NPC hit ratio obscene... bad drops, assassin class is seriously underpowered.

[Zen_Jones]

Original Defiance, honestly unless you had the Agro of 20-30 guys with guns it was similar to fighting with Star Wars troopers. Thousands of rounds expended, and no harm to a single barn. These new NPCs, I swear my shield is made of wet Toilet paper. Also I’m wearing a bullet magnet. What’s really messed up though, is you can get into a fire fight with an NPC, watch their bullet trails MISS YOU BY YARDS!!!, and the game still counts it as a hit. Honestly. I feel like the NPC’s are so absolutely OP when it comes to firing a weapon with bullets, all they really need to do is shoot in your general direction. Only a tiny little hole in the wall between you and them? No problem, they’ll shoot through it like you’re nailed to a cross in front of a firing squad. Their target area is super accurate even at obscene range, that they might as well be carrying fully automatic sniper rifles, and I know, at the range they are murdering me, there’s no freaking way even 1/5th of my down range shots are even hitting them with a similar weapon at the ranges they are hitting me. These NPCs are harder to fight than a PVP battle. Normally, running Zig Zag and jumping was an effective strategy for evading NPC Fire, it still works against Rocket launchers, but for every other mob, you may as well just stand there and let them murder you. They are gonna hit you either way. And then I come to my next complaint.

Three major things, first, when I choose extraction, the mobs do not disengage. I’m extracted to a new location, and if Im within a certain range of where I died, they will hunt me down and kill me at the extraction point. Luckily, I do get free ammo, and extraction is free, so eventually I can kill them if I can get a shot or grenade out.

Second, there are too many random events in too many places. This frequently causes the following things to happen.
#1) Frequently, there’s more mobs within the immediate Agro range of you, which basically means you extract, and get killed more.
#2) since mobs don’t disengage when you’re extracted, they just keep killing you when you are extracted.
#2a) if you are doing say, a rampage or a hotshot, and you finish it, and then close it, you automagically Agro all the mobs in the area where you were last standing. They will come to kill you where the rampage or hot shot started.
#3) if a bunch of players have recently done a mission, and the mission included big nasties, but the player was not required to kill them, they do not de spawn and reset. Case in point, I did a side mission near all the raider blockades to reboot guns, one of the agis something or another, there was 2 Volge bombers, 3 raider tankers, more Hellbugs than anyone could safely shake a stick at, random raiders, and the stupid turrets you’re supposed to reboot. There must have been a partridge in a pear tree in there somewhere too. The thing is, the volge were part of a ‘random event’ in the same stretch of road as the gun reset. The hellbugs were a part of some hellbug events in the farms, and then there was one of the great big guys, they throw bombs, and I don’t really know where he came from. It’s like the raiders weren’t having a road block, it was a kegger and everybodies invited.

Thirdly, I’m currently level 46 in the game. I can’t complete any side missions, the last one I did had 4 red skulls over every mob I had to kill, the main mission? Yeah that ain’t happening either. I can’t find good equipment in drops, actually the state of drops is so bad, I’ve had to purchase green shields from vendors because that’s how crappy my equipment is. Green tier is better than anything else I own. Every mission I’m supposed to be doing is filled with enemies so tough, I spent hours getting murdered and very little headway. I can’t choose the specific instance I want to do, so starting up an instance mission and then queuing up for an instance doesn’t even drop me in the one I want to do...

Assassin class is really freaking hard to play. I feel like a paladin in WoW wearing cloth to a raid.
And yes, except for instance missions, Im done in the main area, been in frisco since 38. I’m stuck on automation allegiance, and thanks for visiting. Running these missions is like using your skull to navigate through a brick wall. Lots of your blood and death, no real progress...

[Tazz]

You are absolutely right and I had a good laugh reading your post
Along your style: if that happens "I fart in their general direction" and I find something else to kill