Halloween 2023: Mirny-13 Lost Hope Event Guide
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Regardless of the difficulty level, every battle consists of four Phases of increasing complexity. The AI-controlled opponents will get tougher and more numerous with each Phase. In Phases 2 and 3 on Normal difficulty and in Phases 1 through 3 on Hard and Nightmare difficulties, the Immortal will chase players.
Phase 4 is a boss fight, and the adversary you face depends on the difficulty level.
- On Normal, the players’ Recon Squad will face the Immortal;
- on Hard, the Corrupted M103; and
- on Nightmare, a [DATA REDACTED] enemy.
The Nightmare difficulty is just as tough as its name implies, so efficient team coordination is essential. Use the special tab in General Chat in the Garage to find trustworthy allies for your Recon Squad!
Bosses
New Enemies:
1. Trapper
This light, maneuverable wheeled vehicle is somehow able to spawn destruction zones on the ground that deal high damage to player vehicles within them.
On spotting a Trapper, the team must immediately set it as their prime target and try to eliminate it as quickly as possible.
2. Lost
Exposure to Mirium caused these expedition tanks to switch sides. They are lightly armored but have considerable firepower and good mobility.
The Lost are medium-to-high priority targets. There have been reports of them acting in packs of three.
3. Corrupted
The Corrupted are dark counterparts of tanks on the team. As they have only recently succumbed to the influence of Mirium, they exhibit complex behavior in battle. Most importantly, they still can benefit from anomalies.
The Corrupted are extremely dangerous opponents. Good team coordination is required to deal with them
New Bosses:
1. The Immortal
This mechanical horror will chase tankers inside the anomaly and is indestructible most of the time. Now we know that it becomes vulnerable when cornered on the deepest layer of the anomaly. But that doesn‘t make this Mirium-soaked steel beast any less dangerous, or its HESH shells less devastating.
2. Corrupted M103
In this distorted, bloated machine, one can still recognize the Goliath—the modified version of the M103 used during the first expedition into the Mirny-13 area. Even heavy operators should not rely on their tanks’ armor when they face this monster spewing out salvos of AP rounds.
3. [DATA REDACTED]
Mirny-13 veterans say that when you enter the anomaly, you share your worst nightmares with it—and that sometimes Mirium will embody these nightmares in metal. This opponent proves that such stories are not delusions.
Minimap
The minimap is an essential tool for successfully completing your mission on any difficulty level—and not getting distracted by the contorted hellscape around you. Plot your route and plan your actions so that you can deliver the necessary amount of Mirium to Magnus in time!
Phase Teleportation and Anomalies
Destroy armored AI enemies and collect enigmatic matter known as Mirium. It drops for each player individually: you will see only your own bits of Mirium, and no one else can pick them up—as long as your vehicle is operational.
Deliver gathered Mirium to a special Collector called Magnus marked on your minimap before time runs out. Once Magnus is filled with Mirium, your team needs to gather around it within the allotted time, and you will be able to teleport to the next Phase of battle. If you don’t reach Magnus in time to teleport with the rest of your team, your vehicle will automatically be destroyed. But this doesn’t mean that the battle is over—you will respawn in the next Phase, albeit with half your HP and zero Mirium.
With each new Phase, the AI enemies become more dangerous, but the rewards increase: the more Phases you complete, the more credits and Decryption Keys you earn after the battle. Remember that it will be more difficult for you to navigate in each subsequent Phase, so always be on the lookout, and coordinate closely with teammates!
At the beginning of each Phase, your vehicle will receive a random buff, or Anomaly. It will increase your effectiveness in combat and carry over from Phase to Phase even if your vehicle gets destroyed. In Phase 4, you will be able to benefit from four Anomalies.
There are nine types of Anomalies in the mode, and each vehicle has its own set of possible Anomalies.
Consumables
To increase the battle efficiency of your vehicle (and sometimes of those of your allies) in Mirny-13, make sure to use the special consumables. Before the battle starts, you can equip three of the nine available for credits. Match the consumables with the abilities of your vehicle and your playstyle!
Keys Awarded for Battles
Reels #12 through #15 can also be unlocked for Decryption Keys (see the exact numbers above).
The Obsidian
Decrypting all 15 Reels will grant you the main reward: VIII 
Obsidian, serving as a reminder of victory over the final boss of the event to those who managed to beat the Nightmare difficulty level.
Along with a unique exterior, the Obsidian boasts a compact and sturdy turret, an excellent rate of fire, and good gun handling.
3D Styles and More
During the Mirny: Lost Hope event, you can obtain a variety of awe-inspiring and macabre 3D styles in the in-game Store for gold. Three of these Mirny-13-themed 3D styles are brand-new:
- Symbiote for
X 
Centurion Action X - Trapper for
VIII 
Panhard AML Lynx 6×6 - Proteus for
VIII 
Bofors Tornvagn
“Symbiote” 3D style for X Centurion Action X
A memory appears from somewhere: getting a shell to the turret is like getting hit in the head. What head? You don’t have a head, where are these thoughts from?
Another memory:
“Stansfield, gas mask!” A hit to the turret. Hands shaking.
“We lost half our magnet traps. Impulse is going wild!”
“Cerberus, the Collector is glowing red like it’s about to blow!”
“Keep radio silence!..”
All sounds drown in hellish rumble. You wake up curled up on the floor of the vehicle. You take a breath and fill your lungs with purple smoke that got in through a penetration hole. You feel it dissolving you from the inside. You’re melting, becoming one with the tank. It hurts. More than the pokes from the shells. Bad memory. Sleep is better.
Sleep…sleeping makes you feel that thick, smooth feeling of serenity where there’s no pain. No pain at all.
“Proteus” 3D style for VIII 🇸🇪
Tornvagn
The object was brought to the range six months ago. Hermann was forced to sign a whole stack of papers before they let them even look at the wonder vehicle. And there was plenty to look at. Hermann is no rookie, but even he couldn’t figure out how its radio station worked. That’s not to mention the unmanned turret and air-tight seals like on a submarine.
The penetrated armor healed itself and it was a miracle. But the healing got slower with each new shell. He could feel the vehicle fading.
“They’ll kill it”, Hermann thought. “What a pity”.
He put his hand on a control lever, and suddenly everything went dark for him.
When he came to, he was already outside. He didn’t remember how he got out of the tank. The vehicle hummed like a high-voltage transformer. Hermann was a little shaky as if after he’d been electrocuted, and he could taste tar in his mouth for some reason.
“So that’s what it is”, he mumbled.
The hole in the tank’s turret healed in seconds, leaving a polished, mirror-like armor. Matte paint grew over the armor soon after.
“Trapper” 3D style for VIII 🇫🇷
Lynx 6×6
“Inside the anomaly, tankers called this vehicle a Trapper. Well, they called it a lot of things, but I’d get in trouble for sharing the other names. Trapper was also the name in the order our platoon received from our commander a couple of days ago. His face said that he wasn’t wild about the objective either, but that weird blonde woman in the lab coat was in the room, so the commander chose his words carefully, no swearing or any of that.
The order said, “capture and deliver for research”. The technicians mounted some things with amplifiers that were supposed to stun the Trapper. They took their time outlining it all on the blackboard, showing how to cover it properly.
Five seconds in range of three jammers. Sounds easy. But that thing can focus three strikes at you in that time.
We couldn’t figure out what exactly those strikes were, there were more important things to do. But if you didn’t have to roll the hell away from that lethal machine, it would look like a meteor shower from a radiant.
And, yeah, we had to hold it for seven seconds.”
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