Boosting Evans a bit

[abbo1993]

I've finished the game twice and I still haven't managed to get Evans to level 6 in guns or Critical strike, I tagged his skills and tried to get into as many fights as possible but he just doesn't seem to get better, training chips for the two skills are also rare (I don't think there are any that train the rifle skill but I might be wrong) so there aren't many ways to get better, I think he could use a bit of a boost since his only purpose is to take potshots at enemies and those two skills are essential for that.

[Torpex]

I built Evans as pistolero desperado, because I played crit rifleman myself.

I don't think I tagged crit on him. If I recall correctly, he got 6 in pistol. He was my high initiative/reaction guy, could and usually kill one target on his first turn. Jed usually just plays as tank/pinata and Faythe needs to hide half of the time.

[Neyreyan_Youtube]

Evans is a pistol sniper user, early on you can give jed the sarge and evans the eye implant with the accuracy chips, i wouldnt use training tokens on him. If you want to keep him you also have to overclock his implants.
it's also worth noteing that you can spec a bit into recoil control through various means and use his triple/double shots with pistols to get bullseye shots basically that can stun.
Wich is a little weird but you can test with it

[Sardonac]

I like Evans as an smg user. I feel like it makes the best use of his stats. Early game grazes can carry him pretty far, and he has 16 AP so he can short burst twice with the faster smgs. Late game with desperado feat and strength implant he can pickup the -1 AP for burst fire feat and get significant recoil control, which makes him able to use even the slower smgs effectively. The fact that you can stack reaction on him very high very quickly combined with high initiative also works well.


The fact that you're relying on bursts also means you can ignore critical strikes due to the crit penalty if you want. I typically tag SMG/Armor, which combined with the later strength implant makes him a very well armored gunner.

[khargal]

Originally posted by abbo1993:

I've finished the game twice and I still haven't managed to get Evans to level 6 in guns or Critical strike, I tagged his skills and tried to get into as many fights as possible but he just doesn't seem to get better, training chips for the two skills are also rare (I don't think there are any that train the rifle skill but I might be wrong) so there aren't many ways to get better, I think he could use a bit of a boost since his only purpose is to take potshots at enemies and those two skills are essential for that.

Did ya use bulleye often enough? Did ya alphastrike enough enemies?

[stadtpark-hartmut]

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I did get him to Rifle 6 in the end. But my combat rating was only 34 as you can see.

If you really do a lot of fighting, and make sure that he gets the kills (- even if it means that the rest of the team hits end round in easier fights) it should even be possible to get him to Rifle 6 before the Factory.


The Counter Sniper Event in the Factory requires Rifle 6 and CS4 (?) (for the very best outcome), and I am pretty sure I did that back in EA. - In this playthrough he wasn't high enough yet, but I had solved Crossroads without fighting, and did not pay special attention in the Court FIghts and Jia's quest etc. to make only Evans get the kills... - just do another run and try harder. Do a screenshot and report back proudly.

[Abunija]

I agree evens level is always behind. In some of my play through i rush to a faction character just to ditch evens.

[razvedchiki]

as harmut wrote above, you can get Evans to rifle 6 before going to the factory by making sure he gets most of the kill shots. sometimes I redo fights to make sure Evans gets the kill.
There is also a training rifle token in chapter 1.
with crit 5 and rifle 6 if I remember correctly you get an excellent sniper rifle in the factory that uses 5,56 which is much more available than the 0.45 the sniper rifles usually fire.