Hey all,
I've been playing with a great group of guys in Hardcore mode, and a lot of us have completed Dark Hours several times in HC. However, when we started practicing for Iron Horse, none of us could find any videos of other groups doing it.
We tried last week, but we had 5 Disconnects/Crashes. The final crash came just as we started the final boss fight (Morozova). Unfortunately, it was our healer, and that was the first domino to fall. Four players lost their Hardcore Characters, so we leveled them up, and farmed the entire week.
Yesterday, I'm happy to report that we successfully completed Iron Horse in Hardcore mode.
I'm very thankful that I found this great group of guys through the Hardcore LFG channel on the Official Division 2 Discord server. I'm not sure if it's considered promotion to mention that the group's name is DDMF (Don't Die Mother F*****)? These guys always have people helping others at various stages in Hardcore mode.
I have a video of my POV, and another team member recorded his POV. I can post it, but, I've had posts like this deleted by the mods for "self advertising." I can promise you, I am NOT someone that cares about promoting my Youtube/Twitch channel. I only record to help myself and others get bett
I personally think that this would be an interesting video. How about posting the link to it as a separate post in this thread, and the mods can then delete that or not as they wish, without affecting the information in the initial post?
Although just searching on your forum name and the obvious other search terms does get one on the path to finding the video.
Its something id be interested in trying out as the game is a dead weight until any new content arrives. I just amuse myself winding people up in the dz at the mo.Originally Posted by OrcidSamuel Go to original post
I think what would interest me most is the builds and tactics around completing it on HC. The only HC character i had i got bored with tbh, think i played an hour, got up to level 7, tried an 11 mission for the difficulty of it but ultimately (an quite obviously) failed miserably as i'd lost patience and was seeing just how far i could push it. Feel free to drop me a pm of your vid of it, as you say, theres not many about as hardcore feels like an abandoned game mode and just something they spent about 5 mins on to appease the survival calls in a half mannered attempt. Hunters and getting out were the goals in survival, HC doesnt have an end purpose so people just made up their own
It's not obvious that you would fail miserably at that; four levels above my own is more or less standard for me when doing missions during level 1-30, and I generally die on them only due to my own carelessness.Originally Posted by HonestlyOK1986 Go to original post
You can push it a lot further, to at least seven levels above. I've done this both solo and with a friend, though in both cases it involved a number of deaths. But that was when I didn't know the missions as well, either, and I am not all that great a player.
Well, my understanding is that it was not an actual attempt by the companies involved to appease those calls, just a "some of our developers did it for their own fun and it seems good enough to try letting the general public use it" kind of thing. I don't think that the idea has ever really gotten enough enthusiasm from the players to spend more in the way of official resources on it beyond what they did to make it more or less releasable....as hardcore feels like an abandoned game mode and just something they spent about 5 mins on to appease the survival calls in a half mannered attempt.
Originally Posted by HonestlyOK1986 Go to original post
ahhh .... so you are one of those.
This exactly lol. I was just gonna say that too. I stay out of DZ because it just gets too frustrating. I'm not there for the pvp but for the loot. Finally ventured in again 2 weeks ago, landmarks were easy enough at challenging, and Pestilence dropped! Went to extract, didn't see nobody around and waited. Minute I popped my head out to go attach loot, bam...I got one shot and loot stolen. And this is me with 1.4m armour and perfectly unbreakable...Originally Posted by N3mB0t Go to original post
Never going back again, my poor aching heart can't take it