Is it just me or are enemies doing a lot more damage since 1.6?

[Fat Angus]

I've noticed that the amount of base damage enemies do to you has gone up significantly, especially on the easy setting. The heavy gun dude where you go to rescue Sandra Dorset will take you out in just a few shots!

[SGPoy]

Yeah. It makes going loud completely impossible unless you're running a Sandy build.

Either there is a massive enemy dps multiplier in effect, or something went very wrong with the Defence stat.

[Mr_Blank]

Your supposed to get completely annhialated by the Sandra Dorset guy. You need to crouch and go around him, then his damage is nulled. The amount of damage people do is supposed to get players interested in quick hacking, but most people just go guns or fist blazing lol

[Zero McDol]

Go in the window to the left when unlocked - Fire a single shot off in the enemies direction - Let Jackie handle the rest.

[Bogmore]

Are you running a mod that charges damage? or any mods at all?

What I do for that guy is in the room before him you kill the guy near the wall, sneak to the right and hack the light through the small hole in the wall. He goes and looks and you sneak behind him and stealth kill him. . He has always been hard to kill one on one.

[Fat Angus]

Nope no mods. I'm thinking there might be a bug in difficulty settings that sets it higher than what it really is. It just means atm I have to fire from cover instead of going in Rambo which is more my style, lol

[RuleofTwo]

Playing on very hard as a cybersniper, trying to do johnny suicide mission but this build is not meant for open firefights so I'm getting nuked and I have to do the conversation over and over lol

[Cop Unit 12]

Originally posted by Furi0sa:

Playing on very hard as a cybersniper, trying to do johnny suicide mission but this build is not meant for open firefights so I'm getting nuked and I have to do the conversation over and over lol

Flashbangs. Flashbangs are your best friend. Wish we had 9 bangers.

Originally posted by Fat Angus:

Nope no mods. I'm thinking there might be a bug in difficulty settings that sets it higher than what it really is. It just means atm I have to fire from cover instead of going in Rambo which is more my style, lol

Yeah I think there is a bug with HMG's where regardless of difficulty or lvl you are at the HMG weapons are set to player using it lvl 50 damage numbers. That HMG guy at the start of the game though is kinda easy to kill. I know you wana go rambo but what if there is another rambo who has a much larger gun? Just use a little cover and be more like John Wick (insert Keanu Reeves memes here) where you go from cover to cover or poke your head out for just a sec, shoot through some softer cover ect.

[Fat Angus]

I armored up as much as I could which has improved things considerably, I'm thinking they may have revised the armor system so that increases in armor feel a lot more meaningful.

[Nooneyouknow]

Originally posted by SGPoy:

Yeah. It makes going loud completely impossible unless you're running a Sandy build.

Either there is a massive enemy dps multiplier in effect, or something went very wrong with the Defence stat.

Or you can just use flashbangs.

[Mr_Blank]

Originally posted by Voodoojedizin:

Originally posted by Mr_Blank:

Your supposed to get completely annhialated by the Sandra Dorset guy. You need to crouch and go around him, then his damage is nulled. The amount of damage people do is supposed to get players interested in quick hacking, but most people just go guns or fist blazing lol

Now that's just not true! He's really not that hard to kill, just stay in cover and pop up and shoot him in the head.
What's wrong with you guys not being able to fight at the very beginning of the game when it's basically a tutorial. Actually everything you said is BS! {He is supposed to get you interested in quick hacking} what a load of malarkey. lol

I mean he annhialated me bc i didn;t put a single point on bod bc stealth build, and I was running the hardest mode lol. once i GOT to the guy he was easy, but when he shoots through the window your SUPPOSED to go around and get away

[Thanathos]

I was playing around my game save from two years ago and I had a revolver that dealt with like 500 damages everyshot and I had my load out just for that since I destroyed the majority of enemies that way and booting up 1.6 I got destroyed with all my upgrades as well in seconds and noticed how it was shooting like 100-200 body damage, I mean I remember the enemies being bullet sponges but damn, not that bad.

[Aven Oul]

havent noticed, but if so good games need to be harder too many games are far too easy even on the hardest mode

[Tokenn]

In that initial fight you can go in guns blazing, sneak up on the guy or some combination of tactics. Sneaking is easier, but shooting it out works too if you're smart about it. My normal gameplay is to sneak as much as possible, and when that stops working, I draw my [metaphorical] sword and go to work.

Even after 8 or 9 playthroughs, I don't understand how this game works. I just started a new game a few days ago and currently 'my V' is stronger at a lower level than most of my previous games. I don't think anything has changed substantially with the latest patches...certainly not to the players' disadvantage. That being said, I always put extra points into Body...even netrunners need to pick up the Carnage and LMG from time to time. Later in the game [after Act 1] is the time to specialize, IMO. I see no sensible way for a netrunner to become very strong before hitting Konpeki Plaza.