Abyssal sites difficulty

[Zoe & Kids]

Hi,

Just wondering if there's any Abyssal runners that've noticed a real increase in difficulty recently?

I run T6 sites so not sure if its universal but they seem to have been getting far harder with each run getting more difficult.

I have read the last few patch notes and couldn't find anything and I am not sure if it is just me having a bad luck run with difficult rooms so thought I'd ask :)

I did a site earlier today that had back to back Karybdis spawn on the first two rooms, I only managed to get out with 12 seconds left on the timer and that was with overheating, full set of Nirvanas and 3x boosters.

Does anyone know if the difficulty 'odds' are tied to your progression accomplishments as I am sure I recall recently unlocking a Abyssal milestone..

Finally, this isn't a 'moan' or fish for an argument, I haven't lost my ship (...yet) I am just curious :)

Thank you in advance.

[Heathy]

I've only done some t3 in a zealot, there were some waves that I had to use exile on or I was going to die, I think it was the karybdis wave and the 4x leshaks nearly had me, by the time you're killing the last one its pretty much at full spool. I was going to try t4 but I need to bling it more and probably test them out on sisi a bit until I get a feel for the waves. i think i've only done about 20-30 electricals and they seemed kinda random. I guess thats why its best to pretty much ignore the caches in the first room get the one that is closest to the gate, I was trying to do it so that I'd enter the final room with like 8minutes left at least. so if the final wave was a tanky one i'd still have enough time to kill it and leave.

[Anarchy '83]

I am interested in running Abyssal sites and wondered, do the AIs get harder or is there just more of them? By this I mean, do the ships get better stats each level you go up or do the stats remain the same and only increase in numbers? thank you

[Heathy]

yeah I think its just more npcs in the higher tiers but you kinda need to pay attention more to specific types of npcs and prioritise certain ones (or they might screw you if you just leave them), I just don't like the trigs that much the more you dilly dally the higher they spool until they break your tank. there is the drifter battleship as well which hits like a freight train. Karybdis tyrannos while you're at arms reach this thing just smashes you. when you get in close its not so bad.

if you're unsure you can always try them out on the test server to get a hang of them, if you want to jump into t3 or t4 with a gila its better to try them on singularity where everything costs 100 isk and you're not whelping 2b gilas on your first try.

the rooms are random but you can be up against, various faction npcs. its not all trigs and drifters but they probably are the worst ones.

[Anarchy '83]

Sounds stressful haha thanks for the hints i will watch some YT videos and see whats what