Machine Event problems

[Grayscarr]

So, I've got the Blank Matrix and after that stumbled on a Machine Event while solo-ing, the one with stone glyphids. Succesfully finished the challenge, then tried to find how to make the blank matrix a useful one and didn't find the way, because there was no popup on a Trytillite crate to take, and my blank matrix is stiil blank. Moreover, I set out to another mission, solo again, got another Machine Event - with the crystal and bombs - and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ it's not adapted. Because you move at a crwling speed with that stupid bomb for quite a while, you can't throw it forward to speed things up because it will explode once it leaves your hands, and the most infuriating is that ine bomb deals like 1\8 jf crystal's health AT BEST! How, in the name of Karl, am I supposed to make this happen? Oh, and of course a ♥♥♥♥ ton of bugs appearing, whom again I can't kill because NO LEAVING THE BOMB, remember?
I eve dare to say that two players wouldn't be able to complete this in time, unless they're specificly prepared, for a RANDOM event, of all things, and use only specific characters. And please, don't even get me started on "it should be completed with full team" bs, because I have no interest in playing with randos and probability of gathering the whole team of friends is not so high. Before the patch, I was at least getting resources in the first matrix. And now, I'm getting big, useless, NOTHING, thanks to balancing. Nice

[DeMasked]

Yea there are definitely some kinks that need to be worked out.

Tritilyte Machine Event made one of my Glyphid Eggs disappear making my mission to kill 3 Dreadnoughts impossible to complete.

You can throw the bomb at the crystal though yes it seems buggy and will explode in your face instead. Perhaps you need to be in a certain range of it? No idea.

Not sure if the Perk to move faster with the bomb would help but yea... had to abort that mission because I definitely couldn't complete it due to bombs blowing up in my face.

[Droolguy]

These definitely need some balancing but your attitude for a game designed around coop is horrible.

Honestly I hope in the future DRG & GSG cuts off the umpteen million lifelines they have thrown to the solo crowd.

Long story short, endgame content should flat out not be possible solo.

It's a coop game, it's time they started treating it like one so people can't skip the hard parts by just solo abusing mechanics.

[Ravs]

Originally posted by DeMasked:

Yea there are definitely some kinks that need to be worked out.

Tritilyte Machine Event made one of my Glyphid Eggs disappear making my mission to kill 3 Dreadnoughts impossible to complete.

You can throw the bomb at the crystal though yes it seems buggy and will explode in your face instead. Perhaps you need to be in a certain range of it? No idea.

Not sure if the Perk to move faster with the bomb would help but yea... had to abort that mission because I definitely couldn't complete it due to bombs blowing up in my face.

From what I've observed, the bombs explode in your face if enemies are near/behind you when you carry them. So it's best to clear the wave before throwing it.

[DeMasked]

Originally posted by Ravs:

Originally posted by DeMasked:

Yea there are definitely some kinks that need to be worked out.

Tritilyte Machine Event made one of my Glyphid Eggs disappear making my mission to kill 3 Dreadnoughts impossible to complete.

You can throw the bomb at the crystal though yes it seems buggy and will explode in your face instead. Perhaps you need to be in a certain range of it? No idea.

Not sure if the Perk to move faster with the bomb would help but yea... had to abort that mission because I definitely couldn't complete it due to bombs blowing up in my face.

From what I've observed, the bombs explode in your face if enemies are near/behind you when you carry them. So it's best to clear the wave before throwing it.

Nah. I was messing around with Scout Pheremon Grenade and had cases of it blowing up in my face even when the glyphids were at the other side of the room.

Could be it's too sensitive to ground/environment as there was a slight overhang.

[phittte]

Got three machine events so far, all of them with a full team of experienced randoms. We failed all three. One other guy I talked to said he failed four events and I only tried two with him myself.

I had two events where you had to shoot down those crystal acid spitters. The problem here was not that it was exceptionally hard (we were playing haz 4), but that there simply weren't enough spitters. I shot down every spitter I saw as soon as I could and yet we still didn't get enough crystals. The first time it was close (IIRC 13/15), the second time we only had ~9/15.

