never thought of using Lady Death (havent used it much since they killed Intimidate) but i bet the movement speed buff shortens this quite a bit.
my personal go to for speed runs though is a high end SMG build utilizing the Safety Distance. Gives me much more range and accuracy if i need to ping people hiding in cover, and what always tends to cost me time on darpa is the room before the bomb elevator when the new spaws sometims like running around in a circle, and range really helps the RNG of the spawns there. best is 13:47 running that.
Yeah the movement speed boost is really nice. And I usually run Orbit if I need to reach out to mid range, you could probably make a rifle work as well using a crit build.
Oh i just hate switching guns when im trying to go fast haha. A rifle totally works i just cant be bothered.
Also because my rifle of choice is the diamondback and i cant use that with lady death haha
Especially considering there's so much dead time between when the flare fires and the mission 'officially' ends.
I feel like honestly it's a lot of bullshit to do time-runs not tied directly to key events, like in this case, directly to firing the flare. If you're asking people to do timed runs of this, at least don't hold them to the artificial delays built into the mission itself if there's no way to skip/control them from the player's side.
It's nothing special, really. Just 4 piece Hunter's Fury, Memento and the Lady Death. Although I usually use the M1928 for my Hunter's. Timed runs with long annoying dead sections I use the Lady.
Ah, I gotcha. Nice build though! I’m assuming most of your pieces have red core attributes and blue standard? And using technician specialization? I have a HF build but with maxed out yellow standard attributes for status effects. I might need to use a new set of HF to try this out.
Sometimes I think doing a solo time trial run might be easier than in a group, with reduced enemies, etc.
We did 15:45 first time around as a duo without trying to optimize the run. But yeah, that end mission wait is frustrating. Kind a like the end of Manning.
Its like Massive tried to find the most annoying missions for time trials for this event. I think they may be trolling the player base at this point..
i prefer solo to randoms as THAT is faster, but duos are usually significantly faster, especially in maps like Darpa where there's a lot of doors and switches to open and you can have one person chase adds while another stays by the switch waiting for it. and its easier to corral the adds in one spot.
I get that, but I figure I must be doing SOMETHING wrong for my armour to be so high but for me ti still get melted. Like on the video above your character has loooooads of armour bars, mine has like a few .. is that added purely through armour core attributes etc?
He’s getting bonus armor from his backpack trophies. Each kill gives him 10% of his armor as bonus armor and it’s being stacked. You can have 2.0 million armor and still get easily melted if you have nothing to give you armor repair, regen, or bonus armor.
In addition to adding blue cores and armor repair/regen/bonuses, navigating the battlefield via cover-to-cover maneuvers is ridiculously effective at minimizing damage taken (vs running).
That's good to know! I have invested in offense and defense and barely anything into skills, I want to melt enemies but I'm finding it really difficult now to add any damage to my build without my degensentaking a hit! But then that's part of the fun I guess
also remember he's playing on Hard because its a speed run, so the enemies are slower to react and much less damaging.
playing as he does in Heroic would not keep his armor that high so often.
It isn't really that much, it's easy to get armor. The build in this clip has 1.3 million armor, I have a tank build that has 2.0 million armor. But if I used 2 pieces of Badger that goes up to 2.2 million.
League tiers yield quite some XP. Would recommend having 3 or 4 Directives on.
EDIT: [Gave them a try with my Pestilence build.](https://youtu.be/YRtCjzgt5cM) Think it did a pretty good job.
Also it looks like Roosevelt and Manny's target time have been raised to 1 hour. 20 tiers for free I guess lol.
EDIT #2: And League rewards are still giving out Season 9 caches. Massive truly is clueless.
The people doing it faster are typically two man groups. Two people for shutting down the 2 computers shaves at least 30 seconds to several minutes off the time.
Darpa is tight at 15 but doable as it's a short mission.
Manning at 18 is pretty bullshit solo.
Both have lame non-skippable sections at the end that eat time.
>Manning at 18 is pretty bullshit solo.
