@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.

For me, it seems like a good balance. SHD 2000+ and still enjoying tinkering with new builds or experimenting with tweaks to builds I have. I don't optimize until I'm sure it's a piece I am ready to max out or if I want to be able to switch the core from Weapon damage to Armor. I think Optimization is a nice back-burner type activity to have and I don't think too much about it. A few percentage points don't really make or break a build for me.

@virtual-chris Oxidizer and dodge roll did it for me. I think it took a while but it was just about being patient. You could dodge roll all day and he can't hurt you.

Big Horn isn't raid exclusive. It can only drop on Legendary missions or Legendary Summit. You might of been thinking of the Ravenous.

@xcel30 I assume when you say TP, you mean Tip of the Spear. I'm trying to rationalize your comments with True Patriot and I'm scratching my head still.

@oatiecrumble Do you have a lot of luck with this tactic in DZ? I've had success with HF before, but never thought of rolling into them. Have to give this a try.

@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.

@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.

This has been pretty much my look since starting Div 2. The USCG shirt/vest was one of the first apparel items I ever looted and I thought it was hilarious to be running around in an orange life vest while everyone else was rocking black body armor. I mixed and matched other gear items to my own taste because the USCG pants are ugly and the helmet doesn't sit right.

I'm too lazy to change the appearance on all my kneepads and holsters, etc on all my loadouts, but when I did change them - they'd be white/orange and my gun would be the first responder red to look like a flare gun.

@aspoiu I agree. Ammo is rarely an issue for me even despite my horrible aim.

@frankieehh I may be wrong, but I think that if you die in a mission (Heroic/Legendary) - you'll respawn with the amount of ammo that you died with.