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SithHunter714
Rising Rookie
6 years ago

Giddy Park - Pirate / Cactus drones entering starting areas

There is currently an issue that I would call a pretty major bug due to how heavily it is abused. In Giddy Park, the pirate and cactus drones (parrot and onion / garlic / whatever it is) are able to fly up over the walls and actually descend into the starting areas to farm kills. They will follow the path of incoming players and launch every attack they have at their point of landing, instantly killing players as they attempt to get into the zone; and with the doorway camping that occurs, there are very few places that are safe to land in without being killed by those sitting outside the doors.  That makes the "spawn-killing" by pirates and cactus even easier as they know where players are trying to land to avoid the spam of spawn killing garbage coming through the doorway.

This makes the area completely unplayable unless you happen to be on the team that has the other side pinned down in their starting area.

Please fix this. A simple character blocking volume that extends vertically to a point higher than the drones can fly; but still allows members of the home team to pass through would completely eliminate this drone spawn camping that eliminates all fun from this area.

7 Replies

  • ToastedSarnie's avatar
    ToastedSarnie
    6 years ago
    @SithHunter714 I know this was a problem a while back. I haven't experienced it recently as I switched my park to private ages ago after generally getting fed-up of being ambushed by drones, engineers, mechs or Brainz in particular.
    Personally, I'd like a "peaceful" setting for Giddy Park. The public version gets annoying because of these sort of problems & private gets boring because it's too big & empty, so it ends up being unappreciated, wasted space.
    Have you checked Bug Reports? I'm fairly sure it had been reported in which case bumping it up by adding to it would be useful or adding a report if not would be a good idea.
  • CJackson5083's avatar
    CJackson5083
    6 years ago

    If you don't like how a particular lobby is being played, just switch lobbies.  Myself and others actually ENJOY the challenge of trying to defend the landing spot against drones.  You can always find a lobby that the landing spot isn't being hounded, either by drones or by the other team standing at the doorway.  

    Also, you can fly the drones from up above without jumping down into the landing area, so you can get easy kills on the enemies camping at the doorway of the landing area.

    They don't need to fix something that isn't broken and doesn't need fixed, just because you don't like it.

  • Pinch1Off's avatar
    Pinch1Off
    6 years ago

    Isn't the purpose of the walled-in, exit only area you can land in meant to be a safe zone? If not, then why even have it...I also don't like landing in my 'safe zone' only to be killed by a drone, but it's likely the drone flyer is hiding in their protected zone too, so I guess if they stop drones from shooting into enemy area, they'd have to stop the drone flyer from hiding in their zone too.  Seems like people can shoot you through the door too, so yea, not very safe! I guess you gotta be ready to fight when your feet hit the ground. 

  • SithHunter714's avatar
    SithHunter714
    Rising Rookie
    6 years ago

    The doorway camping isn't the problem, it's strictly the drones; and you shouldn't have to go server hopping to find a game where you can actually get into the fight without being spawn camped by something should NOT be able to enter that space.

    If the drones can enter, then the door should be removed and just make it all open.  You can't say "Enemies can't enter this area" and then make unwritten exceptions. It's great that you enjoy it; but hackers also enjoy doing what they do in games; that doesn't mean that it's ok to have it happen.

    Being able to be picked off in the air before you even get into the fight is bad enough but the drone issue is a game breaker for the Giddy Park area.

  • ippig's avatar
    ippig
    6 years ago
    @SithHunter714 The more vanquishes one side is doing the more AI should spawn for the other side - even Elite Bosses if the balance is so uneven. That might add some more fun to the Giddy Park and some help for the outnumbered side.
    Drones shouldn't be able to used inside the safe area so that spawn camping always is a risk to get killed due to unsafe spots to stay.
  • CJackson5083's avatar
    CJackson5083
    6 years ago

    I've been in lobbies where it went back and forth where both sides took control and pushed up on the other sides landing zone.  Lobbies like that are the most exciting, action packed lobbies there are.  Players obviously looked at what the other team was using player wise and mounted an attack plan and executed it and temporarily took control.  

    Both plants and zombies do it, so if one side has it better at a given moment, switch to that side and join the fun.  They already took away the ability to farm coins and xp in the regions, they need to leave Giddy Park the way it is.  We don't need Giddy Park to become a boring place to run around and get nothing accomplished.

  • SithHunter714's avatar
    SithHunter714
    Rising Rookie
    6 years ago
    @CJackson5083 I've been in plenty of those as well; but it almost never happens when someone is drone camping inside the landing area. THAT is the ONLY issue here.

    I love having a war go on in there and enjoy fighting out of the starting area when the door is camped by a ton of enemies. The problem is that the drones go physically inside what is supposed to be a somewhat safe place. When you have 3-5 of those and a group at the door, you CAN'T land and fight. You insta-die. End of story, and NOTHING is fun about that.

    Keep the drones from going over the walls into those areas and it becomes a game again, not a farming / instadeath simulator that every quits out of after 2 mins. This is probably in the top 2 for reasons why Giddy Park has so few people in it usually.

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