Nukara - Mineral Matters
This zone wide mission is a pain in the rear for Science characters. Not too bad for Engineers and sort of OK for Tactical. Mining the minerals mechanic desperately needs two changes to make them less frustrating.
Spawn rates are frustrating too but if you don't want to add a more sophisticated spawning mechanics then the following should help greatly.
1 - Ready to be mined crystal, the sprites, need to be visible at all times. Combat now turns off the sprites so you have to wait for combat to end and stare into a rock hoping combat doesn't resume & nothing spawns so you can pan around with the camera and hope a mineral rock nearby is ready to be mined.
2 - Getting shot interrupts mining. This more than anything needs to not happen!!! Let us decide whether to fight or take a chance at dieing to complete the mining of the mineral crystal.
I can't imagine these two fixes being all that difficult. Currently this is an incredibly frustrating mission due to the interruptions while mining and finding crystal ready to be mined.
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