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    Raid.. Glitch or a Joke?

    Ok, I’m a division man all the way from 1 to 2.. this is my game, this is THE game, this is the game of all games to me, and soon as the server went live today after the scheduled maintenance, I was there, next to the heli..... alone.

    Well, a friend invited me luckily to a raid match, who was invited by a friend who was also invited by another friend, and so the group of 8 were finally assembled, each knew only 1 as a friend amongst the other 6. Brilliant!

    Few minutes after the start of mission, I was disconnected from server (our beloved Delta-3 that we all know very well) and after logging in, I was stuck out on the beach, waiting for my team to either succeed in the first level or die! Another brilliant feature!

    So, after 5 hours of trying all possible strategies to defeat Mr. Boomer, we all decided to call it a day with 1 thought in our minds, that this must be a glitch! (I skipped the part where few quit earlier and we had to leave the raid, go to BoO, beg for others to join to continue) yea not worth mentioning.

    After quitting the game, I decided to tune in to the pros, you know those who live stream, and not surprising they were also stuck with Boomer! This is when I said, this must be a joke by the devs!

    Well, I won’t say more, as I truly feel exhausted and disoriented from the lengthy failed attempt, but a fix is badly needed here, as simply THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH BOOMER! Immunity devices disabled, we were storming him with bullets, striking skills, turrets and he didn’t lose even 1 bar of armor! And yes we were focusing on his weak points on the chest and back.

    Seriously?! No no, really and truly SERIOUSLY?!
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    If you've been playing The Division this long, then this shouldn't surprise you in the least. This is how Ubisoft has always developed The Division. Give it a year or two more in beta, then buy Division 3.
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    There's nothing wrong with boomer, there's just specific mechanics with the laptops that you have to be fast to react to. Plenty of teams have made it past boomer. But that delta thing is definitely an issue. Macro's team, on the last boss one of their member's game crashed and he was locked out of coming back into the encounter as well and they had to finish the last boss fight with just 7 people
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    Originally Posted by randmanqq Go to original post
    There's nothing wrong with boomer, there's just specific mechanics with the laptops that you have to be fast to react to. Plenty of teams have made it past boomer. But that delta thing is definitely an issue. Macro's team, on the last boss one of their member's game crashed and he was locked out of coming back into the encounter as well and they had to finish the last boss fight with just 7 people
    What do you do with the laptops, I noticed the yellow wires coming from the things you destroy and thought you had to do something but everytime I look nothing happens, does the laptop stop the defence thing popping up? but you need to do it in A B C D order or something.

    I've only tried twice with random groups/clans and I know how you need to defeat boomer but the chat/mics haven't been working or no one is listening or talking to get it across the whole group. Most seem to get it quick, shoot him with the mini gun to stun him, the red backpack, shoot his chest plate when it glows to stop him healing but trying to get the one being chased by boomer to be near the mini gun is proving difficult.
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    Whenever THE game that you're into has technical issues, it's never a fun time, but I want you to take a step back and realize that you're playing a newly released mission/content from Massive. And while I'm also a big Division fan, you also have to be a realist. Expecting things to run normally, without issues, on day 1 of any content, even the base game on release day, is just not very realistic. Raid will be adjusted, balanced, etc, within the next few weeks. As with all things, just because something is released, it doesn't mean it's actually in a finished and complete state.
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    Boomer isn’t the problem, and the mechanics are easy, the issue is the bullet sponge adds. All of that combined feels cheap for very little rewards.
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    Originally Posted by scarpant96 Go to original post
    What do you do with the laptops, I noticed the yellow wires coming from the things you destroy and thought you had to do something but everytime I look nothing happens, does the laptop stop the defence thing popping up? but you need to do it in A B C D order or something.

    I've only tried twice with random groups/clans and I know how you need to defeat boomer but the chat/mics haven't been working or no one is listening or talking to get it across the whole group. Most seem to get it quick, shoot him with the mini gun to stun him, the red backpack, shoot his chest plate when it glows to stop him healing but trying to get the one being chased by boomer to be near the mini gun is proving difficult.
    You can only break through his weakpoints on the back with the mounted gun. Once you do, he kneels, and you can damage him with all weapons (approx. 2 sec window) After that, you notice the sound of defensive device coming up, look at one of the OUTER screens and there you see which laptop to activate, it is only 1 laptop always. You activate that, the sequence is cancelled. Then you repeat. With well put together squad it will take 15 min at most once people realise what to do.
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    Originally Posted by CJ Fresh Go to original post
    Boomer isn’t the problem, and the mechanics are easy, the issue is the bullet sponge adds. All of that combined feels cheap for very little rewards.
    They aren't bullet sponges at all, drop like flies, Boomer is a problem if people don't know what they are doing and how to kill him.

    I want MM but it is impossible to get by him if people don't communicate, chat/mics don't seem to be working on PS4 currently. I never normally use one but just got the crap one that came with the PS4 pro but I cant hear anyone and they cant hear me.
    I know what to do but cant get it across to others.
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    Originally Posted by J0s3e Go to original post
    You can only break through his weakpoints on the back with the mounted gun. Once you do, he kneels, and you can damage him with all weapons (approx. 2 sec window) After that, you notice the sound of defensive device coming up, look at one of the OUTER screens and there you see which laptop to activate, it is only 1 laptop always. You activate that, the sequence is cancelled. Then you repeat. With well put together squad it will take 15 min at most once people realise what to do.
    I know now, but I cant get people to follow me in what to do, cant seem to communicate at all on PS4 for some reason
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    VOIP is turned off by default. Worth checking out.
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