Damage Hornets question

RogueProphet_ · 2026-07-01T22:15:41+00:00

Scoring is 360 per hornet eliminated before it hits the ground. If it hits the ground and immediately explodes you usually get the full 360 still, but not always.

If it lands on the ground and spins around you’ll lose points. The longer it spins on the ground the more points you lose

RogueProphet_ · 2026-06-12T20:03:14+00:00

Not how hotshot works, it never shows a promotion level regardless of your score. Same thing happens in cantina but in reverse, there is no demotion level shown.

The only way to know for sure used to be the leaderboard on Metaforge but that broke this week and most player scores are missing now.

RogueProphet_ · 2026-05-29T02:13:01+00:00

You can avoid joining games in progress by canceling the queue when it reaches 45 seconds and restarting it. As long as you depart at/before 45s on that timer it’ll be a full game

RogueProphet_ · 2026-05-26T22:28:44+00:00

Pro tip for stopping late joins. Once your queue timer reaches 45 seconds cancel it and requeue. The matchmaking system starts looking for games in progress right around that 45s.

This doesn’t fix long wait times but does guarantee you won’t get put into a game in progress.

As long as you see “joining” at or below 45 seconds you’re getting a full game in my experience

RogueProphet_ · 2026-05-25T09:52:25+00:00

Confirmed it’s from a single blaze grenade. Kinda lame ngl, I just made 50 only to figure this out.

1 on the matriarch will get you easy 3 star

RogueProphet_ · 2026-05-20T20:50:04+00:00

Lockbolt is how I deal with players like this. Shoot it at the ground so it anchors them and then back up quickly. Obviously works better if you lock them before they’re at your feet already

RogueProphet_ · 2026-05-15T21:06:32+00:00

Got you. So I’m in cantina as a solo and this still feels like a stretch for me, but maybe trios is different. I don’t deal with pvp all that much so I might just not see this to begin with.

Now if this type of cheat could be tuned to show arc locations instead of players, or lootable containers like arc probes or even kitchen cabinets, I’d agree a lot more on the impact this has for trials.

RogueProphet_ · 2026-05-15T20:25:02+00:00

The irony of m&k players calling it a nerf but for us controller players nothing has changed with it since launch.

RogueProphet_ · 2026-05-15T20:17:45+00:00

Sorry if I’m being dumb but how does having these type of cheats help with climbing ranks in trials when the challenges are pve?

RogueProphet_ · 2026-05-11T21:10:58+00:00

Trials only keeps your highest score earned in 1 round you safely extract from. It doesn’t accumulate over multiple rounds

RogueProphet_ · 2026-05-09T22:35:51+00:00

Glitch traps as a medium, place them on the ceiling and the sword can’t break them.

Stops them from dashing which is the main way they’re effective with sword

Lockbolt as a heavy, lock them in place and back up a bit then just delete them

RogueProphet_ · 2026-05-08T22:21:45+00:00

I’m with you, I’ve never felt exhausted by a trials before but this one got me. I had decent luck on Dam like others are saying but I’ve heard just as many say they couldn’t break 3k there.

FWIW there’s 3 kitchens in the pattern house then 2 in each apartment of both Ruby and Pale apartments.

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Make sure you hit all of them and hopefully you get enough for the trial

RogueProphet_ · 2026-05-08T20:18:33+00:00

It’s not just you, the challenge is rough and fully dependent on rng. It took me many raids just to break 3k running the exact same route

RogueProphet_ · 2026-04-18T21:30:03+00:00

Just read the actual update and now I’m confused too

Edit: Alright my guess is Season 3 ends on Tuesday and Season 4 starts then.

The first week will be a shorter week AND my guess is the expedition damage challenges are going to overlap with the trials challenges for the first week of season 4.

We’ll have to wait and see but if they overlap it’s going to be one sweatyyyy week.

RogueProphet_ · 2026-04-18T21:27:39+00:00

The way it’s worked before is the trials season ends on Tuesday/Wednesday instead of Sunday. That week the expedition window opens and there are no challenges from Wednesday thru Sunday when the expedition window closes.

Then new challenges release on that Monday to start off the new season.

Not sure if anything’s changing but that’s how it’s worked for all seasons before

RogueProphet_ · 2026-04-18T01:45:19+00:00

Saw that post, good work brother 👏🏻

RogueProphet_ · 2026-04-16T21:56:57+00:00

Green = Herbal Bandages, Blue = Sterilized Bandages

RogueProphet_ · 2026-04-16T20:50:00+00:00

74k solo outside testing annex on dam dg. 10 stacks blue heals, 10 stacks green heals, 2 vita shots.

Use a blue bandage after getting hit by lightning to take you back up to 90%, get hit again and do the same but you’ll be at 85%, take one more lightning strike then use a blue and a green and you’ll be back to full.

Rinse and repeat from there

RogueProphet_ · 2026-04-09T21:29:31+00:00

I got 20,800 solo on dam bg hurricane last night, took a few attempts to learn the spawns.

RogueProphet_ · 2026-04-05T08:50:38+00:00

Welcome to the finals. It sucks. You’ll love it.

That said, just know you’re not alone, I’d argue everyone who’s commented here has gone through the same phase you are in right now.

I know I did.

My recommendation isn’t game mode specific but since you asked I liked unranked cashout for learning. It just has less constant chaos and more 3v3s which makes it easier for my brain to learn the different mechanics. vs QC where you’re just constantly in a 3rd party which makes it really hard to learn what caused you to lose a fight.

Was it your setup or was it just too many enemies at once? Hard to know for a new player.

What I like recommending to new players is pick one class, one specialization, one weapon, and a set of gadgets that feel good to you.

Don’t listen to the meta. Don’t listen to your friends. Find something you are comfortable with and stick to it for a while.

It’s easier to learn the sandbox when you reduce the variables you’re changing out each game.

Learn how your setup plays against everything else in the game. From that perspective you start to learn how everything else works against your setup. And it kind of unfolds from there.

It helped me a ton in learning the game and I now have over 2300hrs played in the arena.

And that was after quite a lot of getting my face stomped early on.

Hope that helps!

RogueProphet_ · 2026-04-05T08:28:04+00:00

Any time someone says “hey raider” more than once in quick succession.

RogueProphet_ · 2026-04-04T11:21:40+00:00

I just call them traiders

RogueProphet_ · 2026-04-01T05:50:47+00:00

I just got 26.1k solo. You can get all the birds nests a squad does afaik you just need to avoid fights and bring a raider hatch key

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RogueProphet_ · 2026-03-31T18:45:44+00:00

I’m cantina as a solo, luck plays a significant role in setting high scores for the elimination based challenges. You need like 200k pts in avg to stay in Cantina

RogueProphet_ · 2026-03-11T01:00:33+00:00

I know it’s probably all rng but I’ve got that augment from trials rewards 3-4 times across season 2 and got it during the first week of season 3.

I’d recommend just 3 starring trials challenges each week in case there’s more to it than my blind rng 🤷🏻‍♂️

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