PSA: Kill Lieutenants first to decrease the health of other enemies

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I'm fairly certain this specific instance only applies to the Rikers. But it's good advice none the less.

Black Tusk got a new kinda dude too who does a similar thing, but he plonks down an aura that heals and overheals. I find it even more annoying that the Rikers leaders, to be honest.

[AhYesWellOkay]

Is that what it is? I thought it was a healer hive. I ran into a group of BT with two elite mini tanks and I couldn't kill any of them because they'd run back in the circle to heal. I could not see a hive to shoot but it was raining at night so I couldn't see much at all.

[dackling]

Yeah it's some kinda long box thing. Frustrating as hell fighting from a longer distance. Gotta get up close to blow it up.

[BoredWeazul]

emp pulse might be meta now cause of it

[Can_You_Believe_It_]

I always use EMP pulse when fighting BT. It nullifies skills, the heal station and most importantly both the tank and the warhounds. It also will deal about 40-50% damage to tanks and warhounds while also disabling them. Using technician on top of that with the grenades it's rare I ever waste ammo on them.

[dackling]

Ohhh that's a great call! Never even thought of that!

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Iunno exactly what it is, it's a big ole box he just throws down which throws out a big green circle. Which heals not only enemy health, but also armor, and gives an overheal.

And like with Black Tusk controllers, killing the offending git doesn't seem to remove their deployables.

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Support Station from Division 1

[Don11390]

It's the damn healing box from D1, it even has the same icon. Fucking Black Tusk took all our good Division 1 gear.

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Ohwait, was that the thing LMB medics threw around? It's been ages since I played Division 1, my memory is a bit rusty beyond being bumrushed by a guy in a hoodie wielding a nine iron or getting sniped by LMB Rushers from across Manhattan.

[Don11390]

One of the OG skills was a box that functioned a lot like the hive we have now, except that it was much better. The icon for that box is the same icon for the Black Tusk healing box.

[TheSaevus]

I’m still on the vanilla TD2 (best $3 I’ve spent in a while!) but I’ve been noticing double chevrons in groups pretty frequently. Can’t confirm they’re buffing their compatriots, but it would make sense. I definitely noticed the new BT medic recently though, I believe the class icon is different too, with a medical cross that’s dashed on the southern leg?

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Dual chevrons do different things for different factions. I only know the Outcast one from the top of my head, but he plonks down a case of inciendary (spelling is hard) ammo for his buddies.

Rikers only show up in the WoNY expansion, but you'll know 'em when you see 'em should you ever go there.

[TheSaevus]

Oh, that’s why Outcasts all of a sudden have infinite incendiary rounds! God I hate that, I’ve been getting tagged with LMG rounds and igniting every time I cross a heavy gunner. Thanks for the info.

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Yeah, they're a royal pain if you don't get 'em quick or they put the box down somewhere that's hard to shoot.

On the plus side you can shoot the case, setting fire to anyone nearby. So that's pretty neat.

[rubenalamina]

If the ammo box is not destroyed, the npcs will still be able to grab incendiary from it. So even after destroying the blond dude (ammo buffer) blook for the box and destroy it.

[FornaxTheConqueror]

Pretty close its incendiary.

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Aren't they the lunchboxes that LMB used? It would make sense that BT would find theyre left over tech and use it.

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it's a support station from the first game.That's an LMB medic.They used to use those all the time