having some issues 15 games in and can’t get a win. Always a wraith/mirage cloaking into the circle or Wattson hiding with a billion fences. Pathfinders setting up zip lines directly above the ship and zipping back in forth almost impossible to hit them.
It is really dumb how once you get down to 10 legends the ship timer starts no matter how well you do in the beginning.
@NissanZaximaLast part, agreed.
But the Legends also only get less than a minute to reach the drop ship.
Tips I would suggest would be rushing every area that shows where a Shadow has died and overwhelm those legends and if you can't seem to find any than stick to gliding in the air as you drop down and try to spot any small glow of red.
I manage to win 3 times as Shadows considering I mainly make it to top 10 before dying.
Yes, first few days was quite easy to win as shadow, because players didn't know much about game mode. Now when all know tactics, it can take a lot of time to win as shadow. And many players leave (when become shadow), so chance to win gets even lower.
@NissanZaxima There are some good pointers in a thread created by @Koochi-Q donated from @DoYaSeeMe. It should be on the first or second page within this forum. 🙂
@NissanZaximaHere ya go: https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Extensive-Nightfall-guide/td-p/8328493/page/2. Comment 15 on that page is what you are looking for made by @DoYaSeeMe which @ColdHours is referring to. Can’t actually believe someone needed it... xD
Basically you’re dependent on your team. If they let a mirage/wraith or pathfinder past (it’s almost always one of those 3 if 1 person makes it onto the ship), you already lost. So they have to be vigilant... but secure most yourself. Keep in swarms, if you see one in the distance, try and go way around (if you were standing at the ship) cause most dumbarses will try and frontal assault him with numbers and will net that legend extra kills while you claw him from behind.
Tactics! Compensate for the lack of communication by thinking ahead
I've played some shadowfall yesterday and shadows are really leaving hard now. You're lucky if you get 10 shadows in the end - that's very hard to win for shadows. I guess just try to get a game with at least 15 shadows and then try to work together to kill legends closest to dropship location (you should know it by 2nd circle +-). Blue+ armor needs 2 hits to kill, so best to go at least 2x1.
If you try to complete the 25 dropship mission and don't leave when you are shadow, you should win at least once or twice as shadow before you're done with the escape mission (unless you really never die).
Honestly to win as a shadow you just have to pray you don't get a lobby of ragequitters. Also hunt any pathfinder/wraith you see as they can legit just stroll into the evac ship.
Saw a funny match where the LZ was near the cage. Out of the last 10, I think 8 or 9 were pathfinders and most of them grappled to the top of the Cage. None of them made it to the ship, but the only Wattson defending the ground floor walked to the LZ for the win 🙂.
Anyway, most players are probably grinding for the "escape 25 times" challenge and they team up early and avoid fights at all costs. This way, they can pop multiple ults and are impossible to stop. I think Respawn should've thought of an ultimate challenge for the shadows as well (kill 200 legends, win 100 times, etc.), to keep the 2 sides balanced.
They should've made the final legend to be converted into like an extra shadowy shadow ( yes the name needs some improvement xD)
With a buffed jump to counter that damn robot. 😛
As for some actual helpful advice. Use your mantling to ambush from high places, if your enemies in built up areas drop on them. If they're near any inaccessible areas like the canyon edges etc, land on top of them as you've got 30 seconds of unhindered prey stalking where the enemy can't hear or see you, plus people tend to react badly when you just drop on them with no warning and make mistakes...so yeah easy kills.
Or the shadows could grow stronger (more hp and/or faster and/or faster respawn/fly in) for every top10 legend kill (or maybe any kill, just not much stronger). That would force the 10 to work together and that would also give shadows a chance to preplan the top10, leaving the 10 separated - and then pick them off 1 by 1.
On the other hand, if there were at least 20 shadows vs the 10 legends, I'd say the mode would be pretty balanced as is. The problem is that shadows just leave (well I do blame the (lack of) challenges). Without challenges for shadows, they should have seen this would happen and should simply start game with more players (e.g. 50). Sure, if shadows don't leave then it could get really crazy (10 x 40), but I'd say even that could be fun.
