can i play without the detection drones?

[Trian]

i mean, every 5 sec theres coming a drone what i have to destroy before it detects me. Its not possible without this?

[YOPG]

What do you mean, cyborg patrols?

[Trian]

Originally posted by YOPG:

What do you mean, cyborg patrols?

seems to be it, this little drones what are invisible at first and alarming the patrols

[YOPG]

Originally posted by Trian:

Originally posted by YOPG:

What do you mean, cyborg patrols?

seems to be it, this little drones what are invisible at first and alarming the patrols

This applies either to Illuminate scouts or high difficulty Bug scouts. Yeah, that's the only way to play; you have to kill patrols before they sound the alarm and drop more enemies at you.

Distractor Beacon (green stratagem) should at least partially solve the issue, it helps to stealth the missions. Drop it far away from anything and it will attract all enemies for x period of time.

[Zealot]

Originally posted by Trian:

i mean, every 5 sec theres coming a drone what i have to destroy before it detects me. Its not possible without this?

It's called WAR, and it's logical to meet patrols in war zone

[Ghojo]

Originally posted by Doctor Taxidron:

Originally posted by Trian:

i mean, every 5 sec theres coming a drone what i have to destroy before it detects me. Its not possible without this?

It's called WAR, and it's logical to meet patrols in war zone

It's called a GAME, stop acting like this is anything like real war.

[Cyberbud]

This is one of the problems this game suffers from.

You and your team either kill every patrol without getting detected and go through a mission without much of a challenge or things to shoot at.
Or
You trigger every patrol you meet, die a bunch and lose your equipment and be forced to run away, spamming reinforcement stratagems.

I don't know how they could have balanced the game in this regard. Maybe have missions where you have a set number of enemies or something. I did like the idea of boss fights. Maybe in the next game they could have us assault enemy bases.

[Trian]

Originally posted by Cyberbud:

This is one of the problems this game suffers from.

You and your team either kill every patrol without getting detected and go through a mission without much of a challenge or things to shoot at.
Or
You trigger every patrol you meet, die a bunch and lose your equipment and be forced to run away, spamming reinforcement stratagems.

I don't know how they could have balanced the game in this regard. Maybe have missions where you have a set number of enemies or something. I did like the idea of boss fights. Maybe in the next game they could have us assault enemy bases.

would be good, but never heard anything about another game sadly

[Mikasa]

Originally posted by Cyberbud:

You trigger every patrol you meet, die a bunch and lose your equipment and be forced to run away, spamming reinforcement stratagems.

I don't know how they could have balanced the game in this regard. Maybe have missions where you have a set number of enemies or something.

This is not an issue. If it is, you're playing in a difficulty too high. The 15 difficulties are how they balanced it.

[Zealot]

Originally posted by Ghojo:

Originally posted by Doctor Taxidron:

It's called WAR, and it's logical to meet patrols in war zone

It's called a GAME, stop acting like this is anything like real war.

Are you ok? We are on the GAME forum talking about GAME, do you really need to specify that it's called GAME? And who said "this is anything like real war"? No one

[Trian]

Originally posted by Doctor Taxidron:

Originally posted by Ghojo:

It's called a GAME, stop acting like this is anything like real war.

Are you ok? We are on the GAME forum talking about GAME, do you really need to specify that it's called GAME? And who said "this is anything like real war"? No one

you just said "its called WAR..." so yea you said it

[Just Kidding]

When you hold the button to see stratagems, map also comes up and pings nearby enemies, so you know what direction they're coming from.
Back when I was doing the achievement for doing a mission above a certain level with no alarms, I played solo, so the screen wouldn't be pulled to the side, averaging my position with someone else, reducing chance of them sounding alarm before I see them.
I also rolled turrets in either 3 or all 4 slots, might have used personal shield in one slot to prevent acid from slowing me down. Turrets killed patrols while I did stuff. Didn't have to worry about patrols as much. Less effective with invisible units floating by them. Haven't really thought about it, but I suppose you could use the mine field stratagem, maybe the barbed wire, since illuminate patrols are really weak.
I don't have dlc, but I think I recall one having a tesla style gun. Maybe I'm just remembering the repair gun that heals and repairs everyone.

[Pokemastuh]

Originally posted by Trian:

Originally posted by Doctor Taxidron:

Are you ok? We are on the GAME forum talking about GAME, do you really need to specify that it's called GAME? And who said "this is anything like real war"? No one

you just said "its called WAR..." so yea you said it

Please sir, allow me to fix the statement. It's called WAR in the GAME. And pursuant to the GAME'S definition of WAR there are patrols.

The others are right though, the difficultiy settings are how things are balanced out. Invisible patrols show up on higher difficulties andare still just about visible. It helps to train a keen eye, or alternatively just gear up and prepare for a fight.

[SupremeMorpheus]

Originally posted by Trian:

i mean, every 5 sec theres coming a drone what i have to destroy before it detects me. Its not possible without this?

Only an issue if you play against the illuminate. Which, sometimes, is the only one you can fight, but hey-ho. Cyborgs are more annoying imo, with the patrolling dogs