Belly of the beast not dropping energy for elevator

[Darkkhelmet]

Just getting back into Warframe and enjoying the Belly of the beast. The first time I ran it all worked as it should and I got the elevator to the top. The second time the elevator got about 2/3 of the way up and there were no more energy capsules to be found anywhere. I played an additional 30 minutes or more and killed everything but no energy for the elevator. I finally had to quit the mission. Is this a known bug? Titania Prime was the frame I was using.

[Donitsi]

Did you play Solo? I have never experienced the problem because if I can't find capsules on different floor, the new Eximus units drop them with 50% chance what I'm guessing. Elevator has to reach certain height before more speed boosting capsules spawn on next floor above it.

[Midas]

Yeah, I'm having the same issue, and it makes the mission very tedious. There were several times that I had to go all the way back to the bottom to find a battery and then climb all the way back up again.

[Donitsi]

Originally posted by Midas:

Yeah, I'm having the same issue, and it makes the mission very tedious. There were several times that I had to go all the way back to the bottom to find a battery and then climb all the way back up again.

If you are close them they are shown through walls but do mods such as Loot Radar reveal them in the minimap? I have not tried myself but it would help greatly with Animal Instinct (Companion)
You wouldn't have to hug walls or enter each room up and down.

[Midas]

Originally posted by Donitsi:

Originally posted by Midas:

Yeah, I'm having the same issue, and it makes the mission very tedious. There were several times that I had to go all the way back to the bottom to find a battery and then climb all the way back up again.

If you are close them they are shown through walls but do mods such as Loot Radar reveal them in the minimap? I have not tried myself but it would help greatly with Animal Instinct (Companion)
You wouldn't have to hug walls or enter each room up and down.

I don't think they do, or at least I didn't notice them with primed animal instinct, but they definitely just weren't spawning, even with dozens of jade eximus kills. At the lower levels it was practically a charge every kill, but for the top 50% or so of the elevator shaft, they just stopped dropping completely.

[Donitsi]

Originally posted by Midas:

I don't think they do, or at least I didn't notice them with primed animal instinct

Ouch, that sucks.

Originally posted by Midas:

but they definitely just weren't spawning, even with dozens of jade eximus kills. At the lower levels it was practically a charge every kill, but for the top 50% or so of the elevator shaft, they just stopped dropping completely.

Was it Solo game? I'm playing only in Public and so far we always received more than could be used. Maybe the game expects player to conserve power cells instead of using them if elevator energy is not below 30/50. You can throw them on the elevator until you actually need to use them.

[Midas]

Originally posted by Donitsi:

Originally posted by Midas:

I don't think they do, or at least I didn't notice them with primed animal instinct

Ouch, that sucks.

Originally posted by Midas:

but they definitely just weren't spawning, even with dozens of jade eximus kills. At the lower levels it was practically a charge every kill, but for the top 50% or so of the elevator shaft, they just stopped dropping completely.

Was it Solo game? I'm playing only in Public and so far we always received more than could be used. Maybe the game expects player to conserve power cells instead of using them if elevator energy is not below 30/50. You can throw them on the elevator until you actually need to use them.

I was playing on solo in this case, yeah.

[TheMetalCorpser]

Originally posted by Midas:

I was playing on solo in this case, yeah.

I can understand wanting to do solo missions but like relic missions it's best to do event stuff with others. Makes it go faster and you won't run into issues like that as running missions solo does tend to mess with drop rates. Not just for things like elevator energy capsules but even health and energy orbs have a reduced drop rate outside of forced drops in a solo mission.

[Darkkhelmet]

Thanks for the replies. Yes, I am playing solo and have successfully completed it two more times since my post. I see others are also having issues so I guess misery loves company. Titania is great for this but would be perfect if she could carry the charges while in flight.