Rikti Spacestation Map Issues

[Ankylosaur]

Has anyone gotten the Rikti Spacestation map to work for them? 

 

First, it feels like I need to give a bucket of info on how to navigate the thing, and how the microreactiors work to remove the shields on the cannons. 
 

Then i feel like I need to warn about the "floor is lava" spaces, and accommodate for them somehow with allies, who seem to fall into the middle room's pit in particular, with no way out. And I can't jump down to grab em cause I die since, you know, the floor is lava.

 

And those were going to be cumbersome enough, but then, when I enter the back room through the portal, my big bad and her minions all immediately get teleported up to the middle room into the pit above, where again, lava for me, but they got some fancy shoes or something and stand around all unthreatening-like.

Is this all just me? 

My only path forward feels like maybe ditching the allies, or giving them flight and seeing if that works, and putting the boss on the middle floor avoiding the back altogether - which is not great for a few reasons - not the least of which is that she still may end up in the pit.

 

 

[Darmian]

11 minutes ago, Ankylosaur said:

Has anyone gotten the Rikti Spacestation map to work for them? 

 

First, it feels like I need to give a bucket of info on how to navigate the thing, and how the microreactiors work to remove the shields on the cannons. 
 

Then i feel like I need to warn about the "floor is lava" spaces, and accommodate for them somehow with allies, who seem to fall into the middle room's pit in particular, with no way out. And I can't jump down to grab em cause I die since, you know, the floor is lava.

 

And those were going to be cumbersome enough, but then, when I enter the back room through the portal, my big bad and her minions all immediately get teleported up to the middle room into the pit above, where again, lava for me, but they got some fancy shoes or something and stand around all unthreatening-like.

Is this all just me? 

My only path forward feels like maybe ditching the allies, or giving them flight and seeing if that works, and putting the boss on the middle floor avoiding the back altogether - which is not great for a few reasons - not the least of which is that she still may end up in the pit.

 

 

I took a walk around it when it was released and then promptly went "nope".  And all your points are valid.  

[Clave Dark 5]

As it gets rolled out in new missions (both here and in the game world, which I'm sure is going to happen), people will become more familiar with it and will know to avoid the floor is lava places, at least; I only died four times before I got the gist ha ha! 

 

I've only walked around in the map too myself, haven't tried to make it work with anything like allies or what have you.

[Ankylosaur]

Agreed - and I was planning to explain the lava parts, the cannon parts and work within the quirks/interesting parts of the map - but the final room boss getting teleported to a place you can't fight them is map-breaking. Since the map is a relatively new feature Homecoming introduced, I posted it as a bug. Fingers crossed that something comes from it. 

 

 

For now, I will maybe try to work within the limitations and keep the encounters to the front/middle level, while giving players A LOT of info about how to proceed.

[Ankylosaur]

15 hours ago, Clave Dark 5 said:

As it gets rolled out in new missions (both here and in the game world, which I'm sure is going to happen), people will become more familiar with it and will know to avoid the floor is lava places, at least; I only died four times before I got the gist ha ha! 

 

I suspect it was a map that they found in development and have been sitting on in they wanted to use it - and finally decided not to use it. Eventually, someone decided to roll it into AE because it was a nice asset not being used anywhere but it may not have gone through a lot of testing though as a result. 

Would be fun to knwo the real story though of where it came from and how it ended up in AE. It is obviously originally for a TF or Trial or something.

[Darmian]

5 minutes ago, Ankylosaur said:

 

I suspect it was a map that they found in development and have been sitting on in they wanted to use it - and finally decided not to use it. Eventually, someone decided to roll it into AE because it was a nice asset not being used anywhere but it may not have gone through a lot of testing though as a result. 

Would be fun to knwo the real story though of where it came from and how it ended up in AE. It is obviously originally for a TF or Trial or something.

It appears in the Hard Mode version of the Lady Grey TF.

[Ankylosaur]

Oh thanks! That is important story context for me too... 

[Darmian]

6 hours ago, Ankylosaur said:

Oh thanks! That is important story context for me too... 

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