Crystalline Clusters Vanishing?
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Happening to me right now. The last 4 just disappeared. I tried lowering pips to one, shooting one shot at a time, far away, close up. Doesn't matter. I logged out and back in. No difference. A long way to go to get very little. Totally frustrating! If there's not already a bug, I'll add one. If there is, I'll add to it!
Cheers!
Me too. Just bought Horizons a couple of days back, watched some vids then did my first planetary landing last night. Managed to roll my SRV down the side of a mountain soon after landing! But I then found a whole load of crystalline thingies at the bottom and was harvesting until far too late last night! Really tired at work today.....
OP, if you record video of your mining and close it down, you'll notice that little creatures steal the crystals. They're called Skeksis. They especially like the darker ones!
True if huge news.
After shooting a few and following them all the way down, they seem to enter the surface and disappear.
Hmm - I do not think it is a bug.
I found out about these (around 1900 ly distant!!) on Reddit. when somebody told about them, and the materials you can get from them.
Under his post somebody wrote 'LOL nerf incoming'...
So I traveled to several locations and could get a lot of high grade raw materials. It was interesting too, many new systems, but also time consuming. I thought, that the 'richness' of these sites is well deserved, since you have to travel a long way down.
Later somebody posted it here too, and many people took note. Then this thread appeared...
What do you think happened? A bug?
It cannot be that players can collect materials without spending hours. Even if they actually spend hours to travel to these locations....
Not sure if this is a bug or another undocumented shadow nerf that FDev seems to have become increasingly enamored of. It's happened to me today at every biological site in both the HIP 36601 system and the Outotz LS-K d8-3 system. I haven't been in either system for more than three months. Seems to be about 50-60% of the nodes that I shoot pop and produce no mats.
I'll have to pay closer attention to the shape of the nodes tomorrow, to see if the stumpier, double-pronged nodes always produce and the thin, single tipped nodes always vanish without a mat payoff.
As far as I can tell, range doesn't matter, angle doesn't matter (although for awhile I had myself convinced that if you were shooting at them straight on rather than from the side, or from about 40-50 meters away, your odds of getting a mat were better -- the human mind is funny that way when searching for patterns), and it doesn't matter whether you're using regular or standard ammo (I didn't try premium, but doubt it makes a difference).
My guess is that this is yet another shadow nerf, because the actual mats that drop from each site seem pretty consistently set at just short of maxing out someone who's starting from zero. On every planet (five so far), I've had to visit a second bio site to top off my 150.
I'll have to pay closer attention to the shape of the nodes tomorrow, to see if the stumpier, double-pronged nodes always produce and the thin, single tipped nodes always vanish without a mat payoff.
As far as I can tell, range doesn't matter, angle doesn't matter (although for awhile I had myself convinced that if you were shooting at them straight on rather than from the side, or from about 40-50 meters away, your odds of getting a mat were better -- the human mind is funny that way when searching for patterns), and it doesn't matter whether you're using regular or standard ammo (I didn't try premium, but doubt it makes a difference).
My guess is that this is yet another shadow nerf, because the actual mats that drop from each site seem pretty consistently set at just short of maxing out someone who's starting from zero. On every planet (five so far), I've had to visit a second bio site to top off my 150.
You are certainly correct about human minds looking for patterns: I thought the number of shots I fired or how quickly I shot might make a difference! In any case one node disappeared but then came back! This leads me to believe it’s a bug. Cheers!
The drop rates are still very good, despite the bug/nerf
I suspect the crystal spikes weren't meant to have only the high grade mats, a single run through a crystal spike field can basically fill your Polonium/technetium/you name it reserve of that particular mat, and if there are multiple bio sites on the body there are literally thousands of mats available for easy taking, I suspect the disappearing mats are FDEV's attempt to balance the overabundance of high grade mats at these sites. Yes it is new, maybe only since the last update since when I first started getting mats from the crystal spikes they never missed appearing.
So I suspect it's a nerf.
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