Congratulations to the team at Iron Tower Studios for releasing version 1.0!

Update for 1.0 release
Done - The Great Loot pass, all lootable areas have been updated, please comment with any errors or missing items
Done - Armory Level 3
Done - The Bridge
Done - Equipment and characters updated
Done - New merchants, Eli (if siding with Monks), and Pit Arena Shop Ch3
Ongoing - Endings
Todo - Achievements
Todo - Fix a bunch of tiny issues from the old days
Todo - Reputation table
Todo - Initiative Bonus table

Updated for v0.9.106 - Chapter 4 Habitat/Pit
Ongoing: The Great Loot Pass™, a lot of equipment has been moved around, some new equipment has been added and there have been a few balance changes to boot
Done-ish: Resolving the Habitat/Pit or Monks/Pit conflict after delivering the Machine
Done: Additional Chapter 2 content (Jia, Hargave, Morgan follow-ups, new bits and bobs in the Habitat)
Done: Hargrave's Stealth sequence, additional new stealth sequences
Done: Equipment and merchant updates
Done: New trainers and Master Trader items
Done: Skills, Feats, and Attributes changes. Armor Handling is no longer per piece, it is now cumulative, negative armor handling impacts Evasion, Initiative, and Reaction.


Updated for v0.9.83 - Chapter 3 - Mission Control Lower Levels
Done: Skill check sections need to be updated, Skill SP changes throughout all chapters
Done: Update tabulation of skill checks and SP gains in Chapter by Chapter section
Done: Update early guide to reflect slower leveling than under old XP requirements
Done: New gear and gear updates
Done: Lower levels of Mission Control
Done: Feat changes, heroics are crazier than ever
Done: System tweaks / update all encounter stat blocks
Done: Merchant inventory updates, mostly the grenade conversions
Done: Minor loot opportunities in earlier chapters
Done: ROMEO Upgrades
Done: Habitat and Mutant Companion Updates, fixed tags, tweaked unique feats
Done: Training token table refresh
Done: Skill point dichotomy bonuses for Jonas and Mercy paths
Done: XP for Mission Control Chapter 3
Done: Quick Quest updates
Done: Updated build options for game start



Updated for v0.9.33 - Chapter 3 - Hydroponics Yellow & Red
Done - Hydro Yellow & Hydro Red Zones walkthrough
Done - New Items
Done - New Enemies
Done - Patch Changes
Done - XP and Skill Checks
On Hold - Skill Point changes, all chapters, the guide will be updated with new values once the overhaul is done but it's unclear when that will be

Updated for v0.9.22 - Chapter 3 - The Heart
Special thanks to PaposikG6 for additional editing!
Done - Heart Quests
Done - Heart Merchants
Done - Heart Quick Quests, Skill Checks, and XP Enumeration
Done - Heart Companions
Done - Heart Items
Done - "Choice and Consequences" alerts throughout the guide


Updated for v0.9.15 - Chapter 3 - Return to the Pit
Done - Rewrite of Chapter 1 pathing with Squad Leader change. This was a big change, if you find any inconsistencies or oddities please let me know.
Done - Habitat Companions
Done - Rewrite of Steal guide
Done - Equipment updated
Done - Existing encounters updated
Done - Merchants updated
Done - New Encounters From Chapter 3 Pit
Done - Return to the Pit Guide for 3 leaders, Mercy, Braxton, Jonas
Done - Mechanics changes from patch
Done - Feat changes

Updated for v0.8.247 - ECLSS
Maintenance tunnels and ECLSS sections added
Implant overclocking via Eli the Monk, some attributes now go up to 12
Changes to Pulse Grenades and turrets, combat robot added to bestiary
Equipment and feat changes

Updated for v0.8.233 - The Habitat
The first part of the Habitat, excluding ECLSS and the Maintenance area has been released.
Walkthrough for available Habitat content
New items, item stat tweaks
New merchants - data is now partially auto-generated
Minor system changes, speech checks, aimed shots, pulse and poison grenades, turret stats

A request: The Habitat is big, really big, you may have thought the Pit was big but it has nothing on the Habitat. There are a lot of branches and small choices that are not always easy to find, so if you find something that is not currently documented please drop a comment about it.


March 2022

This guide will now be using automatically generated data for most of its enemies and equipment, this will enable faster and more accurate updates to enemy stats and loot. Like any new program the data miner is likely to have some, quirks, at the start. The Accuracy stat should be taken as a a reasonably accurate approximation since it blends in data that impacts both base accuracy and aimed shot accuracy. Currently creatures and turrets are not supported and will continue to have their stats updated manually. Your feedback on missing or incorrect data is most welcome.

Added MSPaint quality maps of major areas.

Updated for v0.8.215
Tweaks to encounters and loot / merchant inventory
Equipment tweaks, mostly weapons
Feat/stat/skills tweaks
Rework Chapter 1 walkthrough incorporating Mission Control before Crossroads. Less bouncing around different areas to level skills and a smoother difficulty progression based on the reworked encounters, except for one very hard encounter that we can beat with cheesy tactics, your feedback on the changes is appreciated!
Updated "Persuading Mercy" special supplement, hat tip to epepe for inspiration
Standardized spelling to "Murderhobo" throughout the guide

Updated for v0.8.206
Weapon stats updates
Armor stats updates
Chapter 1 combat encounters updated with gear and new information on enemies
Chapter 2 combat encounters updated with gear and new information on enemies
Reorganized where dialogue trees are integrated into the guide to support diplomacy oriented characters during the walkthrough
Gadget, stims, grenades, training tokens updated
Biotech and implant extraction updates
Mutations
Fixed thermal vision/resist optical/resist toxic stat blocks for enemies based on headgear changes
Added section for Companions, fairly bare-bones at the moment
Added section Bestiary - Mechanical, currently encompassing turrets
Some reorganizing of content to fit within Steam's section limits
(Post January patch) Rewrite of Chapter 1 Walkthrough to incorporate Mission Control into pathing

Updated for v0.8.193
Walkthrough for Shuttle Bay
Added speech skill SP gains for Chapter 1 locations

Updated for v0.8.155
Walkthrough for first five levels of Mission Control
Even more new items from Mission Control
Energy weapons have been revised across the board
Added Bestiary for inhuman foes
Value for most low-tier loot has been decreased, sell prices are now 20% of item value up from 10%
Update full list of quests, XP, and skill checks in Mission Control


Updated for v0.8.148
(Beta) Walkthrough for first four levels of Mission Control
Updated helmets with new stats, mostly increased DR
New items from Mission Control

Updated for v0.8.134
The full release of the Factory!
Fantastic new items added
Updated walkthrough covering the Factory
Updated skill checks and XP gains from the Factory
Some notes on game mechanics and some interesting quirks therein
Implants and (speculative) implant upgrades

Updated for v0.8.127
The Factory has been released!
A few tweaks to feats and equipment, notably nerfing SMGs Reaction +%
A proper step-by-step walkthrough for a combat focused Murderhobo, including a bonus section on how to side with Mercy with a Charisma 4 build!
Added Merchant inventory list at end of guide
Updated helmets to have correct stats
Updated and revised the combat and quest XP gains section
Updated skill checks and associated SP gains, most of which are now +20SP
Updated combat encounters to show Thermal Vision, Resist Optical, and Resist Toxin scores for enemies

Updated for v0.8.103:
Added Quest and Combat character exp thanks to Pladio!
Added several new items from update, updated names of some items
Several new or modified loot locations requiring skills

Initial Version:
Attributes
Skill Checks
Quests
Equipment

Heroic forum member Skaudus has made two tutorial videos that do an excellent job of covering the complicated combat system, I strongly suggest you watch both if you intend to shoot things.

Colony Ship - How Accuracy Works - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x7XkqwAgvA
Colony Ship - How Defense Works - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_SA5ErDq0A

There is also an active Discord if you want people with literally hundreds of hours of game time to answer your random questions: https://discord.gg/xsRFztkc

If you prefer to get your information via wiki format the erudite PaposikG6 maintains the Colony Ship Wiki here : https://colonyship.fandom.com/wiki/Colony_Ship_Wiki (but it's much less murderhobo-y than this guide!)

• Whenever you recruit a new follower make sure to Tag their skills as they start with zero tagged skills
  
• Heroic feats can only be taken at character creation and require 10 in their respective attributes, you can only ever have 1 Heroic feat
  
• Consumables, especially grenades, are incredibly effective, if expensive
  
• You start with $1000, using this money on a weapon upgrade or a gadget (Distortion Field suggested) is a reasonable way to smooth out early game difficulty.
  
• The skill system is use by doing, using skills will give you skill experience points that will level up skills but do not impact character level
  
• Character XP, as distinct from skill XP, is gained by completing quests and combat, and allows characters to level up granting access to more feats
  
• Easy quests and combat award as much as XP as hard quests and combat, doing the easier stuff first is going to make your life easier, if something is too hard come back later
  
• You can heal using Medkits in the Party Screen, or pay $ to Sarah in Medbay
  
• TAB to highlight interactable objects, can be toggled on/off in settings
  
• F5 quick-save, F9 quick-load
  
• If you don't want to play the melee bruiser featured in this walkthrough there are builds of every variety here: https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/app/648410/discussions/0/3172198151251693365/

• Activate energy shields/gadgets before combat at the cost of 2AP, there is no impact on initiative
  
• Yellow skill checks for Speech skills (Persuasion, Streetwise, Impersonate) allow for partial success and partial XP skill gain, leveling up a skill with a yellow skill check will count as a success. Yellow skill checks for non-Speech skills can not be passed but can be retried
  
• Thermal vision counteracts the effects of smoke grenades, so if you have Thermal 45% on your goggles/helmet then firing at range into Smoke which normally would penalize you 80% THC will only penalize you 35% THC.
  
• The amount of armor on enemies varies body party to body part, if someone seems to tough to kill, 8+ armor, they likely have a different part of their body that is less heavily armored and is more susceptible to damage, used Aimed shots to target those body parts
  
• During speech challenges, different choices can have different impact on disposition. Just because a dialog has a higher skill check does not mean it will be more effective in raising disposition, read the lines and consider how the NPC would react to them
  
• Your gun-wielding enemies have finite ammunition (except for turrets which are magical), if you have heavy armor and a tanky build you may be able to outlast their ammo supply by hunkering down in cover and trading potshots, this is usually not the best strategy, but is occasionally very effective
  
• Your greatest ally is CHIM.

Implants can boost all attributes except Constitution and Charisma by +1, and another +1 by overclocking the implants, allowing characters to reach 12 in some attributes. The Healing Factor heroic feat adds +2 to Constitution, allowing Constitution to reach 12.

Strength

Melee Extra Damage applies additional damage to each melee attack
Armor Handling reduces Evasion, Initiative, and Reaction penalties from armor
Recoil Control mitigates the accuracy penalty on Burst and Double Shot attacks

Associated Feats

• Armored Warfare feat with Strength 6
  
• Berserker feat with Strength 8
  
• Heavy Hitter feat with Strength 8
  
• Controlled Burst feat with Strength 8
  
• Juggernaut feat with Strength 10

Constitution

Associated Feats

• Bionic feat cannot be taken with Healing Factor
  
• Healing Factor feat with Constitution 10

Dexterity

Evasion reduces enemy Accuracy
Initiative determines turn order in combat and stealth
Reaction determines % chance of reacting with an attack to enemy movement or misses

Associated Feats

• Artful Dodger feat with Dexterity 6
  
• Gladiator feat with Dexterity 8
  
• Gunfighter feat with Dexterity 8
  
• Fast Runner feat with Dexterity 10

Perception

Associated Feats

• Critical Thinker feat with Perception 6
  
• Opportunist feat with Perception 8
  
• Precise Strike feat with Perception 8
  
• Sharpshooter feat with Perception 8
  
• Big Game Hunter feat with Perception 8
  
• Dodge This feat with Perception 10

Intelligence

Tagged skills add +2 effective skill levels to a skill, without increasing Skill Point (SP) requirements commensurately. If you tag a skill at the start it will be level 3, but only require 20SP to advance to level 4, as opposed to putting a skill point into it at the start which raises the level but also the SP required to advance, tags are very important.
Character experience (XP), as distinct from SP, advances character level

Associated Feats

• Skill Monkey feat with Intelligence 8
  
• Mastermind feat with Intelligence 10

Charisma

Initial disposition impacts all Speech challenges

Associated Feats

• Personal Magnetism feat with Charisma <8
  
• Master Trader feat with Charisma 7
  
• Sergeant feat with Charisma 7-8
  
• Captain feat with Charisma 9, overwrites Sergeant feat if both are present in a party
  
• Cult Leader feat with Charisma 10

In Colony Ship leveling up gives you one and only one thing, a new Feat. You don't gain HP per level, you don't get bonus skill points, or accuracy, or damage, or anything, except for one Feat. Loot and enemies do not scale to your level, the only thing that changes is you get one Feat.


XP to Level

Heroic
Heroic feats can only be taken during character creation, they are therefore limited to one per character


Combat

Party

Defense

On Kill

General

Melee

Melee Weapon Specialization

Ranged

Ranged Weapon Specialization

Stealth

Some feats can't be chosen at character creation or when leveling up. The Mutations are a great example but there are a few other ones tucked away for the discerning player.

Mutations

During the game you'll gain access to one of the Mutation feat lines, they do not cost a feat from level up and are instead a quest reward. The mutation quest line can be started by speaking with Maryam in Hydroponics with a Psyker Brain in your inventory.

When given access to the Mutation lines you can choose to bind them against one of three stim types, Aggro/Super Soldier, Regen, or Zen. You will start with level 1 of the associated feat, using additional stims of the chosen type will upgrade the associated feat up to level 3.


Ask Questions Later
Are you a murderhobo? Do you enjoy taking dialogue options that grant Initiative bonuses instead of trying to eek out some measly Speech skill points gains? Instead, take [Initiative Bonus] options in dialogue and start stacking up your reputation as a shoot first and ask questions later kind of guy. Feat levels do not stack, subsequent feats replace prior feats.


More feats acquired through in-game actions


There are also penalty feats associated with overclocking too many implants, see the implants section below, but do not fear replacing the weak flesh with hardened steel.

If a party member, including the PC, is incapacitated during combat, but you win the combat before they die permanently they will gain penalty "feats" representing their near brush with death. These do not stack, each feat replaces the prior feat.

Weapon Skills

Bladed
Blunt
Pistol
Shotgun
Rifle
SMG

Each level in a weapons skill adds +6 Accuracy with attacks with those weapons

Critical Strike
Each level adds +2% Critical Strike Chance, +1% Critical Damage, and +10 Takedown Damage

Evasion
Each level adds +6 Evasion, Evasion reduces enemy hit chance. Half of the Evasion value converts hits to grazes (25% damage after DR), half of the evasion value converts hits to misses.

Armor
Each level adds +4 Armor Handling, each point of Armor Handling reduces the Evasion, Initiative, and Reaction penalties for each piece of armor you wear.

Sneak
Every level reduces Noise by -1 (activities during stealth, like movement or takedowns generate Noise that increases enemy alertness), and Sneaking by +5 (your sneaking value determines what tiles are white/green/orange/red when sneaking)

Biotech
In addition to being used to extract implants, each level of Biotech increases the efficacy of Medkits by +2.

The below skills are used for skill checks and do not impact character stats or have passive effects
Computers
Electronics
Persuasion
Streetwise
Impersonate
Lockpick
Steal

All skills range from 1-10, in future updates combat skills will have specializations which will require leveling beyond 10.

The number of skill points to raise a given skill increases rapidly, while any character should be able to raise almost all skills to 3 during Chapter 1 it will become increasingly difficult to level skills beyond 3, it will require skill tags in order to hit skill level 10+ by the end of the game.

Skill Level SP Requirements

Each implant can be installed once per character for the base bonus. It can also be overclocked (see: Eli) to increase the base bonus. In addition, each implant can support any number of upgrade chips, but only one instance of each upgrade chip may be used per implant.

You character can install (Constitution - 3) base implants, the Bionic feat allows you to install an additional base implant.

Ocular Implant : Perception +1
Overclocked : Additional +1 Perception
Upgrade Chip - Advanced Targeting : +4% Accuracy, +2% Aimed, +2% Critical Chance
Upgrade Chip - Glareshield : +20% Thermal Vision, +20% Optical Resistance

Neural Uplink : Intelligence +1
Overclocked : Additional +1 Intelligence
Upgrade Chip - Bridge Officer Implant : +10% XP
Upgrade Chip - Neural Shield : +10% Neural Resistance
Upgrade Chip - Predictive Analytics : +20% Combat skill gain (retroactive)

Squad Leader : Followers Initiative +4, Followers Critical Chance +3%, Accuracy +4%, Evasion +4%
Overclocked : Additional Followers Initiative +4, Followers Critical Chance +3%, Accuracy +4%, Evasion +4%
Upgrade Chip - Neural Dampener : +1 Disposition, +10% Neural Resistance for Party

Synthetic Heart : +2 HP Regen, +25% Toxic Resistance, When <13HP +1 Stat Regen
Overclocked : Additional +2 HP Regen, +25% Toxic Resistance, When <13HP +1 Stat Regen
Upgrade Chip - Lifesaver : +5 HP
Upgrade Chip - Painkiller : +1 Regen

Subdermal Armor: Natural DR +1 (applies to all body parts, melee, ballistic, and energy DR)
Overclocked : Additional Natural DR +1
Upgrade Chip - Heat Absorber : +2 Energy DR

Exo-Spine : Strength +1
Overclocked : Additional Strength +1
Upgrade Chip - Heavy Infantry : +6 Armor Handling
Upgrade Chip - Machine Gunner : +4 Recoil Control
Upgrade Chip - Cage Fighter : +1 Melee Damage

Motor-Cortex Chip : Dexterity +1
Overclocked : Additional Dexterity +1
Upgrade Chip - Assault Trooper : +2 Movement AP
Upgrade Chip - Combat Reflexes : +3 Evasion
Upgrade Chip - Rapid Response : +6 Initiative


You can extract implants from corpses, both ancient and recently made.

For "recent" corpses, aka people you killed, you can extract damaged implants only. Damaged implants can be repaired with a Biotech level of +1 over the minimum extraction value and awards a variable amount of Biotech SP at a cost of a variable number of Electronic Modules.

For "ancient" corpses, you can extract pristine implants ready to be installed, but the extraction requirements are a bit higher. You can also extract implant upgrade chips from ancient corpses, these have variable extraction levels.

TODO: Update table for recent and ancient corpses, and add extraction levels for upgrade chips.


Not that we advocate crimes against humanity, but it is currently possible to install implants in your companions, have them die, of completely natural causes, and then extract the implants from their corpses for additional Biotech SPs.

In addition to gaining levels and skills, your companions may also gain an extra bit of power through the companion bond system. Recruitable companions now have an extra feat that reflects how happy they are to be a part of your crew. While the exact value of the bond is hidden you’ll see when your actions cause a change in the level of the bond. Bonds range from Unhappy (-30% SP gain, retroactive) to Inspired (various effects per character). Note that going from a level like Unhappy back to indifferent will restore the SP that was lost due to the SP malus.

Unhappy : -35% SP Gain, note that this can cause skill levels to drop
Displayed : -10% SP gain
Indifferent: No modifiers
Content : Varies by companion, generally a personal bonus
Inspired : Varies by companion, generally a party bonus, stacks with Content bonus
Devoted : Cult Leaders only, +1 Natural DR

Your initial bond strength is determined by your Charisma, with a penalty for having the Lone Wolf feat. After that, adventuring together, in the form of earning XP, will generally strengthen your bond while dismissing your companion repeatedly will weaken it. Story choices, such as who rules the Pit at the end of Chapter 1, or which faction you side with in the Habitat, may also have an impact on some characters. Given how much longer you can work with them it is generally much easier to raise the Pit companions to Inspired, but it is possible to raise the Habitat and Mutant companions to that level as well. ROMEO does not have bond levels as he is a cold and uncaring machine.

Evans
Content : SP +5%, Initiative +2
Inspired : Party Accuracy +3

Jed
Content : SP +5%, Accuracy +4
Inspired: Party Armor Handling +3

Faythe
Content: SP +5%, Evasion +4
Inspired: Party Initiative +2

Harbinger
Content: SP +5%
Inspired: Additional SP +5%, Party: AP +1

Knurl
Content: SP +5%
Inspired: Critical Chance +3%, Party: Critical Damage +10% (0.1)

Mathias (Church)
Content : +1 Ballistic DR
Inspired :

Cobra (Protectors)
Content : SP +5%, Reaction +20
Inspired : Party: Evasion +3

Garret (Brotherhood)
Content :
Inspired :

Experience Points (XP)

You gain XP from resolving quests and encounters. Generally speaking, resolving quests awards +60XP and resolving encounters awards +90XP. However, while the encounter awards are divided among party members, such that a 3 person party including PC would each receive 30XP(modified by Intelligence bonus), the quest awards are not divided, each party member receives the full amount.

