Cartel reinforcements could use some tuning down

[cat_thulhu]

Will if IB is killing stuff you aren’t on m 10 haha

[CelestialrayOne]

No. You can disable it. Let other people have their challenge.

[jmthsauer ("Barriers are for the weak. Or the tryhards"-Zane)]

It’s not about challenge, it’s about playability. My PC is very well within the recommended specs, I don’t see why the event should suddenly require you to have a really heavy duty machine to not crash all the time. Besides, spawning a bunch of anointeds is mostly annoying and I know hardly any players who enjoy fighting them. I genuinely can’t play through the cathedral of the twin gods from start to finish because it will always crash in the section with the turrets because there’s just way too much going on.

[Feculator]

I remember a dude on here a while ago who was talking about his GPU heating up to crazy levels if he tabbed out of the game.
The game runs fine for me, even with the cartel hordes running around, but I wonder if my GPU is being burned out without me noticing. My point is that even if someone isn’t experiencing performance issues, they should hope for better optimiziation.

[sehenry10]

MORE MOBS!!! MORE ANNOINTED!!! MORE MAYHEM!!!

MORE!!!

Sorry my internal Krieg got the best of me…

I really do enjoy this though. Honestly I wish we had more mobs in the Cartel map.

[dpresnell]

If you’re farming Pandora, turn off cartel event. That place in particular will spawn more annointed enemies. Farming other places for tokens that have different enemies like Maliwan zones result in cartel spawns that are totally doable and not frustrating. But if you’re farming Pandora for M10 gear during loot the world, might be better to do it with cartel spawns turned off instead of asking for blanket nerfs. Cartel spawns aren’t as bad on other planets.

Or just keep asking for nerfs to annointed enemies in particular. They’re the least fun enemy to fight in the history of Borderlands games.

[Amazing_DKSWW ("...take off your pants and go hog wild.")]

@jmthsauer

Now, I know you can disable the Cartels event altogether, but that’s not the problem here. I do want to play with the event. The issue is, that way too many enemies cause cartel forces to spawn if you kill them, to the point where they can easily outnumber the amount of regular enemies in the area. This does for one impact performance, and by a lot too, because many cartel enemies are badasses with rocklet launchers or anointed and have too many effects. The other issue is that it takes way too long to clear an area. In fact, the beginning area of the guts of Carnivora took me so long that by the time I was done, the first group of enemies in the room respawned again ( I didn’t even know that could happen).
Now, I like the event itself, it’s fun, but can we please either tone down the amount of enemies who will spawn in cartels by a little bit or put a limiter on how many cartel goon squads can be active at a time?

I agree! I was still trying to finish up some of the Guardian Trial Missions this weekend and I just kept getting timed out because so many Cartel Thugs and Bad asses would spawn. The cool thing is they will fight the other enemies, but after a while the amount of enemies was insane.

[Amazing_DKSWW ("...take off your pants and go hog wild.")]

@dpresnell

If you’re farming Pandora, turn off cartel event. That place in particular will spawn more annointed enemies. Farming other places for tokens that have different enemies like Maliwan zones result in cartel spawns that are totally doable and not frustrating. But if you’re farming Pandora for M10 gear during loot the world, might be better to do it with cartel spawns turned off instead of asking for blanket nerfs. Cartel spawns aren’t as bad on other planets.

Or just keep asking for nerfs to annoin

The downside to this though would be in that M10 Cartel enemies have a good chance to drop Cartel event loot like the Yellowcake RL. I got a perfect X2 Mayhem 2 version on a world drop from a Cartel Bad Ass. It’s doing well against even bosses at Mayhem level 5.

[sehenry10]

@Amazing_DKSWW

The downside to this though would be in that M10 Cartel enemies have a good chance to drop Cartel event loot

Personally I would like double cartel mobs just because of the loot drops.

Please don’t reduce the number =(

[sixpackstl (GT: SixPackStl)]

The anointed are the only ones that are an issue IMO. They don’t drop much anyway so get rid of them.

I really don’t know why GBX decided to make the Cartels spawn anointed mobs anyway. Troy doesn’t have anything to do with the Cartels and Troy is the one who makes the anointeds.

[stmac571]

when u got many NPC who can one hit one break ur shield, u will have difference experience, although i admited, MH2.0 is full of bugs, somewhere it is insane and crazy more than so called " hardness" and " challenge"

[dannydoom333]

They gave us mayhem, suppose that’s one thing they don’t lie about.

[Munky3000]

I love this Cartels event. It’s the most fun I’ve had with the game in a while. Fights get so insanely chaotic, it’s a blast. I honestly hope they give us the option to keep it on after the event is over.

My only complaints (other than glitches) are the anointed spawns on M10 are especially stupid tanky. They aren’t challenging to fight, just extremely tedious. And the drop rates. There is no way they aren’t borked. Outside of the Pandora they’re sooooo bad.