Ambushes are out of control again!

Im set to diff of +1 and spawn of 1 person


I got 4 peeps on my team, we got 4 ambushes sent to us, for 1 hostage at once, with Wardens! at lvl 15


That doesnt sound right, this been happening all day


JJ

Reminds me, Ambush size was bout 10 mobs, for 4 of us, while my teams of 8 had 16 or so folks per mobs, we would get 3-4 ambushes at once.


Anyone else have these probs yet? This redside btw


JJ

I got mobbed by about 10 council on my defender when picking up a mission that triggers an ambush, who was solo, with team size set to 0 and mob level set to -1.

At least your enemies are taking you seriously.

I once got ambushed by a single Rikti Drone. One. Drone.

That was so embarassing.

ambushes to me are one of the highlight points of the action. As long as its not completely impossible to survive a larger group, I'll enjoy the nail-biting "will he make it" combat.

One or two in an ambush, oh puhleees. It better be a Malta Sapper and a Zeus 'bot minimum. Well that, or they're delivering pizza. I may let them walk for that. But anything less, I drop them, then stomp on their corpses until I feel like I've got 10 kills.

It never ceases to amuse me that whenever I get the level 30 tailor mission to take out 30 Crey or however many, I walk out of Icon and see like 2 Medics jumping over the wall. You gotta wonder how that battle plan went.

"Okay! We got a badass level 30 with lots of powers, pretty close to a full attack chain or equivalent thereof, good defense (even of the offensive variety), and likely as not a tried-and-true strategy for dealing with all manner of situations. They now have the nerve to defy our wonderful corporation! You two! What abilities do you have to deal with this situation?"

"Uh, Brawl and Heal Other, ma'am."

"Let's see...looks like Heal Other. And Brawl."

"Awesome powers! Now CHAAAAARGE!"

"Uh, can we borrow the power armor or something because we-"

"Are you still HERE!?!"

"No ma'am! FOR CREY!"

How often do you have the time to count the enemies on a full team before they hit the floor dead?

An ambush of 10 for about 4 players sounds reasonable for me. If it was just a standard 3 minions + 1 leiut ambush i'ld be dissapointed! The harder the ambush the better! We need more carnage!

I got ambushed by a sniper in a mission, well at least I think I did. All i saw was the NPC dialog. Either he was so good I couldn't see him, or more likely he never moved from his spawn point.

I remember when Rikti ambushes were spawning as level 5 Lost.

It used to be that the ambushes in Mayhems and Bank missions scaled more by the player, not the difficulty setting. As such, going to Malicious would make the regular spawns a bit bigger but ambushes would not be affected much.

However, now the ambushes are being affected directly by the "I am equal to X number of players" flag. This leads to regular spawns that are the correct size when set to 2X (which is what the old Malicious did) but the ambushes are now coming at at least triple the size they were before.

Before issue 16, I'd see an ambush of 2-3 mobs. Now I'm seeing ambushes of 6-8 at a time! I did a few LSSL paper missions last night and every time had to fight off about 30 ambush mobs before the mission finally ended.

That was all occurring at this setting: 2 Players, +0 levels, bosses allowed.


Additionally, it'd be nice if there was a subsetting for Bosses that made sure that there will only be a boss at the end of the mission. I like having a boss fight at the end but a lot of my squishies don't enjoy running into a boss every 20 feet even when set to X1 players.

Lazarus knows what Im talking about

While rest of you are to busy fluffing




When I say 10, I mean, 3 Groups of 10, 4 Minions 4 Lts & 2 Bosses

So thats 12 Minions, 12 Lts, & 6 Bosses at once! Wardens to boot!


JJ

My only complaint on ambushes is that i can only have 3 of them in my MA arcs now. I loved having all hell break lose with ambushes. I love it when they really can kill you, especially outside of missions cause then you see what debt really should be like instead of the crappy debt you get in missions now.

I'm investigating this. If you can tell me specific missions this happened on, that would be great.

The best ambush has to be during World Wide Red.

Yes. THAT one.

Hmm, why is the ground shaking. Oh sh...

/faceplant.

Basically any mission with Longbow, All Mayhem Mishes

But one that sticks out, Is Get Wormy Out mission. In Sharkhead, I for life of me cannot recall the contact.


But its horrendous, I noticed Legacy Ambushes where not that bad, but anything that involves Longbow, is out of control.


Also, with Romi, all his Ambushes come at Once now, all 3 or 4, thats a pain in the butt, Ambushes jus all show up at once, not here comes one, its here all 3-6 of em at once, 3x the normal size.


JJ