Speech
Speech skill checks when accompanied by a Disposition bar the bottom of the screen are not binary pass/fail propositions. The goal of a speech challenge is to raise Disposition to 10. Failing a skill check penalizes you -1 Disposition per missing level of skill. Passing a skill check by +2 or more will award additional disposition for every level you exceed by. Different lines may have an impact on Disposition, it's not always smart to choose the hardest one. Failing a skill check by 3 or more will result in the disposition challenge failing.

Stealth

For a great guide to stealth check out skaudus’ post here: https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/app/648410/discussions/0/3172198151253755841/

Stealth takedowns must be done with a knife (no swords either), but your takedown value is not impacted by Bladed skill level, only Critical Strike skill level.

Frogs and other creatures can not be killed from stealth.

During most stealth sequences you can initiate combat to gain an initiative advantage.

Visible corpses now raise enemy awareness when discovered

Mousing over a potential takedown target will show two values ex. "65/55", the first is your takedown value and the second is the targets effective HP modified by their awareness level. If the first value is greater than or equal to the second you will insta-kill your target. Otherwise, you will damage your target and initiate combat.

Stealth Double Takedown:


In a situation like this with two enemies facing each other you can make use of the Cloaking Field gadget to get close and then kill both. Performing a takedown will generate noise and raise the awareness of the remaining guard, you will lose the cloaking field bonus for one turn after performing a takedown, but if the enemies are not facing each other you should still be able to step one space over and kill the other if your Sneak is high.

If two enemies are facing each other, as in the Black Hand Fortress, you will need to use the cloaking field to position yourself between them, after killing one your square will turn red, but if you kill the other before moving you will be safe.

Stealth gameplay will require experimentation if you want to completely clear areas.

Stealth Awareness Reset:


Once an enemy hits red awareness in their meter they will actively seek you out, and if they do not find you their awareness will drop to a lower level making takedowns easier. You can take advantage of this by using the Cloaking Field device or a closed door to prevent the enemy from actually looking for you, you can easily see this in action if you perform a double takedown which pushes the remaining enemy into the red, by waiting one turn, assuming your Cloaking Field stays active, they will not move and their awareness will reset.


Combat Skill Point Gain

During all combats characters receive skill points for defensive* and offensive skills.

Defensive skill point gain*(and also Critical Strike for quick kills):

Killing most enemy combatants awards 18SPs in total for defensive/critical strike skills, some enemies, like turrets, may award different amounts of defensive SPs.

If you kill an enemy without that enemy attacking, your team receives 18 Critical Strike SP, divided amongst the team.

If you kill an enemy after that enemy has attacked party members or controlled NPCs the attacked parties will receive evasion and/or armor SPs in proportion to the attacks they sustained.

Non-controlled allied combatants will not receive SPs during combat and will not count as having been attacked for purposes of determining if a killed enemy awards critical strike or defensive SPs.

Offensive skill point gain:

Killing most enemy combatants awards 12SPs in total for offensive weapon skills, some enemies, like turrets, may award different amounts of offensive SPs.

Non-controlled allied combatants do not count for purposes of distributing weapon SPs, if these combatants kill an enemy without any controlled or party member characters attacking said enemy then said enemy will award weapon SPs to a random party member, as far as I can tell.

Otherwise, killing an enemy awards offensive SPs in rough proportion to damage done to the enemy by party members and allied combatants.

Inflicting critical hits in combat award critical strike SP equal to 30% of the attacks damage pre-mitigation (rounded down). If you’re trying to optimize for Critical Strike growth you’ll obviously want to inflict critical hits whenever possible. The feat Bloodlust (+50% to crit chance after killing an enemy) is an excellent way to generate more crit strikes now that Bloodlust can carry over between turns, note Bloodlust will not apply to reaction attacks. Currently, you can gain small amounts of Critical Strike SP even with 0 damage strikes, so you could in theory farm a single heavily-armored but weak enemy for infinite Critical Strike SP, please don't do this as it is boring.

Resistances

Resistance Toxic:
Resistance toxic reduces the damage and stat damage of poison attacks by the given percentage.

Resistance Optical:
Resistance optical reduces the effect of Flashbangs and other optical attacks but does not reduce smoke penalties. A Flashbang will apply a penalty of -50 THC, -50 Evasion, and -5AP to an unprotected character. With resistance optical of 50 the penalty will be reduced to -25 THC, -25 Evasion, and -3AP (AP penalty appears to be 1 point per 10 points of unmitigated THC/Evasion penalty, rounded up)

Thermal Vision (Resist Smoke):
Thermal vision values mitigate smoke THC penalties up to their value. So if you have Thermal Vision 45 and are attacking using a ranged weapon into a Smoke cloud, normal THC penalty of -80, you will instead have a THC penalty of -35.

Neural Resistance:
Neural Resistance reduces the damage and impact of enemy psi attacks, namely Mind Worms and Psyker frogs. Your Neural Resistance directly decreases damage and Panic penalties by the given percentage. Base Neural Resistance is equal to (Charisma - 4 ) * 5.

Economy

You start with $1000, investing in a better weapon or gadget is an excellent use of your funds when starting out.

Sarah in Medbay charges $25 for every 10 points of damage healed, fractions thereof are charged at full cost.

Medkits cost $25 and heal 10 + (Biotechx2) HP. Sarah is a bad deal!

You sell items for 20% of value excluding ammunition which is sold for $1/round (except for Energy Cells which are sold at 20%).

The feat Master Trader reduces the purchase price of items in shops by 50% but does not change your sell price for items.

Death Timer
If a party member falls you have 3 (6 on Hero Mode) turns to save them by completing combat. If you save them they will revive but with a scaling penalty feat based on how many times they have been incapacitated.

One thing that was notably lacking from my first guide was an actual step-by-step walkthrough, so I made one! Incidentally the research required also gives us a handy-dandy guide on where to acquire almost all items, and a couple of round-about ways to achieve goals such as siding with Mercy as a Charisma 4 Murderhobo with no tagged speech skills, good times!

Mr. Murderhobo, a Walkthrough

This is a beginner focused guide that will show you a character archetype that you can use exactly or as a rough guide for a combat focused character that will do a minimum of speech checks (unless you want to side with Mercy at the end of the Pit, see bonus section on that) and will rely on Faythe as your skill-bot to handle things like Lockpicking, Computers, Electronics, and Biotech. Evans or Jed will be your trusty combat companion, I prefer Evans but you’re free to use either one, or both if you are willing to invest in Charisma 6 for the extra squaddie.

This guide is not hyper-optimized for a perfect run

The guide aims to have a reasonably gentle difficulty curve, while there are optimizations that very experienced players could make in terms of picking up certain weapons earlier or distributing XP in a slightly different way this guide does not require many heroic feats of combat to get through. Feedback is of course always welcome! But we’re not going to try and convince you to go pick up the Scoped Old Betsy (+8% Critical Chance, so good!) from Courthouse Fight 4 first thing because that is a right humdinger of a fight.

A note on difficulty settings
This guide was built with an assumption you are playing on Underdog difficulty mode, but even with a walkthrough helping you out you're likely going to have to reload some fights to win, sometimes repeatedly. If that sounds frustrating instead of exciting you can try out the new Hero mode, it will increase the rate at which your skills increase and apply combat bonuses to your friends and combat maluses to your enemies. There's no wrong way to play, as long as you're murdering your way through the game.

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A couple of explanatory notes so I can use abbreviations everywhere.

XP - Character XP, controls levels of your characters, has zero bearing on your skills but allows you new feats which are a hugely impactful part of your build. Most of the +90XP awards, which are usually given for combat/encounter resolution, evenly divided among your teammates. Most of the +60XP awards, quest XP, award the full amount to each team member regardless of team size. For the purposes of this guide you will see the full 90XP/60XP amount in the guide, just know that the +90XP is going to be divided amongst your party members.

SP - Skill Points/Skill XP, technically there is a thing called Skill Points already which is what you use at character creation, but I’m ignoring that because SP is one character shorter and less confusing than SXP when talking about skill gains. SP helps you develop skills and has no bearing on character level.

Gaining SP by failing speech checks - Broadly speaking, failing a speech (Persuasion, Streetwise, Impersonate) check will still award you +10SP in the relevant skill, passing checks typically but does not always award more SPs. This is unique compared to other skills which do not award SP for failure. We’ll be picking up a few stray Streetwise SPs in the walkthrough since we need to reach Streetwise 2 in order to make Faythe into a Thief.

This thread contains an archives of well over one hundred builds, from various points in development, that have been used to complete the game:

https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/app/648410/discussions/0/3172198151251693365/

Note that many of them are solo "Lone Wolf" builds as the obsessive players who submit multiple builds have found that party builds are fairly straightforward and easy so they started coming up with weird builds that haven't been done before.

Now, onto picking the right build for you!

A note, I wrote the guide with the assumption the player is running a Murderhobo, but mostly because it was fun to write it that way. While the Murderhobo Juggernaut can be quite good, if you want a relatively stress-free experience I recommend the Cult Leader Captain build.

Bladed/Blunt Juggernaut, optionally Lone Wolf

Pros: Simple, see problem and smash it! Very good at what it does.
Cons: Inability to do anything else. Pure solo builds end up very powerful but are a pain to play early.

Difficulty: High at the start of the game, low at the end of the game

If you want a straight forward combat heavy build, and don’t want companions then the Juggernaut is perfect for you!

STR: 10 - Maximum melee damage and Armor Handling
DEX: 8 - More AP, more swinging heavy things at
CON: 9 - High HP, can install four implants (Str, Dex, Armor, Int recommended)
INT: 5 - One tagged skill, your primary weapon skill, and an early Intelligence implant to tag Critical Strike or Evasion
CHA: 4 - One companion if you want it, otherwise go solo
PER: 4 - Poor initial accuracy, skills and feats will offset this later

Tag your preferred melee weapon skill in character creation, initial skill points into Steal (if going solo) otherwise Biotech, Evasion, Critical Strike, and your preferred weapon.

Take Juggernaut as your heroic feat, then if going solo (no companions) take Lone Wolf at Level 2 otherwise your preferred melee feat (Butcher/Basher), then Warrior, then either more offensive or defensive feats.

Just by using training tokens you’ll end up with Science skills in the 3-4 range which will enable you to access some extra loot in Chapter 1 but you’ll be locked out of alternative solutions that involve high levels of Computer, Sneak, or Speech.

You never need to decide what approach to take (Combat/Diplomacy/Sneak/Science) because you only have one approach!

Variants: The magnetic murderhobo - take Personal Magnetism instead of Lone Wolf to boost your team size to two party members and either focus on pure combat or use Faythe as a skill monkey to access more loot for your murderhobo.


Like the Murderhobo, but with shooting.

STR: 4 - No melee attacking, wearing heavy armor will be tough
DEX: 10 - Maximum AP, maximum pew-pew
CON: 7 - Reasonable HP, can install three implants
INT: 5 - One tagged skill, your primary weapon skill, and an early Intelligence implant to tag Critical Strike or Evasion
CHA: 4 - One companion if you want it, otherwise go solo
PER: 10 - For Dodge This! heroic, and insane accuracy

If you prefer to be a bit less tanky, but a lot more shooty, then you may enjoy the Murderhobo (Ranged) build. The heroic feat for this build is Dodge This! which will make your shots more accurate, and make them more likely to critically strike, while also boosting the rate at which Critical Strike levels up. At Level 2 take your preferred ranged weapon feat, followed by either Lone Wolf (for solos) or Critical Thinker to take advantage of your boosted Critical Strike skill.

Compared to a melee Murderhobo you'll be more fragile, you won't be able to wear super-heavy armor without a care, but you'll have impressive burst damage. Consider using Jed as your buddy, for tanking purposes, instead of Evans if you're running a duo.

Powerful party buffer and occasional grenade thrower

Pros: Full incredibly strong party, can brute force speech challenges early on, 4 man party allows for full coverage of Science skills
Cons: Unable to do anything by themselves, full parties will end up at lower levels than solos or smaller parties

Difficulty: Consistently low, you may struggle with optional combats if you talk your way through most of the game.

STR: 4 - You'll wear heavy armor and accept the penalties
DEX: 4 - Throwing grenades doesn't cost many action points (you will struggle with stealth sections if you don't have a sneaky Faythe)
CON: 8 - High HP, can install all necessary implants, and not die immediately due to poor combat skills
INT: 10 - 4 tags for civic skills, a 5th with Educated, and a 6th with implant overclocking
CHA: 10 - All three companions slots available, can take Captain, can pass early Speech checks with high Disposition
PER: 4 - Poor accuracy, and will remain that way the entire game

Initial tags in Persuasion (or Streetwise), Biotech, Computers, Lockpick. Initial skill points in either Steal (if not using Thief Faythe), whichever of Persuasion/Streetwise you didn't tag, Electronics, Computers.

Why do hard things yourself when others are happy to do them for you? Sure you can’t do much of anything, but you’re an inspiring presence to those around you.
If you like large parties and want to be able to access almost anything in the game, this is a good fit for you, but your player character will be a wet noodle for the most part.

For your heroic feat take Cult Leader, it makes your team tougher and your party members will level up quicker. At level 2 take Captain which is a massive buff to your team. At level 3 take Educated to tag Electronics which gives you a complete set of civic skill tags on your main character.

There is some complexity in choosing when to fight, talk your way through, or use science skills to solve your problems. You're not great at sneaking, but by spending your later feats on stealth skills you can kind of get by, and you'll have the civic skills to capitalize on stealth situations. With a learn by doing system you’re eventually going have to pick something to specialize in, you can solve most problems with speech, but if you never take any fights your companions power levels will fall behind the curve. This can be partially mitigated by planning to take a Habitat companion and/or a mutant companion in Chapter 3. If that is the case you may want to pick your Chapter 1 companion to keep, speech / science / sneak your way through most of Chapter 1, and then rush to Chapter 3 to get your two new powerful companions.

Overall this is still a fairly straightforward build and if you bias slightly towards solving things with violence over words, and you use the Habitat/Mutant companions, you’ll have a very respectable combat squad while still being able to solve most of your problems with words if you need to.

Variants:

The slightly competent cult leader - shift a tag into a weapon skill and have one of your many companions take one of the civic skills. It's less powerful, but you may feel better about yourself.

STR: 4 - We won't be fighting anything so we don't need heavy armor or melee weapons
DEX: 10 - High Action points for our stealth sequences
CON: 4 - For two implants, Intelligence and Dexterity
INT: 10 - Enables Mastermind for faster leveling and bonus feats
CHA: 8 - There are a few situations we need to talk our way out of
PER: 4 - You'll need Evans to spot a few things for you, but it's not like we care about Accuracy

Pros: Never has to fight anything
Cons: Can’t fight anything

Difficulty: Consistently low, again avoiding combat

Clearly, a lot of work went into making a robust and interesting combat system for Colony Ship. But let’s throw all that in the trash because we’ve got better things to do!

Don’t fight things, this is a very important rule! You can, technically, fight a few things, and you can recruit companions temporarily to help you out in the early stages, but you will mostly succeed by not fighting.

For your Heroic Feat take Mastermind, it gives more feats! Tag Computers, Stealth, Lockpick, and Persuasion or Streetwise. At Level 2 take Prowler or Ghost. Take Educated to tag either Electronics if you want an awesome robot friend, or the other Speech skill if you don't like violence, otherwise keep taking stealth boosting feats. You can eventually tag one extra skill by installing the Intelligence implant and overclocking it to give you an extra tagged skill. Initial skill points into Critical Strike, whichever of Persuasion/Streetwise you didn't tag, Impersonate, and Electronics.

You’re going to sneak and tech your way through any problems you can, while talking your way through any problems you can't. You can do a few easy optional combats with companions backing you up in the early game, and the Habitat companions can carry you through a few of the easier fights late game, but for the most part you are not built for fighting.

Your initial disposition means you still need a speech tag but probably only one speech tag to get through problems that can’t be solved with sneaking or tech

Variants: Pure talker - just talk your way through all your problems, set int to 8 and cha to 10, tag all three speech skills, there, you’ve solved the game, tada.

STR : 4
CON : 4
DEX : 4
PER : 4
INT : 4
CHA : 4

No tags, no feats, no initial skill points

Pros: Can technically finish the game
Cons: You probably have better things to do with your time

Assuming you chose to make a Murderhobo, the only actually correct choice, ignore what I said earlier about there being tons of viable and fun builds, then you're in the right place! If you did not choose to make a Murderhobo you're still in the right place, just choose the correct basic weapon when you start.

Starting Out
You start with $1,000, a basic ranged weapon (I would pick SMG for a slightly higher chance of Reaction attacks while equipped), basic melee weapon (Utility Bar for a Blunt focused character, Rusty Camp Knife for Bladed), some exceedingly insufficient armor, 8x Medkits and some ammo for your ranged weapon.

Hit P to open your Party screen, this is where you will heal your party from and set skill specialists later. More importantly you'll want to tick the box labeled Reload Weapons right now and never uncheck it, this will ensure that your party will reload after every fight. Don't click Fully Heal Party yet, it will waste medkits early on when they're most valuable since it will use a full medkit to heal even one point of damage.

There's a chest in your room with some more basic armor:

Apartment Chest: Worker Jacket, Protective Sleeves, Bowler Helmet

You have one quest The Holy Grail and directions to go meet a man named Tanner at Whisky Jack's bar. Head outside, down the stairs, and to the southwest to find the bar, or hit M to open your map view and click on Whisky Jack's to teleport there instantly, but don't do that yet.

Your neighbor outside your apartment will offer to train you in Lockpicking (+100SP, which will level you from 1->3) for $200. This is a reasonable deal considering all the great stuff behind locked doors but we’re going to skip it for now because NPC companion Faythe will be our master thief skill monkey.

In which our hero takes up the crowbar of destiny

First head to Whiskey Jack’s Tavern and talk to Tanner. Receive the Damaged Energy Pistol, Keycard A2 (quest item for the Armory), and access to the location, Armory. Don’t go to the Armory yet! It’s a dangerous place and we’ll go there later.

Tanner will suggest you speak to Evans at Abe’s General Store if you’d like some backup, sounds like a great idea! Head to the store, talk to Evans, and agree to back him up in the upcoming fight.

If you're playing a character with speech skills you'll be able to solve your problems without resorting to violence using Streetwise 2 (+120SP) or Persuasion 2 (+120SP). Most of the time you solve your issues using speech checks you will receive bonus SPs to your Persuasion, Streetwise, and Impersonate skills, collectively the Speech skills, this is not one of those times, but you do get a very nice skill bonus here. This is the first example we see of "dichotomy choices", by solving your problems with words instead of violence you get a big bonus chunk of skill points to speech since you're forgoing the skill points you would normally gain in combat. You'll see this popup later for other skills as well like Computers and Electronics. Keep in mind if you want to reach level 10 in some civic skills you may need to forgo (direct) violence occasionally, a lamentable state of affairs.

While Murderhobo does not usually resort to talking to solve his problem we're going to try it, just once. Don't worry we'll fail the conversation and still do some murdering.

Make sure to choose the Streetwise 2 option, see how it's yellow? Speech checks can be attempted even without the requisite skill level and will give a small (+10SP) increment to the skill as a result, even more intriguing is the fact that if the +10SP would level up your Speech skill the attempt will then count as a pass for the check! We'll take advantage of this in a moment.

If you’re having difficulty with the fight you can buy a Distortion Field from Cole's Gadget's for $600 which will make the fight much much easier, you can loot two during Chapter 1 but they come much later. There are Blunt weapon upgrades available at the “General Store” in the Northeast section of the Pit near the courthouse but the Warhammer has a painful Accuracy malus and we can get a Gear Mace via combat relatively soon. Builds focused on other weapons can find similarly relevant deals at the various shops.

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Difficulty: Easy, even with an initiative penalty from talking you should still go first initiative-wise

Tactical Notes: Focus fire one enemy at a time, this should be a fairly easy fight with your combat focused build. Don't forget that Evans has a pistol in his other hand, if you don't have enough AP for a rifle shot use the pistol.

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Gain +90XP and then +60XP for resolving Abe’s problems.

After handling the thugs, talk to Abe again and try to wheedle a reward out of him. Even though your Streetwise is currently at skill level 1, you have 10 of the required 20 SP to level it up, and the 10 Streetwise SPs you get from attempting the check and failing would level it up, and since this is for a a Speech skill you are awarded full value, glorious victory!

