NezuHimeSama Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 They always have and always will, but they're especially bad in a big open area where there's no natural way to defend the thing you're escorting or give it a breather to recover. CC powers don't go far enough, and neither do "kill everything" powers, so the only way to play these is with a "prevent damage to this thing" frame like frost, ash, ivara, or limbo. Since you don't know when you're going to be in these missions, you basically have to assume that you need to play this type of frame, since there is, again, no natural defense. You can't watch the corners and get things as they come around because there are none. Zenistar CC is totally useless like any other kind of AOE CC or damage. Killing things quickly enough is a crap shoot since they can spawn shooting, come from every direction, and often times, are invisible but still perfectly able to see and shoot the objective. This mission needs to either be reworked or removed. It's not fun, engaging, or really functional. It just introduces more frame imbalance in favor of already overpowered defensive frames. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TankHunter678 Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 Frost wont help you with them because once you get within a certain range the drone moves forward.... and far enough that even the biggest frost bubble wont be able to cover it. What is even worse is when air units get spawned to attack it. There is almost nothing you can do about it... unless you got your archwing to easily chase them down. Which that is locked behind a ton of arbitrary resources and is on a charge system. So you may be forced to do activities that you do not want to do at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NezuHimeSama Posted October 13, 2017 Author Share Posted October 13, 2017 (edited) With frost, you can keep making bubbles. High eff, high range, low str build is actually pretty good for moving targets as long as you pick up some energy on the way. If Zenurik was still the way it was, it'd be even easier; just bubble every second or so. Also, I can confirm that Nehza works, and probably Trinity and Oberon as well. Edited October 13, 2017 by NezuHimeSama Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JacketUnHoly Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 (edited) . Edited January 28, 2021 by Lluminate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjpdn Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 Bet Gara helps with this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blazinvire Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 Yeah I'm usually at a bit of a loss with escorting the drone, enemies pop out of thin air sniping the drone from pretty much every direction possible, and the only way I've been managing to complete them is by rushing the drone away and leaving a decoy like Octavia's Mallet or Saryn's Molt to slow the enemies from chasing. Not entirely sure what we're expected to do here... I do like the fact the drone moves quite fast -even if the pathing is sometimes whack- so I usually can get the drone clear before the enemy kills it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunder Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 This thread x1,000,000 Why did anyone think putting escorts was a good idea? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robbybe01234 Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 (edited) with Ivara you can stealth arrow the drone the whole way, pretty easy. However, in the stationary defense bounty, there is no way I can maintain a defense point against crazy grineer snipers, rushers and aerial support in that type of open map. Edited October 13, 2017 by robbybe01234 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarcu Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 3 hours ago, jjpdn said: Bet Gara helps with this. I have it. The answer is, no....no not really. Surprise! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackCoMerc Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 Agreed. Why DE continue to resort to Escort missions is beyond me. They've long been the most hated missions in existence. Have the drone transmit while we defend it as a quick fix. It remove it. That would be better still. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabbynaru Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 Agreed! Bounties are kinda really fun, when they don't have escort missions in them. But the drone escort mission just makes me sigh and facepalm. It's soooooooooo boring. Just sit behind the drone, every now and then fire Arca Plasmor, and hope the drone doesn't go the wrong way. I mean, I just had an escort mission where the drone went in straight line to the objective, all I had to do was sit behind it, as it barely got hit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kubbi Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 I agree. What would make it better is the thing moving faster and not needing us to be close. The area is huge of course I need to move around to kill the enemies that try to kill the damn thing. It also needs a bigger healthpool. In its current state its nearly impossible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
affropiaf Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 love this mission, u just need to run and ignore enemies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSG501 Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 Ok just tried another bounty today and I take the drone to the waypoint, I stand at waypoint and nothing happens.... because I can't get anything to happen the mission fails when the drone dies.... It doesn't help when you have no idea where the enemies are shooting from, they need to increase the range of the 'radar' skills on plains because I'm being shot at from over 100 metres away and well radar only works to about 20m unless you stack them.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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