Promise Of A Flower FPS drop

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I'm basically stuck right now. I've been playing the entire campaign on normal difficulty solo with bots so far.
And now I'm trying the Promise Of A Flower act, mission.
There's one room, a big fight room, in which the game becomes unplayable.
That room after you blow up the stone door with detonation charges.

That place gets swarmed with several mobs and many elites. I've already been through many of these except this time, the layout and spawns of the room make xenos come from everywhere, bots show how useless they are, I'm spending my entire time running around to get a single second of a few shots before having to run again, and in this room my FPS drop to 40 and sometimes below.

I've never had any technical issues with this game except for a very few freezes on door openings.

All of this make this room unclearable. Also not having any human soul online doesn't help.
I've tried with Gunner, Demolisher, Recon (which SUCKS imo), and technician.

Is there a way to über-cheese this room and just get rid of it?

[frosty*]

at that part it can be simple if done right regardless of difficulty and class,set up around that area with many turrets and mines stand back it will blow,let loose every thing u got,and keep the overclock untill the elites spawn,let rip rinse and repeat,learn to dodge and dont get too close to them,thats if your a gunner,demo it should be plaine sailing tech is good also,recon with best friend is 1 of my fav classes^^ perked up correctly it is a piece of cake,as for cheesing that part go with a demo and use the overstimulating card and blast away,basically u can do all levels with demo and overstimulating card without firing your gun basically^^on normal and intense no sweat is needed^^as for fps drops,we need more info about your card system specs and how u have the graphics set up,weather your amd or nv it makes a
no difference dx11 dx12 dx12 ultimate,in game settings,software settings,sometimes eye candy isnt the answer if your not enjoying your game due to stutters freezes ect,lower settings can be benifical and make the experince better^^

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I tried with demo which I thought was the strongest class. I didn't use overstimulating tho.

I just managed to pass that room. The reason I kept losing? Bots kept on standing their ground in the middle of the arena and died immediatly.
This time they actually followed me and survived, tanking every attacks so I was free to shoot AND protect my meatshields.

And also I wasn't aware I had to do the entire game with only M37A3 pump shotgun.
This weapon makes anything else irrelevant given how broken strong it is.
I used to mix things up with weapon swaps but just going full pump action made everything much better.

[DrunkBunny94]

I haven't noticed any FPS problems with that map specifically there are a few effects ingame that i find tank my performance - mostly the pups drone that recon has but even outside of that AFE never ran that well for me and i had to lower a lot of settings to get it to run smoothly.

5-1 is harder than any mission in the base game and the hardest part the finale cant really be cheesed - you can cheese a few doors earlier in the game in multiplayer to create 1 way chokes but solo those doors will close when you go in to trigger the obj.

The reason its hard is because there are a lot of double elite spawns,
-The very first event where you scan the crusher body has 2 warriors,
-While finding the 2nd demo charge you have to fight 2 crushers,
-When you return to the blocked door theres an ambush with 2 more elites (either 2 crushers or a warrior and a pretorian)
-Detonating the 2nd charge theres 2 warriors at the same time alone with a bunch of prowlers/bursters
-At the finale theres 3 spawns of 2 elites which is brutal as the last area doesnt have much space to work with.

On casual/standard it really shouldn't matter what class you pick most should be capable but:
-Gunner has the highest DPS thanks to overclock, remote detonator is decent CC and has access to some extra mobility which can help you kite.
-Technician is probably the next best as the coils can be used to help kite and the turret will help kill the fodder for you while you focus the elites and with a pistol+shotgun and 55-95% bonus damage you can dish out some serious damage.
-Demo is great for runners but has very low damage for elites and 5-1 is an elite heavy mission so hes not advised for 5-1
-Recon is amazing but is more of a team support/team damage amplifying class so i wouldn't advise it for solo play.

The main strategy for elites is to save your use your consumables.
Kinda hard when you're solo as you are kinda low on equipment but when faced with 2 elites at the same time i would burn a vuln drone for the damage boost, you find a vuln and a cryo in the finale so you will have at least 1 for that fight.

If you are struggling its worth looking at using some cards to help you, with so many elites maybe we got em demoralised goes a long way, extraordinary weapons for more bullet damage or overstimulated to get your overclock/grenade up again faster or whatever works well with your preferred build.

Add me if you need a hand im free this evening.

[Xero]

I tried Recon last night. Had the guard the dog perk ability. Every time I'd release it, my FPS dropped. Went back to tech. I'm sure I was annoying people lol Dropping their FPS.

[frosty*]

personally when i use default pups they tend to drop fps regardless of map,it isnt optimized those effects^^,i always use my best friend for extreme and insane,sometimes bloodhound depending on the map and friends,can u post what card u are useing also in game your graphics setting,u may have to lower them depending on your card,btw have u had any luck beating that mission yet?

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Originally posted by frosty*:

can u post what card u are useing also in game your graphics setting,u may have to lower them depending on your card,btw have u had any luck beating that mission yet?

I'm using an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 with default game settings.

I managed to beat the mission by using only pump action shotgun (strongest weapon in the game so far) and being lucky enough for bots to NOT stand in the middile of the arena getting downed on the first wave, instead following me and tanking hits while I kill mobs.