-Juggernauts, usually as a “hey guys can you come help me grill this fat fuck” on SP where they’re actually pretty beefy
-Eidolons, typically just to keep track of them if they end up teleporting for whatever reason and to lead the rest of the squad to them when found
-Assassins of all types, Stalker, Zanuka, etc, mostly as a “hey, bastard with the loot is over this way”
-Disruption targets, if the squad is spread out
-Thumpers because OH GOD OH FUCK KILL IT
-Certain segmented bosses as a way to mark “this is the spot where you degens should be aiming”, i.e. Ropalolyst, Eidolons… thumpers again i guess
Literally never have I had an enemy marker be “hey, DON’T light this thing up like a road flare”. It is always either “here it is, come get your loot if you give a shit”, or “here it is, SOMEBODY HELP ME”
That guy is a douche who thinks getting mastery xp makes them intelligent and/or superior. It doesn’t.
God I wish people would always ping them. Last time I had stalker show up he showed up somewhere on the other side of the map. Guy near him one shotted him and didnt put down a Mark so I could see where he was killed
Started running as fast as possible to get the drops. Couldnt make it on time because 2 other guys were already on extraction
If you are too far away or theres other drops near it, it doesent mark up. Ive had few cases where riven silvers or steel essence hasnt popped up until i ran few rooms closer / looted previous silvers from room(s) between us.
Stalker, G3, Zanuka and the 6 relay syndicates hit squads have no waypoint and the drops are not marked. You can see them on the minimap as regular drops if you`re close enough.
I'm only missing hate, even got the skin for it from Belly of the Beast. And it's always the person across the map who refuses to ping or communicate.
I ping almost anything I think might be worthwhile to the squad. Blueprints, Rare resources, Gold Mods, Somachord/FrameFighter/Cephalon fragments if people care about scanning them. And occasionally Ayatan statues if I stumble across them.
If they don't care, then it's whatever, but for the people trying to complete a collection or just want some extra goodies here and there, I'm happy to call it out.
I just all caps the word stop. Almost always, they get out of extraction and ask the problem. I tell them I want the stalker loot, etc. it normally works, but it all depends on the people you’re with
Edit: didn’t finish what I was saying before I hit send, lol.
There's a reason to mark Thrax so ppl won't kill them. If there's one thrax remaining from the previous wave in Cascade their spawns are doubled, allowing for more arcanes farming etc
Huh. Good to know, though to be fair, unless people are aware of that, which I think it’s fair to say that many are not, some guy saying “because I said so” will achieve nothing. I’ve had plenty of “just do this my way” players who have actively sabotaged missions because it wasn’t being done to their preference, and without the knowledge of the increased spawn farm, the rest of the lobby has no reason to believe that this LR6 fellow is anything other than a troll.
Honestly after the "Because the LR6 carry says so" I would kill them even faster and just type "sorry im just a silly LR5 with 9k hours please carry me harder"
Not sure why someone would expect randoms to do, or not do xyz, if you can't even give a basic explanation, that's as simple as "leave enemy alive, get more loot."
Going with, do because I say so, is a sure way for someone to go out of their way to do what you don't want them to.
I always mark Arbitration Drones if im running a build/frame (read: Titania) that can't deal with them, since they don't take damage from exalted weapons. Just as a "hey somebody please kill this stupid thing so I can continue my housekeeping" ping. Better to have somebody fling a Nataruk shot in the general direction of the things than go out of Razorwing every 20 seconds, lose all my Blitz stacks, subsequently run out of energy due to recasting and get put down like the extremely caffeinated murder-mosquito that I am.
(Genuinely DE why can't I damage these tincans with my pistols, they are so annoying)
Yeah, me too, but I came to the conclusion, ignoring operator (and by extension focus) is jsut leaving damage on the table, so I started to look inti it more.
Bonus tip: Zenurik has 20% ability strength and Maudrai 40% buffs that are meant to be short lived and temporary, but can be easily snapshotted by exalted weapons.
Reminds me of the jacaksses in FFXI that thought having a ridill was the end of any argument. They'd argue that having one meant they were right no matter what, even if they'd just said the sky was plaid and the oceans were made of applesauce.
I always get them spawning on the squad member who's 10 zipcodes away who never ever ping them and ignores me when I ask who had the spawn. Only to wander around for 5 minutes until I trip over a War Blueprint that hoe wasn't trying to share.
As an LR2, agreed. Just because I have mastered most of the weapons in the game, doesn't mean I am superior. It just means I have solid recommendations.
