Protect Aegis Part 1... Wow.

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04-11-2013, 07:05 PM
IIFatalshockII

Protect Aegis Part 1... Wow.

I doubt anyone struggled with this as much as I did. Re-boot 4 Sentries? Could be interesting.

Sentry number 1: Oh that was fairly straight forward. Lots of Rockets and common Raiders.
Sentry number 2: They're all distracted by Hellbugs. Easy Peasy.
Sentry number 3: Whoa, two Tankers? That's gonna take some strategy.
Sentry number 4: ... What in the name of all HELL?

I'm bombarded by literally dozens of Skitterlings and at least 7 Warrior Hellbugs. I survive by retreating and spraying. Now here come the Elite Raiders. Whoa! Lots of them! In fact, they're coming out by the truck load! Oh up on the field is the Sentry. I'll try and arm it and run like hell. Damn! It won't let me re-boot it until the area is clear of all... Yikes! One of those giant rogue monsters! But look, two other guys to help me. Oh wait, one just ran for it. Yes! Killed it (After what felt like an age). Okay, can I re-boot the... No. Still not clear enough to... Holy Hell!

Here come Archer Hellbugs. 6 of them. Oh and 6 Warriors as well. And another 3 Dozen Skitterlings! Good grief! How the hell did I survive that? Oh no that Rogue Giant has regenerated!! Why the hell does it keep coming over here?! Kill it again! Agh! The Hell Bugs have regenerated! This is insane! Oh and here come the Elite Raiders. That's just perfect. All we need now is a... Sweet Zombie Jesus! Now there's a Monarch!

Taking myself away from this narrative for a moment; This all happened. I went back and forth for 30 minutes. Everything just kept regenerating. I killed 3 Giant Rogues, at least 20 Archers, 50+ Raiders, 20+ Warriors, more than 100 Skitterling, and a Monarch! I feel like I just fought an entire army! I even logged off and abandoned mission trying to get that stupid Sentry to interact with me, but it was adamant I had to kill everything within 100 meters.

What I want to know is if that was supposed to be that insane, or if other players doing missions nearby caused different battle areas to merge into me? Thanks. I need a Drink.
04-11-2013, 07:11 PM
alienoid

Sounds like one hell of a fight, the kind that makes your finger hurts ;) Must have been epic !
04-11-2013, 07:11 PM
Vikar

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Originally Posted by IIFatalshockII

I doubt anyone struggled with this as much as I did. Re-boot 4 Sentries? Could be interesting.

Sentry number 1: Oh that was fairly straight forward. Lots of Rockets and common Raiders.
Sentry number 2: They're all distracted by Hellbugs. Easy Peasy.
Sentry number 3: Whoa, two Tankers? That's gonna take some strategy.
Sentry number 4: ... What in the name of all HELL?

I'm bombarded by literally dozens of Skitterlings and at least 7 Warrior Hellbugs. I survive by retreating and spraying. Now here come the Elite Raiders. Whoa! Lots of them! In fact, they're coming out by the truck load! Oh up on the field is the Sentry. I'll try and arm it and run like hell. Damn! It won't let me re-boot it until the area is clear of all... Yikes! One of those giant rogue monsters! But look, two other guys to help me. Oh wait, one just ran for it. Yes! Killed it (After what felt like an age). Okay, can I re-boot the... No. Still not clear enough to... Holy Hell!

Here come Archer Hellbugs. 6 of them. Oh and 6 Warriors as well. And another 3 Dozen Skitterlings! Good grief! How the hell did I survive that? Oh no that Rogue Giant has regenerated!! Why the hell does it keep coming over here?! Kill it again! Agh! The Hell Bugs have regenerated! This is insane! Oh and here come the Elite Raiders. That's just perfect. All we need now is a... Sweet Zombie Jesus! Now there's a Monarch!

Taking myself away from this narrative for a moment; This all happened. I went back and forth for 30 minutes. Everything just kept regenerating. I killed 3 Giant Rogues, at least 20 Archers, 50+ Raiders, 20+ Warriors, more than 100 Skitterling, and a Monarch! I feel like I just fought an entire army!

