Yeah I think it’s random too as I have killed loads of elites within coherency and not been given a grenade regen. Definitely seems random IMO so would be good to know.
On a side note: I have noticed pushing pox bursters seems much more broken during the event for some reason. My ogryn mega push (boosted by skill on skill tree) sometimes fails to push them and they land at my feet and explode. Even when I have waited patiently with full stamina to do so.
This event is the most obvious cash grab, catering to the hillariously overtuned scum blitzes mostly. Or in other words, dogshit.
But hey, at least I get plenty of chances to grief my teammates blowing up one of the hundred bursters hurled towards you.
Based on the tendency of recent events, a new feature request:
Unless there’s a strong incentive (Aquilas or meaningful rewards), it doesn’t feel great to be pulled into event content unintentionally, especially when it feels like testing unfinished tuning.
Is this basically the equivalent of that pox hounds ‘we are doing this for testing data’ modifier except with armor spam?
If testing data is “we want to see how many people will buy a DLC class if we force everyone to watch it kill 500 ogryns with a rocket launcher every mission” then I think this can be accurate
Was helping someone new through difficulty 1 and there are armoured clown cars there too. Way too newcomer hostile.
So this is just a worse Warframe now? And no sign of stopping it.
aw sheet, 29 shotgunners…. gonna need a bigger diorama if I wanna recreate a realistic darktide depicture 
3d printer goes brrrrt again, how many shotguns do you need? YES
luckily I ran out of 1/6 space or john wick would get a table sized dio as well 
still got my agent47 in a desk somewhere had to build back a lot over the years for the room only has some much space.
when I’m outta rehab I gonna finish my darktide dio first (and I got a “few” nids as well for a space marine 2 counterpart, and space marines…. many space marines….cant stop buying, help 
)
While you’re at it, big man… Can you please print a human-sized 3d figurine of my Tallarn? 
All jokes aside.. it would have been cool to have 
I can help you with the Astartes problem!
Stop buying Space Marines and buy more guardsmen!
Just had to see for myself. Started a new character so it’s default basic new starter weapon. T1 quickplay and it put me into non-event mission.
Eventually at start spawned 6 crushers, 5 bulwark and few pox b in excise vault mission. ALL at same time.
As Vet you start with shovel and lasgun kantrael, weak grenade chip damage to carapace. So it’s down to shovel and I swear it was like 16-18 breakpoints on crusher heads 
Early level experience, is more punishing for sure. I think FS have been busy tweaking higher difficulties, but forgot about the lower ones for new players engagement.
way ahead of ya
25€ a pop, army building’s is cheap
got them on a backburner though cause I suck at painting faces 
I have absolutely no proof of this, but I believe that the event screwed up enemy spawns outside of the event too because I had a constant pour of Crusher’s/Bulwark’s/Poxburster’s on every Auric Maelstrom game that I played yesterday.
I thought it was very fun, but I love the chaos of explosions going off.
I started out pug with telekine shield wall and voidblast and that was great for countering the pox bursters, then my friends group we all played ogryn and really had so much fun!
The new player experience needs tweaking. The horde intensity is OK but feel carapace cart introduction a bit too early stages with what you have access to in beginning at level 1.
Maybe it’s intentional - “Since we’re having a crusher/bulwark event. Might as well sprinkle some on non-event missions”
I’m starting to think that the Conspiracy theory going around now is correct; the reason for this is to sell Hive Scum DLC.
I honestly doubt that as much as the last CT that the gas event was meant to sell more Arbites DLC. Both are perfectly manageable with other classes.
Without more tangible evidence, it’s just a “there’s a sinister reason for this random coincidence” non-sequitur / argument from ignorance fallacy.
Absolutely, but there’s also a point in that everytime (Auric Difficulty) I had a Hive Scum with BB (I use Blackouts, but I played my Veteran through the event) it was super easy.
If I had two Hive Scum, both with BB, it was a free win.
