I did see people using the power in Team Rumble if that helps. I have not been lucky enough to find it in a chest yet, but does look to be possible.
Edit: I managed to get mine done in Team Rumble. I had to keep reloading matches if I didn’t find the power within the first 30-ish chests. Thank goodness we don’t loose them when we die in Rumble. Good luck to all getting theirs done. 🫡
Yeah, and sweats don't help either. I tried to help someone just before posting this. They had the shield, I unloaded all my bullets then used my pickaxe to get their quest done.
When it was my turn, they dropped the gauntlets and then a superhero skin crashed the party and nitro-fisted me into space.
This!
When the game first started, you had to grind to finish weekly challenges in a week. Now you can finish them in one or two matches and people complain that they’ve nerfed XP. 🤣
There is truth to that, especially if you go back to before you could go above level 100. Personally, I prefer it this way. I used to hate getting through 90% of a difficult challenge and not quite making it before they expired. That is not a problem we have these days.
In chapter 1, there were 7 quests each week. 4 quests that gave you 5 BP stars each, and 3 that gave you 10 BP stars. Each tier costed 10 stars. Each week you could only get 5 tiers. That wasnt very rewarding.
Yeah. It’s not even hard to do, it’s just a lot of hits to block. I got lucky and found another person who had the Magneto Power and we took turns hitting the other’s shield.
Disagreed -- collecting all the stupid mosaic pieces was the worst of all time. ...and that's saying something, as a Day 1 player -- there have been some truly awful grinders.
I didn't mind Fortbytes -- it was just a kind of arbitrary mechanism laid on top of the normal quests. IIRC, the few hard ones were nerfed before the end. (What was NOT nerfed was the blue Demi skin's challenge... IIRC, still the hardest BP alt-skin challenge Epic has ever released. Certainly the only one I didn't get in time, between it being opened up, and the end of season.... ever.)
FWIW, I loved Risky Reels. :D It was one of my fav drops.
Similar: All those fishing grinders in Ch2 were made okay by hunkering down in the Slurp factory sewage-pipe-sprays, and non-stop fishing. Sometimes enemies wound do the "universal teabag greeting of friend-foe detection", and frenemies were made, just fishing under the Slurp-falls. Boring, but those frenemies always put a smile on my face.
The fkn mosaic pieces were rate-limited, and other than bot lobbies, the fastest collection method was just non-stop brick-half-wall bashing (like around the SW gas station & similar). 300+ of them, with an average of 1 per wall assuming perfect target-hits. Took about 10 matches of just breaking walls across 2 nights. It sticks out as a sore spot IMO. Everyone dog-piling bosses for the rapid-fire hits meant that the only "fun" way to farm mosaic pieces was constant 3rd-party distraction.
Agreed! I played it a LOT the first two years as a Founder, but once FNBR's Creative modes & later UEFN took off, there's just so much stuff to enjoy during FN time that I haven't really gone back. (Well, except for the truly excellent Xmas FrostNite mode -- it's crazy-good w/the fam/squad a couple times each Xmas season.)
I was able to get it at the wrenchgirl boss area with three npc with shotguns. Don't even bother trying to get Magneto powers from his location as everyone is landing there I had better luck and a better time just finding them out in the open and finding the npcs.
There have been many quests harder than that. This one isn't even hard, it's just annoying. Just find a bot and make it hit your shield until it breaks and then hide until it recharges, then repeat. Took me 1 game to do it.
Not just that collecting the damn thing keeping it and other stuff as well his whole questline is pretty annoying un comparison to other "secret" skins
I got lucky and found some bots so I just let them shoot me until the quest completed and then killed them both which gave me 2 for the eliminate with magneto power as well!
The magneto mythic is very hard to find. Whenever I try to buy from Magneto npc someone else already bought it. I didn’t find it in any chest. Last time I got it I eliminated player with magneto mythic.
my trick was getting the power and going to an npc and letting them fire at me. the ai has poor enough aim that you don’t have to worry about getting hit while recharging, but can also put yourself into the line of fire
I found magneto power as floor loot. When I got that, I went to a character. I went to the Peely in the middle of the map, pickaxed him and blocked all their shots. Characters work.
Ive got gauntlets at the start of the game and then met a bot that was constantly shotting from smg, or you can hire npc and command it to shoot, or bosses its easy quest
First you need to either grab Magneto's gauntlets in a zone full of player, with only 1 (?) being available, or be lucky enough to find them in a chest and whatnot.
Then you need to put yourself at risk by using the shield which, quite frankly, isn't great.
But the worst is that damages don't matter. What matters is the number of bullets. So you have to find a bot or a npc, ideally with an assault rifle, to barely progress the quest.
Sure you can find a player, but how many of them will be kind enough to help you complete the quest, or bad enough to just keep shooting at your shield ?
Give it a few weeks, it will get better as the hype dies and people don't rush brawler to get a guaranteed set, it's definitely gonna be an inconvenience one to get tho
lol... anytime a quest takes any time or effort, its deemed the worst ever. It took me about 4 matches to do it. Was it annoying? Sure but it is still easy.
Nah, I got it done by just using that wasteland grunt at one of the gas stations the annoying one is that one story or above one bc it’s a stupid amount of damage
It says hits! Nothing says it has to be oppent hits! Have a duo partner shoot the blocker and boom!worked for me!
Reading is important and thinking outside the box
Go after the tower guards or the roaming convoys. The npc guards count. Even the characters we talk to to get items from count. Although the last ones have terrible aim. Still ever bit counts.
The shield takes damage based on hp so high fire rate means more hits per second and less time regening shield, I found a bot with an SMG and camped it SO hard
I just went into a bot lobby and completed all of them within 2 matches. Magneto is trash, though, so I archived all his stuff except the emote, tool, and glider.
Only annoying part about this round of quests was finding the gloves. The magneto npc was swamped all morning and he only carried one set of gloves so you couldn’t really wait out the rush. Regardless it only took me a couple of tries to get all of the quests done and honestly I felt they were pretty lackluster. I guess it’s better than the more grindy quests last season but idk.
Am I the only one having trouble with The Magneto quest in general? Now the quests they are not are not hard. For anyone having trouble with "Block hits using the Magneto Power" it actually not hard. The easiest way to do this is to find someone like, for example, Hope and get her to start shooting. Then just block her shots.
I DON'T KNOW IF JUST ME OR NOT But what I found hard is to "get the Magneto Msytic" itself cuz I only know one way to get the mystic and that is to buy it from Magneto himself. BUT the problem is either that by the time I get to him someone else has already bought it or even if I’m lucky enough to get it. I get like a few throws before someone kills me.
There's methods to do it I'm sure. But who really cares about that particular quest. The magnetic mythic is broken op and I'm having SO much fun with it.
Also, those in C5s1 who complained about the Reaper sniper. Where the FUCK are you guys at anyway? New stuff to complain about but of course they hide like rats.
Friendly fire counts too, just do it with friend