PSA dont hit the heart of the swamp to fast
So having done this event a hundred times now I ran up to the heart and popped it with a bloodied melee. Its whole health bar goes away and it closes and goes limp and the quest never updates. So be careful when doing the event and wait for the quest to update after "Find the heart" part or itll break the event. Broken it reliably times now.
Posted May 22, 2020, 8:11 PM UTC
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Also there's no reason to dump a ton of rounds into it. The health bar will usually just rubber band back up, so you might as well go melee or slowly tap it from range. I've seen quite a few people go full auto on it, and all they're doing is wasting ammo.
i think the rubber band is a (bad) mechanic, it seems to trigger waves at certain hp amounts and will heal back up to the appropriate level for the wave.
noticed it since i started running heart more
Yeah, it's a scripted event. Health bar is irrelevant really.
It would make more sense imo for Bethesda to change it, have it in waves rather than a health bar.
Its definitely not irrelevant now. Cleared its whole health bar in two swings before the "locate the heart" part and it went limp.
Think it's a pretty consistent way to bug the event I've done it on my melee character before and I've also seen Captainoob do the same on a live stream.