Wyrd's Melee Run Recording

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A MANLIER MAN ADVENTURE

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Wyrd's Melee Run Recordings

TheWyrd 23 Jul 2009 15:08

Adding another Melee Run Recording, a slightly more sane one and more concise.

Inspired and encouraged by Vholes, here are my exploits during
A MANLIER REAL MAN’S MELEE RUN.

No running away and no healing except for resting, and only when completely beaten up to 0 hp. No use of ranged or etheric techniques, those are for weak cowards. Just manly clobbering. Clobbering someone from behind in the kidney or when distracting them is acceptable.

DAY 1

Southside

I wake up without memory, except the knowledge of being awesome. I apparently have a message on my… message thing.

I go to this diner. Effeminate smily guy has some of my stuff, odd. Nice coat, better than this old jacket. I fiddle with the freaky box he gave me. It does nothing. I do carry it around me, it feels powerful.

I like Mikhail, he’s giving me credits, up front. That seems…unwise in this place. Oh well, got nothing better to do, heading for the park.

The Park
Because I am still holding this cheap pistol I had on me, I nearly forgot to be a manly man and almost shoot this fang ganger harassing a homeless guy, but I resist the temptation and manage to knock him out. Like a proper man. He does shoot me while I take my time beating on him and ignoring the opportunities to shoot him and I black out. In a manly manner.

I rest in my home and swear never to be tempted by cowardly firearms again. (Removing my ranged techniques. Glad that I’m starting out with 10 punches and 5 dive for covers).

Another Fang bastard. Duck, punch, punch. I take him down with only 4 damage. Nice coat, I am learning to use it better. Float like a discarded piece of plastic wrapping caught by the wind. Sting like a mean bastard. The fang guy drops a filthy pistol, filthy indeed.

A sniper! In the park! From a rival gang, I guess. Huh, I am in a gang, didn’t recall that till now. I am shot to the head and pumped full of bullets and die while I ponder this… or not, true men do not die. They do need to rest though and not participate in gang warfare while relearning things. I have learned to really whirl my coat around when facing gunmen thanks to that sniper.

Some crazy bum attacks me. That’s the thanks I get for helping the homeless. He drops some rags and knuckles. Nice. Now I can stop hitting people with my cheap unloaded pistol.

More homeless harassing. This must end. When you pick on people, you pick on bigger people, not weaker ones. Wusses.The Fang bloke can’t touch me; dodge, duck, bam, dive, bam! Another filthy gun. Blegh.

Yet another Fanger. Drops a switchblade. Hmm… I will stick to punching people with my brass knuckles, it is manlier, but otherwise it would have been useful.

Another crazy bum. Another switchblade.

Save the homeless, beat up a local ganger today.
Also Borkman is awesome. I suddenly have the urge to mess about with the box again. It turns into a rod. This seems more useful, makes me feel STRONG, I will not be fiddling with it again. Fiddling is for girls.

Another loonie bum. He drops a garbage sticker. Oh, right, I got some rags earlier. Lets check those out. They’re smelly old pants. I duck behind some bushes in the park and change pants. What a man does in order to kick ass.

Another Fang. Can’t touch me. Smack, bam, Pow.

Another Fang. Kapow! Candybar, a newspaper sticks to my garbage sticker, no time to read though. NEED TO KICK MORE ASS.

Save another homeless guy. More candy, and a coat.. not as cool as my coat.

This bum can have the coat.

The bum is grateful. He may teach me. Ugh, the loser is an awful teacher. Dive for cover x 2 and 1 punch.. I know how to do that already. Jerk.

Another Fang. Frustated by the lack of useful bum education I get hit.

The friendly bum gets a 2nd chance to teach me some good, useful moves. 1 punch, 1 lashout. Hmmph, a very slight improvement.

Another crazy bum down.

Help the useless homeless. Got more knuckles, good to have some spare, I think.

This is your last chance to teach me something, bummy. WHAT?! You’re teaching me how to dive for cover. You suck! Next time I’m keeping the coat and you can freeze to death instead of wasting my time!

I take out my rage at some more bums and fangs.

Too tired to go on, all that useless training with the bum.. I eat the ancient candy bar..2 energy yum…

I meet the friendly, dumb bum again. No training from you, loser, just give me the drugs and get lost.

I hand in my mission report to Lo.

