Ambushes in Hostage Rescue Radio Missions
By
Aggelakis,
Posted on: 2010-06-08 21:01 in Player Questions
Those have always been there. Not every single mission, but I've been getting occasional ambushes in Kidnap missions for as long as I've been playing.
@Roderick
Kidnap missions, yes. Ambushes are usually present in Kidnap missions.
Rescue missions, no. Especially radio rescue missions. I don't think I've ever seen an ambush in a radio mission. (I haven't done a radio rescue mission in many months, so don't have any recent anecdotes to go with this statement.)
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Originally Posted by Dispari
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That's funny. Somewhere in the teens I start getting ambushes in all rescue and kidnaps. If you go for the door at a normal pace as soon as you get the NPC chat indicating "rescue/kidnapping complete lead them out" and don't dilly dally you will get to the door before your ambush spawns. Often I go back to the hostage room and find the ambush waiting for me along the way. It has been that way since issue 5 when I started playing.
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Radio mission rescues have nothing to do with regular content rescues.
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Originally Posted by Tonaka
That's funny. Somewhere in the teens I start getting ambushes in all rescue and kidnaps. If you go for the door at a normal pace as soon as you get the NPC chat indicating "rescue/kidnapping complete lead them out" and don't dilly dally you will get to the door before your ambush spawns. Often I go back to the hostage room and find the ambush waiting for me along the way. It has been that way since issue 5 when I started playing.
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Originally Posted by Dispari
I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.
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I have indeed had ambushes in assigned missions, like rescuing Mr. Yin (although in that mission, if you run fast enough, you can often beat the ambushes to the door! |
Originally Posted by Aggelakis
Radio mission rescues have nothing to do with regular content rescues.
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)But I have run radio rescues from their dawning, and once the path was cleared, it was cleared... until this evening. Holy Moly!
So unless I have just had Amazing Luck until tonight, it was my impression that the ambushes were not a working feature until now in radio rescue missions.
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I play with the assumption that, if I rescue an NPC during a mission -- any mission, any NPC -- I should expect an ambush or three.
That doesn't stop me from going to fight the next group, of course
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No, you didn't have Amazing Luck until tonight. I have personally commented on, and heard others comment on, the lack of ambushes in radio rescues, and most of the time it's to highlight the difference between radio rescues and paper kidnaps; more to the point, complaining about a lack of ambushes (my group of friends love bashing things' heads; we trigger the LEDS in mayhem missions on purpose).
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Originally Posted by Melancton
So unless I have just had Amazing Luck until tonight, it was my impression that the ambushes were not a working feature until now in radio rescue missions.
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Originally Posted by Dispari
I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.
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Actually, the ambushes in hostage rescue radio missions have been bugged for a loooooooooooong time.|
Originally Posted by Aggelakis
No, you didn't have Amazing Luck until tonight. I have personally commented on, and heard others comment on, the lack of ambushes in radio rescues, and most of the time it's to highlight the difference between radio rescues and paper kidnaps; more to the point, complaining about a lack of ambushes (my group of friends love bashing things' heads; we trigger the LEDS in mayhem missions on purpose).
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The bug (apparently now fixed) used to make the ambush happen when you accepted a hostage rescue mission. If you took one, and then just stood there long enough, an ambush would eventually come your way (unless their path took them by some police drones or into another hero).
I'm glad they finally fixed it.
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Not the kind of ambush we're talking about. This is the ambush that, in paper kidnap missions, would spawn as you're leading your victim to the entrance of the map after defeating the spawn guarding him/her. In radio rescue missions, these did not occur.|
Originally Posted by Lightfoot
Actually, the ambushes in hostage rescue radio missions have been bugged for a loooooooooooong time.
The bug (apparently now fixed) used to make the ambush happen when you accepted a hostage rescue mission. If you took one, and then just stood there long enough, an ambush would eventually come your way (unless their path took them by some police drones or into another hero). I'm glad they finally fixed it. |
Until now, anyway, apparently.
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Originally Posted by Dispari
I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.
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Radio mission ambushes are finally fixed! woo! I've been bugging these since .. well, since they were introduced, as the paper missions always had them. The only thing I could figure is that the kidnapping villains on the hero side weren't as 'on the ball' as the villain-side kidnappers.
(or Devs hate villains ):P
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I love the instance ambushes because if you have your NPC chat on, you get a warning way in advance. 
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So, ho hum, we are leading the *yawn* hostage out of the radio mission when SUDDENLY THERE ARE A DOZEN BADDIES ATTACKING OMG FOLKS GET KILLED
Yipes.
This happened twice this evening. Apparently they have added ambushes on the way to the door to radio hostage rescue missions.
Those sneaky devs. Is this why they wait so long to post the patch notes?
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