Reference for Solo MP Ironman run

[Arday]

Hi all, since there's lacked of the concrete example on how to do the updated Solo MP IM with the latest update, I would like to share my attempt on Solo MP IM run which I luckily managed to finish:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgjl5ze43WB-q8KbIi0JgfBLNQMhqL12F

Sorry for the annoying distorted sound at the end of several videos, should have get proper recording apps instead of the Win+alt+R.

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The build is 4 10 10 4 10 2 hybrid of Dodge Spear Alchemist (and later crafting).

The concept is combining the most annoying enemy we find in the game (or at least for me): alchemist & spearman

Dodge will carry the early game, and the 2 handed spear will help a lot to survive early-mid encounter.
Later we will doing damage through mostly poison for the poisonable enemies, and bomb fire acid for the rest.

With INT 10 we will reach Alchemy 9-10 at the tunnel and will have learned the "5 point palm exploding heart technique" (potent poison) by the time the game starting to throw challenging encounter.

Edit: end game stat & inventory:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wdj12CREijE5vWK2kqbZ2Jj6fmAgXL0K/view?usp=sharing

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For the technicality, what I did is I simulate several hard battle in other non IM run with almost exact build, and try to find very the reliable and very high chance way to beat the encounter. I did this for each section of the video so I'm not forgetting anything.

The run itself is far from perfect, I messed up a lot due to still pretty new to this game (this is my 4th run) and the clumsy nature, but somehow still managed to finished it anyway.

One thing for sure, for every challenging battle that we put some preparation effort & been simulated carefully like Reinard, Democritus, Scaudus, Enforcer, Sky Metal Construct, & Emperor (esp. if I'm not messed up in the Emp. battle), we able to beat it with very minimum damage.

Most of the close call in this run is come from the battle that I thought will be breeze and not really paid attention to really prepare them.

So I think all encounter can be very reliably beaten by certain method if we really prepare for it.

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Let me know if there's something that can be improved. What I know so far:
1) Discipline, several time I forgot to apply poison/stone (Democritus, Emperor, First Wave fight, etc)
2) Some battle could use better positioning (Many battle, inc. Yngvar).
3) On the old town battle after Barca we can lure the enemies to the bridge for chokepoint.
4) Bring high damage 2H spear for the construct crossbow.

Since I'm messed up the Emperor fight by forgot to create poison & too panicked to even applied the sharping stone, I record my simulation battle save game to show how if I done it properly :

https://youtu.be/GmoonaN9gVU

And also record it with proper apps this time!

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Btw I still can't see why some people said that soloing DR battle is far far harder than CS, I think the DR difficulty is just slightly higher overall, and CS has a very hard end game battle that I still can't find reliable way (90%+ chance) to beat it solo without unintended exploit.

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Last, thanks for ITFC team for keep creating the game that I feel very suitable for me, last 2 months playing CSG & DR really give me wonderful time.
Hopefully you guys not only survive but thrive for the next game.

[bekxam]

imho a better build is 7-10-7-4-10-2, so the fights go faster, more damage.

[bekxam]

you used cheats. With the crafting skill 1, you have items created with the crafting skill 5.

[Arday]

@bekxam
Could be potentially,

For this run I'm choosing the 10 CON & 4 STR for 2 reason:

1) For most encounter especially the major one, the damage will come from alchemy (poison, acid, fire, bomb).

2) Just to be safe since I'm not yet have time & knowledge to carefully concept all the minor encounters (it's my 4th run and 1st IM run).

So if you saw my run, the run will be ended on several point if I only have CON 7 due to the less HP alone (before factoring the -6 dodge, -15 crit resist, & -3 poison resistance).

But at the same time, the major battle that I have time to carefully planned like Reinard, Democritus, Scaurus, Enforcer, Construct, & Emperor, we managed to survive with plenty HP left.

So maybe if we have time to carefully planned and simulate every each battle, the 7 CON will be more than enough.

[Arday]

@bekxam
No cheat/console command/editor involved on the run,
AFAIK the game by default allow us to craft with 5 crafting on the old town forge before moving to the next camp

[Brodda]

I was able to solo pretty much all content in AoD and CS with minimal effort but never made it past the emperor solo in DR. I ran out of heal in my best attempt. My last attempt, I got stuck at the constructs rooms with a 2h spear/dodge build.

[Arday]

Originally posted by Brodda:

I was able to solo pretty much all content in AoD and CS with minimal effort but never made it past the emperor solo in DR. I ran out of heal in my best attempt. My last attempt, I got stuck at the constructs rooms with a 2h spear/dodge build.

I also run spear & dodge, and I think my run will most likely ended on emperor/sky metal if I'm not invest in alchemy for the late game.

The max poison, acid, bomb, & fire is very strong for late game encounter.
Adding the max stim buff & +2 regen/round can trivialized the emperor fight and the last 5 waves (we can have max health start on every wave).
Very convenient for Ironman run.

Btw if Devs fixed the grenade cheese on CS in the near future, the 1v5 last battle could potentially surpass the DR's emperor & sky metal construct in term of difficulty.

[bekxam]

Originally posted by Brodda:

I was able to solo pretty much all content in AoD and CS with minimal effort but never made it past the emperor solo in DR. I ran out of heal in my best attempt.

If you stand in the right corner of the gate, you can immediately remove 3-4 enemies with bombs

[Brodda]

Originally posted by bekxam:

Originally posted by Brodda:

I was able to solo pretty much all content in AoD and CS with minimal effort but never made it past the emperor solo in DR. I ran out of heal in my best attempt.

If you stand in the right corner of the gate, you can immediately remove 3-4 enemies with bombs

Yeah I used up all bombs in the previous construct rooms out of necessity. I have nothing left for the 4 constructs besides some liquid fire. I get rekt by a single construct. 6-10-10-7-5-2 btw. 10 Dodge, 9 spear, 6 alch

[Brodda]

Ok I'm happy to say I decided to also try a 10 int build for once. It was painful and not ironman but I finally beat the game on murderous psychopath solo including the final waves and centurion. Did a dagger dodge build and still had plenty of bombs to spare in the end.

[sergiybv2]

Originally posted by bekxam:

you used cheats. With the crafting skill 1, you have items created with the crafting skill 5.

+1

[Arday]

Originally posted by Arday:

No cheat/console command/editor involved on the run,
AFAIK the game by default allow us to craft with 5 crafting on the old town forge before moving to the next camp

+2

[bekxam]

Originally posted by sergiybv2:

Originally posted by bekxam:

you used cheats. With the crafting skill 1, you have items created with the crafting skill 5.

+1

No cheats. It's really real.