The Docks
Getting myself some good food from the smuggler. Truffle and a soda. The rich eat fancy, but not a lot apparently. I also get a gallery visor so my fellows can learn from my MANLY AWESOMENESS. Tomorrow, because I forget to put it on today.
The truffle is gone in one bite, 4 energy, and I wash the tiny meal down with some soda, 2 energy.

I explore the warehouses. No drugs, only locks, stinks and a weird fellow.

I sit down to chat with some labourers. They share their lousy coffee.

I steal a crate and open it. @#$#@$^, it’s full of cheap cowardly pistols.

Fang gangers here, too? Down you go.

I blackmail a crooked guard for info.

I decide to hang around on docks and find a crate of medicine. I give it to squatter king for 3 maps. That’s guy’s freaky.

The Sewers

A rat. No time to deal with animal vermin. I dart past, but my muscular bulk slows me down and I am attacked. One punch and the rat is out.

Like my energy.

I use the maps and then leave to eat a jumbo platter at Mikhails, for 10 energy.

Back in the sewers I encounter a wall and pull myself over. Or not, apparently this was a freakishly huge wall that could stop even a man as mighty as me.

A Fanger.

Another rat.
A different rat
I follow some graffiti.

Then suddenly 2 Fangs ambush me. The cowards are ganging up on me. Both go down, my coat whirling. Some damage taken when there was no cover to dive behind. I use the map they dropped.

The wall again. My nemesis. This time I know it’s a supernaturally tall wall and am prepared. Victory is mine.

I follow some more graffiti behind the wall.

Some more vermin, a rat and a Fang.

I eat the grilled panini I took with me from Mikhail’s for 3 energy.Vaguely I recall delicious food from the past. I feel miserable, eating a mediocre lunch in some smelly sewers. Life ain't cool.

I beat down another Fang. His life is worse than mine.

Finally I come upon a cave filled with Fangs.

An enforcer guarding the entrance nearly gets the better of me. 2 hp left out of 7 I started the fight with, but I win, of course. I take his armored vest… and tuck it away, got me coat, don’t need the vest.

And that’s it. Not drinking the lousy coffee from Joe despite being too tired to go on.

Manly Melee Thoughts
The lack of excellent, easy food from the smuggler combined with wasting time finding and training with the bum trying to get more melee techniques took their toll and slowed me down quite a bit. Really wish the bum was a better trainer. If only he could realize I already know the things (punch, dive for cover) he’s teaching me very, very well after he instructs me and does not teach them again the next time I meet him.

My neat coat may have saved my ass a few times, manlier men without cool coats probably have a slightly harder time.

Tomorrow, more manly melee madness.

Last edited on 26 Jul 2009 13:51 by TheWyrd Show more

Re: Wyrd's Melee Run Recording

Vholes 23 Jul 2009 20:51

Awesome read, especially the intro. Thanks Wyrd for showing us that melee is manly!

Tips:

• probably not worth opening crates until you've talked to the Squatter King
• get the meds for the Squatter King after you're through the hideout and the crate of explosives you get might get you a gas grenade (for the Abandoned Building), dynamite (for opening up the Asylum without using body), and/or Nitro (for blasting into the lab if you're a real man, or exploding Hel's crate barrier). Gas grenades are the only necessity there, but they're a pain to get if they don't show up in the crate.
• take Eclipse before entering the sewers, you can almost always get the fairy encounter to lead you into the hideout within the 5 turns of etheric. It's probably worth taking a second one if you don't. Especially do this if you don't have an unearthly coin to let you pass the wall test.

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In the beginning, men were mortal.

Re: Wyrd's Melee Run Recording

TheWyrd 24 Jul 2009 11:50

Thanks for the tips. Didn't even know about the fairy guide!

Day 2:
Hideout cleaning time.

My coat whirling I head deeper into the cave, determined to put a manly stop to this. First I eh… however have to clean some muck of my coat, while I do this I hear some Fangs talking about a doctor.

Then I charge in, 2 couriers go down, fear my single lash-out technique!

Three chatting enforcers, manlier real man are secure enough in their masculinity to not have to barge into every fight without thinking. In the end it is the kill count and using your fists to win that matters. In this case my fists drops one of them freaky drugs into the coffee.

A lone courier falls beneath my mighty punch.

Two enforcers, and lots of crates, which I can steal. OR I can jump over the crates and BASH THEIR HEADS IN! Ow! Stop shooting me so I can stop dodging and hit you!

Slowly I whittle down their numbers. Another enforcer down, oh, hey, free rags, garbarge stickered!

A weak courier and woohoo, newspaper!

