but I need kuva so I do it.

[NobleParadox96]

Just now, Hypernaut1 said:

ive read that...yet when i solo, its a confusing mass of enemies, jumping guardians, warping operators/WFs, clunky running and running out of energy. 

maybe because i play with a controller it makes it 10x harder, but so far its been extremely confusing to even get a handle of whats going on. Only Kuva ive gotten has been piggybacking off of others.

it's best if you do it in a group rather than solo because it makes things a lot easier for you

[CelticMoss]

Nope hate it

[PanicPrime]

4 minutes ago, Hypernaut1 said:

ive read that...yet when i solo, its a confusing mass of enemies, jumping guardians, warping operators/WFs, clunky running and running out of energy. 

maybe because i play with a controller it makes it 10x harder, but so far its been extremely confusing to even get a handle of whats going on. Only Kuva ive gotten has been piggybacking off of others.

question- do i need to kill guardians? maybe i spend too much time focused on them

 

My strategy going solo was to take Rhino, iron skin, then run around in circles until I see a kuva, then quickly grab it. 5-ctrl+space-5 quickly. With a bit of practice you can grab it and be back in the safety of your warframe in about 1 second.

Later I had some success experimenting with using Ivara and a stealth arrow with high range and duration to keep things calm until I grab the Kuva.

Frost with huge range and duration also works well as it'll freeze any enemy except the kuva guards, slowing the whole situation down significantly.

Edited November 21, 2016 by ChasePanic

[Doom_Bunny]

• It's never explained in-game how you destroy the kuva siphon.
• The chances of running into a siphon are low and only spawn above a certain level.
• Siphons are easily bugged/confused by not having enough room for four directions, limiting the tile sets they work on.
• There are no other ways to obtain kuva such as sorties, alerts, the kuva fortress, or a daily mission.

Every new resource is always the most terrible thing to be farming for. It's just insanity at this point.

Edited November 21, 2016 by Postal_pat

[BansheePrime]

Just now, ChasePanic said:

 

My strategy going solo was to take Rhino, iron skin, then run around in circles until I see a juva, then quickly grab it. 5-ctrl+space-5 quickly. With a bit of practice you can grab it and be back in the safety of your warframe in about 1 second.

Later I had some success experimenting with using Ivara and a stealth arrow with high range and duration to keep things calm until I grab the Kuva.

Frost with huge range and duration also works well as it'll freeze any enemy except the kuva guards, slowing the whole situation down significantly.

Kuva is CC immune as of some old hotfix.

[PanicPrime]

Just now, maj.death said:

Kuva is CC immune as of some old hotfix.

I didn't mean CC the kuva, but if you freeze all the enemies with max duration and enough range to cover the room, you'll significantly cut down the amount of visual noise to help concentration.

[motorfirebox]

It's something different, for now.

[bejuizb]

It's not something I like. I haven't bothered to farm kuva. I feel the same way I do about nitain and oxium. Bandaid grind increasing resources. 

[Hypernaut1]

so i can ignore the guards? i thought that maybe i had to kill them first for some reason. i died on the last two Kuva siphons that spawned for me when solo, very frustrating.

[LABAL]

The title is a clickbait, isn't it?

[Mr._Clean]

Don't like it. The siphons don't spawn often enough/give enough Kuva for how much we need to reroll junk Rivens.

[direcyphre]

I'd prefer it if it was just some Grineer excavation variant, so at least we'd have guaranteed drops. 

[-skimmer-]

I do actually like it. Kinda challenging, but not in the "I need superior firepower" sort of way.

[Slaviar]

I don't like looking for Kuva but dealing with siphon itself is strangely fresh and invigorating

[CaptainPepeg]

Too much RNG involved and sometimes siphon spawns at narrow corridors making kuva harvesting nearly impossible due to kuva can go through solid objects. Really needs some adjustments to make it less grindy.

[Vox_Preliator]

I like it, but I've sworn off Rivens entirely so I don't really need that much Kuva.

Definitely should be a potential reward from Kuva Fortress missions, though.

[bl4ckhunter]

the event itself is enjoiable imo but speedrunning the same mission over and over to get it to spawn gets old fast. very VERY fast. 

[Volkovyi]

I dislike having a forced, needed resource that relies on one single, alienating mechanic to get. Being forced to use the Operator to retrieve a resource feels petty and shoehorned in as if DE really wants to force these children on us. I believe there should always be multiple ways a player can acquire something in a game in terms of design. Even tellurium, available only in Archwing, can still be found in alerts, and rewards.

If they plan to keep this forced, bizarre mechanic with the children, at least offer your players an alternative to acquiring kuva. Be it in daily logins, loot crates, invasion rewards, anything really.

Consider this - if other resources have a cache version (that are also available as decor on your liset) why not have kuva a normal, rare drop but have the kuva siphons be a rare, cache version of the resource?