Cloud approach ideas

[HeikoFennec]

So I'm tryin to think around the cloud reactor.
Stealth gets in but not to much gain. Brute force is just death.
Hardlight shielding and turrets w/ gradual moving seems the next option. Not sure, just really banging my head and burning through resources.

[william_es]

You mention stealth, but are you specifically using the crystalline armor. It's amazing. If you move slowly (press crouch) you can literally pass guys in a hallway, 2 feet away from them. You can ghost by Jotuns, mystagogues, and all the other foot soldiers.

You aren't forced to do nothing but hide. You can play more aggressively even while using the crystal armor. You can sidle up to guys and shoot them right in the face from a few feet away. They go down quick. You can move around a room picking off the adds one by one. Great for getting rid of the flying eyes that accompany the mystagogues or the regular foot soldiers. When you finally pick a fight with the gatekeepers big guys, they're solo with no backups.

I carried two deatomizers, and a laser cell to recharge them. I'd use the regular beam mode to kill the normal foot soldiers. I'd only use the overcharge mode for the big things, like jotuns.

Bring a jetpack. There's a couple of places where I think I cut through some of the puzzles by just jetpacking over walls, and up broken stairways. I'm pretty sure I did some parts backwards and upside down.

[HeikoFennec]

Originally posted by william_es:

You mention stealth, but are you specifically using the crystalline armor. It's amazing. If you move slowly (press crouch) you can literally pass guys in a hallway, 2 feet away from them. You can ghost by Jotuns, mystagogues, and all the other foot soldiers.

You aren't forced to do nothing but hide. You can play more aggressively even while using the crystal armor. You can sidle up to guys and shoot them right in the face from a few feet away. They go down quick. You can move around a room picking off the adds one by one. Great for getting rid of the flying eyes that accompany the mystagogues or the regular foot soldiers. When you finally pick a fight with the gatekeepers big guys, they're solo with no backups.

I carried two deatomizers, and a laser cell to recharge them. I'd use the regular beam mode to kill the normal foot soldiers. I'd only use the overcharge mode for the big things, like jotuns.

Bring a jetpack. There's a couple of places where I think I cut through some of the puzzles by just jetpacking over walls, and up broken stairways. I'm pretty sure I did some parts backwards and upside down.

Crystaline has been my favorite since learning of it, Just to get around the manual creeping I carry the heaviest single item I can (usually a barrel full of water). Does it make that much difference what your accuracy/fortitude skill is?

[TheShakiri]

Crystalline armour is fine but don't leave cover within range of the machine gun nest as it can see through the stealth also any Gatekeeper can see through the stealth if you attack it and don't immediately kill it. As a heads up Marion is located here about.