So, my friend and I were doing a Nightmare Alert, on an Extraction mission.
We were very underprepared for it, which we knew going in, and just wanted to see how we would fair. So we put on our best equipment and went out, to find that, while we could kill our enemies, there were far too many of them for us to even get a chance of surviving.
We both died a few times, and it got to the point where the extractors were lasting just long enough to use their initial charge, then being destroyed. We couldn't defend them as we were being swarmed and cut to pieces, and we couldn't get them extra energy either.
I hang out in a safe spot, while my friend tries running across the map, just turning on extractors, and running to the next, earning us 15-20 cryotic a go, out of our mission target of 500.
And then he dies for the 5th time, which surprised us, as he should only have 4 lives. Unless you get an extra on nightmare missions? We weren't sure.
Anyway, I have 2 lives left, so I give it a go, and get around a little bit, until I die for my 4th time. And the Lives Counter reads as -1 lives.
I've never had this happen before.
I carry on, and die again, and now it's -2.
I keep going on and on, trying to get our extractors, and we're pretty close now, at like 60 cryotic left to gather.
And then I get a little bit too roostery, and on life number -7, I die, and the mission instantly fails.
No warning or anything. The additional lives just ended for no reason whatsoever.
Anyone know why I got so many extra lives, and why my friend didn't?
And why it ended so abruptly at -7?
Or even why my friend got 5 lives, compared to the normal 4?
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