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I would say they're more aggressive at taking back towns now. I had to set up another squad and a 3rd for moving around and just retraining militia. Ernie island is a hard fight fyi if you wanna take it all back. But they sent patrols from there so you kinda need to secure it. Bad guys drop better loot now though and sometimes other stuff that's pretty valuable so you should be able to afford it fairly quickly
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TeaJay posted:Yeah, that went a lot better. Surprisingly my militia was able to win one fight so now I'm in control of Fleatown and my income has gone to poo poo. post-refugee camp: I'm roughly in the same spot. I defended the communist town against 3 groups (luckily separate fights), liberated A2 mines with 12 mercs and I'm currently liberating the tutorial Island. No counter attacks so far, but the battles are pretty rough. Issaries fucked around with this message at 10:51 on Jul 20, 2023 |
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What strategy did yall use for the refugee camp? I currently see no way to win it without cheesing it massively.
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Jul 20, 2023 10:53
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Position your guys carefully before triggering the fight, including mg setups. Use Barry’s shaped charges and liquify fools. Prox explosives near the tree work too. Stay spaced out, but still in one group to fight your way down the hill. Take advantage of the height where you start off with. The enemies have to climb to you. Don’t panic about mortars, you can be at the edges of the circle and still get away clean. But stay mobile.
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Xarn posted:What strategy did yall use for the refugee camp? I currently see no way to win it without cheesing it massively. A 6 shot grenade launcher and RPGs.
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Jul 20, 2023 11:00
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I've been cruising through the game without much difficulty so far. I took Fleatown and most of Port Cacao while doing lots of sidequests, but now I realized my money is starting to dwindle, and when I went to The Good Place I got so hosed up. I'm just going to load my old save file before I went to the Good Place, but where should I go next?
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Xarn posted:What strategy did yall use for the refugee camp? I currently see no way to win it without cheesing it massively. Make sure you tackle it with both squads if that’s not obvious
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I had to do some serious micro management to get two teams at once in Refugee camp at the same time (is there really not an option to sync travel/arrival for squads?) since the other one was so much faster, I had to calculate when to start travelling so that they'd arrive at the same time - but I succeeded eventually. After that I had enough firepower to take most of the enemies out pretty fast. Although right now it feels like with armored enemies my snipers beginner snipers aren't up to it anymore, success rates for headshots have dropped drastically and I end up making torso shots. I'm mostly using M24 and a few Dragunovs. Ivan has a Galil, Barry rocks a FN-FAL in addition to throwing bombs, Vicki has double Uzis and Fauda is using RPK. Dr. Q doesn't hit even the broad side of a barn so I'd have to make some time to train him a lot. Another thing about the Refugee camp that was pretty funny was how realism had to be sidelined due to it being a game. I mean how the military guy makes a speech while surrounded by my 12 guys with guns in hand and then just walks to his car without anyone doing anything. We could've just shot the big bad guy full of holes then and there, you guys?!? Also, is there really no way to split an ammo stack in squad inventory screen, and I have to go to tactical to split a stack of 40mm grenades? TeaJay fucked around with this message at 11:45 on Jul 20, 2023 |
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Jul 20, 2023 11:14
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Don't forget to use the appropriate ammo, AP rounds and whatnot. Also, you can convert your base ammo into specialized variants with some parts.
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Jul 20, 2023 11:21
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https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3007139970 Goddammit, those shotgunners WERE cheating with their move range. 30% on hard is nasty but holy poo poo people on the hardest mode, you guys are getting hosed
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What I am hearing is that I need to upgun. I still roll with my 5 initial mercs + 2 losers to train depleted militia. 
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So yeah, i think, especially with the improved burst mod, overwatch is really good and viable, especially for lower agility mercs. You do need to build your guns for it and set up ahead of time but you get way more shots downrange with overwatch than trying to rely on the active turn.
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lol on replay a stray shot at Red Diamond destroyed the unique rifle you can loot -_- guess I'll console that one in
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Dandywalken posted:lol on replay a stray shot at Red Diamond destroyed the unique rifle you can loot -_- Wait, I must have missed that. Also I saw something posted about a machete at some point too I've also missed.
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Jul 20, 2023 12:36
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I put that unique machete The Thing on Blood and he absolutely destroys fools with it. You get it from solving the conflict between Boss Blaubert and Luigi. Be warned though, the prison (Good Place) is likely the most difficult encounter you'll face in the game at that point - at least it was for me.
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TeaJay posted:Yeah, that went a lot better. Surprisingly my militia was able to win one fight so now I'm in control of Fleatown and my income has gone to poo poo. I'm only on normal but the army raids have so far only been 4 troops, and the militia seems to handle them as well as the legion raids. far less frequent so far too
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TeaJay posted:I put that unique machete The Thing on Blood and he absolutely destroys fools with it. Ah! I've done that fight and really didn't find it difficult at all, but i am rocking a team with exceptional guns, a lot of AP ammo, explosives and they're all highly trained now too. I've not finished that quest line yet though. I really did find that mission quite easy though, I assaulted from the side, in the dog, at night and shadow managed to clear the edges of the map solo and the centre part, we managed assaulted from 3 directions, Including 3 mercs who had managed to sneak inside the centre compound.
