Talk:Xiphos/@comment-76.183.148.10-20200125103903/@comment-76.183.148.10-20200125164405

I (OP) have been playing since before the different landing craft were added in 2015. I haven't gotten a single Xiphos part drop in all these years, and I'm still waiting for the Scimitar engines to drop from Stalker with its also ludicrously low chance of 1.005%. In comparison, I've ran into enough rare containers in all those year to build the Mantis twice.

I don't get why the grinds for the Scimitar and particularly the Xiphos are so bad, especially when they aren't particularly useful. Both the aforementioned Mantis and even the stock Liset have stronger calldowns than a turret or a bombing run that could probably be out-DPS'd by bullet jumping directly on the enemies. These landers are barely grindable on paper, in practice they're useless content locked behind an insane grindwall to entice people to pay real money for them, a kind of design that has never really left the game.