I’m like 8 hours in and all I’ve been doing is climbing things, skirting little ledges around buildings to see if I can get higher, and constantly using ping/distract on things on the ground.

I don’t know why. I’ve only found 2 places where I could break a window with a bat and sneak into a building, most floors and buildings seem only for show with no real interior. But… since I know breakable windows and secret entrances and shit exists I can’t stop looking for it.

I’m only level 7, but climbing high and lighting everyone on fire with technomagic is my kind of great combat. I was really surprised to find out that actually lighting people on fire until they run out of health somehow doesn’t count as killing them and they just go “downed”… so I can get the bonus from some quests for not killing, then go back with a katana and dice them up. <3

  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Man, I couldn’t even get past the tutorials. It was all so overwhelming. The cyberware and combat I was ready for but the memory stuff was just too much. I can’t remember systems within systems and having to remember details from dreams asked too much.

    Beautiful game. Cool environment. Just too busy.

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      27 minutes ago

      What do you mean by memory stuff? The brain dance investigations?

      Don’t sweat it and just use a guide, they aren’t really a major part of the game beyond maybe 3 story missions?

      If you mean hacking, just go with a sandevistan no hacking melee build. The game feels very different when you play it as a pure (no) hack n slash.

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      5 hours ago

      The whole memory replay thing gets abandoned after you do it a couple of times until Phantom Liberty I think. I wouldn’t worry too much about that aspect of the gameplay.