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Builds / Re: Help Crafting a Comprehensive Sword Guide

« on: August 29, 2025, 10:21:09 am »

I have designed a sword + acid pistol build, but I've never tried it.  I tried designing a sword + epistol build a few times over the years but it always felt suboptimal to just sword + knife.

I played both, it's always nice to have a good range option, and laster pistols have great range, precision and damage ; while chem pistols have great CC and AOE damage

There's also some feats that could be good that I haven't played with much:

• Continuum Ripple
• Decapitate - The exposed head things kinda always kept me from taking this.
• Hit and Run - Doesn't proc from psi kills. Could be really good with blitz.
• Fancy Footwork - If this works with chainsword it could be pretty amazing. I'd worry about killing enemies too quickly and not getting enough movement points.

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I don't think i'd enjoy playing a sword build without fancy footwork, it's a great feat for any melee that does a lot of attacks

About hit n run the main reason i would'nt chose it for sword build is that i'd much rather take fancy footwork, which makes hit n run obsolete.

You say it doesn't work with psi abilities but why does it matter for a sword build ?

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Builds / Re: Melee & Gun hybrids?

« on: August 25, 2025, 11:06:26 am »

I like doing a dex versatility pistol build with Cleaver/Wasteland Hawk. Cleaver isn't redundant since it costs less ap to use than the hawk, is silent, and has a special attack that can break ribs and let you deal extra damage to a target. You already want melee skill for gun fu, and you want to be in melee range for the Wasteland Hawk for the daze/stun effect.

nice

another possible synergy could be to use kneecap shot for stacking taste for blood (edit : the feat says it's a "bleeding wound" but i never tried if it works)

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Builds / Re: Melee & Gun hybrids?

« on: August 23, 2025, 07:11:47 am »

I've played multiples melee range hybrid dex builds in dominating, with and without versatility :

SMG/FIST or SMG/KNIFE
SWORD/CHEM PISTOL
KNIFE/Laser PISTOLS

Laser pistol is the option that gives you the more range so it's actually decent. But there's always some kind of synergy even with SMG for w2c bullet or chem pistols for acid and crowd control for example, while melee destroys unarmored enemies, also gives some control and mobility  with fancy footwork,  and conserves ammo.

That said many combinations could work, i just like dex builds since they give you a lot of attacks per turn.

i might try shotgun/brawler or spear/crossbow hunter later on. i saw this guy on youtube doing spear/shotgun at the moment : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgUB4VWqflg&ab_channel=72dimi

I don't think they're the best builds but i've had fun playing like this role playing some kind of spec-ops and that beat the game just fine.

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Bugs / Re: "Failed to load saved game" error for all files

« on: September 25, 2024, 08:06:48 pm »

I had same problem today,

The message was ""Failed to load the saved game. Error: Unable to resolve data element type: Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Input.Keys""

However i was able to load my oldest save, and after doing that the recent saves seem to work again.

Hope it's permanent.

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Bugs / Re: Steamdeck - saves fail to load

« on: November 08, 2023, 04:44:16 pm »

Wow that was quick,

I can confirm it's fixed, all saves load fine.

Many thanks.

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Bugs / Re: Cheap Shots triggers on Spear Throw

« on: November 08, 2023, 08:42:15 am »

Spear throw is a melee attack in all ways

Do you mean that developers confirmed that Spear Throw is intended to act as a melee attack? From common sense, I don't see why throwing spears would be fundamentally different from throwing knives, and I don't remember the latter triggering Cheap Shots.

Because spears are weapon and throwing knives are utilities

Spear throw damage is also based on melee and not throwing

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Bugs / Steamdeck - saves fail to load

« on: November 08, 2023, 08:38:52 am »

Hi,

I started to play on steamdeck a month ago, before release of heavy duty.

It worked well (occasionnal fail to save but a restart of steamdeck always fixed it).

I managed to install and finish Heavy Duty with same character.

After that i loaded an old save (wanted to try dlc with that character), played a bit, saved the game.

Now i have an error : "failed to load save game, Error : Unable to resolve data element type: Microsoft, Xna,Framework, Input, Keys" when trying to load that new save AND the old ones (which used to work fine).

Saves won't load both on PC and steamdeck (i had synchronization activated).

Here is a link with the two last saves i used : https://we.tl/t-K2QKa7H6oU

Cheers,

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Builds / Re: General Build Guide for Heavy Duty DLC (Minor Spoilers)

« on: November 05, 2023, 06:29:40 pm »

wow thx, looks terrifying,

Do they also all have thick skull or will i be able to use my favorite cut throat build ?

The grunts don’t have thick skull, but the support unit does.

Thx !

I was afraid when you compared them to strongmen but my cut throat pk build works quite well so far, glad i have more ennemies to slice

Those guys are really fun to fight, really great dlc

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Builds / Re: General Build Guide for Heavy Duty DLC (Minor Spoilers)

« on: November 01, 2023, 09:39:37 am »

wow thx, looks terrifying,

Do they also all have thick skull or will i be able to use my favorite cut throat build ?

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Builds / Re: Ultimate Fishing Build- Women Want Me, Fish Fear Me

« on: October 16, 2023, 07:35:38 pm »

Yes thanks a lot for the detailed explanation,

Indeed the last patch says "Reduced the spread angle for assault rifle/SMG bursts", i didn't realise it was almost as thin as a plasma beam now, that's very interesting (and i guess the new heavy weapons will have an edge on this).

Pretty fun to see throwing knives now competing with ARs haha

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Builds / Re: Ultimate Fishing Build- Women Want Me, Fish Fear Me

« on: October 16, 2023, 01:51:45 am »

Hi, thanks for the write up, the build looks indeed quite good.

However i'm having a hard time with that affirmation "Concentrated fire is a superb feat for single target damage, which makes AR’s king for bursting down the final boss, but in most encounters enemies will die in 3-4 shots, holding back your damage potential. It’s against hordes of enemies where throwing knives really shine over AR builds, since split spare and pinning can quickly eliminate threats from the crowd. "

Since AR bursts are extremely good at killing multiple ennemies in a cone with stray bullets (unless this has been patched at some point i'm not aware of ?), i don't really see why you'd consider concentrated fire a feat good for single target only.

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General / Re: Phreak's phones

« on: October 15, 2023, 10:15:56 pm »

Someone on steam forum said it was a bug, hopefully will be patch soon

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General / Re: Endgame crafted psi armor - need advice

« on: October 11, 2023, 12:32:35 pm »

Well there's definitely a lot of bio threats in expedition so i'd go with that if you want to keep the same gear as often as possible

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Builds / Re: Versatile Versatility (Sword/Chem Pistol+TK) build help

« on: October 10, 2023, 02:15:22 pm »

I did sword + chem pistols and it worked fine, i just used pistols when flurry was on cooldown so high AP for sword wasn't really a problem

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General / Re: Heavy Duty speculation

« on: October 10, 2023, 01:02:38 pm »

I'm a bit puzzled with the requirement of a new "heavy weapon" skill requirement, considering those new weapons seem super expensive to buy and use, are we supposed to invest into guns first for early game and then transition to heavy weapon ? Or use the versatility feat ?

I also wonder how LMG and miniguns will compete with assault rifles

Can't really speculate about builds possibilities without knowing the new feats