choose assignment missions?

[Allyraya]

The title isn't exactly clear granted, so here goes. I just died on a hazard 3 elimination mission in the Azure Weald, under the Golden Bugs and Cave Leech Cluster Warning, Solo. This was despite Bosco having 4 revives. I blame the constant assaults by detonators, swarmers, grunts, for not being able to constantly look at the ceiling in a dark map crawling with vegetation, and yes, I also suck at this game, so shut it everyone who's just going to say some variant of "get gud".

After respawning on the rig, I checked the map and saw I had 5 minutes until the shuffle. so I waited, hoping I would get a mission in the Crystalline Caverns or Glacial Strata. I could have even done one in the Magma Core fairly well. But when the shuffle happened...Hollow Bough. Shield Disruption. Volatile Guts...

And looking at the map further, I saw other elimination missions in other zones that I could probably do, but that one was the one marked for my assignment (Core Hunt), and I know from experience that completing missions of the correct type, but not marked as the assignment mission, will get me nothing.

My question is why I can't choose which elimination mission I do, why it has to be that specific one?

[Smetrix]

You can go to the servers and see if there is an active mission for your assignment already in progress, that way you can have a team to back you up.

As for why its like that? Idk, thats just the way it is lol.

[Chibbity]

Originally posted by Allyraya:

My question is why I can't choose which elimination mission I do, why it has to be that specific one?

Because that's your assignment, now get to work Miner.

[Allyraya]

Originally posted by slofish_00:

Playing solo all you can do is what you've done; wait for a 'shuffle'.
If you admit you suck...why are you trying Haz 3? elimination no less!
It's not a waste to play some other mission for experience or advance
a different class; unlock all those weapons for more options.
You don't say what class you're using; I use a gunner and any of the
primary weapons for elimination and I prefer Sandblasted corridors
for some reason.
I hate Hollow Bough and play solo.

I say I suck to preclude someone else using that as an excuse to shut me/my post down. I can do haz 3 solo normally fairly well. Heck, there was this one time I was in...I think it was crystalline caverns? I was on Haz 3, it was a point extraction (which I think is the most annoying mission type, personally), I managed to do both objectives, a machine event, and a rock cracker lithophage meteor, and while I barely made it out by the fumes of my propellant, I did sucessfully complete it.

As for experience, I have promoted my Gunner once (which is my go-to class), and all my others are at lv 25, just waiting for me to do the promotion chains for them.

For this mission in particular, I was in fact using Gunner, with the Rocket Launcher and the Armskore Coil Gun.

I play Haz 3 because Haz 2 solo is too easy.

[Allyraya]

Originally posted by Chibbity:

Originally posted by Allyraya:

My question is why I can't choose which elimination mission I do, why it has to be that specific one?

Because that's your assignment, now get to work Miner.

No, I want a better one! XD

[Johnno]

Originally posted by Allyraya:

My question is why I can't choose which elimination mission I do, why it has to be that specific one?

I reckon it's the same reason biomes aren't all open at the same time, to consolidate the playerbase. As a solo player you'll want to just do what you want, but in multiplayer if the same was true then there'd be less of a possibility to get to play the mission you want. With everyone being forced to do the same assignment mission they'll match up, and there'll be groups to play with.

Life's tough, you don't always get what you want.

Oh and also, git gud. You can play haz 2 or even 1 if it's too much of a struggle. And I mean that in the kindest way, no reason to fail missions and complain about it, just lower the difficulty (or get better).

[Powerfull]

"PRIVATE YOUR MISSION IS GET DEEP INTO ENEMY TERRITORY AND ♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥ UP! YOU PROBABLY WON'T RETURN, NOW GO MAKE YOUR COUNTRY PROUD MAGGOT"

"can't i just get an easier one?"

This makes no sense.

