That's going to be useful info for Timeslip.
Those two axes of progression are neat. The big difference aside, the past experiences felt to me that we level up faster initially but enemies steadily, so later the gap starts narrowing. Fits well the race.
Well, it's good for a battlefield control. They don't like to stay or step inside the fire.
There was an issue with that, so in this build you probably saw it more rare than intended.
Overall it's pretty good so far.Here is my current character
-Everybody on the team has fully upgraded personal armour, 20 mk II trauma kits on inventory & couple smoke grenades.
Sam wields baton & double barreled shotgun, Ray improved revolver & reinforced baseball bat+ grenades, De Soto sniper rifle & improved revolver.
Furey has 2nd tier smg, 2nd tier machete and incendiary grenades (not much use for those though; enemies seldom seem to gather into convenient groups outside of melee range, besides I try to go non-lethal as much as possible.)
-I've maxed out 2 out of 5 facilities (others are lvl 4) and I could max third if I sold excess trauma kits from storage (about 100+ of both mk I's and II's).
-I've done mostly non-lethal take downs, only exceptions being Furey's license to kill every survivalist that she can and two early engagements where I had to take gloves off (2nd one of those was the only one that I've lost so far; stopped ignoring available cover when fighting ranged enemies after that.)
-Despite letting Elena work her frustrations out on survivalists (probably 20+ on bodybags during less than month of games time) I have maxed out reputation and relationship on "rapport" with all companions (Furey lags bit behind.)
Perhaps reputation penalty for any killing should be higher?
-Relationship on rapport level doesn't seem to give any bonuses.
-My "strategy" has been very simple; I simply find out where highest danger level is and attack there. It's doable because I seem be massively over leveled compared to opposition (I'm currently getting level 5 mooks against my level 25 Sam & level 24 companions)
-Survivalists seem to be the most dangerous gang with plenty of ranged units around that have started wielding assault rifles, church is the easiest one with their basic mooks only starting to wield hammers and basic pistols. Mafia falls somewhere in between, their specialists seem to be more common than with other gangs.
-I think the reason why the church seems to lag behind is because they were spawned into poorer territories. So enemy AI may have to operate using limited resources generated by game's economy. Good.
-Despite my character's current being level 25 and enemies averaging lvl 5; I think they are catching up with their improving equipment.
As far I know I have the best armour available and enemy equipment keeps getting better. I've had to use cover more carefully and concentrate firepower to neutralize some greater threats.
-Armours seem to deteriorate quickly when taking damage. This is good, walking tanks wouldn't fit the setting.
-I think it's bit silly that I could set grenades into non-lethal. Some weapons should be just plain deadly regardless of intent.
-Currently intent seems to always decide if take down is lethal or not.
-Battle mechanics (cover, overwatch, attack of opportunity) seem to work as intended.
-Wounded enemies try occasionally flee like they should. I seldom let any of them escape.
-Player retreating seems to work as well.
-Interrogation is working though intel about bosses and rackets is rare, I think. Truth serum seems kinda
-Loot after battle is rather low end and containers quite easy to open. Though I'm playing utility character.
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-Temporal allies don't seem so strong in latter levels, with their lack of armour. They went from the best tanks on battlefield from earlier levels to people that I have spend some effort to protect.
I probably should try switching into higher difficulty level.
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Added stuff behind spoilers.
Yeah that's pretty far (currently probably far enough?).
Some comparison notes:
Seems you took an advantage of the leveling system. Higher difficulty might be more suitable indeed, but right now, even though it means more resting and less money (all in all lower level on July 30), would probably still outlevel them a lot at that date (on higher difficulty they will be perhaps in the range 7-9 lvl, unsure though)...
The character system and strategy layer are two areas that are (by my unfounded opinion) in need of balancing. But that's what EA is good for, isn't it?
Some thoughts:
-- Seems that Sam is your primary interrogator, bypass and intel guy? (skill monkey)
-- You were doing a fair bit of surveillance on the city map? And a chunk of crafting?
-- he uses two combat skills (though am unsure if advances lower numbers faster)
-- upgraded Library
-- non-lethal = lower dam -> more hits needed = more doing
-- Sam must be a fairly active during the battles
For the comparison, here comes my current character:
Three days less only but substantially lower level on Vigilante difficulty.
Where is the difference?
-- Given was testing and deliberately ineffective, BUT perhaps somebody unskilled in TB games might end up closer to this?
-- A long time it was only 3 pals. After ~20 battles we decided to pick up Emilia (she was hiding 2 weeks+ behind a car).
-- Trying to keep some skills highest on allies: Bypass on Ray and Surveillance on Elena
-- 3 facilities at lvl 2: Firing range, gym, workshop (that's all)
-- not much city map surveillance (so Sam won't out level Elena)
-- not much shopping, think crafted only lvl 2 armours [/spoiler]
The same sound bug:
On possible similarity with another issue: By any chance, does the scenario begin with Sam standing next to an enemy and then triggering AOO attack with his move? Did the walk animation ended itself at some point?
After some actions the AP bar may not update or with a delay, but it's usually a visual glitch.
It happened 2 times before, on different maps and with different characters, the same situation- character 1 moving in the direction of character 2, to the tile directly adjacent to character 2. One time it happened with Sam and also his walk animation was looping (maybe it's something unrelated).
Recreated:
Emilia was standing in the active tile, then I moved her where's she's now. The same mission, it happened with Ray when he moved to attack the last enemy. Walking sound still played when he attacked and eliminated the enemy, and in the interrogation screen, loot screen and mission summary screen. The distance was longer than 1 tile, in all the other cases it was 1 tile.
Again, on this map, but another mission:
The same but with a wall. Maybe one of the previous ones was also with scenery mesh rather than character, I don't remember. I spend some time trying to recreate this bug and never happened when the character was surrounded by empty tiles, but maybe it's just coincidence. It sounds like an entire loop of walk fx need to be played/character stops moving precisely when loop ends. Sound stops either in next character's turn or if character moves again.
Another bug:
40 or 50 modified medium caliber ammunition appeared in Emilia's inventory, it might be from the loot but I doubt it was, I don't remember it being on the list, I tried to load a gun (upgraded Patriot) by drag and drop, all the ammo disappeared. She had a small amount (<10) of this type of ammunition in her inventory before the mission.
Also there are problems with AP bar not showing current AP, "Insufficient AP" flashing even is there's enough AP.
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Only in one case it was move+attack, everything else was just move.
It 7 because I set it up like this to check if it will work the same for all the characters after bug appeared in Sam's inventory. This one was the bug during manual reloading in the inventory screen. I send you some info about it in the email, but I wouldn't be surprised if there's a problem with game files on my side considering how many problems with ammo I had.
Not any longer. I just got bunch of updates to my system.
It may happen, but I'm not probably noticing it, since I don't keep account of characters stats.
And what color will it be for when a boosted stat is injured?
Most convenient solution would be that red overrides green to tell player "here's problem, fix it."
Makes sense as communicating an injury. On different note, I tend to play not bothering to treat most of them, so could happen it's boosted while red. It means there is still a chance for confusion, though lower.
Yeah. I pretty much kicked them while they were down.
