Gene Seed Drop on Downed State?

[DirtyMerc]

If you are downed while carrying Gene Seed it is not lost, it is dropped and can be picked up again. I experienced this recently. Was it a glitch?

[Snowman]

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[GeezusCryst]

Got downed while soloing and it never showed up happen 3 games in a row.

[Chaos]

Is it?
I never found it again after downed.

[Hawk]

Yeah not sure about that chief.

[DirtyMerc]

Maybe I am mistaken or it was a glitch. The player had a mortal wound and was out on timer. I noticed it on the ground as I was trying to survive and the player had picked it up a while back.

[GeezusCryst]

Originally posted by DirtyMerc:

Maybe I am mistaken, I was also not playing solo.

Remember people would swap the gene seed with the guardian relic during a fight but then swap back to the gene seed after the fight is over maybe it always been this way but i swear i thought it will show up after being downed but it doesn't.

[Yaltiaj]

Never seen this happen whenever the person holding it was downed. Maybe you're mistaking an instance where someone picked it up and then swapped it out for a guardian relic later, so you saw it on the floor again.

[De Bléz]

Originally posted by DirtyMerc:

Maybe I am mistaken, I was also not playing solo.

You are, but they might change that if we whine about it on their forums. Drop on death, not downed would be nice.

[DirtyMerc]

Originally posted by GovernmentSecrets.gov:

Never seen this happen whenever the person holding it was downed. Maybe you're mistaking an instance where someone picked it up and then swapped it out for a guardian relic later, so you saw it on the floor again.

I thought about that but if he swapped it out he wouldn't have been downed on timer and it was in the middle of a path that I had just traversed and did not see a relic. Again, I could be wrong, or it could have been a one in a million glitch.

[Ashrock]

Originally posted by De Bléz:

Originally posted by DirtyMerc:

Maybe I am mistaken, I was also not playing solo.

You are, but they might change that if we whine about it on their forums. Drop on death, not downed would be nice.

but it's only a little bonus xp, nothing special, and taking away the challenge kinda' makes it not worth it. might as well just raise the reward for completion and take it away.

[Yagger]

it deletes on downed, drops on death

[PhoenixWing]

Originally posted by Ashrock:

Originally posted by De Bléz:

You are, but they might change that if we whine about it on their forums. Drop on death, not downed would be nice.

but it's only a little bonus xp, nothing special, and taking away the challenge kinda' makes it not worth it. might as well just raise the reward for completion and take it away.

I think it's around 25-30% XP of the mission, so not little at all. Especially when you have more than enough green/purple/gold armoury data and was trying to farm a new class, this xp really helps grinding. Like you save one more run every 3-4 runs with gene-seed.

[Joji]

You're not mistaken, this just happened to me. I had a mortal wound, went down, and I saw the gene seed drop. I picked it up after respawning and it still counted. Must be a bug tied to having a mortal wound

[Alpacalypse]

It despawns on down instead of dropping on death like the text says. I'm not sure whether it's intended or just one of the billion bugs from launch but it's obnoxious all the same

[DirtyMerc]

Originally posted by Joji:

You're not mistaken, this just happened to me. I had a mortal wound, went down, and I saw the gene seed drop. I picked it up after respawning and it still counted. Must be a bug tied to having a mortal wound

That makes sense because that is what happened to me. Thanks for verifying.