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    Calling for backup on offsite activities?

    Am I being really dumb but how the hell do you call for backup on off-site activities such as
    Manning zoo
    Camp white oak
    Pentagon missions
    Whenever I need backup when I go to the map there is never a call for backup option just return to dc I assume there must be a way of doing it as I have answered a couple off calls myself!
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    I think you can only make groups/matchmake for those,not call for backup..

    That's my guess anyways..
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    Well that's what I thought but I literally just got called as backup at white oak and the group leader managed to call for other people as backup and that was half way through the mission!
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    Funny story about what happened yesterday, I saw a backup request for Lincoln Memorial - Story, I have done that mission tons of times so I thought here is someone working there way up like me and stuck in this mission. I answered the call and we breezed through it. At the end they start another mission, Pentagon, I have never done this mission, we complete the first few stages, then come to the part where you have to disable the EMP jammers. I have gotten used to playing solo and rely on my turret and drone, we got wiped about six times before we completed that part, went on to the last part and finally destroyed the quadcopter and finished the mission, the person I was backing up just closed the session and left. Don't know whether they thought I was a spud or not, but who does that, gets you to back them up in an easy story mission and then takes you to what I would call a hard one?
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    Originally Posted by Aced_100 Go to original post
    Funny story about what happened yesterday, I saw a backup request for Lincoln Memorial - Story, I have done that mission tons of times so I thought here is someone working there way up like me and stuck in this mission. I answered the call and we breezed through it. At the end they start another mission, Pentagon, I have never done this mission, we complete the first few stages, then come to the part where you have to disable the EMP jammers. I have gotten used to playing solo and rely on my turret and drone, we got wiped about six times before we completed that part, went on to the last part and finally destroyed the quadcopter and finished the mission, the person I was backing up just closed the session and left. Don't know whether they thought I was a spud or not, but who does that, gets you to back them up in an easy story mission and then takes you to what I would call a hard one?
    If he was on story on the previous mission then he was probably on story on that one.
    when you answer a backup call you really never know what you're getting into. For me they always say story when I get there it's heroic with 4 directives
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    Originally Posted by nuxbag Go to original post
    If he was on story on the previous mission then he was probably on story on that one.
    when you answer a backup call you really never know what you're getting into. For me they always say story when I get there it's heroic with 4 directives
    I never thought of that, it's a pretty difficult story mission IMO.
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    Originally Posted by Aced_100 Go to original post
    I never thought of that, it's a pretty difficult story mission IMO.
    I can't say, I don't think of them as hard I think of them as varying levels of annoyance. But if you think that it's hard okay than I suggest you don't do DARPA.
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    Originally Posted by cuddles1 Go to original post
    Am I being really dumb but how the hell do you call for backup on off-site activities such as
    Manning zoo
    Camp white oak
    Pentagon missions
    Whenever I need backup when I go to the map there is never a call for backup option just return to dc I assume there must be a way of doing it as I have answered a couple off calls myself!
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    Originally Posted by nuxbag Go to original post
    I can't say, I don't think of them as hard I think of them as varying levels of annoyance. But if you think that it's hard okay than I suggest you don't do DARPA.
    I didn't have any problems at the Pentagon but I don't think I have the DARPA mission yet. Don't even know how to unlock it.
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    Originally Posted by mckrackin5324 Go to original post
    I didn't have any problems at the Pentagon but I don't think I have the DARPA mission yet. Don't even know how to unlock it.
    If you have the Pentagon then you have darpa it's right next to it. Yeah I don't have any problem with those missions. Darpa is in the Pentagon. Entrance is across from the Pentagon entrance
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