As I've noted before I am old, and slow, and the "chicken dance" is not even an option for me, but I do like to occasionally go into the DZ and am always experimenting with builds that best work with my limited capabilities (for when I am ambushed). Well, I think I've recently hit upon the best one yet and I am pleasantly surprised how much it has taken up my survivability since I employed it the past few days.

It's a variation on the current meta with Famas and high CHC/CHD (currently 59% and 172% for me, but three pieces are not yet optimized). But for the backpack I've swapped in Devil's Due, and for the chest a Grupo Sombra chest that's all weapon damage, CHC and CHD (plus 15% CHD brand bonus) with Unbreakable rolled as the talent. Skills are shield and jammer pulse.

My armor is the same 1.3M my previous build had, but the Unbreakable, combined with Perfect Clutch, seems to have really toughened my character up...a lot. If the other player pops a shield I run the jammer pulse and their shield is instantly gone. It's quicker and easier than an EMP sticky too.

Considering my past record, I was shocked that of the last 12 times I was ambushed I survived 10...and two of those was a 2v1 attack. The two I lost the player did the usual lame rogue trick of turning and shooting me in the back while engaging an NPC. Pitiful, but nothing short of grouping can save you from that.

Anyway, I see a lot of chatter on here about ways to go in and avoid - or at least survive - rogue attacks, and this seems to be my best combo yet. I realize Devil's Due is a DZ-only piece, so getting one to drop and extracting it is key, but it's worth trying. If any players would like more details feel free to reply and I can share.

P.S. As I also noted, this combo is far from optimized. Three pieces have attributes that are low enough it'll take me a few months to get it fully there, but can't wait to "see what she does" when it's finished.

P.P.S. Almost forgot: I also switched to the Demolitionist specilization. Why? Crisis Management is a severely underrated talent that seems made with Unbreakable in mind, and it only comes with Demo.

I just did the manhunt mission in the stronghold located in west Potomac where the black tusk should be. But, the outcast is there instead. Anyway, I always do everything in heroic and most missions are fine. Difficult but doable. But, this mission is too difficult to pass like the new york mission where you have to kill keener. I almost killed the guy at one point. Only one more shot and I get killed by his lackies that kept respawning none stop. Why is that? Why make the Ai respawn none stop? How unrealistic and arcade you want to make this game? It felt so ridicules'. This game is made for masochist

I tried it with other players and all it did is bring more enemies in a place where you cant get out and we all died. It was actually easier alone, broken game. I believe it can be done, yes, I almost got it done. But, with limited time in life why do this to a coop game? Why make it harder than going against real players in multiplayer games. Is it your purpose to make us hate the game? I wonder this things cause I can't think of anything else. The design is so horrible that it feels like you want us to hate the game. I am level over 700 and any day now I'm just gonna stop and not recommend this game or future division games. Cause the reward doesn't meet the difficulty. This is not even an mmo where I can play with tons of people. It's just a glorified coop game.

There is no need to make it this difficult and ruin my day. I come home from work to do some dailies and some manhunt how I've always done it, in heroic. Cause the reward system is so atrocious that doing it easier makes no sense. But, the missions are so poorly design that it all felt incredibly easy until the end and the end felt unrealistically difficult. Like the game was broken. Also the building in this game is just bad. You can't even build anything with a specific attribute or talent. You shouldn't care so much about people progressing fast in your little coop game. Its not a multiplayer game. No one cares in the end. Relax with making it difficult. Killing a bot is never as rewarding.

I just can't wait for the new battlefield at this point.

Enemies insta-spawn behind me from nowhere, swarmed by multiple aimbot wallhacking enemies, dumbcunt drone AI just hovering in mid-air doing fuckall, unable to climb over walls, completely unresponsive controls which seems to be Ubisoft's speciality during combat to kill the player in the cheapest way possible, stun locking from enemies, grenade spamming, spending hours levelling up to get 'better' gear just to have my entire armour and health blown away in one hit from some [censored]-tíer enemy when I'm supposed to have 'the best gear', absolute [censored]íng joke. Even more lazy and uncreative than Gearbox. Higher difficulty = bullet sponge enemies that casually walk up to you shooting, locked on the millisecond you have to break cover like they're psychic. The [censored]íng exploding football thing is a POS too. Just sits on the ground and doesn't obey commands, just like the [censored] drone. It's not lag, it's intentional bull[censored] that the devs implemented into the game so it can cheat to kill the player.

I think that's it for now, thanks.