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The Lost Without The Rikti; Is It Possible?

Bovine_Avenger

By Bovine_Avenger,
Posted on: 2009-04-27 24:46 in Mission Architect

 

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Hey all,

I'm trying to create a mission where you fight the Lost, but in between the objectives it keeps spawning Rikti mobs... I've tried to reduce the level to 29 (apparently they are replaced with Rikti at 30 and above) by forcing them down with selected Security Guards between 5 and 29 but I'm still getting the Rikti as well as Lost. I've also tried to create an alternative Lost custom group of only those lower than 29, but they still turn up, which leads me to suspect either the Lost in MA are reporting incorrect level ranges (see Judgement Dave's comments about the Devouring Earth elsewhere) or just that the Lost are permanently linked to Rikti in the MA.

The map, if anyone wants to test this, is the 22nd National Bank map...

 

Posted

If you limit it to 29, it should still spawn 29's and 30's on heroic, and up to 32's on invincible. Try limiting it to 25 or so.

 

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This is also a feature of the main game engine - Any Lost spawning above L29 will generate Rikti instead. I believe that this is WAI.

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Hmm, so far I've managed to successfully remove Rikti by rebuilding the custom Lost group a second time; I've no idea why it didn't stick the first time, but even on the highest difficulty, I'm not seeing any appear now, fortunately. Curious!