From the comments, have they changed the difficulty of the Russian Consulate? We were happily 3 manning it for most of the weekend, at around 30 minutes a run. (To be fair, the one guy in out group has solo'd it on challenge mode so they are very well geared already).
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Acid0
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The lag was a bit better this morning, I wonder if the servers were not just overloaded when the patch dropped.
I had two HE drops in HARD mode this morning early.
I see the idiots are still camping out in the DZ while you are fighting NPC's they just creep up behind you and kill you.
I had two HE drops in HARD mode this morning early.
I see the idiots are still camping out in the DZ while you are fighting NPC's they just creep up behind you and kill you.
I was solo in DZ last night. Got killed by a 4 man team while I had nothing on me. Think they saw a solo and thought, easy loot! Without actually checking if I had a canister as they rushed to my body just to see nothing drop.
What I did at NPC battles is make sure I tagged the named boss at some point... And then just drop back and let other do the hard work... Then I'd wait for 2 - 3 minutes for the area to clear before collecting my loot. For when you solo, feels the safest way to go.
I must say. It is a serious rush now at extraction points. I would get so nervous when hooking my loot up.
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Disclaimer: It was my first time ever doing challenging mode and the second time I'd ever done the Russian consulate. My DPS was pretty low, think my main gun was only level 28 or something... my team carried me a bit.
MagicDude4Eva
Banned
Russian Consulate was always a pain for me - but only the first room (the part where the shot-gunners rush in) and in the library section. When playing it last night I thought that enemies had more damage resistance and I can not recall at Hornet that 4-5 shotgunners rushed in so quickly. I must say that I generally don't like playing Russian Consulate (especially with randoms and never if I am not leader, as people tend to throw the towel) but the challenge mission felt tougher than other times.
I still think that there is a huge difference of damage dealt by an enemy shotgun vs your own (at one point I changed to Cassidy and it hardly left a scratch). Shotguns seem to only have that incredible power when wielded by NPCs and can literally one-shot kill you from a good 10m away.
Difficulty on Lincoln Tunnel is the same, but I think if they have upped difficulty in Russian Consulate, then Warrengate will also be tough now. I was going to do more challenge modes tonight, but since they patched up the 4-HE drops, I will probably just do Incursion. Has anyone done it yet?
Much like grenadiers who can (while crouched down behind a bus across the street with no line of sight where they are throwing) accurately land a grenade at your feet regardless of whether you're in cover or not
I was able to get out of the explosion but when that occurred I pulled a
face citing 'hax' 
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Played a bit during lunch. At one point I got to the extraction point in DZ3 with three precious HE's in my grasp and there were four seperate HE's just lying there - can only imagine that a group either got taken out or overwhelmed by the NPC's. And yes, extracting a whole canister of just HE's is quite a rush. Got about 15 HE's all told in the two hours or so of play.
Acid0
Executive Member
First off I have an issue on PS4.
SP
1. The Lincoln tunnel is constantly closed, everybody I team up with stands around and wonder why we cant access the front gates.
(Does anybody else have this issue?)
2. I cant change any replayed mission to Challenge, only hard is available, is it due to my gear set stats or what could it be to not allow me to up the difficulty?
DZ
1. this is a much more moral question than anything else
Do you guys pickup other players loot not in your necessarily in your team.
2. I see some people get gatvol for the rogues we had a hunting party off about 6 - 9 guys chasing this one oke that ambushed a player in the middle off a NPC battle and steal is loot so when the chase started we had a few non team members started to hunt him down.
3. We had a three man rogue team all level 66 - 70 that roamed in the DZ1 area killing off everyone they found, that is just really sad because you know for a fact 90% of people in DZ cant match even half of what you have. Because unfortunately this game is not all about skill and strategy but rather who has the best stats will normally win
4. I must laugh at the supply drops, everybody runs for the drop as friends and the minute you collect they go rogue but you cant drop the items as I understand it it is not contaminated so it is instantly in your inventory.
5. I still have to keep an eye on my loot in the stashed container as I would extract it just says cant your stash is full. Is there a way you can keep it somewhere while cleaning out the stash container.
But all in all I still have a lot of fun playing, I see there is much more HE drops in the DZ
SP
1. The Lincoln tunnel is constantly closed, everybody I team up with stands around and wonder why we cant access the front gates.
(Does anybody else have this issue?)
2. I cant change any replayed mission to Challenge, only hard is available, is it due to my gear set stats or what could it be to not allow me to up the difficulty?
DZ
1. this is a much more moral question than anything else
Do you guys pickup other players loot not in your necessarily in your team.
2. I see some people get gatvol for the rogues we had a hunting party off about 6 - 9 guys chasing this one oke that ambushed a player in the middle off a NPC battle and steal is loot so when the chase started we had a few non team members started to hunt him down.
