Oh yeah. I prefer mid to low tech playthroughs most of the time. If you go with metal plates for armor and craft yourself a bling bling set, you won't even need a shield. Hell, it's almost detrimental to go with one: metal armor lacks resistance to electric damage and an EMP will fuck you up if you have too many charged electronics on you. You'll still want one for certain areas though. Just keep it in your inventory.
I'm just pissed the one thing that could solve all my energy problems is so late in the game.
You mean super steel? It's pretty manageable if you rush the Oligarchs and Foundry quest. Real hard part is getting high quality materials to work with in my experience. I'm not going to lie: I used Cheat Engine to force merchant refresh because I wasn't satisfied with mid or low-high quality stuff. Would've just spent forever reloading and waiting (running underrail in the background while I do other stuff) like I did before knowing there was CE for it.
I love the lore surrounding psionics and the fact most go batshit insane. All of them knowing about and being drawn toward the monoliths and Oculus really fires up my neurons. What you see in the Abyssal Station and Black Sea temple could make Lovecraft proud.
Look if I save the world by getting high on battery acid and psionic shrooms every 2 minutes, then so be it.
Nah the one armor vest you get from going coretech. Also annoying it's a faction thing, buut whatever it looks fucking snazzy and I only need to replace a battery instead of juggling multiple.
There was this one game I was looking forward to that was like this game. "encased" https://store.steampowered.com/app/921800/Encased_A_SciFi_PostApocalyptic_RPG/ apparently the ukraine shit fucked it up because the publisher is ghosting the devs - to the point of NOT EVEN PAYING THEM, cuz muh russia, so no updates anymore which fucking sucks.
Snuffing shroom extract, slurping beetle brains, eating pickled super shrooms, shooting octopus fluid, and injecting crab brains.
Oh yeah. I forgot about that. My last energy pistol build was ages ago.
Huh. I don't remember having an issue getting quality 120+ stuff. (Which really, is all you need to craft shit that breaks the game over your knee). I did go out of my way to try and unlock merchants' hidden inventories though, which seem to improve the quality of materials they sell.
i'm talking 150-160 here, man
Oh that makes sense. I'm not hardcore enough for dominating.
Where is your motivation?
Nigger is on another level. He wakes up in the morning and eats microchips to supplement his iron intake.
It is really addicting once it all falls into place. Normal and hard just won't do it for you anymore. You'll have perfected a build to the point they may as well be easy by another name. Gun-fu builds are extraordinarily stretched thin. Not really optimal or wise to play on DOMINATING with. The only really hard part for me is the beginning. Even then, you're talking to a guy who cleared pre-DOMINATING nerfed Silent Isle where all the beetles were Goliaths rather than just two with the build I posted. Depot A is Depot A. Moltovs, caltrops, and doors will clear anything. I mostly beeline to the circuit drive through the underground vents these days though. Purging the entire place just costs a lot for little unless you're playing on Classic experience.
Fill the entire place with caltrops, preferably poisoned for more chip damage, to slow advance. You want to avoid getting hit entirely by some enemies unless you have almost max resist. Light the room on fire with moltov after moltov. If you have nets, that'll save you some time by slowing one of the big bastards down for a single turn. It's a bit early for gas grenades, which you'll only really need on DOMINATING for him.
Caltrops and grenades really do solve everything. (They're also how I deal with those crawlers in the deep caverns because FUCK CRAWLERS.)
They are unfathomably good for crowd control. Only weapon in the game that you can coast by without utilities in any capacity whatsoever is the Fusion Cannon.
Pillars of Eternity 2 comes close, especially with the more ai mod, and a mod to turn almost every skill into per encounter. So I don't have to micromange everyone. But I really fucking hate the politics in the game.
