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XPiratez / Re: [MAIN] XPiratez - N7 16-Dec-2023 Flying Tiger, Hidden Tentacle

« on: February 28, 2024, 04:17:10 am »

I play on Blackbeard and can give you some tips that work for me very well.
1. Rush little bird. It wasn't important pre N7, but now in my opinion getting to Little bird as fast as possible is more important than anything else. If you sell security corridors day one and buy 4th brainer you can get both bounty hunting before February and Little bird.
2. Use Little bird to take down mainly bandit cars and most important, couriers. Courier crush sites drop 14mm ammo. Arrive to any mission you possibly can on Little bird for massive infamy boost from glamour. Do it for as long as you have 14mm ammo.
3. Any missions against humans you should be doing at night. Gals have superior night vision to normal humans and on pair with guild security. Getting lock'nars will help you greatly to ambush enemies.
Peasants wearing mud have good night camouflage and with shotguns can easily fill empty spots in craft.
4. Your 14mm ammo will most likely run out in March or April. So, in meanwhile you can work your way toward Improvised aerial explosives. Those can take down both bandit cars and trucks. But to use then you either need Angry bird or electric car from Car thieves. At this point it's possible you'll have a landed 9m ufo in your radar range and get 25mm cannon from it. If so, you can drop everything and go straight for car thieves to use it. Hunt police cars and wasp fighters for more ammo.
5. It's super important to plan well your initial base. Have a plan on what you will have in it and how are you going to restructure it later.
6. You have to strongly consider if you are going to be doing undersea missions. A lucky find of alien submarine can get you sonic oscylator parts. If you get 2 parts you are golden. Do not fear hallucynoids. Gals with high bravery can take them on on Blackbeard. Use anchors and barbarian swords to quickly kill them. Poisonous tentacles will destroy nearly all enemies you'll face.
7. When doing bounty missions save Jack tokens until you have 500 and get confederate gear. You'll now be able to buy electric lassos. Another amazing weapon that can deal with anything bellow Power armor.
8. Keep buying brainers when you can afford them.

Awesome, thanks for the advice! Yeah I always sell the security corridors and buy a 4th brainer day 1. I  tend to overlook the Little Bird because I read that it wasn't useful a while back, but that being outdated makes sense.

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XPiratez / Re: [MAIN] XPiratez - N7 16-Dec-2023 Flying Tiger, Hidden Tentacle

« on: February 27, 2024, 09:00:18 pm »

This topic comes back quite often. It is also very broad, so I won't try to really cover it here fully. Just two remarks:
1) Unlock as many missions as you can. This means unlocking them by research, but to a small degree also covering the planet with radars (for more shipping opportunities). Missions give you most of your money and score, so it's really important to participate, especially in easy ones. Bounty Hunting is crucial here.
2) Difficulty level matters a lot. Struggling on Jack Sparrow is not the same as struggling on a Blackbeard. Not knowing which level you play at makes it harder to answer.

Hard to speak without any concrete data, but my guess is either too little or too much aggression. Maybe you camp and the priest gets to you (he and the zealots are very hard to break by morale), or maybe you just overextend yourself and allow your gals to become isolated and defenseless.
It's not the easiest mission, but it's not difficult either, and definitely not a place where you should lose people on a daily basis.

Thanks for the reply! I play on Blackbeard. Yeah I noticed that bounty hunting always gave me quite a bit of infamy. The only bounty hunting mission that I don't understand is the one where you have to destroy the red barn. I always just land and blow up/ shoot up the red barn and leave without hurting the guy but my score is 0. I have started just skipping this mission when it comes up.

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XPiratez / Re: [MAIN] XPiratez - N7 16-Dec-2023 Flying Tiger, Hidden Tentacle

« on: February 27, 2024, 06:38:49 pm »

I love the mod but the infamy system has always confused me. I've been playing off and on for 3 or so years now and have never made it past November because keeping my infamy positive seemed almost random. I feel like I'd have a mediocre month only to be in the 2000 range, and then I'd feel like I had a great month to be at like 200 at best. What am I generally supposed to be doing to keep my infamy up? I make capture a big priority and only kill enemies if my hands are in danger or I'm going for shock and awe.

Also side question: The temple raids always seem to screw me, so I'm pretty sure I'm doing them wrong. I either get a near-wipe or negative infamy from them.

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XPiratez / Re: Bugs & Crash Reports

« on: December 29, 2023, 05:42:46 pm »

The quick fix I made before works for your crush site. I have also removed both Ratmen and cannys as possible opponents from those new missions and adjusted weights for bandits.
File in attachments.

Thanks!

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XPiratez / Re: Bugs & Crash Reports

« on: December 28, 2023, 10:56:41 pm »

I'm getting a crash when trying to embark onto a crashsite as well. Attached a save file. To recreate, use the little bird to attempt to land at the crashsite east of the base.