Citadel DLC - can I exit anderson's apartment?

[AsuraStrike]

I accidentally started the citadel DLC without knowing, and proceeded to the mission where I had to escape from an assassination attempt. However, being on insanity I absolutely could not find a way to get out with 1 health and a weak pistol after about 40 attempts. The worst part is my only save is in Anderson's apartment. Am I screwed? Is there no way to exit the DLC?

[Sultryhag]

Yes you can check out the apartment . Read all the datapads and leave.

[AsuraStrike]

Originally posted by Sultryhag:

Yes you can check out the apartment . Read all the datapads and leave.

Thank god. Will try that!

[AsuraStrike]

hmm I think i clicked all notepads. How can I leave?

[Sultryhag]

Go out to taxi stand

[barzai]

Well, let me start off by saying there's no shame in dialing back the difficulty level if this is your first encounter with the DLC and you're struggling. The game is here for you, not the other way around.

Having gotten that bit of throat-clearing out of the way--and bearing in mind I don't play Insanity myself, for the aforegoing reason--it's best to treat the mission as if it were a stealth shooter of the Splinter Cell or Dishonored type: lots of sneaking, lots of picking off the enemies one by one in a way that doesn't alert their buddies, and so forth.

Ironically this is a situation where being a brawny Soldier is actually the WORST class. As you point out you start with one health segment of six and you don't start regenerating beyond that until quite a ways into the solo part of the mission. And the pistol probably seems pretty whifty compared to the big guns you're used to.

But the pistol is better than you may think. It's stealthed so you can shoot people without alerting them, and it actually packs quite a punch: you can one-shot adversaries if you head-shoot them, even at range. It's just hard on account of not having a scope.

So the trick is to pick off adversaries one by one while they're isolated--classic stealth-shooter tactics. And take advantage of terrain to avoid as many adversaries as you can--there's no requirement to kill 'em all. Main thing is, don't get swarmed...if that happens, you're deader than a doornail, for sure.

But to answer your actual inquiry: as @SultryHag states, leave the apartment, go out the door to the building--past the lobby with the kiosk--and keep going straight. In a few steps you should see a fast-transit console just to your left, at the very northernmost edge of the Silver Strip area. The console should offer an option to return to the Normandy.

[AsuraStrike]

I'm feeling extremely dumb right now. As I exit the door, I don't see a kiosk. There's only an elevator at the end of the hallway. It launches the mission that I was previously stuck on. I also don't wanna tune down the difficulty because of acheivement.

[AsuraStrike]

Upon a closer look, there's a hoover-like object next to the door, under the TV. Is that the kiosk or taxi stand? It however cannot be interacted with.

[Agent Janek]

Originally posted by AsuraStrike:

Upon a closer look, there's a hoover-like object next to the door, under the TV. Is that the kiosk or taxi stand? It however cannot be interacted with.

well it looks like you´re stuck because i believe you can leave apartment for your ship AFTER that assassination mission which is introduction to DLC .. i guess you will learn next time to do saves often before missions for cases like this

[Omen3608]

Originally posted by AsuraStrike:

I accidentally started the citadel DLC without knowing, and proceeded to the mission where I had to escape from an assassination attempt. However, being on insanity I absolutely could not find a way to get out with 1 health and a weak pistol after about 40 attempts. The worst part is my only save is in Anderson's apartment. Am I screwed? Is there no way to exit the DLC?

The first time you enter the apartment you are locked into the assassination mission. After that mission you are free to progress the DLC whenever you like. On insanity it is arguably the hardest mission of all Mass Effect games, depending on your class a bit.

Soldier class will probably struggle the most with this one as the games strips you of everything that makes the class good. What class are you playing as?

[AsuraStrike]

Originally posted by Omen3608:

Originally posted by AsuraStrike:

I accidentally started the citadel DLC without knowing, and proceeded to the mission where I had to escape from an assassination attempt. However, being on insanity I absolutely could not find a way to get out with 1 health and a weak pistol after about 40 attempts. The worst part is my only save is in Anderson's apartment. Am I screwed? Is there no way to exit the DLC?

The first time you enter the apartment you are locked into the assassination mission. After that mission you are free to progress the DLC whenever you like. On insanity it is arguably the hardest mission of all Mass Effect games, depending on your class a bit.

Soldier class will probably struggle the most with this one as the games strips you of everything that makes the class good. What class are you playing as?

I'm Vanguard. Debating if I should uninstall, since I can't seems to beat/exit, don't wanna lower the difficulty and have no previous saves lol, gg, gg indeed

[Omen3608]

As a vanguard it is doable quite smoothly as long as you trust in your powers. You will have to be careful at the part after you've fallen through the fishtank as it is very easy to get flanked or overwhelmed there. After that play aggressive and remember that charging an enemy replenishes your shields and allows you to get away from the drones and grenades.

It's only those two fights that are hard, after you've done them everything's back to 'normal' insanity. ;D

Edit: Forgot to mention melee, this is an occasion where it is really useful for a vanguard(in case your Nova lacks punch) due to the lack of ammo.

[barzai]

Originally posted by Omen3608:

As a vanguard it is doable quite smoothly as long as you trust in your powers. You will have to be careful at the part after you've fallen through the fishtank as it is very easy to get flanked or overwhelmed there. After that play aggressive and remember that charging an enemy replenishes your shields and allows you to get away from the drones and grenades.

It's only those two fights that are hard, after you've done them everything's back to 'normal' insanity. ;D

Edit: Forgot to mention melee, this is an occasion where it is really useful for a vanguard(in case your Nova lacks punch) due to the lack of ammo.

Yeah, that should work, although as I said earlier I've never done it on Insanity.

The one thing I'd add is that you can use your Charge power creatively; there's a few sections that are set in long narrow passages (so what else is new, right?) and you can often use your Charge to kind of careen down the corridor from one bad guy to another. Kinda fun actually! But it takes some good planning and a lot of luck

Also my apologies for forgetting that the regular exit/taxi stand/access to the whole level doesn't become accessible until after the mission. My bad

[Exarch_Alpha]

The DLC pistol is awesome and has uses even in MG 3 on Hard (Insane dunno)

[Prophet Muhammad]

"weak pistol" literally the strongest gun in the game

[Sultryhag]

How can you have only one save? I had like 40 saves that I cycle through and save manually while deleting them. Are you saying you do not manually save?

Every area I have 5 saves until the mission ends. Then I keep one save for every area I have been to while recycling the rest of them.