A question about interlock and why it keeps failing?

4 posts · 2008-09-07 06:10:00 to 2008-09-07 22:25:00

#36300495874 09/07/2008 06:10 A question about interlock and why it keeps failing?

Ok, so I am doing missions and having a great time. I love the combat and love to watch the combat (pvp'ing! )

So I keep taking missions from the same lady and suddenly I have hit a brick wall. She has given me two missions in a row that sent me into a room packed with 4 or 5 yellows with guns. Suddenly I'mm getting shot to all heck and they just resist my interlock..over and over.

I try hindering shot, and it'll pop a few bullets into them, and then my guy just stand there, not shooting.

SO I try interlock again, and they resist it.

So I dumped that mission and moved on. Same thing...resist resist. Strange thing is I have been doing missions all the way through level 10 and from the same lady with the same level of difficulty set. And now I'm just dead in the water.

Any suggestions?

Beau

#36300495876 09/07/2008 06:36 Re: A question about interlock and why it keeps failing?

When you try to interlock the NPC, you should see an effect around the NPC in the form of a bubble -- Which is that Evade Sheild.

If you keep attempting to interlock the NPC, after a few tries it should turn colors un'till it breaks. 2-5 Attempts depending on what the NPC is (Hacker, GUns, Etc) Some builds have stronger Evade sheilds than others.

#36300495884 09/07/2008 07:21 Re: A question about interlock and why it keeps failing?

Make sure that you're not accidentally on the Block tactic either. When you're Blocking, it prevents you from entering interlock. If that's not the case, then do as others have suggested and keep attempting to interlock using the Grab (green) tactic due to the Force Combat (IE Evade shield breaking) bonus (which you can see by simply hovering over the Grab tactic icon - in fact, you can hover over all of the tactic icons to see what bonus they provide to maximize your efficiency).

Another suggestion to help while you're in interlock if you haven't used them already: Hyper skills. The Hyper skills are the first tier skills located on the left side of the Awakened tree and are your primary defense abilities throughout the game (first usable starting at level 10). You have to level them up, but they are a bread-and-butter staple to have in your loadouts while leveling (except for Hyper Sense, as there are few NPCs in the game that actually use Thrown-based abilities). Hyper Block (Melee Defense), Hyper Dodge (Ballistic Defense), and Hyper Deflect (Viral Defense) are all extremely useful to have while on missions on your way up. However, you can only activate ONE of these defenses at a time (you have to load the ability at the hardline, equip it to a Hotbar, and actviate it in or out of combat as necessary - costing you Inner Strength upon each activation). Thus your use of the ability become based on whatever situation you're in. Encountering a lot of Hackers? Activate Hyper Deflect. Have a nasty gunner in your way of completion? Activate Hyper Dodge. And so on and so forth.

Hope that helped!

#36300496168 09/07/2008 22:25 Re: A question about interlock and why it keeps failing?

Thanks guys! I'll go try those tactics when I get back in, which will be all this week.

Normally I am a Vanguard player and I even do a podcast for it that gets a good deal of listeners, so I am playing more of the Station games as part of a roleplay project.

MxO has one of the most unique playstyles to it, so I'm hoping to talk a good deal about it.

Anyway, they had big guns, no shield thingies, but I didn't even think of using another fighting technique. I'll see how it goes! And thanks!

Beau