Syndicate Laboratory Frustrations

I wasn't around for Betrayl, so syndicate content is new to me. I'm okay with everything but the labs.

I've run a dozen of the things and I cannot find any pattern to winning or losing. I've tried zooming through straight to the Syndicate member, killing all enemies near evidence containing rooms, and everything in between. The game seems to stress that I'm supposed to prevent the destruction of evidence, but doing so appears to have no bearing on actual success.
In my most recent lab, I hauled ass through to three evidence rooms and melted through the Rare enemies attacking the evidence. Because I'm a deadeye, that had the side effect of also killing all the Normal groups at the same time. The objective was "5 remain, 3 must survive". I know for a fact that I cleared out at least three evidence rooms on the way in. I reached the Syndicate member in less than a minute total, and the objective still said "5 remain, 3 must survive". After a few seconds of fighting him, *poof*. Everything went quiet. Syndicate guy vanished, objective vanished from the screen, and an exit portal appeared. I had failed once again. And I have no idea why, because that's exactly what I did in a previous successful laboratory raid

My base movespeed is ~+68%. Three of my combat flasks boost movespeed even more. I use flamedash to leap past Normal groups. This is one of the fastest moving characters I've ever played, but apparently not fast enough.

I don't have a damage problem. Just one Ice Shot kills every non-rare enemy on the screen. I've killed multiple Rank 3 syndicate guys without even realizing what I'm firing at. My Rain of Arrows Mirage Archer routinely wipes out entire packs off-screen. The Siege Ballista I throw down for bosses and really tough rares is practically a minigun that fires bowling balls.

Why am I failing? I can't find any pattern to it at all.

the most effective way to clear the research for me is to haul ass to the final room and go nuclear on the syndicate members, once they are dead all the burning of evidence halts.

Thats really all you can do though i might question how high your dps is perhaps you are taking a little too long to take them out?

I go about every research this way and generally have no problems unless i die and cant run back fast enough which happens pretty rarely as im used to how the syndicate members behave.

If you feel up for it you can pm me @DominusIngenium and i could look at your gear and some other stuff :P The solution is likely more simple than you think.

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SilentSymphony wrote:

the most effective way to clear the research for me is to haul ass to the final room and go nuclear on the syndicate members, once they are dead all the burning of evidence halts.

same here, the kills I make on the way to the last room is just if monsters are in the way on my dash to the last room

If you lack dps (which you likely do if you cannot finish the lab missions succesfully), I would also recommend rushing to the last room and all-in the syndicate members.
Focus on the first ones if you want to be sure, else it's better to try to kill that one the last but ... it might take more time.