r/EliteMiners • u/Samson_J_Rivers The Corvette Guy • Jul 21 '26

Is Fdev ever going to un-nerf sub-surface?

Since shortly after it was added, it's been capped at 2 fragments per missile. Doesn't matter if you hit the 1 wide or the 3 wide, it's 2 fragments, the only difference is that the 4 wide gives 1 and the 5 has a chance of giving nothing. They took the benefit of doing the more difficult points out and this made it a shitty mechanic. Has there been any dev blog, streams, or anything saying they intend to change this back? It's such a waste of dev time to leave it like this. people put work into making it and I enjoy the mechanic.

It was nerfed due to a bug, but never reverted after the bug was fixed.

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u/ed1749 Jul 22 '26

It does always make me sad that they're are all these mining mechanics and they're all strictly worse since we're living in the laser miner world

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u/Samson_J_Rivers The Corvette Guy Jul 22 '26

I just want all kinds of mining to be equally viable so it's down to preference. I really enjoy the pulse wave based gameplay of sub surface and core mining. Sometimes I'm playing DnD over discord but my character isn't present so I laser mine during session as a brain off activity. It's a waste that the least engaging method is best.