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Emalde
May 3, 2007

Just a cage of bones, there's nothing inside.
If you're going for Lv8+ weaponry you're going to end up grinding the hell out of Retributions anyway.

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Speedball
Apr 15, 2008

So does anything actually happen when you work off your entire sentence?

I remember Gladiator Begins had a similar debt system.

Penis Vanguard
Mar 5, 2014

Speedball posted:

So does anything actually happen when you work off your entire sentence?

I remember Gladiator Begins had a similar debt system.

You unlock swimsuits and some of the NPCs special clothing like Simeon's scarf. That's it, you don't even get out of your cell.

kirbysuperstar
Nov 11, 2012

Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.
Here's a incomplete but handy resource for drops: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_zq691tYSOxt4P0xcN1wwMzVKNljA2LdSTGMcp4NQI4/edit?pli=1#gid=0

Awesome!
Oct 17, 2008

Ready for adventure!


Penis Vanguard posted:

you don't even get out of your cell.

hosed up

Lily Catts
Oct 17, 2012

Show me the way to you
(Heavy Metal)

Policenaut posted:

The real money for getting years off your sentence is playing online and doing Invasions or playing the CODE-8 style stuff. 5000 years or 10000 years for a single mission!

I can see that, but my internet usually sucks, and I play while in transit often. I guess I'll try tonight.

What are the Contribution Booster percentage increases?

kirbysuperstar
Nov 11, 2012

Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.

Schneider Heim posted:

What are the Contribution Booster percentage increases?

25% and 50% for the + one. They stack, too.

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

So I should be fine with a Rarity 7 Growth 1 late-bloomer etc. etc. weapon, right? There's no pressing need to try for R8?

kirbysuperstar
Nov 11, 2012

Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.

Really Pants posted:

So I should be fine with a Rarity 7 Growth 1 late-bloomer etc. etc. weapon, right? There's no pressing need to try for R8?

It's two more mod slots, but it can be a huge drag to get the mods you want, so.. up to you! I'd say you'll probably be fine.

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

Good. I was all :downs: "I'll just get four or five R8G1s, how hard could it be!?" before, but now I think I'd never want to touch this game again if I did that.

Emalde
May 3, 2007

Just a cage of bones, there's nothing inside.

Really Pants posted:

Good. I was all :downs: "I'll just get four or five R8G1s, how hard could it be!?" before, but now I think I'd never want to touch this game again if I did that.

Getting R8G1 is honestly the easy part, it took me a single afternoon to get four of them. Grinding out the EP necessary to affix the 7 specific mods you want, actually getting weapons with the mods you want to affix, and getting the rare retribution-only field items to go from LV7->10 are the actual drags.

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

I have yet to see even one, so I'll settle for whatever's good enough to let me finish this chore and get back to stabbing robots.

Luminaflare
Sep 23, 2010

No one man
should have all that
POWER BEYOND MEASURE


So is there a specific panopticon everyone's using or should I just choose whatever.

Tepplen
Jan 9, 2012

Words of Friendship!

Luminaflare posted:

So is there a specific panopticon everyone's using or should I just choose whatever.

I'm on Toronto, can't say the same for everyone else.

Also does anyone know if I can remove negative attributes on weapons? Or just in general? I finally got a rarity 8 late bloomer weapon and it has "Elemental Damage Down (s)" or something like that.

Policenaut
Jul 11, 2008

On the moon... they don't make Neo Kobe Pizza.

Yeah there's a guy in Area 6's cell garden who can delete modules for 5000 points.

Emalde
May 3, 2007

Just a cage of bones, there's nothing inside.

animaCartographer posted:

I'm on Toronto, can't say the same for everyone else.

Also does anyone know if I can remove negative attributes on weapons? Or just in general? I finally got a rarity 8 late bloomer weapon and it has "Elemental Damage Down (s)" or something like that.

After Code 6, in the Cell Garden at 6-F140. Costs 5k EP per mod.

NickRoweFillea
Sep 27, 2012

doin thangs
Are we still updating the PSN Friends List for this game? Add me please: NickRoweFillea

Lily Catts
Oct 17, 2012

Show me the way to you
(Heavy Metal)
How do you do Citizen rescue missions? I think I'm doing them wrong, because I keep failing high-difficulty ones. I was trying one Invasion mission alone and the trash mobs kept us all wiped (no Abductors). Should I use the Protect Citizens order for my team and Accessory and just escort them to the point?

Twibbit
Mar 7, 2013

Is your refrigerator running?
I have been told that telling people to scatter is the best way to do it.

The Muffinlord
Mar 3, 2007

newbid stupie?
Is there any way to change the order list for squadmates like you can for accessories? If I could just tell them all to destroy parts missions would go a lot faster.

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

Teammates with light melee weapons like Nina and Sergio will try to sever a lot, but this can get them killed a lot too.

