Banks Confidence Goal in "Desk Job"

[CaesarCV]

I'm worried there's a glitch or something...I'm supposed to be able to get the confidence goal in "Desk Job" by transferring 4 damage. Easy. However, the rockets that say they'll deal 4 damage only deal 3, making it seemingly impossible to transfer 4 at once. Knockback damage and brittle sadly don't count, I tried those already. Am I missing something? Or is it bugged?

[OrangeGills]

I had the same issue! Have you reported it as a bug?

[CaesarCV]

Not yet! I will now!

[Garry-Boy]

A workaround to complete the goal. Use Banks revive ability on the transference target, it deals 4 damage.

[CaesarCV]

Thanks for the Workaround Tip! Worked like a charm. I submitted the ticket too!

[Patroklos]

You can also transfer a predictive shot from one enemy to another. Definitely doesn't seem like a bug

[OrangeGills]

Originally posted by Patroklos:

You can also transfer a predictive shot from one enemy to another. Definitely doesn't seem like a bug

The bug is that the rocket turret's description says it does 4 damage, but it only does 3 damage.

[Patroklos]

Originally posted by OrangeGills:

Originally posted by Patroklos:

You can also transfer a predictive shot from one enemy to another. Definitely doesn't seem like a bug

The bug is that the rocket turret's description says it does 4 damage, but it only does 3 damage.

oh, sorry, my mistake. Were you transferring too/from Dall? She has armor that might mess with that.

[TH3G4M3GRL]

Originally posted by Patroklos:

Originally posted by OrangeGills:

The bug is that the rocket turret's description says it does 4 damage, but it only does 3 damage.

oh, sorry, my mistake. Were you transferring too/from Dall? She has armor that might mess with that.

The turrets do 3 damage instead of 4, period.

[CrazyMLC]

Originally posted by TH3G4M3GRL:

The turrets do 3 damage instead of 4, period.

Kind of.

It's true that if you transfer a rocket shot's damage to a rocket turret, it'll deal the same damage as a 3 damage attack. But what if you transfer the damage to one of the level's shotgunners with 4 hp? Well, it takes them out in one shot. So what gives?

What's actually happening is the rocket shot is two different damage instances. We have a 3 damage in the center, and then 1 damage with knockback in the 3x3 splash.
Banks' Transference transfers both of these hits, but they get reduced by armor separately.

Unfortunately 3+1 in a single transference doesn't count as 4 somehow. If you don't want to do one of the tricks in this thread you can also try doubling enemy damage in the difficulty, just for this mission.

[OrangeGills]

Originally posted by CrazyMLC:

Originally posted by TH3G4M3GRL:

The turrets do 3 damage instead of 4, period.

Kind of.

It's true that if you transfer a rocket shot's damage to a rocket turret, it'll deal the same damage as a 3 damage attack. But what if you transfer the damage to one of the level's shotgunners with 4 hp? Well, it takes them out in one shot. So what gives?

What's actually happening is the rocket shot is two different damage instances. We have a 3 damage in the center, and then 1 damage with knockback in the 3x3 splash.
Banks' Transference transfers both of these hits, but they get reduced by armor separately.

Unfortunately 3+1 in a single transference doesn't count as 4 somehow. If you don't want to do one of the tricks in this thread you can also try doubling enemy damage in the difficulty, just for this mission.

Thanks for the insight! I would still consider it worth reporting via the bug report feature, since the description on the rocket says it does 4 damage, so you'd think it would trigger the "transfer 4 damage" goal.

[cliftonr]

Yes, I also reported it as a bug. If it says the rocket shot does 4 damage it should do 4 damage, and I think (not sure) that it actually does in some other levels.

I got stuck on that one for a while too, especially as the Shotgunners also do 3 damage (+ 1 knockback.) What's more, putting Brittle on one of your characters doesn't work for some reason, even though it should increase the damage by +1.

You don't need to stay stuck though - you can do Resurrect as someone said above, somebody wrote a neat short guide with an "outside the box" approach to getting that 4 damage onto an enemy via Spore Bomb, and a couple people chimed in on those comments with other clever strategies they'd used to get it. Spore Bomb worked for me.

[Morty]

Not a bug, transfer on a spore bomb will do that much amount of damage provided you get enough people in it (3).

[Jack Ketch]

I just did this - brittle to Shotgunner A, and then link transference from Shotgunner A to Shotgunner B and then use spectral skull on the Shotgunner A (with an upgrade that does 3 damage, which is four with brittle) is transferred to Shotgunner B.

Fiddly, but it works.

(And with Genius Grant the transference is refunded.)

[yamidamian]

I just used the Dall upgrade that makes their censor slam deal 5 damage, brought her in instead of someone else, and smacked the closest enemy, transfering it to one of the shotgunners.

[Draktok]

I figured it out guys.

I moved the turrets next to each other via portal, and then pushed a guy up next to the turrets, then transferred damage from one turret to the other and threw spore bomb.

it's dumb, bcuase i couldn't figure out a way to transfer damage i cared about, but if you just need to get X dmg, this way is simple. My method lets you do it with the original characters, if anyone cares