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When crafting would it be possible to only show the components that apply to a blueprint in the inventory screen? Saves scrolling up and down.
While I think your build is interesting, I don't want to try and do everything as one character. It's more fun for me to say "here's what this character can do, here is what they can't do." and then play accordingly.
. I wouldn't say that it can do it all but rather is more of an adaptive combatant. . If you go for Kevlar Cloth with the Riot gear the character will be quite tough with block, shield emitter and bullet resistance and you won't have to worry about bullets or chems too much. You will be able to make metal Striders boots which will give quite decent MP.
So I have been playing with a full psi character. I have completed expedition and I think I am nearing the end of the main campaign, and I have been thinking about what kind of character I want to play next. The problem is, there's so many I want to try and since it takes a while for some builds to take shape, I don't want to invest a lot of time and energy into a build that might not be the best fit for someone who is still learning.
I'm torn between:
An AR/Shotgun tin can build
A stealth trap/crossbow character
An unarmed character
Or a melee user with swords or spears
Which one should I try next?
...I'm accustomed to manually starting combat almost every time
so in short getting two Locus of Control per battle, provided something survives the first combo, is easy.That was always the difficulty for me - nothing ever survived the EnrageOn the other hand I don't see a point in going Premediation cooldown because by the time I need it for Locus of Control/Rage combo it will be down anyways.TC abilities are generally high cost and short range. Premeditation fixes both of those things. Plus TM abilities tend to be high-cost and near-instant so you can end up dumping a lot of psi points in a turn; Premeditation help with that too. You'll get by without Premeditation spec, same as you'd get by without LoC spec. If you really don't think you'd use it, no harm - but me, I use Premeditation on cooldown, every cooldown, every fight, every time. Even if all I've got for it is Premed + LTI, I'm hitting it on cooldown. Seems far more useful than 2 more points of Initiative, but of course it would come down to play style.
. I am not saying it's the best way to do things. For me using Premediation as soon as it's ready means that I may not have it when I need it, if that makes sense. Specialization points will be applied on Trigger Happy and Locus of Control Cooldown by taking turns.My first character in Expedition specced into LoC cooldown, and I won't do it again. The reason is that even with 5/5 and using LTI on cooldown, you're going to need seven turns between LoCs. It's actually kind of difficult to drag a fight out that long unless you're in the arena (in which case there aren't enough targets to justify LoC) or fearbouncing entire Rathound packs (in which case, they're rathounds, and don't really require LoC). Even the Balor fight at a reasonable character level only really lasts 5-6 turns. So I found that unless I really went out of my way to prolong fights, I wasn't getting use out of those specialization points. Still, if you go that route, I'd be interested about your feedback on it to hear if it was worth it for you.
You should really find 2 points for Premeditation cooldown spec. That you will benefit from, almost every single fight.
. I spent the initial cash for Hand Grenade imprint and crafted five Frags. That was quick 5 outposts. I took Grenadier at 4 to make the Newton beetles easy. The drones at the GMS were a bit problematic, but only because I was too lazy to go back and get some EMPs or wait for MKII Frags. Already passed Depot A and it's looking good. At the Depot I could already loop a doorway with Quick Tinkering traps, nets, four turns Force Fields and the MKIII Frags and cooldown reductions were cleaning house. Your feedback about Temporal Manipulation was invaluable as it really helped against robots and the turret. Particularly slowing down the Plasma Sentry.
1) Not really. You play on DOMINATING, right? You're going to need to break enemy resolve, and I usually recommend an effective TC of 200 or so for that. If you were playing 16 Will and multi-school psi, you could get there with 75 points in TC, but I think you need all of them to make sure you clear resolve. If you plan to use it regularly, don't give the enemies any more chance to resist your TC abilities than you have to.
2)Yeah. Three Pointer isn't reliable even with a dedicated throwing build, so I don't like it much. Personal bias aside, it can be tough to recommend it - it's only good with high Throwing, but it's not good enough to be the only reason you go deep into Throwing. If all you want is to reliably place grenades, you can do that with 50-60 effective skill.
3)When in doubt, go to the wiki: https://www.underrail.com/wiki/index.php?title=Blueprint:_Hand_Grenade
4&5) See above (edit: if you want to go in 20 points really early for the SGS benefits, that makes sense - but if not, then don't bother going into Mercantile until you've cleared the Depot, unless you really want TiChrome before you go in, in which case you need a few dozen points to unlock Blaine's inventory so you get an RNG chance for him to have a bar in stock)
6) Yep, you're right. Temporal Manipulation. Getting that early will be a huge help for you. The basic ability will get you safely through the Retake The Outposts quest; the LTI and psi slow will just be very useful in general, and once you've cleared the Depot you'll get some really, really nice abilities. So try to pick up some TM early if you can - no point in getting any more crafting than you need, until you need it.
. But that will make it easier to an extent. . It's a quick enough trek to level 12 that you might find things working a little better if you didn't really invest in crafting until around 12-16. Getting some TM early on will cover up a lot of the weaknesses in that spread out build. Also, with such a clearly crafting-heavy build, I might pull ten points each from Mechanics and Tailoring (if you plan to use Hypercerebrix while crafting top-tier gear at home) and 20 from Psychokinesis (because you're not going to have enough skill there to make it a significant damage-dealer anyway) and put them into Mercantile so you can hit all the thresholds for unlocking merchant inventory except Efreitor Hannah's second one (two points from out of throwing would get you there as well, with both Hypercerebrix and Under Pie).
Looks like a solid JoAT build either way, though.
