Well I finally got a higher level "rescue the NPC" mission. This was the first mission in The Mysterious General Z story arc. I copied my L29 Rad/Rad defender over to test and went to speak to Christine Lansdale. For anyone who is not familiar with this arc their are *Spoilers* contained within, stop reading now.
Fairly straight forward objective, rescue 3 npc's. I was thinking ok this will be a wave type mission, I rescue one at a time take them to the door rinse and repeat. Well, was I surprised, I walk in the front door and what do I see. A diplomat fighting the Skyraiders, not cowering but fighting. So I move in and rescue him and start heading towards the door to get him out.
Wait what's this, "I can help you fight the Skyraiders". I think pffft ya sure ya can, anyways I let him tag along. We encounter the next group of baddies and this guy proceeds to whip out a sniper rifle and starts picking Raiders off. I think "oh hell, that's cool". So I heal and AM the little fella as we make our way up a level and who do I find. General Z, kickin [censored] and taking names. After "rescuing" him he joins my little band. We move to the next group and the General who cons as a red boss to me pulls out a handgun and proceeds to one shot everything I go near! Was damn hilarious! Anyways we finally get to the main objective, a named diplomat who we rescue and take back to the door, fighting off waves as we go.
All in all I enjoyed that mission very much, having npc's aid heroes will be a big help to defenders. Even if I ran this on my scrapper I would have enjoyed it, the General one shotting everything meant no XP's for me but I can see how this could be heavily exploited so I prefer it this way. All in all a great addition. One bug that I did notice was at the end. If you run out the door before the objective NPC reaches it you get no mission bonus XP's, already /bugged it.