Streetwise 2 (+20 SP) to earn an extra $50 as well as 2x Medkits

Having Streetwise 2 will be very important when we recruit Faythe which we'll be doing soon.

Evans will join your party if you like, this is generally a good thing unless you’re running solo for the challenge.

REMEMBER TO TAG EVAN’S SKILLS ASAP

Tagged skills will immediately be effective at two levels higher without increasing the SP costs for each level, so if Evans starts with Rifles 1, tagging Rifles will immediately raise Rifles to level 3, but will still only require 20SP to advance (the cost from skill level 1 -> skill level 2). Tagging is very important, it will have a massive impact on what you and your companions will be able to do down the road.

People generally build him with Rifles or Pistols, and Critical Strike but feel free to experiment! On this run I built him into a crit-striking-second-winding sniper and he generally performed well.

Head outside to talk to Braxton, who wants you to help him take over the Pit. You can choose to join him or not, you can change sides later, this starts the Crossroads quest. You should ask for some cold hard cash incentives ($250) with Streetwise 3(+40SP), you’ll fail if you're Murderhoboing it up instead of playing a fancy-pants diplomat, but you’ll get +10 Streetwise SP for your troubles.

Head to Medbay and speak with Sarah. Sarah sells Medkits, stims, implants, and can heal your party up in exchange for $. She will also train you once in Biotech for free, giving you +100 Biotech SP, leveling up Biotech to 3 which makes Medkits a bit more effective. She will offer to train your companions for $200 each, once again awarding 100 Biotech SP. If you're not going solo, eventually Faythe will take over as our Biotech specialist but this may save you a healing kit or two in the meantime.

Sarah will also give you a quest, Little Shop of Horrors, which will give you access to more implants as well as a small reward depending on how you resolve the quest. This quest is the only way to get the Squad Leader implant in Chapter 1, but we're not ready for that fight yet.

Head next door to The Church of the Elect and talk to Solomon. He will give you the quest Lamb Among Wolves, to free a captured deacon of the Church, he will mark the location The Drain in Camptown on your map.

Just Northeast of the Church is a Lockpick 2(+20SP) door, once we get Faythe we’ll come back and open it to begin our Stealing streak across The Pit thanks to our new best friend Jia (who certainly is not a con-woman and will not makes our lives harder later, no sir).

Heal up if needed (using the Party screen and your initial Medkits) since we’re about to pick a fight with the two smartest guys on the ship, Spike and Dozer. It may not look like it but Spike has a degree from the Habitat in advanced quantum computing, and Dozer makes adaptive neural implants for orphans in his spare time. Unfortunately they're easy prey for the Murderhobo and we need some sweet XP.

Directly in front of your apartment is a closed gate and two good samaritans about to meet an untimely end.

With Streetwise 2(+120SP) you can convince them to back down, or you can Critical Strike 2 (+40SP) Spike to take him out of the fight before fighting Dozer. So long as you choose to fight your choice is okay with me.

Slaughter the innocents and and receive +90XP.

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Difficulty: Easy

Tactical Notes: With a combat focused build, a good weapon, and Evans this fight should be quite easy. Bulldozer is the more dangerous of the two so focus him down despite his tankier nature.

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There is a locked chest near Spike and Dozer that can be opened with Lockpick 2(+20SP). If you're not going to be the dedicated lockpicker in the party then don't open it yet, wait to pickup Faythe so she can get some easy lockpick SP.

Locked Chest near Spiked and Dozer: Truncheon, 4x Medkit

Through Faythe all things are possible

Evans is a fine fellow but he’s not the brightest bulb, and neither are you frankly, so we need to go find some brains for the party.

Head over to Earl’s Jobs in Camptown, if you don’t know where that is head Northeast from the Camptown map marker and look for the big sign next to the “Hit & Kill” store.

The first job Earl gives you is to play bodyguard for a con artist named Chance, it's sure to be Easy Money. Find Chance in front of Boone’s Moonshine and accompany him to the meeting. There are two ways this encounter can go down, the hard way and the easy way. Unlike most of the choices we’re going to make later on we’ll actually stick with the easy path right now.

Talk to Chance, follow him to the meet, and then tell the scary Grangers that you can help them find their parts. This will unlock the Chapter 2 Quest Deep Diving as well as the Mission Control area. Return to Earl for no reward, since your client was kidnapped, but opening up our route to recruit Faythe.

引用自 "Choice and Consequence"：

If you kill the Grangers you will lose out on the chance to complete Deep Diving for +60XP and the Fighting Chance jacket.

Overly-Optimized Note
If you really really want to, you can fight the Grangers, they have some decent gear, but you’ll be locking yourself out of Deep Diving and it’s a hard fight at this point, you’ll need to go grind a bunch of combat encounters and better gear elsewhere to have a decent chance. So don’t do this if you’re following this guide. But, if you do do this, even if Chance is KO'd, you can still win the encounter and get the bonus money so long as he doesn't die (3 turns on Underdog, 6 on Hero) before combat ends. And he has 50 HP so he's a great meat-shield for round one, and don't forget to use his healing stim on one of your guys, free HP!

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Difficulty: Hard right now given that you have minimal equipment and skills
Tactical Notes: They have good toxic resistance but have no protection against smoke or flashbang grenades.

If you do kill the Grangers you receive +90XP, and if Chance survives the fight Earl rewards you with +$250.

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Despite the fact that your client was kidnapped you’ll still receive +60XP for completing the quest.

Talk to Faythe, she and Earl will lay out the plan.

Remember that Streetwise 2 our otherwise purely murder-focused murderhobo has? Now it's time to use that bad boy!

You live and learn. Or you don't live long.

引用自 "Choice and Consequence"：

If Faythe is alive she'll have something to say when you reach Mission Control Level 7 and use her magic key to unlock, but if she dies you'll still be able to use her magic key.

Head with Faythe to the meeting site and try to talk your problems out despite the fact that you are a murderous lump of hobo meat who would normally charge into combat, doing so will allow you to unlock the Thief or Assassin feats for Faythe at the cost of one combatant’s worth of combat SP.

Work through the dialogue tree starting with the Streetwise 2 option and avoid killing Lazarus Foley early, as tempting as it is. Faythe will stealth kill Foley and then you can pick up a few extra SP in Streetwise/Persuasion talking to the remaining thugs, or you can attack early to snag an initiative bonus against the thugs. Do not under any circumstance give them $1000, that’s your money not theirs. Your party will likely have enough initiative anyway so I generally pick up the extra skill points, +10SP per speech prompt even if the skill check fails.

Diplomacy

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• Streetwise 2
  
  • Kill the remaining thugs for the key
    
  • Convince the thugs to give up the key
    
    • ”I really do need this key”
      
      • (If credits >= 1000) Pay $1000 credits (Don’t do this!)
        
      • ”I don’t have that kind of money” - Combat with initiative penalty
    • Streetwise 3
      
      • Impersonate 3
        
        • Persuasion 3
      • Streetwise 4
        
        • Persuasion 3

If you're running a talker character then solving your problems peacefully will award an extra +85 bonus SP to all speech skills.

Combat

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Beat the remaining goons for +90 XP and some loot!





Difficulty: Medium if you save the Gas grenade for later, Easy if you use it

Tactical Notes: Faythe has a Gas grenade you can use it at the start of the fight to cripple the two goons on the right hand side to make the fight much easier. Faythe is squishy and basically unarmored so don’t feel bad if you need to run her away into a corner of the map to make sure she doesn't die.

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The gear on the dead thugs represents a significant upgrade to your current equipment, be sure to equip the heaviest armor you can find. Although you will suffer from penalties to Evasion, Initiative, and Reaction the damage reduction is more valuable early on. The Damaged Heavy Ballistic Vest in particular is going to make our next fight trivial.

If you’re not running a low Charisma character feel free to add Faythe to your party right now, doing so will automatically start her Thief/Assassin conversation, refer to the section below for details. If you are running a low Charisma Murderhobo Xtreme then you need to pick your first level-up feat before we can add Faythe to the party, don't worry she'll hang around at Whiskey Jacks while you make up your mind.

Either way you and Evans are now Level 2! Although it may seem to go against the grain we're going to take Personal Magnetism(+1 Party Size) as our first feat for Mr. Murderhobo. I'm assuming his beard is the source of any magnetism. Note, if playing an unbearded character please go back and recreate your character to include a beard. If bearded women are unavailable please petitions the developers to correct their oversight.

If you're playing a solo Murderhobo, take Lone Wolf, and then make sure you don't have any companions in your party for the rest of the game, they'll only slow you down.

Evans gets a feat too, let's go with Rifleman for now to boost his Accuracy. Later on we'll pick up Critical Thinker to boost his critical chance and damage, but we need the Accuracy early on.

Near Warehouse E4 (where you just killed a bunch of people) you’ll see a Lockpick 2(+20SP) door, we’ll leave that alone for now but we’ll be back with Faythe in the party!

Go grab Faythe at Whiskey Jacks, if she's not in your party before returning to Earl, so she can share in the quest experience points.

Faythe will automatically talk to you once she is added to the party, and assuming you let her kill Foley, you’ll be able to unlock one of two feats for Faythe, Assassin or Thief. If you tell her you shouldn’t have made her do that and there are better ways to handle men like Foley she’ll become a thief. If you reinforce to her how murdering people is the right solution for all problems she’ll become and assassin. While murdering people is in fact the correct solution to all problems, that’s your job, not Faythe’s.

Thief Feat: -1 Noise Generation, +25% SP gain for Lockpick, Sneak, Steal skills (retroactive)
Assassin Feat: Melee Damage +2, Critical +6%, Penetration +10%, Takedown +15

Return to Earl for $600 and +60XP assuming you kept Faythe alive, which was the whole point of taking the job, if you didn’t, scroll back up and read that section again. Faythe will now level up to Level 2. If you want to lean into Stealth for Faythe grab Ghost, otherwise I grab Tough Bastard since it's aggravating to have her die constantly during combat.

For purposes of this guide we're going to choose Thief, the bonuses to Lockpick and Sneak will be useful in the times ahead, and she will be able to complete Jia's quest for us with the Steal buff, but Assassin is also a solid choice even if Faythe is a secondary combatant.

After that conversation you’ll want to tag her skills, for this walkthrough we’re going to use her as the designated skill monkey for the party handling our non-combat skills.

Skill Monkey Faythe:
Tag Electronics, Computer, Lockpick, and Biotech

Sneaky Faythe:
Tag Sneak, Lockpick, Computer, and Electronics

Sneak Assassin Faythe:
Tag Sneak, Critical Strike, Lockpick, Computer

Combat Assassin Faythe:
Tag Critical Strike, Ranged Weapon of Your Choice, Armor, Evasion

Don't forget to go into the Party Screen (P) and set Faythe to handle all civic skills.

With a five-finger discount

With Faythe in tow head to the Church and walk Northeast to the Lockpick 2 (+20SP) door, Faythe should have the skills to open it, and meet your new friend Jia who is an honest and straightforward person with a business proposition for you, the quest called Pickpocket.

Jia will teach you the art of the Steal for free, training your PC in Steal for +100SP raising you to Steal Skill Level 3. If you are running Thief Faythe have Faythe do the Steal checks, you can give her Jia's training afterwards anyway, otherwise have your PC do all the Steal checks, unless you're planning on tagging Steal on Jed. Don't do that though, it's a waste.

You can go directly to Samson at the Engine Fuel bar and use your Steal 3 to get the keycard, but we might as well go pickup some other goods first using our newly acquired powers.

Stealing is done by finding item hotspots, usually around stores, with "Steal" on them. Click on the hotspot to try and steal the item, you succeed if you meet the skill minimum, otherwise you'll have to try again later. Hitting Tab will highlight the item hotspots, or there's a setting in the game options to permanently highlight interactable objects.

Each Steal skill check adds +40SP to Steal.

Abe’s Shop -
Steal 2 : 12x .9mm
Steal 2 : 4x Medkit
Steal 2 : Maintenance HUD (right back shelf, it's super tiny)

Hit & Kill Store (next to Earl’s) -
Steal 2 : 20x Shells
Steal 3 : Gas

Medbay -
Steal 3 : 4x Medkits
Steal 4 : 1x Aggro (if you tagged Steal on someone, or come back with Thief Faythe after getting Jia's lessons)

And finally, we can hit our mark Samson who hangs out at Engine Fuel Bar in Camptown.

Samson (Engine Fuel Bar) - Steal 3 : Smart Key

There are other locations scattered around the Pit and Hydroponics you can steal from if you decide to tag Steal, see the skill checks section for a full list.

Return to Jia with Samson’s Smart Key. Follow her to the locker. A Streetwise (?, no SP) success will enable you to call her on her ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, but you're going to follow her anyway.

With Perception (8?) you can spot the trap waiting for you, and with Electronics 3 (+80SP) you can disarm the trap and avoid the fight with the turret, otherwise you're going to be eating a few dozen rounds to the chest.

The turret is immobile, so very easy to hit and fires in bursts so put your most armored chap up front, it will shred lightly armored peeps like Faythe. The Damaged Heavy Ballistic Vest will mitigate almost all of the turret’s damage as turrets only target the Torso.

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Difficulty: Easy
Tactical Notes: No targeted shots, just bash/shoot until dead, you just need to survive the opening burst.

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Once the turret is defeated, +90XP and you can deal with Jia.

You can push her for extra credits and no XP, or let her keep her half of the credits and receive some XP, there may also be some quests later down that line with her, currently unknown, I chose to split the money in case Jia turns out to be useful later.

$240 credits + 60XP, Jia sticks around in her home and will train your companions in Steal, which may be worth it for Thief Faythe. Jia will reappear to help out with an apartment heist in the Church's Habitat district later
Or
$480, Jia disappears

Don’t forget to loot the turret for 9mm ammo and the nearby container for some great armor!

Locker Container: The Grinder, Old Heavy Ballistic Vest, Old Ballistic Helmet

Faythe should level up to 2 here, so let’s talk about feats for her.

While we do want her to pick up Skill Monkey soon, we’re going to choose Tough Bastard for now, it’s going to make future fights with her much less aggravating, she’s a bit squishy otherwise and having her die repeatedly in combat is no fun.

Conveniently we are now near the previously locked Lockpick 2 (+20SP) container from the Faythe fight, let’s have Faythe crack that door open!

Oops. Looks like there’s a Lockpick 4 box inside, we’ll come back later. One day box, one day….

Enter, Jed

There’s one more potential ally to find in the Pit, his name is Jed and he sure loves shotguns. We won’t have room for everyone in our party at once with only Charisma 4 and the Magnetic Personality feat, but there’s a decent quest attached to Jed so we might as well go grab him now. He’s a significantly stronger combatant than Faythe with solid starting equipment so feel free to sub him in for a fight or two if you need the extra firepower.

Head over to Whiskey Jack’s bar, we’re going to drop Faythe off, put Evans back in the party, and then talk to the bartender. He’ll ask you to find Jed Walker and collect his debt during the quest Debt Collector. Head to Boone’s Moonshine in Camptown. Boone can point you towards Jed, living in an apartment near the Drain, and also give you the quest Moonshine to retrieve some algae from Hydroponics, we’ll head there later.

Jed’s apartment is near the drain across from the container we went into for Little Shop of Horrors. Head on in and let’s talk to ol’ Jed.

You have a few options here.

引用自 "Choice and Consequence"：

If Jed is alive and with you when you reach The Heart you will be able to start the quest Righteous Vengeance which will give Jed a unique feat

Kill him, this the quick and easy route but even for combat monsters it’s not the most efficient. If you do kill him you receive +90XP and his gear. But if you leave him alive you can get into a better fight and then take his gear later, win/win! Also if you kill him you won’t get a reward from Whisky Jack since Jed is broke and has no credits to pay. But if you do kill him head back to Whisky Jack for no reward and +60XP, you monster.

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Difficulty: Easy
Tactical Notes: He's just one man without a helmet, barring a series of lucky crits on his side you'll be fine

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Talk to him with Reputation:Combat (3+) or Persuasion 2 (+80 SP) and you can make a peaceful approach. If you can’t pass the initial checks you can still salvage your discussion with Streetwise 2(+80 SP) which you should have by now. Gain +90XP for resolving things peacefully. He’ll then ask you to join him in talking down Black Will, sounds like fun!

Talk to Jed again when you’re ready for a fight and you’ll head to the confrontation with Black Will.

Fun fact, if you fight Jed before confronting Black Will he won't be wearing a helmet while waiting in his apartment, but he will find and don a helmet for the Black Will fight. So if you're going to kill Jed doing it after Black Will will give you a precious extra Bucket Helmet!

You can try and con Black Will into giving up his cash without a fight by impersonating an officer of the local law, in this case a member of the Regulators. This option is only available if you haven’t yet completed Crossroads by killing Braxton, which you likely have not by now.

Diplomacy

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• (If Braxton is alive) Impersonate 2
  
  • Persuasion 3
    
    • ”Reasonable extortion request”
      
      • Impersonate 3
        
      • Streetwise 4
  • Streetwise 3
    
    • ”Reasonable extortion request”
      
      • Impersonate 3
        
      • Streetwise 4

Completing the quest this way awards +90 XP, and an additional +85SP to all of your speech skills, Streetwise, Persuasion, and Impersonate. Note that the Regulator Badge you can steal from Regulator HQ doesn’t seem to do anything here.

Combat

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Or you can embrace your inner Murderhobo and charge in, killing everyone inside!

Fun fact, Black Will does not wear a helmet, do with that information what you will.

You receive +90XP for killing Black Will and his crew.

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Difficulty: Easy with Jed and Evans backing you up

Tactical Notes: Black Will doesn't wear a helmet, but he has a lot of HP and doesn't do much damage with his pistol, take out the melee guard first. Use Jed's free movement from his Charger feat to work him back towards the rifleman without giving up any attacks.

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After killing Black Will and his gang you can either:

Honorably receive $1200 from Jed, which you will then (mostly) pay back to Whiskey Jack, later. When you return to Whiskey Jack to turn in Debt Collector you'll receive a net reward of $250 and 2x Regen, 1x Aggro, and +60XP.

Or, you can kill Jed and keep all the money, but lose Jed as a companion, +90XP for killing him in combat. If you're going to do this I suggest unequipping his weapons and stims on the final round of combat with Black Will, it's not very fair, but no one ever said life was fair. Jed will not heal between the fight ending and you trying to murder him, but stim effects will wear off. You will automatically gain the $1200 and can loot Jed. Return to Whiskey Jack for +60XP and keep all the hard earned lucre.

When/if you add Jed to the party remember to tag his skills. He's certainly viable as a Shotgun toting quasi-hobo, tag Shotgun and Critical Strike, but he also makes a great melee tank, tag Blunt and Armor.

There are no safety deposit boxes on the ship

Now that Faythe is with us we’re going to bounce around the Pit, taking advantage of her talents to pick up a few odds and ends and start leveling up her skills. Capitalized locations are accessible via fast travel spots on your map.

Head back to your Apartment there is a locked container to the right we ignored earlier, time to pop that baby open. If you’re absolutely overflowing with cash you can also pay Xander to have Faythe trained in Lockpicking (+100SP) but it’s not necessary, you’ll be able to open all the locks in Chapter 1 without it.

Chest near Apartment: Piper Jack, 10x 9mm, Worker Boots, Flashbang

There's a broken console near J. Moore, Appraiser, that can be salvaged with an Electronics 1 (+20SP) check for an Electronic Module.

The Outer Gates is a series of catwalks above the Pit, head to the fast travel point and head down and to the left, repair the door with Electronics 2 (+20SP) and unlock the locked shelves with Lockpick 2 (+20SP).

Locked Shelf: 1x Electronic Module
Adjacent Unlocked Shelf: 2x Electronic Module

Head to the Old Earth Emporium, and look a bit down and to the left to find a locked shipping container, Lockpick 2 (+20SP), inside is a chest.

Chest near Old Earth Emporium: 8x Medkit, 25x Shell, 25x .45

There is also a broken console around the corner from the locked crate that can be salvaged with Electronics 1(+20SP) for an Electronic Module.

Head to the Outskirts, find cargo container E4 near to where we fought Black Will when recruiting Jed. There is a locked container, Lockpick 2 (+20SP) with a locked chest, Lockpick 4 (+20SP) inside. There is also a teeny tiny ammo box in there, easy to miss.

Locked chest in locked container near E4: Bulldog II
Small ammo box in locked container near E4: 12x .45

While you’re in the outskirts check out the furthest Northwest point of the outskirts, you’ll be able to open a locked door Lockpick 3 (+20SP), hack a nearby terminal Computers 2 (+20SP), but you’ll be stymied by a Computers 5 (+20SP) check, for now.

