Zarium Accolade missions

[God's Drunkest Driver™]

[MR29]
I just did a low-level Zariman bounty, the one where you're supposed to find the golden macguffin and deliver them to a terminal. The third time I tried, it ended up being on that defence mission where the void angel comes in as a miniboss.

Who's bright idea was it to have a tiny little treasure hunt be a mandatory mission objective during an endless multi-stage defence mission that starts immediately? It's damn near impossible to do solo, which is out of my control because nobody is playing warframe at this godforsaken hour.

You have to listen for the low, quiet hum of the Accolade, which doesn't show up on your map, and neither does the cephalon terminal that you plug it into. But how can you do that when you have blaring music, constant gunfire, and some jackoff keeps screaming into your ear all edgy-like that the enemies are destroying the defense objective?

I already got two angel kills before I tried to leave the mission, but because of that one tiny little hidden macguffin being entirely detrimental to mission success, I lost all the loot.

I didn't see or hear the accolade or the terminal while running around frantically in search of them- and neither did I find them the previous two times I tried that bounty on a mobile defense mission. I cleared the supposed objective, and ran around scrubbing the map clean of all possible loot, interactibles, lockers. all that. No golden humming doohickey, and no cephalon terminal. I eventually left the mission after thirty minutes of searching every last nook and cranny, and was given a mission failure because of that one specific little thing I was SUPPOSED to find. I did that TWICE.

But when doing other bounties, there was plenty of accolades and cephalon terminals. One time I found two in a single mission.

[The Big Brzezinski]

First mission I tried was extermination with the accolade bounty. It didn't spawn. I spent over an hour not really knowing what I was looking for, scouring every nook and cranny for anything. I had looted and explored the entire map before it finally timed out and failed me.

Next was mobile defense. Bounty was to avoid the shield breaking. The mission broke on the first timer.

DE, sort yourself out.

[Minty Freshness]

only a bandaid but maybe turn the ingame music off? but yeah the missions for the bountys seem borked af. i keep ending up in missions alone and cant get anything done to finish them

[Distant ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥]

The Big Brzezinski の投稿を引用：

First mission I tried was extermination with the accolade bounty. It didn't spawn. I spent over an hour not really knowing what I was looking for, scouring every nook and cranny for anything. I had looted and explored the entire map before it finally timed out and failed me.

Same issue here! First mission around two hours after the update came. I spent like 30 minutes trying to find that damned thing and with each minute I hated this update more and more. I had loot radar, I tried to listen but nothing. Went around the entire map like 10 times, broke every single contrainer, went into every secret space I could find. N O T H I N G

Eventually I gave up and just left the game!

Who on the dev team had this bright idea of making an objective like that?

[Marken]

I may be wrong, but if you are speaking about that golden sticks that throws highed pitched sound the closer you get, the best way to find them is to light the little balls of light and see where the kid from it will take you and show you hidden thing. The moment you light next ones and they don't have a kid running it tells you there's nothing there anymore hidden on the map.
Also did mobile defense yesterday night, sure angel was really hard, the biggest problem for me is to hit with dash those flying balls...
But you can pre activate the angel to fight it which I did in my mission. I wasn't still on bounties, but try seeing if you can pre activate one before doing objectives.

[VaJarJar]

Zarium Accolade missions? most stupid thing.
take my 2 hours search 120% map, nothing found, give up with lost all loots in the end.
nausea, dont wanna play this game for while.

[«Wodan»]

Minty Freshness の投稿を引用：

only a bandaid but maybe turn the ingame music off? but yeah the missions for the bountys seem borked af. i keep ending up in missions alone and cant get anything done to finish them

Good to know I'm not the only one that gets forced into a solo run everytime I try to join a group. I see player join messages and then I just end up solo. Game even pauses if I open my menu implying it is a true solo mission.

A lot of bugs as expected, but the forced solo missions and only host getting wave rewards is a pretty hard wall to deal with.

