BW, Hurricane for CQC, Paladin if I run out of ammo for BW. Weight is not an issue if you cloak and fire before cloak wears off. Favorite most op class imo.
Your favourite infiltrator loadout?
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#27
Posté 15 avril 2012 - 11:23
xefiroEA
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Infiltrator with Warp Ammo as special power, Black Widow with extended rail and concentration mod, and a submachine gun with the light materials mod and rail extension. At least when playing insanity. On lower difficulties, where I don't need a shot per defense layer, I'd go with the original Widow.
I like to take things down with a single shot. I always pick headshot and damage upgrades when possible. Run with Armax gauntlets and HK chestplate and legs, plus the headshot visor.
I stick with the Mantis until I get the Black Widow. The Javelin has better damage, but the warm up time before each shot is a turn off. Warp Ammo gives a boost against every defense except Shields, so I generally use the sub machine gun if the enemy's shield is too strong (Atlas, basically).
On insanity, a cloaked headshot from the BW takes a bit over 50% of a Harvester's life, and 35% or so from a Brute. The Banshees are still a pain. Everyone else loses one defense bar per shot. Which is why I take the BW, the semi auto three shots let me deal with Marauders and Assault troopers quickly.
I like to take things down with a single shot. I always pick headshot and damage upgrades when possible. Run with Armax gauntlets and HK chestplate and legs, plus the headshot visor.
I stick with the Mantis until I get the Black Widow. The Javelin has better damage, but the warm up time before each shot is a turn off. Warp Ammo gives a boost against every defense except Shields, so I generally use the sub machine gun if the enemy's shield is too strong (Atlas, basically).
On insanity, a cloaked headshot from the BW takes a bit over 50% of a Harvester's life, and 35% or so from a Brute. The Banshees are still a pain. Everyone else loses one defense bar per shot. Which is why I take the BW, the semi auto three shots let me deal with Marauders and Assault troopers quickly.
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Posté 16 avril 2012 - 02:05
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^^
Solid advice, but I would note that from what I've read and experienced myself, you can't get headshot bonuses for brutes and banshees. Consequently, if you are rolling with the BW or another high-damage, low-ROF sniper, I don't see much of a point in speccing for extra headshot damage, since most things besides the big bad dudes (or dudettes in the case of Banshees; gotta be sensitive with the gendered language, you know) will die with a single headshot regardless, and almost all the rest don't have "heads."
Agree with you on the Javelin though. I don't get the love for that gun. How are you supposed to be pinpoint accurate when it doesn't fire as soon as you pull the trigger? Plus, the damn thing somehow manages to weigh even more than the BW. I tried it for a few missions, and those were the only missions where I really wanted to smash my controller.
Solid advice, but I would note that from what I've read and experienced myself, you can't get headshot bonuses for brutes and banshees. Consequently, if you are rolling with the BW or another high-damage, low-ROF sniper, I don't see much of a point in speccing for extra headshot damage, since most things besides the big bad dudes (or dudettes in the case of Banshees; gotta be sensitive with the gendered language, you know) will die with a single headshot regardless, and almost all the rest don't have "heads."
Agree with you on the Javelin though. I don't get the love for that gun. How are you supposed to be pinpoint accurate when it doesn't fire as soon as you pull the trigger? Plus, the damn thing somehow manages to weigh even more than the BW. I tried it for a few missions, and those were the only missions where I really wanted to smash my controller.
Modifié par idspisp0pd, 16 avril 2012 - 02:08 .
#29
Posté 16 avril 2012 - 02:52
Leon Zweihander
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Black Widow with Vindicator or Hurricane as backup. Once you get Energy Drain you'll oneshot almost everything with a few exceptions.
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Posté 16 avril 2012 - 03:05
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Just finished my insanity playthrough with my really weird scorpion/cryo ammo and proximity mine infiltrator... so many explosions.
Proximity mines with the radius upgrade can hit enemies behind cover, when they recoil shoot em a couple times with the scorpion, if they are still alive cast a proximity mine at em to cause a cryo explosion.
Worked extremely well actually, scorpion makes phantoms completely trivial, just shoot at their feet. The only problem i had was with Dr. Eva, you cant kill her with a scorpion, so i had a smg as a backup for mars.
Proximity mines with the radius upgrade can hit enemies behind cover, when they recoil shoot em a couple times with the scorpion, if they are still alive cast a proximity mine at em to cause a cryo explosion.
Worked extremely well actually, scorpion makes phantoms completely trivial, just shoot at their feet. The only problem i had was with Dr. Eva, you cant kill her with a scorpion, so i had a smg as a backup for mars.
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Posté 16 avril 2012 - 01:23
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idspisp0pd wrote...
^^
Solid advice, but I would note that from what I've read and experienced myself, you can't get headshot bonuses for brutes and banshees. Consequently, if you are rolling with the BW or another high-damage, low-ROF sniper, I don't see much of a point in speccing for extra headshot damage, since most things besides the big bad dudes (or dudettes in the case of Banshees; gotta be sensitive with the gendered language, you know) will die with a single headshot regardless, and almost all the rest don't have "heads."
Agree with you on the Javelin though. I don't get the love for that gun. How are you supposed to be pinpoint accurate when it doesn't fire as soon as you pull the trigger? Plus, the damn thing somehow manages to weigh even more than the BW. I tried it for a few missions, and those were the only missions where I really wanted to smash my controller.
I'm pretty sure they still get headshot bonus damage. But they have such a ridiculous amount of HP that you don't feel like you're making progress anyway. At least with brutes, headshots hurt them while body shots seem to tickle them. Throwing on the cloak helps though, I'll have to test it again. It would explain why brutes cover their heads too, to make it harder to get the bonus damage.
I have found that some enemies have a poorly defined head area though. Notably the Harvesters and rachni soldiers. Hitting the eyes seems to ensure you get the bonus damage, but it's easy to hit the neck instead and deal normal damage.
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Posté 16 avril 2012 - 01:34
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Favorite would be Eviscerator X on silver (not really enough damage on Gold IMO). I'm looking forward to trying out Talon I though.
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Posté 16 avril 2012 - 02:20
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Well for single-player my faworite loadout is Black Widow + Hornet, works quite well on hardcore, mods are concentration+high-calber barrel for BW and rail extension+extra ammo for SMG. On MP cant really advice anything, since I played on bronze only.
P.S. As for Javelin - its exels at 2 things - killing cloaked Phantoms and shooting people through cover, and, due to "highlight" its much better in this things then any sniper rifle, Widow included. The tradeoff is poor accuracy on moving targets. BW is much more universal choice, I'd in fact preferred Javelin (since hitting moving targets with sniper rifle isnt my favorite anyway), if it wasnt single-shot.
P.S. As for Javelin - its exels at 2 things - killing cloaked Phantoms and shooting people through cover, and, due to "highlight" its much better in this things then any sniper rifle, Widow included. The tradeoff is poor accuracy on moving targets. BW is much more universal choice, I'd in fact preferred Javelin (since hitting moving targets with sniper rifle isnt my favorite anyway), if it wasnt single-shot.
Modifié par mad_yojik, 16 avril 2012 - 02:24 .
