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    Polarity Switch Day 4 - requirements for eliminate 5 +ve followed by 5-ve hostiles?

    Does anyone know if there are any other requirements to complete this challenge beyond what's in the text? I counted five positive enemy kills, followed by 5 negative enemies and the challenge doesn't complete. I bashed enemies with the shield to ensure they switched to the correct polarity before shooting them.

    Do you need to avoid hitting any opposite polarity enemies? Or get all ten kills within a certain time or area?

    [edit] nvm, just did it on American History. Not sure why it worked in mission but not in open world when spread across different activities.
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    Canīt confirm it will work in missions.
    Tried both in open world and mission, neither worked. Also tried to make sure, that polarity buff would always be up, still didnīt get it.
    Only thing left to try is to make sure i get 1 shot kills, before leave it be
    [edit] 1 shot kills neither work.

    Anyone else noticed any extra requirement to this task?

    [edit 2]:
    its kinda as task says - you need to kill 5 positive followed by 5 negative, But you canīt melee them to change their color.
    Easiest to do in open world, find yellows, kill 5. If you canīt find 5, kill less, run away to find more. when you reach 5 positive, kill 5 negative.
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    Originally Posted by Saku_Ice Go to original post
    its kinda as task says - you need to kill 5 positive followed by 5 negative, But you canīt melee them to change their color.
    Easiest to do in open world, find yellows, kill 5. If you canīt find 5, kill less, run away to find more. when you reach 5 positive, kill 5 negative.
    Have tried to compete this task in many ways but it didn't work out whatever I did. Done roaming city, 5+, 5-, didn't work. Did it while completing stronghold, didn't work either. Tried do it in other missions, still no success. I think you also need to complete those kills within time limit so that makes it more complicated when doing it in the city. Can't remember having this much trouble doing it last time this event was active, believe I used marksman and just ran around DC finding the right polarity NPCs.

    What I did notice many times is that whenever I shot 5+ and 2-, the next wave of NPCs all were + (at CPs). So thanks Massive for trying to prolong my game play for no reason. Eventually got both exotic caches so at the moment really can't be bothered with this task anymore. Maybe there is some Swedish fussy logic put behind this task in the way you need to complete it, who knows.
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    I finished the event on that one you can't do it with a group - i put my shield on went to a control point north of the white house shot 5 pos and then 5 negs with my hand gun I don't know how many times I messed up reloading shooting the wrong guy or having the wrong polarity I would fire at the ground once and reload to get the polarity i needed. It was hard and I failed many times before I got it.
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    The buff went off when i went out of battle and I had to start again so i could no do it in a mission - there were never enough guys.
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    It has to be all done while the buff is on - the pink icon that is timing out on you hud
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    To start with you put the game on normal difficulty - you put on your best armor build - use the full shield and pulse - where you go is up to you - i go to the control point north of the white house run inside and stand with my back to the vault - they can't kill me - if your lucky a bunch of knife girls will come they are easy to shoot - if they are not the right polarity hit them with your shield to change it and on top of all that the buff has to stay active - like I said it was hard.
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    Had no problems with that one.

    Did in a mission, didnt need a buff and switched polarity by shield melee.

    Edit: just read ur edit. I did it in American History aswell as most of the event stuff on normal just to get it done.
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    I put the game on normal for some of the activities on the list and do the rest on heroic which i do anyway.
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    The pink icon has to stay active ....
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