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General / Re: Getting 2 items from friendly factions

« on: Today at 12:22:30 am »

You can kill the JKK agents outside of their HQ map without turning core city hostile, but you have to do it right.  Afterwards, you can never enter their HQ map.

So there is one down on Moe's map.  Two at the mid level elevator map.  One on Halim's map.  Two on Ray's map.  You have to kill them without either you or the agents seeing a coretech or praetorian, or else those factions will turn hostile as well.  The hardest part is Halim's map; the easiest thing is to create noise inside a shop, then use a door to separate the jkk agent from the rest and kill him out of sight.

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Builds / Re: 1st playthrough assassin build

« on: July 12, 2025, 09:30:52 pm »

5 will gets you ripper, and if you join JKK it gets you a big persuasion boost as well

hit and run was a bad choice; should have went with fancy footwork
I'm assuming youre not playing on dom; you should be alright.  Focus from now on on raising dexterity and taking combat feats; blitz, critical power, taste for blood, etc.

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General / Re: Make a monster for Infusion

« on: July 12, 2025, 02:20:47 am »

Ceiling turrets

a tanky robot that will release a cloud of toxic gas around itself, and leaves a trail of gas as it moves

the sewer abomination done justice; a horrible RE nemesis/DS revenant monster that cant be conventionally killed, it will regenerate back from death and follow the player from map to map

scuba divers, maybe with flechette guns

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General / Re: Oddities

« on: July 12, 2025, 02:11:44 am »

A tomato pincushion; the player doesnt know what a tomato is

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Suggestions / Eel vs Pirate encounters are too common

« on: July 06, 2025, 11:23:46 pm »

If you finish the pirate questline, there are frequent random encounters of battles between black eel jetters and pirates, to the north and east of the rig, but they're at least twice as common as they should be.  I'm currently riding from core city to hathor and Ive had to wade through three.  Ive seen many more previously. 

Most players probably don't spend much time on jets after finishing the questline, but if you do its pretty annoying.

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Bugs / Black splotches in the compound caves

« on: July 06, 2025, 04:27:43 pm »

By the psychophract corpses.  Also there are similar black spots in the agility jumping water section on the same map.

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Builds / Re: Melee & Gun hybrids?

« on: July 05, 2025, 12:16:38 am »

As far as I know, however, heavy guns don't have melee penalty, do they?

Guess they don't, but your burst angle will only hit the guy youre shooting if you have multiple enemies in melee range, like when youre surrounded.  However, if youre using balors, you have at minimum 24ap per attack (but probably 25) unless you use pummel, vs an lmgs 25, so it isnt saving you any ap, but quake can quake (and theres blast caps); and of course a minigun *can* get down to 4ap so its really not helpful if youre revved up.  Still, I hate to burst for one guy. 
Also, sometimes youre in a fight with allies or there are otherwise some potential targets youd rather not hit; positioning can be a big issue with lmgs since they are burst-only.  Having a single target weapon available can save you headaches.

Losing conc fire on heavy guns is no biggie; they do so much damage already that you can skip half the damage boosts and still womp everything.

I tried a "minigun build" as my first HD run, before the minigun buff, and it wasnt fun.  I then ran the str vers build up to 25th or so, though I never got far enough to use balors or to upgrade my gun from the brno.  Still, the str vers one was much nicer to play.

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Builds / Re: Melee & Gun hybrids?

« on: July 04, 2025, 01:57:29 pm »

the problem with smg/knife is why would you ever use the knife?

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Builds / Re: Melee & Gun hybrids?

« on: July 04, 2025, 12:50:03 am »

The only legit build Ive ever seen that combines melee and guns in a way where you actually use both is a strength-versatility heavy metal build.  It has quake or balors in one hand, and an lmg or minigun in the other.  Quake for AoE melee, like when surrounded by numerous weak enemies like burrower spawn, but mainly balors for the bigdick mech reduction (you have to switch to it at the end of every turn).  One thing I disliked about the first heavy guns build I played was that when you have one or two weak enemies to kill, or some melee'er in your face, it sucks to waste a burst on them (and you have close-quarters penalties too), so having a hammer to bonk them with is really nice. 

For one, strength versatility really works here; heavy guns need to split up between str, con, and per.  This makes it a lot simpler; you max str and get however much con and per you need for feats, and it doesnt matter if you wear a shaded visor helmet, drink brew, etc; you arent using per.  You need high str for balors anyway.  You can even use the industrial exoskeleton (big str boost, mp that ignores armor penalty) since you have such higher reduction and generally wont *need* the best armor.  You can even wear a lifting belt since you dont need to reload very often with the big guns (but for the bigger fights you better stick to a bullet belt).  All the strength boosts will directly help your heavy guns accuracy and damage; you can legitimately have 28 strength while attacking with a gun. 

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Bugs / Re: Report spelling/grammar errors

« on: July 02, 2025, 02:39:29 am »

carefully

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General / Re: Oddity or Classic: Which do you prefer to play on?

« on: June 30, 2025, 09:03:21 pm »

oddity only slows down if you stop doing questlines
classic levels you up too fast, so thats out by default
you already cap out too soon even on oddity, imo

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Builds / Re: A build (or three) for every weapon (Dominating approved)

« on: June 29, 2025, 08:03:09 pm »

Yeah he did this back when pistols weren't buffed, and killing enemies close range smg's excel at that too so I'm not sure I see the point.

I'm certain you don't.

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Builds / Re: A build (or three) for every weapon (Dominating approved)

« on: June 29, 2025, 03:38:29 pm »

If you had firearm pistols (arguably the strongest weapon in the game) why would you even need the sniper? They operate at roughly the same range and pistols 1 shot everything, contrary to the smg.

They're only the strongest if you build around them, and even then only past the midgame.  As a sidearm, you have a fairly-low AP-cost and accurate weapon (for applying kneecap shot) to take down trash mobs or enemies who get too close.  Gunslinger gives you a nice initiative boost for when stealth doesnt work.  Tygrende liked to use a laser-sight neo-luger for most of the game, switching to a .44 hammerer lategame, and he even took rapid shot for them.

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Builds / Re: A build (or three) for every weapon (Dominating approved)

« on: June 29, 2025, 08:59:52 am »

I have seen a pistol rapid-fire a dreadnought to death. 

Also I would never spec snipe for a real run; thats for meme numbers only.

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Bugs / Re: Report spelling/grammar errors

« on: June 28, 2025, 07:08:39 pm »

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