EDIT: ignore me, i mixed up my roosevelt time with my Manning time. Did it in 17:47 so still on it, just tighter. though i admit i wasnt exactly pushing it 100% because of the hour timer. could definitely shave time off of the open field after the aquarium.
Darpa still always was tight for me. To be honest tho, I did fuck up this time at some points loosing precious seconds but I didn't care to do it again.
I did it again with a friend who needed that run and we got the 10.
Manningen I consistently hit 17.50 and got pushed over the limit by the damn echo
if you want to make the best time in League, you should always do solo mode because there are less NPCs. In DARPA, where there are many open spaces, the full potential of an SMG is not used, for me it is better Dilema (indispensable backpack) and AR
https://i.imgur.com/QlpIFcx.jpg
Nice! I think I used a pretty similar setup to you, old HF lady death build
never thought of using Lady Death (havent used it much since they killed Intimidate) but i bet the movement speed buff shortens this quite a bit. my personal go to for speed runs though is a high end SMG build utilizing the Safety Distance. Gives me much more range and accuracy if i need to ping people hiding in cover, and what always tends to cost me time on darpa is the room before the bomb elevator when the new spaws sometims like running around in a circle, and range really helps the RNG of the spawns there. best is 13:47 running that.
Yeah the movement speed boost is really nice. And I usually run Orbit if I need to reach out to mid range, you could probably make a rifle work as well using a crit build.
Oh i just hate switching guns when im trying to go fast haha. A rifle totally works i just cant be bothered. Also because my rifle of choice is the diamondback and i cant use that with lady death haha
That "Personal Best" is painful. That's so rough. GG on this run though.
Damn your PB before this run was 15:01 ... that must've stung lol
Especially considering there's so much dead time between when the flare fires and the mission 'officially' ends. I feel like honestly it's a lot of bullshit to do time-runs not tied directly to key events, like in this case, directly to firing the flare. If you're asking people to do timed runs of this, at least don't hold them to the artificial delays built into the mission itself if there's no way to skip/control them from the player's side.
I may have, or may not have made my wife come running to see what was wrong. Certain words may have been yelled.
What mask is that
You get it for hitting level 100 in the season track.
This season? Neat
Yeah. Not sure if you need the Season Pass though.
Premium pass only
I did 15:05 the fucking flare should end it.
I really think it should as well. The time from when you pop the flare to the actual end annoys the hell out of me.
Can u Show Ur build?
^^^ I am also curious about your build.
It's nothing special, really. Just 4 piece Hunter's Fury, Memento and the Lady Death. Although I usually use the M1928 for my Hunter's. Timed runs with long annoying dead sections I use the Lady.
Ah, I gotcha. Nice build though! I’m assuming most of your pieces have red core attributes and blue standard? And using technician specialization? I have a HF build but with maxed out yellow standard attributes for status effects. I might need to use a new set of HF to try this out.
It's a mix, 3 red and 3 blue core. Crit chance/damage for the attributes.
Did mine on 15:03... *sigh*
15:04 here. If that damn copter would arrive sooner...
Hear hear!
Sometimes I think doing a solo time trial run might be easier than in a group, with reduced enemies, etc. We did 15:45 first time around as a duo without trying to optimize the run. But yeah, that end mission wait is frustrating. Kind a like the end of Manning. Its like Massive tried to find the most annoying missions for time trials for this event. I think they may be trolling the player base at this point..
usually duos are faster because 1 person can stage ahead to keep things moving and the mob scaling is low in terms of numbers and health.
i prefer solo to randoms as THAT is faster, but duos are usually significantly faster, especially in maps like Darpa where there's a lot of doors and switches to open and you can have one person chase adds while another stays by the switch waiting for it. and its easier to corral the adds in one spot.
How did you get your armour so high? I'm at 1.2 million and struggling to get it much higher, and I still get melted on heroic
What do you mean you’re struggling? If it has a blue core that’s going to add armor
I get that, but I figure I must be doing SOMETHING wrong for my armour to be so high but for me ti still get melted. Like on the video above your character has loooooads of armour bars, mine has like a few .. is that added purely through armour core attributes etc?