Back to the Pit proper, head to the Power Station. There is a back room there that can be opened with Lockpick 3 (+20SP) or Computers 2 (+20SP). Inside is an equipment chest and a broken terminal that can be salvaged Electronics 1 (+20SP) for an Electronic Module.

Power Station Chest: Work Goggles, Protective Sleeves

After you’ve robbed him make sure to talk to Zeke inside the Power Station, pass an Electronics 2 (+20SP) check, and get the quest Clean Air Act.

You should also stop by Regulator HQ and with a Sneak 4(+20SP) check (requires a tag or completing a few sneak encounters for Faythe) Faythe can steal a Regulator Badge for a bonus +25 Sneak SP. We’ll need that badge later if we want to save some lives, we may or may not want to actually save some lives. There are also two targets of opportunity while you're in there.

Lockpick 3(+20SP) Medkit on wall - 8x Medkit, 1x Regen
Sleeping Regulator - Steal 4(+40SP) and +25 Sneak SP, $176

If you've tagged Steal on Faythe you'll be able to hit a few more targets for 40SP Steal each, 50SP for the Steal 6 check.

Steal Whiskey Jack Patron - Steal 4 - $198
Steal Boone's Moonshine Patron - Steal 4 - $194
Steal Promised Land Patron - Steal 4 - $76
Steal Spike and Dozer Plaza Patron - Steal 6 - $307

As much justice as you can afford

We could use some money, XP and combat SP so let’s head to the Courthouse and beat up some poor guilty man. The Courthouse is in the Camp Town section of the map and functions like an arena. This area is entirely optional but since we’re combat focused we’ll be completing every fight here in Chapter 1. Talk to the Chief Justice and agree to prosecute one John Doe.

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Difficulty: Easy, just rush him and kill him.
Tactical Notes: He’s just one man.

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+90 XP (remember most of the +90XP awards are divided evenly among teammates) for defeating John Doe at the Courthouse, congratulations Assistant Prosecutor Murderhobo, Esquire.

Courthouse Fight Two - The Three Dalton Brothers
These guys shouldn’t be much of a problem for you at this point as weak and ill-equipped as they are, +90XP for dispensing justice.

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Difficulty: Medium
Tactical Notes: Set up behind the barricades on your side so they waste a turn running to you, they're lightly armored so you should be able to burst down one per turn.

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Courthouse Fight Three - Hard Ben
Pronounce your sentence on Hard Ben and receive +90XP.

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Difficulty: Easy
Tactical Notes: Ben is a tougher nut to crack but he’s not the brightest man. It’s pretty easy to goad him into spending his Action Points running into cover on the left hand side by running up to him in the first round.

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The Energy Shield gadget is a real prize, put it on someone and watch them not die as much! This equipment occupies the Gadget slot and when activated at the start of or during combat it provides energy shield based HP for the wearing character. The shield will regenerate a few points every round and will run indefinitely unless it is “cracked”, if the shield reaches 0 HP it will stay off for the rest of combat. Important note, you can’t use melee attacks while the shield is engaged, so either put it on a ranged attacker like Evan or be prepared to turn it off when you are within melee range

We’ll take a quick break from the Courthouse since the next fights can be quite tough for under-geared parties.

It’s time to head to the Armory to check things out there. Spoiler alert, lots of murdering.

Before we get into the Armory proper you're going to want to ensure you have appropriate footwear as we're going to be dealing with some two foot tall opponents soon. The armor store in town sells Scavenger Boots ($150) and the Granger shop in Hydroponics sells Welding Boots ($180) either of which will ensure that your ankles remain unbitten.

From the entrance head south a bit and examine the large crate, the control booth won’t operate for you until you do, then head north to the small control booth.

In the control booth use an Electronics module and two checks, Electronics 2 (+20 SP) and Computers 2 (+20 SP) to move the large crate. Extract the Bionic Eye (Perception) implant from the body behind the crate, Biotech 3 (+45 SP). Free implants are the best implants! If you want to you can head back to Medbay and use the implant machine to install it in someone before continuing into the Armory.

Head over to the cracked open door and prepare to meet the most terrifying foe in Chapter 1, frogs, big frogs. These nasty little demons want to bite your legs off and then chomp on your face so good leg armor and helmets are essential. Luckily they’re squishy and unarmored so bursts and shotguns can clear them out quickly. Some frogs, Spitters, spit poison at range so make sure you have Toxic Resistance and Optical Resistance on everyone, the more Toxic Resistance you have the less damage you'll take, but more importantly, crank up your Optical Resistance to avoid big accuracy penalties.

The first encounter with frogs can be handled in three ways. Straight up stealth by moving any party member to the marked exit area near the door, you do not need to send your whole party. You can also enter stealth mode, but activate the alarm panel near the door with an Electronics 2 (+120SP) check and an Electronics Module, this will scare the frogs away allowing you to loot the corpse. You can also murder the frogs as is good and proper.

Stealth: +90 XP, +140 Sneak SP, no loot from corpse
Stealth + Electronics: +90XP, +120 Electronics SP, +20 Sneak SP, loot from corpse
Combat: +90 XP, Combat SPs, loot from corpse

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Difficulty: Easy with some Toxic + Optical Resistance and some good leg armor. A Juggernaut PC is particularly well-suited to dealing with Frogs since he can’t be knocked down.

Tactical Notes: Frogs are fast and hit hard but are squishy. Position yourself towards the back and let them come to you. They’re not tacticians so they’ll generally attack whatever tank you put in front.

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Corpse Loot: 1x Regen, 6x .45, 3x Medkit

Head into the next room. Dead-ahead is an Electronics 2 (+20 SP) door. With a Lockpick 2 (+20 SP) chest.

Chest: Utility Bar, Safety Helmet, Rope

The next room has an Electronics 1 (+10 SP) broken panel to strip for an Electronics Module and a chest with ammo.

Ammo Chest: 10x 5.56

Crawl through the vent to find a supply chest, then head back to the previous room.

Medical Supply Chest: 1x Regen

There’s a nasty fight with some scary frogs continuing down that path but we’ll do that a bit later.

The next encounter has stealth and combat options, no diplomacy. There is also an alternate route involving using an empty elevator shaft in the southeast of the Armory to bypass this encounter but we’re not going to do that because it would deprive us of loot.

If you do decide you'd rather gain Electronics SP instead of delicious combat SP, then use a rope to slide down the elevator and then open the Electronics 3 (+20SP) check door, if the Scavs are alive you'll receive an additional +100 Electronics SP as a dichotomy bonus.

Your entire party can easily stealth past the scavs to the elevator, even without extra points in Stealth, as long as you take off your heavy armor, but that would give up precious combat SP!

Stealth: +90 XP, +100 Stealth SP, no loot, no joy in Murderhobo-ing some hapless scavs.

Instead let's enter in stealth, get into a good position, then murder the scavs! The default combat position is at the door, which is not the best for melee peeps, so we can use a few turns to sneak closer to them and then start combat when we’re ready to rush them.

For killing your enemies you receive: +90 XP, and loot.

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Difficulty: Easy

Tactical Notes: Use stealth to sneak a bit closer to them so you waste fewer AP getting into range with them. A Flashbang will make them easier to hit and you harder to hit.

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Head down the elevator. There is a crate that can be accessed and opened with Juggernaut, or a combined party Strength score of 20+, plus a Dexterity 8 check (Faythe can handle the Dexterity check).

Debris Blocked Crate: Power Cell MK1, 5x Energy Cells

Upgrading Gadget Components

Find whoever you put your Energy Shield gadget on and click the little gear icon on it. Doing so will enable you to swap out the power cell raising the shield’s initial HP from 15 to 25. You can also use this power cell later in other gadgets like the Distortion Field or Cloaking Device to extend their duration from two turns to three. Parts can always be swapped, so don’t worry about adding in things as soon as you get them, you can pull them out later assuming you don’t sell the Power Cell MK0 that came out.

There is yet another barely cracked open door just beyond, get ready to deal with Sharpface.

There are three available paths for dealing with Sharp Face, talking, sneaking, and the correct choice of murdering.

The Murderhobo found in this guide will not be capable of persuading Sharp Face to stand down, but if you're playing a talky character you can resolve your differences without resorting to base violence.

If you want to talk your way past you’re going to need a combination of Streetwise and Persuasion in the 3 to 4 range with decent Charisma, even with Streetwise 4 Persuasion 3 my CHA 4 character could not talk his way past Sharp Face. The dialog tree is quite extensive here and will let you solve the encounter with one speech check if your charisma is high enough and you have at least a little bit of combat reputation.

Even if your speech skills are poor you can talk to Sharp Face with the intent of scaring off some of his minions by brandishing your Reputation: Combat (6+) which should be high enough by now. Doing so will remove two opponents from the fight, but that would mean two fewer bodies to loot and sources of combat SP to harvest, so don't do that unless you're really struggling with this fight.

Fun fact, during speech challenges having skills in excess of the check level, normally Persuasion/Streetwise/Impersonate, will give bonus disposition. This dialogue happens to feature Electronics and Computers checks which will award bonus disposition based on high skill levels for those as well. This doesn't really happen in any other dialogue unfortunately.

Persuading Sharpface to give you access to the Armory depot is worth +90XP as well as a bonus of +115 SP to all Speech skills.

If you've tried the fight a couple of times and can't seem to beat it then move ahead in the guide and come back a bit later with another level and some better gear. When all else fails grenade spam is your friend!

Diplomacy

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• Persuade Sharp Face to let you pass
  
  • Reputation:Combat (6+) - Failure decreases disposition, success increases disposition
    
    • “What’s it gonna be?” removes two thugs from the fight and leads to "Show him the access card"
      
    • Streetwise 4
      
      • (Streetwise check succeeds) “I didn’t come here for sightseeing” - ends conversation based on current disposition, combat if disposition fails at current level (CHA 10 with Streetwise 4 and Reputation:Combat success passes this check)
        
      • Show him the access card, leads to "Show him the access card"
    • (With Regulator Badge, if Braxton is alive) Impersonate 3 or (With Regulator Badge, if Braxton controls the Pit) Streetwise 3
      
      • (Impersonate check succeeded) “You best be on your way now” - ends conversation based on current disposition, combat if disposition fails at current level (CHA 10 with Impersonate 3 and Reputation:Combat success passes this check)
        
      • Show him the access card, leads to "Show him the access card"
  • "Show him the access card"
    
    • Electronics 2
      
      • Persuasion 3 or Computers 2
        
        • Streetwise 4
          
          • Streetwise Success
            
            • Streetwise 4 to convince him reality is a lie
              
              • Charisma 8
            • Persuasion 4
          • Streetwise Failure
            
            • Charisma 7
      • Streetwise 3
        
        • Persuasion 3
          
          • Streetwise 4 to convince him reality is a lie
            
            • Charisma 8
          • Persuasion 4
    • "Maybe, maybe not"
      
      • Streetwise 3
        
        • Persuasion 3
          
          • Streetwise 4 to convince him reality is a lie
            
            • Charisma 8
          • Persuasion 4
      • Computers 2
        
        • Persuasion 3 or Streetwise 3
          
          • Streetwise 4
            
            • Streetwise 4 to convince him reality is a lie
              
              • Charisma 8
            • Persuasion 4
  
  Stealth

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  If you want to sneak past then you’re probably out of luck because Faythe won’t do this particular job for you as your PC is unwilling to hand over the key to the Armory to someone he met a few hours ago. If you do have the skills, your goal is to reach the vault door beyond Sharpface and watch the fireworks, there is a Lockpick 3 (+20SP) door on the right hand side that makes this possible. Sneaking past Sharpface and crew is worth +220 Sneak SP and +90 XP.
  
  If you happen to have Critical Strike 4 on your murderhobo by now, which is unlikely but possible, you can still sneak up on the isolated melee enemy and kill him with a takedown, even with Sneak 1. With Critical Strike 3 you'll almost kill him which makes the combat easier, and you don't waste any combat SPs!
  
  
  If you find the fight to be difficult and you don't care about the talking SP gains you can choose the sneak approach and initiate combat from behind the crates up the stairs and to your right for a positioning advantage. You should also be able to stealth takedown the lone melee guard in the right hand corridor even without sneak feats as long as your armor Sneak penalties aren't egregious. If you happen to be running a solo melee character you can gain a significant advantage by taking out the melee guard and then starting combat while hiding in a nearby corner, this will force the enemies to run to you instead of having you shot up as you traverse open ground.
  
  Combat

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  Ah murdering, the correct solution. Kill them all, leave no survivors, pick up the very nice automatic shotgun Sharpface is wielding. +90XP for your trouble.
  
  

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  Sharpface
  Name

  HP

  ACC

  EVA

  INIT

  Thermal

  R.Optical

  R.Toxic

  Gear

  (Sgt) Sharpface

  40

  104%

  52%

  47

  0%

  0%

  0%

  Bionic Eye, Distortion Field, Regen, Toothpick, Old 'Hammer, Scrapper Coat

  Pistol Scav

  40

  102%

  34%

  38

  0%

  40%

  20%

  Bionic Eye, Toothpick, Longslide, Battle Bowler Helmet, Face Mask, Ballistic Vest, Traveler Coat, Shield Armguards, Raider Boots

  Melee Scav

  50

  91%

  53%

  35

  15%

  30%

  0%

  Aggro, Gear Mace, Bucket Helmet, Smart Glasses, Reinforced Ballistic Vest, Worker Jacket, Shield Armguards, Raider Boots

  SMG Scav

  50

  82%

  52%

  32

  30%

  15%

  0%

  Utility Bar, Flyapart, Maintenance HUD, Traveler Coat, Shield Armguards

  Rifle Scav

  40

  94%

  34%

  32

  0%

  0%

  20%

  Neural Uplink, Toothpick, Old Betsy, Face Mask, Ballistic Vest, Worker Jacket, Raider Armguards
  
  Difficulty: Hard with the full complement of enemies, you start off surrounded and they have solid equipment for this point in the game. Medium if you use your combat reputation to scare off two of them, or using stealth to start combat without being surrounded.
  
  Tactical Notes: If you’re having difficulty then a Smoke or Flashbang grenade here can make a huge difference against the mostly ranged attackers. See that chevron over Sharpface? He has the Sergeant feat which buffs his allies, he also doesn’t wear a helmet, you know what to do! You can also make the fight significantly easier by choosing the sneaky approach then initiating combat from behind the crates to the right of your starting location. Sharpface's crew will end up stacking on the doorway putting him in a great position for a Gas grenade or Flashbang.
  
  

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Once Sharpface's crew is neutralized, via combat, sneak, or speech, you receive +90XP and a whole bunch of loot from the corpses!

If you didn’t stealth your way to victory there is a Lockpick 3 (+20SP) door to the side where the melee enemy started that is now useless except as a source of Lockpick SP.

Electronics 3 (+20SP) to open another side door on the left hand side. There is a chest in the area beyond.

Chest: Heavy Boots, Scavenger Goggles

To the left of the Armory door is a broken panel, Electronics 1 (+10SP) and an Electronic Module.

Time to open ze vault!

Use the control panel in front of the giant vault doors to unveil your prize and head up to the panel in front of the mystery machine to update your very first quest, The Holy Grail.

After that, head southeast and open the Lockpick 3 (+20SP) door. There a corpse nearby that has a Glareshield (Perception Implant Upgrade Chip) which can be extracted with Biotech 5 (+50SP). The upgrade chip, which requires a base Perception Implant aka Bionic Eye to work, will add a permanent +20% to Thermal Vision and Optical Resist. Each implant can take any number of upgrade chips, but only one of each specific kind of upgrade chip.

Examine the crate in the room for an override module, Zeke at the Power Plant could use this during Power to the People.

Use the computer, well let Faythe use the computer, to pass a Computers 2 (+20SP) check to gain your choice of one of four Armory Training Tokens!

Armory Training Tokens
Urban Pacification: Rifle, Bladed, Evasion
Riot Control: Blunt, Armor, Critical Strike
Infiltration: Sneak, Critical Strike, Lockpick
Crisis Intervention: Persuasion, Streetwise, Impersonate

Your choice here. My combat skills were already coming along nicely but they could always be higher, remember if you’re trying to install Mercy into the Pit’s leadership you may want to take advantage of the speech training token.

Head back to the big glowing machine and check out the locked crate to the northwest. Open it with a Lockpick 3 (+20SP) check and open up the grenade crate.

Depot A2 Grenade Crate: 1x Stasis Grenade, 1x Pulse Grenade

The Stasis Grenades can win most fights on their own but are hilariously expensive at $750. The Pulse Grenade has a huge AOE that knocks out all gadgets and implants in the area for the duration of combat, and will disable turrets for 2 rounds.

There’s a Computers 6 (+30SP) check managing a force field, we’ll be back for that one. Beyond the Computers 6 check, is a Computers 9 (+60SP) check followed by a Lockpick 9 +60SP) check, we'll be back for those much much later.

Computers 6 Forcefield Storage Locker: Cloaking Field
Computers 9 Forcefield Storage Locker: Energy Armor, Heavy

Head into the storage area to the southwest. The unlocked large container contains an Energy Armor, Light. This is a unique armor that provides a 50HP shield at the start of combat, but it also takes up your gadget slot and has weak damage resistance once the shield is down. I mostly used this if Faythe was getting one shot in difficult fights since it gives you a chance to run her away from the fight. It's also very effective against frogs as they never target torso DR, and The Creeper in Hydroponics for blocking its leech attack

There is a Lockpick 6 (+30SP) large container that has an Energy Rifle, we’ll be back for that. An orange crate has a wonderful Old Tactical Vest. A Lockpick 3 (+20SP) crate has a Pulse Capacitor MK1 for the Energy Shield gadget which raises the shield regeneration rate from 3 to 4 points per turn.

Open Depot A2 Equipment Locker #1: Energy Armor, Light
Locked Depot A2 Equipment Locker #2: Energy Rifle, 12x Energy Cells
Depot A2 Equipment Crate: Tactical Vest
Depot A2 Small Crate: Pulse Capacitor MK1

Examine the crates with sufficient Perception (>=8) to find a hidden stash of energy cells, party members can help here so having Evans (Perception 9) along will guarantee success, but Faythe (Perception 7) will not.

Colony Supply Crate: 10x Energy Cells

There's also an old corpse in the corner of the room, extract the Motor Cortex (Dexterity) implant from the corpse, Biotech 4 (+45SP), if you have the skill for it.

Head back to Level 1 of the Armory, pass through the air vent where you looted a crate earlier on and approach the foreboding door to pick a fight.

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Difficulty: Medium, the Psyker frog is a very effective debuffer

Tactical Notes: This fight features a Psyker frog, little threat on its own but it will debuff your AP for 3 turns which may let the little ones chomp you up. A Flashbang on the Psyker will effectively disable it for a turn as it won't have enough AP to use its psychic attack. Good boots, high accuracy, and Distortion Field help a lot in this fight, the Energy Armor we just picked up is also an excellent choice for this fight. If frogs knock you down they stop chomping on your boots and start in on your face so make sure to wear a helmet. Optical + Toxic Resistance against the Spitter remains important.

If you're having trouble here you can come back after picking up the 'Frog Hunter' feat in Hydroponics.

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+90XP for killing the frogs. There are two corpses nearby, one old, one fresh, both contain items of value.

Human Corpse: 1x Smoke, 1x Flashbang, 5x Medkits
Mummified Corpse: Biotech 3 (+45SP) Neural Uplink

In the back is a Lockpick 3 (+20SP) trunk with: 1x Regen, 1x Aggro, 7x Medkits

Colony Ship doesn’t tend to give you vendor trash items, that Psyker's Brain is actually part of a hidden quest Head Hunter, we'll follow up on that as we tackle Hydroponics next.

Head back to the Pit and talk to Tanner, for +60XP and orders to travel to the Habitat through the Factory to learn more about the machine in the Armory. We won't be able to do that until after we solve the impending civil war in the Pit, but it's nice to know where we're going next.

Head to the Power Plant, and turn in the override module to complete Power to the People for +60XP which should put you at Level 3. Then try to help Zeke with his technical problems, fail the Computers 2(+20SP) or Electronics 3(+20SP) checks because you're a big lug, and let Faythe do it for +20 Electronics SP. Persuasion 3(+10SP) will let you wring some cash out of him, $300.

Faythe, being the smart one in the group, has a 55% bonus to XP she earns, so even though she missed out on a quest or two early on she's going to hit level 3 before you and Evans do.

Once Faythe hits level 3 she should not pick up Skill Monkey, I know she's our literal skill monkey, but she doesn't need the boost to her civic skills yet. Skill Monkey is going to be more important when Faythe is around level 5 or 6 and we start running into checks that aren't automatically passed with just a tag. Instead, if you've tagged Sneak and want to sneak through some encounters, give her something like Ghost of Prowler. Otherwise a basic weapon feat is a good investment, she's not going to be our primary damage dealer but every little bit helps. You can buy and install the Bionic Eye implant for +1 Perception for her if your preferred feats are Perception 8+ based.

