Unable to complete The Heist.

[Desiani]

I am a 100% melee build in 2.0 and I cannot kill the drones on Very Hard with the pistol that you are forced to use during the delemane chase sequence. Why cant I use the SMG's or assault rifles that I picked up and have to use this one pisstol I cant kill the drones with?

[JSuthy]

Use net runner abilities, overheat for example. I also find doing side missions before the heist and gaining some levels and perks will make life easier.

[BMC]

I've gone full melee and never had this issue, building reflexes and cool still allows your pistol to deal some decent damage, still takes a bit but should always kill it

[Pieshaman]

short circuit on drones is usually good to do at least massive damage on them.

[Simple Man]

If melee you might be using a berserk or sandevistan, hence screwed.

CDPR "balanced" 2.0 in such a way that those drones are nigh impossible to shoot down on very hard diff, even at level 20 after clearing all of watson. The large drone will only take 1 maybe 2% hp damage a shot, take too long, game kills you and fails mission. Non of the weapons that drop during heist are good enough to shoot em down in time.

You could have a cyberdeck equipped to use combat hacks, short circuit deletes them. Doesn't seem like you have it, so just lower difficulty and be done with it. You'll have that problem again later in the game too.

[mcdcecil]

I had never got this on very hard either. there a couple of others yet to come. well i got the one where you are johnny escaping. and i got the Heist one. So far in this game i have got them all. I am hopeful for a complete play through on very hard. The game i can do but there are a few different car chases that would defeat me in the Past. This game i cleared the map before completing the prologue. I think you can beat them on Very Hard You are just going to have really played the game Very thoroughly. I am sure all can be beaten.

[Bogmore]

Equip better pistols before you get in the car. I have no problems on hard with them.

[mcdcecil]

You can not chose the weapon in all of thees instances you must just use the weapon you draw witch is not a weapon from your inventory. Like Desiani said with the pistol you are forced to use.

[Simple Man]

Originally posted by mcdcecil:

You can not chose the weapon in all of thees instances you must just use the weapon you draw witch is not a weapon from your inventory. Like Desiani said with the pistol you are forced to use.

You're not forced to use the Kongou pistol, but it will be the weapon on the player as it auto equips when you pick it up at a point when nothing else is equipped. You can switch weapon before entering the Delamain.

It still makes no difference as all other pistol/rifles will be white/green quality and possibly even weaker than the Kongou. Only help then is combat quickhacks, lower difficulty (even hard is glaringly easier), or sit there all night reloading game trying to kill the drones before game kills you.

Originally posted by Bogmore:

Equip better pistols before you get in the car. I have no problems on hard with them.

Hard is nowhere near very hard. And with the current "balanced" level scaling, doing Heist at higher levels means drones came along with the players level. Hows a T2/3 Kongou or white rifles supposed to shoot those down, CDPRs only response on their boards was that "some changes may have been overtuned". Ya think.

[TH3R4BB!T]

Good luck doing melee on Very Hard, maybe better just do whatever is to be done within Watson. So you scale up a bit, getting bit better weapons, and then do the Heist. Even without melee build, it was terrible, all those enemies you face.... it was hell++

Hard, well Very Hard is two/three times that. Making a mistake at start with your build and the end missions are near impossible. Hard felt like 'Easy' from 1.63, pity there is no difficulty beyond Very Hard, or that you unlock a new difficulty after the final job

[mcdcecil]

Well i might be wrong but in many of the instanced situations the weapon that you equip is not from your inventory and you can not select the weapon. This happens when you are playing as Johnny. You have no weapons selection. You can not equip the Kongou pistol the drones appear you turn to shoot and you have a generic weapon No choice.

[mcdcecil]

Ok when you are getting into Delamain You have the Kongo and whatever other weapons you got while fighting down the tower. You do not have access to your inventory. Other than what you got fighting down the tower. In the get away Instance you turn and start shooting with a generic gun. You can use your net runner abilities. The way to beat it on very hard is to Completely do Watson every thing , then do the heist. At completely finishing Watson i was lvl. 20 39 street cred and my deck was getting pretty built up.

[valium]

I did it with a fist/shotgun build on very hard, it wasnt particularly difficult. You have to hit all your shots on very hard, which is how very hard should be.

[Drysyn]

the drones are easy to kill if you take your time shoot slower & take time to aim, I did it without even using net running skills.

[Bogmore]

That is why I said change weapons BEFORE you get in the taxi.

You usually pick up 4 or 5 pistols so equip a pistol in every slot.

You can make pistols too.

The only other thing is don't do the heist at level 5.

[Desiani]

The biggest downside is that the kongru thing is the best pistol... I equipped assault rifles or SMGs and it would force me to use the kongru blue pistol