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    NPC's have god mode now?

    Just done some bounties, two of which were challenge mode. First challenge mode bounty I melted pretty much everything with a little care, it is challenge after all. Second one was trickier as the second boss had an elite sniper a red heavy and a firefly that insta destroys my armour plus about 10% health. They were out in the open, so difficult to get within range. In fact pretty much impossible solo since as soon as you get in range they flank you no problem and literally one or two shot you.. But no worries.

    I carry on and manage to get the boss down to one bar off armour gone and he just stops in the open, doing nothing. No animations, no indication of a skill being used and taking absolutely zero damage. Next thing boss back to full health. Happened twice.

    Manage to kill the red heavy .... but another appears from no where .... not sure on this one there was plenty of NPC's engaging them. None of which made a dent in their armour.

    Red NPC managed shoot his green drug effect off .... while he's running away instantly healths to full. WTF.

    Long story short it took ages to get to the point I had little ammo left and the sniper blew my brains out. She saved me the job, I should be grateful. The NPC's currently seem to have god mode on and are cheating little "monkeys".

    I'm not sure if this encounter was a bug ridden bag of garbage or the mechanics were a total mess. Or something else, but I figure it will either give folks a good laugh or shed some light onto a potential bug. Perhaps even both.

    EDIT: Info for mods and devs, if it's useful. I was in the open world on normal with no directives active. SHD about 25.
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    I had the same thing last night with a Black Tusk Bounty. After too much time my wife just said your done! Let's watch TV. She was right there was no way to beat the NPC. All ammo, spec weapon ammo gone. I just let them wipe me out. It lasted almost 45min of getting the NPC armor down then it instantly went back to full. NOT a fun TIME!
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    I did one yesterday on 'Hard' where two Elites (golds, not named) actually caused me to run out of ammo due to their insane healing. My weapon DPS was over 100K and it only knocked one bar of their armour off before they started to green mist and instaheal. Managed to get one down to the final bar of his armour, but he just jumped behind cover and instahealed.

    Was f'ing ridiculous.
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    Originally Posted by Nifol Go to original post
    I did one yesterday on 'Hard' where two Elites (golds, not named) actually caused me to run out of ammo due to their insane healing. My weapon DPS was over 100K and it only knocked one bar of their armour off before they started to green mist and instaheal. Managed to get one down to the final bar of his armour, but he just jumped behind cover and instahealed.

    Was f'ing ridiculous.
    Black Tusk?
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    Originally Posted by THE_Crazy_Hyena Go to original post
    Black Tusk?
    Yep.
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    Originally Posted by THE_Crazy_Hyena Go to original post
    Black Tusk?
    Mine was a Rikers, not Tusk. It's interesting that others have experianced it as well, perhaps it wasn't a one off.
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    Yup, same thing happened to me too ... I haven't purchased WoNY yet and was just doing a Hard bounty.

    But I just assumed NPC's had med packs like we do ... But it was frustrating for sure. I wasnt able to stay on the boss long enough without getting flanked, so I wound up ignoring him altogether and killed every other NPC first. After that, just stuck to him like glue, as to prevent himself from healing again. It worked, but he healed WAY too often and it felt sort of broken.
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    Originally Posted by Overland SEO Go to original post
    I had the same thing last night with a Black Tusk Bounty. After too much time my wife just said your done! Let's watch TV. She was right there was no way to beat the NPC. All ammo, spec weapon ammo gone. I just let them wipe me out. It lasted almost 45min of getting the NPC armor down then it instantly went back to full. NOT a fun TIME!
    Yeah I used a load of spec ammo as well. A full load, plus some that was lying around after killing the world boss Atlas. It seemed to do less than I'd expect to be honest, like as in barely a scratch even on non boss NPC's.
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