3. We had a three man rogue team all level 66 - 70 that roamed in the DZ1 area killing off everyone they found, that is just really sad because you know for a fact 90% of people in DZ cant match even half of what you have. Because unfortunately this game is not all about skill and strategy but rather who has the best stats will normally win
4. I must laugh at the supply drops, everybody runs for the drop as friends and the minute you collect they go rogue but you cant drop the items as I understand it it is not contaminated so it is instantly in your inventory.
5. I still have to keep an eye on my loot in the stashed container as I would extract it just says cant your stash is full. Is there a way you can keep it somewhere while cleaning out the stash container.
But all in all I still have a lot of fun playing, I see there is much more HE drops in the DZ
Trying to extract at the DZ06 extraction point with a GS of 157 is... challenging. But on the plus side there are so few people running in that bracket there are very few rogues to deal with, I may just keep at this GS and grind DZ in relative peace for a bit!
Got back from some a 2 day training session last night. It fortunately seemed like the lag had mostly been ironed out.
Went merrily into the DZ, started killing NPC's, got shot in the back.
Hunted the clown down, killed him, stole his loot and felt almost good.
Ran around a bit more, tried to extract, got shot in the back by the same guy.
Funny thing, ALL the HE's dropped as public loot (picked up at random intervals between purples) which were stolen and extracted on my extraction.
Left the DZ.
I'll go back, but the fact that it seemed to punish me for dying as a non-rogue just left me salty.
Other than that, completed my dailies and made big strides into the weekly. A friend told me that the Daily Challenge mode was bugged and would hopefully be fixed today?
Bought 2 of the Strikers set BP's, crafted with 'meh' attributes.
Realised I need to buy a high-end SMG BP. The Midas is not the SMG I was looking for
Went merrily into the DZ, started killing NPC's, got shot in the back.
Hunted the clown down, killed him, stole his loot and felt almost good.
Ran around a bit more, tried to extract, got shot in the back by the same guy.
Funny thing, ALL the HE's dropped as public loot (picked up at random intervals between purples) which were stolen and extracted on my extraction.
Left the DZ.
I'll go back, but the fact that it seemed to punish me for dying as a non-rogue just left me salty.
Other than that, completed my dailies and made big strides into the weekly. A friend told me that the Daily Challenge mode was bugged and would hopefully be fixed today?
Bought 2 of the Strikers set BP's, crafted with 'meh' attributes.
Realised I need to buy a high-end SMG BP. The Midas is not the SMG I was looking for
crackersa
Honorary Master
Haven't played since Tuesday due to characters being deleted on xb1. Workaround is to reinstall the game. I think not, will just wait for a proper fix
I hope so as well, feels off with 2 Daily Hards but no Challenging
Bought 2 of the Strikers set BP's, crafted with 'meh' attributes.
Realised I need to buy a high-end SMG BP. The Midas is not the SMG I was looking for
Dude, I'm waiting on the fallout on the crafting system changes to be honest.
I bought one of the Striker blueprints last night, crafted one, 'meh will send to my alt, ok lets try another one' - realized I had 0/8 HE Electronics, time to farm!
I hit EVERY SINGLE Electronics 'cache' on the map and in total (with 146% Scavenging) I looted 5 HE, 27 Blue (+1 HE @ 15 Blue each), 40 Green (+1 Blue @ 15 Green each)
I was not amused that I effectively cleared the Electronics from my world map and still couldn't craft 1 item
MagicDude4Eva
Banned
What I do: Fast travel to the mission. Then open my privacy settings to public. The hit square and change to "Challenge". Then walk into the blue challenge mode area and you will automatically elected leader and other people join. The beauty about this is that no-one will be able to kick you.
Isn't challenge mode only available once you hit level 30? Prior to the patch you could only get challenge mode and daily missions once on level 30.
Yes. If the loot has not dropped from players in my team, I pick it up. But here I just inspect and pick what I want - in most cases I do not even bother.
I peeked into DZ last night and after I left the safe-room and spotted 7 rogues camping outside, this was me:
I did Lexington and Lincoln Tunnel challenge last night. Got 2 HE on LT and got a striker gear-set in Lexington. I can confirm that the other challenge modes are not as tough as Russian consulate. I think we cleared Lexington in under 25 mins.
I looked at crafting gear-sets and am reluctant to spend a good 400Pcx on a blueprint (or I think it was 800-900Pcx on a gear with crap roll). Still have to try incursion, but probably will wait till the weekend. I am getting salty about the crafting. On a typical day I would have enough greens/blues to craft a few HE but now I can not craft a single HE in a day. Massive should have really stuck with the 4 HE drop in Challenging mode - no-one really cares that those are Level 30 (or 31?) as their gearscore I think is less than 182 any way - so for me the 4 HE drop was a nice way to get 4 HE matts.
