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    YodaMan 3D's Avatar Senior Member
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    Pulse: Does it really work in Survival?

    Now I have seen this problem before in Survival, but have not noticed it in other parts of the game.

    Last night in Survival, I collect my DTech and return to safehouse. At this point I know there are only two of us left. So I am all geared up, I step out of the Safehouse, hit pulse, and no one in sight. No signs of NPCs and No other Players, I looked in all directions. So I turn to go the extraction site figuring that will be where the final battle will be, Hunters vs Player vs Player. The other player at this points shoots me and takes half my health, so I hit cover and med-kit. It get no health, which was to be expected. Bounce out for the fire fight and I get taken out.

    Not concerned about losing, the player didn't appear to cheat in anyway. I am concerned that he could get that close and the Pulse never picked him up. Cause it doesn't take that long to survey your surroundings.

    Now I have considered that maybe he came out of the Safehouse about same time I did and maybe he just moved across the street, but I think I would have seen him in that amount of time.

    Like I said, this isn't the 1st time this skill has failed in Survival.
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    First thing that came to mind is the concealer pulse, but it's not possible to run that in Survival, is it? Just the base skill is all you get, IIRC?
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    Originally Posted by Trippul G Go to original post
    First thing that came to mind is the concealer pulse, but it's not possible to run that in Survival, is it? Just the base skill is all you get, IIRC?
    That is correct, you only get the basics in Survival as far as skills go.
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    What comes to mind is Pulse's stealth change in 1.8.

    We can now cancel pulse's effect by pressing the button it's bound to a second time. That change may have even reached Survival.

    But.. otherwise, pulse doesn't always work initially. Server v client issues, I guess. Like when heals don't work.
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    Lag has been real bad all GE in survival for me. menu is almost unusable half the time as who has time to stand in the cold and wait for the menu to catch up with you 3 seconds later. Its one thing if you just need to equip, change one thing but if you have picked up 4 or 5 items ive just had to wait until i get to a safehouse to even try to change stuff out. ALl the roadside bombs have been nailing me because of it as well which i dont understand but whatever. So maybe your pulse got lagged out as well. Who knows anymore in this game. I love it but i laugh at the incompetence daily.
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    What was your skill power? If it's really low you may have a lower range than you're use to.

    We also had a weird thing in Survival last night where at the start of the match we had a notification that 4 player were left in the session, then 3. We were a team of 3 so we thought we had the server to ourselves and were pretty reckless in our looting/farming. Later on we got a notification that two agents died and left and again had the 4 players were left in session message and then 3. We were lucky not to run into them.
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    Originally Posted by Sangersss Go to original post
    What was your skill power? If it's really low you may have a lower range than you're use to.

    We also had a weird thing in Survival last night where at the start of the match we had a notification that 4 player were left in the session, then 3. We were a team of 3 so we thought we had the server to ourselves and were pretty reckless in our looting/farming. Later on we got a notification that two agents died and left and again had the 4 players were left in session message and then 3. We were lucky not to run into them.
    Without video, I am going to blame a trash skill power with a very limited pulse range. I have not had any issues with the pulse and I use it every time I play.
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    Stupid survival, was playing last night and in the DZ, both masks had been crafted and had 3 medkits and got shot and died instantly like i was in a contaminated zone without a mask or cold. Wasnt real happy but the menu lag was so bad i was almost relieved.
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