solo. am i looking at he gear score wrong? either at login or in group management it gives me a number of 158 but when i go in to the dark zone i am 160+. I have one piece of 191 gear but i put that in the stash
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solo. am i looking at he gear score wrong? either at login or in group management it gives me a number of 158 but when i go in to the dark zone i am 160+. I have one piece of 191 gear but i put that in the stash
I would imagine it calculates the gear you potentially could use, as otherwise you'd have people joining the lower bracket then equipping better gear once in.
The whole gear score thing is awful, it isn't helpful in the least and needs a serious redesign and why stuff in the stash counts towards it when you have no access to the stash from within the DZ is ridiculous, means you can't swap gear out to lower levels and run with friends, can only drag them up to your DZ and watch them get melted as far as I am aware?
If a player in your group is below GS161, they won't be put into the same DZ Server instance as you. So you won't be able to play together until they've got better gear
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Can confirm this is what happened when me, davie and fringe were playing and my nephew couldn't join us.
Yes by default that happens, which was my point but they can move up to the higher DZ racket but it's pretty much pointless without the gear to go with it. Like I said, it's not at all helpful when trying to play with friends, some sort of scaling is needed.
must admit its quite sad to see all the youtube vidoes showing how to glitch the incursion. Almost every single one of them shows them glitching it on hard.
I've done it on hard, legit. I had a go at glitching the challenging one, but it was just so boring and gave up and haven't done it since.
Thing is, the weekly lockout for the best rewards is the same as any other MMO / RPG in this genre. Look at Destiny for example. Division is kinder to players by at least letting them replay the incursion for level 30 gear set items.
But yet players in the division think the gear set armor is too hard to come by ? We have a guranteed source of it every week, as well as the chance for stuff to drop in the dark zone and in challenge modes. And it does drop.
So I don't get the anger the players are feeling at not getting the loot. Hardcore MMOs would make you grind for years just to get a full set. Destiny made you grind for a month or two. Yet players expect to get full sets in the first week in this game ???
I don't get it.
Problem is here is that youtube is full of videos showing you how to get in lower brackets with most of your good gear, but leaving bits behind to glitch down. Their fix to this was to include the stash, but as per usual its just hindered the legit players who would remove all their gear and do it legit, and done nothing to stop the players running round in the under gearscore 160 bracket with gearscore 204 items as these players just removed said items from the stash and put them in the backpacks of their alts.
I can't remember the last time I saw a game with so many glitch spots going on at the same time. If you leave a loop hole it will be exploited, these games need to be stitched up tight. Destiny had some issues, but not this bad from memory. I guess the devs are finding this out the hard way.
destiny had a few cheese spots but they were right on top of them. Destiny also had lots of glitches that let you glitch outside the map, but none that ever let you shoot a boss inside a strike or raid from outside the room !
I honestly think they made the incursion too simple. It's basically get to apc and kill it.
Me and a couple mates managed to kill first wave then we hid in bottom tunnel away from snipers and sticky bombed the apc. There's not enough going on too keep it interesting and to make it much harder to glitch.
Me and a couple mates managed to kill first wave then we hid in bottom tunnel away from snipers and sticky bombed the apc. There's not enough going on too keep it interesting and to make it much harder to glitch.
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It's pretty terrible that these things haven't been tested but what's worse is the way they deal with it when the glitch is found.
They punish everyone instead of just the glitchers.
TBH, the glitches can make the DZ pretty stupid but other than that, I don't really care if other people glitch to get gear. If they want to cut the longevity of the game then that's up to them. What annoys me is that those of us who want to legitimately get gear can't until they figure out what to do about the glitch. Massive need to understand that the horse has already bolted at this point, it's too late to do anything (except for maybe roll back glitchers accounts).
I tried the incursion a couple of times with pugs and wiped on wave 5 a load of times. TBH, the incursion seems like half baked end game content. I hope they do better with the next one.
With that being said, I had a successful time in the DZ and got lots of nice upgrades this weekend.
They punish everyone instead of just the glitchers.
TBH, the glitches can make the DZ pretty stupid but other than that, I don't really care if other people glitch to get gear. If they want to cut the longevity of the game then that's up to them. What annoys me is that those of us who want to legitimately get gear can't until they figure out what to do about the glitch. Massive need to understand that the horse has already bolted at this point, it's too late to do anything (except for maybe roll back glitchers accounts).
I tried the incursion a couple of times with pugs and wiped on wave 5 a load of times. TBH, the incursion seems like half baked end game content. I hope they do better with the next one.
With that being said, I had a successful time in the DZ and got lots of nice upgrades this weekend.
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they fixed being able to kill the APC without dealing with the waves
The only way to do it now is to glitch into the room before the encounter starts. This is how people have been glitching it. Unless you're proper glitching it like that, you can't just kill the APC any more.
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It never ceases to baffle me on how many players are content with cheating and not enjoying the content as designed.
I tried a couple of pugs on the incursion last night but people kept leaving so it never really got anywhere. I'd love to go through this legit on PS4 if anyone has space in a group to show me the ropes I'd appreciate it. It looks like to get set items I need to either do this or get a high dz area group and my usual solo play isn't going to cut it!
I did buy the 2 bits of sentrys call from the BoO which has pushed my gearscore to 185.
I did buy the 2 bits of sentrys call from the BoO which has pushed my gearscore to 185.
Just checked how expensive the Sentry's Call stuff is in the BOO - wow! That's a lot of PC grinding. Probably my next focus.