Four sleeping guards. I do not fight sleeping people. I WAKE THEM!
Groggy, these foes are not worthy of my fury. I tell how to better enemies.

Chatting enforcers again, are these little children I face, babbling instead of guarding. One mere pill can handle them, not my fists.

Finally, a worthy enforcer, dive, punch, dive, punch, dodge, dive, punch and he’s out.

Courier, timber! Oh, hey knuckles, he was an aspiring manlier real man, too bad he met a manlier man.

In a moment of insanity I tear up all the junk maps and papers, and make myself a giant paper mache head. I proceed to wear it while cleaning up this drug lair.

2 couriers face my new appearance and are quickly felled.

Another courier. How big is this cave?!

Tearing through some crates I take down 2 enforcers. I am so confident about this, I wrote it down before it happened.

The boss appears. I charge. I dodge, and dodge again, looking for some cover to dive behind and then charge him from. A Manlier Real Man is not fool enough to run straight into a bullet storm. Dive, punch, lash. I wish I knew how to lash out better. Dodge. I’m starting to hurt, this guy needs to go down. Punch. And darkness.

I recuperate in my gang’s swanky hideout. When I get back to the cave, the boss is still there. Idiot. I am fully fit now. Time for our last dance!
Dive, punch. Dive, punch. Exploding bullets?! Ow! Coward! Dodge, dive, punch. Coat whirling around me. Dive, punch, lash! Stop shooting me when I punch you! Dodge, dive, punch. Bullets vanish in the folds of my coat as I run my fist into his face. Victory.

I take the crates of eclipse with me, I do not wish to get stuck in a blazign drug inferno in a cave.

I give Lo the the Computerthingy the boss dropped, it is speaking gibberish. I collect my fee from Mikhail. I also contact this Dr. Thomas person. Man, she’s stuck-up.
Before I head out to University, I smuggle in some food, another truffle and some rum. I’m not drinking rum now, people are shooting at me all the time! I get another truffle and some decent coffee at the university hideout.

Wow, someone left a very obvious clue in the trashed office. I buy an electrical kit. Maybe I can fix the lighting in my apartment.

Abandoned Building

I’m not in the mood to fight, and pay the first gangers I meet to leave.

A crazy bum jumps at me in the hallway. These lunatics are everywhere.

I throw an imaginary grenade at some other gangers. It fails to have an effect.

Out of spite I electrocute the next group.

I finally face a ganger head-on. I dodge, I dodge again waiting for my moment to strike, and then the guy drops me in a very brutal way. I learn from this.

Three gangers! Charge! Using my new-found brutality, some well-timed dives and dodge, I manage to take out all three. My reward for this glorious battle is a baton. Not for twirling.

The fight has left me exhausted, I eat 2 truffles and drink the warm coffee for 11 energy.

Bum.

A ganger as eager to fight as me. I brutally take him down. And the next one. Overeager I charge a group of three and get some brutality myself. I learn more. And rest.

A ganger and then revenge. Three gangers and I face off. I win, but only just. I am the toughest bloke ever. I am becoming a brutal butchering machine!

1 hp left and the way is clear… The guards do not wish to leave in order to have some alone time with me… I become sneakier with a trenchcoat and a switchblade. A bum and a ganger slow me down. To the point of resting. I change my mind about being sneaky it takes too much time. I eat a jumbo platter for 11 energy.

Stupid bums are in the way of my epic fight with shard.
I barge in this time. I am whirling dodging and diving, punching maniac! With but two scratches (26 out of 28 hp) I vanguish them. I also pick up a newspaper someone left with my garbage sticker while I free David.

After talking with David I head into the boiler room. I take some eclipse on a genius whim and open the door.

Boiler Room

AAAAH! Satan’s hounds have come for me. Die, die die! My dodging skills improve.

Freaky guy on the ceiling goes down… or up… He has burned me badly though.

Another hound slays me. I rest, grab a book from the office in the basement and get burned to a crisp by another green fire toting guy.

Finally, a regular ganger. I kick his ass.

Exhausted I eat a jumbo hot dog, for 2 energy… And a candy bar for 2 more.

Another ganger.
A whispering door. I read and learn the location of the key. A ganger stops me from getting it. I am tired again, but a pep pill perks me right up! Key in hand I continue.
I put on the fancy shades the shard guy dropped.

Thise fiery guys seem to ignore my dodging and diving… not cool.

