Ok, back on with the stories.
Just a couple from last night.....
Do you need a lift ?
So two of us did the hard dailies pretty easily (well I went down after not paying any real attention and missed spotting a shotgunner coming from the side but the rest was good). So then we went on to Lexington and grabbed two others.
I have moved back to the M44 and picked up a burst fire MP5 (140 DPS modded) from the previous day somewhere and whilst is has only a GS of 163 it is quite a bit better than the best of 4 rolls with the MP5 GS185 BP so I was giving that a whirl. All went well until we got to the roof top and just got chopped down over time by the heavy gunners. After a couple of attempts, the 4th person left and we were down to only 3, the 3rd being around a GS of 178. After a bit of playing around we found we could hold out in the lift area where we came up and peck away at the MGs using support stations to try and keep us all alive. This was ok but very slow as none of our weapons were doing significant damage to them but on occasion, if someone died and when we tried to heal them from in the lift it would close the doors and go down. Now this seemed to be an ok way to get out of the fight to heal until we also discovered on coming back up, the gunners armour had fully replenished :12_slight_smile: .
It was comical though, coming to revive someone and them seeing the lift doors shut and me end up down stairs cursing away. I think I went up and down in the lift 3 or so times in a row trying to revive someone under a rain of heavy gun fire from a gunner. We ultimately gave up and restarted as the three of us were very unlikely to complete the mission but it was still pretty good fun. We came out and grouped with two others (our other addition had left by that time) and pretty much walked through it. The difference their equipment / builds were from the others meant they could draw the fire and so I could use the sniper aspect of my build a lot more effectively with a little room and take down the AI quite a bit easier.
Peek - a - boo, I see you.
After doing the challenges we went in to the DZ, starting low with the intention to work up, and were fairly surprised that the AI were pretty much everywhere we came across. We took a few out, I got back past lvl 50, and moved in to a Div tech building which the two of us cleared. I noticed there was a player outside, further down the street but as I had the hiding ping equipped presumed he could not see us. It appears I was wrong. We grabbed the loot and were just looking for the DZ check when, boom, down..... Killed by "ChineseDaddy[something or other]". There was no one else in the building and the two of us were not on the same floor. The guy just shot through the building and killed us.
We respawned and decided not to bother going around that area. Whilst cutting through a plaza with some LMB guarding it, after clearing them suddenly.... dead..... same person shooting through walls. No way they could have killed both of us standing apart at the same time from pretty much any position. At that time I chalked this up to seeing my first undeniable hacker.
Luckily we didn't jump server but just moved up the map and whilst running around found a player "Katarina[something]" had joined our group (probably via my team mate). We then proceeded to cruse around and kill some AI and get the drops and managed to extract pretty successfully. We parted ways with a rather masculine sounding Katarina, having found another running team mate for the future (hopefully), and came out for the night. Haul was disappointing again. One piece of 185 equipment, a number of 163 guns and some mods / weapon mods. Nothing better than what I had (3 golds were extracted from The Pit so was quite surprised at their 'quality'). Disassembling allowed me to craft another MP5 and M44 but both had pretty bad scores.
Best part of the night was being able to purchase my first gear set BP and so got some Striker knee pads and was able to craft on the spot. They are ok but I will have to grab a shed load of more materials to try and get better rolls. They will do for now.