The Muffinlord
Mar 3, 2007

newbid stupie?
Well yeah, but they don't take up sustainability when they bite it so I don't give a poo poo about them dying. I just want all guns and knives focused on those God damned shield generators.

kirbysuperstar
Nov 11, 2012

Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.
Man whoever designed Peltatum's chains can go gently caress himself and die.

I want the trophy :negative:

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

I got that one with a level 4 Blaster, the EZ Katze Kralle you get for acing Operation 2-4, Attack/Attack Abductors/Last Legs augs, and level 4/5 teammates. I'm thinking some kind of artillery on your Accessory would also help, especially a Nambu or Dragonfire.

To start, I used the Katze and focused on the statue thing just behind the giant orb; that's the Peltatum's "headshot" area. Whenever it starts making GBS threads out Chains, sprint for the little entrance alcove to the south and stay as close to the south wall as possible. The Chains can shoot into there, but they can't enter it. Eventually you will wind up staring at a pile of Chains as they struggle to charge into the alcove, and you can cripple or kill them all at once with the Blaster.

Hwurmp fucked around with this message at 00:02 on Nov 14, 2014

kirbysuperstar
Nov 11, 2012

Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.
I heard Flamethrowers were also good for killing the chains in the alcove. But yeah..almost got it legitimately but gently caress that, the fight's too awful for that poo poo.

Penis Vanguard
Mar 5, 2014
That fight becomes easy mode w/ a good Barbara's, just take out the chain compartments in the order the chains come out in, killing the chains as they come out after you destroy the compartment, and then never worry about them again.

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

Is there a way to make Abductors drop lower-body parts? Hitting their legs doesn't seem to do much.

kirbysuperstar
Nov 11, 2012

Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.
You gotta keep hittin' 'em. You see them change model a little bit, but otherwise you gotta keep doing it until you get a drop. On Ramosas it takes the majority of their health, something like Red Rage isn't nearly as bad.

Policenaut
Jul 11, 2008

On the moon... they don't make Neo Kobe Pizza.

Yeah, the legs won't actually break off or anything like that. The shin guards will crackle and fray and catch fire.

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

Hmm. Maybe I'm just killing them too fast.

Policenaut
Jul 11, 2008

On the moon... they don't make Neo Kobe Pizza.

Have you tried going solo? I often found that my AI partners would murder the Abductor before I could get the part I wanted out of it, so I just started fighting them solo. I believe there's even commands you can order that tell them to go fight something else.

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

Do the Abductors in Showdown missions have all the regular drops, aside from weapon parts?

kirbysuperstar
Nov 11, 2012

Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.
They sure do.

Mewnie
Apr 2, 2011

clean dogge
is a
happy dogge
It's how I got two of the three synthetic dampers: biped mk 3 I needed.

Just did the showdown solo and beat on it's shins until they coughed up the items.


It does get tedious trying to farm for RNG drops from breaks, though :(

kirbysuperstar
Nov 11, 2012

Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.


Eat poo poo and die :dukedog:

Well back to farming years so a certain someone deems me worthy to see him again.

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

The Shielding Thorn rules, and I'm kicking myself now for letting the ham-fisted AI sour me on it at the start.

mrEkli
Feb 9, 2004
I was there.

Really Pants posted:

The Shielding Thorn rules, and I'm kicking myself now for letting the ham-fisted AI sour me on it at the start.

Never really used it much. What makes it good?

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

Have you ever wanted to be hit by an Abductor, and not immediately die?

neetengie
Jul 17, 2013

Shittiest taste in anime and video games.

kirbysuperstar posted:



Eat poo poo and die :dukedog:

Well back to farming years so a certain someone deems me worthy to see him again.
What was your loadout? I still need that and the dragon one, and need parts from Biped Mk3 shins for my Ea's Knife.
E: By loadout I mean combat items, thorn and augments. I found flashbangs to be helpful against the Chains.

neetengie fucked around with this message at 00:27 on Nov 15, 2014

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kirbysuperstar
Nov 11, 2012

Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.

neetengie posted:

What was your loadout?

L4 Barbara's Easy Blaster P, L7 EZ Katz (whatever the Will'O variant is), Attack: Peltatum, AttacK: Abductor, Contribution Booster, Contribution Booster + and a L7 EZ Wolf III on my accessory. Flash Grenade, First Aid Kit+, Auto-Resuscitator+ and Ammo Pack for items and Binding Thorn.

Immediately level 2 thorn the boss and get the shields off, then if you look at it front on, kill off the lower right and lower middle boxes and the chains that come out, then switch the companions to Suppress Personnel and head over to the entrance. Keep your bot on Follow Me, revive them with the thorn as needed. Shoot the thorned area on the back of its head from over there and move back when Chains come near. Kill them off with the Easy Blaster, flashbang them if there's more than one and also pray they don't do the cold breath bullshit. Other than that it's kinda just luck with the Chains and friendly AI.

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