Data Deposit is at least Twice as annoying as Prospector

[GIRL]

Bit of a rant, because I've never lost to a prospector event, but I sure as hell have lost doing a Data Deposit. I think I'm going to just ignore them from now on.

Data deposit requires you to:
- Call in a hacking pod
- Set up the nodes
- Start the hacking sequence, which spawns enemies non-stop until completed
- Defend hacksy until it's done

One slip-up can easily ruin the whole event, much like an OMEN tower. If people start dying, the non-stop enemies spawning only make it harder to get everyone back up and fighting. And it won't stop until you hack the deposit - there's no fail-state that can save you like with machine events.

With Prospector, you have to:
- kill a couple robots. That's it.
- Killing the prospector also gives you gold and nitra.

I mean, I like having a challenge every once in a while. I just don't understand why these two events give the exact same reward. Prospector is so much easier than a Data Deposit. It just seems unbalanced to me.

[Chibbity]

Virgin data deposit

Vs.

Chad prospector.

[Suzaku]

Fail to protect Hack-C and it goes back in its pod. No hacking means the bugs and bots stop. Use that time to clean up stragglers, revive teammates, and reorganize for another attempt.

[Barser]

You are right. One is more difficult and time consuming than the other. But it is a bit like the machine events. Tritilyte is so quick and easy compared to omen tower.

[GIRL]

Originally posted by Suzaku:

Fail to protect Hack-C and it goes back in its pod. No hacking means the bugs and bots stop. Use that time to clean up stragglers, revive teammates, and reorganize for another attempt.

I'm fairly certain enemies KEEP spawning even if Hacksy is hidden away. That's what makes it so difficult.

[Frisky]

My big issue with hacking events is the bugs spawning right next to hacksy, it's just downright annoying and can feel kinda cheap when an exploder spawns within range of hacksy right away, it's rare but man does it suck

Prospector is way less bothersome but both events I personally won't miss much after the season ends just due to patrol bots being a huge annoyance

[RUCKUS RELOADED]

i don't agree, if anything i find it's the other way around

first of all using the node setup stage as an argument is kinda silly when it's not at all a challenge
second, hackc doesn't constrain you to a radius limit nor is it able to fail your mission directly and i think those two factors alone justify the difficulty. yes it's hard but you've got completely unrestricted movement and all the time in the world to set up. all the enemies the game can throw at you can't stack up to a well made arena

i'm sure you're aware that hackc doesn't have an "activation radius" but i find a lot of people tend to just stay close to it by instinct, which is fair, i did it at first because it's just muscle memory carrying over from salvage ops uplinks. but try and play far away from the robot

if all else fails just play gunner because he absolutely stomps this event. you've got area damage weapons, ziplines to hover over the enemy crowds with (they'll be too busy attacking hackc to pay attention to you) and shields to immediately restart the bot if it dies

as for the prospector... good luck if you're not scout. it always flies away through a gap the size of a pinprick and youve either gotta waste ammo getting up to it or sit on your ass waiting for it to come back
it's not hard, it's just annoying

[V0lcanF1re]

yeah endless swarm coming even more from machine event, basically is a part of Point Extraction mission.
even if leave it, swarm not leave you.
had a game crash with Data Deposit when 'team' doesn't care to continue the hacking pod and the bugs just coming and coming in quick waves...

is can be finish, just need some good fire power in hands and not engi nuke the hack pod and let is lose connection or driller c4... ah
already did some while bulk deto came but.. very rare.

about Prospector is a baby event game, yeah never failed it just kill 3 flying patrol bots and some shredders and just both engines.
if the prospector could shot on us and not just run away.. pretty better.
prospector also give some minerals lol, data deposit... just data cell.

[ShugoTheRipper]

I notice a stark reverse.

Most random players can handle protecting Hacksey but chasing down the Prospector can break the teams herniated and arthritis riddled back.

See my story about the ball pit from hell, I may find it and update it into this comment...

Edit:

Originally posted by ShugoTheRipper:

I was in a funny round where the merry crew of new players all triggered one and jumped into a small pit. Then what felt like 10+ drones and some Q'ronar Youngling were rolling around down there with them killing them and bouncing them all over.

I was standing above the pit as an Engineer in utter horror at the situation. Everyone said r, but they were not r that is for sure.

[【🐲】Kobayashi Tohru ★]

Originally posted by ShugoTheRipper:

I notice a stark reverse.

Most random players can handle protecting Hacksey but chasing down the Prospector can break the teams herniated and arthritis riddled back.

See my story about the ball pit from hell, I may find it and update it into this comment...

Edit:

Originally posted by ShugoTheRipper:

I was in a funny round where the merry crew of new players all triggered one and jumped into a small pit. Then what felt like 10+ drones and some Q'ronar Youngling were rolling around down there with them killing them and bouncing them all over.

I was standing above the pit as an Engineer in utter horror at the situation. Everyone said r, but they were not r that is for sure.

r.

[Vault Traveler]

Personally after they toned down the hacking sequence wave I am pretty good with its difficulty.

[sea]

Originally posted by Frisky:

My big issue with hacking events is the bugs spawning right next to hacksy, it's just downright annoying and can feel kinda cheap when an exploder spawns within range of hacksy right away, it's rare but man does it suck

Wait until that one happens with Bulk Detonator. It's pure lazy/forgotten design. You bring salvage-like event into to the game but you are not using salvage spawn mechanics.

There are annoyances with prospector too. There is already existing activating stuff at wrong time thing at pub play. Be it Korlok, Bet-c, Events. But you can avoid those if swarm happens (Bet-c is little bit slow). Prospector on the other hand, is not only requires 1 accidental shot to activate but also free roams. Good luck dealing with both swarm and patrol bots, the most annoying enemy in entire game. Just WHY design such thing (prospector mechanic).

It's painful to encounter it on Escort, Refinery and PE. I had so many instances people activating it right after swarm announcement. Even myself accidently did that sometimes. With all that AOE stuff avoiding is hard when prospector decides to fly low, close to dwarfs/base.

I left the biggest trolling of GSG at the end. Magma core geysers can activate prospector. Happened me twice on refinery mission and guess what? Timing was also perfect for it to stack with swarm.

[pi73r]

Actually the prospector can get away if you are slacking and hack pod event is basically surviving a regular swarm with a twist.

[Lunacy]

Originally posted by pi73r:

Actually the prospector can get away if you are slacking and hack pod event is basically surviving a regular swarm with a twist.

Never seen it disappear, it's always somewhere in the cave just chillin if you leave it.

[V0lcanF1re]

Originally posted by Lunacy:

Originally posted by pi73r:

Actually the prospector can get away if you are slacking and hack pod event is basically surviving a regular swarm with a twist.

Never seen it disappear, it's always somewhere in the cave just chillin if you leave it.

yep, i also found prospector hiding 30m deep in a small pit, had just to shot it and let it turn around till... die with his robo friends
but prospector never disappear just hiding or moving far away up or down.
hunt it down till you get your data cell.

[Bleydoka]

hack-c can be tough with a weak team but you can always avoid to start it.
But the prospector sometimes just turns around the corner while i am fighting a wave and spawn his strong robot friends which will sometimes break my neck in modded difficulties.