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    Mad-Cap's Avatar Senior Member
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    Resistance Solo scaling needs adjustment.

    I'm trying really hard to enjoy Resistance - but it seems to be more frustrating than fun for solo play.
    If the intention is to lock most solo players out of higher waves it's going to work. I guess it depends on the accessibility intentions.

    Status Effects.
    Flame carts and shock drones are just too much. They make immunization box the only choice for one skill slot.

    Suggestion: reduce the number of NPCs per wave that are able to deploy skills like fire carts and turrets

    Control Effects
    Rusher spam and stagger, Shot gunners

    Suggestion: Increase the time between new NPC spawns

    NPC Spawn Relocation
    If you get 55 to 60M away from an NPC they respawn closer to you with full health
    This removes any chance that a player can get positional advantage. I hate the mechanic, but I understand why it's there.

    Suggestion: Increase the distance from player before an NPC respawns. 150M would be better

    Suggestion: Give us more time between waves to change load-outs and pick up credits

    Suggestion: on the data hack phase give us more range to the hack location

    Suggestion: Increase or remove timer on boss waves
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    I like these suggestions. Sadly, all of my friends have left the game because of the lack of action against cronusmax users.
    It would be awesome if we could do resistance solo with these changes.

    How about adding some modifiers like the underground modifiers to refresh the gameplay for resistance for solo play?
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    Have to say I'm kind of against making it particularly soloable - I think it should be an encouraged as a group thing - sorry those that don't like playing with others :s

    That said, aside from 1-2 moments like possibly on one of the boss waves if you get all the tougher ones spawn its relatively doable to open the rewards twice solo and then rinse and repeat - there is little to be gained going to higher waves solo.

    Also boss waves shouldn't have a 3 minute timer then fail, even if they have to make NPCs stop dropping SHD after 3 minutes - for both solo and group play its not a great mechanic especially if you have an unfortunate boss spawn or a player leaves or disconnects at the wrong moment, etc.

    EDIT: I've hardly ever seen the remote control cars at wave 10, especially not at the rate like in the video, that is pretty unfortunate - they don't normally start coming out before wave 15-16 for me and my flame turret tends to keep the shock drones off me fairly well at lower waves.
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    Chasing an enemy around for some time just for them to disappear and respawn behind you as a more powerful NPC is annoying.
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    Originally Posted by RushLoongHammer Go to original post
    Chasing an enemy around for some time just for them to disappear and respawn behind you as a more powerful NPC is annoying.

    These guys are the worst when you have their armor off or health down.
    You can unintentional get away from them when killing other NPCS. I swear one moved out of range from me on purpose so he could respawn with full health.
    I think the re locate spawn at 30m, because they move slow.
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    Originally Posted by Mad-Cap Go to original post
    You can unintentional get away from them when killing other NPCS. I swear one moved out of range from me on purpose so he could respawn with full health.
    I think the re locate spawn at 30m, because they move slow.
    Though it hasn't happened the last 2-3 runs so maybe its fixed/stopped happening but last few days I've had NPCs teleport away while just a couple of meters from me and taking damage :s
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    Would also add on a boss level where you get the LMB skill jammers with baseball guys is dumb - had one other day where the jammers just kept spamming their scramblers or whatever they are that prevented me using any skill for the entire 3 mins. Kind of reminded me of someone who posted a vid on a HVT mission where the turret guys had spammed like 20 turrets or something and the guy couldn't even poke his head up lol.

    Every time I have a boss mish with the above guys I immediately hose the boss as it just turns into a clusterf*k.
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    Originally Posted by Rroff Go to original post
    Have to say I'm kind of against making it particularly soloable - I think it should be an encouraged as a group thing - sorry those that don't like playing with others :s

    That said, aside from 1-2 moments like possibly on one of the boss waves if you get all the tougher ones spawn its relatively doable to open the rewards twice solo and then rinse and repeat - there is little to be gained going to higher waves solo.

    Also boss waves shouldn't have a 3 minute timer then fail, even if they have to make NPCs stop dropping SHD after 3 minutes - for both solo and group play its not a great mechanic especially if you have an unfortunate boss spawn or a player leaves or disconnects at the wrong moment, etc.

    EDIT: I've hardly ever seen the remote control cars at wave 10, especially not at the rate like in the video, that is pretty unfortunate - they don't normally start coming out before wave 15-16 for me and my flame turret tends to keep the shock drones off me fairly well at lower waves.
    Yeah but resistance was tagged as being for solo or groups - they stated this many times in the SOTG's when they talked about it
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    I don't mess with it. It's a broken mess.
    All of WSP is a broken mess.
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    I mean, if you can upset Jiggles it must be pretty frustrating

    20 minutes mark
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