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the fight is mostly difficult due to the boss having an end game shotgun which can absolutely demolish you, while also being garrisoned inside so he's sticky and doesn't come running if you solve for X tho it's just your standard fight, yea
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Azhais posted:I'm only on normal but the army raids have so far only been 4 troops, and the militia seems to handle them as well as the legion raids. far less frequent so far too Difficulty is a HUGE autoresolve factor. On medium difficulty I lose 2-3 militia per raid. Im def more motivated to shut down outposts.
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TeaJay posted:I put that unique machete The Thing on Blood and he absolutely destroys fools with it. Does killing absolutely everyone in that encounter work for acquiring it
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How much time do I have to do the refugee camp thing and unleash phase 2? I haven't even taken Port Cacao completely since I chose to go for Pantagruel first, heading downwards, and have yet to start clearing the two outposts by the first half of the big river. Also I have to rescue Biff since an enemy squad is on its way to gently caress him up Man, I feel like I'm doing the game all wrong lol. Maybe I should do one final restart since some cool rebalance mods are coming out now, though with my luck a patch might hit before the weekend.
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toasterwarrior posted:How much time do I have to do the refugee camp thing and unleash phase 2? I haven't even taken Port Cacao completely since I chose to go for Pantagruel first, heading downwards, and have yet to start clearing the two outposts by the first half of the big river. Also I have to rescue Biff since an enemy squad is on its way to gently caress him up It's not timed. It's based on other things. The only way to trigger it without going to the refugee camp is to get near where you rescue the president.
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What makes more of a difference when training militia: higher leadership or the teaching perk? Right now I have MD going around training militia because he's cheap with the teacher perk but I noticed Len, with his high leadership, has been churning out militia in something like 15 hours. Versus MD doing it in something over 24 hours. Also I think I shot myself in the foot with the Sanitorium quest. Maybe someone can confirm. I killed the doctor immediately. I figured she was doing some Dr. Mengele poo poo so I just shot her. Did I screw myself out of being able to use that hospital?
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So I could very well ignore the camp, conquer the entire map, and as I'm about to wrap up it'll cause phase 2 to pop off? Weird, but thank you for the answer regardless
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Any way to bring two squads underground? I have finished the mean bunker underneath the camp on the Ernie Island, but sure wish I could have brought a few more guns down there. I presume there will be more "boss bunkers"?
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For those using the hit chance display mod: I just realized something and maybe I'm mistaken but nothing in the game says crouching or going prone increases your accuracy (save for when you have bipods), only that they make you harder to hit/see, right? Does anything show up in the hit chance?
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Captain Oblivious posted:Does killing absolutely everyone in that encounter work for acquiring it I have no idea, I sided with Boss since the other option was even worse. I also sided with Boss against Smiley since he's an annoying little creep
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Yeah, why didn't they make the discoverable mercs cool. Like where's battle-tested Ira with a belt of grenades and a big scar?
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 loving hell MD, I expected this from Meltdown not you.
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1000% agreed though that these devs did the absolute best a fan-game style sequel could do with the tone and everything. This really nailed it, and I'm incredibly cynical about devs these days managing to give their game that indefinable quality the old classics have.
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Croccers posted:
I got this, except it was from Mouse- apparently Stella requested it ... oh, and Dr.Q asked for a kill with throwing knives A dozen men suffered horribly, three of them with knives in their junk (Q ran out of AP while they were still alive, so Ice killsecured them)
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Captain Oblivious posted:It’s supposed to happen relatively quickly. That’s how you shave off the fourth shield on the fort. Did you meet Bastien in the starting square? I didn't do that the first two times I played, but this time I did and the counterattack happened. I wonder if maybe that's the trigger or something?
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where do you find those character missions, anyway? i've coincidentally completed a few but never saw the details.
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Apparently a dude on Mod nexus or Moddb made a mod to disassemble ammo for gunpowder. Def interested in that
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:where do you find those character missions, anyway? i've coincidentally completed a few but never saw the details. And what do they even do? Just reward more XP?
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Dandywalken posted:Apparently a dude on Mod nexus or Moddb made a mod to disassemble ammo for gunpowder. Def interested in that
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Minimi is fun, ammo aside. Not having the Cumbersome penalty on an LMG is nice.
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Dandywalken posted:Apparently a dude on Mod nexus or Moddb made a mod to disassemble ammo for gunpowder. Def interested in that  How SMALL are you making the pieces?!?
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Steak posted:Also I think I shot myself in the foot with the Sanitorium quest. Maybe someone can confirm. I killed the doctor immediately. I figured she was doing some Dr. Mengele poo poo so I just shot her. Did I screw myself out of being able to use that hospital? You miss out on the zombie outbreak cure questline if you kill her.
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Kind of confused as to how melee attacks work. Sometimes it feels like I can just keep hitting over and over with a knife, even though I'm missing and don't have enough AP to make another attack. I think it's something to do with the "Free move after melee attack" perk?
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