Swamp Tour Bus Escort Impossible?

[Kiwi]

In trying to get through the swamp tour bus escort, the metal beast and woman riding it die in one hit or two... After each encounter I run back and heal. I actually bring the enemies back to the bus to distract them and kill them or they just kill the beast way too fast. I dismount and run ahead and target the laser panthers and vehicles but the beast runs in ahead, gets hit once and dies.... this mission is terrible and the game is clearly broken. Brutal difficulty can be hard without feeling impossible. Am I missing something?

[Kiwi]

I listed out every approach to the mission? So what is there to do differently? I cannot try and take them all on foot, I can't command the beast, I call in animal reinforcements that are sorta useful for 3 seconds... This is not a difficulty spike, the beast gets hit by one enemy with a sword and dies and then I have to start the whole thing over... I assumed it's a bug, not a feature because this is not at all like the rest of the missions and no guide or listing of concerns ever mentions this mission. Plenty of people complain about circling the fire beasts which i made it through with relative ease, but this one seems absurd. I also assumed it's a bug since I have a similar issue with the beer run mission early on where it instantly fails before I even start the mission, which leads me to believe the game is broken.

[SlightlyDisturbed]

The way I got through the swamp part was by running in the middle of any spawning hoards, and spamming the beast's fire breath ability while slowly backing up and spinning in circles.

There's a brief moment where you can damage enemies during their spawning animation, so it helps to be aggressive within reason.

[Kiwi]

Ok, and then I get killed by one shot from the laser panthers, which dont kill me in one shot when im running around the jungle finding collectibles. idk what to tell you, but the fact i can battle fine outside this mission, but the escort dies so easily is an artificial difficulty spike (which makes no sense since they provide a healer to backtrack to) or a bug. and due to the issues with other missions, im inclined to think its a bug, so i am going to search for an answer that addresses that.

[B Dawg]

"I or the beast die in one hit/shot"
That's some ultra bugged game and ultra rare bug that I've never heard of before.

[Hashishian999]

I've beat this mission on Brutal Difficulty across a lot of playthroughs on both console and PC. The best strategy is to stop by the blockage to heal, kill the gravediggers, and then *ride the beast ride up to the panthers and brood carriages*, dismount, and target them with Clementine using a mix of the light and heavy (pyro) ranged attack; they should focus on you instead of the Metal Beast.

[Kiwi]

Originally posted by Hashishian999:

I've beat this mission on Brutal Difficulty across a lot of playthroughs on both console and PC. The best strategy is to stop by the blockage to heal, kill the gravediggers, and then *ride the beast ride up to the panthers and brood carriages*, dismount, and target them with Clementine using a mix of the light and heavy (pyro) ranged attack; they should focus on you instead of the Metal Beast.

What I keep saying is that they don't. The panthers shoot us with a laser and I lose the mission instantly. Or the beast runs in as soon as I dismount and gets insta-gibbed. I have lured all the ground troops, killed them all, healed, summoned more animals to ride in ahead... then the panther shoots the beast from out of range of my lighting and i lose... I wish I could leave the beast at the tour bus til i clear it out with ranged attacks cause then I would feel like I stand a chance.

I haven't run into too many other game-breaking issues like this besides the keg transport one which fails me as soon as I select the start of the quest. Other than that hair physics goes wild at times. So this one feels wildly out of place. But it seems that my game is broken beyond something anyone has encountered... A shame cause I felt like I was getting close to the end =/

[Hashishian999]

Originally posted by Kiwi:

Originally posted by Hashishian999:

I've beat this mission on Brutal Difficulty across a lot of playthroughs on both console and PC. The best strategy is to stop by the blockage to heal, kill the gravediggers, and then *ride the beast ride up to the panthers and brood carriages*, dismount, and target them with Clementine using a mix of the light and heavy (pyro) ranged attack; they should focus on you instead of the Metal Beast.

What I keep saying is that they don't. The panthers shoot us with a laser and I lose the mission instantly. Or the beast runs in as soon as I dismount and gets insta-gibbed. I have lured all the ground troops, killed them all, healed, summoned more animals to ride in ahead... then the panther shoots the beast from out of range of my lighting and i lose... I wish I could leave the beast at the tour bus til i clear it out with ranged attacks cause then I would feel like I stand a chance.

I haven't run into too many other game-breaking issues like this besides the keg transport one which fails me as soon as I select the start of the quest. Other than that hair physics goes wild at times. So this one feels wildly out of place. But it seems that my game is broken beyond something anyone has encountered... A shame cause I felt like I was getting close to the end =/

Ah okay, I originally just thought you were having some trouble with difficulty, my bad; that's a real nasty bug - maybe try verifying the game files or reinstalling? Hope you find a fix soon

[Kiwi]

Did a full reinstall after verifying files and seems to be functioning again!

Now just to backup the save before I hit the 78% mark and have the game hardlock itself...

[Hashishian999]

Originally posted by Kiwi:

Did a full reinstall after verifying files and seems to be functioning again!

Now just to backup the save before I hit the 78% mark and have the game hardlock itself...

Nice dude, enjoy! You're actually almost to my favorite part of the game, the Sea of Black Tears Stage Battles!

[76561199529217239]

i finished it on the hardest difficulty