How to lose Notoriety? EARLY game

[OmegaCenti]

becoming rather hard to buy items for the first two missions....

[Tizzy]

If you've got the jumping superpower already, just jump to the top of a building and wait 1 minute-ish there. The aliens can't reach you and your notoriety will soon start dropping faster.

[Zero Hour 17]

Originally posted by Tizzy:

If you've got the jumping superpower already, just jump to the top of a building and wait 1 minute-ish there. The aliens can't reach you and your notoriety will soon start dropping faster.

This works if your notoriety is low enough that the flying bike enemies aren't after you. If they are, do a mission or leave the simulation. Easiest ways

[Detestable Geohound]

Depending how much you've upgraded your Super Speed (assuming you have it), you should be able to just catch a Golden CID which removes all Notoriety.

[Zero Hour 17]

Originally posted by The Assassin:

Depending how much you've upgraded your Super Speed (assuming you have it), you should be able to just catch a Golden CID which removes all Notoriety.

:spy:

He's on the first two missions. The golden cids haven't appeared yet.

[Detestable Geohound]

Originally posted by Zero Hour 17:

He's on the first two missions. The golden cids haven't appeared yet.

That didn't even occur to me, since I never had an issue with Notoriety early in the game.

Well then it's safe to say that my idea wont work lol.

[Baconator]

I cant lose the Alien hulk on full notoriety, killed him about 15 times and immediately after he dies.. another drops in. Can't outrun him because he teleports ontop of me o.o... any way to lower it? dont have the cids

[Indru]

I got lucky with this one. Was at the mission where you must go to rimjob to upgrade a car the first time, and after failing to do it four times in a row due to notoriety, and also failing to lose said notoriety, I tried a fifth time, this time with a bike, and I accidentaly got stuck inside rim job. The door closed and the guys outside could not find me anymore, and I just waited until the notoriety bar (red thingies around the lower left circle with the map) went down. Lucky me, I guess. Just try to hide somewhere if you are early in the game. Another good spot is the place where the purple d*i*l*d*o is, search the guides on steam, it shows you. It is a cave near a bridge, unreachable by NPCs and enemy AI, usually.

[Grobut]

Don't goof around and get into trouble early on, the game is clearly not designed with that in mind.

It's obvious the Dev's intended for people to follow the first few missions slavishly before starting to run amok in the sandbox, because you don't get the tools and skills you need to evade a wanted level untill a good few missions in.

Can't say that i'm very fond of that design choice, but it is what it is, so just play the missions till the one pops up where the Golder-CID is introduced.
Once you've cleared that one, you can basically run amok as you please.

[Indru]

Originally posted by Grobut:

Don't goof around and get into trouble early on, the game is clearly not designed with that in mind.

It's obvious the Dev's intended for people to follow the first few missions slavishly before starting to run amok in the sandbox, because you don't get the tools and skills you need to evade a wanted level untill a good few missions in.

Can't say that i'm very fond of that design choice, but it is what it is, so just play the missions till the one pops up where the Golder-CID is introduced.
Once you've cleared that one, you can basically run amok as you please.

You can accidentaly bump into those gang activity-style thingies, and all the zin just start shooting you and you get plenty of notoriety. That is how it happened for me. If the devs did not want the player to gain notoriety at the beginning, they should have deactivated those activities.

[Sentient_Toaster]

For what it's worth, aliens shooting at you doesn't increase your notoriety at all, at least on Normal, and your notoriety will continue to drop as they do if

* you're not shooting back or otherwise continuing to commit mayhem, and
* you're not sticking around an area they're trying to defend (esp, say, the Restricted Area).

So e.g. if you're on a rooftop and some weak enemy is plinking at you, it can be simpler to just wait it out.

It's when you escalate it by firing back that notoriety spikes.

[Indru]

Originally posted by Sentient_Toaster:

For what it's worth, aliens shooting at you doesn't increase your notoriety at all, at least on Normal, and your notoriety will continue to drop as they do if

* you're not shooting back or otherwise continuing to commit mayhem, and
* you're not sticking around an area they're trying to defend (esp, say, the Restricted Area).

So e.g. if you're on a rooftop and some weak enemy is plinking at you, it can be simpler to just wait it out.

It's when you escalate it by firing back that notoriety spikes.

It does not increase it, but it keeps it steady. So you cannot wait out if he has a visual on you.

[Midian13]

You can also have it removed for $500.00 at Image By Design, early on in the game.

[mimizukari]

Just die. You respawn with no notoriety, If you're on the mission where it says you need to complete, or have permanent 2 notoriety, then complete that mish.

[Indru]

Originally posted by Midian13:

You can also have it removed for $500.00 at Image By Design, early on in the game.

That is a good point, but I do not know if you have that much money so early in the game.
Later edit: Actually, I think you do. I remember having 600 or so when asked to upgrade the car. The only thing you have to take care with is to have money left to upgrade the car as the mission requests.

Originally posted by Fizar:

Just die. You respawn with no notoriety, If you're on the mission where it says you need to complete, or have permanent 2 notoriety, then complete that mish.

You cannot complete the mission you are on because the first mission requires you to upgrade a car (amongst other things), and you cannot do that while having notoriety. That is the main issue, actually.

[Grobut]

Originally posted by Indru:

You can accidentaly bump into those gang activity-style thingies, and all the zin just start shooting you and you get plenty of notoriety. That is how it happened for me. If the devs did not want the player to gain notoriety at the beginning, they should have deactivated those activities.

Yup, that's all true. And i'd agree that the Dev's might not have thought this all the way through, because you most certainly can get yourself into a lot of trouble that you are not yet equipped the deal with (and you very well might when you don't yet know all the games mechanics).