Best contraption for completion save?

[zapfinger]

As the title says, which one is best for the completion playthrough? Or is it irrelevant because it's not played on a high difficulty anyway?

[Bobywan]

You can unlock the other contraptions later by doing the officer assasination mission.
The contraption to choose depend on your playstyle.
I personnally like the constrictor harness because it unlocks a 1 sec slowdown when you get detected while playing stealthy, which give you time to headshot someone or hide.
Ram shackle is more offensive.
And the last one unlock the ability to retain up to 200 health if you dont take damages.

[Yawnsalot]

Originally posted by Red Heavy the Sandwich Slayer:

My favourite is Balttle Walker. Why? It gives you easy access to many hard to get places or even previously unaccesible spots and paths. With it you can skip many fights and take shortcuts through some levels. It's passive abilities ain't crap either: Slow motion when in weapon wheel is OP compared to other contraptions, it allows you to better pick weapons in a middle of fights to always be prepared for your enemies.
My second choice? Constrictor. Why? It has one ability that I really love for stealth gameplay: If a human sees you, you get about 2-3 seconds of slow motion to either shoot the target or hide. With it you can easily stealth even through super hard levels such as Panzerhund ride and Venus Oberkommando.
Why Ram Shackles are my least favorite? It does give you armor regeneration, armor from killing enemies, but it's main use is severly limmited because most fights will happen at medium to long range and charging at them (On any higher diff) will surely result in your death.

This quote is from a previous discussion about different contraptions' battle efectiveness and utility, mainly regarding high difficulties but yiu should know the pros and what you're missing when chosing your contraption.

As for completion, if youbdon't choose Battle Walker, it is the last one you can get in assasination missions as it is only available in the second to last mission. As you progress through the game you'll be able to get all the contraptions very easily and you should only consider your first choice from set purely for it's effectiveness in battle and utility as explained above.

[ElusiveOne]

That's the sort of thing the game should explain when comes the time to make that choice. I like to play stealth and unfortunately detection kinda sucks in this game since it is so instantaneous. Had I known I might have picked another choice, but I had fun with the battle walker on my playthrough, not much for the added height but mostly for the increased health. Made surviving easier when stealth failed!

Every time I would use the battle walker to get to high places it merely felt like a small shortcut. You can easily tell there are other ways to reach most places, either via other contraptions or just regular paths, so that aspect didn't feel particularly useful.