Hotshot: Sharpshooting savior

[wetthama]

I was just about to get silver and then I keep failing wtf so I cant get the outfit

[DanteYoda]

I got silver but it did take me a fair while, watch where they spawn and shoot them when they stop and wave and when they pop from vehicles, always lead your shots as ping times make you miss..

Was hard as though, personally found the shotgun one harder.

[Apheration]

Even with maxed out Shadowed Strike equipped it takes 3 headshots to kill a regular raider, I can't get more than 700 points before all the civilians are dead. I don't get it.

[Chump Norris]

Besides Apheration and myself is anyone else still having problems with this since scaling? I was able to do moonshine shack and chickens but I cant even bronze this thing..

[Nightmare Walkin]

My 5606 ego, lvl 20 sniper skill, proper perk loadout toon can't do better than three digit scores due to three or four shots needed for a kill. I used a different lower ego toon and almost got silver on first try. O.o Wtf?

[Apheration]

Suddenly after once again having the same problem, 3rd try in a row today I got nothing but 1 shot kills anywhere on the body. My guess here (I have not read through the entire thread so I am sorry if this has already been suggested) is that someone with much higher EGO was in the area causing ridiculous scaling.

[PTR47]

I went to each Hotshot and Rampage to gather a report. Here is what I found.

Hotshots
Working: Reservoir Chickens, Crystal Defense, Dam Defense, Moonshine Shack
Not Working: Desperate Times, Bolinas Sniper, Sharpshooting Saviour, Preemptive Counterstrike

Rampages
Working:
Not Working: Draw The Line, Hellbug Extermination, Minigun Mayhem, Hamburger Hill, Dark Harvest, SMASH!!!

Sometimes SMASH!!! works, but other times it scales.

EDIT: Moved Desperate Times to Not Working.

[Rolery]

Sharpshooting Savior isn't working for me either. About 90% of the time it's bugged and takes numerous headshots to kill, and the rest of the time I either fail for no apparent reason or it says I got silver, but doesn't advance the pursuit. I've stopped submitting tickets and bug reports because my tickets often lose all the details I've meticulously entered, and bug reports get no reply or follow-up. As far as I know nothing I've gotten stuck on has truly been fixed - they either advance me past (if they have special permission from the developers, such as Defeat Piercer Without Dying) or I manage to finally get past by abandoning and redoing missions a few dozen times. Because of this pattern I'm not optimistic about the hotshots and rampages: instead of debugging their software they keep adding new layers of complexity.

[Almiel]

Hotshots
Working: Desperate Times, Reservoir Chickens, Crystal Defense, Dam Defense, Moonshine Shack
Not Working: Bolinas Sniper, Sharpshooting Saviour, Preemptive Counterstrike

I don't think Desperate Times is working; I tried it today with a lvl 16XX toon and it took 4 shots to kill one mutie, and then a 2nd mutie threw his knife at me and insta-killed me. There was another player in the area but I didn't think to check what ego they were.

[PTR47]

I don't think Desperate Times is working; I tried it today with a lvl 16XX toon and it took 4 shots to kill one mutie, and then a 2nd mutie threw his knife at me and insta-killed me. There was another player in the area but I didn't think to check what ego they were.

That's useful. The content may be scaling based on people in the world and not just people in the phase. It was okay for me as a 5k player -- things were going down easily when I tried it.

EDIT: Come to think of it, it could also be scaling due to people who are also doing the event at the same time. That would explain my experience with SMASH!!! Also, there have been times when I have been in the Thorn Liro arenas and heard someone with their mic open. They weren't in my phase, but were in my Area chat.