I open the whispering door with a key and try to cow Saber. Suddenly the room, no, the world starts spinning and shrinking. Mommy!
The first round goes well and I brutally hammer Saber in the face. After that though, the fight turns sour and I fail.

Defeated I travel to the slags. Where I can some food in the hideout to cheer myself up. 2 cookies and a soda, that should help, except I’m not that hungry. I nurse the soda for 2 energy and decide to wait for tomorrow so time can heal my wounds.

Thoughts on day 2
Getting the brutalities was nice, finally something other to do than punch. Too bad I sometimes learned them the hard way. Happy with my riot baton too. I can now eat Caramel bars when I get hungry and run out of fancy food. Should have eaten those instead of Mikhail’s grub. Would be nice if the bookstore sold some (expensive) half-decent coffee or caffeinated soda too.
I would not have enjoyed this run without a prototype coat. Dodging and then diving and then attacking is soooo nice and safe. Unless you’re facing a third eye sorcerer… ouch! Next time I might pick up a tome of binding to hold up in front of me when I get flames shot at me.

Re: Wyrd's Melee Run Recording

Vholes 24 Jul 2009 19:40

Wyrd, you are not only manlier than manly, you are cooler than cool as well. Some comments:

• I'm too much of a wuss to fight 2 enforcers, I usually skip the crates. You seem to be doing well, though. :)
• If you think you can spare the body, you can take an eclipse in the hideout to meet a mushroom man who will offer to help you take out some fangs. You will then fight one enforcer and one ganger (I believe), but if you defeat them you get double loot and presumably double kills (since the mushroom man took out the other two).
• An interesting thought: What if you lose in the mushroom man battle, do you still get 2 kills? Also, if you fight someone to a draw, is that counted (it should be)?
• Taking out a group of 3 third eye gangers = win. If I don't get a gas grenade in the crate of explosives from the Squatter King, I trail someone into the warehouse to fight guards / open crates until I do. If you can pull this off within a couple tries, though, that works a lot better!
• To get the Third Eye shirt, go into the Happy Hour and take the fight to a poseur, they have high shirt drop rates (third eye gangers are, uh, trained to burn their shirts on death). You can usually get it within a couple energy, just be wary of Roaring Drunk's Kidney Punch, which isn't blocked by Dive for Cover. If you can pull off the trio fight, it won't save you as much energy as the grenade (if it doesn't show up in the crate), but it works well too.
• the crate of explosives, as I think I mentioned, can also give dynamite, which lets you enter the asylum without taking Eclipse. Also gives you a chain 2 technique, I suppose, if you have a spare.

Keep up the good work!

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In the beginning, men were mortal.

Re: Wyrd's Melee Run Recording

TheWyrd 24 Jul 2009 20:45

Thanks. :)

I honestly did not think I would survive the trios of third eye gangers even once, but being able to chain 5-4 evasions with the nice coat bonus and then punching, sometimes followed by brutality works very nicely, my 9 strength also helps. I usually got defeated when I lacked an evasion maneuver to make a 5-4-3 chain and then they hit me with their second actions.

Man, I really need use more Eclipse, I did not know about the fairy guide and the mushroom man in the hideout. Thanks for the tips.

I know about the explosives crate and its uses, but since I did not know about the fairy guide I wanted the maps. Not doing that next time.

I'm not wearing someone else's shirt, I need to take off my coat for that. I stroll in like I own the place and then I kick ass! I know they drop their clothes more readily in the happy hour, the sluts, but didn't feel like going there. :)

Next run, melee run incorporating the tips and going the Hawk route. I want to learn me some hammer smashes/strikes and test out the announced bum unnerfing. :)

Re: Wyrd's Melee Run Recording

Blarghgh 25 Jul 2009 11:16

This is awesome. I tried to use a bunch of melee stuff when I first started but gave up when I discovered they were the orphan child that nobody loved. Keep it up, the manly way is the only way. To do ANYTHING.

Re: Wyrd's Melee Run Recording

TheWyrd 25 Jul 2009 19:54

This is awesome. I tried to use a bunch of melee stuff when I first started but gave up when I discovered they were the orphan child that nobody loved. Keep it up, the manly way is the only way. To do ANYTHING.

A disciple! Welcome to the MANLIER REAL MAN CLUB, BLARGHGH. YELLING LOUDLY IS THE FIRST STEP TO BECOMING A MANLIER REAL MAN!
Thank you for your support.