After our jaunt to Hydroponics Murderhobo and Evans should be level 3 as well, we will briefly discuss feat selection for them, now.

Mr. Murderhobo should continue down his 'hitting things with a heavy stick' path and pick up something like Basher or Warrior to help counter-act his poor Perception, the bonus armor penetration for the feat scales and should be quite impactful later.

Evans can pick up Fast Draw to increase your tactical options by having a super high initiative in later fights, or Critical Thinker to juice his critical hits.

Speaking of implants we've accumulated a few of them and should put them to good use!

Before we go on an installing spree we're going to spend a little bit of money, head to Mission Control, don't worry we're not diving down there yet. The shop on the top level of Mission Control has a Damaged Synthetic Heart implant that needs someone with Biotech 5 to repair, a steal for $200 considering that Faythe can repair it already (if she tagged Biotech). Jed would very much like this heart and it will make him tankier. It's also an option for a Murderhobo PC, but with 4 implant slots you want to prioritize Exo-Spine (Strength) for a melee PC, Sub-dermal Armor because it's great, Motor Cortex (Dexterity) because more AP means more murdering. and Neural Uplink (Intelligence) if you started with Intelligence 5.

You can if you choose also install implants in Companions, refer to the guide at the bottom for their preferences in this matter.

Installing the Neural Uplink will increase your Intelligence by one, which will give you an extra tagged skill to play with, Evasion or Critical Strike are both reasonable choices. Impersonate is a bad choice, don't pick Impersonate.

Since we're back at the Pit we're finally going to get around to helping out the missing deacon from the Church, poor guy must be really worried by now considering how long it took us to get to him.

引用自 "Choice and Consequence"：

If McNeil survives this quest he can show up in Chapter 3's Pit if Jonas is in charge and will fight you if you kill Falkner during There Can Be Only One

This is one of the rare quests that will let you try and fail not once, but twice, before killing everyone! To that end we're going to do some triple dipping in the quest Lamb Among Wolves. It's not necessary, feel free to just murder everyone, but it is a testament to how much scripting work goes into these encounters.

Head over to the Drain in Camptown and look for a closed door to the northwest.

First we’re going to talk to McNeil, then sneak into his house, then kill him, getting precious SPs for each phase.

First, talk to him, as you are a reasonable and rational Murderhobo. You’ll fail the check, choose to walk away, but we’ll be back.

Streetwise 2 (+10SP) -> Streetwise 4(+10SP) or Persuasion 3(+10SP)

If, for some reason, you have been upping your speech skills and you succeed you’ll receive an extra +85 SP in Streetwise, Persuasion, and Impersonate, as well as freeing the deacon for +90XP. Note that the diplomatic options which convince McNeil to cut the Church in on his earnings will result in earning more (+3 vs +1) Church Reputation when completing the quest.

Diplomacy

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• ”Good as dead”
  
  • Streetwise 2
    
    • Persuasion 3 - McNeil cuts the Church a deal, +Church Reputation
      
    • Streetwise 4 - McNeil cuts the Church a deal, +Church Reputation
  • ”Don’t make this harder”
• ”Church wants a cut”
  
  • Persuasion 2
    
    • ”If you can’t beat ‘em join ‘em”
      
      • Persuasion 3 - McNeil cuts the Church a deal, +Church Reputation
        
      • Streetwise 4 - McNeil cuts the Church a deal, (+2 Disposition Bonus) +Church Reputation
    • Streetwise 3
  • Streetwise 2 (+1 Disposition Bonus)
    
    • Streetwise 3
  • ”Don’t make this harder”

Stealth

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Next we’re going to sneak into his house, look for an open window next to the door, send only Faythe. Make your way over to the locked door Lockpick 2(+20SP) open it and talk to the Deacon to earn +20 Sneak SP. If you want to end things peacefully, escort Faythe and the deacon to the marked location near the windows and exit. If you do so you’ll earn +140 Sneak SP and +90 XP for freeing the deacon.

Fun Fact: You can sneak in, unlock the door, and then leave to get Lockpick SP if you're taking the Speech route!

Combat

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But we’re here to triple dip into this quest so once you’ve freed the Deacon smack that “Enter Combat” button, the deacon will jump out the window and your goon squad will bust in to beat some heads. Earn +90 XP once combat is over. If you forgot to Lockpick the door earlier, do so now to free the Deacon.

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Difficulty: Easy
Tactical Notes: These guys don't believe in helmets and have mediocre equipment for this point in the game.

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Return to the Church and turn in the quest for +60XP. If you completed the quest by convincing McNeil to cut the Church in on his earnings you'll earn +3 Church Reputation, otherwise you'll earn +1 Church reputation. They'll give you another quest with vague and unhelpful instructions, joy.

A man needs help somewhere! That's probably the least useful bit of quest information I can think of, but luckily we know just where to go.

Just past the entrance to the Outskirts there is a building with two thugs and poor ol' Hank cowering in a corner, looks like he could use some help!

Diplomacy

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• Impersonate 2
  
  • Streetwise 2
    
    • Streetwise 3

You can try and resolve things peacefully, successfully doing so will award an additional +70 SP to Streetwise, Persuasion, and Impersonate as well as +90 XP. If you’re not playing a pure talker you may be better off killing them and taking their stuff. If you want to collect the SP for talking skills and then kill them, you’ll take an initiative penalty, up to you.

Combat

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If you kill them you receive +90XP and some minor loot!

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Difficulty: Easy, potentially high initial burst damage
Tactical Notes: The pistol user has high initiative and can potentially kill a lightly armored character on the first turn so tuck Faythe into the nearby cover.

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Talk to Hank who is cowering in the corner. He will offer you the 2nd part of the quest for Mysterious Stranger, and ask you to take out a group of thugs. No peaceful solutions here I’m afraid, we can kick in the door, or sneak in and start assassinating. We’re actually going to come back and do this a bit later as it represents a large jump in difficulty.

Where the Frogs and the Creepers do play

We’re about to head to Hydroponics but we’re going to do one unethical thing first.

Kick Faythe out of the party, don’t worry we’ll be back for her shortly. We just don’t want her to be privy to the conversation we’re about to have with Carlos at the top of Camp Reid in Hydroponics.

Head to Hydroponics, and walk east to the first tower, go inside and talk to Carlos. He’ll update you on what you need to do to complete Moonshine, retrieve some bioreactor parts from a broken tower, and offers you the quest Eviction Notice to deal with some nearby scavs in Delta Tower.

If Faythe is with you she’ll ask you not to harm any of the scavs in Delta, she will also open up a peaceful resolution if she is in the party when you talk to the Delta scavs. If you don’t want to have to break any promises to Faythe then leave her behind when talking to Carlos, and again when clearing out Delta Tower via violence.

There is a small shop next to Carlos that has an opportunity for theft, when you pickup Faythe again, or if you've got light fingers yourself.

Granger Shop:
Steal 3 (+40SP) - 4x Medkit
Steal 4 (+40SP) - 32x Shells
Steal 4 (+40SP) - 1x Zen

With Master Trader you can purchase a Granger Respirator (60% Toxic Resistance) for $200.

Head back to Whiskey Jack’s, pick up Faythe again, and head back to Camp Reid. Go down the platform elevator and look left for a Sneak 3(+25SP) check to burgle the living quarters, your reward is 2x Regen and 3x Medkit and another +25 Sneak SP. With Steal 4 (+40SP) you can pick-pocket 194 credits from the sleeping hydroponics worker, doing so also awards +20SP to Sneak. To the right, outside of the sneak sequence, is another sleeping worker who can be relieved of his excess credits with Steal 4 (+40SP) for $161.

There does not appear to be an option to murder the sleeping botanists, which is good because they likely have no loot and would not provide any combat SP thus making their deaths pointless.

Travel down to the bottom of the tower and to the right to encounter foliage, beyond which are frogs.

Sneak past for +90XP and +140 Sneak SP or, fight them for +90XP and no loot.

While Mr. Murderhobo is going to fight everything that moves, this is one of the few optional stealth sequences that is a straight trade-off between Sneak SP and combat SP, so if you're planning on Sneaking in the near future this is a good opportunity to get some Sneak SPs.

We will of course fight the foul frogs, the fight is almost identical to the earlier fight with frogs on Level 1 of the Armory. You should still take the Sneak option though, as it enables you to initiate combat resulting in that character always going first, you can run Mr. Murderhobo ahead and start whacking people while the rest of the party hangs back.

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Difficulty: Easy at this point for you, but quite hard for people who go straight to Hydroponics early.

Tactical Notes: Same as Armory frogs, Optical + Toxic Resistance and burn them down quickly with bursts.

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Move along the path, let Faythe work her magic with the terminal to pass a Computers 2(+20SP) check, or shove it aside with high STR which awards no SP.

To the southeast is a difficult combat encounter with many frogs, we’ll come back later, but feel free to try it out if you’re feeling over-confident.

Move along the path and pop into the cracked open door to the east to pick up the air purifier parts for Clean Air Act from the tower, Electronics 1 (+20SP).

There is a corpse near the elevator that has a Motor Cortex that can be extracted with Biotech 4 (+45SP).

There is also console on the ground level that contains valuable information on the Frogs native to Hydroponics. With an Electronics 4 (+20SP) and Computers 4 (+20SP) check you can unlock the Frog Hunter feat for your party.

Frog Hunter : +12% Accuracy, +12% Evasion, +6% Critical Strike against Frogs

Come back out and check out the greenhouse unit nearby. With sufficient Perception (?) you will notice a frog about to bite you, otherwise the frog will just come out and bite you. It’s one frog, you can take it. +90XP for defeating the mighty lone frog, and you can take his collection of ammunition, he had hoped to one day pass it along to his children, but those hopes are gone now, forever.

Frog Infested Greenhouse Unit: 16x Shells

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Difficulty: Easy, arguably the easiest fight in the game
Tactical Notes: The skins of some frogs contain compounds known as bufotoxins that make them unpalatable to potential predators. We suggest not consuming said frogs.

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Along the path there is an inviting alcove on the right hand side, it contains an entirely optional combat encounter with an extremely annoying creature called the Creeper. This fight is optional, and hard, and can be completed whenever you like before leaving for the Factory, so feel free to come back later after gaining some levels and equipment.

Defeating the Creeper is worth +90XP and some loot on the dead body behind him.

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Difficulty: Hard

Tactical Notes: It generates its own poison gas/smokescreen cloud for two turns at the start of combat, can grab and reel in your characters, and will leech 10HP with its melee attack. You also can’t target its legs despite it having so many legs or its head despite clearly having a fleshy knob thing. The key in this fight is to quickly burst it down with high initiative in the first round or wade into melee, counteracting the poison cloud with thermal vision and toxic resistance. The Creeper's poison cloud does 10 poison damage, requiring 100% Toxic Resistance to mitigate fully, and provides 100% smokescreen coverage. The Firefighter Helmet is an excellent piece of gear to wear here. If using ranged attacks you will want to deploy your best marksman to the furthest right square, that way if he is grabbed he will still be diagonal to the Creeper and can make aimed or regular attacks.

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Dead Body: Biolab Gas Mask, Scav Armguards, Scavenger Goggles, Assault Armor, Chopper, Pilot Helmet, Diver Leg Armor

Continue past the inviting alcove and walk through the foliage to the northwest.

This counts as your good deed for the year

Climb up the ladder to pick up a free Worn Shredder, one of the finer shotguns on offer right now. Enter the tower, check the corpse for some gear.

Hydroponics Tower Corpse : Pepperbox, 1x Smoke

Examine the elevator, have Faythe fix it with Electronics 2(+20SP), this is a one way trip but that’s okay, you can always climb up later with Jed and a rope or a Strength (7+) PC. At the top level of the tower are two corpses. One is being eaten by a plant and has no valuable goods, but the other one, who probably died of high cholesterol, has some loot.

Corpse: Work Goggles, Hazmat Respirator

Head down one level, strip the broken panel with Electronics 1(+10SP) for an electronics module.

To get across to the decrepit tower containing the Bioreactor Parts we either need to summon a greenhouse unit with Computers 3(+20SP) or leap across the gap with Dex >= 8. The Computers check gives us SP so let’s do that.

Cross to the other tower, head up one level if you took the Computers route. Pick up the supplies from the crate in the southwest of the top floor, and the Bioreactor Parts for Moonshine from the defunct bioreactor.

Maintenance Crate: Rope, Power Saw

Head down the shaft using the rope to return to ground level, don't forget to use the computer console for the frog research, and pick up the air purifier parts if you forgot to earlier.

There's still one issue to deal with in Hydroponics, the Scavs in Delta Tower. It's time to serve them an Eviction Notice.

If Faythe was in your party when you accepted the job to evict the squatters, or if she is currently in your party, she will permanently leave if you initiate combat with Morgan and his crew. Solving the quest diplomatically, or disabling the frog pacifying machine (though this results in Morgan and crew dying) will not trigger Faythe leaving.

There’s a peaceful solution involving Faythe, let’s walk through that before we get to the actual murder-intensive solution we’ll implement.

Note: There are some implications during the dialog that choosing to kill or spare Morgan will have consequences down the road, beyond the immediate issue with Faythe, once we know more about them we'll update this section to ensure maximum long-term murder opportunities.

引用自 "Choice and Consequence"：

If Morgan is persuaded to leave by Faythe, he will ask for your help getting a trading license from the Church in the Habitat.

Diplomacy

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To peacefully solve your problem, bring Faythe to the Delta Tower and let her talk to Morgan. If you don't pass the speech check initially you can then get a second chance if you have a Regulator Badge (stolen or legitimate) or a high combat reputation.

• (If Faythe is present) Wait for Faythe to answer
  
  • Persuasion 3
    
    • Persuasion 4 (+3 Disposition Bonus) - Failing disposition at this point leads to “I’d rather avoid bloodshed”
      
    • Streetwise 3 - Failing disposition at this point leads to “I’d rather avoid bloodshed”
  • ”Then things will get ugly” - Leads to “I’d rather avoid bloodshed”
• ”Carlos wants you gone”
  
  • "I’d rather avoid bloodshed"
    
    • Reputation: Combat(12+)
  • (With Regulator Badge, if Braxton is in charge of the Pit) Streetwise 3
    
    • Persuasion 3
      
    • Streetwise 4 (+1 Disposition bonus)
  • (With Regulator Badge, if Braxton is alive) Impersonate 3
    
    • Persuasion 3
      
    • Streetwise 4

Over-optimizer note: You can actually collect SP's from the Regulator Badge branch twice. Go without Faythe, flash the badge and work through the tree. Assuming you fail you can bring Faythe back and do it again! Go through her dialog branches and it will let you try the Regulator Badge branch again. You are almost guaranteed to pass if Faythe is with you so make sure you're happy with a peaceful solution if you bring Faythe with you.

Solving the problem this way awards +90XP, keeps Faythe happy and also awards a bonus +145 SP to Persuasion, Streetwise and Impersonate. Thanks to the huge Disposition boost from using Faythe even a Charisma 4 PC can succeed here as long as he has Streetwise 3. This route also leaves Morgan alive, which may have repercussions in the future. If you talk your way through don’t forget to open the now unimportant door locked with Electronics 4 (+20SP). Then head back to Camp Reid to turn in Eviction Notice for +60XP and 5x Energy Cells.

You can also “peacefully” solve the problem without Faythe or a Regulator Badge, if you have a sufficiently high Reputation:Combat (12+), but you won't get the normal bonus speech SPs for a diplomatic resolution.

Stealth

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There is a non-combat stealth option involving disabling Morgan's frog pacifying machine, stealth also offers superior positioning to a frontal assault if you're planning on engaging in combat.

If you'd like to kill everyone without a fight, and if so I am judging you, you can sneak in the back, repair a broken door in the far corridor with Electronics 4 (+20 SP) and then disable the machine, everyone will die and you'll receive +300 Sneak SP as well as some nice loot. If you lack the Electronics skill you can also use the Cloaking Field to sneak around to the central corridor door to disable the machine. You can use Faythe for this without her leaving the party since you didn't know what tampering with the mysterious device would do, obviously.

Combat

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Otherwise, use a stealthy entrance to position yourself in the side corridor for combat and let them funnel in one by one to die. If you're going to do this make sure to drop Faythe off at the Pit first other she will leave the party permanently at the end of the fight. You can bring Jed with you instead as he has no qualms about enforcing the Granger's property rights at any cost.

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Difficulty: Hard for a frontal assault, Medium if using clever positioning from stealth
Tactical Notes: A frontal assault does set you up next to Morgan for a quick kill on him to remove the Sarge feat he is buffing his team with, but it’s still a harder fight surrounded by frogs. If coming in the back vent the frogs make very effective blockers, the hallway chokepoint if filled with frogs will keep the melee scav from engaging.

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+90 XP once everyone is dead regardless of the cause.

If you did kill everyone then go ahead and drop Jed back off at home, grab Faythe and bring her back to Hydroponics Delta tower to open the Electronics 4 (+20SP) door. Then head back to Camp Reid to turn in the quest Eviction Notice for +60XP and 6x Energy Cells. With a Persuasion 3(+20SP) check you can convince Carlos to consider allying with Stanton in the Factory to re-open trade to the Habitat. Don’t worry if Faythe is with you at this point, she’ll pretend not to hear you just murdered everyone.

With the squatters gone there's just one thing left to do in Hydroponics before we wrap things up, deal with a pack of bloodthirsty pysker frogs!

Head down to the bottom of Camp Reid, then through the bushes to the east as if you were heading to the Bioreactor Tower but then head south to the large cage containing many frogs, time to do some exterminating!

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Difficulty: Hard, but manageable if you prioritize your targets correctly and have high resistances
Tactical Notes: A harder version of the Armory fight, there are two Psykers, two Spitters, an extra large Bullfrog and the ranged frogs are a bit further away. The Energy Armor is phenomenal armor here, as are the heaviest boots you can find. Make sure you have high Optical + Toxic Resistance to counteract the Spitter frogs. Most importantly, kill the Psyker frogs first, their debuff is devastating, with a little luck you can burst them both down in the first turn and then the rest is just clean up.

If you're having trouble killing the Psyker frogs fast enough you can also hit them with a Flashbang this will prevent the frogs from using Panic for a turn due to the AP debuff, and will severely debuff regular frogs to boot.

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+90XP for slaying the frogs as well as access to a corpse with a phenomenal rifle.

Human Corpse : Long Arm of the Law, 11x .45 Ammo, Distortion Field
Mummified Corpse: Biotech 5 (+50SP) Advanced Targeting Upgrade Chip (Bionic Eye)

Over-optimizing note
Long Arm of the Law has +4% Critical Strike Chance, to super optimize we would pick this up earlier to increase our Critical Strike SP gains in combat, but it’s a very hard fight early on so we waited until the fight would be easier for us. The Scoped Old Betsy that can be found in Courthouse Fight 4 is even better with +8% Critical Strike Chance, but that's one of the harder fights in Chapter 1.

Time to turn in some quests!

Talk to Carlos at Camp Reid to turn in the Bioreactor Parts for +60 XP. He also gives you a Biolab Gas Mask and the Algae shipment for Boone for the quest Moonshine.

We're going to follow-up on those Psyker Brains we've been accumulating, someone in Camp Reid has a keen interest in mutated wildlife.

Head to the 2nd Floor of Camp Reid and speak to Maryam. Turn in the Psyker Brain for to start the quest Head Hunter to get 3x more Psyker Brains, and a Steal 3 (+40SP) opportunity to grab a Power Cell MK1 for your gadgets. Maryam will hand you 1x Zen Stim if you agree to find more brains for her. Maryam will also now offer to train you or a party member (+100SP) in Computers for $200. We're one short of completion right now, but we'll find an extra brain in Mission Control soon.

After you retrieve 3x Psyker Brains for Maryam you will be able to complete Head Hunter, your reward is either 2x Regen, 2x Aggro, and 2x Zen stims, or, if you are awesome and want to become a mutant, you will gain access to one of three Mutation lines.

Mutations!

When given access to the Mutation lines you can choose to bind them against one of three stim types, Aggro/Super Soldier, Regen, or Zen. You will start with level 1 of the associated feat, using additional stims of the chosen type will upgrade the associated feat up to level 3.


Back to the Pit

Return to Boone at Boone’s Moonshine in Camptown and turn in the algae for +60XP and either $1k or a Combat Training Token for Critical Strike, Evasion, and Armor. Money is tight but I still took the token, taking the money is reasonable if you’re short, though you should have accumulated a bunch of gear to offload to merchants by now. Later on you'll have a chance to spend $2k per implant to upgrade your implants, so don't worry about ever having too much money.

