Whoever came up with “disable 500 ranged elites’ guns with voltaic emitter or arc grenades” penance, needs to have an arc maul shoved up their ass. Excuse for my crass language, but that number a bit too much 100 or 200 would have been boring but bearable, but 500?! It just annoying, tiring slog, that requires players to throw themselves at specialists hoping to get a few. Not to mention arc grenades tend to just kill specialists. Maybe please lower required number or make it ranged enemies in general, not just specialists. Also voltaic emmiter doesn’t work if there’s any obstruction between player and the target, even if its tiny box
Throwing a +1 behind this for what it’s worth. A couple of the penances just have insanely inflated requirements. This is one of them. I might also mention Decree Fulminare in the same breath.
My guess would be they thought there are so many dreg and scab shooters in the game, this’ll be totally reasonable, without realising those don’t count as elites and this penance is a total slog.
Basically all the cosmetics are trapped behind it. You fulfill the requirements for the higher tiers of this penance far sooner than you fill this one for the basic tier.
^^^This. Very annoying.
And also this^^^^
Honestly I hate to be ‘that guy’ about expeditions but this one is insanely easy to grind there. You see walking groups of gunhands every 2 seconds on the map, and this grid has a version with no timer. On Auric these patrols can be like 20+ shotgunner/gunner scab enemies standing in a line.
Burn 80 guys with servo skull is worse
It’s the same people who thought that you should totally grind 250k tech remnants in Expedition mode for a chest piece.
Fatshark doesn’t give a crap about how feasible things should be, only that players should play for as long as possible trying to achieve them.
Altaic blast is bugged I think, so it probably would have been ok if it had worked as expected. As it stands, it only works like 50% of the time
I was hoping that they were done with insane penances, but then i saw skitarii ones. Btw how finish penance where i need finish 90% of mission with 6 or more stacks of capacitance, where can i even see these stacks?
I’ve done this one by accident in a hallway on heresy, its not really hard at all.
Every time I put down the skull the rest of the team runs in and kills everything
Ask them in chat to not annihilate everything in sight for like 1 or 2 servoskull casts? It actually works and people listen most of the time
Wait until a couple of teammates are downed on auric maelstrom then it’s as good as done
Took me a while to get it, had some missions where I’d get 4-6 increase to that count.
I tried arch grenades, but one thing I found was if you outright killed the ranged unit, then it didn’t increase the count.
In the end I had more luck sticking with Voltaic Emitter + Overcharge on missions against the Mobian 6th and just run/powerslide at a large group of gunners and hit F. Not the cleanest of tactics, but improved my count by a decent amount (most I had was an increase of 30 from one mission).
Definitely my least favourite Penance, easily took the longest to complete.
I got this penance. It should have been ranged enemies in general, not just elites. It wouldn’t have been so bad if it wasn’t so jank.
I actually used redline capacitor and found you can farm the same enemies as even if they’re already disabled you can disable them again. I would find a large group of shotgunners and use my ability as much as possible and arc grenades and the same enemies.
Use expeditions for most of these penances as the maps are nice and open and you get good line of sight to enemies etc
I just got it randomly on the carnival, did not seem like 80 enemies that time but whatever.
Glad to hear it.
Literally just finished Skitarii last Penance (100 missions).
As with Arbities and Hive Scum there were definitely some penances that were a chore to complete, but at least they’re spaced out enough that the last one I got each time was hitting the 100 missions milestone.
I grinded it yesterday and today and it actually wasn’t that bad. Mortis Trials can be an okay place to do it - IF you get gunner waves. One game I got ~90 Malfunctions in one Trial. Other games only a few. It seemed really annoying at first, but you literally just have to build for this.
Tip if using Arc Grenades: Hold off on using them against only a few gunners, because it prioritizes elites. Instead wait until there’s a massive wave of elites with some gunners, throw it in there. Otherwise, in MT, if you get infinite nades you can use them to spread electro to hordes so you can take care of them quickly.