Alriune is not fun

[Asket]

I do undestand that not abnormalities should benefit me as a manager or smth, but Alriune on day is 13 is instant refund .

This abnormality is plain ROCK FALLS - YOU DIE No way to prevent her from breaching (like Queen of Hatred abuse for example) and RNG can screw your run anyway.

There are 2 general kind of management tools:
1) Prevent bad thigns
2) Deal with bad things

Alriune is just plain too strong in early day . Such abnormalities should not appear before day 25-30.

[Asket]

Also her E.G.O is mediocre at best (trash 1.2 red armor). This is just bad game design. There are plenty of abnormalities which are way more easy to deal with and they provide you with decent stuff.

Imho an attack speed upgrade and/or 0.5 red armour would justify this thing - yeah, it s a pain in the ass, but at least you get some top-tier level gear.

[CarThief]

Yeah, that one sucks. Badly. Still, it kinda happens that you sometimes draw a nasty abnormality in like, days 13-18 and have next to no means of handling it, its rare, but it can happen. Especially if you get something nasty like most ALEPH-class abnormalities (especially the one i sometimes nickname "Meatman").

There's even an abnormality that looks innocent and harmless but once it does it's thing fully, it becomes the WORST ABNORMALITY EVER. Ruiner of runs. In case you wanna know, it's... The Plague Doctor.

Anyway, the best way to counter-act this situation is to either load the last memory repository checkpoint (a checkpoint is made every 5 days, on days 1, 6, 11, 16, 21, 26... 31, 36, 41, etc...), if you haven't reached a checkpoint yet, then you can try and revert to a previous one before you had it.

If somehow the checkpoints don't help you and you still have it, then best you can do (if you can't handle the abnormality) is starting from day 1 again. It's unfortunate if you have to, but think on the bright side...
-There's so many abnormalities, one run won't let you see them all.
-As long as you remember the really bad ones, which are mainly a few, you'll be fine.
-You keep all your upgrades/research unlocks, abnormality codex info, E.G.O equipment, and such. Basically everything but employees/LOB points are kept.
-Mission progress is saved too, in a sense. Completed missions stay completed.
-To get to the end, you'll undoubtedly have to start a new run atleast once or twice.
-The upgrades you keep will enable you to replay old days faster (beat up enemies with better E.G.O stuff, instant acces to advanced researches like x2 speed and the special unlocks from defeating the Core bosses boost your abilities tremendously).

So, yeah, it's a grindy game with the occassional restart to day 1, but the grind is made far, far easier with the many things you unlock.

[FL00F3RS]

i recommend that you have at least a couple of agents to supress her that or send lil red after her if you want to sacrafice the cash she deals white dmg so having agents that are wearing armor that resists white dmg well with weapons that deal red dmg shes weak to red

[Asket]

Thx for advice. Yeah, re-rolling memory bank and re-playing 3 days seems like the only option here. Still - the game feels a bit punishing and cheesy this way ;<

[elipod]

Think of Dark Souls: you can go easy route first, or you can take wrong turn and get into hard parts, without realising it. You can do it now, or you can go back later with better gear.

Some other, "hard to keep in cell and hard to suppress" abnormalities would be: King of hatred and Mountain of smilng bodies. Especially, if they come in combo.

[Screen Lady]

Honestly, it is best to ignore her and only work if you have a "common" workrate. Don't go for high works.
Even if breached, she won't do much harm besides kill some clerks if you ignore her anyways..