Experience with 1999 Tank Boss Fight

[Traior246]

> Goes into the Bounty in Public, gets a squad of 4.
> Host Migrated, proceeds
> Need to fire 12 Rockets into a roadblock, which means clear mobs and hack 4 times
> Need to fire another 20 Rockets into another roadblock, 7 extra loops
> Spend a total of 9 ciphers
> Fought the Tank as usual, except the Balloons seems 3 times tankier

> Tanks turns into Infested Tank, gaining high Dmg Reduction except for Weakspots
> Guns can't hit weakspots reliably, and barely dealing dmg
> Ammo running low, no mobs to recover Ammo from
> Frame also not built to withstand non-stop dmg and stagger
> Had to rely on Operator to do most of the work, only using Frame for later mob clears
> Tank spawns tentacles that covers the floor with dmg, and likely takes 2 mags of Primary to clear each
> Tank also shakes a lot and likes to charge across the map every 10 seconds

> Juggles between Operator and Warframe
> Steadily chipping away the health bar, 12k dmg on weakspots and 550 on everything else
> Defeated the Tank, sense of pride and accomplishment achieved
> Mission Time: 46 mins, Downed 4 Times
> Syndicate Reward: 2,000 Standing

My build is probably outdated and not for encounter like this, but having to do the loop of Clear Mob and Hack 12 times before fighting a 2-staged boss seems excessive, and the Health for the Area-denial Summons seems a bit inflated.

I wonder if I should've just restarted the moment Host Migration happened.

[Verios44]

There are several solo strats, but yea this isnt the easiest boss in the game to solo by a long shot. Kudos on doing it with a non optimal setup!

[Razer]

Boss is faster to take down in solo. For each extra player there's more RPGs you need to fire into the baricades and more boss HP. If you ended up "solo" in a coop mission then you're going to have to get through way more than what you would have gotten through solo. I do this mission solo in like 10 minutes. Last stage of the boss takes the longest.

[Sceles]

Now try the hidden version that is lvl300 and disables your extra lives.

[Terminal Desolation]

Originally posted by Razer:

Boss is faster to take down in solo. For each extra player there's more RPGs you need to fire into the baricades and more boss HP.

Boss HP is one thing, that's kind of expected, but they increase the number of shots into the barricades?! Literally why?! That's so dumb, and it was by far my least favorite part of the mission. All "shoot barricade 20 times with THIS SPECIFIC RPG" does is pad the mission time. It's not interesting. It's not fun. It's just an excuse for DE to say "Look, our missions aren't just 5-minute speedrun fests all the time!"

I really hope they change this. Spending several minutes of the mission standing still and just ignoring the gunfire around me so I could point the RPG at the wall and click every few seconds was enough to make me never want to do the mission again. Completely ruins the mission flow, imo, which is a shame because the boss is so cool.

[Josey]

You sound like a lvl1 Corpus unit

[Razer]

Originally posted by Terminal Desolation:

Originally posted by Razer:

Boss is faster to take down in solo. For each extra player there's more RPGs you need to fire into the baricades and more boss HP.

Boss HP is one thing, that's kind of expected, but they increase the number of shots into the barricades?! Literally why?! That's so dumb, and it was by far my least favorite part of the mission. All "shoot barricade 20 times with THIS SPECIFIC RPG" does is pad the mission time. It's not interesting. It's not fun. It's just an excuse for DE to say "Look, our missions aren't just 5-minute speedrun fests all the time!"

I really hope they change this. Spending several minutes of the mission standing still and just ignoring the gunfire around me so I could point the RPG at the wall and click every few seconds was enough to make me never want to do the mission again. Completely ruins the mission flow, imo, which is a shame because the boss is so cool.

For solo it's 3 for the first barricade and 5 for the second. You can call in multiple RPG units at the same time. So I would just immediately call one in when you get the transponder thingy. Or whatever it's called.

[Carnasid]

Originally posted by Sceles:

Now try the hidden version that is lvl300 and disables your extra lives.

Tbh, it's way less tedious than 60 eyes.

[Douchebag Extraordinaire]

Just finished my last apex tank solo for all the accolade glyphs with an average kill time of around 12 mins (5 mins to barriers and green comps, 6 against boss, 1 for ext) and there are a few ways to "streamline" the whole thing even in a squad game but only if everyone works as a team.

On a full squad, two players gather the phones and rpgs, one hangs near the blue computer and hacks, and the last one hangs near the barricade and shoots the rpgs. Once the barrier is near destruction, leave some of the enemy carriers alive, so when it does go down, the rpgs don't just disappear.

As for weapons, DE probably had the incarnons in mind since they basically have "infinite" ammo. Slam build on the second phase is great, especially with a Sancti Magistar since it allows for damage trading.

[Shibby]

This entire mission is just poorly thought and designed. IDK why they think tedious is a fun loop for people. I don't mind grinding and having a decent fight at the end but this just feels dated but I guess that it's fitting it's in "1999".

[The Big Brzezinski]

I presume OP is talking about a SP run, because I'm finding the solo normal max level bounty runs to still be facerolls.

[pirate135246]

meanwhile i just soloed this on the secret hard mode in under 10 minutes without using abilities on mag so I could also get the glyph and because her abilities are useless here and nullifier goo everywhere. use redirection, use fast deflection, use a gunblade with shattering impact to remove armor. On non hard mode its a cake walk