@sevennvd Love the idea of doing a some sort of challenge to see the different builds/styles. I usually don't do the directives because I find them more annoying than actually contributing to the fun of the game. But in the spirit of things, I gave it a go Fallen Cranes - four directives with my usual CP thumper and it worked out well. I ran it again to capture the it video. The Allies were taking their sweet time this round so it was a little bit longer to clear. This is literally my first game footage that I captured.

Build is an all red Pestilence with Coyote's/obliterate/vigilance and drone/healer hive. Nothing super crazy with the build, just get in cover - send in drone and hold down trigger until they're all dead.

@ubi-borealis I found a solution on Reddit that solved this for me. I went to the Device Manager > Sound, video, and game controllers...and I disabled "Oculus audio device" and also "Audials Sound Capturing". Another user only needed to disable the Oculus device, but it worked like a charm and I was able to start the program. There is definitely some conflict with the memory or drivers, but this solved it. Try disabling any extraneous devices that might be in conflict.

@fs_slacker I verified the files and tried to specify for "EACLaunch", "TheDivision2", "thedivision2launcher" to run as administrator. This reinstalled DirectX and was doing some spinning busy activity for a while (re-verifying the files). I went back and just made "TheDivision2" run as admin - and was able to play with no issues. No clue what the issue was.

@virtual-chris I was able to get all four of them solo the second time I tried (died the first). I got lucky and had a civilian patrol occupy two of them. Can't remember what build I used but most likely it was either turret/drone skills or something with the big shield. They run to cover a lot, so have to be willing to switch to whichever is the most convenient threat to you. I doubt I'd be able to do this without the patrol.

Having a similar issue as the above people. Game would freeze and go into windowed mode. I did recently upgrade my SSD, but new drive is cloned from previous. Was running fine for the last few days. Working through the troubleshooting steps mentioned above as well.

@virtual-chris All four will spawn again when you re-do it.

For the masks: You'll need to kill each individual hunter once to get their mask...so if you killed two of them before and looted the mask, you can only loot new masks off the two you didn't kill.

For the key: Only one of the hunters will drop the key that you need to unlock the off-white chest. I don't know if it's always a particular hunter who has it, or if it's a random hunter in that group of four. But technically you just need to kill/loot that one hunter to complete the key set for the chest.

@goremin__ Not sure if this is THE fix, but I had something similar happen yesterday. I saw somewhere if you delete your DirectX shader cache, it helps with the stuttering.

Win+S then look for "Disk Cleanup" (it's an old XP tool that still exists in the OS). Then select the drive where DirectX is installed - it was my C drive (my games are installed on another drive). There should be a checkbox for "DirectX shader cache" and make sure it's checked. Up to you if you want to clean up the other stuff. But after I did this, I was getting normal framerates.

The only time I notice a significant stutter is when I get hit by something that sets me on fire. That explosion messes with my framerate for some reason, and I even played with some of the graphics settings. But otherwise it's good for me. Hope this helps.

Diesel. Diesel! Did you get cooked alive in your dumb APC you inbred SOB?

Mmmm...deep-fried breaded SOB. Yum

@hralex1951 Was there something he was buffing with the hive for himself? There's a limited number of microdrones once you place the hive. I've never used it in group play, but maybe your turret was sapping the charges he was counting on.

@noxious81 I'm not sure, but probably was some external source of damage that "stole" the kill. The guy did the freeze frame kill thing and dropped the special ammo...but I'm not even sure what exactly are the mechanics of getting that to happen. Anyways, GE is over...I sacked a control point with Pestilence/ ND and all was right again.

@ubi-borealis I found a solution on Reddit that solved this for me. I went to the Device Manager > Sound, video, and game controllers...and I disabled "Oculus audio device" and also "Audials Sound Capturing". Another user only needed to disable the Oculus device, but it worked like a charm and I was able to start the program. There is definitely some conflict with the memory or drivers, but this solved it. Try disabling any extraneous devices that might be in conflict.

@noxious81 I'm not sure, but probably was some external source of damage that "stole" the kill. The guy did the freeze frame kill thing and dropped the special ammo...but I'm not even sure what exactly are the mechanics of getting that to happen. Anyways, GE is over...I sacked a control point with Pestilence/ ND and all was right again.

I'm just annoyed that you have to cheese it to get the grenade kills. I hate lowering the difficulty just to complete a challenge - but I've shot NPC's on Heroic till near death, foamed them, and tossed a grenade and still no credit for the kill.

@as1r0nimo It might be it's just missing the text about the Brand set bonus (5% total armor, 10% Health, 1% Regen). That's what I was pointing out.

@n3mb0t Isn't it missing a slot? Normal 1 piece Gila mask would be 5% total armor, armor core, two secondary stats, mod slot. 5 stats total. I don't see the 1 piece Gila bonus.

@goremin__ Not sure if this is THE fix, but I had something similar happen yesterday. I saw somewhere if you delete your DirectX shader cache, it helps with the stuttering.

Win+S then look for "Disk Cleanup" (it's an old XP tool that still exists in the OS). Then select the drive where DirectX is installed - it was my C drive (my games are installed on another drive). There should be a checkbox for "DirectX shader cache" and make sure it's checked. Up to you if you want to clean up the other stuff. But after I did this, I was getting normal framerates.

The only time I notice a significant stutter is when I get hit by something that sets me on fire. That explosion messes with my framerate for some reason, and I even played with some of the graphics settings. But otherwise it's good for me. Hope this helps.

@hralex1951 Was there something he was buffing with the hive for himself? There's a limited number of microdrones once you place the hive. I've never used it in group play, but maybe your turret was sapping the charges he was counting on.

Diesel. Diesel! Did you get cooked alive in your dumb APC you inbred SOB?

Mmmm...deep-fried breaded SOB. Yum

@fs_slacker I verified the files and tried to specify for "EACLaunch", "TheDivision2", "thedivision2launcher" to run as administrator. This reinstalled DirectX and was doing some spinning busy activity for a while (re-verifying the files). I went back and just made "TheDivision2" run as admin - and was able to play with no issues. No clue what the issue was.

Having a similar issue as the above people. Game would freeze and go into windowed mode. I did recently upgrade my SSD, but new drive is cloned from previous. Was running fine for the last few days. Working through the troubleshooting steps mentioned above as well.