Has anyone else noticed a dramatic increase in the performance of the AI as well as changes to the spawn makeups in abyss. I run several dozen a week. I have for years. Since the winter event went live, I’ve had a dramatic increase in difficulty getting through all tiers of all storm types, in every ship, frigate, destroyer, and cruiser.
I literally lost my farming Ikit today to what should have been a perfect series of rooms for it: back to back, medium count, triglavians.
I’ve noticed a massive increase in remote rep across all ship types, dramatically slowing down my clear rates. And a new behaviour I’ve not seen until the last 2 weeks, That’s really detrimental to the ikit: NPCs breaking and burning away in a strait line until my disintegrator breaks ending the ramp up. then returning. With Mystic, I have 50km range on that fit, and I’ve had NPCs continue to burn away trying to break that range, forcing me to chase all the way to the edge of the bubble in the wrong direction from the gate. That’s actually what cost me my ikit today.
I have in the past seem anomalies in the AI behaviour, but this has been consistent. Earlier today, I had an overmind literally bouncing between two of the speed clouds, back and forth in a turn and burn pattern, rather than trying to orbit me. Made him incredibly hard to deal with nearly costing me the ship as well.
It’s been very strange in there lately for me. Anyone else sharing that experience?
Hm. Not really. I have run like 20 Abyssals today. Mostly T5, Gammas and Firestorms, some Darks. The NPCs didn’t do anything unusual. They switch to Drones, yes, but they always did. The only time they “kite” away is when Drones are out and they try to follow the drones.
Ehh, that was one of the T5 “special rooms” and you could have just taken the Gate, it isn’t locked in there. You notice it is an “origin conduit” on your screenshot, yes? You don’t have to fight these ships, only a few long-range setups can successfully do that.
