Mech boi op?

[Gary Gordle]

ive played this game for the last couple months and the farthest ive gotten before today was Downtown 2. Then i tried the mech DLC character. Beat the game, forgot to use most items. I mean you can literally walk through the blue ones and still have laser and mech. Kinda op

[The Traveler]

Mech Pilot is good... until you come across a building you have to go in.

I've beaten the game several times already and then I tried Mech Pilot and died because the ammo dispenser was in a building and I kept leveling up when I wasn't inside the mech thus not getting max HP heal for the mech. Mech got destroyed so I was stuck with a character with low stats and I died.

I haven't tried making a character that starts with a mech and a kill healthenizer or bloodlust trait, though either way it would still be annoying whenever you have to get out of the mech just to go inside a building.

[khuaqualla]

Why didn't you just walk in, refill your oil can, and walk back to the mech to heal it with the oil?

[The Traveler]

Originally posted by khuaqualla:

Why didn't you just walk in, refill your oil can, and walk back to the mech to heal it with the oil?

Because I'm stupid.

[Alice Bubblegum]

Originally posted by TrailDash:

Originally posted by khuaqualla:

Why didn't you just walk in, refill your oil can, and walk back to the mech to heal it with the oil?

Because I'm stupid.

LOL

[Aecius]

Originally posted by Nugz Ina Mug:

ive played this game for the last couple months and the farthest ive gotten before today was Downtown 2. Then i tried the mech DLC character. Beat the game, forgot to use most items. I mean you can literally walk through the blue ones and still have laser and mech. Kinda op

He's powerful, but I wouldn't call him OP. The fact that the Big Quest has you facing off against a bunch of hostile heavily armed criminals makes up for a lot of his inherent power, though I can't vouch for how well he does if you ignore the BQ.

Overall I found him similar to the soldier, though a lot more hectic on account of criminals sometimes deciding when the engagements start.

Originally posted by khuaqualla:

Why didn't you just walk in, refill your oil can, and walk back to the mech to heal it with the oil?

Wait am I the only one who prefers to just line up a slum dweller in order to launch them through the wall of the offending building?

[khuaqualla]

Originally posted by Aecius:

Wait am I the only one who prefers to just line up a slum dweller in order to launch them through the wall of the offending building?

Apparently.

They are too squishy and tend to bounce back from steel walls. And the way I play, most other buildings already have holes in them by the time I try to go in. Or my mech is busted, in which case the door is as good as everything else.

Or I just beat up thieves for wall bypassers and drug dealers for giantizers. It is kind of part of my big quest anyway. And pick up shop drops or wall wallopper as early as I can. Or burning bullets.

[Gary Gordle]

i just kill all the guys steel there stuff, by industrial i had 1000 money

[khuaqualla]

If you can kill them before they bust your mech, then yes. Otherwise you get to spend most of it on oil refills.

Also, you can do that with shop drops, and have even more money and also a lot of drugs and thieves tools.

[Aecius]

Originally posted by khuaqualla:

Originally posted by Aecius:

Wait am I the only one who prefers to just line up a slum dweller in order to launch them through the wall of the offending building?

Or I just beat up thieves for wall bypassers and drug dealers for giantizers. It is kind of part of my big quest anyway. And pick up shop drops or wall wallopper as early as I can. Or burning bullets.

Those are some really great traits for the Mech, yeah.

[Gary Gordle]

Originally posted by khuaqualla:

If you can kill them before they bust your mech, then yes. Otherwise you get to spend most of it on oil refills.

Also, you can do that with shop drops, and have even more money and also a lot of drugs and thieves tools.

I was never under 1000 after industiral, the lazer gun was really the only weapon i needed

[khuaqualla]

Well, I needed more than that when I ran in two mobster groups and the nearby police, a gangster patrol in a three-shack tile with five other creeps, a killer robot luring all the creeps within hearing range to the exact location where I should be trying to dodge its rockets, and other crazy stuff. The mech isn't fast enough for tactical retreats. And a busted mech takes two cans of oil to get back into rideable state.

So yes, if you get a good layout, and manage to figt small groups at a time, the laser is the only thing you need, and you will get rich quickly. If you are attacked by ten people at the same time, because eight just walked in to the screen at the same time, you will need more than 15 shots faster than the quick recharge fills it up.

[Gary Gordle]

Originally posted by khuaqualla:

Well, I needed more than that when I ran in two mobster groups and the nearby police, a gangster patrol in a three-shack tile with five other creeps, a killer robot luring all the creeps within hearing range to the exact location where I should be trying to dodge its rockets, and other crazy stuff. The mech isn't fast enough for tactical retreats. And a busted mech takes two cans of oil to get back into rideable state.

So yes, if you get a good layout, and manage to figt small groups at a time, the laser is the only thing you need, and you will get rich quickly. If you are attacked by ten people at the same time, because eight just walked in to the screen at the same time, you will need more than 15 shots faster than the quick recharge fills it up.

use the insane amount of weapons youve gotten from all the othere creeps

[khuaqualla]

Well, thank you!

I know how to fight. Even though I'm used to better tactical options, like a higher speed, the ability to run into buildings, and more numerous and cheaper healing items.

If it wasn't clear, I know the mech needs a lot of oil to get back into rideable state, because I lived long enough with the pilot to actually try to repair it. With whatever amount of oil I had already used up for mid fight repairs.

I like the mech, but repairing it gets costly, and with about a third of the population trying to kill it, not running into fights against overwhelming numbers often gets down to pure bad luck. Just like a regeneration pool that actually repairs it in the park is pure good luck.

I will probably need a kill healthenizer. Hopefully that affects the mech, and it's not like I can avoid killing a lot of people.

[Gary Gordle]

it does i belive

[khuaqualla]

Unfortunately for the other two thirds of the population, it does indeed work. Now I will have to clear the streets down to whatever the people who carry away dead bodies are called.