I went a lot of ways during my first run. But definitely mostly ranged, especially at first; the pistol (and early improvements on it) and short burst being the tipping points. I didn't realize the cheap pistol didn't actually do anything. Runs after that I diversified my portfolio, using stealth/ranged and etheric/melee (during the end- and aftergame). Etheric melee was great.

Of course, A MANLIER REAL MAN only needs melee, I realize that now, the rest is for cowards (stealth techniques clearly melee-ish (kidney punch) are acceptable). We now also have in-game proof that Melee is awesomest. I DO NOT NEED TO SAY MORE!

Re: Wyrd's Melee Run Recording

Vholes 25 Jul 2009 23:06

When I created my account, the first thing I did was look at my inventory, see that I was holding a gun, and go "Pf, I don't need a gun!". For several months I played nothing but melee and etheric decks, never equipped a gun and never used a ranged technique. Those were manly times, but I grew weak and drawn by the way of the bullet… perhaps I shall change that.

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In the beginning, men were mortal.

Re: Wyrd's Melee Run Recording

TheWyrd 26 Jul 2009 01:21

Day 3
And day 4 kinda, since I did not get to play before rollover. Would have made it on day 3 by eating more food and using up my body.

Midgard Bioresearch

I start the day light, using my hands only to pickpocket some cheatsheets and a locker key.

With the key, I naturally head straight for the lockers, and cleverly disguise myself as a doctor. Manlier Real Men know when to think before fighting. As long as there’s fighting at the end of the thinking. I take moment to reflect on how my coolness is dimished by the lack of coat. Then Dr. Man continues.

I am tempted by the smell of steaming, hot caffeine and cooled snacks, but I resist the temptation and move on, my goal is too close, I do not need sustenance.

A fellow Dr. Man confronts me. He has intriguing enhancements. Manlier Real Men do not require enhancements, but that does not mean they don’t welcome them. Maybe in the future, not now, hopefully soon though. Now we learn, and head to the testing lab.

Ignoring lockers on the way to the testing lab.

Dr. CyberMan is following me while I head to the testing lab. I tell him the truth, so he can stop following me while I go to the testing lab.

I meet some doctors, whom I ignore, in front of the testing lab.

I get to the testing lab, cheat, and am out of the Bioresearch lab in only 5 energy. :)

Midgard Laboratory

First my coat, now my Rod of power is put away as I clip on my new medical ID. There is only so much stealth and intrigue a Manlier Real Man can bear. To make up for all this ignomy, I take off the silly paper mache head and put on Shard’s former shades. I also assume Midgard’s standards for sobriety on the job must be really tolerant, letting doctors walk around like that.

I observe the goings on in the Lab. Scouting the area before I unleash my fury.

I raid some big lockers. Containment suit top.
I chat with a guard. Still exploring.
I walk away from some labworkers.
I raid some big lockers. Containment suit top.
I walk away from more labworkers.
I observe some more.
This time, the guard gets it. His gun’s big… and painful. My manliness, weakened by my sneaking about, is not enough to take him down.
Twice.
After the rests and defeats I decide to raid some lockers instead for containment suit pants. The air in this place is making me sick.
AAAH! Rats, everywhere!
People speaking in tongues! Where am I?!
They’re everywhere.
I hide in a locker room and find a helmet. I quickly don the suit, it feels safe. I mean, it feels strong and will help me kick ass. I need to leave this place. I put on my coat and take out my Rod. My mysterious puzzle rod. I also decide that I’d rather not have anything in my off-hand than this garbage sticker.

Damaged Building
A nightmarish spider ambushes me. In my weakened state I am no match for it.
I rest amidst the toxic fumes.
I seek out the spider and am poisoned. Defeated again!
I take an extra long rest and feel better as the poison of the spider and the slags leaves my system. No more losing!
I look for the spider, but only find a spiderbot. My coat is fireproof, this helps protect me somewhat while I am hitting and hitting the giant spider robot with my baton. It is shooting bullets just about everywhere. I manage to be in places they aren’t. I lunge for the spiderbot and smash through its circuitry, as I do so, it takes me to exactly 0 with its final shot. I end up victoriously unconscious.
I rest.
A robot dog is destroyed without a flinch.
Tentacles all around me! I duck and punch and smash. And win. I am back!
More tentacles are mown down.
Another dog crushed.
Right as I starting to feel good again, my nemesis the spiderbot shows up. (Archnemesis being the nasty spider monster) This time, I win. AND I TAKE ITS SODDING LEG OFF AND BASH ITS TINY LITTLE GEARS TO DUST WITH IT.

