Level 7 so far and I have a handful of questions.

So I'm going MA for the time being, and I've tried Proxy, but I gotta say am I missing something when it comes to missions? Easy missions give pretty much no XP at all, but Medium missions are downright suicide. Two yellow cons at much in most fights is simply too much, and even one yellow con has a rather high chance of killing me. I tried Proxy-usage, but the moment any fighting starts I promptly get targeted and killed making it kinda useless. More then once I've had a mob completely ignore the Proxy and keep shooting at me untill the Proxy put away the gun and went for interlock, and even then I still tend to draw attention moreso then the proxy does. So am I missing something in regards to things? Since so far, leveling has been slowing way way down due to a lack of mission XP.


Another question, after what crit mission do you unlock general missions?


ANOTHER question, what should I try for now since MA seems to be suicide in a medium mission, same with Proxy unless I somehow don't draw aggro? I hear Hacker has tremendous offense, but it looks a little fragile...


Also, how much does it cost to have some Tactics Boosters coded for me? I noticed that when using them, my odds of winning a given fight increase dramaticly, but I have very few of them to spare and I'm finding far fewer then I'm using. (Are Tactics Boosters the key to handling Medium level missions? Since right now they aren't medium, it's suicide. I've never pulled off a Medium mission that's involved combat, and I've almost never killed any yellow cons either.) Or maybe guns...

Moondog, the problem with retreating back to a hallway to heal up or something isn't in that I'm too weak after winning a fight. It's that the first fight I get into kills me most of the time. Even one on one, my odds of beating a yellow con are next to nonexistant. I've done it, but most of the time I'm killed. And then keep in mind that in a mission, I dunno if this is normal? But one on one's are EXTREMELY rare. Most of the fights I run into on a mission are two on one, outright garunteeing my death. This is why I'm asking if I'm doing something wrong, I understand yellow cons should be tough, but right now it's full on suicide.





Again, doesn't matter if I retreat back to heal up or not, it's that I can't beat anything. IF I'm lucky enough to get into a one on one, I'm still killed most of the time. Sometimes I don't even come that close to winning.


EDIT: And yes, I've been remembering to keep all my skills leveled as I'm going.

Message Edited by Digito on 12-09-2005 11:05 PM

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Moondog548 wrote:

Well let's treat this like a CSR ticket then ;-}

What's your loadout on one of these suicide missions, typically?

Do you use health pills?

Do you roll out of interlock and run away when your health is getting critically low?

Are you fighting with a gun in interlock?

Are you as far up the MA tree as you can be at your level?

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Ok let's get these figured out... my loadout is generally as far up the MA tree as I can go at level 7, (Martial Arts Expertise + all prereqs) and I take low blow plus that overhead hit, I don't use guns inside of interlock combat, I use health pills except most of the time I'm completely out of them. and I use the consistant technique + detect vulns skills, and that's pretty much it. I also took a side skill on the Operative/Soldier path but I forget which one, not the Data node one though.. uhm shoot, I can't remember what it was offhand.

Ack! I knew I got the name wrong, I meant Cheap shot in the first place. Ok I'll try to get Multi-fighting then, it sounds rather useful for when I'm in a two on one or something. If I could just find a reliable source of tactics boosters, maybe I could still take two yellows con at once then...

Alright thanks everybody! Took a real short break from MxO due to RL, back now. I see plenty of people have posted with rather helpful posts! my only question, are you sure attacking from outside the mission area isn't exploiting? I'm worried about getting banned if I do something like that.

So at what point again do you get the ability to run general missions? Being level 8 now, street grinding does seem to be slowing down quite a bit. o.O I'm at 9 rep right now as well.

Well, now I'm also stuck on a mission. The Stolen Artifact? I've tried it twice so far, and ended up getting stuck at a point where I had to use an ability I didn't have. The first time around I ran into a locked door and there was no key, the second time I had to hack a comp to get the documents. Both times I had to abort the mission because I didn't have the skills needed to pull that off. So what gives? And why is the NPC who's with me doing nothing at all? Even in a fight he just stands there watching.

Can't figure out how to edit my post... o_O;;


Anyways, I got through that mission thanks to a friend of mine, however the Spy and Infiltration thing isn't working so well. It keeps wanting me to kill somebody... suffice to say I can't kill people very well on Hard at level 9. Is there a trick to things?

That's the problem, I killed every NPC I could get to but none of them had a key. Anyways I'm past that mission now...


Right now my main issue is not being able to figure out how to do those Infiltration missions on tiny/hard that everyone says is the best way to get XP, they want me to go in there and kill somebody. o_O Every single time. So far they've seemed nearly indentival to Asassination missions in the regard that no matter what, I've gotta fight.