how the hell do you beat roguelike

[IOUANAME]

I swear to gawd my guy I've lost this campaign 4 times in a row at day 10 I usually never have money when the investigation demands I pay 150k to set it back XD what should I be focusing on to complete this is blitzing their territory the key or should I focus on heists? And the thing that pisses me off most how do you kill a captain without alerting anyone when the bugger doesn't die to stealth hits

[B Dawg]

How do you not have money? Doing one big heist gives you a ton of money and past the first few couple of days even the normal jobs can give a a lot (like bank heist with intel is over 100k I'm sure).

With Baker's 50% loot bonus, money literally can't be an issue.

[Cryptic]

Are you selling drugs in the stash? Are you doing missions to lower heat? I've beaten the roguelite mode like 10 times now. Medium and hard. It's not bad, but you gotta REALLY strategize your goals and be effective on missions. For defense turf wars, bring as little soldiers as you can manage. Fight hard. Fight smart.

Also, do heists. They give a ton of cash

[Armacham]

I'd say capturing territory is one of the keys. Look for missions that spawn that allow you to take over territory with main characters and not the army. And no matter how you do it, make sure by any means necessary that you do have the money to pay off the police. Remember you can sell off physical items in your stash from the office for extra money. There's also the loan system but I haven't touched that. Paying off the police buys you significant time and can happen more than once in a playthrough,

[Fingeris]

On normal, I am always finishing it on day 8/9, without even bribing cops.

Just capture at least 2 territories per day, and focus on cutting off opponent territories for auto-capture.

Occasionally do robberies with your heroes to keep the funding, and sell loot from the office panel.

[whit]

I beat it on the 9th attempt. And still only got like a B+ (b something) rating. Anyway, you're going to want to level up something a bit, and learn all the mechanics anyway. And it just might not be possible to win early. Just because of a few things.

No way to get enough army guys, cagnali is tier 3 and it will take awhile for you to get to t3, and have enough troops. But you can get perk cards that let you start with more troops on the next run. Which helps with grabbing up territories and quickly getting to T2 troops by day 2 or 3. You need 5 territories I think for it to spawn that goal (maybe 4).

There's ways to reduce the investigation, that either spawn up as goals. Or involve you killing the detectives. Lastly there's also perk cards that reduce it's percentage...but. 10% of 12% isn't much.

There's a big heist or two, that gives you the option to turn evidence over to reduce it. But you'll lose all the money.

Anyway, you just gotta keep taking territories. And if those missions pop up, that allow you to take a turf, by sabotaging vehicles or whatever with your main crew (instead of army). You might want to take those. And lose out on a heist or two.

[Flavio93Zena]

Tutorial should help you massively with some more understanding of turf wars and such: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3269711161
Doesn't go into specific heist details, though. (Or I would have finished it next year)

[JRS]

I do think first bribe should be 100k not 150, and investigation goes up too quickly, at some point it's just too much and annoying

2 days and it's 80% already.. let me conquer city in peace

[IICEE]

Originally posted by JRS:

I do think first bribe should be 100k not 150, and investigation goes up too quickly, at some point it's just too much and annoying

2 days and it's 80% already.. let me conquer city in peace

Lol, idk how 2 days and you already 80% investigation do you kill anything that move?

Because kill citizen add more investigation percent , usually it fill up at day 9-10 without doing anything to lower it.

[Flavio93Zena]

Originally posted by JRS:

I do think first bribe should be 100k not 150, and investigation goes up too quickly, at some point it's just too much and annoying

2 days and it's 80% already.. let me conquer city in peace

That's mathematically impossible.

[Flavio93Zena]

Get crew perks to slow investigation down, tutorial covers that too...
You're not meant to get an incredible win on your first run (even though it is possible even on extreme), it's all about choices and what you do. Turf wars play a very big role - sending 30 soldiers in a defense will quickly lead you to bankruptcy, for example. But same thing for attack, sending so many soldiers will substantially limit the amount of attacks you can carry out in a day and hinder your progress, on top of draining your funds in a second.

[imag2OOO]

Originally posted by Cryptic:

Are you selling drugs in the stash? Are you doing missions to lower heat? I've beaten the roguelite mode like 10 times now. Medium and hard. It's not bad, but you gotta REALLY strategize your goals and be effective on missions. For defense turf wars, bring as little soldiers as you can manage. Fight hard. Fight smart.

Also, do heists. They give a ton of cash

this is pretty much the answer

pretty much always only bring 10 soldiers for attacks since u can basicly solo the enemys {especially when u get teir 3 with the cluster grenades or teir 2 with the shotgun}

defence is free pretty much every time u can very easily solo even the teir 3 defences with touchdown hes super op {the only one where u might wana bring like 5 soldiers is robots defence but even then its pretty easy}

also if u have dlcs which i assume u do since they gave em away u can start the campaign with the kings gold heist and use the starting money and loans to buy the permanent office upgrades

[CoffeeOnTap]

The amount of territory you control is actually related to the final payout of missions. It's a poorly explained mechanic called "Respect". After you capture X territories your respect grows, you'll get a little popup. Missions that spawn after that window will be harder and pay more.

I sometimes expand rapidly and back all of the other gangs into corners so I can cycle big missions. Other times I'll expand aggressively and remove whoever first gets Opportunity missions put against them.

But yeah, take territory quickly and whenever possible if you're struggling. Keep in mind that your territory defenses will be cancelled if the zone the attack is coming from is captured (i.e. flank your enemies) and singular isolated points surrounded by your territories after a capture will also become captured. (Cut off enemy connections).

[NLxAROSA]

Originally posted by IOUANAME:

I swear to gawd my guy I've lost this campaign 4 times in a row at day 10 I usually never have money when the investigation demands I pay 150k to set it back XD what should I be focusing on to complete this is blitzing their territory the key or should I focus on heists? And the thing that pisses me off most how do you kill a captain without alerting anyone when the bugger doesn't die to stealth hits

It takes some time to strengthen your team, soldiers, etc. I think I did 20-30 runs before I nailed one in 2023

[Lardo]

Originally posted by Flavio93Zena:

Tutorial should help you massively with some more understanding of turf wars and such: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3269711161
Doesn't go into specific heist details, though. (Or I would have finished it next year)

That's great, you should pin it in a thread.

[imag2OOO]

Originally posted by NLxAROSA:

Originally posted by IOUANAME:

I swear to gawd my guy I've lost this campaign 4 times in a row at day 10 I usually never have money when the investigation demands I pay 150k to set it back XD what should I be focusing on to complete this is blitzing their territory the key or should I focus on heists? And the thing that pisses me off most how do you kill a captain without alerting anyone when the bugger doesn't die to stealth hits

It takes some time to strengthen your team, soldiers, etc. I think I did 20-30 runs before I nailed one in 2023

i beat campaign 6 out of 7 times it doesnt take that many runs lol u just need to invest in perm upgrades on ur first run instead of worrying about winning it