I’m grinding my teeth on this today, as well.
For the other missions I did tutorial videos yesterday and the day before
(like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL1BLoWFhow ) but for this one I don’t get it.
I am grinding to get the mission done on Expert difficulty - I am two or three hours in today, from barely making it over people not understanding the basics and obviously being on their first try of the mission altogether over to a toxic premade meeting my regular “hi all, hf gl o/” greeting with toxicity, slurs and hard griefing for nearly ten minutes straight intentionally wasting time.
People also like to pick up the turrets and throw them anywhere randomly.
I guess I’ll try soloing (as in not picking a character until every human player left the lobby to start with bots, which to me is griefing as well but seems to be the only way to prevent griefing? why is there no “no I do not want to be matched with toxic griefers and prefer NPCs over human beings” mode? anyways…) next to get the “The babies are safe” achievement.
Trying to get the “Iron Cannon” achievement is a different thing for that specifically says “on Expert or higher”. HOWEVER, due to my experience with the other missions over the last days their achievements did NOT state the “on Expert or higher” part and still required it. Maybe there’s a hidden requirement on “The babies are safe” as well?
We’ll see, I’ll try a bit more as long as I feel my sanity allowing for it.
However, the more I play the less enjoyable this whole thing becomes and I already am in the “unpleasant” zone, probably will end up hating this “release” in a few hours and leave a review on steam, too. Oh well…
//edit: I got the “Iron Cannon” achievement when I finally had a group of people who really wanted to sweat this through, we even wiped two times but eventually finished the map and on the last try did so barely keeping the big turret over 50% so that challenge is comparatively forgiving.
//edit2: I did a try on “The Babies are safe”, starting the mission on normal difficulty alone with three bots - I hid ALL workshop turrets in the spawn room to the back so they did not get a single point of damage and it did NOT count towards the challenge. I am kinda sick and tired of the “hidden requirements” these challenges have. I mean not only does it feel terrible, I also paid a “premium price” for it, and that just leaves a sour taste.
Those “hidden requirements” feel literally just as terrible as young me picking up “Bart vs. The World” on NES back in the day just to get stuck on invisible pixels and falling to my death. It is one of the worst video games in the world of all time, and Overwatch 2 literally is on the same level now with this.
