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kormakrip
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It is very difficult to get credit for the v-rex final boss in the dyson battlezone now. Players are so powerful they can burn down the v-rex as fast as it spawns. This prevents everyone else in the zone from getting the final reward. This map is intended to be cooperative play, but the final boss is now cut-throat. A player could do nothing but camp and then burn down the v-rex for a substantial reward, while the players who captured the zone get nothing. Surely this is not working as intended.
I understand that camping the v-rex spawn has been mandatory for awhile, but now even camping will not always lead to reward. Pity the new player who has no frost boots and no lightning ball. Nobody wants to spend 45 minutes completing a zone only to see the final boss go up in smoke in 2 seconds flat.
There are many obvious fixes to the problem. The simplest one is to simply give the final reward to anyone who captured a point in that zone, and not to a player who just camps and burns down a v-rex.
I understand that camping the v-rex spawn has been mandatory for awhile, but now even camping will not always lead to reward. Pity the new player who has no frost boots and no lightning ball. Nobody wants to spend 45 minutes completing a zone only to see the final boss go up in smoke in 2 seconds flat.
There are many obvious fixes to the problem. The simplest one is to simply give the final reward to anyone who captured a point in that zone, and not to a player who just camps and burns down a v-rex.
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Second, I believe they are looking at solutions.
It's rather old content by now though, so I can see why it doesn't seem that much of a priority to fix it.
The best way of dealing with it, in the meantime, is making sure that the last point that's being captured is a generator point close to the V-rex spawning point. Those little carts will keep moving on their own, so after you've killed the four Voth that usually spawn near the end of the line and the three others somewhere in the middle, activate the last console and then run to the V-Rex.
I'm aware that it's not always possible to plan this, but if you can, it should give you enough time to get to the V-rex.
Credit for a v-rex kill is worth 1200-5000 dil, depending on captures and kills. The other missions give some reward, but that is not as good as the final reward.
Simply camping and dropping a v-rex will give you 1200 dil - a very generous reward for doing little. I understand that a fix was done to stop players from getting credit for a single shot. That makes it harder to get credit now.
If the v-rex drops in 2 seconds then few get a chance to get the final reward. In theory it is possible to run to another v-rex and do enough damage to get credit. That is getting more unlikely as more players get more fancy kit modules. Now you can have 3 players getting final reward, and the 12 players who actually capped the zones get nothing.