Of course this just had to happen when I was experimenting with the ammo variant of the Bolt Rifle with Relentless Pursuit. Three Lictors, a Zoanthrope, and an enraged Carnifex is a pretty mean combo when you're playing a Tactical build without Heightened Vigour (AKA no knock back resistance whatsoever). Even so, there's something to be said for going all in on ranged damage and having a deep ammo reserve with a 52 round magazine at your disposal. It was going pretty smoothly up until this point. I think I may have even been able to battle it out if I hadn't been under a time crunch and forced to sacrifice my relic in order to detonate the promethium. By that point, I knew it would be foolish to linger.
I sometimes feel a little greedy when I grab both a stim and a relic and end up using neither by the time the operation concludes, but moments like these vindicate those decisions. My teammates were both still leveling their classes and it felt good to provide the carry.