Why does the Vapor Condenser stop working just because?

[Mr Ega]

That's two times the thing has stopped working for no reason. Is there something I'm doing wrong or is it bugged?

To clarify, it starts working, animals start attacking, and then for some reason it stops at some number. First time was a first wave with 96%, second time was at third wave with 94%.

[Mr Ega]

Yeah sh¡ts f@kin bugged. Color me surprised.

[stonXer]

We've just had this problem, tried it 3 times, the wolves came, loads got stuck on nearby map but that was it. It also gave no indication of being on a wave or percentage etc.. shame :/

[✈ Red John ✈]

I discovered that the progress is done by killing the horde. The percentage of the wave is shown on the Vapor Condenser. If it blocks at any point, it means you didn't kill all the animals from the wave. Check if they are not stuck around the area... between stones, etc.
This worked for me :D

[Manhattan]

If you do the condenser in the oasis, specifically for me D12 on Sandbox: Stockpile, The waves of beast will have some get lost behind rock formations. You have to go hunt them down to complete a wave. This gives you time to reequip, repair, sleep, or play pinochle. I ran two waves in a row without needing to rebuild anything.

The reward sucks though. Normal mode 2 players was 40 exotics first go, and 37 exotics the second go. Lame. We grabbed the C4 deep exotics point for more that 160 exotics from the node. 2 days of mining and shooting wandering animals. for more than 4 times the reward of a geyser preparation/event.

[Empathise]

After reading the rewards vs the effort, no way, not even worth it..

Drop 2 drills on a node, watch youtube for 40 minutes... profit.

These should be hundreds of exotics per wave given the effort..

[MCRakture]

The fact that the developers haven't managed to fix this after 2 years is just embarrassing.
Better route finding is obviously asking too much. -_-

[Mr.D]

Its an AI pathing issue. They get stuck on rocks or scenery and you have to track them down to complete it. Clearing a large area around the geyser can help but they usually get stuck in same places each wave so simple enough to learn where.

[N7_Shadow]

Originally posted by Manhattan:

If you do the condenser in the oasis, specifically for me D12 on Sandbox: Stockpile, The waves of beast will have some get lost behind rock formations. You have to go hunt them down to complete a wave. This gives you time to reequip, repair, sleep, or play pinochle. I ran two waves in a row without needing to rebuild anything.

The reward sucks though. Normal mode 2 players was 40 exotics first go, and 37 exotics the second go. Lame. We grabbed the C4 deep exotics point for more that 160 exotics from the node. 2 days of mining and shooting wandering animals. for more than 4 times the reward of a geyser preparation/event.

The game definitely needs a balance pass to match effort to reward. I was watching one of the Star Citizen Dev Interview videos...can't remember if it was Inside Star Citizen, or one of the Talk to the Devs videos, but one of them mentioned that they were working on balancing rewards to the effort required. MANY games can do better at this. Icarus is not unique in this regard. For the most part, Icarus isn't bad at it, but yes as you note, there are a few head scratchers.