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[Josephus]

Grey Goggles sounds good, but make the trim color of her mecha orange. Not sure why.

[Jack A T]

More fighting!  And stuff!

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Revy: Goimosf, your name is now Grey Goggles.  Now go away.  Lava, get back over here.
Revy goes to Xianzai Spinner again.

Revy: ...Odbgu never gives up, does she?
Dadehdoc: Nope.  Now, blow her stuff up and you'll be paid.  Sound good?
Revy: Sure.

Lava Shark: Uh, Revy...that person over there's fooling around with electronics nervously.  We'd best see what's going on.
Revy: I'm the boss here!  Now, that person over there is fooling around with electron-
Lava Shark: ...Sure...

Revy: I'm looking for Odbgu, and I know you're with her.
Redia: You'll never get any info out of me!  DIE!

Revy: Uh...I'm over here.  That's just some random civvie.
Redia: ...That was deliberate!  Definitely deliberate.

Now I get into one of the problems with this game.  You see, I walked up to this person to speak to her.  She went hostile.  It is nearly impossible to take a move that doesn't result in head destruction on my side.

Eventually, however, I manage to be lucky enough to move away, recover a dataslate, and use it.

Revy: No, you.
Odbgu: You have got to learn the art of witty repartee.

The fight goes badly.

What next?  Hard, reward-focused mission, hard, killing-focused mission, or hard, help-focused mission?

[Frumple]

killfrenzy~

[techno65535]

Money!

[Jack A T]

I'll go with killing.

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Dadehoc: Shame.  Shame.  Shameful shame.  Go to Emerald Spinner.

Revy: If I'm paid well, I'll fight.
Uhow: Great.  Her allies are in the area.  Shoot them.

Revy fights off a raider patrol successfully, hopefully doing enough damage to mess them up in the main fight.  Also, loot!

I love how this works: you search for evil raiders, find police who completely ignore the evil raiders.  This officer will never bother us again.  Three officers die in combat.  Eventually, Revy locates the raiders.

Revy: Another diary to read and then sell...boring...

A clue!

For those who were wondering, Revy is a true villain.   Not much of a criminal, though.

Lava Shark: This brings back memories.  Bad memories.  Very, very bad memories.
Revy: This means...I'm being paid to rob a cruiser?  AWESOME.

The cruiser, complete with two cannons.  Ugh.

Revy: Okay, I have a new mecha.  Time to have fun!
Lava Shark: OH SHIT.
And so we discover that Lava Shark's mecha has a chainsword.  Yes, a chainsword.


Revy: YES!  I WIN! VICTORY IS MINE!

Revy: You're kidding, right?
Odbgu: Thanks for giving me plenty of time to arrive.
Lava Shark: See? This is why we DON'T spend ages dancing in the wreckage, Revy.
Odbgu: Well, you can't win, Revy.  I've predicted your every move.

Revy: Toress?  Wait, who are you again?
Toress: Your friend.  From Theles.  Remember?
Revy: Err...do I know you?
Toress: YES.  YES, YOU DO.


Revy: ...what the who the wha?

Revy: Don't look at me.  I'm just as surprised as you are.
Odbgu: Lance!  Destroy Revy and her meddling friends!
Revy: Listen, people I don't know.
Toress: WE KNOW EACH OTHER.  I GAVE YOU YOUR FIRST MISSION.  REMEMBER?
Revy: I'm sitting in what's essentially an open air cockpit, and I have no ammo.  One good hit and I'm toast.  So...um...don't get me killed here.

Revy gets hit, but manages to eject.  She quickly discovers that the prototype mecha is utter crap, but worth good money.  She sells it.

Help, kill, or get big rewards?

[Frumple]

~KILLFRENZYKILLFRENZY~

_{(Actually, go for the cash. You keep getting shot up, so monies into a trainer for mecha piloting or something would probably be really helpful...)}

[Boksi]

You're at -41 renown? Ouch. How you keep getting trounced is beyond me, you shouldn't be fighting anything tougher than Buru Burus.

[Jack A T]

You're at -41 renown? Ouch. How you keep getting trounced is beyond me, you shouldn't be fighting anything tougher than Buru Burus.

I'm assuming Vadels with heavy missiles are tougher than Buru Burus.

[Boksi]

Vadels?

Hmmm. Normal Vadels are a bit over 1M PV. The cheapest Vadel variant I could find in my game is 800K PV. Am I correct in assuming that you were blown to bits by Odbgu in a Vadel, then? Or at least a character with actual dialogue? Or are you fighting entire lances of Vadels or something?

Characters with importance to the plot, even if they're just filler enemies that have no actual impact on the story, tend to have better mechs. Often custom jobs. And they also have better skills than the mooks. At least, that's how it is in my experience.

I'll have to go play a little, to see what I'm put up against by the game. I stopped playing because I got a new lancemate, dismissed my old one, got a new lancemate slot from the Cavalier's Club and now I can't find my old lancemate. This all happened in the same Spinner, too.

[Akigagak]

Wait. Lavashark. I just did math, he did 652.6 damage per hit. That more than twice what Revy does with 10 rockets.

[Jack A T]

Everything I fight has heavy missiles, 1 or 2 members of each lance is a Vadel, I only see Buru Burus in the hands of the police anymore.

Wait. Lavashark. I just did math, he did 652.6 damage per hit. That more than twice what Revy does with 10 rockets.

Melee weapons.  They deal absurd amounts of damage.  And those 10 rockets are hellfire rockets, not the most damaging rockets.  I usually deal about as much damage with 1 of my bigger missiles as he does with 1 melee hit.  He just happens to get 5 or 6 hits per attack.

[Blaze]

Start packing some intercept weapons and ECMs.

Melee weapons are the way to go if you're looking for something that'll wreck the crap outta everything. Strap some heavy actuators on a SF1 mecha and watch it deal 500 damage in a single blow against a SF2 mecha with a DC5 weapon.

The problem, of course, is with the range; which lots of speed can compensate.

[EuchreJack]

Your problem is that you are only fighting plot missions, which scale based on episode.  You need to grind with non-plot missions, which typically scale with renown (so in your case, they would consist of a single Dora).  Use the money and experience to improve yourself and mecha.

[Jack A T]

Your problem is that you are only fighting plot missions, which scale based on episode.  You need to grind with non-plot missions, which typically scale with renown (so in your case, they would consist of a single Dora).  Use the money and experience to improve yourself and mecha.

2 problems there: The only non-plot missions I can actually make a profit on are merchant robbery missions (ammo costs a lot of money), which are surprisingly hard to find, and, due to a certain early plot mission involving merchants, people (especially the police) largely refuse to give me missions of any sort.

[EuchreJack]

Note that with your renown that you will be fighting the absolute weakest mecha in the game.  That said, find/modify/buy a mecha without missiles to fight the random missions.

Also, there are non-random missions you can do.  Hm, the villanous/chaotic combo really hurts your ability to get missions (and being so wagnatta does not help), I'd suggest mentioning that (if you haven't already) on the Gearhead 2 boards.

Honestly, most commentary I've read involves people restarting at below -40 renown.  But, you are so close to the end!