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    Contamination event zones broken?

    My husband and I have just been in the DZ to do the weekly cleaner kills. Went to go underground in DZ01 before an event started and it was telling us we needed level 8 filter. We ran around and did the kills.

    When a contamination event did start, we still needed level 8 filter and no NPC spawns were active.
    Is it broken? This was PS4. Didn't try on XBox earlier.
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    XahRith16's Avatar Senior Member
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    Occasionally DZ contamination events have been buggy ever since they were introduced.
    Sometimes you'll go underground with no event active and die instantly.
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    Yes, that is exactly what we experienced tonight. Noticed it was level 8 filter so didn't go down. No event was active at that time. Must just be bugging out. We have never had it before.
    Thanks.
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    yep, get it alot on ps4. Seems when it happens the only way to get around it is to change servers. No events, go downstairs and be dead before you know it if you arent paying attention. At least you saw it happening, i usually just end up at the checkpoint.
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    It happens on Xbox1 from time to time as well. I mostly run in DZ09, and the Boiler room sometimes glitches with a Contamination event starting, but never coming down from Level 9 (and no enemies showing up), or me entering it during a Contamination Event to find it sitting at level 8 (with enemies!), or wandering in afterward and getting killed because it's still stuck at Contamination 5-9....

    Just something that happens, and you'll need to wait for the next event for it to reset. Or switch servers.
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    It happens on Ps$ sometimes too. It must be working as intended as they have not mentioned a fix and there has not been a STOG in 2 weeks. Game is perfect now!
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    Originally Posted by moesuvious Go to original post
    yep, get it alot on ps4. Seems when it happens the only way to get around it is to change servers. No events, go downstairs and be dead before you know it if you arent paying attention. At least you saw it happening, i usually just end up at the checkpoint.
    I noticed it straight away fortunately, I was running back out as hubby was running in haha. Had never had it before last night. Know now, to pay more attention though.

    We were only in for cleaner kills S&P so we moved up the zones. Had been back and forth all night with a rogue who was begging attention. I won't play the game of cat & mouse and just kept moving to different zones. We weren't in there for loot, just like to free roam but it was becoming tedious. When the contamination event did start, it was as you described. Stuck at 8, as before the event started. Hubby ran down to see if there were enemies and there was none. He only just managed to make it back out. We came off not much after that. Was 3am. Will try again tonight, hopefully working all ok.
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    Originally Posted by XahRith16 Go to original post
    Sometimes you'll go underground with no event active and die instantly.
    Hey guys,

    We've received reports of this behavior, but it's not consistent (as some of you have noted). I'll add this case to the report, but it's still a WIP.
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    Originally Posted by UbiAmper Go to original post
    Hey guys,

    We've received reports of this behavior, but it's not consistent (as some of you have noted). I'll add this case to the report, but it's still a WIP.
    Thanks UbiAmper.

    Definitely not consistent. Never encountered it before. But I guess others do occasionally.
    Still, nice to know it's been reported previously and is being looked at.
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    Originally Posted by UbiAmper Go to original post
    Hey guys,

    We've received reports of this behavior, but it's not consistent (as some of you have noted). I'll add this case to the report, but it's still a WIP.
    You know..... this would be the sort of thing to be able to report and have a developer pop on a server in realtime. So they can perhaps see the server environment when it does happen.
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