Blade Runner: A Solo Bruiser Guide [SJ]

[Harpagornis]

You like playing Assassins with the Hitpoints of a Fighter?
Then take a closer look at the following guide:

Blade Runner: A Solo Bruiser Guide [SJ] [forums.inxile-entertainment.com]

BEWARE: VERY LONG TEXT!!!

Have fun! ;o)

[Harpagornis]

Has anyone tried out a solo Blunt Weapon Hunter or a Pure Brawler? Should work too, no?

Just let me know! ;)

[Harpagornis]

No one out there playing the DC in solo mode? Where are all the Hardcore Gamers? :D

[Revolucas]

I think I might try this.

[Harpagornis]

@๖ۣۜRevolucas:

Sounds great. Keep us up to date how things work out.

Maybe you wanna try it with another weapon spec?

Was thinking about a Blunt Hunter Run - we will see.

Good luck! ;o)

[Lord Pogans]

Nice build

[Revolucas]

Decided to go with Brawling. So far so good.

Base stats: CLASSIC - 2248841 [9AP 13CI]
Quirk: Disnumeriaphobia (boosted to 4 4 6 10 10 6 3 [11AP 16CI])

Current lvl: 8
Current Perks: Tinkerer, Free-for-all
Current Skills: 7 Brawling, 2 Weaponsmithing, 1 Computer Science, 1 Lock Pick, 1 Field Medic

Here are the steps I did so far:

• Right out of Ranger Citadel I went north to shrine. Then went to Radio Tower, paid then killed the raiders by doing a couple hits and running away. Left back to Ranger Citadel before Toad boss to get level 2 by turning in Ace's notes.
  
• Returned to Radio Tower to kill Toad boss realizing that I can LOS the toad skipping turns until I can go twice in a row. Killed him without taking damage.
  
• Returned to Ranger Citadel to buy rad suits and pocket med packs. Then headed north to Rail Nomads. Saved Ralphy for xp, took his brass knuckle and dismissed him. Bought bullet proof vest. Killed some junkies for the mushoom quest. Left Rail Nomad at level 4.
  
• Decided to go to save Highpool. Killed Wrecker camp. Became level 8.

I still keep the sap glove for 2 ap precision strikes to hit legs so I can move out of reach. That's it so far, didn't have much trouble by using cheese tactics. I also didn't realize that you can run to exit in encounters so that is nice if you happen to feel you can't win. But we'll see when I get to Damonta, since that is when the difficulty ramps up.

[Safavi]

Some hardcore ♥♥♥♥ going on here! Looks really cool might try it one day.

[Harpagornis]

@๖ۣۜRevolucas:

Very cool stuff. Solo runs - especially on higher difficulty - are all about cheese tactics. And good metagame knowledge. Shrines are nice early experience boosts - i visit them most of the times as early as possible.

2 AP Weapons will make the early game much easier - good choice. Later on you can also switch to the 3 AP Claws - especially once you get the Air Jordans from Angle Oracle.

Dont worry about Damonta. With Computer Science (+Broken Robot Toy) its a walk in the park. Just make sure to hack the robots out of combat. And watch them killing the dreaded Slicer Dicers.

Still think that Disnumerophobia is broken. But its a good choice - no doubts about that. Keep on kicking! ;o)

[Revolucas]

Level 18 now. Finished Ag Center/plague side quests. Did Level'upe Mine and found that you can stagger badgers and they cannot move on their turn which made it a cake walk. Finished Rail Nomad. Did Darwin, blew up mutants. When I was inside I just ran all the way to the vent while in combat which apparently doesn't trigger the mines either and was able to get the Night Terror. I brought him back to RC and killed him for exp. Did the whole prison/RV thing and went to Titan's Canyon.

Now I had some trouble in Titan's canyon. I couldn't find a rebar knuckle so I was stuck with brass knuckles. I accidentally got my escort killed and it went down hill but luckily by this time I have about 80 pocket medpacks and a bunch of grenades and practically used them all. Finally found a rebar knuckle in the shop. On my way to Damonta I got a chance to test my new weapon on robots. This is a nice upgrade because I can kill robots in 2 hits.

This is fun. Battles become really tactical and sneaking is useful.

[Harpagornis]

Very nice progress!! :o)

I like to hack robots not to beat them - they can be very good friends. :D

Killing robots in 2 hits? What? How are you doing that? Isnt SJ no? ^^

Battles will get far more tactical in California - say hello to one-hit-killing snipers. :D

Hope you will sneak and hack your way through Damonta. Go, go, go!! ;o)

[Revolucas]

Yes, it's SJ. I hit 60-90hp crits (around 135 with head strike) with the rebar knuckle. (4x Crit. Mult)

[Harpagornis]

Okay - that sounds crazy. Its maybe all about the high Crit-Multiplier. That really hurts! ;o)

[imminence]

After many normal games I tried a solo run with your suggestions. Currently I am in COT ready to leave for Damonta with a level of ~23.

Many questions remain for llevels between 1 and 20:

1) You wrote, that a good metagaming knowledge is necessary or at least helpful to find shrines, certain chests etc.

Would you agree, when I add, that a permanent abuse of save / reload for these certain chests
is mandatory (e.g. to find rebar knuckles VERY early in a particular chest, which spawns randomly different higher tier weapons)?

2) Do you ignore all these sidequests, which require social or other non-combat skills
(e.g. healing doc in COT, calming cattle, get dogs in Highpool, entire RNC-peace questline and so on)?

3) You recruit every NPC for the XP and dismiss them immediately, right?

4) Random encounters help to level faster but then... start to become boring.
But to put points into outdoorsman seems to be a waste. Your opinion?

5) The initial fighting skill must be "high", so I put my first points into it up to rank 4.
Now my chance to hit is ~70% (give or take 10) and it's tedious but works.
What are your preferences for the next skills?

[chebur2012]

Need challenge? Solo Pillars of Eternity on PoD and Trial of Iron )))

[chebur2012]

WL2 is really easy if you know your guns