The new oil rig is a total mess.

[VommyMommyLover]

I was at lv59 and equipped with the new Feybreak equipment along with my reliable legendary rocket launcher when I entered the new syndicate oil rig for the first time.

I immediately noticed the refusal of my pals to attack anything, their AI simply shut down and they stood around doing nothing. So I was forced to do most of the fighting on my own. I'm not sure if it's due to the removal of being able to throw your sphere because now the enemies are so much further away and the pals won't react to them anymore after summoning. But even then they literally did NOTHING when the enemy was standing right next to them.

I noticed with great dismay how absurdly resistent the enemies were, even more so than the ones from the previous oil rig. How great is their level difference again? 3? Apparently you multiplied their hp values by that amount.

Whereas those old enemies only required 2 shots from my legendary rpg to kill them, these new ones require 6 shots at least which is simply not justifiable. It feels like everyone has over 100k hp and their pals are even worse than that. The enemy Knocklems feel like raidbosses, they're extremely tanky and borderline impossible to kill.

Fighting any of these superstrong enemies is not worth the effort, their loot is miniscule and the resources you waste on fighting them make it feel like a lose-lose situation. This is just questionable design, you're deterring people from interacting with enemies and their pals. Where's the actual reward for beating any of these powerful foes?

This issue can also be observed on the Feybreak Warriors and Berserkers you encounter on the new island, they only give a handful of coins and nothing else. Why won't they drop rockets or missiles like the desert bandits? At least compensate players for dealing with these enormous nuisances.

Please nerf the enemies on the oil rig and/or massively increase their loot/rewards, right now it feels like a waste of time and energy trying to conquer the new oil rig.

[Terminal Desolation]

Just wait til you actually get to the oil rig chest after blowing through all your resources only to find there's a raid boss with 1.3 million HP you have to kill before you can make it out with your loot.

[NOOBSURVIVES YT]

The health on them is insane.

[hotaru251]

the Oil rigs are "technically" designed to be raid tier. (now is this good? maybe not as while game focuses on multiplayer its still technically a single player game) Where multiple people w/ geared pals and weapons take it on together.

[cmarlow1398]

I'm ok with the new oil rig being really tough to solo since it was designed for groups, but the bugs out there do need to be fixed. Yes pals are 100% useless there. They just sit there or bug out like crack heads and do zero damage. Then half tyhe time you shoot enemy pals they bug out and get stuck in walls and floors and you can't kill them. Then you have to run around playing dodge ball to those stuck pals and try to keep going and it's just hella mess. And your final reward is an Apache boss you can't even target 90% of the time because the game limits your vertical angle so it's like duck hunting with a stick. Yea I agree it's a garbage rig right now and most likely the bugs won't get fixed because they haven't since the last rig was added. Big waste IMO they should of just added some kinda raid island. The rig on the water thing is just to bugged out to be any fun.

[Irene ❤]

Have you tried the new weapons?

Plasma Cannon
Laser Gating Gun
Compound Bow

I think the common tier bow can already do over 10k damage every quick shot and laser gating grills them pretty fast.

[VommyMommyLover]

Originally posted by Terminal Desolation:

Just wait til you actually get to the oil rig chest after blowing through all your resources only to find there's a raid boss with 1.3 million HP you have to kill before you can make it out with your loot.

I didn't even get to that, I simply left after wasting 70-80 rockets and my shield breaking from the constant abuse.

Originally posted by hotaru251:

the Oil rigs are "technically" designed to be raid tier. (now is this good? maybe not as while game focuses on multiplayer its still technically a single player game) Where multiple people w/ geared pals and weapons take it on together.

Well I only play solo/offline so I'm pretty much screwed then. However I doubt there's any point in teaming up if the amount of loot remains the same, people would only start fighting about who gets which item.

Originally posted by Irene ❤:

Have you tried the new weapons?

Plasma Cannon
Laser Gating Gun
Compound Bow

I think the common tier bow can already do over 10k damage every quick shot and laser gating grills them pretty fast.

I haven't built the Laser Gatling Gun or Compound Bow yet, I'd rather use their schematics instead of wasting my precious resources on their default versions. However I've yet to find any blueprints for them. I do however have a rare armor and helmet from the latest gear added to the game.

I figured a LEGENDARY ROCKET LAUNCHER acquired from beating Jetragon would still put a dent into enemies but apparently it got powercrept to hell in this new update.

[Schalimah]

After breeding 4 Gobfins with vanguard and stronghold strategist and condensing them to 4 stars, the oilrig becomes much more bareable.
The guided missile launcher or even the multi launcher help tremendously with the helicopter fight.
Don't sleep on buff foods when going there either.

I still deal most of my damage with the legendary shotgun.
if I need range, I switch to the semi-auto rifle or the laser rifle.

I am still waiting for at least the blue compound bow before giving it a try.
Although I do have a steady stream of hexolite quarz now, I am still a bit reluctant in regards to the arrows needing hexolite bars.

