Best Exos

[Dire Wolf]

What are your favorite exos and which do you think are the best?

I don't *love* the science exo, but I feel he is mandatory for every party, aside from achievement ones. Early on he's the only hacking option until you get some hacking gear. You're forgoing a lot of early loot without. He also has the best base sensor range. 18 early on is amazing and will really keep you from walking into a bad situation.

Once you get epic exos siege plus science combo you can scout the entire map with science guy and then pick off high priority targets like commander bots with the shadow torps. Just cus of those I feel like siege is the 2nd best exo, even though early on he is severely lacking, and you need a lot of +ammo gear throughout to get good usage. But being able to shoot anything on the map is super overpowered.

I think assault and sniper are tied for third and it just depends on what you like. Assault probably has more utilitarian usage, with ability to beef up shield stats with 3 shield slots off the bat. He can tank some damage, walk over traps and not be hurt, etc, and he has some aoe with grenade launcher. Grenades also have great damage early on.

Sniper on the other hand is more of a one trick pony, but does that trick exceptionally well. Able to pick off single targets at long range.

Ninja is very meh. Good damage, but just doesn't have enough range or ammo. You're very dependent on your stealth, which stealth is pretty op, but it runs out fast.

Brawler I feel is the worst. Awesome damage, but so short range! And assault mech is so much tankier. You have to do a lot of shooting around corners with brawler early. Although he in a way has more value on higher difficulties, as enemies are so tanky you can run out of ammo before they die. Well, not with a brawler and his huge base damage.

Anyway, that's just my thoughts. Join the convo, tell me yours and sell me on ninja exo if you can.

[Kunovega]

Ninja is one of the easier to solo with (sniper being the other) and if you plan to 100% the achievements, you need to be able to solo with all of them. Ninja has the least problems with ammo and the most versatility overall; it's not the best at any one thing but is runner up in a lot of categories making it a good all rounder.

Immunity to splash damage makes it able to not care about being in range of explosions and the ability to stay in stealth while attacking is one of the only ways to make progress at higher difficulty tiers.

If you're not soloing, siege, ninja and sniper are the three you need most and then fill in whatever for fourth. Higher difficulty you will need stealth for most missions, sniper to pick off critical targets and siege to take out the biggest groups.

Brawler, science and assault all feel like support to me; though if you're playing on lower difficulty it's not as obvious what their drawbacks are. Science can't keep up in combat, brawler is just a less stealthy ninja and assault sits somewhere between sniper and siege without being as uniquely good as either of those in their categories for range and group damage.

The game is really RNG based though and I don't play it often anymore. You can get pretty close to the end and just lose with bad luck.