Whats the best tactic for completing The Bomb Forest on DS OD

[Orangeup]

I swear this heist seems like hell incarnate

[Wave]

Bomb: Forest is quiet difficult but still do able. Not even the hardest heist IMO but still quiet the challenge. Here's the way I prefer doing it.

Setup: Make sure you get The Helicopter Escape and use your remaining pre-planning points in the Demolitionist Expert in order to make trains spawn at the top of the hill. Don't waste points on the crowbar or ladder as you can find both in the map. Boat and Plane Escape make your escape insanely harder, I have yet to seen an lobby on ODDS for this map where people DON'T run Helicopter Escape.

Step 1 - Find the vault: As soon as you spawn in, work quickly. You need the Thermite from the briefcase and then hurry onto the crash site. Find an crowbar, which should spawn in an flipped over wooden box with hay stuffed inside. As you work your way through the cars, be sure to throw down as many drills as you can. You are looking for an tall rectangular box which is noticably lighter in color than other cargo. This box looks very similar in the Day 2 Stealth section of Election Day ( I believe that is the name, I dont do much stealth ). After you have gotten the crowbar, thermite and thrown down as many drills as you can, you should have found the correct car. Throw down your Thermite on it ASAP.

** IMPORTANT NOTE: You should hope for the Vault to be in a location where the Helicopter is used to fill it and the Vault Car is up the hill. The generator with the hose is painful to manage as it is completely exposed and is hard to keep covered. **

Step 2 - Holding out during the wave: Make sure your getting the vault filled up as quickly as you can during the wave. Best place to holdout is uptop the hill as there is some cover in the rocks that stick out. Enemies will repel down and there is a few sniper sightlines on you, but that is better than most spots on the map. Majority of the wave spawns below you at the bottom of the hill. When moving around, be careful of fall damage for obvious reasons.

Step 3 - First Wave Ends: This step is another critical step as you need to remember where that lightly colored box I mentioned in the first step is. Go to it with your crowbar and crack it open. There should be the C4 you need to blow open the vault with. It's important you do this step as the wave is ending as trying to push for the C4 mid wave is difficult even for experienced heisters.

Step 4 - The Vault Opens: Around the end of the First Wave ending, the vault should have filled up if the Helicopter / Generator hasnt had to many interruptions. Drop C4 and then get into the Vault ASAP. It's an Vault, its incredibly secure and enemies wont get in. Pick up the bags so you can get the objective completed.

Step 5 - Escape: Hide and conserve your downs inside the vault. You and your team should have all the bags on your back and be ready to move once the helicopter arrives. Be cautious pushing out mid wave in order to get to the Helicopter. If you want the safer option, wait for the wave to end and then push out.

Congrats, you've beaten one of the harder ODDS Maps. Feel free to add me if you are really struggling.

[innerf1re]

Kingpin or Stoic are heavily recommended

[Mustard Seeds]

Much so like labrats a lot of people meme it into oblivion just because they can't play it properly but is pretty easy objective wise.

Just grab skills that are useful since you aren't looking to spend much time there having damage skills to kill is almost next to useless, rogue or kinping make that map a breeze too, grabbing and working a bit ahead of the job with preplanning make that job way easier as well.

I usually go for heli escape (plane works too), always rush right away to find the C4 before the assault even comes before finding the train with the bomb, having FAKS or hostage taker while using cover also is pretty helpful and if you do the pump having trip mines on each spot where enemies disconnect it is way faster than having the heli pumping water, if you want to make that job even cheesier you can simply carry the arbiter and have a primary with no threat and suppressors with optical illusions running rogue with a joker they would ignore you letting you do the objectives without issues.

That's how I've done it solo without having to wait about 30 - 40 mins doing stuff between waves and is more effective.