I’m like 8 hours in and all I’ve been doing is climbing things, skirting little ledges around buildings to see if I can get higher, and constantly using ping/distract on things on the ground.
I don’t know why. I’ve only found 2 places where I could break a window with a bat and sneak into a building, most floors and buildings seem only for show with no real interior. But… since I know breakable windows and secret entrances and shit exists I can’t stop looking for it.
I’m only level 7, but climbing high and lighting everyone on fire with technomagic is my kind of great combat. I was really surprised to find out that actually lighting people on fire until they run out of health somehow doesn’t count as killing them and they just go “downed”… so I can get the bonus from some quests for not killing, then go back with a katana and dice them up. <3
Would like some advice on how to get invested in the game. Got past the tutorial into a bit more open world and I’m torn between side quests and the main quest. Worried I’ll go into some territory that I’m not prepared for.
It’s a beautiful game. Just want to find that groove.
I honestly did main missions until a lot of side quests (actual side quests, not police requests or gang activity spots) opened up, then did as manage side missions I could until none were left.
Rinse and repeat! The stuff you get, and the experiences you have, just in the side missions alone are worth doing in between main missions!
Have fun, and just do what you feel like in the moment! Even if it’s climbing everything possible to find some breakable windows. ;-P
Just pick something that looks interesting and go for it. The areas are level scaled now, so you don’t have to worry about wandering into a high level zone.
To add to this, don’t be afraid to adjust the difficulty to your liking. Scaling is honestly GREAT for the game, but IMO normal-level combat is too easy. Higher difficulties add real threat to combat, which I think makes things much more interesting.
Let me recommend playing the main story until you see the title screen. You may have done the “tutorial” but until you see the title screen you are still very much in the “intro” of the game.
A lot of them you will know when you die very quickly that you’re not ready. It autosaves a lot so just load a recent save if you need to. I think the quests have recommended levels too?
The way I did it any time I finished a mission I would just look at what was closest to me on the map and do that next… It usually worked out ok.
I find it relaxing to not take seriously. It’s like a mix of GTA and Assassin’s Creed with beautiful graphics and a good soundtrack. The story is good, but not so good that I want to see how it ends right away.
Man, I couldn’t even get past the tutorials. It was all so overwhelming. The cyberware and combat I was ready for but the memory stuff was just too much. I can’t remember systems within systems and having to remember details from dreams asked too much.
Beautiful game. Cool environment. Just too busy.
What do you mean by memory stuff? The brain dance investigations?
Don’t sweat it and just use a guide, they aren’t really a major part of the game beyond maybe 3 story missions?
If you mean hacking, just go with a sandevistan no hacking melee build. The game feels very different when you play it as a pure (no) hack n slash.
The whole memory replay thing gets abandoned after you do it a couple of times until Phantom Liberty I think. I wouldn’t worry too much about that aspect of the gameplay.
I have the difficulty set on normal and it’s way too easy. For reference I’m in my 40s and spent my life as a mainly turn-based RPG gamer with a few things like Max Payne and Bioshock tossed in along the way.
The only time I wandered into something I shouldn’t have was actually a very early quest you get. Cyberpsychos. I don’t know if some/most of them can be taken down easily at a lower level, but I was level 5 when I ran in to my first one… some crazy woman who had super military mods and was invisible most of the time. Tried a dozen times and got my ass beat hard without fail.
Everything else has been cake.
yeah she can be kind of brutal, it’s weird they put her on a place where you run into her so early. She electrifies the water which fries you. You can shut the power off at a panel in the room if you have high enough technical ability, but can also kite her to that hallway with no water and shoot her from behind one of the Militech trucks in the street.
I recently upgraded my CPU and am playing through the game to finish it now that I can max the settings out. I’m playing it on Very Hard and it’s too easy. It didn’t feel like this when I played on launch, so idk if they changed something or if I was just bad then.
Yeah, I ran in to her at level 3. :p
It’s very common in modern games to take no damage at all in a fight. I guess people like that but it’s really boring to me. No sense of danger.
I had to crank it up to very hard after the hotel mission that ends act 1. I shouldn’t be going through that section like a God at level 8, taking no damaging and burning everyone who opposed me. Totally kills the immersion.
Whole time I was like "Bruh just use my med thing. It’s got two charges and I don’t need it. I’ve killed everything around. I have like 4 healing items, man. You don’t have to just keep bleeding out. Shit works fast. I’ve jumped off buildings and been running again in like 3 seconds. ’