Bio Engineer Archive
Thread: This ever happen to anyone else? 'Cause it freaks me out.
This has happened a few times.
There I am trying to get a Mutant Rancor sample. Mask scent is up... crawling that last 45m... creeping... creeping.... all of a sudden he starts running at me! I'm thinkin', "I'm boned, I'm boned!", but he doens't attack, and I manage to stand up & hit my /sample button just as he comes into range!
Man, I don't know if my heart can take many more psych-out zerg rushes by these guys...
I never crawl, I just/prone /maskscent /stand/target x34 /mount
Drive really fast within 15m of the Enraged Rancor Bull - /dismount /sampledna /target x34 /mount
...and wait until the sampling is finished.
If he goes aggro I just drive away
If not I try again
Much faster
Very efficient
No dying
grelgen wrote:
I thought they had done away with 'drive by' sampling to make it more interesting for us to perform our work. I bet they put a check at the end of the sample process to make sure you are still "standing". That'll screw me up cause I sample prone. As long as you are crawling when you start sampling, you can stay prone the whole time yer getting dna.
I /sampledna;/sit and don't have problems. I think I get better samples off wild critters when I'm both not moving and scent masked, though. If I'm trying to get AA samples to lower generational clones, I make sure I'm not masked and walk around as I'm doing it. I seem to get more AA samples that way, even though I'm doing it off deeds in my inventory. It's annoying, though.
And since I refuse to have to take notes and do up statistics, asthat is Not Fun™for me,I have no data to back this up. So it could be all in my head.
MousePad wrote:
I never crawl, I just/prone /maskscent /stand/target x34 /mount
Drive really fast within 15m of the Enraged Rancor Bull - /dismount /sampledna /target x34 /mount
...and wait until the sampling is finished.
If he goes aggro I just drive away
If not I try again
Much faster
Very efficient
No dying
You can make this shorter by simply adding the name of your vehicle to the end of the mount command with a space...like this: "/mount X34 LandSpeeder". No targeting involved.
This work like a charm...only time I die useing this method is if I get hit hard enough to knock me out of my ride 
I run or ride. I never walk. And to answer the *original* post, yes. This happens to me all the time. I'll be masked and walk into a den of vipers and three will run up to me for no apparent reason. Happens all the time.