I come upon a nest. The tracks around it match the drone’s leg I am now using as a weapon. Odd. I note down my findings.

I head to the third floor. I should have eaten by now, but somehow I feel like I can go on for an entire second day.

I charge through a puny wall of crates blocking my way. The crates are rigged! I fall beneath them and need to dress my wounds.

One of those guys speaking in tongues suddenly appears behind me. I reconsider a career as drunk vagabond in the park. I then, of course, kick the creepy loonie’s ass.

A flying drone attacks me from above and once again I need to rest.
While I rest I feel my manliness slipping away from me. I clutch the spider leg in my hand as go on.

A puny, creepy scientist restores a bit of my self-confidence as I smack him to the ground with my robot club. How many are there?

I head to the fourth floor.

There I encounter a dying man asking for an antidote. A Manlier Real Man, can be Merciful. Especially since it’s alliterative. I give him the MBR antidote the nutty proffesor dropped earlier when I dropped him. My mercy is apparently not good enough and he begs me to go to a lab. I have other things to do.

Like beating up yet another mad scientist. Do they clone these guys?

This time I walk past the dying man. You complain, you no get mercy.

I meet one of those hellish hounds again. I am stronger and slay it. I then scoop up the dust it turns into.

A swarm of rats is easily swept aside by my manliness.

Another hound, this one wounds me, but I go on.

Even severely wounded these madmen cannot touch me.

Another rat attack. They nibble at my wounds. Can’t go on much longer.

ANOTHER SCIENTIST. I can’t take it anymore. It being the acid he throws in my face.

I rest. After which I go up to the fifth floor and have some cookies for 6 energy.

A Manlier Real Man takes the high road, of course.

As bullets hail down upon me, I grab one of the heli-drones and smash it against the other. Wounded, but alive I continue my struggle upwards.

Another heli-drone seeks to avenge his comrades, but I dodge and dive repeatedly till I see my chance and smash it.

I sense an important event as the sixth floor armory door opens before me and change into more regular corduroys and shades instead of all this containment gear.

I talk with Hel, give her the suit and, not wanting to fight my way down this infernal building jump down off the sixth floor to the ground. Somehow Hel is right beside me as I head through the gate.

Thoughts
Next run recordings will be more concise.

Some of the damaged building opponents are tough! Blasting right through my dived-behind cover and even hitting me while I am cinematically dodging. Really hurts, especially when resting only heals 20 hp. Punching barely scratches them. Needed to rely on getting enough Brutal Brutalities in while trying to keep their damage to me to a minimum by evading some of it. Will definitely do a ranged run at some point if only to compare ranged vs melee fighting in the damaged buildings. Loved getting to use the spider drone leg as weapon. Sleep time now. Manlier Real Man sleep time!

PS.

"Pf, I don't need a gun!".

Yeah, guns aren't really helpful when you're running away from, instead of at, two fang enforcers. ;)

Re: Wyrd's Melee Run Recording

Vholes 26 Jul 2009 11:34

Very nice, very nice. Final thoughts (short, as I need sleep)

*You can ignore Boris by "running away"
*You may as well use your credits to buy a random containment suit piece from a guard for 200 creds (repeatable ad infinitum). It's a lot easier than fighting them. Just pick "chat", "Slags", "can I buy that suit?". If you somehow have 1000 creds you can buy the whole suit.
*nice rod
*NEST THAT IS COOL
*I wouldn't be surprised if they did clone the scientists
*The rats on the fourth floor only appear if you don't bury the body. You should bury the body. :P
*flying eyes are way easier than helidrones, and replace the latter under etheric. They're a cinch if you have a containment suit, and in a melee run you have enough to equip the helmet, yes? I'd put on a containment top for the fifth floor high road, it's touch and go whether a prototype coat is better on lower floors. But yeah, high road's much easier this way.
*you replace the suit for Hel? I always walk out of the slags half naked whistling innocently. Always works.
*did you get any crushing punches?
*spider drones/horrific spiders are nasty as hell. helidrones are risky but avoidable. Twisted hounds are unavoidable on the fourth floor and can be irritating. Scientist's unblockables are a pain. All in all, the damaged buildings are what you'd expect from the last area so far!
*I rested a lot as a beginning weaponless melee character. Most of my fights lasted a long time. "You dive for cover and block the ganger's attack. You punch the ganger but he dives for cover and blocks your atack." Hopefully that should be fixed now, but I'd still like to see a chain 2 melee attack in the starting deck again.

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In the beginning, men were mortal.

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