Veteran difficulty solo seems crazy

[DefinitelyNotMonk]

As the title says, trying this on veteran feels nearly impossible with the bots, there is so much coming for you non stop and they simply do not carry their weight, trying to defend the antenas and after 20 attempts I'm dropping it to normal.

Can just about stay on top of it until the zoenthropes turn up, but the bots are little use in countering the ranged mobs constantly whittling me down every time I try to deal with the swarm on me in melee and the bots do nothing to help defend the objectives.

It's fun and I'm looking forward to a co-op run, but jesus I'd love to see someone clearing this on the hardest difficulty solo, heck a veteran tin would be impressive.

Crazy thing is, veteran is how it's supposed to be played?!?!

I am now awaiting the get good comments etc, I accept I am not upto the task, maybe in another 10 tries I'd nail it, but I fear that would be luck more than skill at that point lol

Congrats to anyone who pulls it off with bots!

[Wolfy]

wait see the ange of death lmao

it's just impossible, ia are no brain, they don't attack objectif, psychic monster have 100% accurancy even when you spam dodge their attack
range unit 100% accurancy
you can't win melee fight vs anything if more than 5 ennemy on you
you can't win 1v2 vs 2 big monster bc you can't dodge 2 attack in the same time

dev prob play in easy lmao..

[Ginrikuzuma]

took me 3 attempts in vet solo that section was rough yeah.

Personally it helped that I had brought with me the bolt rifle /w grenade launcher. 2 nades clears out like 80-90% of the nids if shot well at the antenna locations.

the shooter nids are such a problem though. .

[Hadgart]

I did find till the relays, the relays mission is crazy, you either destroy the relays (as the bot dont shoot the gargoiles), or you defend yourself, doesnt help either that the weapons there suck. Only the carbine is good and i didnt have it.

[Nah, I'd win.]

I recently downed the difficulty from AoD to veteran at the end of Ch.2 and it felt 100x easier, so maybe it just takes some practice. The elites are pretty easy imo, its the little fks whittling you down and taking away movement that gets me.

[Nah, I'd win.]

also those flying things that you literally have no tools to deal with. Except the gun.

[Verios44]

Skill issue

[DefinitelyNotMonk]

I went in with the melta, tried both bolt rifles (with and without grenade), have plasma pistol and chain sword, I just get whittled down by constant ranged damage and 10+ melee guys on me.

It seems rng if the bots will help deal with stuff or not.

No idea how you cleared the objectives with only 2 grenade shots, the explosion seems too small to do it in 2, needed 4 for me, even needed 3 melta shots if lined up right and while doing that you have a dozen guys hitting you from range and in melee.

Congrats if you actually managed it, but, my guess is your bots decided to pull their weight lol

[Lov3SammyD]

I feel you brother... I stopped playing when arrived in antenna mission and looked for comment. Bot are useless and I don't want to scale down difficulty (currently max) I'm stuck

[DefinitelyNotMonk]

Originally posted by Verios44:

Skill issue

Very insightful, from someone likely playing on easy lol.

Of course it's, a skill issue, I admired that, I'm looking forward to watching some videos of how people pulled it off as the bots just cannot handle this.

[DefinitelyNotMonk]

Originally posted by Lov3SammyD:

I feel you brother... I stopped playing when arrived in antenna mission and looked for comment. Bot are useless and I don't want to scale down difficulty (currently max) I'm stuck

It feels like when the bits get stuck in or actually target the pinpoint accurate ranged guys, it becomes much, much easier, but, like i had 2 of them staring at a warrior waiting to be executed while I was fighting another, a swarm a d bring shot from range lol

[DefinitelyNotMonk]

Just checked out a video of people doing this on veteran and there is 1/3rd of the enemies and the bots are actually killing stuff?...

[Skorne]

The antennas is massive difficulty spike, like 10x harder than anything before it. That's just bad playtesting on the part of the devs.

[FawKa]

Grenade launcher is lying there - clears the antennas very effectively.
Don't give up on Vet <3

[Net]

Played a bit further myself and so far the antenna thing has been the absolute worst difficulty spike. It does seem like overall the defend something that gets destroyed are the hardest fights.

The one time I've died it was pretty much because the bots did not do anything at all, second time I saw them shooting the objective like crazy so it seems rather bot AI dependant.

[DefinitelyNotMonk]

Originally posted by FawKa:

Grenade launcher is lying there - clears the antennas very effectively.
Don't give up on Vet <3

Haha got disconnected from solo and need to start the whole mission again.

Clearing the antennas wasn't really the issue, it was the constant 20 odd mobs eating me and shooting me from range that the bots did nothing about.

Going to go back in on veteran and try for another 20 tries, then I'll ♥♥♥♥♥ quit down to normal lol.