Cursed Expedition - No luck with Corrupt Sentinels.

[Ginrikuzuma]

Is anyone else having a problem with waves spawning?
I can't fight these stupid things in the expedition because when you kill them all and a new wave spawns. It spawns a mile away with no way to continue the fight. They just show up so far away and no way to chase them down fast enough so they de-aggro.

I thought it was the stupid jellyfish messing with spawn but even when I landed next to a drone after resetting anomaly timer. I had the waves spawn so far away

[Geldric™]

To be crystal clear - you must kill 8 of the large corrupted quad (spider) sentinels

[Sleeper]

To add to what Geldric™ states, they do not need to be all killed at the same time.

I killed 2, then another 6 separately and it still counted. Logically you could do 1 at a time when you come across them.

I built a 4*4 platform off the ground, with archways around it at there initial spawn point. Worked wonders.

[Ginrikuzuma]

Originally posted by Geldric™:

To be crystal clear - you must kill 8 of the large corrupted quad (spider) sentinels

i'm well aware of that. I can't even get to the wave with the quads when they are deaggroing wave 2

[Nettle]

They're chasing someone else. You can either disable multiplayer for the duration to ensure this doesn't happen or fly around aimlessly until you see a big 'un, land, beat the stuffing out of it then play Yakety Sax until the heat dies down. Cloaking is very useful here.

[Ginrikuzuma]

Originally posted by Nettle:

They're chasing someone else. You can either disable multiplayer for the duration to ensure this doesn't happen or fly around aimlessly until you see a big 'un, land, beat the stuffing out of it then play Yakety Sax until the heat dies down. Cloaking is very useful here.

thank you, someone that can actually read before responding!

this seems to have been the problem. Going singleplayer fixed the weird spawn stuff

[Geldric™]

Originally posted by Ginrikuzuma:

Originally posted by Geldric™:

To be crystal clear - you must kill 8 of the large corrupted quad (spider) sentinels

i'm well aware of that. I can't even get to the wave with the quads when they are deaggroing wave 2

Apologies, I meant no disrespect... the state of the forums, is.. um.. yeah I can't assume anything. We've got players asking for help with what seem like valid bugs, only to discover... "oh it was a mod I had loaded" <- like wtf, 1st step in troubleshooting is to remove/disable mods. 😠

A Different approach; I fight normal sentinels to get lots of glass and extract them until I get a Boundary map for a Sentinel Pillar. Then on a Dissonant planet, use it. All Pillar's on Dissonant systems have at least 1 quad.

Drop a base, a save stick and that cool new Anomaly seal. Kill, save, reload and repeat. Is it cheesy? heck yeah but I've got way better things to do than spend hours chasing corrupted quads around.

See this post for more info w/planet names and coordinates: https://steamcommunity.com/app/275850/discussions/0/4691154661545163316/#c4691154661545165747

[Spocks Toupee]

Originally posted by Ginrikuzuma:

Is anyone else having a problem with waves spawning?
I can't fight these stupid things in the expedition because when you kill them all and a new wave spawns. It spawns a mile away with no way to continue the fight. They just show up so far away and no way to chase them down fast enough so they de-aggro.

I thought it was the stupid jellyfish messing with spawn but even when I landed next to a drone after resetting anomaly timer. I had the waves spawn so far away

What I ended up doing, is going to the Space Stations in both systems that had Dissonant Planets, then went to the Teleport Terminal and found a User Base Titled "Sentinel Hunting Outpost", it was set right in between two Dissonant Resonators, and each one had one of the big Crab Sentinels.

So I jumped out of my ship to make a restore point, killed the two Sentinel Crabs.
Jumped in and out of my ship to set another restore point, and reloaded the restore point to respawn the Crabs again.

Rinsed and repeated until I had 8/8

[Nettle]

Originally posted by Geldric™:

Is it cheesy? heck yeah

It can be marginally less so if you skip the reloading part. Fly low and slow; every sentinel that draws into view will pop like a balloon, giant 'spiders' included. They still count.

Sentinel Pillars are awesome like that.

[Geldric™]

Originally posted by Nettle:

Originally posted by Geldric™:

Is it cheesy? heck yeah

It can be marginally less so if you skip the reloading part. Fly low and slow; every sentinel that draws into view will pop like a balloon, giant 'spiders' included. They still count.

Sentinel Pillars are awesome like that.

okay - that is genius! and I admit, never thought of that but WILL use that method going forward

[wkitty42]

Originally posted by Ginrikuzuma:

Originally posted by Geldric™:

To be crystal clear - you must kill 8 of the large corrupted quad (spider) sentinels

i'm well aware of that. I can't even get to the wave with the quads when they are deaggroing wave 2

what "wave"?? i simply found them, generally one, guarding the drills... i'd get into position, take that one out, and get out of dodge leaving the others wondering what just happened... i'd get somewhere away and let the timer count down... then i'd go find another drill with another large Quad to kill... loop till done...

[Stride Warrior]

Good to see there are different methods. For me - I landed close to a Sentinel driller. Killed the driller and the 1 guarding the drill. This created a swarm to come after me. For me the trick was to jump on top of my landed ship and pick off the waves with my scope. Being up on the ship, they can't "jump" you. They just fire at you. I used the Geology Cannon on the quads. A few shots really does it to them. For the small ones, regular ammo. They don't hit you that much when your are on top of the ship. Anyway, kept doing this until I hit the 8. Then I get back in the ship and fly. To avoid a fight with Sentinel fleet, summoned Anomaly, landed in there and flew right back out. (Flying into a Station or Anomaly will stop battles in Space.)

[CMDR ARGO]

I have killed a bunch of the crab corrupt sentinels and my count is stuck at 2... at this point I give up.... not worth the headache

[wkitty42]

Originally posted by CMDR ARGO:

I have killed a bunch of the crab corrupt sentinels and my count is stuck at 2... at this point I give up.... not worth the headache

the little ones or the big ones? the big ones you can stand on are the only ones that count...

[CMDR ARGO]

Originally posted by wkitty42:

Originally posted by CMDR ARGO:

I have killed a bunch of the crab corrupt sentinels and my count is stuck at 2... at this point I give up.... not worth the headache

the little ones or the big ones? the big ones you can stand on are the only ones that count...

I should have clarified, 4th wave big ones.. supposedly the ones you need for the expedition... count is still stuck at 2 no matter how many I kill, must be a bug....

[Pixiara]

I'm still having trouble with these. Those little flying ones and their repairing is a pain in the butt. I spend all my time shooting them to stop repairs. Off to find more nanites so i can get a new weapon as the boltcaster is hopeless as is the provided Pulse Spitter. This one task is the bane of the expedition for me and I only have a couple of days left. Gah!