What I want to know is if that was supposed to be that insane, or if other players doing missions nearby caused different battle areas to merge into me? Thanks. I need a Drink.

Fairly certain it's a recent bug, no pun intended. Reports have been pouring in with similar experiences.

Yours was definitely the most amusing to read, though.
04-11-2013, 07:16 PM
IIFatalshockII

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Originally Posted by alienoid

Sounds like one hell of a fight, the kind that makes your finger hurts ;) Must have been epic !

Amazingly my hands are completely fine, but I tell you when I saw the Sentry glowing at long last and I knew I could Re-boot it... I haven't known relief in a video game quite like it. The fight was Epic, but I was too busy worrying WHY it was so over the top to really enjoy it :( Oh man, if there had been about 30 players doing that with me... it would have been amazing.
04-11-2013, 07:18 PM
Schwa

I had a ***** of a time. Not because of the fights, the fights were all right balance-wise for me.

The ***** for me was the turrets wouldn't work. I had to redo the quest 3-4 times before I could interact with the turrets after clearing out the area-- I think a skitterling had fallen through the world and kept a turret in combat.

It's a buggy area of the map, in general. Lots of strange things happen there.
04-11-2013, 07:18 PM
IIFatalshockII

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Originally Posted by Vikar

Fairly certain it's a recent bug, no pun intended. Reports have been pouring in with similar experiences.

Yours was definitely the most amusing to read, though.

Well thank you :cool: So it is a Bug then. I figured it might be. The difficulty spike would have been the stuff of MMO folklore had it been legitimately intended.
04-11-2013, 07:21 PM
Vikar

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Originally Posted by IIFatalshockII

Well thank you :cool: So it is a Bug then. I figured it might be. The difficulty spike would have been the stuff of MMO folklore had it been legitimately intended.

As noted by a poster above, you actually got off easy. A lot of us relogged 10 times or more just to get the turrets to work.

It -was- an amazing fight, though. At one point (when faced with that HORDE of skitterlings)I actually just hopped into my roller and started mowing them down, en masse, until the damn thing exploded. And then I rolled out, shields depleted, and started killing them with a shotgun and melee attacks. It really was one of the most epic glitches in gaming.
04-11-2013, 07:23 PM
IIFatalshockII

Quote:

Originally Posted by Schwa

I had a ***** of a time. Not because of the fights, the fights were all right balance-wise for me.

The ***** for me was the turrets wouldn't work. I had to redo the quest 3-4 times before I could interact with the turrets after clearing out the area-- I think a skitterling had fallen through the world and kept a turret in combat.

It's a buggy area of the map, in general. Lots of strange things happen there.

Easy fix then would be to have it always available for interaction until you've already activated it. That way the whole damn army can fall through the map but I can still get the mission done because I'm not being shot and prevented from activating the sentry. I too thought it was a glitch at first so I abandoned the mission then took it again. Same thing, first two easy, 3rd with the tankers, then Hellmouth for 4th. I can see a Lot of people giving up on that mission. Having to kill as many things as I did jut to activate the sentry. Unbelievable.
04-11-2013, 07:25 PM
Monkheal

I def agree the fights on the way are epic... specially the last one i did not expect a side quest to be so populated with enemies and solo it hurts after using cloak constantly then switching to overkill before this. As for the turrets not working i ran into that and just logged to fix that part.
04-11-2013, 07:26 PM
IIFatalshockII

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Originally Posted by Vikar

As noted by a poster above, you actually got off easy. A lot of us relogged 10 times or more just to get the turrets to work.

It -was- an amazing fight, though. At one point (when faced with that HORDE of skitterlings)I actually just hopped into my roller and started mowing them down, en masse, until the damn thing exploded. And then I rolled out, shields depleted, and started killing them with a shotgun and melee attacks. It really was
one of the most epic glitches in gaming.

I forgot to mention I actually logged off once and Abandoned the mission once. Epic glitch it certainly was! I came around the 3rd Roadblock, saw an army of Skitterlings Charging me and it was like... What the hell?!?

Too bad my contract only wants 40 Skitterling Hydes from Marin. I could have done that contract 5 times over.

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