I also fired off a ticket to Ubisoft to ask if we can not convert matts (similar to Destiny) - i.e. convert XX fabric to 1 weapon/electronic (I have 400 fabric HE and can not do jack as I don't have any electronics).
Which set piece did you get from Lexington?
It seems like reddit is as well.
The way massive had explained 'guaranteed high end drops' was that you kill a lvl 30, you get the corresponding level HE drop.
I have not tested yet, but they are saying that level 32 named bosses STILL only drop level 30 (GS 163) items.
The threads created are basically drumming home the fact that due to low level gear dropping, crafting IS still the only endgame, which is now massively (haha) punished.
I only crafted 2 weapons and 2 kneepads before this patch dropped, so I had a very small buffer of materials to tide me over. I could craft about another 9 set items before Id need to look for mats again. Listening to those that "abused" some of the earlier systems and have 999 of each HE material is a little disheartening though.
Acid0
Executive Member
My current stats are 30 on SP and 36 on DZ with GS of 149 (I think on the GS)
So i have no problem creating parties and stick with them the issue is the following. (Unless I am not understanding what you say)
When I fast travel to the (for example) Lincoln Tunnel and go into the options (Square Button)
I only have the following options on setting the Difficulty either Normal or Hard, but no Challenge mode(this is before I create a team).
By creating the team and we are all ready to go the main gates is closed and we cant get past it.
So I cant see that its a glitch the only thing is that I can think off is that i don't meet a certain requirement for the challenge mode.
In hard we still get some HE drops but I am more after the Pxc at this stage.
Hey man, hoping it's not a bug, but the other thing you can try is to set the difficulty from the map.
I'm not sure whether doing it by holding your interact key gives the same options, but setting the difficulty from the map normally tells you why you aren't able to set a mode.
In my case it's normally because I've DC'd and am not the team leader anymore
Acid0
Executive Member
Hey man, hoping it's not a bug, but the other thing you can try is to set the difficulty from the map.
I'm not sure whether doing it by holding your interact key gives the same options, but setting the difficulty from the map normally tells you why you aren't able to set a mode.
In my case it's normally because I've DC'd and am not the team leader anymore
What other method is there instead of holding square to get into the missions settings to change the missions difficulty?
So in my case there was no DC as I only started the map.
So the method I go to start the mission is the following.
1. Fast travel to the mission
2. Press Square to bring up the missions settings (change difficulty and match making)
3. Try to change the difficulty from Normal to Challenge (but there is only Normal and Hard to choose from)
4. Choose hard as it is the on;y real option
5. Press X to do matchmaking quick.
6. Get the team together and start mission
But for some odd reason I have no challenge mode on any of my missions.
Might need to log a ticket with Ubisoft to see what they have to say about it.
The reason I think it might be something in my character is that all you okes can do the challenge mode and the gates are open.
So I have no idea, maybe and this is really just a maybe, when I do matchmaking there is no one that meets the criteria to do Challenge mode and we automatically go to Hard.
But in that case then it should have had at least the option to give me Challenge mode before I even do match making.
MagicDude4Eva
Banned
Challenge and daily missions will unlock when you reach level 30. Perhaps there is a bug that they do not unlock if you reached level 30 after the incursions patch? Perhaps bring up the map, then L1 so that the view changes to mission overview and from there you should be able to see the daily and weekly missions (the screenshot below does not show it, but there would be more options):
You should see an option for incursion and then you should see at least two daily missions (hard) and one daily mission challenge. I know that Lincoln Tunnel always has challenge mode but the others rotate (i.e. last night was Lexington as challenge).
When you go into options at the mission, press the difficulty button and see if Challenge actually shows up (try this on Lincoln Tunnel). If it shows and its greyed out it should show you why you can not do it.
I know that selecting the difficulty on the map and then fast-travelling has a 100% chance for me that the mission will not trigger.
Can't remember. It would have been either the knee-pads or the holster - either way the roll was crap and although I replaced my previous item (which was GS 182) with the gear-set (which has GS 202?), my overall GS did not increase and is still around 178. I was expecting that gear-sets would drop more frequently as I played Lincoln Tunnel 4 times and Lexington twice.
Acid0
Executive Member
Challenge mode does not even feature on my Lincoln or any other maps.
My Incursion I can see the yellow POI for incursion and daily and weekly I have done last night and the weekly I am almost done with.
I have restarted my machine twice now and still no luck on the the difficulty
It only have Normal and Hard no grayed out Challenge mode.
Maybe I will see if I get a chance tomorrow night and we can hook up and see if by being in your team I get challenge again just for a test
My Incursion I can see the yellow POI for incursion and daily and weekly I have done last night and the weekly I am almost done with.
I have restarted my machine twice now and still no luck on the the difficulty
It only have Normal and Hard no grayed out Challenge mode.
Maybe I will see if I get a chance tomorrow night and we can hook up and see if by being in your team I get challenge again just for a test