Can I go without psi skills

[Billy Mayonnaise]

Can you realistically go throughout the whole game without any psi skills or is that kneecapping yourself for no reason? None of the psi skills look to good to me

[morbosfist]

You can beat the game with no skills at all. If you specifically mean Typhon powers, however, they're fun but the human tree is far more practical.

[Crypto Gamer]

Game has an achievement with completing the game using ZERO neuromods so it is possible.

Using human abilites+alien ones in a combo is the best eg.bullet time+alien shield+psi disable+dmg spell+few shotgun shells will kill the nightmare very fast on nightmare difficulty and you can tank a few hits via spell.And you can even have resist dmg type passives and regen back some dmg.

Morphing into object or into operators via high lvl mimicry can allow you to reach more areas.

That said there is an achivement for completing the game twice once with only human then with only alien skill.

Human skills are more practical.And some items can be used to disable psi,machines etc.

[bulletshowerr]

Originally posted by Billy Mayonnaise:

Can you realistically go throughout the whole game without any psi skills or is that kneecapping yourself for no reason? None of the psi skills look to good to me

Clarify whay you means with psi skills? You means typhonpowers? Yeah, is possible. There is even an achievement for it. (well, you need to do another run with only typhonpowers without humanpowers to complete that 1 achievement)

[devious goon]

I beat the game on Nightmare on my first playthrough without any typhon powers, not really handicapping yourself since you still use all the neuromods for human upgrades

[Lar Dass]

you can beat this game with surprisingly alot of restrictions, the beauty of immersive sim style games

[Locust Farm]

I'm doing a playthrough at the moment on Nightmare with the survival options, only allowing myself to use upgrades from the human trees. It's a fun challenge and the opposite of my first run where I went all out on alien powers. They're fun to use but a little OP, so it's nice to bring some of the tension back.

[DefinitelyNotARobot]

They're pretty cool, and the consequences for diving into them are minimal

[Clail]

Absolutely yes, you'll just have to rely on the environment a bit more and tools like the Nullwave grenade. The Combat Focus ability is pretty amazing as well and good for every encounter.
You'll save a lot of resources not having to make as many neuromods as a hybrid build so those can go towards ammo and such instead.

[Turambar]

Absolutely yes.

[SanekiBeko]

Eeyup it's called No Needles. Recycle them Neuromods and Psy Hypos and get yourself some ammo and grenades boi!

[BellyJelly]

Im doing the no abilites achivement right now im gonna do 2 saves where i complete the game without abilites then when i have gotten the achivement im going back right before i complete the game use all my neuromods so i then can make a new games plus to play around with