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n8mcd
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Please turn off player visibility in all the Red Winter cutscenes.
Some people stop participating to run over to where Soviet Guard or the Helecopter spawn to be in the cut-scenes.
Some people stop participating to run over to where Soviet Guard or the Helecopter spawn to be in the cut-scenes.
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And playing by myself since Aug 2009
Godtier: Lifetime Subscriber
Why yes, I do like photobombing....
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I have the glaring suspicion though that the people who devote their time to doing these things wouldn't have helped much in the progression of the alert even if they participated (re: DPS below 500, Support Role DPS, Nailed to the ground and Break Through adv. on a non PvP toon, etc. etc.)
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Actually I was a bit slow on both. I wasn't properly centered, but you do get to listen as Red Winter try to beat Lautna to death.
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Same to be honest
My strategy was either drawing the npc's closer to the helicopter landing pad or using a 100' attack (LArc), never saw anyone leaving so early to mug for the camera until the last few days. Pretty much this, and I'd bet they also have a political affiliation I don't like, a sexual orientation different than mine, a religious/atheist belief system that bothers me and a pet that I find annoying. They probably also eat or don't eat certain food groups. It's pretty amazing what you can discern about a person based on what they do in the last split second of Red Winter.
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My super cool CC build and how to use it.
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In fact, that video reveals how, while everyone else is killing bosses, the would-be photobomber is doing useless things like picking up vehicles and standing around, waiting for everyone else to do the things required to progress the alert.
In the first video, Lautna placed second on the board, with 4922 points and ~17% of the score.... yeah, somehow J Nee managed to get over 50%....
In the second video, Tsin'xing placed first with 7723 points and >35% of the score.
Soo... who would you say was useless in those videos? Really now? We can math this too!
video 1: total length; 2:49, time spent photobombing when I could have been fighting: 12 seconds (I literally spent 6 seconds grabbing the jet after disengaging from Red Dawn and about the same amount of time grabbing the Humvee later.)
video 2: total length 3:56, time spent photobombing when I could have been fighting: 40 (Yeah I forgot that the team DPS would drop once I moved away from them, 'cause AoPM)
Also, I disengaged from Red Dawn when he was around half health, and disengaged from Hammer, Sickle and Soviet Guard when the group was below 1/3.
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PS - I didn't even realize there were things you can pick up in Red Winter, I'll be doing that in the future.
My super cool CC build and how to use it.
Just bear in mind that the alert can be failed if the rest of the group isn't strong enough. Nobody (well, almost nobody) really cares if random people photobomb the various smashes and grabs because the boss gets whupped in the same place as the cutscene and you even have a few seconds after it faceplants to pose yourself. Since Red Winter isn't like that, if the alert fails because you're busy holding a jet or jeep or whatever instead of contributing, that failure is on you. Not to mention, you just wasted the time of 4 other players.
It's possible to fail the alert if the overall group is too weak to beat the timer, so there's that.
I don't remember who they were or what SG they were from, but they obviously had planned it out, were fast, burned down the bosses, left enough trash for the three of us to give themselves enough time to make the first cutscene, and then focused the first two bosses and took off for the helicopter pad when the third was around 3/4 to half health so they had plenty of time to get their dance emotes rocking (running man I think) for the second cutscene.
They were pretty much the opposite of what lezard suspects. That doesn't mean it isn't tacky or retarded or anything... just sayin.
In theory if the team is willing to coordinate, you could kite Red Dawn to the platform where the other three spawn, then Kite them to the helicopter... ooohhh... I wanna try that now! A character like J Nee could probably solo the alert, so it's not likely even in a PUG. You really need a team with 5 players who suck to fail. 2-3 players with good build can complete the alert. Yeah, one thing I heard is that it's Healing + (DamageDone/10).
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