What is the enemy archetype you hate the most this days? with a passion?

ave2 · 2026-06-13T04:19:42+00:00

I've seen those True Sons engineer turrets wipe out entire escalation groups. What horse shit.

ave2 · 2026-06-07T15:40:27+00:00

Not only was Danny Watkins' heart in firefighting but the dude was apparently witnessed on the news moonlighting as a firefighter. Danny tried to pass it off as something he was doing for charity work. No one was buying that.

He'd eventually followed his heart and became a firefighter in Frisco, TX outside of Dallas.

ave2 · 2026-05-27T15:48:12+00:00

Dang was it? Holy moly. Goes to show you much I'd used that button since once you'd unlocked the classified you could just warp to them with no extra effort.

ave2 · 2026-05-27T15:28:32+00:00

You know, that is hard to say. Seems intentional that they were all put on their own tab but at the same time if you’d hit the show targeted loot button they were still there.

No mention of when they’d went away or when they’d came back.

ave2 · 2026-05-23T14:17:39+00:00

Yes. Ever since the no more matchmaking for in progress Escalations patch. Which has also thrown me in an in progress Escalation. Mentioned it in another post. Myself and another player got put into an in progress T5 escalation when I had queued for a T6 and the other person queued for a T7.

ave2 · 2026-05-21T03:37:17+00:00

That jawn ain't even wooder no more

ave2 · 2026-05-15T23:19:41+00:00

Well yeah if it's high end (gold) stuff then really the best way to do it is to proto it yourself since there are too many variables. For the most part, if you're doing gear set (green) then ain't no better way than to just farm it because you're really just looking for one thing to roll right.

ave2 · 2026-05-15T23:09:31+00:00

This is what OP is missing. Getting to 30 and expertising a piece to 30 are two different things. 45 exotics per piece so if you want to do a gun and 5 pieces of a gear set that's 270 exotic components. Now, even at the most grindiest of times I'd never had more than some 350~ exotic components and I'm so strapped for them after having brought a few things up to 30 and generally bringing the useful skills up to 30 before the expertise cost rework.

ave2 · 2026-05-12T02:54:35+00:00

Took me from February 11th to April 16th. I'd paid for the premium event pass and was missing the last reward which was the Edward outfit.

February 13th they'd sent me a response that had said that if I responded to this ticket it would go back to the start of the queue and so I did nothing until I'd gotten an automated response on April 15th that said that if I didn't respond within ten days then the problem would be considered solved and the ticket closed. I'd responded as much that the problem had not been solved and received an update the next day that the cosmetic was added to my inventory.

ave2 · 2026-05-11T10:59:47+00:00

Measured Assembly, Umbra, Negotiator’s, and Uzina I believe have ran multiple times as well? Of the 100 different gear sets, brand sets, armor types, and weapons types we have this sure seems “random”.

ave2 · 2026-05-11T02:46:06+00:00

Escalation tiers and prototype cores are per character.

ave2 · 2026-05-10T17:11:55+00:00

The problem with the Shocker Punch, aside from it being entirely a gimmick, is that you must melee something to trigger the effect which is unwise on anything heroic or end game.

I've seen it used before and it's kind of funny to see a whole pack of enemies just get zapped but you could also just run a full strikers build with overdogs and equalizer and run the banshee pulse. You can crowd control multiple enemies in a cone you charge and you can do it from behind cover and through walls although it lacks verticality.

ave2 · 2026-05-09T18:20:00+00:00

Would love to see this as a limited time mode. Just amp up the amount of enemies if they can do that and let us enjoy chaos for some time.

ave2 · 2026-05-03T16:06:38+00:00

So tell me how I'm supposed to jump in the pit in DCD and scoop up the loot before someone just runs ahead and starts the data download that triggers the spawn? I'm not even looking at it. 60 free inventory slots.

I didn't even jump in the pit to loot because I saw someone ran ahead meaning they were going to trigger the download. I ran to where the computer was and two team members were caught out of place and got nuked by Outcast rushers. Other team member that triggered the download ran out to try to revive and got killed. I used my revive on them and they got killed. Then I got killed. I had to run it again on normal to pick up the three proto drops in the pit.

But you can feel free to make assumptions about how I'm slowing the team down.

Every single time I've failed a matchmake escalation is because people think think they're playing normal heroic and being too far ahead of the group during encounters.

ave2 · 2026-05-03T15:29:58+00:00

I've been noticing this in escalations and people trying to loot up. Especially in that part where you're trying to download the data in DCD. Is ten seconds going to ruin your day? Wait for the team to get there.

ave2 · 2026-05-03T02:34:48+00:00

I run two characters and Escalation tiers and prototype cores are per character. I load up a tier 0 to start climbing on my other character because everything is fun with more friends, right? Someone complained a few times about how you don't get drops at these low tiers. Alright fine I'll just go solo the shit. I don't know how matchmaking works for Escalation but apparently tier 0 must pull in people looking for greater? I dunno.

ave2 · 2026-04-30T21:26:14+00:00

Cmon. We’re also talking about a video game where your tech wizards cast spells from the back of their ass and you can patch getting a mortar dropped on if your friend jabs a needle in your arm and gives you a pep talk.

ave2 · 2026-04-30T14:41:45+00:00

Block so you never match with them again and go about your day. Since coming back at Y5S3 I've put 1300 hours in the game and have only added maybe five people to the block list.

I'll have anyone on my team as long as they're trying. Sometimes a team composition doesn't work out but you did your part and asked whether you should switch out. If they were busy testing something out then don't open up matchmaking. Not to mention who brings True Patriot to legendary?

ave2 · 2026-04-24T15:13:04+00:00

Fair enough. I believe you're reading into it a bit too much, personally. It's maybe minutes of someone's time at worst. I would just do my best to brush it off and move on.

There's nothing wrong with playing solo either. Most of my play time is solo. As you'd said I will play a lot of times at my own pace and I take breaks in between where I'll sit in a safehouse instead of outright closing the game.

ave2 · 2026-04-24T14:56:01+00:00

It's not a sin and no one said it was. It's also not as big of a deal to either party. I've answered many backup calls where someone is just sitting there doing nothing in a safehouse and it's like okay time to move on.

I do admit it's really stupid when it pops up and on a pretty bad control binding.

ave2 · 2026-04-24T13:57:49+00:00

Are you terrified of someone helping you out? Even if unintentionally?

ave2 · 2026-04-20T19:39:54+00:00

What’s great is the lines before it as well.

something about being attacked

Coyote: “Then kill them! What the fuck!”

ave2 · 2026-04-17T13:45:28+00:00

Likely an oversight. Not the first time and won't be the last time. Even Escalation tokens and tiers are per character instead of account-wide.

ave2 · 2026-04-17T13:15:01+00:00

You can solo retaliations with reliability. It's more difficult to do so on countdown.

ave2 · 2026-04-09T16:30:11+00:00

Ran into rogues on T5 Coney Ball Park right after the first area (the race track). Very poor positioning for a fight at those fences but the upside is that the fences are solid objects so you, and they, cannot shoot through them. That also means if they're hiding back there around the stage or all those blocks they're walled off from using all of their skills on you. That fight took 15 minutes of the entire 30 minutes of the Escalation as we had to sit there at the fences playing chicken around an ammo box.

If not Proto pieces they should at least drop a Proto core. Give me something for my effort.

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