I decided to try shotguns for a change. Felix on Steam forums is so fond of pistols, that I became curious - is everything else worse?
Well, not exactly.
I won on my first run. Only in the middle of it I found out how awesome Smoke Screen is with shotguns - you can shoot and they cannot. And shotguns DON'T MISS.
Did I say my visor had Heatvision, so I could see the enemies even in my smoke?
To have a way to deal with bots, I took my favorite secondary specialization - Remote Hack, and proceeded to Wizard.
I ditched the 3 EMP grenades I got in the beginning on Io 1, in favor of some energy cells for a new shiny shotty.
Summoning bots was unnecessary. Especially given how dumb they are (I submitted multiple bug reports).
Sometimes I forgot to spend my extra Energy and take bots with me to the elevator, but this didn't matter. It wouldn't even if I didn't summon them at all. All I needed is a free Smoke Screen, then shotgun everything in range, repeat.
I walked through the Limbo without a scratch.
"Vampiric 1" on the 1st shotgun made medkits mostly unnecessary as well.
In the ammo stations, I only produces krak grenades. Ended up bombing the Summoner with grenades (it took 5 of them, still had 3)... with a little help of the 4 bots that I spent my energy on. Still, you see how much spare stuff I had.
Time to switch to UW.
Flynn Taggart, level 15 Technician, defeated
The Summoner against all odds.
He survived for 17179 turns.
The run time was 3h 5m 41s.
He scored 5908 points.
He liked it HARD!
He was an Angel of Shotgunnery!
CALLISTO L2 -> Callisto Mines L1
Callisto Mines L3 -> Callisto Anomaly
Callisto Anomaly - cleared
EUROPA L4 -> Refueling Base
Refueling Base - cleared
Refueling Base - cleared
IO L2 -> Io Black Site L1
Io Black Site L2 -> Black Site Vaults
Black Site Vaults - cleared
Black Site Vaults - cleared
Black Site Vaults - cleared
Black Site Vaults - cleared
BEYOND L2 -> Limbo
Limbo - cleared
Awards
Medal of Prejudice (+200)
* Won with 100% kills
CRI Star (bronze cluster) (+25)
* 25+ kills without taking damage
Explorer Ribbon (+50)
* Visited all encountered special levels
Conqueror Ribbon (+100)
* Completed all encountered special levels
Shottyman Bronze Badge
* Reach Io on Angel of Shotgunnery
Shottyman Silver Badge
* Complete Angel of Shotgunnery (AoSh)
Shottyman Gold Badge
* Complete AoSh on Hard
He killed 452 out of 452 enemies.
62 archreavers
9 plasma ravagers
35 fiends
18 exalted fiends
9 military bots
18 turrets
9 rocket turrets
4 military sentrys
1 former CRI grunt
17 security sentrys
3 exalted reavers
5 CalSec bots
1 former CRI soldier
1 Summoner
2 corrupted sergeants
9 exalted kerbeross
42 ravagers
13 former soldiers
6 combat drones
8 former guards
10 siege ravagers
42 fire fiends
3 former heavys
6 exalted soldiers
16 former sergeants
13 CRI marines
1 corrupted heavy
6 cryobeross
2 hellish soldiers
2 former CRI commandos
3 hellish heavys
2 military drones
20 corrupted soldiers
2 toxic reavers
7 former grunts
4 hellish commandos
10 armored ravagers
3 former CRI sergeants
13 CRI bots
11 reavers
5 corrupted commandos
8 security drones
2 cybeross
12 cryoreavers
3 kerbeross
6 CalSec sentrys
5 former commandos
3 security bots
4 toxibeross
Traits
Skilled L2
Powerjack
Juggler
Hacker L2
Hunker down
Juggernaut L2
Shottyman
Remote Hack
WIZARD L3
Trait order
Jug->Shm->Hak->Hak->RHa->Skl->MWZ->Skl->
MWZ->Jgn->Jgn->MWZ->Pow->HDw
Equipment
Slot #1 : AV2 12ga auto-shotgun A
Slot #2 : AV2 12ga shotgun BA
Slot #3 : CRI plasma shotgun PBA
Body : AV2 combat armor PB
Head : AV3 combat headset B
Utility : CRI shotgun damage amp
Inventory
energy cell (x100)
energy cell (x100)
energy cell (x93)
12ga shell (x46)
krak grenade (x3)
CRI phase kit (x2)
small medkit (x3)
small medkit (x3)
large medkit
