sorely lacking in repair automation

[Deages]

the cog hunt update is brutal for trying to actually play the game and progress, there needs to be automatic repairing because I can't find time to do anything with how fragile my ship is in terms of taking incoming damage from spiders/tanks or the t3+ cogs

[Kaii]

I agree, some kind of repair or protection mechanic needs to be added, or at least the duration of a COG Hunt needs to be massively toned down. I don't want to have to spend upwards of 20 minutes just either sitting underground not being able to do any progression, or constantly running about like a little dutch boy plugging holes with thumbs whilst the COGs blow more holes into my ship.

And modules are far, far too vulnerable to being completely shredded by the obscene number of bullets that most enemies can put out now, with zero way to protect them from the gunfire. Playing with a friend, we were doing a drillship, and because it spawned several tanks and a ton of COGs, before we'd managed to destroy it, we upset the COGs. We tried to wrap it up fast to return to our ship and dive, but by the time we were done and got back, they'd destroyed every little piece of a 4-segment drillship, in like three minutes flat.

It really needs adjustment.

[Mr. Fibble]

If a hunt is on you need to load up and leave the drill buried while you hunt the control tower. Taking it down will clear the heat for a while

If you're grouped then someone could stay back at the ship which would allow for drone support.

[Kaii]

Originally posted by Mr. Fibble:

If a hunt is on you need to load up and leave the drill buried while you hunt the control tower. Taking it down will clear the heat for a while

If you're grouped then someone could stay back at the ship which would allow for drone support.

Thing is, that's just for early on. Later on military cogships start to hound you and basically force you to either stay buried underground, unable to use your modules, or deal with constant cog attacks.

[DuuD]

Is the control tower listed on the map at all? I've yet to find them.

[Mr. Fibble]

Don't think so but it has a claxon that sounds, can usually hear it from a decent distance. Best bet is to start at an uphill spot and check the areas below you

[greenbone]

That was my first reaction to the update, I already found the late game terribly difficult and brutal. But now it seems to become a pure action heavy fighting game, leaving less and less space for discovery and story. For me the last few updates have revealed that the devs ideas for this game are not what they seemed to me at first. I will stick to old version until full game is out and then decide.

[Neon Ninja]

I'm sure they will adjust this...right devs? Or is this how you guys/gals intend for the game to be?

[Fnaargh]

Is there a reason to trigger a hunt?
So far I've gotten all I need from the cog troopers, tech sites and underground, I dig down before cogs gets pissed off, seems to cool off alot quicker than the military.

Just getting back into it from a year back, so a bit rusty on the details, only dealing with 3-star ships so far, tho, just got the diamond drill.

[Kaii]

Originally posted by Fnaargh:

Is there a reason to trigger a hunt?
So far I've gotten all I need from the cog troopers, tech sites and underground, I dig down before cogs gets pissed off, seems to cool off alot quicker than the military.

Just getting back into it from a year back, so a bit rusty on the details, only dealing with 3-star ships so far, tho, just got the diamond drill.

If you want to get the Titanium Hull to finish the game, you have to piss off the COG and then attack the military ship that appears, which is a nightmare.

[SheaDy]

Foxhole on Caves 2 is a secluded location where other Drillships cant spawn, perfect for repairing and/or upgrading your ship while the hunt is ongoing.

But, as others mentioned, best thing to do is to hunt the ship down while your ship is hidden underground.

[Fnaargh]

Originally posted by Kaii:

If you want to get the Titanium Hull to finish the game, you have to piss off the COG and then attack the military ship that appears, which is a nightmare.

Hm, sounds "fun"...sometimes I miss the Fat Man from Fallout 3.

If only the drones didn't return when sending the ship underground....

[Fnaargh]

Originally posted by Don't Press H:

Foxhole on Caves 2 is a secluded location where other Drillships cant spawn, perfect for repairing and/or upgrading your ship while the hunt is ongoing.

But, as others mentioned, best thing to do is to hunt the ship down while your ship is hidden underground.

In my experience, pissed off cogs spawn no matter where you are, do I remember wrong?
There are safe caves in every area, The Pit in the first, I think, haven't been to the third yet.

[Mr. Fibble]

Little den, fox hole and the pit, all three are a single entry cave but if the cogs are in heat they will come for you via the tick tank and drill pods.

One option, that can require a bit of driving, is to hit the tower in zone one as the cogs don't seem to upgrade based off which drills have been taken down.

I've been trying to adjust my approach of killing ships outright so that I take want I need, leave the rest and retreat so the cogs don't go full on until I surface at the drill which is an automatic hot zone.

[Kani]

We need some kind of repair drone/tower for sure

[kcs123]

I agree. It should be properly balanced, though, so that your own ship does not become invincible.

Currently, I'm at stage where I need to piss COGs so they attack me with military ship. I need that IV class hull to progress further. I have either, 3 gatling turret or 2 gatling guns + 1 sniper turret on each ship end. Also several weaker shotgun/smg turrets in middle section.

I deploy drones for distraction too. I end up either, to defened my own ship, leaving me no time before erruption to attack military COG ship. Or I leave my own ship to it's fate and focus on military COG.

In either case, at least 1-2 my own turrets get destroyed before being forced underground, if Im' lucky. I was not yet being able to destroy militaty ship.

Game encourage you to destroy COG ship drill, so it can't esceape, but appart from specific quest, there is no feedback if I have destroyed drill or not. Other parts of ship explode, so you know that it is destroyed, but there is lack of visual mesh deformation that you know drill is destroyed. Or some kind of health bar or something that will give you feedback.

(Dislamer, maybe something exsist, but I didn't noticed in heat of battle).