Auric maelstrom

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So im trying to do the storm survivor penance legitimately and after 3 successful matches of staying alive… My ticker remains at zero because I didn’t get lucky enough to start in a lobby when clicking on the one single join option… Egh. More RNG woes.

But this got me thinking…

Why not just have more auric maelstrom matches open at the same time? There seems no reason to have only 1 at a time.

Can’t it just be like the other difficulties and have a few matches and conditions floating about at any given time?

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the reasoning i read every now and then is as to not split player base further.

to my understanding there are polar opposites already and given the short waiting time across european evening, there´s enough to fill several auric maelstrom queues.

i too find it demoralizing to either repeat a map sometimes 3 times in a row, for i record my matches and see no point in redundance or switch between ogryn and veteran despite not being in the mood, just so i got something different to show up for.

same was with the “new” map, had to play it on damn.HISTG for the lack of any maelstrom modifier, did so once successfully and let it rest as to not spoil or burn myself out on lesser settings.

if it was up to me it was every map with every mod at every time. if i gonna wait 10 minutes for 3 others hab dreyko J I II V( i had this mod ONCE ever since it was a thing, and the match failed :exploding_head: ) then so be it.

rather this than “wasting” 45 minutes in waiting of a maybe ok combination.

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Given how hard this penance is to complete (without cheesing it, anyway), the “from the start” requirement does maybe feel a little bit harsh. I feel like it should count if you join less than 5 minutes into the mission, or something similar.

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Keep it hard is better. But would the progress reset if they die joining mid mission? If so, that’s messed up.

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The difficulty and challenge would remain the same. Just there would be more maelstrom missions available at once.

RE the penance - it’s not fair that you have to start in the lobby for the mission to count, as that is something the player has zero control over.

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What I’m asking is if you die when you join mid mission, does the penance reset? If it doesn’t reset, I think it’s fine.

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You mean spawning into the failed mission screen? If so then I’m not sure. Would absolutely suck if it does reset it.

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I still don’t understand why the auric maelstrom screen even has non-damnation and non-high-intensity games on it.

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At least based on the many posts I’ve seen(mainly reddit), there are countless complaints about joining a random match and getting insta gibbed / insta ending screen and having to do it all over again.

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That really sucks. It hurt quite badly to do 3 successful missions without getting even 1 ticker, but I imagine losing all your progress with an insta-fail is somewhat more frustrating.

I do wonder if they even have a QA department sometimes.

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Its been one of those penances for me that, since I play only with pugs, I don’t even focus on it anymore.

I refuse to cheese it. But at the same time, trying to forcibly do it has proven… somewhat infuriating :neutral_face:

For some whack-ass reason getting “Auric Exemplar” just happened randomly (still don’t use it since it has no actual value in terms of a measure of skill at the game).

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Yeah I’m not cheesing either but it did get a little tempting after 3 successful games in a row that didn’t count because I didn’t start in the lobby first :pensive:

I’ve unlocked all the penance rewards and it’s just a case of finishing the last few stranglers, so there isn’t a huge pressure to do it.

I will also never use the tag. I have ministarum Guardian which is the best title imo. It deserves to be orange instead of green.

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