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So earlier this evening/morning,
I was playing the daily project Pentagon mission (not DARPA)...
And i opened my game up for MM so i can have some other players join me if anyone was out there who also wanted to do this mission.
The first player who joined..i had said hello.. and you never know what type of personality players show up.. so some players are quiet and others are vocal.. and I like to try to see if they will engage in some conversation.
Anywho.. i figured the player was taking their time until they joined up with me as I already started the mission but I wasn't very far into it..maybe just 2 or 3 rooms in from the start of the Pentagon mission.
After some time.. they did not join me so I decided to ask in chat.. "are you able to find me?".
They didn't respond until much later when I had reached the area where you destroy the drill. At that time a 3rd player joined and was able to reach me right away. And I recorded video at this moment:
https://youtu.be/wCPtMlInJkY
As you can see in the video I checked the map and could only see the 3rd player who joined but not the 2nd player..and we were discussing it in game. Anyhow he ended up disconnecting and then re-connecting and from that point was able to see us.
So, this has happened to me before.. where I tried to join another player who was already in the mission. What i feel is happening but could be wrong about .. is it seems to me that the game is making 2 instances of the mission. And then we end up in our own instances of the mission but our chat is linked and that's the only thing linked. I also suspect there are issues with how the mission is begun and successfully match maked. What i mean is.. you can select the difficulty and open to MM in 2 ways.
1) in D.C.. you can do so from your map.
2) the other option is to go to the Pentagon safehouse or fast travel to the Pentagon mission.. then select difficulty and MM options.
When joining another player and trying to fast travel to them.. there must be some difference from when that player joins..if they are joining from D.C then fast travelling to the player who already started the mission OR are already at the Pentagon area and then fast travelling.. Hope that makes sense.
so... after Pentagon was done.
Our group travelled back to the BoO. One of the players wanted to also run Capitol Hill so here is that video:
https://youtu.be/e4-oKyeyhq8
And as we reach the final area we are at the phase where we are about to extract the briefcase and suddenly Mission Summary shows up on my screen!
Then at the end of the video where you can see we truly complete the mission.. the mission summary reports odd information.. it says 13 seconds for the time taken for the mission.. and the stats all over are very low.. low kills.. low dmg..etc. So i guess the mission summary reset during the mission.
AND>.......... you can see for yourself my group chat does not work at all near the end of the video. It's customary to say GG.. good game in public games.. and I can't even say that. And this was a continuation of the same game.. 2 missions we ran.. we got a 4th person who joined for Capitol Hill and my chat disabled essentially. So very odd buggyness.
FINALLY>... from the Pentagon Mission:
https://youtu.be/wCPtMlInJkY#t=5m32s
At 5 mins and 34seconds you will see i take flanking enemy fire which puts my agent health down to about half.. and i blew up the mini-tank in front of me. That explosion dmg is tremendously strong since TU6 began. It put my health down to maybe 10% and honestly it was not that strong of an impact in TU5 or previously. So I really do think the explosion dmg from enemies is tuned up a bit too high. Mind you I have 101% HZP and just slightly above 12.5% Explosion resistance and the explosive dmg just simply penetrates right through my shield.. which is ridiculous to me.
Thanks for reading/watching vidz.
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Yes, matchmaking for pentagon and darpa missions is bugged. I always have to spend about 10-15 minutes to find working group, as other players are showing as 30 lvl and can't join me or I can't join them.
Once I was with other player playing the mission, and the other two were asking where we are as they are playing the same mission already. There were 2 instances of the same mission.