Head over to the Old Earth Emporium in Camptown to cash in your accumulated training tokens.

Use the Combat Training Token if you have it, +200SP per skill category for the tokens. Don’t forget to use the extra training token from the Armory console as well.

Return to Zeke with the Air Purifier to complete Clean Air Act for +60XP and a request to find a Forcefield Emitter, which we will pick up much much later on.

Acquiring the Squad Leader Implant (from people who don’t deserve it)

Remember that little errand Sarah asked us to run? Little Shop of Horrors? Well we’ll stop by now and see our good friend Jimmy and his fine selection of implants.

引用自 "Choice and Consequence"：

If Jimmy survives this quest he will be in Mission Control during Chapter 3 which will let you start a new quest, Mission Person, which will let you loot a full set of Combat Armor as well as a Heavy Power Cell. This is very nice loot, and comparable XP rewards, so it's mostly a question of some power now or more power later. Hybrids needing extra bonus Disposition may be more inclined to taking Squad Leader now so they can install the +Disposition upgrade chip before returning from the Habitat.

Before we murder some more people make sure you’re equipped with your best armor, weapons and consumables. We’re also going to purchase a Smoke Grenade ($150, available at Cole’s Gadgets and other fine retailers) that will seriously hamper ranged opponents while having minimal impact on melee combatants, the upcoming fight is a great time to use one.

If you want to cheese this fight you’ll also want to buy a Gas Grenade for $150, we’re going to use a combination of Gas and Stasis grenades to soften up the enemy before murdering them for perfectly legitimate reasons, they have something we want after all.

Head to The Drain, and walk up to the guard guarding the cargo container, step inside and then
use the Biotech knowledge picked up from Sarah to pass the Biotech 2 (+20SP) check. Then pick a fight with a bunch of bad men by refusing to back down for any reason during the dialog.

Alternatively, if you don’t need the Squad Leader implant you can choose to take a basic implant and walk away, but don’t you deserve something nice for yourself?

This is a tough fight at this point in the game you should be Level 3, and I’d suggest swapping out Faythe for Jed to get a little extra firepower. Reminder that the Stasis grenade can be found in the lower levels of the Armory if you decide to cheese the fight.

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I would like to cheese this tough fight with the power of money

We’ve got you covered!

The key to our alpha strike will be bringing Evans along for his high Initiative, ensure he’s not wearing anything terribly heavy that drops his Initiative below 40, equip him with a Stasis Grenade, Gas, and a Regen stim.

On Mr. Murderhobo you’ll want to make sure you have Regen, Aggro, and Smoke grenades equipped in his quick slots. If you have Jed as backup, a Flashbang is nice to have.

Stasis Grenade?
Faythe used to start with a Stasis Grenade which made cheesing this fight at level 2 hilarious. Now there is one in the Armory after beating Sharp Face in a locked container.

A step-by-step guide to murder in a shipping container

Position as shown in the screenshot. The melee scav will run up to Murderhobo and whack him a bit but you’ll be fine.



Evans should go immediately afterwards, drop your Gas grenade on the indicated position, it should hit everyone except the melee scav and Jimmy. If you have an initiative above 45 you'll be able to dose everyone but Jimmy in poison, don't worry about Jimmy, he's a push-over.



Shoot at someone if you like, then throw the Stasis grenade at the nearby yellow crate as shown below, this will send Evans and the Murderhobo into stasis.



Wait, what?!

That’s right we’re taking a brief trip beyond space and time, returning when our opposition has been suitably weakened.

By dropping into Stasis we’re giving the Gas grenade time to work and for Manfred’s Aggro stim to run out, by the time Murderhobo has his turn we’ll be facing a significantly easier fight.

From there it should be straightforward to kill the remaining enemies, Aggro stims and Smoke grenades (Manfred will see through smoke but the others will not) should ensure victory. Manfred is still the biggest threat despite being weakened by the Gas and fatigue from the Aggro stim, his leg armor is his weakness.

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When you win the fight you’ll earn +90XP, some delicious loot, and a Mummified Head (Squad Leader).

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Difficulty: Very Hard at this point in the game if you don’t cheese the fight, Medium if you cheese it using the above Gas+Stasis strategy. If you don't need Squad Leader immediately you can come back once you have better gear and levels, and crush this fight without expensive consumables.

Tactical Notes: Manfred is the main offensive threat but also has the toughest body armor and high HP, the Guard’s SMG isn't too dangerous to you right now assuming you're wearing the Damaged Heavy Ballistic Vest, try using grenades to blind or poison your enemies.

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Let’s head back to Sarah at Medbay to turn in our quest, don't forget to ask for a reward!

If you chose not to fight and just took a basic implant (because you are a coward) you’ll receive: 5x Medkit, 1x Regen, +60XP

If you returned the Squad Leader implant to Sarah (like a hero) you’ll receive: 10x Medkit, 3x Regen, and +60XP

Wait, we’re returning the implant? We’re not keeping it? Sadly no, your monkey-brained goon lacks the requisite intelligence and training to extract an ancient implant from a mummified head so Sarah is going to do it for us, and then charge us if we want it back.

If you want the Squad Leader implant and need some cash you can offload some of your newly acquired slightly used arms and armor, obviously keep the best stuff for yourself. Don't bother buying the Neural Uplink, there are plenty to extract from the corpses of goons, same goes for the cyber-eyes.

If you buy any implants you need to then use the machine in Medbay to install them.

If you used Jed as backup and don’t plan on keeping him then kick him out of the party and bring Faythe back in, she’s waiting at Whiskey Jacks.

What was once a bright and gleaming command center is now a dark hole in the ground, let’s check out Mission Control home to wonders, treasures, and murderous coral.

There is a small campsite above the Mission Control ruins. Talk to Zillah who runs the hotel about ‘Ol’ Bub’ the giant demon worm lurking in the depths of mission control with a $3,000 bounty on his head. Even odds on whether it’s a monster, machine, or misdirection. Wilson standing near the trash barrel fire claims to have tangled with the beast but he’s likely full of drek, as noted by his dear friends standing nearby.

The aptly named ‘Last Stop’ store has a few odds and ends available before you descend into the ruins, the Damaged Synthetic Heart is a reasonable buy if you've got someone with Biotech 5 to repair it.

Last Stop, unguarded pile of modules - Steal 4 (+40SP) - 2x Electronics Modules

With Master Trader or Persuasion 4 (+0 SP) you can also purchase the Neural Dampener (Squad Leader upgrade chip, +1 Initial Disposition, +10% Neural Resistance) for $500.

Head down the ladder and enter the ruins.

The General Assembly was home to the finest and most prestigious governing body on the ship, until the Mutiny of course!

To your right open the door to find a terminal with some lore about the last session of the Assembly, it also awards +20 Computers SP.

To your left is a historian named Luther who would like your help rediscovering the history of the Mutiny in the aptly named quest Keys to the Future. Head to the southwest stairs to travel to the next level.

The Admin Center is home to two groups of scavs, a diver in need of rescue and the first in a series of increasingly convoluted up and down routes through the ruins. Each of the next few levels has sub-areas initially cut off from the main area which we will attempt to document in the least confusing way possible.

To your southwest is a hardworking man who needs your help hauling crates to the train station. With Streetwise 3 (no SP gain) or Jed in the party you’ll realize this is likely a trap, but there is no peaceful solution here so let’s walk in and murder these fools.

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Difficulty: Difficult pre-Habitat, and this goes away if not done before the Habitat
Tactical Notes: You start surrounded, expect the melee enemy to throw smoke in the first round. Each scav has a weakly-armored location if you’re having trouble.

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+90XP for crushing your enemies

Head back the way you came and enter the former command center. Chat with Denbow the friendly scav about your fellow Mission Control inhabitants.

Pass through the corridor and hang a left. The first medbay room has a locker that can be scavenged for a few supplies.

Medbay Locker: 1x Regen

Continuing on you’ll find two dead bodies, only one of the bodies is slightly alive. You can choose to heal him with a Regen Stim and Biotech 3 (+20SP) to save his life or just put him out of his misery. If you save his life you’ll have the option of taking his Webler (pistol), which will likely end with him dying in the ruins anyway, or leaving the weapon likely saving his life. There are some not so subtle hints that this will have ramifications later on.

引用自 "Choice and Consequence"：

If you heal him and leave the pistol with him you will find him at the Train Station in Mission Control in Chapter 3 and he will say thank you for saving him, no further rewards.

The actual dead body has a grenade for the taking.

Dead Body: Gas

See that inviting door next to the graffiti saying “Stay the ♥♥♥♥ Out!”, we should probably open it!

Lockpick 3(+20SP) to open the door, immediately followed by an Evasion 4 (No SP) check to avoid the shotgun trap on the other side. The damage is dealt to your lockpicker and seems to scale with their current health. At 35 HP you take 28 damage, but at 13 HP you take 11 damage, at 3 HP you die. Armor does not appear to factor into the damage taken.

Proceed past the door and direct your attention to the right. There is a locked door that can be opened with Lockpick 5(+20SP) or Computers 4(+20SP). Inside that room there is a drug synthesis terminal, with a Biotech 4(+20SP) check you can produce one stim, Regen, Aggro, or Zen. Zen Stims are hard to come by so you should probably make one of those, they’re very helpful during the Mind Worm fights. There's also an old console to strip for +20 Electronics and a module, as well as an old corpse to similarly ransack for a Neural Uplink with Biotech 3 (+45SP).

Head to the left now and check out the unassuming pile of barrels on the floor, with Perception 7 you’ll notice they’re covering a gap in the floor, Strength 12 (combined party strength) or Juggernaut will let you move them to the side opening a pathway to the left-hand sub area on Level 4 - Operations. We’ll call this area the Killing Room for reasons that will become apparent.

There's an old corpse and a kit bag nearby.

Duffel bag of loot: 1x Aggro, Blackjack
Ancient Corpse: Biotech 8 (+96SP) Cage Fighter Upgrade Chip (+1 Melee Damage)

After heading down head back up to Level 3 - Admin Center via the nearby elevator, you can dismantle a barricade and open a door to regain access to the main area of Level 3. There is also a broken robot on the ground, with Electronics 3 (+20SP) you can remove its Gyroscope which will be used to activate ROMEO the riot bot during the quest The Last Lawman

Head back down the elevator to Level 4 again and we’ll head to the Killing Room located in an otherwise inaccessible sub-section of Level 5 - Security Center. Walk south and climb down into the dark hole. Don’t worry you’ll be able to climb up again after we’re done.

The Killing Room has some truly amazing loot if you can get past the security apparatus protecting it.

There is a keypad to the right of the locked door, with a Computers 6 (+130SP) check you can peacefully open the door and continue on your way. Failing this check will activate the Laser Turrets embedded in the floor. If the check is failed you can choose to run away to avoid combat and come back later to try and pass the Computers 6 check. If you choose to fight the turrets you’ll be facing the following, defeating them will let you try and Lockpick 6(+30SP) the door.



Difficulty: Very Hard for the unprepared, they’ll always go first and deal a lot of energy damage which you are likely not itemized against by default. Pulse grenades will negate their shields and knock them down for one round but Pulse grenades are expensive and rare.

Tactical Notes: Armor up your torso to protect against energy damage, but they're still going to pack a whallop. Their armor is 10/12/8 which is tough but crackable at this point. Smoke grenades reduce their accuracy, and Pulse grenades will disable their shield, knock them down for a turn, and deal 16 damage to them. Try not to catch yourself in the Pulse grenade blast as it will disable your gadgets and Stun (-2 * # of implants AP) you.

Defeating the turrets in combat, or bypassing them via Computers is worth +90XP.

Once you are past the initial locked door, via Computers or Lockpick skill, there is looting to do!

To your left is an unlocked door with three crates.

Left Crate 1: 1x Zen, 1x Aggro
Left Crate 2: 12x Energy Cell
Left Crate 3: Light Armor Plates (for ROMEO during The Last Lawman)

To your right is an Electronics 6 (+30SP) locked door. Beyond the door are two crates.

Right Crate 1: Subdermal Armor (Armor Implant)
Right Crate 2: 1x Stasis, 1x Disruptor

You're going to want to install Subdermal Armor on your Murderhobo asap, it's tank-tacular!

You probably won't be able to open it now, but there's a Computers 7 / Lockpick 7 check to get to the next area of the vault, we'll cover that in the Mission Control Chapter 3 section after you've returned from the Habitat. If you're running an optimized Skill Monkey and can open the Vault during Chapter 1 then good for you, you get a neat feat and some loot much earlier than you probably should have.

Once the area has been thoroughly looted head back up and out of the dark pit, then climb the elevator, bringing us all the way back to Level 3 - Admin Center.

Head back along the main corridor on Level 3 and head north to the elevator bank, we’ve got some more scavs to deal with.

Three scavs have set up a toll road in front of the elevators leading deeper into Mission Control. We have a few options here. On the left is a side door that will enable you to sneak past them. Sneaking past the scavs will award +90XP and +140 Sneak SP(-40SP per dead scav since you get +20SP Sneak and +20SP Critical Strike for stealth killing them) distributed among your party. If you sneak by them and then return to try and kill them you will get an amusing message.

Approaching the scavs will enable you to converse with and/or kill them.

If you want to use your words instead of violence you can use Reputation:Combat(12+), Streetwise 3 (+160SP) or Persuasion 4 (+160SP). You can also pay them $200 as a toll, but that results in losing money, XP, and SP, and any sense of self-worth you have thus far preserved, this is not a good option and you should feel bad if you take it.

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Difficulty: Easy
Tactical Notes: The only one with any semblance of armor is the Shotgun Thug, the rest die easily to burst shorts, or a stiff gust of wind

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+90XP for solving your issue with the scavs, so long as that solution wasn’t paying them.

Head down the elevator to Mission Control - Level 4 - Operations

Mission Control - Level 4 - Operations

To your southeast is a cracked open door. Head inside, with a Perception 8 check you’ll notice a small package taped to the underside of the desk containing some stims:

Hidden Package: 1x Zen, 1x Aggro

If you have received the quest The Outcast, head on through the next door to meet Knurl, potential party member / assassination target. If you did not receive this quest yet you need to finish the first five fights in the Courthouse in the Pit and accept the quest, otherwise he will not appear.

Currently, you can discuss his situation vis a vis the Harbinger and gender dynamics in mutant society. Doing so will let you walk away in peace.

Alternatively you can choose to assassinate him, there’s no way to turn in The Outcast yet but your hard work will eventually be rewarded by the Harbinger (Harbinger and Knurl are mutually exclusive party members later on).

Warning! If Jed is with you and you choose to attack Knurl then Jed will leave the party and join forces with Knurl. So make sure Jed is chilling back at Whiskey Jack's when you kill Knurl, he'll never know, even if he's with you when you tell Harbinger you killed Knurl.

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Difficulty: Easy
Tactical Notes: Knurl’s Energy Pistol is quite strong, it is possible he will burst down one of your poorly (energy) armored companions in the first round if he outdraws you. That being said, if you manage to take the initiative he can be flashbanged easily and has low HP, just don't try and shoot him in the torso.

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+90XP if you choose to fight and kill Knurl at this point.

Once done with Knurl head back out the doors and then west, there is a red skull and crossbones next to an innocent looking door. Open it up to see what happens when Ol’ Bub goes on a rampage in a confined space, if you spoke with Wilson on Level 1 you’ll get a bit more information about what happened here.

In the middle of the second floor there is a large area blocked off with an active force-field as well as a gang of scavs led by Hargrave.

Talk to Hargrave to learn that he needs some assistance overriding the force-field blocking his access deeper into Mission Control. There is however the small matter of some mind worms between him and the control console that will deactivate the forcefield. Agree to work for him, he’s promising you $3,000(!), and he’ll send you along your merry-way on the quest for Teamwork.

There are two routes to access the control console. The first route involves fighting two mind worms, they look like particularly hostile coral outgrowths. The second is to walk into the locked room next to the bathrooms and with a Perception 8 check spot the grate that will allow access along a parallel set of rooms.

The mind worms are a new enemy and they have a few tricks up their sleeves. They are immobile, they have 9/3/6 DR on all body parts and they can not be targeted with aimed attacks other than torso. They also have organic distortion fields with comparable effects to your own Distortion Field gadget. Offensively, they target the head and deal Psionic damage similar to how Psyker Frogs operate but with significantly more firepower behind their mind pew-pew. Mind worms will choose a target and then Panic them (5 Psi damage/turn, -10 AP, -50 Evasion, -50 Reaction for 3 turns) if they are not already panicked, targets already suffering from Panic will instead be hit with Mind Rend. Psionic attacks will always hit, they will never miss, graze, or crit. Assuming you have a competent melee master, such as the one featured in this guide, and some friends, you shouldn’t have too much difficulty bringing them down with brute force. Solo characters are likely to suffer given the massive AP penalty they apply, Zen and Aggro stims are recommended to counteract these penalties.




Difficulty: Hard for the unprepared or solo characters, otherwise Medium
Tactical Notes: See above on mind worms abilities

+90XP for killing the mind worms, note that fighting worms does not award defensive LP to skills.

Once the mind worms are dead you can head on through to do some light looting, as detailed below in the alternative access route, and then return to Hargrave for the password which can then be used on the console.

If you’d like to avoid fighting the murder-coral you’ll need to unlock the nearby door with Lockpick 3 (+20SP) and make a Perception 8 check to notice a handy hidden grate. Head through the grate, stopping to loot the crate for a nice helmet, and use Electronics 4 (+20SP) to open the door to the server room.

Storage Room Crate: Old Firefighter Helmet
Storage Room Corpse: Old Welding Helmet, Worker Jacket (Black), 1x Electronics Module

Head inside, loot the broken server Electronics 1 (+10SP) for an electronics module, and then crack open the door to the console room with Lockpick 4(+20SP). There is a giant hole in the ground here that leads to the Level 5 sub-area Fungus Tunnels. We’ll definitely be coming back here to investigate but it’s a one way-ish trip that takes us all the way back to Level 2, so let’s finish our business on Level 4 first.

Inside the console room is a corpse, an old console to dismantle for Electronics (+20SP) and 1x Electronics Module, as well as the console you’re looking for, return to Hargrave for the password then come back and use the console to open the door to the backup generator.

Console Room Corpse: Biotech 3 (+45SP) Bionic Eye

Once you’ve received the password from Hargrave you can choose to initiate hostilities before proceeding to the next stop of dropping the forcefield. Doing so locks you into killing him, but it prevents him from being armed with the Annihilator during the fight.

Once the door is open head west to the backup generator room. Inside you can use Electronics 4 (+20SP) or Computers 4(+20SP) to deactivate the forcefield.

At this point you can try to sneak past and/or kill him, or talk him down if you're feeling persuasive.

引用自 "Choice and Consequence"：

If Hargrave survives then you will see him again at the Burning Heart in the Brotherhood's Admin District in the Habitat. You'll have the opportunity to steal a Power Cell MK II with Steal 7.

Sneaking past will award +180 Sneak SP.

A successful Persuasion 4 (+200SP) check will let you leave in peace with your new Annihilator (you can then immediately attack!). A successful Reputation:Combat check (20+) will also give you the SMG, you can then choose to leave in peace or pick a fight, but then Hargrave will not be armed with the Energy SMG for the fight.

If you can’t resolve your differences all peaceable like you’ll be forced into a fight. If you fight him after the forcefield is lowered he will start equipped with the Annihilator unless he gives it to you after a successful Reputation:Combat check.

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Difficulty: Very Hard, they have good gear, skills, and a favorable position at the start of combat
Tactical Notes: If Hargrave is still armed with the Annihilator try to kill him in the first round to preserve the precious energy cells inside the SMG. His team is pretty well balanced in terms of damage output so just focus one down at a time. They have decent resistances, a Disruptor or Stasis grenade may be called for if you can’t beat them.

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+90XP if you kill the scavs, hopefully we don’t need Hargrave and his men later on

+60XP for completing Teamwork regardless of your approach

Head past the now deactivated forcefield and check out the two corpses. The corpse with the SMG will be empty if Hargrave was alive when the forcefield dropped as Hargrave is then holding it.

Corpse of Lieutenant James Langmore: Damaged Riot Officer Armor, Damaged Riot Armguards, Trooper Leg Armor
Corpse: Annihilator, 12x Energy Cells (if not picked up by Hargrave)

There is also a datapad Computers 1(+20SP) near the Lt’s corpse that adds some lore about the fall of Mission Control.

