Raider Boss Spawn rate too low

[uneven lion]

If you are going to make it a requirement for progression to slay 5 raider bosses, might I suggest a slight increase in their spawn rates?
It is entirely possible that I'm just shit out of luck, however it begs the question that after ten or so raids without a mere sight of one, are they just scared of me?

[unkempt heart]

You should have seen how many people complained before the Excavation update when this quest was Kill 8 SAS Captains. No really before Excavation 1.0 these quests were even more pointless grind to find and kill rare enemies. Especially Kill 8 Commando Majors was a hell. So this isn't a new problem but it's at least much more easier now to get 5 Raider Bosses but yeah they are really rare.

[dense notch]

8 S.A.S. captains really wasn't hard if you learned where he spawned. (Gun deck catwalk or war roon)

Raider bosses are decently common imo, I usually see 1 every three raids or so. They only spawn on pois that spawn raiders though, so if you're not going to those pois you'll never find them (space port, mining frigate, asteroid mine, terraformer)

[uneven lion]

Finally got it done after countless miner frigate runs, at least now I know that map pretty well.

[uneven lion]

all I can say is, oof.

[lone horizon]

honestly i swear i get one every 2-3 games where i actually loot the whole map and 50% of the time i get 2 raider bosses smh

[deft parcel]

Should be kill 4, I think. Or 3. I am stuck on this quest now...lol

Not increase their spawn rate, but decrease they amount needed, imo..

[iron spade]

personally I'd just change the quest to allow regular raiders to count and just up the limit to like idk 25 or so

with the major quest and captain quest being gone, i dont see why this quest should stay either unless they want to make them more common

[nocturne drift]

maybe expand the pool?
Make it either Raider Bosses, Commando Majors, Bandits, Wardens/His Goons and Red Baron.
At least that gives you more control/available options

then rename the contract to "Big Game Hunter"

[unkempt heart]

That's a good idea but I think the pool should be limited to mini bosses.

Plus it would need a lore expansion cause why would the C.E. hire you to kill C.E.Majors.

[iron spade]

I'd say lore doesn't really matter over gameplay, and gameplay wise just have to make sure the rng isnt too bad else you start to feel like you wasted your time

[unkempt heart]

The lore still shouldn't contradict itself.

[iron spade]

also was mentioned before that they want you to be able to do nearly all z2h missions in all raids and that even the commando quest would have a commando equiv onboard places like colony cruiser

[iron spade]

it's just flavor text at the end of the day, you could just have the quest changed to say the pirate guild wants you to thin out the big guys

[unkempt heart]

Yeah but they need to change it then.

[unkempt heart]

They're probably on Mining Frigate then.

[iron spade]

which would take them acouple minutes

[unkempt heart]

I was agreeing with you on that point.

[iron spade]

i believe gohjira said that they do plan to have them on colony cruiser itself as well and has stated this afew times

[unkempt heart]

I think that won't arrive before the AI infighting is in the game.

[iron spade]

my main point there is that lore doesn't really matter and they just write anything for it

[unkempt heart]

Like I said I'm agreeing with you on that point. When they change the quest they need to change the text too.

[deft parcel]

I'm still trying to find 2 more FFS 😣

[dapper summit]

Captain Wolf isn't part of the C.E. anymore. As far as I remember, he's stealing old gear from rh C.E. and selling it to the pirates, he wants you, the player, to take out majors either to get back at the C.E. or to prove yourself I think.

[unkempt heart]

But the mission Commando Chain is a contract from the Central Empire and not from Wolff. Additionally in the mission Top Brass you are killing Commandos, formerly Commando Majors, to get back at Wolff which shows that Wolff still cares for his former brothers in arm.

[iron spade]

here's hoping they either up their rate, change it to be any special npc so raider boss or commandos or sas captains etc, or just remove the quest outright

[deft parcel]

Man, I play all day everyday, this is crazy that I have still not got my last 2. I hope they are reading this...

[hallow geyser]

yeah, im not at this quest yet but i dont see the raider bosses often at all so im a little worried it will take a while to get it done.

[iron spade]

if they want to keep quests like this in i feel they should either make progress for it retroactive or adjust it so that finding the npc is easy to do, and if they made it easy to find them then they could always juice them to be way stronger

[deft parcel]

Funnily enough, I got my last two in one raid today lol. That was a long time ago I made this post, for someone that plays all the time..

[lone horizon]

i got 2 2 times in a row

[deft parcel]

Sounds legit 😁

[lone horizon]

swear tg

1 raid it was 2 with liberators and the other raid was 1 with a small shield and the other w a liberator as well