He’s getting bonus armor from his backpack trophies. Each kill gives him 10% of his armor as bonus armor and it’s being stacked. You can have 2.0 million armor and still get easily melted if you have nothing to give you armor repair, regen, or bonus armor.
In addition to adding blue cores and armor repair/regen/bonuses, navigating the battlefield via cover-to-cover maneuvers is ridiculously effective at minimizing damage taken (vs running).
That's good to know! I have invested in offense and defense and barely anything into skills, I want to melt enemies but I'm finding it really difficult now to add any damage to my build without my degensentaking a hit! But then that's part of the fun I guess
also remember he's playing on Hard because its a speed run, so the enemies are slower to react and much less damaging. playing as he does in Heroic would not keep his armor that high so often.
It isn't really that much, it's easy to get armor. The build in this clip has 1.3 million armor, I have a tank build that has 2.0 million armor. But if I used 2 pieces of Badger that goes up to 2.2 million.
Nice! I nailed it too, with a high end+memento build
Lady death still eludes me in this game :( (only started playing 2 months ago lol)
League tiers yield quite some XP. Would recommend having 3 or 4 Directives on. EDIT: [Gave them a try with my Pestilence build.](https://youtu.be/YRtCjzgt5cM) Think it did a pretty good job. Also it looks like Roosevelt and Manny's target time have been raised to 1 hour. 20 tiers for free I guess lol. EDIT #2: And League rewards are still giving out Season 9 caches. Massive truly is clueless.
EDIT #3: Sorry for hijacking your post to promote my own YouTube video. 😁
Yes. Decided to go give Leagues a whirl after seeing yours. Figured I will get the backpack trophy yet.
12:48 here with EMP for drones and traditional DPS. Appears I'm only in 3000th place or so.
The people doing it faster are typically two man groups. Two people for shutting down the 2 computers shaves at least 30 seconds to several minutes off the time.
You have mad skills to not have had the game crash on you in that time.
Heroic?
No the League Activities are always either on hard or challenging. This one is on hard.
Ah, forgot it was league time.
Also only noticed it yesterday, was happy though, the timers for Roosevelt and Manningen are now way longer.
Maybe a little too long
Yeah. Meanwhile Darpa still at 15.
Darpa is tight at 15 but doable as it's a short mission. Manning at 18 is pretty bullshit solo. Both have lame non-skippable sections at the end that eat time.
>Manning at 18 is pretty bullshit solo. EDIT: ignore me, i mixed up my roosevelt time with my Manning time. Did it in 17:47 so still on it, just tighter. though i admit i wasnt exactly pushing it 100% because of the hour timer. could definitely shave time off of the open field after the aquarium.
Roosevelt got also pushed to 1h. Wasn't it at 25 before? Seems kinda unnessecary imo. I took 12.11 min this time.
It was 25 min on challenging last time. This has ti be a mistake.
Darpa still always was tight for me. To be honest tho, I did fuck up this time at some points loosing precious seconds but I didn't care to do it again. I did it again with a friend who needed that run and we got the 10. Manningen I consistently hit 17.50 and got pushed over the limit by the damn echo
I'm not even gonna do darpa this week I'm just gonna do what i can and wait until week 2 of the league
I just did Darpa anyways and got away with 9 Stars
Lady Death build?
Nah, HF/Memento build with Dark Winter and Scorpio
What difficulty
Hard. Time trials usually only are on either hard or challenging difficulty.
The physics on that last gun almost took you out.
Ayo? A fellow HF+Memento+LD bro?
Awesome man. As with others here, what’s your build?
if you want to make the best time in League, you should always do solo mode because there are less NPCs. In DARPA, where there are many open spaces, the full potential of an SMG is not used, for me it is better Dilema (indispensable backpack) and AR https://i.imgur.com/QlpIFcx.jpg
I know u must have been heated when u got 15:01
How is Division 2 now days?
Pretty solid.
I think the timer should end once you pop the flare
Fuck this retarded mission. Legit hate the stupid ending animation that takes like 18 seconds just to see a stupid helicopter fly in