Now that the forcefield is gone you have three ways down to the Level 5 - Security Quarters. The elevator in the center of the forcefield room will drop you directly into the security office which will allow you to open the doors to the rest of the floor. Alternatively, or if you’re skipping Hargrave’s quest, you can head to the southwest corner of the 2nd floor and take the elevators down to the third floor, but you will not be able to access the security office. And of course, there is the giant hole in the ground in the server room, let’s go that way first since we can pick up another piece for ROMEO on the way.

Head back to the server room and jump into the dark hole leading to the Level 5 sub-area Fungus Tunnels. Immediately to your right is a terminal that can be repaired with Electronics 3(+20SP) and 2x Electronics Modules, doing so will allow you to generate one skill token from the following list.

Basic Maintenance - Electronics, Computers, Lockpicking
Field Surgeon - Biotech, Blade, Critical Strike
Security Officer - Blunt, Persuasion, Computer
Basic Combat - Critical Strike, Evasion, Armor

Across from the door is a fungal growth covering another door, removing it reveals an Electronics 4 (+20SP) locked door that leads to the main area of Level 5 via the skill training machine room.

Head down the gross fungus covered corridor to the right and find a scav corpse. The Pepperbox is unloaded indicating he died while trying to reload, poor bastard.

Fungal Tunnels Corpse 1: 1x Gas, 8x 9mm, Pepperbox
Fungal Tunnels Corpse 2: Biotech 5 (+50 SP) Heavy Infantry Upgrade Chip (+6 Armor Handling, Exo-Spine)

To the north is a hole in the wall leading to a particularly nasty fight with some sweet armor as a reward. You can only access the Frog’s Lair through this route, but clearing the encounter will enable you to open a door leading back to the main area of Level 5.




Difficulty: Very Hard, three mind worms are going to wreck your day if you are not prepared
Tactical Notes: Zen stims are a requirement if you don’t want your entire team panicking the whole fight, but even then you’ll only have a couple of rounds at full strength before you’re hit with the side-effects. I’d suggest making the most of those rounds with Aggro stims and high-velocity weapons. It is also particularly satisfying to use the Warhammer to hit all three at once. The three mind worms can also be hit with a Stasis grenade if you want time to finish off the frogs first, even better would be to leave one mind worms out of stasis so you can kill it before the other two return to normal space-time operations.

Best the beasts in their lair for +90XP.

If you have already killed the Psyker Frogs in the Armory and Hydroponics then this fight has the third Psyker Frog Brain you need to complete Head Hunter before heading to the Factory. Return to Maryam in Camp Reid to turn in the brains and get access to Mutations!

A nearby corpse has some goodies. The terminal in the room Computer 1 (+20SP) will unlock the door leading to the main area of Level 5.

Riot Officer Corpse: Damaged Riot Officer Armor, Damaged Riot Armguards, Damaged Riot Leg Armor, 8x Energy Cell, EM Deflector MK1

To the west is some debris suitable for climbing. Climb up to Level 4, stop to loot the corpse, then up to Level 3.

Level 4 Corpse: Diver Leg Armor, Diver Armguards, Damaged Heavy Ballistic Vest, Scanner, Worn Shredder

Clear the barricade to open a door to the main area of Level 3, and pass a Computers 3 (+20SP) check to remove the Robot Head, which we’ll use to fix ROMEO as part of The Last Lawman, there is also a corpse nearby with an upgrade chip.

Level 3 Corpse 2: Biotech 6 (+52 SP) Combat Reflexes (+3 Evasion, Motor Cortex)

Once you’re done head back down to Level 5 via whichever route you prefer.

Assuming you took the central elevator behind the force-field from Level 4 to Level 5 you will start in the security office.

Directly to the south is a locker with some grenades as well as the sorely abused remnants of a riot control droid, designation ROMEO.

Chat with ROMEO, rebooting as needed, to get his life story, then install the three salvaged robotic components to get him standing again. We’ll be coming back here later once we’ve got the energy cells to power up our robotic best friend who can become a pseudo-party member later.

Lockpick 5 (+20SP) Security Locker - 1x Stasis

Nearby are two corpses with implants and upgrade chips that can be extracted. We suggest your Murderhobo receive the Exo-Spine upgrade promptly.

Security Room Corpse 1 - Biotech 5(+45SP), Exo-Spine
Security Room Corpse 2 - Biotech 5(+458P), Neural Shield Upgrade Chip (+10 Neural Resistance, Neural Uplink)

If you weren't able to move the heavy barrels on level 3 to get access to the Killing Room, you can crack an Electronics 5(+20SP) door here to open an alternate route. Use the terminal Computers 1 (+20SP) to open the sealed door after climbing the girders.

Then activate the security console Computers 1(+20SP) to open the doors to the rest of the level.

Head north and try opening the giant scary door with the retinal scanner. The scav Shadow will make an appearance with his crew. At this point he will just act as a data dump before disappearing but we’ll certainly see him again. Looks like we’ll need to buy a premium grade eye in the Habitat when we get there to progress further into Mission Control.

Head back down the corridor, open the Lockpick 4 (+20SP) door and then loop around to the central corridor of Level 5.

To your right, behind an Electronics 3 (+20SP) locked door, is a skill training machine where you can use the Lab Technician token we picked up on Level 4.

Across from that door is another Electronics 3 (+20SP) locked door, this time leading into a medbay. Inside there are two corpses with technology to extract.

Medbay Corpse 1: Biotech 4 (+45SP) - Motor Cortex
Medbay Corpse 2: Biotech 4 (+48SP) - Machine Gunner Upgrade Chip (+4 Recoil Control, Exo-Spine)

Finally, across from the initial entrance to the central corridor there is a room with an active forcefield. Use the nearby Computers 6 (+20SP) to lower the force-field. Doing so grants access to a storage room with a Lockpick 6 (+20SP) security locker, Lockpick 3 (+20SP) secure crate #1, and Lockpick 3 (+20SP) secure crate #2

Security Locker: Emitter MK1, Light Reflector MK1
Secure Crate #1: 1x Aggro, 1x Zen
Secure Crate #2: Tactical Vest

Heading south will bring you to the southwestern elevator bank enabling your transit to Level 4.

And that’s it for now! Further descent into Mission Control will not be possible until after we reach the Habitat and its collections of premium eyeballs to continue Land of the Blind, you will meet Shadow again in the maintenance tunnels beneath ECLSS.

Hit the following targets with your new skills.

Armory

Lockpick 6 (+30SP) locker in the depot storage room, it contains the Energy Rifle and 12x Energy Cells. The Energy Rifle is arguably the best weapon in Chapter 1 it is accurate, powerful, and is resisted by Energy DR which is typically lower than Ballistic DR. The downside is that every pull of the trigger costs $200 (4x Energy Cells at $50/cell). Reserve this for tough fights, having Evans two-shot someone in the first round is a great way to even the odds.

Terminal to the left of the fusion reactor, Computers 6(+30SP) to drop the forcefield and retrieve the Cloaking Field gadget which is a phenomenal piece of gear. The Cloaking Field will turn the user invisible for 2 turns (3 with an upgraded power cell) during combat or stealth sequences. It makes a great emergency button during combat since enemies won’t target invisible party members and it allows for double-takedown stealth kills in Sneak sequences.

The Pit Outskirts

Computers 5 (+20SP) forcefield to the far north of the outskirts where we extended a bridge a long time ago.

Outskirts Forcefield Crate: Scavenger Goggles, Half Mask, Damaged Enforcer Helmet, Explorer Coat.

Back to the Outskirts of the Pit to where Hank is still patiently waiting. You can kick down the door for a straight combat experience, or you can sneak up a ladder in the back if you want Faythe to pick up a little Sneak/Critical Strike SP. Going strictly by the numbers you’re usually better off fighting in combat if you want to level Critical Strike since takedowns only award 10 Critical Strike SP and 10 Sneak SP, but even without actual sneaking the backdoor offers better combat positioning for the start of the fight.

Sending the party in via stealth is a free +15 Sneak SP just for entering. If Faythe has racked up enough Critical Strike skills she should be able to take down the lone sentry in the backroom, remember you need to use a knife. There is a Lockpick 2 (+20SP) door to open leading out to the front room.

If you're running a stealth oriented Faythe or PC you can clear the whole building as long as you have the Cloaking Field, you can also leave one alive and trigger combat if you want your other party members to get in on the fun.

There is a Lockpick 4 (+20SP) weapons crate on the counter.

Locked Weapons Crate: M16

+90 XP for killing the gang.

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Difficulty: Hard for a straight up fight charging in the front door, Medium if you've cleverly snuck in the backdoor, Easy if you’ve whittled down their numbers with Sneak takedowns

Tactical Notes: Sneak is obviously the major variable here, anyone you kill in stealth can’t shoot back. If you want a straight up fight then prioritize the two goons on the left, the goon in the backroom will need one turn to get to you. The melee thug with the Energizer club is going to do a lot of damage quickly if you don't kill him first.

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Return to Hank to complete Mysterious Stranger for +60XP and a Disruptor MK1, for use in your Distortion Field, it further reduces enemy accuracy when hit in melee and damages them a bit more.

Return to the Church for a bit of Church reputation (+1 Church), no further reward for your good deeds.

Clearing the Courthouse

We’ve got a few optional combats to finish up before we start on the final quest of Chapter 1, Crossroads. Let’s head to the Courthouse to finish dispensing justice!

Courthouse Fight Four

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Difficulty: Hard, the enemy is skilled, well armed and armored, but so are you.
Tactical Notes: Everyone here hits hard and the Sharpshooter starts well positioned behind some crates. If running a double ranged plus one melee party I would setup my shooters behind cover in the back but throw your Murderhobo to the front so he can deal with the Sharpshooter. The enemy is resistant to Smoke and Optical effects but a Gas grenade will hurt them, your Murderhobo's Toxic Resistance should be high enough that he won't be affected. Burn down the quickly Sharpshooter quickly, he will wreck Faythe given a few rounds to shoot, then the Basher, then the remaining Grinder.

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+90 XP for dispensing justice, plus all the loot you can carry.

Courthouse Fight Five

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Difficulty: Hard, your enemies are skilled and have great equipment
Tactical Notes: Courthouse Fight Five is tough no doubt about it, but there are a few quirks that make it solvable. Solomon Clayton only has a few shots with his energy shotgun, after which he has a short range shotgun he will need to run across the map to use. Leverage this by popping an early Smoke Grenade and position back behind the barricades to make him waste his shots and force the melee goon to run towards you. The second quirk is that the enemy sniper will almost always want to throw a flashbang on his first turn at your ranged units, even if your snipers have run away from the fight, this will cause the enemy sniper to give chase and stand out in the middle of the arena.

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+90 XP and amazing loot once you take down Mr. Clayton and associates. -1 Brotherhood reputation since he was one of theirs.

After completing Courthouse Fight Five you will be approached by Harbinger who will offer you a quest, The Outcast, to kill rogue mutant Knurled Top in Mission Control (Chapter 2). If Jed is with you he will add some commentary to the job and warn you not to kill his friend Knurl.

Pop back over to Mission Control Level 4 if you want to chat with Knurl, you can kill him for some sweet sweet gear, but even the most murderous of hobos may want to hold off as he will be an important character in the future, up to you!

Me and the Devil
Was walkin' side-by-side


It's time to decide once and for all who is going to rule the Pit, Jonas, Braxton, or if you play your cards right, Mercy. This choice will have real ramifications for the rest of the game, so I suggest making a save now in case you want to try the other route next time.

Regardless of which side you're learning towards you’re going to go talk to Jonas at the Promised Land. While you’re there you can choose to throw in with Jonas and ensure the Pit stays free of tyranny, or tell him to shove off and head back to Braxton to ensure the Pit becomes a bastion of law and order.

Here’s a quick overview of what those choices lead to.

Ace Up Your Sleeve : Steal some Disruptor Cores to turn into grenades - Speech, Sneak, or Combat
Lord's Mercy : Persuade or Kill Mercy - Speech, Sneak, or Combat

And then either:
You Shall Not Pass (Jonas) : Turn away Regulator reinforcements - Speech, Technical (Electronics + Computer), or an easier Combat than All In
All In : Kill everyone inside Regulator HQ - Combat

Hired Thug : Take out one of Jonas' lieutenants - Speech, Sneak, or Combat
Lord's Mercy : Persuade or Kill Mercy - Speech, Sneak, or Combat

And then either:
You Shall Not Pass (Braxton) : Defend the Camptown gates - Speech or an easier Combat than All In
All In : Kill everyone inside The Promised Land - Combat
If you persuaded Mercy to side with Braxton you'll be given the opportunity to double-cross Braxton and side with Mercy at the end of All In

We’re going to take a look at siding with Jonas first before looking at Braxton’s quest-line.

Crossroads (Jonas)

Talk to Jonas, Streetwise 3(+40SP) to extract $300 from him. +60XP for completing the first part of Crossroads, next is Ace Up Your Sleeve. Jonas is going to need an edge to take down the Regulator militia and he has correctly deduced that extremely powerful grenades can be that edge.

Head to Cole’s Gadgets, Cole will direct you to Isaiah Davis who lives next to the Engine Fuel Bar.

There are a surprising number of possible iterations to dealing with Isaiah, and at this point they should all be quite easy, so do what your heart tells you to do. Assuming of course that your heart tells you to gain some free Streetwise or Sneak SPs before murdering him in cold blood as we suggest here.

引用自 "Choice and Consequence"：

If Isaiah survives this quest he will join Riggs' gang during the Pit Chapter 3, and can be persuaded or killed there. If you scammed him during Chapter 1 he will try and extort money from you but can be killed.

Stealth

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If you want some Sneak SP then send Faythe into the backroom via a vent, open the chest with Lockpick 2(+20 SP) plus a bonus +20 Sneak SP for retrieving the cores from a lockbox.

At this point you can walk back out the vent for +140 Sneak SP.

You can also takedown Isaiah from stealth for +20 Critical Strike SP, +20 Sneak SP and then either leave via the vents for +20 Sneak SP, or smash the “Enter Combat” button to pick a fight with the two goons hanging out around his door.
You can also initiate combat immediately after stealing the cores from the back room, trading the Crit Strike and Sneak SP against more combat SPs from fighting Isaiah.

Taking the stealth route will preclude you from talking to Isaiah or picking a fight if you leave via the vents.

Diplomacy

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Alternatively you can try talking to him. With Critical Strike 3(+80SP / +20SP for failure) you can open your conversation with a dagger to the heart, killing him this way allows you to walk into the backroom to grab the cores but you don’t receive Sneak or Lockpick SP this way.

You can also talk to Isaiah using Streetwise 2(+10SP) then Streetwise 3(+10SP) to get that SP, doing so will also award a bonus of +85 SP to Streetwise, Persuasion and Impersonate. Say you’ll return with the money instead of paying him, and then do the Critical Strike or combat path afterward if you want additional experience and to save $50, which is likely more than Isaiah's life is worth.

Finally you just pay him his $50 for the cores, which will give you an immense sense of self-satisfaction at helping a down-on-his-luck man, no reward for paying instead of murdering though. You can not sneak in to steal the cores after talking to Isaiah since he will then have the cores on his person.

• Constitution 7 Check - +3 disposition if passed, -1 disposition if failed
  
• “Looking for disruptor cores”
  
  • “I can give you a good price”
    
    • Streetwise 2
      
      • “Alright they glow”
        
        • Streetwise 3
          
          • “I’ll help you out”
            
            • (Disposition success) Pay 50 credits for the cores
              
            • (Disposition success) “I’ll be back with the money” - leave dialog, can return to either pay for cores, initiate combat, or Critical Strike 3
              
            • (Disposition failure) "Fork them over” - Starts combat with Isaiah and thugs
              
            • (Disposition failure) Critical Strike 3 - Kill Isaiah without alerting thugs outside
        • Fork them over” - Starts combat with Isaiah and thugs
          
        • Critical Strike 3 - Kill Isaiah without alerting thugs outside

Combat

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Difficulty: Easy
Tactical Notes: They’re a bunch of underfed ill-equipped idiots, like you were back to level 1, does level 1 you scare you now? No? Good.

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Regardless of your choices here, acquiring the cores is worth +90 XP, head back to Cole’s to turn in the cores, receive 1x Disruption Grenade, another two grenades are now purchasable from Cole's Gadgets, then return to Jonas to turn in Ace Up Your Sleeve for +60XP. Next up, Lord’s Mercy.

Lord’s Mercy

Lord’s Mercy plays out in a very similar way for both the Jonas and Braxton paths. On the Jonas path if you fail to persuade Mercy initially Jonas will arrange for you to be able to bypass the gate guard on your return. On the Braxton path if you fail to persuade Mercy Braxton will send three of his Regulators with you to take Mercy out, and also allow you to Critical Strike 4(+40 SP) the gate guard.

Over-Optimized Note
Several hours of research have yielded a technique for Charisma 4 no-speech-skills-tagged-Murderhobo to resolve things peacefully see the special section later on siding with Mercy as a Murderhobo!

Lord’s Mercy (Jonas)

Head to Mercy’s Fort in Camptown. The guard will let you in to discuss terms with Mercy, this is your one chance for a peaceful resolution so get ready to screw that up.

"Diplomacy" Mercy’s Fort (Jonas)

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You can pickup some free speech SP here, but you’re not going to be able to persuade her to peace with Jonas with your CHA 4 character unless you have Persuasion 3 and Streetwise 4 going into the conversation. If you do have that, and you want the option to side with Mercy at the end of The Crossroads, you’ll want to take the following talking route:

“Whose side” -> Streetwise 2(+10SP) -> Streetwise 3(+10SP) -> Persuasion 3(+10SP)

I know it doesn’t have a Streetwise 4 check there, but you seem to get the extra tiny bit of Disposition needed by passing the Streetwise checks with a higher than needed skill.

Solving this quest diplomatically will award the standard +90XP as well as +115 bonus SP points in Streetwise, Persuasion, and Impersonate.

Assuming you fail your attempt at diplomacy you can choose to kill everyone where they stand or tactically retreat to come back and kill everyone later.

• “Whose side are you on?”
  
  • Persuasion 2
    
    • Persuasion 3
      
      • Persuasion 3
        
      • Persuasion 4
        
      • Streetwise 4
        
    • Streetwise 3
      
      • Persuasion 3
        
      • Persuasion 4
        
      • Streetwise 4
        
    • Streetwise 5
      
  • Streetwise 2
    
    • Persuasion 3
      
      • Persuasion 3
        
      • Persuasion 4
        
      • Streetwise 4
        
    • Streetwise 3
      
      • Persuasion 3
        
      • Persuasion 4
        
      • Streetwise 4
        
    • Streetwise 5
      
• Streetwise 2
  
  • Persuasion 3
    
    • Persuasion 4
      
    • Streetwise 4
  • Streetwise 3
    
    • Persuasion 3
      
    • Persuasion 4
      
    • Streetwise 4
  • Charisma 8 + Streetwise 4
    
    • Persuasion 3
      
    • Persuasion 4
      
    • Streetwise 4

“Stealthing” Mercy’s Fort (Jonas or Braxton)

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You can of course choose to immediately leave stealth and enter combat upon entering the fortress and this isn’t a terrible idea, you won’t start out surrounded and you’ll be able to use your long-range rifles to pick off enemies as they emerge from the fort. If so refer to the above section on killing everyone.

If you enjoy these stealth sequences and have a stealth optimized Faythe or PC then we have a few options on how to proceed.

Working through the exact routes to success is left as an exercise to the reader but I will add some helpful information to get you started.

Assuming you have any stealth feats on Faythe (and you take off any armor with Sneak penalties) taking down the outermost lone guard should be trivial. It is also quite easy to simply walk past the guard duo in the entrance hall and takedown the solo melee guard in the main room. There is a lone sniper on the balcony that can be reached by stronger (Strength >= 6) characters by climbing the pipe, but we can also deal with him by opening the Lockpick 2(+20SP) door and sneaking up behind him.

Depending on how invested in Sneak, relevant feats, and Critical Strike you are you may or may not be able to takedown Mercy from stealth. Making noise from walking around and assassinating people will slowly raise her awareness level, which will increase the required takedown damage. If you can’t, no big deal you’ve already taken out half her goons without firing a shot, simply reposition your forces and engage in a much much easier fight.

If you can takedown Mercy you’re left with just the guard duo in the entrance hall to deal with, the Cloaking Device may be helpful here.

You’ll receive a variable amount of bonus Sneak SP depending on how many guards are left alive when you finish the stealth sequence. If you kill only Mercy (which is really really hard and should be worth an achievement) then leave you’ll receive +220 Sneak SP. For each guard you stealth kill you’ll receive -20 Sneak SP from the bonus at the end, but you also get +20 Sneak SP from taking them down so that’s a wash, and takedown also award +20 Critical Strike SP as well as delicious loot. Clearly we should kill everyone and take their stuff if we want to be the best Murderhobo we can be.

