Kursite grinder = pure luck

[Swayback]

Even if you kill the Kursite carriers as soon as they spawn, sometimes not enough of them spawn during the very limited time limit. This machine event needs tweaking.

[Fryskar]

disagree.

[Cactus-Cat]

Kursite is the easiest event in my experience. I only fail them if someone kills the enemies while they are in a bad spot and the kursite falls into a deep hole.

But it's true that the spawnrates are a bit slow. Even if everything goes perfect there will often be less than 40 seconds left.

[phittte]

I had a Kursite event where we were standing in a medium-large room that was connected to the rest of the cave by small tunnels and almost no Kursite enemies spawned. After a while we found out some of them spawned in a room pretty far away. Or maybe they had spawned in the tunnels and flew in the wrong direction, who knows. In any case they were completely out of reach and thus we failed the event.

This doesn't happen regularly so I don't mind, but it's definitely something that does happen. Sometimes it's more severe, sometimes it just makes the mission only slightly harder. I think the problem is not that too few spawn, the problem is that sometimes they spawn in places where you can't see or even reach them.

[kestrel]

apparently the spawn rates for kursite aliens has been improved in u29, so theres that

i dont think kursite was ever hard.if anything i think it was the easiest of all the events, though that definitely made it the least fun becauseits just %90 waiting for recoloured enemies to drop their thing
ebonite is the hardest imo, that event is just pure suffering incarnate and basically impossible on anything above haz3

the tritilite and omen towers are the best imo because they actually require some thought and skill on how to beat them, compared to just endless waiting or scrambling for pickaxe powerups before your teammates steal them

[ColdTooth]

kursite was really tight when it first launched, sometimes 14 out of 15 mactera spawned in the 3 minutes given, but if you're in solo it's always easy because you don't need 15, only 8

they seemed to improve the spawn rate even in solo, was able to finish 6 acidspitters within 60 seconds, before it was usually a bit longer

now if you made this thread in u27, i'd agree

Originally posted by TURBOBILGE:

ebonite is the hardest imo, that event is just pure suffering incarnate and basically impossible on anything above haz3

they actually nerfed ebonite so it's really easy now, just requires some kiting and a bit of clever mechanics like slows or freeze nades

in groups it's best to have your gunner throw a shield in a spot where you have good vantage of free power attacks, and driller's axes can be great for long range when you're in a tight spot

[Vault Traveler]

Had 3 kursite since U29 and all of them went good. Usually I have a 50% chance of broken wave spawns... so in other words my problem is fixed.

[Adeon Hawkwood]

Yeah, I think the spawns could still use some tweaking, especially for mactera. The Spitter and Preatorian variants seem to have the same spawn rate as Macteras but since you need fewer kills the effective spawn rate is higher.

Kursite is generally ok but you do occasionally get one where the number of spawns you see is fewer than the number you need.

[gary]

No enough enemies always spawn, it just may be that they get stuck in a weird or inaccessible place.

[Adeon Hawkwood]

Originally posted by gary:

No enough enemies always spawn, it just may be that they get stuck in a weird or inaccessible place.

In which case you don't see them.

[Woe]

Originally posted by Fryskar:

disagree.

Productive thx for your input, they do spawn super spaced out and is by far the most common event I've seen come down to the last 20 seconds on multiple occasions because of how slow the event bugs spawn, some tweaking is needed

[Deadweight]

Originally posted by Woe:

Originally posted by Fryskar:

disagree.

Productive thx for your input, they do spawn super spaced out and is by far the most common event I've seen come down to the last 20 seconds on multiple occasions because of how slow the event bugs spawn, some tweaking is needed

Honestly, this just means you might be doing something wrong. Kursite probably takes the most prep and teamwork out of all events.

Prep area, kill fast, deposit fast, kill specials spawns. Keep someone near machine to catch throws, don't walk them all over or you're gonna run out of time.

If you've gotten pretty good at it the only thing that might kill an attempt is a cliff spawn with spitters, but can still just barely complete that one if you're doing it as quick as you should be.

[Clamdigger]

Originally posted by Woe:

Originally posted by Fryskar:

disagree.

Productive thx for your input, they do spawn super spaced out and is by far the most common event I've seen come down to the last 20 seconds on multiple occasions because of how slow the event bugs spawn, some tweaking is needed

The time limit does not seem scale correctly for solo players at least when I tried doing this event. I killed the bugs as fast as they spawned and returned the yellow eggs to the machine as fast as I could, and still failed...even on easy difficulty. Are the events group only?

[Ackranome]

Originally posted by Swayback:

Even if you kill the Kursite carriers as soon as they spawn, sometimes not enough of them spawn during the very limited time limit. This machine event needs tweaking.

Disagree entirely.

[Ackranome]

Originally posted by Clamdigger:

Originally posted by Woe:

Productive thx for your input, they do spawn super spaced out and is by far the most common event I've seen come down to the last 20 seconds on multiple occasions because of how slow the event bugs spawn, some tweaking is needed

The time limit does not seem scale correctly for solo players at least when I tried doing this event. I killed the bugs as fast as they spawned and returned the yellow eggs to the machine as fast as I could, and still failed...even on easy difficulty. Are the events group only?

I did it solo - was a joke solo.

[Clamdigger]

Originally posted by Ackranome:

Originally posted by Clamdigger:

The time limit does not seem scale correctly for solo players at least when I tried doing this event. I killed the bugs as fast as they spawned and returned the yellow eggs to the machine as fast as I could, and still failed...even on easy difficulty. Are the events group only?

I did it solo - was a joke solo.

Like I already just explained I killed the mobs as soon as they spawned and took the eggs back as fast as possible and there was still not enough time to complete it. Either as someone else mentioned some mobs might have got stuck in walls or something else is wrong, because no matter how fast I killed and ran the yellow eggs back I still did not have enough time to complete it.