

You can avoid most combat encounters, but in doing so you miss out on a lot of exp and loot.

Unfortunately Fallou 1/2 were before the time that became a thing. I think the female can be part of a porn and you get XP and an STD out of it and the male can donate his DNA for a vault.Ĭlick to expand.Yeah, Shadowrun: Returns more dynamic and tactical combat. Male and females have different gender interactions so there's a purpose to picking one over another. Not knowing where things are and running around the map blindly just gets you into more useless random encounters you could happily avoid. I think I had like 6 characters die miserable deaths before I found a gun I could steal really early. There's a lot of little things that help you along the way and the game fluffs it's game length by punishing you for not knowing where these things are. Or at least read some guides and get suggestions on types of builds and characters. You don't really hit worse enough that doing so much more damage wouldn't be what you wanted to do.īecause this is one of those old school type of games a guide is more valuable. You definitely want at least like 7 agility because AG is action points and not being able to do anything will cripple your options.Īlways aim for the eyes. You'll end up wasting a lot of ammo and it's not like FO3 where you get too much of that stuff.

They're big, they're not very rewarding and there's plenty of ways to die somewhere else.

Generally random encounters, run from them. The battles in this game are much lengthier than the FPS counter parts with the sneak attack and single targets and small grouped encounters. It did felt nice when I realized that a character I just grew myself had just one-shotted a super-mutant. The only moments when I found the combat boring was when walking though a zone full of enemies who are all scared of me because it would automatically turn combat mode which greatly impeded my movement rate. It actually saved my playthrough when I saved in an irradiated zone with very low health. Other than that, if you still dislike the combat system, you might try to avoid it when possible, investing more into stealth and evasion as well as trading and charisma.įor cheating you can use memory editors like ArtMoney to max your states. You can also work on improving your tactics, keep meelee enemies at a distance and use throwables for crowd control. 'Git gud' aside, I'd suggest optimizing your character for specific combat role from the get go, like maxing your agility and dumping a lot in pistols to have high accuracy early on. So far the only reason for boredom you've given is that battles are too hard for you.