[Beast Marshal]

Originally posted by Allyraya:

Originally posted by slofish_00:

Playing solo all you can do is what you've done; wait for a 'shuffle'.
If you admit you suck...why are you trying Haz 3? elimination no less!
It's not a waste to play some other mission for experience or advance
a different class; unlock all those weapons for more options.
You don't say what class you're using; I use a gunner and any of the
primary weapons for elimination and I prefer Sandblasted corridors
for some reason.
I hate Hollow Bough and play solo.

I say I suck to preclude someone else using that as an excuse to shut me/my post down. I can do haz 3 solo normally fairly well. Heck, there was this one time I was in...I think it was crystalline caverns? I was on Haz 3, it was a point extraction (which I think is the most annoying mission type, personally), I managed to do both objectives, a machine event, and a rock cracker lithophage meteor, and while I barely made it out by the fumes of my propellant, I did sucessfully complete it.

As for experience, I have promoted my Gunner once (which is my go-to class), and all my others are at lv 25, just waiting for me to do the promotion chains for them.

For this mission in particular, I was in fact using Gunner, with the Rocket Launcher and the Armskore Coil Gun.

I play Haz 3 because Haz 2 solo is too easy.

You can't complain about the game being to hard, while being too prideful to play on an easier difficulty. The mission seeds, biomes, and warnings DO augment the difficulty significantly, and if you aren't experienced enough to complete a Haz 3 mission despite them, the course is to go to Haz 2, find some extra guns to help, or just skip the assignment mission for a while.

[Allyraya]

Originally posted by Johnno:

Originally posted by Allyraya:

My question is why I can't choose which elimination mission I do, why it has to be that specific one?

I reckon it's the same reason biomes aren't all open at the same time, to consolidate the playerbase. As a solo player you'll want to just do what you want, but in multiplayer if the same was true then there'd be less of a possibility to get to play the mission you want. With everyone being forced to do the same assignment mission they'll match up, and there'll be groups to play with.

Life's tough, you don't always get what you want.

Oh and also, git gud. You can play haz 2 or even 1 if it's too much of a struggle. And I mean that in the kindest way, no reason to fail missions and complain about it, just lower the difficulty (or get better).

"Consolidate the playerbase"; fair enough, that makes sense, less resources expended server side, I hadn't considered that before.

"Life's tough, you don't always get what you want" - I know that, hence why I tried to do the cave leech cluster elimination mission in the first place, I wanted to complete the assignment regardless.

"git gud" - stuff it. I may not have as many hours as other people in this game (sorry, working full time and having other games to play means I don't always get into/feel like playing DRG) but I have all classes fully unlocked, and all of them leveled to 25 at least once, with the Gunner ready for a 2nd promotion. I can do Haz 3 no problem usually, and this isn't the first time I've wondered about why specific missions are chosen over the same mission in another biome.

[Allyraya]

Originally posted by ☥Powerfull:

"PRIVATE YOUR MISSION IS GET DEEP INTO ENEMY TERRITORY AND ♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥ UP! YOU PROBABLY WON'T RETURN, NOW GO MAKE YOUR COUNTRY PROUD MAGGOT"

"can't i just get an easier one?"

This makes no sense.

As this isn't the IRL military, you make no sense.

[Allyraya]

As this discussion, like all my other attempted discussions is going down the tubes, I will now as then, bow out and let y'all have fun.

[Powerfull]

Originally posted by Allyraya:

Originally posted by ☥Powerfull:

"PRIVATE YOUR MISSION IS GET DEEP INTO ENEMY TERRITORY AND ♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥ UP! YOU PROBABLY WON'T RETURN, NOW GO MAKE YOUR COUNTRY PROUD MAGGOT"

"can't i just get an easier one?"

This makes no sense.

As this isn't the IRL military, you make no sense.

This is a mining operation threatened by hostile bugs, same principle. It's the mission you were assigned, No buts ands or ifs about it.

[Lord Of War]

Originally posted by Allyraya:

No, I want a better one! XD

You can always play other missions and wait until your assignment mission rerolls w/o nasty warnings ;)