Game Mechanics Lootrunning QoL Suggestions

With the new 2 lootrunning camps, reworked beacons, and missions, there needs to be some adjustments from the challenges to how the boons work. This is nothing game-changing, only quality of life.


1. The Bird Challenge Issues
As one of the many new challenges, there is the mob wave challenge with several birds which we have to kill. Now I have 3 main issues with this as there are a lot of short-sighted mechanics that can lead to the mobs and players getting stuck. a) When you fall, you don't get teleported up but bounced up (sometimes). Now within this, there are two issues that I face. One is that when you get bounced up most of the time you just hit the rocks and you waste time trying to fit through the spaces. And sometimes you just don't get bounced up at all until you reach a certain height. My solution to this is just to teleport the player up. b) Certain birds are too high up. In one of my runs, I was doing this challenge and at one point one of the birds was just flying 20 blocks above me to fix it I had to jump off to the bottom so it would go down to attack me and quickly kill it before it perched up again. I don't know if this is intended but INCREDIBLY annoying. In this case, please add a height limit for the birds. c) The birds will end up getting stuck under the rocks. Which is less annoying and more easily killable but just adds some annoyance to it. So again, add some sort of barrier for the birds.


2. The Skyraider Camp Challenge
This one is a bit of a shorter list but what I find annoying about this is the spawn range of the mobs. They end up spawning in the river, behind houses, and inside houses which makes it less like a mob wave challenge and more like a game of hide and seek. So decreasing the spawn radius or changing where the challenge is set will improve it greatly.


3. Stackable Boons
Now that the missions exist, it makes boons way easier to collect constantly. This is not what the suggestion is, please do not remove it it makes the game so much more fun. Anyway, my problem is that like what curses used to be like which is they took over the entire screen. So if the boon effects were stacked it would make everything look a lot better and let us see everything we have.


4. Surrendering giving more Information
When you head to the starting lootrun NPC while in your lootrun it tells you the amount of pulls you get if you ended it or failed it. Now this is all well and good two other stats would be incredibly useful to know. Which is the amount of Reward Rerolls and Reward Sacrifices you collected.


5.Void FAILS your lootrun
NOW THIS MADE ME SO ANGRY. But if you fall into the void it ends your lootrun. It's not just that you die, it ends it. Completely. This annoyed me as I was having a great run and I fell while trying to get to one of the void challenges. I wouldn't mind if it killed you and you lost 2 minutes, but it completely ended your lootrun. This technically could happen during the SE lootrun but not likely.

 

yes yes yes yes YES

Some lootrun mechanics had some unprecedented effects with Sky Island's unique terrain.

It really looks like some mechanics like leaving the lootrun area or being launched to the center when leaving the challenge area wasn't designed with Sky Island's terrain in mind.

This also happens in some other challenges, like in Statue Necropolis or Reject Grove.

 

What I do is I /kill, which teleports you back to camp at the cost of 1 minute.

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Also yes to everything. The reason behind boons is probably because stuff like clockworker, where they change over time.