[Gorem]

Pals have always been useless on the oil rigs, this is not a new thing.

They get agro'd on the first enemy and stick from enemy to enemy, so if that first enemy ends up in the water they still stick to it and not be able to attack and always run back to the spot where they can't attack unless you drop them off the side of the platform.

The thing is, all weapons before at least Sakurajima update are mid tier now. The AR and Rocket Launcher need to both be replaced by level 50+ weapons, preferably from the first Oil rig, the quad missle launcher is what we are all using, the legendary rocket launcher is weak.

Even the basic grey tier advanced bow is better then the AR.

My first full 100% clear of the new oil rig was in rare Plasteel gear a green grenade launcher and a blue quad missle launcher. I also didn't even use Gobfins back then. On normal settings.

[Amduskas]

I'm having the same AI issue with totally unresponsive pals on the new beginner rig.
All they will do is stand in place.
No following, no attacking, nothing.

[CoolSensei]

This game's default settings are pretty much balanced around multiplayer. Change your settings to reflect how many people are playing on your world. If you are single player, crank those settings up. Drops x3, node respawns on minimum, meteorite drops you can even do each minute to farm them, instant hatch eggs, 0.2 items weight multiplier, player damage to x2 or even x3 and more.

But yeah, the new oil rig sucks in every possible way. Way overtunned enemies, too many of them, your pals pathing sucks there and also the rewards from the chest are so freaking bad and the chances for the legendary recipes are so low that they might not even exist, frankly.

[Flying Fish]

I don't get why you would want to do the new oil rig the level 55 is super easy with the rocket launcher and the rewards are similar?

Seems to me like the new oil rig isn't worth the trouble if it gave a guaranteed legendary I could understand but as far as I know it gives similar stuff

It's also a bit strange how it gives oil I don't know about you but at this point in the game I don't need oil anymore it's the new quartz that keeps running out

Imo a syndicate mine would've been more interesting as we now have 3 oil rigs 1 of wich is to low level to rly matter and 1 is completely overturned for the rewards

[Terminal Desolation]

Originally posted by cmarlow1398:

I'm ok with the new oil rig being really tough to solo since it was designed for groups, but the bugs out there do need to be fixed. Yes pals are 100% useless there. They just sit there or bug out like crack heads and do zero damage. Then half tyhe time you shoot enemy pals they bug out and get stuck in walls and floors and you can't kill them. Then you have to run around playing dodge ball to those stuck pals and try to keep going and it's just hella mess. And your final reward is an Apache boss you can't even target 90% of the time because the game limits your vertical angle so it's like duck hunting with a stick. Yea I agree it's a garbage rig right now and most likely the bugs won't get fixed because they haven't since the last rig was added. Big waste IMO they should of just added some kinda raid island. The rig on the water thing is just to bugged out to be any fun.

I've seen this argument and it doesn't make sense to me. How many people are they balancing for if this is "balanced" around raids? Minimum of 5? Because I can turn my damage up to 5x in the settings and the Plasma Cannon still only 2 shots half the enemies, with the other half taking more than 2. 5x damage should theoretically give me as much DPS as 5 people attacking the same target, and yet the Plasma Cannon still isn't able to 1 shot which means 5 people attacking with Plasma Cannons couldn't 1 shot. So again, I have to wonder just how many people was this "balanced" around, if it was even balanced at all?

[Teckly]

Yeah it's a total mess.
Even the weakest mob is a freaking tank, the pal ai is messed up beyond salvation right now
The boss? I nearly have to repair my weapon everytime, and if you have the luck to have the chest up good luck to hit it as you can't shoot straight ahead and it's always at the limit.

I get it it's made to raid with several people but I play solo. So I just pushed the damages I deal by 5. It takes forever to complete and the chances to get a proper loot is so low it's just not worth it.

[Kamenik]

Last rig is total s....t pals with 30-100k hp enemy 36k + i use epic plasma cannon 4star max soul update 4 pals all have 8-12k hp attak 1500-2000 and no chance enemz kill my pals in ultra speed and helicoptr with 1.3m life omg i shoot him 300x with plasma 15k attack and onlz 50_ hp down AND rewards hahahahahahah omg ultra vaste time for NOTHING

[Sky is Blue, lông cu is Black]

Originally posted by Teckly:

Yeah it's a total mess.
Even the weakest mob is a freaking tank, the pal ai is messed up beyond salvation right now
The boss? I nearly have to repair my weapon everytime, and if you have the luck to have the chest up good luck to hit it as you can't shoot straight ahead and it's always at the limit.

I get it it's made to raid with several people but I play solo. So I just pushed the damages I deal by 5. It takes forever to complete and the chances to get a proper loot is so low it's just not worth it.

I play solo and also find these difficulty update are just pushing the scale as high as possible without thinking back. Even with x5 damage in world setting can barely deal any real damage to these mobs.