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Progressing on UV Arch Ao Lt. How do I improve?

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muxecoid:
I switched my build a bit, now I take ToN first, than Bad.

I do not like IM, ToN is much better, the point of Vampyre is to have more mitigation and maintain your health through lifesteal, not to have more total health that you can not reliably regenerate.

I tried playing with not clearing the last wave in arena. I can clear it easily, but it makes chained court much harder. I wish there was an option to clear it fully for XP and than choose to decline the title of arena champion and rewards just to avoid tripled difficulty of Chained Court.

I'm a bit disappointed in nano weapons, now I want WZ mainly because I want to assemble red armor with PAO or PAN but..

[rage]
Fuck those schematic drops! I can hardly believe the brilliant developer who made this great game could even think of idea as idiotic as schematic drops. Every time I get to clear hell's armory on UV I get a useless schematic drop. Not Nano or Onyx for my armor. Not sniper's for plasma shotgun. Not even firestorm for missile launcher. Stupid useless schematic. And with disgustingly large number of assemblies in the game I know it will ruin a dozen more runs for me.

Adding insult to injury if you ragequit with "Q" the discovered schematic is not added to profile. Why would anyone think that not counting schematics from games you quit is a good idea? You better take a lava bath for your stupid schematic drops ragequits.

I tried tried discover some schematics, but it way too slow. I tried AoHu tech to start with more mods and I tried easiest difficulty, but discovering schematics either way is slow.

Seriously almost any way to introduce assemblies to players would be better. Why not add schematics as a reward for completing the game? Or as a reward in addition of normal drop, not as a replacement? Or as a common random drop on simple layers. Or WHY THE FUCK not make the list of all schematics known in game to begin with we are in 21st century everyone will look up stuff on wiki anyways.

It is so infuriating that it even affected my decision to not pre-order Jupiter's Hell yet.

Is there a hack to disable those schematic drops?
[/rage]

khiijol:
i'm fine with the schematic drops - it wouldn't be a roguelike if the RNG didn't give you a totally useless item some of the time :)

muxecoid:
The problem is not just RNG. The problem is that drops gradually persistently improve in quality with the number of games you play. Transferring stuff between different games is not very roguelike.

Omega Tyrant:
Once you make an assembly or get the schematics for it, the schematics for it can never spawn again (and thus once you find all assemblies, you'll never get schematics again). Doing an Ao100 game is a good way to build all the assemblies (the only two assemblies you won't be able to make together in the same run are Nanofiber Skin Armor and Cybernano Armor), and you could do it as a Scavenger to help you get as many mods as quickly as possible. And you can kill yourself once you make enough assemblies if you don't want to do a whole Ao100 run. Or you could spam HNTR games up to the Armory/Deimos Lab as a Scavenger, and get yourself killed once you got some assemblies made. Just creating all the basic assemblies would significantly reduce the chance of schematics spawning, and master assemblies are very rare drops as schematics unless you're playing on Nightmare. Finding all the assemblies will also get you the Technician Diamond badge.

As for the Unchained Court, what part are you having difficulty with? I find it really hard on UV for most builds, though melee builds should have it easiest; grab a berserk, take out the Barons ASAP, destroy their corpses if they weren't killed on the right side, and then camp out in the door on the left side, while shooting at the Formers that come into view. Once the Arena Master comes into view, shoot at him to get his attention if he hasn't already initiated an attack, and then activate run and get a Berserk (while first closing the door if he hasn't already initiated an attack). Then when berserked, just run up to him and click until he dies, then just camp out in the middle and take out the rest of the formers, while gift dropping if you want to attract their attention faster.

muxecoid:
I usually can clear chained court with archvile, but it often costs me a medpack, and even with it I am low on ammo and do not have full health on exit. Overall I feel it is much harder than Military base, and also appears 2 levels earlier. And with barons locked and no V it is order of magnitude easier. And as ArchAoLT you do not have room for arena staff anyway.

There is always a risk of barons or archvile destroying the berserk packs, or even destroying the chainsaw if you did not pick it first, or items that you dropped for some reason, like making room to pick up chainsaw. Is there a way to pick up chainsaw without having free slot in inventory?

After you killed barons (hopefully to the right of the structure) you go kill former captains. And you do so without berserk as it was used to kill all the barons and you have only one left. Then you find the archvile, but can not fight him, so you run back to pick the last berserker pack. by the time you arrive there are lots of formers nearby and by the time you kill him you take a lot of damage, even with berserk. You finish the remaining formers, mostly with shotguns.

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