Im guessing full inventory so its going to his claim items. Or just lag when he plays and he's not getting the notices but he will if he fast travels.
Might I suggest opening the full chat window and looking at system I think that's where reward go through I never worried about it so I dont remember.
I would step over your still bleeding corpse for my morning coffee!
This is the standard reward for an minor arkfall, and if you aren't in top 3 or so, you won't get 3 keys. The key rewards at minors seems random, I expect it looks at number of people there and gives those in the top percentage 3 keys, as I have been chasing them recently to get rocket launcher skill up, and sometimes i get 3, sometimes its just 2 and often its nothing at all. The 4k exp doesn't help me as I have max perks... 180 scrip covers the fast travel back to base.Originally Posted by nightclub19
My standard weapon on red crystals is an infector on the crystal, so I guess I am one of those that speeds things up but I never abuse anyone, I have been waiting for someone to point out I shouldn't use infectos on red crystals as the bugs kill skitterlings, but so far no one... cankers only create a bug on target death and since my target is the crystal, no loss.
Wait, people were actually talking at an Arkfall!? o.O
also dont forget the competition for the month that i think involves finishing as many arkfalls as possible
That is freaky. I knocked out 4 real quick just now for the sake of 'capping the results. (Shrunk down a bit for the sake of page size)
A Scrapper Minor that I was late to and barely did enough to qualify IMO:
Then a Hellbug Minor I got to fairly quickly:
Then a Hellbug Major, blue crystal so bug kills only:
Note not only the keys, but the lockbox symbol at the bottom, and 1 of 2 weapons being auto-rewarded overlaying the main window.
And then a Mother of all Hellbugs Major that I just barely got there in time for the very end of:
Hardly had time to contribute anything there, but still got 4 keys and the box.
So that's what it really ought to look like for you. As Colif rightly notes, if you don't get enough done at some Minors, you can end up not getting any keys for them, although I almost always get at least 2 no matter where I place, provided it's not blowing up right as I get there. But that shouldn't be your issue, since you say you're finishing at/near the top, and on majors, no less. If you're doing that and still don't see any keys or box/item rewards, you have a real bummer of a truly weird bug that I've not heard of before.
I've gotten 3 keys at minor arkfalls that I didn't place in the top 3 for. I'm not entirely sure how it works, but I feel like there are several possible ways to get 3 keys.
And OP: of course I'm trying to finish arkfalls as fast as possible. I'm trying to get xp and keys (and scrips and ark salvage...). Finishing one arkfall in 5 minutes = faster xp and keys than finishing one in 15 minutes. Best case scenario for me is when I manage to get to a hellbug destruction minor before anyone else. I can finish it in less than a minute if no one else shows up.
Crystals also drop a whole bunch of scrips, ark salvage and a few items between waves. Faster waves = faster drops from the crystal. Enemies at arkfalls never drop items anyway.
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LOL! Yeah, looks like a bunch of new folks running around this evening into late-night on PC NA. Doing this test run a little while ago, I couldn't find any crystals that didn't already have people on them, even the farthest away ones.
Being new and having not yet been told that "chat doesn't work" in the game, these folks were happily text-chatting away, asking about clans, keycodes, etc. Other established players were answering their questions, putting up guild recruitment messages, and so on. You'd think the veterans would know better than to use chat. You know, since it "doesn't work" and everything.
First off there are major and minor arkfalls. Major's have subsets of minors in one large grouping with a big boss fight once the little ones are cleared but the little subset minors do not award keycodes.
If you're doing major or minors, finishing as fast as possible is overall better. In fact, in situations where there are multiple majors or singular minors(again not the major's subset minors) it is better to tag a wave of them then move to a different one so that you get overall more keycodes/and ending bonuses with exp or weapons(majors only). The major's loot directly into inventory as well are pure pure random(you could hit top rank or low rank and it wouldnt matter as you'll get epics even with just tagging). Also keys have no bearing on kill rank but more so a threshhold of your activity on the arkfall itself.
Staying forever at "destroy the crystal" arkfalls of the various mobs, really isnt necessarily a better idea. The only major justification for that would be with leveling certain weapons, and to be quite honest, there are far better weapon leveling methods that can be used that dont go counter to the objectives of the arkfalls (not a small number of those methods are mentioned in the forums and on youtube.)
Yeah... I thought that was suspicious since it its not a galifrey or similar guild advert spam(and invite spam), chats are dead at most arkfalls hehe. :P
The chat seems to wake up at the end for trades, best time since there are people around.
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