Not enough stats. I need 10 STR 10 DEX 6 PER (to overclock it to 8 and grab crit perk), need 6 CON to for DEX, STR and PER implants. No stats left for INT. Only can tag crit. First feat - is educated to fix horrible XP and get tag for blunt. Since I will use a companion (Jed most likely) I think I can manage without evasion and armor. It will be ultimate glass cannon. I guess it is challenge run in a way, probably won't be pleasant.
How about XP then? For me it is the most precious resource on solo MM. I get enough loot and cash for myself but could always use a level up. Anyway I don't think even on MM you can allow yourself to spread your build too thin. Have to focus on something, combat or stealth. Not enough tags to cover everything. And in end game your lack of focus will close end game doors.
Wait I just realized that Critical Thinker IS the perception feat xD
Dunno. I need both. Plan is educated. Then crit thinker, then basher/second wind. Then heavy hitter. On 8 PER I need precise strike. Damage part complete. Then I will have to work out the order between utility skills that improve performance and save AP. With INT that low I probably can't have it all. Charger, Slow meta, fast draw, second wind. Zero defense, all offense, best defense is offense type of thing, kill people faster with nasty damage and boosted AP pool. Also plan to rely on Jed body shielding and invis gadget.
Where, how?
Depends on why you didn't like AoD! The combat is more focused on ranged attacks and you have a party instead of a single character. It's also more fine to play hybrid characters (there's not really enough non combat feats to build a non combat character).
Because there is one such feat. Namely Precise Strike.
Augh, I don't know. I used a build with that feat and felt very underwhelmed by it. If you tag CS then pick Critical Thinker you'll have more than enough, I think.
Future content. I think in ECLSS you can overclock implants. These minmaxxers are making builds for future.
Not if you are that frail. I really think that 6 CON + no evasion/armor tags makes you very squishy. So if you ditch both you need to delete people. Could also help with occasional tough bastard, which halves your crit damage.
It had Critical Thinker, Precise Strike, and Heavy Hitter. Only had 6 in CS so I didn't really farm it as much as I could have. Hmm. Still not sure about Precise Strike though.
Party based nature and learn by using system change a lot but otherwise - quite similiar feeling all around. Also less story branching, more tacticool depth. Advanced stealth and negotiation systems.
If anything, it's rather the opposite. In AoD you could hold onto your skill points and decide how to distribute them somewhat later. Here you don't have even that option and if someone had PTSD over the fact he's missing content because he's invested 1 less stat point at the start - he will complain about it here even more. Mentally healthy people can play freely as they please because that's what learn by using system is for… But we'll see first how many of them this game will attract to begin with.
In Aod, I would frequently bank skill points "for later", leading to metagaming in that regard. In colony ship you're more likely to try and metagame your quest ordering, as missed opportunities to use a skill are permanent xp losses (although most quests take place in the "open world", which means you can often return, but not everything is like this). I'm not sure you can avoid metagaming in a challenging game like this though, or even that it is desirable. It's more important that the metagaming is fun.
Well for starters tagging a skill gives an immediate boost of two level ups. Starting with 3, or 4, in a skill basically means you're already ahead of the curve in terms of early game. Start doing a bunch of the skill checks and you'll eventually reach a point where you don't even need to stress over it. There's also skill tokens too.
Unfortunately, it's true. If you keep shooting people in the face, you won't be able to become good at talking. Not sure how to fix it, maybe add a Skyrim difficulty mode?
Which you can reach just fine. It's really hard to lock yourself out unless you're intentionally missing content or rolling some Jack of Trade build that's spreading itself too much.
you might as well considering you already adapted the skyrim leveling system
