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11/12/2025 12:05:52 AM
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Salt mines
Does Salt mines have to be that hard? My loadouts are trash I guess. Do we really need to go to orbit when we die? Is it that important?
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4 RepliesEdited by Obelix: 11/14/2025 2:33:51 PMSalt score seems bugged to me. I’m 550 and did a test slapping all the modifiers adding the most (ie: max green arrows). Projected score never goes above 2.3mils and even when I finish the run with the bonus objectives and time left I get A+ and 2.4mils. How do people get 3mils on that one?
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4 RepliesI have literally added all the insane modifiers and then gave myself buffs and still was maxed out at A+, cleared it, got like a 2.4mil score, am in the "10%" and was thinking the top 1% was on some insane stuff, only to find out 550 gets more of a bonus. Watched a random streamer go in, didn't change a thing on difficulty, completed it with like 1 min left and got a higher score than I have. I even tried his method, kill everything, finished with more time than him and got a 1.9 mil score Yea, its a little lopsided but if they don't give the hc squad something, then it validates the useless number argument even more
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3 RepliesI guarantee you that Bungie intentionally picked the activity with the lowest player count in each Portal Ops.
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5 RepliesMy issue is enemies not spawning in time. I've had SEVERAL times where I'm waiting 30 seconds or more for enemies to spawn and the stupid door won't open until they do and I clear the room. Now Bungie has added psions with over shields that can't be damaged until you kill the little, fast moving l, ghost shell thing that spends half it's existence stuck in a wall or object. Bungie, your servers are 💩. How do you expect people to hit that?
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1 ReplyI mostly can’t stand getting melted by the resonant waves! They spawn those things way too often and sometimes catch you off guard while you’re fighting a bunch of enemies. It’s just such a lame way to kill a guardian.
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Enemies literally spawn 1 at a time and prompty go hide behind some wall. It's ridiculous. And when those protected go into corners, drones are very difficult to shoot as they're behind walls most of the time.
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Edited by Dooodley: 11/13/2025 3:52:52 PMI had max modifiers on except for the +5 for bow - I picked a +4 instead because I dont have a good bow build. I even had brawn on, which I've seen YT'ers not have when they got into the 1 %. Conclusion, everything is down to whether or not the bonus boss spawns....and I've had a lot of runs now without it spawning. So, another RNG event. And holy crap there's been some "drone runs" - felt like every two enemies had drones. Everything is just down to luck if you can run it. Not using any of the YT melee builds btw. I also have this working theory that there's a score threshold outside of the population percentages. Edit; After another 20 or so runs without a HVT...and I'm done with this event.
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Its not your loadout, its bugged. The final gate didnt drop my first two runs. It finally drops with 4 secs left on the timer on the 3rd run. All 9 splinters are deleted and mobs all cleared and it doesn't progress. I just left at that point. They picked the worst solo activity by far for the event.
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It’s a horrible event, the little I could play before I was returned to orbit, it’s really upsetting to see the state this wonderful game is in
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Edited by Dooodley: 11/12/2025 5:03:26 PMIt's so stupid because in the end it's just down to RNG and luck with the spawns. I opted out on the drone modfier but slapped everything els (like 38-40 multipliers including brawn) on and got 2,67 M solo. But whenever I have the drone modifier on it seems like it's messing with everything els too. I just killed the tormentor in the last room, destroyed the splinters and had a good 3,5 minutes left but then had to spend all that time waiting for enemies to spawn in - seemingly because drones were on, which in themselves werent a problem to kill. Using solar warlock.
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Statistics show that's the least favorite mission. Bungie in their wisdom picks said mission to piss off the community yet again. Not like that got anything better else to do to improve the QoL
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1 ReplyMy thoughts exactly. And, why tell us to equip our best gear when gear score doesn't matter. We are locked in at 20 under the enemy! I hate this sh*t.
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Salt mines is annoying af... I re-cue until I get it WITHOUT the perverted darkness
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6 RepliesIt does, remember Bungo cannot allow any player to have fun within the game. Everything must be a grind and feel like torture. They just keep going out of their way to destroy the player base instead of letting us enjoy ourselves within the game.
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Getaway artist build works well in salt mines. You can also add full throttle and grenade dmg mod to get a good feel. Then can remove the helping mods as you get a run or two in and get the overall feel of it down. I use mint, and the trails sidearm and LMG. I'm hitting around a 2.6m score. Converse hold is not so effective for this solo ops imo.
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Yeah it pissed me off. I am over 500 power level and it threw me into ultimate automatically where you only get one revive. They did something to Salt Mines because it’s rough. I had to go down to Master to finish it and in the end did not get credit for “completing an activity”. It’s useless for me to do below grandmaster level due to not getting rewarding gear. All my stuff is tier 5. Guess I’ll be skipping it.
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Edited by cryptic_king_241: 11/12/2025 4:18:00 AMI've learned that the more group spawns killed the closer they spawn to the exit.
