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Cheesybox:
I understand this is supposed to be a hard setting, but it shouldnt be impossible. Farthest I've gotten is level 6 on UV, and that was because I was lucky enough to be near the stairs. Most of the time I end of dying on level 3 when the 5-7 hell knights spawn. How are you supposed to deal with them? Corner shooting doesn't help when 4 of them rush you or a former is popping shots in your back while you keep a hell knight at range with a shotty.

ParaSait:
UV can be a real bitch early on.
On dlvl1 and 2, try to not to take any damage at all cost. Then hope you find a chaingun before a dlvl3 HK finds you. And then you really just gotta be lucky to find some good vantage points to cornershoot the knights.
You will die early on in UV (typically dlvl3-6)... a lot. But keep trying and eventually you'll get lucky and get past that crappy part. That's the two cents I can give ya...

ZicherCZ:
Cheesybox, you may want to try AoMC on UV.
Sure as hell this is not easier per se - but it _does_ teach you a thing or two about your movement, corner/radar-shooting and the like.
My personal advice I'm trying right now: High-power plasma gun (power mod first!) plus Ammochain. 96 damage for a single plasma cell should kill just about everything non-boss.
(Note: You may hate, really hate the randomness of "normal" UV games afterwards.)

Cheesybox:
So it sounds like a basic strategy should be using a rapidfire build with a shotty for radar shooting?

Game Hunter:
UV is by no means impossible. I've even recorded a few playthroughs of it on 0994:

Here's a successful AoMC run. One of the parts is missing but was probably the most boring anyway.
Here's a pretty good AoMr run. Not a win but I like to think that the RNG screwed me on this one.
The first three videos here are on AoHa. Managed to snag the Runner Gold, even!

My recommendation is to watch these videos a bit and see try to figure out what I'm doing and why I'm doing it. Since you're having trouble on the early parts of the game, you won't need to watch everything, just the first video or two of each.

If you're having trouble because a ridiculous number of Hell Knights spawns on dlvl3 then you're probably getting bad rolls. I find that 3-4 of those guys is a more typical number, hopefully spread out across the level. Most of the time you need to be as cautious as possible and avoid ending up fighting more than you can handle: this is why the beginning of a level is often vastly harder than nearing the end of it.

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