stusser
6290
I agree. Please don’t be a dick.
You know? I have not even tried out this patch. Been playing EG2 for a bit of relaxation the last few days.
It might be time to see that Iguana again…
Good news for you! I think there’s only one other mandatory ride-along turret sequence in the main campaign.
Hahah. To be fair to the game, I would have installed it and checked it out if the Next-Gen console version was out. But since it’s not, I might as well wait for it before trying it for the first time. And until then, all I can do is enjoy the packaging materials.
Rei, there is a pretty easy way to not get into these little tiffs any more…
DeepT
6295
I am playing it again, and there are still a bunch of bugs. The most annoying consistent one is when there is a table full of crap and there is one item you want on it, more often then not, you have to loot all the crap to get the item you want. I have a pixel marker on my screen, how hard is it to pick up what I am pointing at?
Other than that, there are the other annoyances like UI hud items that either disappear for no reason (ram sticks or stamina) or hud elements that stay on for no reason. A quick save and load will fix these latter issues.
I bought gorilla arms because it said it would let me force open doors. It totally doesn’t. How hard is it to either fix it so it does OR just change the description text to remove the confusion.
All and all I am enjoying my new run, although I am still doing the hacker stuff. I am curious about other builds though.
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Do you think a kick the front door down, guns blazing build would work? I heard that armor is a fairly useless stat and even getting an armor rating in the 1000s will make only a little difference.
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A super stealth approach. Either stealth gunner or stealth melee. Has anyone done this and how well does the stealth system really work? Looking at the stats, the stealth stat only gives you 0.5% increase in detection time per point, which is complete shit. So with a 20 point stat, thats 10% longer? Fuck that. Looking at the perks, its mostly about increasing damage and crit and stuff from stealth, nothing I saw increased stealth itself.
Hacking on the other hand is godly powerful… Although I have been using quick hacks to kill 99% of enemies, my quick hacking xp bar is only level 10. I need level 20 unlock the perk which gives me 50% recharge rate. This is like super grindy apparently. You see there are all these perks which decrease cooldown speed for quick hacks, when the real problem is that your out of ram sticks after your alpha strike.
Aside from bugs, the game really needs a good balancing pass.
That’s really one of my main beefs with the game, the lack of really interesting alternatives to the uber-hacker build. Guns blazing though does work well enough after you get kitted out with the right weapons. So well that you can pretty much brute force everything the same way you can brute-hack it. At least that’s how it was when I ran through it a while back.
I found that automatic rifles, SMGs, and shotguns were pretty much all you needed.
DeepT
6297
Oh another ‘uber’ tactic? I am sure this has to be a bug, but you can ping people and see everyone in a base, then you can pull out a tech sniper rifle, the kind you charge up, and kill people on the floor below you. Basically, if you can see their outline, you can snipe them no matter where they are.
I’d like to add that this tactic works for any kind of character. I had the worst possible stats for a sniper and I’ve used some random sniper rifle with an attachment to do this. It’s a boring way to play and will probably not work in a lot of circumstances, but it’s reliable.
stusser
6299
Yeah shooting through walls works, but hacking is better as you can get upgrades for each hack to spread, and 2 or 3 uses can basically kill an entire mission’s worth of bad guys. Then you just run through the carnage picking up their phat lewt.
Hacking very quickly breaks the game. Somewhere in the middle of the game, as the start of each encounter it was simply the people version of “delete”.
KevinC
6301
Hacking seems like an appropriate skill to break a game. It’s very meta!
The guns are fun though. The boom of a big handgun and the crazy smart sniper rifle were just great IMO.
DeepT
6304
Are there some strong, non-hacking builds out there?
I just picked up this game for Xbox One to play on the Series X thanks to the recent $10 price at Best Buy. What kind of install size are we looking at?
stusser
6307
Sure, pretty much every build is viable, even melee. Hacking is just ridiculously overpowered.
It’s 60GB on the PC, I’m guessing it would be similar on Xbox.
What’s the TLDR of if this game is worth current sale price of $40?