[_Synt3rax_]

Ugh the stuff you can pick up is shown on the map if you have the mod equipped that marks them on the map.
Also the exmius on those lvl 100 missions have a ridiclious amount of armor and melt those deff terminals like butter, even more when you have nothing against them because 2 of those crrature things happen to spawn and suck your energy.

[fm3441]

Zarium Accolade missions? This is the greatest nonsense. Completely frustrating without a happy end. I searched for two hours on the simplest map without finding the stupid ♥♥♥♥ thing. WTF should that? I never play this crap again!

[Kawalorn]

Best advice I can get is that the accolade is at the worst case scenario, in the room directly connected to where the one where cephalon console is. That narrows it down quite nicely.

[Pakaku]

Just avoid doing bounties unless you're sure you can take time for the requirement. I just pass any Accolade bounties that aren't Exterminate or Mobile Defense or so. Void Siphon is doable with a fast frame like Titania, but even then I don't try to risk it

[Artek [General]]

1) You can opt out of that bounty and do another one next time when they deploy a new set

2) It's easier to do with a full squad

3) They're not that hard to find. They are always within ~200m range of that Cephalon's console and tileset is very predictable for exploration, save for few rare examples.

4) It makes a very loud ringing sound when you are within like... 30m?

5) Parallax Aircraft grants access to a unique air support ability that marks all rare / unique pick ups (including these keys) in a very decent range.
If you use it while standing next to the Cephalon - it is GUARANTEED to pick up that key.
Kinda pay-to-win, if you ask me, it's honestly the 2nd best air craft ability since security protocol hack, but... It is an option.

[Pakaku]

Artek General の投稿を引用：

5) Parallax Aircraft grants access to a unique air support ability that marks all rare / unique pick ups (including these keys) in a very decent range.
If you use it while standing next to the Cephalon - it is GUARANTEED to pick up that key.
Kinda pay-to-win, if you ask me, it's honestly the 2nd best air craft ability since security protocol hack, but... It is an option.

It's only useful for finding rare pickups, so it's still pretty niche outside of Zariman or Syndicate missions. The other landing craft abilities were always terrible even before Parallax was added, besides the lockdown ability. Then again, considering Parallax is earned lategame, maybe that's intentional

[Artek [General]]

Pakaku の投稿を引用：

Artek General の投稿を引用：

5) Parallax Aircraft grants access to a unique air support ability that marks all rare / unique pick ups (including these keys) in a very decent range.
If you use it while standing next to the Cephalon - it is GUARANTEED to pick up that key.
Kinda pay-to-win, if you ask me, it's honestly the 2nd best air craft ability since security protocol hack, but... It is an option.

It's only useful for finding rare pickups, so it's still pretty niche outside of Zariman or Syndicate missions. The other landing craft abilities were always terrible even before Parallax was added, besides the lockdown ability. Then again, considering Parallax is earned lategame, maybe that's intentional

Yeah, it's usefulness is pretty much exclusive to Zariman and maybe syndicate mission, but ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥'s so good for zariman. You can move like 100m from spawn, use it and it will usually find ~3 of the voidplumes and maybe some extra.

Also had it find somachords, ayatan treasures and rare containers.

[Pakaku]

Artek General の投稿を引用：

Pakaku の投稿を引用：

It's only useful for finding rare pickups, so it's still pretty niche outside of Zariman or Syndicate missions. The other landing craft abilities were always terrible even before Parallax was added, besides the lockdown ability. Then again, considering Parallax is earned lategame, maybe that's intentional

Yeah, it's usefulness is pretty much exclusive to Zariman and maybe syndicate mission, but ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥'s so good for zariman. You can move like 100m from spawn, use it and it will usually find ~3 of the voidplumes and maybe some extra.

Also had it find somachords, ayatan treasures and rare containers.

It's basically a super Golden Instinct, which I find is usually enough for me personally. Just wish it wouldn't tag somachords or codex bubbles

[TheForgottenOne]

fun fact: this is still an issue! i hadnt played the game in a while so i just finished the angels of zariman quest, and then went right into a bounty with exterminate/find the accolade objective. thing didnt spawn. after 30 minutes i went digging through forums to find out its a known bug.