Regardless, remember to open the supply locker detailed below and grab the goods before leaving the fort.

Return to Jonas and let him know Mercy has been dealt with, wrapping up Lord’s Mercy for +60XP.

If you prefer combat over stealth or diplomacy then you've come to the right place! If you want the hardest possible fight then be sure to attack Mercy as soon as you have an audience with her. If you want a slightly easier fight then leave when diplomacy fails and report back to Jonas. You'll have an opportunity to return and initiate combat from stealth.

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And, if you decide to pick a fight with Mercy while the Regulator guards are standing there you also need to deal with:


Difficulty: Very Hard if you start a fight after failing the conversation checks, you’re surrounded by enemies with significant firepower. Hard if you tactically retreat and then come back, you will not start off surrounded. Difficulty scales down rapidly if you manage some stealth takedowns before starting the fight.

Tactical Notes:
Mercy is rocking heavy armor and a Distortion Field along with a potent SMG, your melee combatants are better off trying to take down her henchmen until her shield wears off in two turns. Try to target weak points in enemy armor, this will vary enemy to enemy. Otherwise this is just another tough fight that you will likely need some consumables to pass through, smoke highly advised given the volume of shots coming at you early on if you choose the surrounded start, you should prioritize getting your less tanky team members back into the entranceway so your main tank can absorb the firepower.

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Once everyone is dead loot the Lockpick 4(+20SP) locker for some goods:

Mercy’s Fort Locker: 30x 9mm, 20x .45, 20x 5.56, 2x Regen Stim, 1x Aggro Stim, 1x Flashbang

After you kill everyone gain +90 XP then return to Jonas to report your success to complete Lord’s Mercy for +60XP.

Crossroads Finale (Jonas)

After resolving the Mercy issue Jonas will have one final choice of tasks for you to accomplish. If you’re not much of a fighter you’ll be tasked to cut off reinforcements to the Pit during You Shall Not Pass which can be solved with talking, Electronics + Computer, or an easier fight than the alternative. If you are a stone-cold Murderhobo you’re going to be roped into All-In, taking down Braxton inside his Regulator’s fortress.

You Shall Not Pass (Jonas)

If you lack the necessary murderyness for one of the toughest fights of Chapter 1 you’ll be defending the upper gates of the outskirts to prevent Regulator reinforcements from interfering in the main assault.

Technical

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If you’d prefer to defeat your enemies before they even get their foot in the door then head down to the control room just south of the gate. Assuming Faythe can pass an Electronics 3(+20SP) + 2x Electronic Module or 3x Electronic Modules, and Computers 3 (+20SP) check you will resolve the situation with no fighting or talking, +200 bonus Computers SP and +90XP for activating the decontamination protocol. You can choose to intentionally fail the Computers 3 check if you’d prefer to fight the Regulators, you still keep the Electronics SP fixing the gate modules.

Diplomacy

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If you’d like to talk your way through you’ll need Speech skills at about skill level 5, doing so will enable you to turn the reinforcements around. If your talking skills fail, but you’ve got a high combat reputation you may still be able to pass the check by threatening them depending on your dialogue choices. If you convince them to leave without using the Combat Reputation check you'll receive +90XP and another +100SP to Speech skills.

• Impersonate 2
  
  • Persuasion 3 OR Streetwise 3
    
    • ”Protecting the town is no longer our objective”
      
      • Impersonate 4
        
        • Persuasion 5
          
        • Streetwise 5
      • “Tell them how Braxton recruited you”
        
        • Persuasion 5
          
        • Streetwise 5
• Streetwise 3
  
  • Persuasion 4 OR Streetwise 4
    
    • Reputation Combat: 20+ - Instant success, no encounter XP reward or speech skills bonus
      
    • ”There’s nothing for you here now”
      
      • Persuasion 5
        
      • Streetwise 5

Combat

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You can also try diplomacy or tech-wizardry, fail, and get into a good old-fashioned fight with the Regulator reinforcements from a solid tactical position. +90 XP for murdering them in honorable combat.

Regardless of your tactical choices, return to Jonas for another +60XP and congratulations on helping him secure The Pit.

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Difficulty: Medium, well-equipped enemies but they need to charge into your enviable defensive position.

Tactical Notes: Martinez is the primary threat here, he has the Sergeant feat as well as superior skills. This should be an easy fight for a combat-focused party given that you are given an easy to defend choke-point on the map.

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All-In (Jonas)

If your Murderhobo-fu is strong you’ll be tasked with besting the beast in his lair. Chat with the bartender Caleb for a free stack of 50x 9mm as well as access to a stims and ammo store. Return to Jonas when you’re ready to proceed.

It’s on to Regulator HQ to take down Jonas!

There are two phases to this fight, an initial ambush in the bottom floor, a break to heal and reload, and then a fight with Jonas and his men on the top floor. Any friendly guards that survive Phase 1 will come to the top floor with you. Anyone killed during Phase 1, friend or foe is lootable.

Note: unlike the Braxton variant of All In, these allies will not heal and reload between phases, a bug?

You will receive allied guards in inverse proportion to your party size. Red Beard and the SMG Guard will always appear, the other guards will appear 1:1, in order of the allies list, for each party member below three.

引用自 "Choice and Consequence"：

If Red Beard survives the fighting he'll be in the Pit during Chapter 3 and he'll reward you with some high-end grenades.

Phase 1 : Barroom Brawl
Kill everyone, receive +90 XP

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Difficulty: Hard, but mitigated by your allied guards
Tactical Notes: Focus fire on one enemy at a time if possible and round the table or bar to mitigate their cover advantage. The Regulators have excellent gas and flashbang protection along with reasonable thermal vision so if you're going to use grenades stick with stasis or disruptor. Otherwise this is a straight-up bloodbath.

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Phase 2: Kill Braxton

Kill everyone, +90 XP for your deeds.

Braxton has the Captain feat (+10 Accuracy, +20 Reaction, +5% Critical Chance to all allies), an energy shield and heavy armor, but no helmet or respirator.

You will be able to loot any of the fallen after the battle.

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Difficulty: Very Hard, you’re likely down most of your allied guards and Braxton is a tough hombre with the Captain feat boosting his allies.

Tactical Notes: You start in an unenviable tactical position. With Braxton’s Captain feat boosting the Reaction % of his allies walking straight into his office will lead to eating a lot of extra shots, at which point the Melee Regulator will start beating on your snipers. The Regulators are also packing some Thermal Vision and Optical Resistance so Flashbangs and Smoke Grenades will only be partially effective, Gas grenades will however be effective owing to their lack of toxic protection. The use of a Disruptor or Stasis Grenade is warranted here to make your way into the office after dealing with the Melee Regulator. Also, Braxton doesn’t wear a helmet, what’s with all these leaders not wearing helmets?

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Once everyone is dead then Lockpick 2 (+20SP) the back door, then Lockpick 3(+20SP) the trunk.

Regulator HQ Trunk: Scanner, Pipe Dream, 50x 5.56

Return to Jonas for +60XP and congratulations on freeing The Pit from Regulator influence!

Of course, if you managed earlier to convince Mercy to side with Jonas then there is still one more outstanding issue to resolve, who is going to actually rule The Pit now that Braxton is dead?

It's Jonas, Jonas is going to rule The Pit because Mercy won't turn on him like she will turn on Braxton. So that's that.

Crossroads (Braxton):

Talk to Jonas the lawless pimp and tell him off, we need Braxton to bring this town to order so return to him for your marching orders and +60XP.

Your first task is to remove one of Jonas’ lieutenants, a man by the name of Samuel in the quest Hired Thug. Go talk to Manny at Manpower Staffing Solutions, next to the Old Earth Emporium.

With Persuasion 3 (+40SP) or Streetwise 3(+40SP) you can get Manny to agree to loan you some troops for the warehouse assault, as well as +90XP for being persuasive. The troops themselves cost $300 and are probably not worth for actual combat but make sure to pass the check for the SP and XP. Note: Hiring the troops and bringing them into the Warehouse to back you up will award a Disposition bonus if you take the talking route for this quest.

Head to Warehouse C9 in the Outskirts.

If you hired troops from Manny you can ask them to come in the front door with you or tell them to wait until you break stealth. You can also get them hopped up on Aggro Stims, though I didn’t see what impact it had. They are fairly miserable troops, comparable to what you would fight in your first few combats, the shotgun recruit didn’t even bother to load his gun before the fight! (A bug report was submitted).

You can kick in the door if you’d like to talk/fight. Or you can sneak in the back if you’d like to sneak/fight.

Talking-wise, Streetwise 3 (+10SP) then Streetwise 4 (+10SP) or Persuasion 4(+10SP) to get his own men to shoot him in the back, +55SP to Speech skills for you even if you then fight them, then you can kill the remaining two troops or let them go. If you fail to talk them down you take an initiative penalty in the resulting combat.

Sneaking-wise, entering the vents awards +15 Sneak SP, a sneaking feat should let you easily kill the first henchman, you'll likely need a Cloaking Device to take down Samuel and Henchman #2 from stealth. No bonus Sneak SP for a full clear, and you can't leave before killing everyone.

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Difficulty: It should be Easy, but Samuel is armed with a Disruptor grenade which is extremely powerful, don't bunch up and it should still be Easy

Tactical Notes: Samuel has the Sergeant perk and good body armor, but like all respected leaders refuses to wear a helmet. He does have a valuable Disruptor grenade that he will use in the first round unless you can get your party into close quarters with him fast (Initiative >=65), or just kill him before he can take a turn, sure would be a shame if that Disruptor went to waste.

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Once your problems with Samuel are resolved, receive +90XP.
(Bug: Currently if you persuade Samuel's thugs successfully, you'll get +90XP twice, then you can get another +90XP for killing the thugs).

For completeness sake if you want to get your hired meatshields killed you can loot them but it’s certainly less than the $300 you paid for them.

Return to Braxton for next steps and +60XP.

Lord’s Mercy (Braxton)

Very similar to Jonas’ version with a couple of tweaks. If you want to persuade Mercy to support Braxton with Charisma 4 you’ll need Streetwise 4 going into the conversation and the following sequence. Refer to the bonus section on how to achieve Streetwise 4 on a Murderhobo build this if it is important to you.

Talking sequence: “And yet”->Streetwise 3(+10SP)->Street2(+10SP)->Street4(+10SP)

Persuading Mercy will award you the standard +90XP, as well as +115 bonus SP in Streetwise, Persuasion, and Impersonate.

• Convince Mercy to join Braxton
  
  • Streetwise 2 (-2 Disposition malus)
    
    • Streetwise 2
      
      • Persuasion 4
        
      • Streetwise 4
    • Persuasion 2
      
      • Persuasion 4
        
      • Streetwise 2
        
        • Persuasion 4
          
        • Streetwise 4 (-3 Disposition malus)
    • Charisma 8 + Persuasion 3
      
      • Persuasion 4
        
      • Streetwise 2
        
        • Persuasion 4
          
        • Streetwise 4
  • "And yet we're still talking..."
    
    • "We can put on a show"
      
      • Persuasion 3
        
        • Persuasion 4
          
        • Streetwise 2
          
          • Persuasion 4
            
          • Streetwise 4 (-3 Disposition malus)
      • Streetwise 3 (+1 Disposition bonus)
        
        • Persuasion 4
          
        • Streetwise 2
          
          • Persuasion 4
            
          • Streetwise 4 (-3 Disposition malus)

If you want to stealth your way through refer to the tips in the Jonas section of the guide concerning Lord's Mercy.

Otherwise you can pick up some free talking SP and then either immediately fight them or tactically retreat and come back with reinforcements. If you want maximum combat SPs you'll want to go through the dialogue trees even if you fail and then pick a fight, doing so will result in two of Jonas' guards showing up in time for the fight.

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If you choose to fight them when the conversation ends you'll deal with Mercy's forces, as well as two of Jonas' guards as well as Mercy's Gate Guard. If you choose to attack earlier in the conversation Jonas' guards won't be there yet.

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Braxton sends 3 Regulators with you as backup if you return to Mercy’s Fort after failing to persuade her. Instead of just letting you in, you now have to handle the Gate Guard. Critical Strike 4 (+40SP) will kill the Gate Guard and allow you and the Regulators to stealth in or initiate combat with an initiative bonus. You can let a party member perform the crit strike as well but they don’t appear to gain SP. If you lack enough crit strike the Regulators will talk to the Gate Guard and kill him when combat begins in Mercy’s compound.

You can also loot the gate guard when you’re done, normally you leave him alive on the Jonas route when returning to Mercy.


Otherwise stealth and combat scenarios play out the same, refer to Lord’s Mercy section in Jonas branch above, when/if you break stealth your Regulator allies will join you.

After completing Lord’s Mercy for +90 XP, return to Braxton for another +60XP.

Crossroads Finale (Braxton)

After resolving the Mercy issue, Braxton will have one final choice of tasks for you to accomplish. If you’re not much of a fighter you’ll be tasked to You Shall Not Pass (Braxton) which can be solved with talking supported by Electronics, or an easier fight than the alternative. If you are a stone-cold Murderhobo you’re going to be roped into All-In (Braxton), taking down Jonas inside the Promised Land.

You Shall Not Pass (Braxton)

Lockpick 3 (+20SP) the nearby chest for 50x 9mm. Inspect the turret and load the 9mm ammo into it. You can take the ammo back if you’d rather not have the turret fight, or if it blows up during the fight. Head up the stairs and pass the Electronics 2 (+20SP) check to retrieve the targeting module. Head back down to the turret and Electronics 4 (+20SP) to install the module.

An active turret will make the dialogue options easier as well as provide an ally if/when fighting breaks out.

引用自 "Choice and Consequence"：

If Redbeard survives this quest he will join the rebellious crowd during the Pit Chapter 3 and you will incur a -2 Disposition penalty when trying to convince them to leave, he is also a potential combatant during that scenario.

If you’d like to talk it out you should probably know the following.

The Impersonate 3 (+10 SP) check has a huge negative hit on Disposition if failed, this can cause you to fail to talk the crowd of out of fighting even with a turret backup, so generally you would take the non-skill locked option and go from there into a Persuasion 4(+10SP) / Streetwise 4 (+10SP) and then into a Persuasion 5(+10SP)/Streetwise 5(+10SP) choice, then falling back to firing up the turret if you want to resolve things peacefully.

While you can go directly to firing up the turret you can squeeze out a bit more talky SP if you take one of the other gambits first, and then fire up the turret when you inevitably fail, you’ll still be able to pass the final set of speech turret checks, just don’t fail the first Impersonate 3 check.

Gain +90XP for resolving your differences peacefully, +100 bonus SP for Streetwise, Persuasion, Impersonate.

You can of course extract some talky SP by deliberately failing the checks and then initiate combat at the end.

Diplomacy

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• (If turret repaired and loaded) Fire up the turret - note this sequence can be accessed at multiple points in the dialog and failing to achieve enough Disposition via diplomacy will then generally let you fire up the turret to make a different kind of point
  
  • ”This is an unlawful gathering” (Reputation:Combat 20+ provides positive disposition”)
    
    • "I don't have all day"
      
    • Persuasion 3
      
  • Streetwise 4 (Reputation:Combat 20+ provides additional positive disposition”)
    
    • "I don't have all day"
      
    • Persuasion 3
      
• ”You’re the new recruits”
  
  • Impersonate 3
    
    • Impersonate 4
      
      • Impersonate 5 - if Disposition failure, goto Fire up the turret
        
      • Streetwise 5 - if Disposition failure, goto Fire up the turret
        
    • Streetwise 4
      
      • Persuasion 5 - if Disposition failure, goto Fire up the turret
        
      • Streetwise 5 - if Disposition failure, goto Fire up the turret
        
      • (If turret repaired) goto Fire up the turret
        
  • "Defend against the Brotherhood"
    
    • Persuasion 4
      
      • (If turret repaired) goto Fire up the turret
        
      • Persuasion 5 - if Disposition failure, goto Fire up the turret
        
      • Streetwise 5 - if Disposition failure, goto Fire up the turret
        
    • Streetwise 4
      
      • (If turret repaired) goto Fire up the turret
        
      • Persuasion 5 - if Disposition failure, goto Fire up the turret
        
      • Streetwise 5 - if Disposition failure, goto Fire up the turret
        
  • (If turret repaired) goto Fire up the turret
    
• ”Hanging around out here?”
  
  • "Defend against the Brotherhood" - see duplicate sequence above
    
  • (If turret repaired) goto Fire up the turret
    

Combat

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With three Regulator allies (and likely a turret) you shouldn’t have much trouble dispersing this ill-equipped rabble.




Difficulty: Very Easy with your Regulator allies and Mr. Turret

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Over-Optimizing Note
We're not suggesting you get your allied Regulators killed so you can loot their equipment, but there doesn't seem to be a penalty if they die. Also, the Swing attack of the Warhammer will damage whoever is in the AOE, including allies, in case they need some help dying.

Once everyone is dead, receive +90 XP and your loot.

Automatically return to Braxton for +60XP, congratulations on freeing The Pit from Jonas!

All In (Braxton)

Super important note for everyone, turn on “Automatically Heal Party” in the party screen to make sure you heal between Phase 1 and Phase 2, unlike the Jonas version you won’t get a chance to save and heal between phases.

Over-Optimizing Note
With the December patch combat looting has been turned off, and allied NPCs that die will no longer stick around to be looted after the fight, so this fight is now less of a loot fest, but you also don't need to micromanage combat looting to suck up every last credit in your quest for efficiency, overall that feels like a win.

You will be joined by Martinez and a variable number of Regulator guards based on your party size, Martinez and the Melee Regulator will always join you, then one more regulator for each party member below three. Note that enemies and allies that die during Phase 1 of the assault will not be lootable.

引用自 "Choice and Consequence"：

If Martinez survives the fighting, and Braxton ends up in charge, he'll be in the Pit during Chapter 3 and he'll reward you with 24x Energy Cells.

Undocumented Patch Note? It looks like your allies will now reload and heal between Phase 1 and 2, so keep wounded Regulators alive by running them to the back line is a smart play in Phase 1.

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Difficulty: Hard, you’re charging a fortified position and will lose men along the way
Tactical Note: Allies will be under your control, so you can choose to hang back and exchange potshots if you think you’ve got a range advantage over the defenders, generally only advised if you’re running a party with some expert riflemen as the Regulators themselves are mediocre shots. If you want to charge forward then smoke grenades can cover your approach.

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+90 XP when your enemies are dead. Now to best the beast in his lair!

Assuming you set your party to auto heal and auto reload you will be in tip top shape for Phase 2, your surviving allied Regulators will likewise reload and heal. Any debuffs from Regen or Aggro stims will dissipate and gadgets will reset.

Phase 2 will allow for looting the enemy afterwards but the surviving Regulators will take their fallen with them.

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Difficulty: Hard, while the troops in Jonas’ office will take two turns to get to you, it's a lot of people to kill in a short amount of time before you’re overwhelmed. Consumables are strongly recommended.

Tactical Notes: Like all great leaders Jonas has the Sergeant feat, and doesn’t wear a helmet. He does have an energy shield. The Doorman is the tankiest tank you’ve faced so far, but he doesn't wear a helmet because head protection doesn't look cool, he does however have a very nasty Disruptor grenade. Most of your enemies are decent shots and your Regulator allies will take heavy casualties.

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Once everyone is dead, receive +90 XP and lots of loot.

Return to Braxton for +60 EXP, and with that the Pit is complete with Braxton in charge.

Mercy’s Gambit (Braxton)
Unless of course you manage to convince Mercy to join Braxton’s side during Lord’s Mercy. Help her kill Braxton and she takes over the Pit, kill her and Braxton shows up afterwards to pat you on the back.

You'll be able to loot the losing side in either conflict but the winners will take their dead with them.

+90 XP for killing Mercy, then +60XP for completing The Pit on Braxton’s side.

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Difficulty: Easy, fewer enemies than what you would face in the surrounded scenario of Lord’s Mercy and you can start your allies behind the bar for a cover advantage.
Tactical Notes: You should have had a chance to heal and reload, maybe even pick up some new gear. Mercy's crew is light on Thermal Vision but your team should be decked out by now so use Smoke.

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Difficulty: Medium, Mercy’s forces while not quite up to Braxton’s team should easily shift the balance of power to your side.

Tactical Notes: Braxton’s initial force’s disposition lets you capture Braxton and two of his riflemen with a single Stasis Grenade, that can turn this fight into a cakewalk. You can position Mercy & crew but they will control themselves during combat. Mercy does not need to survive combat, she will magically revive at the end even if struck down. Don't use Smoke, Mercy's team won't be able to see through it but the Regulators can.

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+90 XP for the combat, +60XP for putting Mercy on the throne of The Pit, onto the Factory!