Yeah I can see that. I had a brief but intense session with it when it came out, but the difference between Corps aren't quite cool enough. A higher degree of detachment between Physical/Cyber security in the different Corps would have been a nice way of capitalising on this, mirroring Netrunner a little: a Corp with useless guards but beefy cyber security would have been cool, so would have a higher focus on Robots and lower Cyber (thematically it'd make sense to have less hackable shite if your facility was guarded with hackable drones...)

Huzzah!



Time attack done. Only 2 mins per turn, so lots of quick planning.

Particularly satisfying after I nearly fucked it in the early stages of that run. By this point one of my agents has already had to escape after being cornered and the other is surrounded by drones and guards with no power to hack anything. Yet I had just managed to grab a keycard, giving me a way out, and somehow a gap emerged (probably won't mean a lot if you've not played it):

Could really do with a patch on this though. Some pretty major bugs emerge when you play it quite a bit.

You've been nailing this Jon, making me want to go back to it. Have been ploughing hours into Darkrst Dungeon for my rogue style fix. Really enjoying it, but it is absurdly long.

OK, so here's a thing I've only just noticed that would've made some of these trophies a lot easier. Turns out you can put the number of rewinds as high as 99 and it still counts. Never tried it before because if you change any other setting it automatically switches to custom mode, and I assumed thus would be the same. Oops.

Still, might make some of those other trophies possible now.

Huzzah.

No co-op though - not sure how it would work anyway.

What's this "DLC makes the campaign harder" chat?  Is that optional?  How do I (de)activate?!

I bought this at the weekend on PS4. 
The DLC was off by default. 

Avoiding guards seems to be preferable to knocking them out. Knocking them out is definitely preferable to killing them. When you kill a guard their heart monitor tells the facility they are dead and the alert levels IMMEDIATELY jumps up. 

I think the rewind goes back a certain amount of turns (5 i think). 

The other questions or in fact all of them are best answered by the PC knobs or JonB.

Re CASH.
It can be used in mission to buy new gear or abilities from unlocked consoles or it can be used post mission to level up agent attributes. Money is a total across all agents. Not each.

Yeah, there's only 1 currency, that you can use for upgrading agents or buying stuff from certain vending machines in the missions.

Knocking out guards on lower difficulties is only problematic in that when they wake up they'll be searching for you, rather than sticking to a simple patrol route. When you've KO'd a guard you can pin them to stop them from waking up, and even drag them around with you, but your movement is heavily reduced.

If you want to rewind your current turn then all you can do really is end turn and then rewind on your next go. You can skip watching the opposition's moves by pressing options.

The changes at higher alarm levels are always the same (but depend on difficulty level), so you get used to them. The first is always more cameras activating, but I think it's delayed till alarm level 2 on Beginner.

Each play through in campaign mode involves surviving for 72 hours then an end game. The idea is to prepare as best you can in the 72 hours, which can be done in various ways. The missions are all random and there are various mission types which will help you in different ways.

At the end of each attempt you'll get XP which goes towards unlocking new characters and programmes that you'll be able to choose to start with from then on. But each time you start from scratch.

The DLC extends the campaign with new missions (and new characters, items etc.), and makes things much tougher in the later stages. You activate it from the main menu screen at the start (it's off by default until you do), but don't bother at this point.

Nice one! Not sure if there was a vending machine and I missed it, or not one in that level, but all very useful stuff to know!

Rescuing someone means three agents from then on, does it? But not when you restart the 72h? And what if an agent dies?? Do you always restart with two?

Finally - sensible to send them on different directions at mission start, or keep them together? Guess it depends on circumstances...

You always start with 2 agents. The XP you get at the end of a game just unlocks more starting choices. 

Agents don't actually die in missions, but are captured if you leave one behind. When an agent is down you can revive them with a medi-pack or even try and drag them to the exit.

acemuzzy wrote:

Finally - sensible to send them on different directions at mission start, or keep them together? Guess it depends on circumstances...

It's a balance either way - split up and it's harder to deal with guards, stay together and it takes longer to explore, increasing the alarm more.

I generally split them up, to avoid the higher alarm levels.

You can keep retrying missions in Beginner level, although it generates a new layout. And rewinds are per mission.

It's tempting to have more rewinds but it does spoil it a bit. In a way I'm glad I didn't notice you could change it until after I'd done experienced and expert on the default settings. I had quite a few failures but the tension that builds is amazing.

Just done expert mode with the DLC on. Gave myself 5 rewinds, which turned out to be about right. Think I used them all on a couple of missions.

Only got 2 more trophies before platinum now - Expert plus with DLC on, and survive 20 days (!!!) in endless mode with DLC on. Will probably will increase the rewinds for those.

Cool I'll go back to it now.

There:



I'll stop playing this now. The 20 day trophy was kind of draining, and it was a bit of a slog after that. Had fun with it for about 2 months though.