Something's Changed in the HazRes

Kolato

Kolato
OP just a quick question, do you happen to play Sunless Sea? Just asking because of that title.

Regarding your question, i don't think there has been a significant change in Ai hardness in haz-res for a while. I might be wrong as i am in a super-engineered anaconda at this point, but i suspect it's more due to bad luck than anything.
 

Arry

Arry
Werewolf13 said:
... see subject. Playing solo.

Until yesterday I never lasted in a HazRes for more than 3 minutes before having to depart the area post haste lest I be blown into space dust. I fly a python hull tanked. Shield strength 711 and hull of 1728. 2 3C-MC/G, 2 Class 2 2F/T Burst Lasers and a 3CG or maybe a 3A don't remember off the top of my head, Beam Laser.


Yesterday I not only lasted more than 3 minutes I earned about a million credits in less than 1/2 an hour. Fluke I thought to myself. So I took a break and handled a few missions hauling freight and after a while upon returning home stopped off at the local hazres and repeated the performance. Went to home station, repaired (no module damage - just hull integrity), restocked and refueled. Went back and earned 1/2 a mil in about 15 minutes and then got froggy and took on a 3 ship wing with Clippers in it. Why is that important - I hate clippers. For some reason I have mucho trouble taking them out. Not a big fan of Vultures or FDS' either. Everything else get cutup pretty quick. Anyway - that 3 ship Clipper wing lost 2 of it's members before I ran out of shield cells and heat sinks and una.ssed the area. They whittled most of my modules down to the low 90's - barely scratched my hull though which I found strange(????).

Fights took place in Lidpar where currently there is a CG I'm participating which made me wonder, since I'm not doing anything different than any other time, if NPC's are maybe dumbed down for CG's? It was too easy to do what is normally very difficult for me - re: hanging in a HazRes.

So - what else could it be? I'm not better - believe me - combat may be my main mode of play but I kind'a suck at it - compared to most. After over 2 years I'm still only Master rated. So if it's not me and it's not my ship it's got to be something FD has done.

But what??? Inquiring minds want to know.
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Just by chance; have you been carrying cargo into CZs before now? I ask, as I once forgot I have some gold in my cargo rack and found it made CZs a little more interesting, to say the least.
 

KillaALF

K
Arry said:
Just by chance; have you been carrying cargo into CZs before now? I ask, as I once forgot I have some gold in my cargo rack and found it made CZs a little more interesting, to say the least.
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You mean RES, surely? Nobody cares about your cargo in a CZ, no pirates there ...
 

Commanderhumpster

Commanderhumpster
CMDR Harada said:
You're probably not carrying expensive things in your hold. Any of the engineers stuff ( modular terminals, micro-weave cooling hoses, etc ) seems to be even worse then gold.

Even in my A-spec, RNGineered, Corvette I have a rough time in a CZ if I have a few tons of mats or gold in the hold. Last time I made the mistake of doing that I got jumped in the first 15 seconds by an elite anaconda in a wing of 3, including a clipper. Inside of two minutes that wing was joined by a few more pirates.. What started as a challenge, turned rough, and then as more piled on it became a death sentence. I'd also add in compromised nav beacons. Those turn nasty in a heartbeat if you have mats/goods in the hold.

Showing up empty, I can loiter all day long and choose my fights in a HazRES or CompNavBeacon.
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Agree with you there, i could not understand why i was being mobbed by npcs, until i realised that i had 4 x nanobreakers from a mission reward in my hold
 

Werewolf13

Werewolf13
Arry said:
Just by chance; have you been carrying cargo into CZs before now? I ask, as I once forgot I have some gold in my cargo rack and found it made CZs a little more interesting, to say the least.
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I'm beginning to think that in prior months when I dared to enter RES HELL that I was packing quite a bit of materials and probably some left over goodies from a cargo mission or two that I guessed wrong on and wasn't willing to unload at a loss.

I still remember the time when I popped into a HazRes and within 30 seconds was jumped by a 5 ship wing of Elite Eagles. I got away by the skin of my teeth. 9% left on the damage meter when I got back to the station. The almost identical thing happened two other times the same day at which point it was decided by my subconscious self that a HAZRES was not a nice place to play.

That said: I know that yesterday I had empty holds; heck I had no cargo holds at all. Probably explains why the scum of the galaxy pretty much left me alone until I picked a fight.
 
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bubbabenali

B
I don't know, what you mean. Isn't that just normal HazRes behaviour?

As long as you don't carry any cargo no one cares and as long as you don't shoot anyone per accident no one cares too...

Honestly it's like a breather from all that CZing
 

lysan

lysan
FDEV probably dumbed it down to prepare for the incoming new PS4 commanders /s

Well who knows, I miss the days where MoMs minions had teeth, back in 2.2 B3
 

Mr T

Mr T
BL1P said:
Yer i dunno when it happend but hazres is weak now and has been since I came back to the game at Xmass.
It used to have no security, now it does.
Used to have wings of upto 10 I had seen, now most you see is 3.

Very weak now. Not hazardous at all.
Lets hope something changes in the update.
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The last time I went to a Haz Res (about a month ago) there were no security. The message said there was some kind of interference or something which I assume is normal for a Haz Res? However, I didn't find it too difficult as I managed to kill a FDL in my Viper mk3. I prefer going to the Hi-res as it's quicker getting bounties when security polish them off.

Perhaps Haz Res' at different systems are different to each other.. or it depends which instance you get at the time?
 
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