Reevaluating Sortie Missions

[Raqyia]

So, I went into the first sortie for today, failed three times, learned the hard way that Limbo's Rift won't protect against environmental hazards, the usual. So after a good five minutes of making fist impressions into my desk, I found myself screaming "why" instead of "F*ck F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK", then something hit me: 

-How do we get these Sorties with mind numbing conditions? Is this something the DEvs work on themselves or is it RNG?

-Do they spend any time themselves testing out the sorties?

-What will it take to fix these sorties?

With added emphasis on this third question here, what can be done to make sure we don't have to suffer through Kuva Defense sorties or bringing a bow to Kela's spinning puzzle wheel of butthurt

[W00FR]

I did with a team using Limbo, Nova, Mag and Trinity. Limbo works here, just need to know how to do it. It's really not that hard.

[BansheePrime]

For one... the operative seems to move less if you don't give him a gun. I did it with trinity, frost, banshee and valkyr. Was pretty easy for me.

[Tomppak]

Did the first sortie part today with Limbo, EV trinity, Mesa, and another Mesa, didn't cause any trouble. Limbo basically kept all of us in rift while the Mesas did the killing.

The third part (Kela assassination with Bow's only) - I thought it would be ridicilously difficult, but we had 3 titanias and 1 inaros and I think killing Kela has never been that easy :D

[Raqyia]

well, somehow made it through the sorties myself and got a greater Naramon Lens out of it. still need to figure out what to do with all of my salt however...

[RagingGrizzly]

I just did it with Rhino... in a single try like the last one. The last one was harder tho, cuz it was eximus stronghold.

Rhino Master Race.

[(XBOX)poodlebingo 65]

Solo fail!  Go to bed, dream about boiling Kela's head in a vat of sulphuric acid. Other than that, just another day at the orifice.

[LTDaWolf]

 

 

On 19/03/2017 at 10:48 PM, Raqyia said:

 or bringing a bow to Kela's spinning puzzle wheel of butthurt

use trinity ev when  doing kela  dont even need to shoot her then 2 ev trins take her down easy with only shot taken being at the spinning targets 

Edited March 21, 2017 by LTDaWolf

[(XBOX)CannyJack]

On 3/19/2017 at 6:48 PM, Raqyia said:

So, I went into the first sortie for today, failed three times, learned the hard way that Limbo's Rift won't protect against environmental hazards, the usual. So after a good five minutes of making fist impressions into my desk, I found myself screaming "why" instead of "F*ck F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK", then something hit me: 

-How do we get these Sorties with mind numbing conditions? Is this something the DEvs work on themselves or is it RNG?

-Do they spend any time themselves testing out the sorties?

-What will it take to fix these sorties?

With added emphasis on this third question here, what can be done to make sure we don't have to suffer through Kuva Defense sorties or bringing a bow to Kela's spinning puzzle wheel of butthurt

So to actually address your questions:

1. Probably a little of column A, little of column B. There are probably sets of conditions that are possible, then randomized. I imagine someone has a job to make sure the conditions aren't completely impossibly contradictory in the initial setup.

2. I imagine a little, but not much. Sorties are just Big Missions, so I'm guessing they probably assume quite a lot of it will just work out.

3. An act of god? No idea.