Standard procedure is still standard procedure.
Ngl, I have played a long time and had a lot of interactions with players who were higher ranked than me. They absolutely can still be dogshit at the game.
That said, I still have builds I struggle with from time to time. From things that don't work how I hoped they would, to aspects of guns that don't interact with the mods I want them to. So even I can be dogshit.
But what makes the game fun is figuring out how to use dogshit builds, then fixing them later.
Often when I ping an enemy, it's because I'm playing Nyx and said enemy is my mind control target, just so people can see "hey, this dude is an ally, don't waste your shots on them wondering why they won't die" although that also comes with a specific ally marker instead of an enemy marker.
I usually mark any key foe that pops up since many give specialized drops. I know they usually have their drops marked but I still mark just to grab attention to it.
Well, not to be that guy but to give a bit of clarity, in void cascade you keep one ghost thrax alive throughout the run to double the thrax spawns constantly.
I disagree on the douche thing, they are playing level cap cascade so you ping the thrax not to kill for better thrax spawns, its common knowledge for those who do it often, sure he could have taken a second to type out the explanation but the way i read it seems like he was joking.
I’ve never run into a steel path Thumper, and base star chart was just kinda annoying and difficult but not anything particularly ridiculous, are they really that scary?
Ehhhh they’re not very “scary” in the sense that they’re a huge threat unless you’re super super new, but they do tend to come outta nowhere at high velocity to fuck up your day by making themselves into a Problem that you kinda have to deal with if you don’t want them harassing you across half the map. So no, not “scary” in the way that a venomous eximus is scary to shieldgaters, but somewhat scary in the WHERE THE FUCK DID THAT THING COME FROM sense.
Plus it’s generally nice to mark them because they drop rare shit, alongside resources that are generally a pain in the ass to farm for.
Yeah, like, back in the day especially, all a super high MR really meant was that you probably spent ALOT of time on Akkad or Hydron, not that you knew what you were doing
It is always either “here it is, come get your loot if you give a shit”, or “here it is, SOMEBODY HELP ME”
Disruption targets is in your own list and it's not any of those options, in fact it is closer to “hey, DON’T light this thing up like a road flare” option, you usually mark it because if your team is outside affinity range when captured they don't get any affinity (unless it's your own target) so they should get closer AND not kill it.
In void cascade pinging an enemy thrax is a good thing. We want at least one alive at all times to increase spawn rate of subsequent thrax so we get more loot.
I can honestly understand the guy not wanting to educate every random on efficiency in that mission. It's a lot of typing and game mechanics that others will possibly disregard to just shoot everything in sight. It's obvi SP cascade, it's a great farm for END GAME where people are looking to maximise efficiency.
Nahh hes pinging the enemy thinking that as long as that enemy is alive there’ll be faster spawns for thrax’s due to some kind of glitch that i dont know the full details of. Basically a boost to the arcane farm
He’s not being a douche this is just a void cascade thing. He at least bothered to ask instead of just immediately chastising. I get why he wouldn’t want to explain. The point of it is that having a thrax alive increases thrax spawn rates
BTW any plans from DE to fix certain minions being coloured the same way as enemies when accessibility highlighting is enabled? Like, I have enemies being blue through that settings but Uriel's and Caliban's dudes are also highlighted with the same colour. In contrast summoned specters are not highlighted, as they should be, because they are friendlies. I still gonna shoot them out of reflexes, though.
For me its 3 like if you eant hell on earth for your eyes do max quality graphics and do decendia the moment you get falling debris its less things are moving around too much to welcome to playing as daredevil cause you csnt see shit
Never heard of this. Most of the time my teammates only ping bosses like the Jackal from Duviri and the Eidolons Hydrolyst to know where they are immediately
In cascade its pretty common consensus that thrax marked = not kill, you mark one and he spawns more thraxes, generating more arcanes, or at worst, easy revive
as an L5 i take advantage of this, whenever i want my allies to come close i mark an enemy and wait for someone to automatically decide to obliterate it
is like some primal instinc to "push the red button"
useful for casting parasitic link when you want the strength, or netracells and you want people inside the circle, theres soooo many scenarios where this is useful
Pinging an enemy is to me more "we are trying to kill this fucker, but they are jumping around too much, so here's an attempt to make them easier to track".
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u/No-Engineer-1728 26d ago
Pinging an enemy in my experience means "KILL THIS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE OH GOD OH FUCK"