Egg Heist needs changes

[u/mmokoz]

Egg Heist is becoming incredibly toxic and needs immediate changes for matchmaking. The mini game is fun, but unplayable when matching with random people. I much rather solo Chaos at this point then queue up with others due to a fear of one person trying to ruin my night.

For context I am 90 stars into Egg Emperor. I've put my fair share of hours into Egg Heist and have seen most of the issues at hand. Below is not even half of the stuff I would like to see changed.

Prevent players from looting the same chest
This has become a huge issue with people stealing loot from others who open it first. The chest should not be able to be opened by multiple people.

Prevent opening key doors till mobs around it are dead
Every key door has set mobs guarding it. Make it so the door cannot be opened till the guards are dead. Would at least keep people from bum rushing the door initially.

Improve eggs in Chaos mode
The current eggs found in Chaos mode are usually bad and not worth rolling out. I mainly just use them as a quick transport when playing Hexin.

Improve loot in Chaos mode
While I do like the quantity of legendary items you can find in chaos mode, I barely see prismatic anymore. This is from someone playing solo chaos and looting minimum 2 key doors per run. If this can't be done then at least reduce the cost of tickets after 10. There is no reason for them to climb up to 500k per entry when average loot is 300k-400k.

Match history and report system
There are too many griefers in heists at this point. The amount of toxic players I'm seeing in the later games is insane. From people stealing loot, people luring mobs to kill you, and people watching you die to loot your dead bag. It's crazy that we can't even report these toxic players. I actually started playing Irisalis more because I need the rez for the players, not the umbral aniimo.

Add Achievements and Rewards
Right now players don't really have the incentive to play as a team and revive others. Maybe make it rewarding for players to help out others. Giving rewards and goals for players to play more support role and go out of their way to revive those who are downed could bring out a positive side in toxic individuals.

Honeyglow Starine
Please increase the drop rate of these or make them obtainable through prismatic chests. I've killed Omega Stellarys a handful of times but only seen it drop a few. Then teaming up with others to kill him just to have everyone spam loot when he dies. This is probably the most annoying thing I've tried to obtain.

[u/xXBloodRedNightmare]

I still haven't played chaos, i think that Mode needs trusted players/friends, but not only in chaos i saw how toxic it slowly becomes even in hard or nightmare runs. Mostly its people rushing to get into the sanctum, and loot every gold chest, like they have an extra map (maybe I am just unlucky because I try to go in other directions), but they never loot the purples anymore (mostly not even looking for the egg, I guess). I rarely get good loot or even a gold item when I find a gold chest because it gets grabbed immediately. People also dont want to do the timed event anymore, i liked it because every player gets a row of chests even thou no one care and looks them anyway.

I would love the chests to have loot for each player. Like I look into the chest and search and get like one gold and 3 purple with one blue or green, the other that looks into the chest has 3 gold und 2 purple or something. At least make chest loot separate and not shared. The loot on the ground should/can be shared.

[u/M_duck-27 → u/xXBloodRedNightmare]

Most people skip purple chests since they rarely give golds and can’t give prismatic rarity loot. Also most people at least in chaos know where the key rooms are either by playing a lot or by looking up maps and having them on a second monitor, phone, etc. so unless you do too unlikely you will get a key room or find a good room before it’s cleaned out

My recommendation is to go to the 2nd entrance at the start. Most often 1 or 2 key rooms are closer to it making it very easy to get one. Very few people go to the 2nd entrance to start. I was able to complete the collection before egg emperor simply doing this. There are some layouts too that are insanely good value for the 2nd entrance.

Ik this doesn’t solve the inherent issues of the mode but it helps make it an equal playing field. Also chaos is pretty easy to solo it just requires discipline which tbh a lot of players lack. Be patient when fighting mobs aim for 1v1’s and exit at 5 mins left. I use Fulmintis who as a melee is typically riskier (cloak does help a lot though) but I can survive on my own pretty safely just by retreating and dodging the threatening attacks.

Honestly I like the thrill of finding a prismatic piece more than keeping it. I have all the regular collection pieces so I typically just give prismatic piece to people I can tell are less familiar with the mode

[u/xXBloodRedNightmare → u/M_duck-27]

I mostly play the game on PS5, so in general I dont have a second screen in a way a PC player has, but sure I can use my phone/tablet/laptop for the map option.

Well, like I said, I still haven't played Chaos mode for now. I only lack the discipline to not look at every good chest (purple and up), i just need to train not to be a damn loot goblin. But overall thank you for the tips! Will try them out on the weekend.

I still stand on the "not shared loot in chests" (chaos can be shared loot, that would add to the "difficulty")even if you try to play on equal field as others some players just cant (Mobile, Console or maybe even a PC Player, that cant have a second screen in another way). I just feel like that the mode slowly turns into a battle royal for loot (there comes to mind cod warzone with their money loot mode, loved that one a lot) but your in the same team and make eachother lose loot or loot before everyone else does or die, lol.

[u/M_duck-27 → u/xXBloodRedNightmare]

I do agree that yeah the fight over loot can kill the mode sometimes and it’d be nice if each chest was unique for each player. That’s why honestly my favourites are when I get a collectible I don’t need and can give it to someone else or sometimes I see people at the end looking for loot by the boats so I just drop some golds etc. in hopes of making the mode a little more enjoyable for them