DDL on 18/1/2010 at 13:17

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Depends how you're doing it. If you spec for combat (ADS, ballistic, combat strength, energy shield, regen, speed, etc), and whack on a suit of ballistic armour, you can run around slaughtering grunts with very little concern, even on realistic. With ballistic armour and maxed enviro skill, you can take a rocket to the chest and walk away, and with ADS on the rockets won't even get that far.

If you're specced for more subtlety, then being stuck right in the middle of almost any fight (be it simons, 3 commandos, or 20 grunts) will get you dead fast, unless you can sprint the hell away, hide, and take em down one by one when they've lost interest sometime later. With 20 grunts this would certainly be a challenge: at least sticking you up against one dude maximises your chance of running away successfully, which I suspect was what they had to consider when designing that encounter (though they could I guess have checked for player proficiency/aug balance and added more dudes, but that would probably annoy people who weren't tank-specced, who'd feel like the game was taking pity on them, or something: "Don't give me easymode, damnit, I CAN TAKE IT!", etc).


(as I recall, the first time I did that fight I ran off like a little girl, climbed up to the top of the tower and gepped him. Not terribly noble, admittedly)