Too impatient to do stealth.

[Nightweaver20xx]

For almost every mission where I'm supposed to be stealthy in my approach to rescue someone or infiltrate some base or whatever, I start out stealthy disabling a few cameras here or there, staying out of sight, then get caught after like a minute or two then just go full sicko mode and slaughter everyone in sight. I think I'm either too stupid or too impatient to do stealth in this game. Anybody else feel the same?

[Tokenn]

Patience can be difficult.

[Gimli]

I used to.

[andylaugel]

There are missions where I do feel that way.

I end up saving before I go in, and take a few tries to get familiar with the place. After one particularly violent run after where I killed everyone, I took a good look around and found a route that only required knocking out one person and slipping in through the back door for a quick in and out. Then I reloaded the start of mission save, and did just that.

There is a leg enhancement that makes your jumps really high to allow looking for rooftop entrances. A silencer on your gun also helps greatly.

[Amanoob105]

The main thing in this game that massively helps with stealth are the cyberdecks all thanks to the "Ping" Quickhack.
Though right eye implants are a close second and require less investment. The Cool tree speaks for itself.
With eye's namely the ones that let you see and mark people though walls (also ceilings and floors) while scanning.
The "Stalker" eye's being top tier for stealth builds (mark everyone out to 50 meters? Yes please!), but "The Oracle" eyes are a safe bet that help make up the difference if you don't plan to get a cyberdeck.

Needless to say, if you can get access to the cameras you can also use them to scout the area ahead of you. Just remember to also turn them off.

All of this basically boiling down to, if you can see and mark the enemies in advance it makes it so, so much easier to not get caught out by any of them forcing you to go loud. Instead you can safely bide your time waiting for the right moment to move in from behind and silently take them out.

[sigina ✝]

Wax In Wax Off

[Duilf]

Here is a tip to help learn patients, discipline, and compassion. Make a game out of it. Get a few of some commodity that is just important enough to you to saver when you have it, and bring you disappointment when you don't. Everything of the challenge you are trying to overcome bid 1 commodity. When you succeed claim it. When you fail think about someone else who would enjoy it, and give it to them. If you really lack discipline have a loved one hold onto the commodity. As you grow raise the bar for success until it is redundant.

[ShelLuser]

Make sure you got the right chrome for the job. For example; there's an option which slows down time as soon as you get detected; this can be a lifesaver to get out of sight quickly when someone sees you (or... to quickly kill them, but silently).

Also quickhacks... when you're checking things out through the cameras you can already start picking off some enemies by uploading quickhacks. Make sure to use a level 4 memory wipe first, then cue up a combat hack; this way they'll never be the wiser. Of course you should be careful about bodies getting spotted.

Optionally you can also use melee weapons like a katana or throwing knives to perform silent kills though I prefer the takedowns: grabbing a hostile from behind, dragging them out of sight and then either killing or incapacitating them.

[Terratrox]

Originally posted by Amanoob105:

The main thing in this game that massively helps with stealth are the cyberdecks all thanks to the "Ping" Quickhack.
Though right eye implants are a close second and require less investment. The Cool tree speaks for itself.
With eye's namely the ones that let you see and mark people though walls (also ceilings and floors) while scanning.
The "Stalker" eye's being top tier for stealth builds (mark everyone out to 50 meters? Yes please!), but "The Oracle" eyes are a safe bet that help make up the difference if you don't plan to get a cyberdeck.

Needless to say, if you can get access to the cameras you can also use them to scout the area ahead of you. Just remember to also turn them off.

All of this basically boiling down to, if you can see and mark the enemies in advance it makes it so, so much easier to not get caught out by any of them forcing you to go loud. Instead you can safely bide your time waiting for the right moment to move in from behind and silently take them out.

I actually didn't invest in cool at all. If you go hard into Netrunning, you get access to things like System Collapse that let you just instakill people from stealth. And if you have access to Overclock (or whatever it's called that lets you use health as more RAM), you can SPAM that. So you can turn the cameras off, walk into a room and instantly kill every single person inside, and then move on to the next room. The only thing to look out for is detection chains from cams you don't see or people around corners from bodies you drop.

[N00B]

Originally posted by Duilf:

Here is a tip to help learn patients, discipline, and compassion. Make a game out of it. Get a few of some commodity that is just important enough to you to saver when you have it, and bring you disappointment when you don't. Everything of the challenge you are trying to overcome bid 1 commodity. When you succeed claim it. When you fail think about someone else who would enjoy it, and give it to them. If you really lack discipline have a loved one hold onto the commodity. As you grow raise the bar for success until it is redundant.

*Patience

[N00B]

Originally posted by Nightweaver20xx:

For almost every mission where I'm supposed to be stealthy in my approach to rescue someone or infiltrate some base or whatever, I start out stealthy disabling a few cameras here or there, staying out of sight, then get caught after like a minute or two then just go full sicko mode and slaughter everyone in sight. I think I'm either too stupid or too impatient to do stealth in this game. Anybody else feel the same?

There's a perk in "body" right at the bottom that gives you 100% mitigation chance for 2 seconds and a perk at the bottom of "cool" that reduces detection speed by your mitigation. Using both lets you become practically invisible while crouching for 2 seconds after using an airhypo.

The game's stealth isn't that good. V's movement is already jank, as are the takedowns. Use a throwing knife to distract enemies while you snap their necks and look at your minimap to avoid cameras and sight.

[Womens Deodorant]

I shoot everything every time. What is stealth?

[champagnerocker]

Stealth is pretty straightforward.

You can look through cameras to see the area. Ping locates all enemies. Magic eyeballs let you see through walls. You have a HUD minimap showing enemies with cones of vision. You have quickhacks that make enemies change location. Then you have silent ranged weapons, and quickhacks like system collapse and "self delete" that instantly remove enemies.

If you want a stealth challenge that really requires you to git gud then try the three "Thief" games. No magic powers, no HUDs and Garrett is oh so squishy - the only "chrome" he has is in the tap dancing shoes that he insists on wearing for every mission!

[Zoid13]

Originally posted by Womens Deodorant:

I shoot everything every time. What is stealth?

i silent takedown the entire game. what are guns?

[Mander]

Originally posted by Zoid13:

Originally posted by Womens Deodorant:

I shoot everything every time. What is stealth?

i silent takedown the entire game. what are guns?

BEHOLD: SILENCED WEAPONS!

For when you want to go full predator mode on a wake of Scavs.

[Terratrox]

Originally posted by Mander:

Originally posted by Zoid13:

i silent takedown the entire game. what are guns?

BEHOLD: SILENCED WEAPONS!

For when you want to go full predator mode on a wake of Scavs.

I like the fact that you can goomba stomp people. It's absolutely ridiculous.