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    Do the developers have a serious robodog and grenadier fetish?

    Honestly, if that is the dev's definition of difficult.... Sorry but that seems more like mocking players to me and laughing while analyzing the telemetry data from the game.

    I have been doing camp oak on challenging and this was once more an alt-f4 moment for me. I was at the stage after the first boss where you open the gate after the sealed tunnel entrance. I had four of those dogs, one of those controller with his little number 5 robot and a grenadier that seemed to have a magazine instead of having to throw, or reload by hand.

    I had to constantly run from cover to cover while only trying to get a shot at them every now and then, it was raining grenades and even one of those sniper-robodogs seems to have found a mod that really increased its RoF. It was like he had a mounted MK17 on its back. This honestly is not fun:

    First try:
    Armor instantly shot by the purple dog with its rifle, then instantly gunned down by two grenades, burned to death

    Second try:
    Grenade spam, induced tumbling, death by fire almost instantly.

    Third try:
    Almost instantly two shot by the sniper-robodog

    Fourth try:
    Grenadespam, minigun-robodog, advancing rusher, stuck in environment, death by fire

    Fifth try:
    Suppressed by the minigun-robodog, rusher advancing, I managed to kill him almost in hand to hand combat. Managed to keep the dogs at distance, number 5 advanced and then the grenade spamming guy finished his cigarette and joined in. All four armor kits later death by.... I honestly don't know anymore.

    Sixth try:
    Similar to the fifth, but I just ran out of ammo. I guess it was again death by fire. The reviver hive dropped and vaporized like before in the flames.

    Seventh try:
    Managed to keep them of my back, was in cover, got shot through the cover by a sniper-robodog.

    Eight try:
    Burned to death by grenade spam

    Ninth try:
    Similar to the fourth try, death by minigun-robodog.

    Tenth try:
    Retreated until I reached the sealed tunnel entrance, two dogs, number 5 and a grenade guy chasing me, number 5 killed me

    Gave up

    Again, honestly I think that this is a little too much. And also I witnessed one of a golden grenade guys kill himself instantly with his own grenade a little earlier in the mission. If I look at the damage it takes to get him down with an MK17 at about roughly 1mio damage per shot while needing more than a half magazine this seems more than just a little bit overpowered. This wasn't the first situation like that and certainly not the last......
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    I hear you, Just had a similar issue running Coney Island. Had one area with a heavy gunner, 2 dogs, it was so annoying, I just logged off lol!

    Edit: It was in either the arcade or haunted house, really small space for all the spam, FUN times.
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    And now they have fire grenades, to burn down your hive, regardless of how much health it has. I guess pinpoint grenade, mini gun, and sniper spam wasn't enough.
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    Originally Posted by Sinfultee Go to original post
    And now they have fire grenades, to burn down your hive, regardless of how much health it has. I guess pinpoint grenade, mini gun, and sniper spam wasn't enough.
    I don't know about you but, Black Tusk now are just annoying, The robo dog's, the enemy begin to flank you but instead run 1/2 mile down the street first to do it
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    Sometimes it appeared to me that the grenades even seem to some kind of track, or predict where you will run you while airborne an even manage to deplete your one million armor instantly while detonating.
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    Originally Posted by HDDExile Go to original post
    I don't know about you but, Black Tusk now are just annoying, The robo dog's, the enemy begin to flank you but instead run 1/2 mile down the street first to do it
    Black Tusk is a literal pain in the butt in their current form
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    Originally Posted by THE_Crazy_Hyena Go to original post
    Black Tusk is a literal pain in the butt in their current form
    Compared to them I feel like the guys with the bows and the lid of the trashcans for a shield, instead of an agent with access to more less similar equipment.
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    Originally Posted by Solvejk Go to original post
    , instead of an agent with access to more less similar equipment.
    Black Tusk are a well-funded paramilitary organisation with access to pretty much any technology they want. You're an unpaid reservist who has to make do with stuff you pull out of boxes people have left lying around, you scrape together your funds by selling second hand junk, and you're even probably wearing some clothes you found in a beat up suitcase lying in a pile of garbage.
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    I will say that their accuracy has not approached GTA 5 levels of NPC aimbotiness(?)...yet.
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    Originally Posted by Sinfultee Go to original post
    And now they have fire grenades, to burn down your hive, regardless of how much health it has. I guess pinpoint grenade, mini gun, and sniper spam wasn't enough.
    meanwhile their tech is all invulnerable to fire.
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