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This game's difficulty is a bit off in places IMO
2DeviationsOut:
I understand why people use armor that restricts movespeed, but IMO it's a mistake. If you check over my mortems, you'll almost never see me wearing anything that drops movespeed, and usually I'll use anything that boosts it. For example, I won't use Red Armor if I have tactical armor, and the only thing that'll get me to drop my tac boots is something that gives me more speed, like gravs. Basically, it's a fool's game to think about taking less damage from something. Most enemies on the harder difficulties are lethal enough that you'll just get blown away. So, you need to dodge everything that comes in, and max your offense so you can kill things before they can fire.
Tormuse:
Yeah, as my skill has improved in this game over the past couple years, (has it really been that long?) I've found that I really, really value speed over armour... But I do still remember my beginnings, back when I was playing 0.9.9.1. I wasn't able to win until I regularly got TaN and Iro because I kept getting instakilled by the late game enemies. (especially Mancubi! GRR!) Eventually, I learned how to avoid taking a lot of that damage in the first place, (though I haven't honed that ability to the level of 2DeviationsOut here) ;) and was able to cut down on my use of those traits. So, I guess what I'm saying is that for me, as a beginning player, armour was a useful crutch to keep me alive long enough to figure out the game well enough that I didn't really need it any more... which isn't to say I never wear, say, red or blue armour; I just use them as my back-up for select situations, rather than wearing them all the time.
Also, since you seem to have joined this discussion, 2Dev, I'm curious about what you have to say about our above conversation about inventory. What does your inventory selection typically look like?
2DeviationsOut:
Well, my inventories are different depending on the build. If I'm going MAC, then I'll have:
2-3 backpacked stacks of ammo for my main
A couple of B-mod BFGs for ammo storage
1 backup primary
1-2 Homing Phases
1 Phase
1 Large Medkit
1 Piercing Chainsaw (For the UC)
Maybe 1 enviropack
1 Arena Master's Staff
The rest is all mods/exotics/uniques
If I'm not going MAC, then I'll carry the same utility set, but 5-6 stacks of ammo.
Buzzard:
Does anyone else feel that Tower of Babel on certain difficulties is just too hard without a specific build or a phase device?
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