One event was fighting ebonite things (glyphids/praetorians/whatever). I have no idea how to harm them. I assume they have some kind of super thick armor, but neither my flamethrower nor my epc (charged shot) did any damage to them. And I unloaded tons of ammo. We eventually killed two of them (two out of fifteen, mind you), but it was a bit silly as their health bar didn't move a single bit when I hit them so I had no idea whether I did even do any damage at all (to armor at least).

Definitely needs some balancing. I don't mind a challenge, but right now it felt a bit random and not like a tough challenge we lost because we weren't good enough.

[GrandBotomness]

Crystal and bombs are only event that need some tweaking. By some I mean so small value adjusments because I played it like 6 times today (solo haz 4), 4 times I got really close with a pixel of health left, other 2 times I got horrible bomb spawns so I didnt even tried.

So like maybe take some of crystal's health or increase the time give for this, and even maybe add a cap for enemies spawned

[St0rmFury]

Originally posted by phittte:

One event was fighting ebonite things (glyphids/praetorians/whatever). I have no idea how to harm them. I assume they have some kind of super thick armor, but neither my flamethrower nor my epc (charged shot) did any damage to them. And I unloaded tons of ammo. We eventually killed two of them (two out of fifteen, mind you), but it was a bit silly as their health bar didn't move a single bit when I hit them so I had no idea whether I did even do any damage at all (to armor at least).

Definitely needs some balancing. I don't mind a challenge, but right now it felt a bit random and not like a tough challenge we lost because we weren't good enough.

Ebonite glyphids can only be damaged with the pickaxe.

[Slurs! In the Discord]

You need to melee the ebonite, it tells you on the screen.

[TheSuit]

They should rework it so it doesn't explode on throwing.
It should work like Adding Battery to Crates

You attach the barrel to the laser then it "super charges" the laser beam.

OR

It only explodes if you throw the barrel into the laser beam

[Paul.]

I think Machine event's need more explanation in what to do. I just tried to do the Ebonite event and people had no idea what to do, shooting rock bugs and ignoring the blue power cells I guess they do need some reworking but then again they just came out

[Lunacy]

Sadly the best advice i've seen is to scout-hunt haz1 if you need to use your blank cores.

[Bleydoka]

I hope there are already some youtube videos which show how to do the machine events. I didn't get what i was supposed to do at my first event.

[Lars Luron]

Originally posted by NLD PauL:

I think Machine event's need more explanation in what to do. I just tried to do the Ebonite event and people had no idea what to do, shooting rock bugs and ignoring the blue power cells I guess they do need some reworking but then again they just came out

I had that same issue with the one with the crystal and bombs. My group assumed from the description and from everything that was going on around us that we needed to hold out against an endless onslaught of glyphids until time ticked down, at which point the bombs would arrive. Of course it didn't really help that the stupid bomb dispenser came down in a nearby tunnel we could only access by digging (or by taking the long way around, which wasn't an option), and we didn't notice it was stuck up there until it was already too late for us to succeed. And even if it hadn't been too late, we ended up wasting a bunch of time on it anyway by trying to chuck the bombs back down the tunnel, and not noticing they were exploding on contact until they nearly killed me with them when I started trying to catch them.
By contrast, the only other machine event we did was the one with the rock glyphids, and that one was fairly well-explained. Even if it didn't fully explain the purpose of the power-up canisters, we still at least knew what we needed to do and managed to figure out the rest pretty easily on our own.

[Bleydoka]

There should really be a short tutorial or briefing. I assumed aswell that we have to hold out against an onslaught.

[Coffeefiend]

Completed 3 events so far.

Rock glyphids were fine, management told us to smack em with pickaxes and so we did...well at least me and another dwarf. Two of the randumbs weren't able to follow simple written instruction, clearly elves in disguise.

The other two were of the "collect glowy crystals"-type, once with crawling bugs and once with flying bugs.
Barely got 9/15 when the timer ran out, it seemed like the game spawned the bugs too slow and/or not in the required quantity, terrain was pretty rough though, might've been bad luck or we simply didn't find them.

The same event with flying crystal carriers was pretty easy in comparison. Instead of hunting down bugs that crawled everywhere and hurling crystals up a hill all we had to do was wait for them to come to us and kindly drop the crystals right next to the pod.

Oh, and one time I joined a game in progress and people there didn't even realize there was a machine event, they mistook it for some debris and walked right past it.