Beat The Bots and Get Your War Loot

I reviewed the updated Declare War feature here (1). The main problem with wars is that it's almost impossible to find an active one that you can help in. Manually searching your news feeds will yield this almost 99% of the time. It a frustrating process for many.

You can use the Event Scanner by Team Spockholm and select the "war" tab to lessen the load of scrolling through the news feeds (1). The same problem of being too late will persist.

The Operation War Hunter is a better tool to use because it only scans for active wars(1).  The problem is not many of those exist and you often find you're mafia member is losing as they never asked for help.

The main reason the majority of wars are finished within seconds and you can't find one to help in is because there are automated scripts that scan for war posts and perform the action for you. This creates a problem for those players who want to manually help. There is a way to bypass this but it takes a little handy work. If you use scripts, the Link-a-Nator now provides your static "War Help" link. Check the "War help link" box and click on the "Generate General Links" box.

If you don't want to use the Link-a-Nator, you can still get your link by finding one of your old war help posts and copy the link from that.

Now that you have your link, the key is NOT to generate a request when you declare war on somebody. Close out the Get Help popup.

Now it's up to you to select the friends you want to help. It's best to declare war on players with less than 501 mafia as there will be some delay. If you're in an active chat room or group, this method is ideal. Eike introduced me to the concept of War Groups. They are secret and have a small number of participants. I was able to join the one below to see how it works.

The rules are simple and every member in the group can easily get their 5 war assists in a day without all the hassles of trying to find them in the news feeds. Anybody can start their own war help group to easily beat the bots at their own game.

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Roughhouse Rafael Mission Walk Through

Finally the Mission we have all been waiting for.  At this time not all accounts have it and there is no page for it on the Current Events Module. You can't miss it on your Mission Bar as the annoying , yellow flashing  "Check Mission" sign is in your face. There are only four parts to this Mission and the rewards are hardly worth the effort. You will need to complete Part Two to unlock the Boss Fight combo or you won't be able to get the achievement. If you use the combo before it's unlocked in your account, it won't count.

Part One

Black and Blue

There isn't much to Part One and the loot reward ins't much either.

Part Two

The Achilles Heel

UPDATE: A few hours after the Mission was released, the requirements for looting Cracks Of The Bats and Knife Slashes were reduced to 5 each. There are still players who are unable to loot any of the consumables. 

Players are reporting that the Knife Slashes drop best in Brazil. Activate the Lockpick bonus and they will count as double.

Part Two contains the information we all have been waiting for. When you complete it, you get the third code for the Boss Fight Event. It's not easy because you have to loot 12 Cracks of the Bat from robbing and 15 Knuckle Punches from fighting. From my post yesterday on the drop rates, you know it will take a while and frustrate those players who aren't dropping anything. Fortunately, we can share the code. Once you get the reward of a code, you need to go to the Boss Fight Combo Page to view it.  The code is Bat + Bat + Knuckles + Bat. There is no option to share the link in the news feeds like we saw with the two other combos.

Most players, myself included, got the Rafael Boss Weak achievement as soon as they collected the rewards for Part Three and unlocked the Mission Combo. It wasn't necessary for me to even use it.

Part Three

Bomb Shop

There is only one objective in Part 3. You need to collect 40 Canister Bombs from jobs, fighting or robbing. The choice is yours. If you don't want to use any energy or stamina, you can send 40 Canister Bombs to one of your mafia members. If you don't have any to send, request them from somebody who has completed Part 3 of the Mission. They aren't good for anything. Instructions for how to do this are available on the post above this one. Players with a lot of energy and stamina should be fine picking them up through normal game play and shouldn't need to do this.

I did some mini drop rates on these and here is rough estimate on the costs. The Canister Bombs didn't show up on the robbing log but I started with 16 and completed the Mission. From this data, it would appear the robbing is the cheapest way to go. Remember all tasks in this objective must be done in New York.

You get 5 Cracks of the Bat and 5 Shotgun Blasts as the loot rewards.

Part Four

Dispatch

Part Four is a kill two birds with one stone. The stone is a short Brawler run. Win 19 fights in New York and ice 3 opponents and your done. The loot rewards are 5 Knife Slashes and 3 Knuckles Punches. Wonder why they got cheap with the Knuckles Punches? This is it for the Mission.