farm experience, materials and samples?

[Крокодило]

Is there a way in the game to endlessly farm experience, materials and samples?

[Narrowmind]

Yes. You'll get a mission to go back to the space station to shut down the doomsday protocol. Don't finish that mission. Until you finish that mission, you have an unlimited time to grind and earn resources and staff.

[C-zom]

Specifically it is the return to Pioneer mission. Do not do that mission until /you/ want to. The infestation meter means nothing if you level up properly. You want Level 10s for Pioneer + Pharos afterward into the end game. Ideally, three squads (a,b,c) of 10s to rotate in and out towards the end game.

Don't be afraid of infestation 5, it just scales the rng of how big the onslaughts are and how many type 2s show up. In the end game this can be cut in half with around 80 samples, or brought back to 1 with like 220 or so. Your marines will always outscale how dangerous infestation is so long as you're intensive training + farming old maps for onslaughts until you're out of ammo.

The game doesn't tell you this effectively but engineers multiply to free materials every day and the deployment events can lead to new scientists, engineers, soldiers and resources almost constantly. If you play this game in a hurry, e.g: 1-2 days between each mission that you facetank and try to complete in as few goes as possible, you will be absolutely destroyed on Hard or Nightmare by the time you reach Pioneer organically. I think that would naturally curve to a few level 7s and 6s scattered around, and you will be hard stopped on progression. Those marines will just never survive.

[Narrowmind]

Hey, wait. 80 samples? I think you're misremembering it. 80 can drop it one full level, but since there's 5 levels, it will take a lot more than that to fully drop it to half, and a lot more to drop it to level 1. It's really a waste of time. It's not that important.

The intensive training is really a waste of time. You can do much better just sending out a new squad each day. I was grinding intensive the entire game, and even stalled a long time to grind up all the available weapons, and I'm on day 54 for the last mission, 6 days counting down, and not even one has reached level 3.

[Shevvie]

Interesting! I don't know why but I thought you levelled up with mission progression and kills didn't really have anything to do with it. I had no idea you could just farm Aliens to level up.

[Narrowmind]

You're right, you do level up with completing objectives through the missions and the aliens don't really provide anything. However, the category two xenomorphs, the crusher and praetorians, do provide 2xp for each kill. So farming can continue on as you grind up the aggression to the point they send the boss aliens after you.

[Twelvefield]

I thought that hunt swarms also generate XP. Individual roaming X's do not.

Intensive Training gives you double XP per day, but a Marine gets 1 XP per day sitting in the Otago. So 2 XP unless something crazy happens, plus exhaustion at the end. I do stick my Marines who are least likely to go on a mission in there, only as long as they are Rookies or very near that level. There may be a chance I can slap a Redeemed sticker on their armour and make them useful enough to go out and be killers rather than wall ventilators.

[Narrowmind]

Maybe the massive onslaughts do generate XP, but I don't think the regular hunts do. Not sure on that. Good thought, though.

[Proxy]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Shevvie:

Interesting! I don't know why but I thought you levelled up with mission progression and kills didn't really have anything to do with it. I had no idea you could just farm Aliens to level up.

you get xp from massive onslaughts, mission objectives, cat 2's(usually) and queens nothing else.