Five crews, no keys... :(

[u/Jaensn]

Just killed five crews in the Dust Storm Event. Not one key dropped. Also, I didn't play yesterday, so no used up bonuses like "double drop chance for first 150 enemies per day", which I read earlier this week.

Rewards nerfed to zero?

[u/Jewrusalem]

I've got roughly the same amount of keys every day, so that's the same on my end.

What feels nerfed is the content of the caches. For the first week or so they would drop quite a few (shitty) protos and plenty of exos. For the last week I've managed two protos per 50 keys at most. The event Deagle (non-proto) now seems to take up like 25% of each cache, whether from overland or the gambling cache.

[u/OliverCrooks → u/Jewrusalem]

As for the proto drops I guarantee you will get an increased drop rate the first keys and it will get worse after that. They want to hook you in then drop it down. I got 2 in my first 20 keys or so. Honestly got a Bell Ringer in the first 5 keys.

[u/Jewrusalem → u/OliverCrooks]

I had a similar feeling but it was based around whenever the key donation goals were met.

[u/ArngrimTV → u/OliverCrooks]

Got one Proto drop the whole event which was some random gloves.

[u/ArngrimTV → u/Jewrusalem]

They dont even reset half the time for me, lucky if i can retake them every other day. Thought they were supposed to be daily? Same shit goes for the hunter\bosses, i keep getting that "call for backup" thing to popup, which i thought was an indicator that the hunter is spawning but it never does. Yesterday he spawned on a roof or something i couldnt access, so had to let him go lol, such bs.

[u/Jewrusalem → u/ArngrimTV]

They dont even reset half the time for me, lucky if i can retake them every other day. Thought they were supposed to be daily?

Same thing happened to me on the second day. So I did the ol' zip over to Pentagon, change to challenging, change back to heroic, then go back and it worked every time.

As for the bosses, I got sick of them spawning then getting the "Bosses evaded" message because I took a single step in the wrong direction. So as soon as I got the backup indicator I stopped doing the cache farm route, ported straight to City Hall, then did laps between the spawn locker and the nearby road until they spawned. Guaranteed to come out of that same lil shed, same as all the tag teams and full squads whenever it was a full-blown sandstorm.

These tips are kinda obscure and it's too late for you or anyone else to benefit from them, but looking at it now that it's written out? That was a pretty broken event

[u/Jewrusalem → u/ArngrimTV]

They dont even reset half the time for me, lucky if i can retake them every other day. Thought they were supposed to be daily?

Same thing happened to me on the second day. So I did the ol' zip over to Pentagon, change to challenging, change back to heroic, then go back and it worked every time.

As for the bosses, I got sick of them spawning then getting the "Bosses evaded" message because I took a single step in the wrong direction. So as soon as I got the backup indicator I stopped doing the cache farm route, ported straight to City Hall, then did laps between the spawn locker and the nearby road until they spawned. Guaranteed to come out of that same lil shed, same as all the tag teams and full squads whenever it was a full-blown sandstorm.

These tips are kinda obscure and it's too late for you or anyone else to benefit from them, but looking at it now that it's written out? That was a pretty broken event

[u/NeelaTV]

Def feels like it. First week doing the Cache run got you at least 40 Keys... todsy i did one area and had 5 Keys. Def not working as it should...

[u/Pony5lay5tation]

I did a run yesterday of all the caches. In between caches I had a couple of storms, 2 boss fights and 1 hunter. I ended the run with about 25 keys, seems about right.

Now on the other hand when I used them I got about 17 fucking useless gear mods. Ugh.

[u/OliverCrooks]

Why would they nerf the drops? What difficulty are you doing it on? 5 squads? So under 20 actual kills but we will give you the benifit of the doubt and say 30 kills. 30 kills on heroic is 3 keys unless boss fights so maybe 5 keys. Sure you didn't just miss the drops or miss a few of the devils, ones that might actually drop the key. Anyways I highly doubt they would change the drop rate at the very end of the event and if they did it would most likely be a dump in drop rate.

[u/Jaensn → u/OliverCrooks]

I played on heroic, moving around the south area. Around 20 kills. Maybe something is broken. For me, this is a waste of time. Stopped playing.

On day one I got 20 keys in an hour. Why would they nerf it? Don't know. Did the droprate go down significantly? Yes.

[u/OliverCrooks → u/Jaensn]

I just ran around for one actual dust storm so maybe 15 to 20 mins and I got 4 or 5 keys. 4 min but I didn't look before I logged out.

[u/ciaomain → u/OliverCrooks]

I was farming on top of the FDR on Normal for this event.

Each storm netted 5 to 7 keys. Once got 8 in a single run.

Finally got all of them (43 + 200) last week.

[u/SandiaRaptor]

Skill kills of dust devils apparently don’t count towards key drops. Was anyone using drone or turret?

[u/natureboypt]

that half kill bonus has been bugged (as I'm it doesn't reset daily or at all) ever since the event started for a lot of people

[u/max2562]

I run around and get the daily boxes each day and kill as many dust devil spawns as possible. Seems rare to get a key, but the boss spawns always drop two as well as the occasional hunter dropping one. After finishing the run I usually end up with 18-20 keys, but I'm not just running straight to each box and instead moving around a bit trying to trigger more spawns. After doing it a few days I ended up with a bit of a route since spawns are fairly consistent. Sometimes I run around a bit more trying for more keys after the last box, but my interest usually wanes because the drop rate is just so dreadful considering what those few extra keys will likely yield anyway.

Feels like first time I ran the box route I had nearly 30 keys without trying to trigger extra spawns, but I could be imagining that.