Oblivion's Ingress not lowering Loathing

[LL Cheese Z]

It says it will on the map. But I entered w/ 3 Loathing, cleared the enemies, and left w/ 3 Loathing.

It either did work and I got a new Loathing tick for some reason, since the narrator said "The Loathing Festers" after I beat the Ingress for some reason. Or it just...didn't work.

[RADN3CTAR]

I can think of 2 explanations for this.

1. There was an Oblivion Tear right after the Oblivion's Ingress. You can see it on the map.
2. The Oblivion Ingress at the end of each zone does not lower loathing.

[Pixel Peeper]

Originally posted by RADN3CTAR:

I can think of 2 explanations for this.

1. There was an Oblivion Tear right after the Oblivion's Ingress. You can see it on the map.
2. The Oblivion Ingress at the end of each zone does not lower loathing.

1. would be my guess too, because as OP said, "The Loathing Festers" is what the narrator says if you have 2 Loathing, so the Ingress did reduce Loathing from 3 to 2.

The cultist locations at the end of zones are Ramparts, not Ingresses, and they do reduce Loathing.

[RADN3CTAR]

Originally posted by Pixel Peeper:

The cultist locations at the end of zones are Ramparts, not Ingresses, and they do reduce Loathing.

Pixel is correct, the last cultist location is called Oblivion Rampart not Ingress. Also Ramparts do lower loathing. Had to check a VOD to validate and I was completely wrong on point 2. So yeah, you probably had an Oblivion Tear right after an Ingress.

[LL Cheese Z]

Aren't Oblivion Tears always mid-path on the map interface? I suppose I never paid attention to whether their icon was immediately after a location icon (Ingress or otherwise). The visual would have to be them essentially stacked on each other, yes?

[gruetoo]

nodes can have an associated tear in the same spot the candles are. It does not show visually outside the map, but loathing increases after you resolve the ode regardless. I have never seen a tear on the rampart node, nor on the final road to the inn, but I admittedly have a small personal sample size.

[LL Cheese Z]

Originally posted by gruetoo:

nodes can have an associated tear in the same spot the candles are. It does not show visually outside the map, but loathing increases after you resolve the ode regardless. I have never seen a tear on the rampart node, nor on the final road to the inn, but I admittedly have a small personal sample size.

Yeah, I apparently never paid attention until now. I'm staring at 3 nodes that have Tears "on" them right now lol.

Now I'm curious of the design intention to have locations that lower Loathing also have a Tear on them. I mean, I'm sure it's random, but they also could've programmed it to blocked out of the RNG formula.

Thanks to all who replied.

[Divvu]

Also, when selecting routes, pay attention, the game will tell you in the selection screen if there's some obstacle along that route AND if there are candles or loathing to be collected from that node.
As many have pointed out, nodes that can reduce loathing can also have the modifier which increases loathing by 1 if you co through them.

[Broken Land]

sorry for 2 year old necro. but this just happened.
- had 3 loathing so chose the ingress path (to lower it)
- defeat the ingress
- Narator says "The Loathing Festers"
- uh what... still have three loathing WHY (no I didnt drive through another loathing because the battle just ended)
- and of course up the road is an unavoidable loathing

[Velvet Waltz]

Originally posted by Broken Land:

sorry for 2 year old necro. but this just happened.
- had 3 loathing so chose the ingress path (to lower it)
- defeat the ingress
- Narator says "The Loathing Festers"
- uh what... still have three loathing WHY (no I didnt drive through another loathing because the battle just ended)
- and of course up the road is an unavoidable loathing

there was loathing on the node itself

[Broken Land]

Originally posted by Can Throne:

there was loathing on the node itself

lol didnt know this was possible.

-- edit;
my mistake was not realising that even if its on an ingress node the blue icon means +loathing. i just assumed it was just part of the ingress node since when mousing over it it says "reduces loathing".