OCP Bank Efficiency Challenge on Extreme?

[Rocket]

I can't seem to do this one. Any tricks? I have Vitality and Deduction maxed and not much else. I have no reload and some upgraded damage PCB board. But the cops and ED209's are way too fast for me.

I don't have any Focus (bullet time slow down) sadly. It was the only way I could maximize Vitality out.

[Nöitalommi]

I just walked through without paying attention to cover, used all healings and one-shotted enemies with headshots. Was still very close, with a difference of one point.

[Lardo]

It comes down to your aiming skills, which means it's a cakewalk with bullet time. Max vitality, on the other hand, is only needed if you suck at the game. Play your cards right, enemies will be barely able to damage you in the first place. This challenge is definitely not meant for people that need max vitality to survive, and so is extreme difficulty, for that matter.

[recursor]

Don't know if it'll be helpful, but I have an example from an Extreme run where I didn't put skill points into any ability that impacts combat (so deduction only). Here's the bank efficiency challenge portion, ending up at 60 to 40.

You can probably afford to be more aggressive with the extra healing charges. And keeping in mind there's a skill disk before the ED209 portion, you may be able to pick up armor 2 and blitz the enemies at the elevators in that ED209 section and just start throwing them, or grab focus 2 and headshot enemies right quick.

Edit: It also sounds like you might be a little light on skill points - you can have up to 26 points going into the bank, though 10 of those would be tied up in Deduction. On the plus side, you definitely don't need that to clear the game even on Extreme.

[Rocket]

Originally posted by recursor:

Don't know if it'll be helpful, but I have an example from an Extreme run where I didn't put skill points into any ability that impacts combat (so deduction only). Here's the bank efficiency challenge portion, ending up at 60 to 40.

You can probably afford to be more aggressive with the extra healing charges. And keeping in mind there's a skill disk before the ED209 portion, you may be able to pick up armor 2 and blitz the enemies at the elevators in that ED209 section and just start throwing them, or grab focus 2 and headshot enemies right quick.

Edit: It also sounds like you might be a little light on skill points - you can have up to 26 points going into the bank, though 10 of those would be tied up in Deduction. On the plus side, you definitely don't need that to clear the game even on Extreme.

This is super helpful.

Also, it's not like I can't go back and respec somewhat with the autosaves in the arrest spike chapter. Very little of the game is actually hard on Extreme. Because you can still always take your time. I didn't use a lot of the health items from the crates.

I just figured Vitality would be the most useful going forward and haven't needed slow motion anywhere.

I forgot about this challenge and didn't know that the OCP AI would change heavily on Extreme. Not that I've tested it, but it seems like making the OCP AI so good in this chapter makes these parts easier than on Normal in a sense, if you don't care about the challenge.

I'm sure I have more than 20, I just forget where else I spec'd as I'm not at my computer right now. I've been trying to complete all the challenges in all the chapters so far.

[Rocket]

Originally posted by recursor:

Don't know if it'll be helpful, but I have an example from an Extreme run where I didn't put skill points into any ability that impacts combat (so deduction only). Here's the bank efficiency challenge portion, ending up at 60 to 40.

You can probably afford to be more aggressive with the extra healing charges. And keeping in mind there's a skill disk before the ED209 portion, you may be able to pick up armor 2 and blitz the enemies at the elevators in that ED209 section and just start throwing them, or grab focus 2 and headshot enemies right quick.

Edit: It also sounds like you might be a little light on skill points - you can have up to 26 points going into the bank, though 10 of those would be tied up in Deduction. On the plus side, you definitely don't need that to clear the game even on Extreme.

Did it on my first try after watching the video. That was exactly what I needed. Thank you!

[recursor]

Originally posted by Rocket:

Did it on my first try after watching the video. That was exactly what I needed. Thank you!

Neat, glad to hear you got through it!

[Rocket]

Originally posted by recursor:

Originally posted by Rocket:

Did it on my first try after watching the video. That was exactly what I needed. Thank you!

Neat, glad to hear you got through it!

I always appreciate it when someone is helpful instead of leaning towards mocking like the one guy. I blocked him and gave you an award.

[zerosiege]

Spent gawd knows how many hours trying to beat the SWAT team and ED-209 combo. Finally got sick of it and just started rushing into the baddies to grab and punch the lights outta them. Lo and behold! That did the trick! LOL