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EDIT: I finished the second run last night. The "stuff I've learned" list has been amended and corrected to reflect this.
As the title of this post indicates the walkthrough is almost finished. It is technically complete already as I reached the point where I started writing it during my last run through. That is - it will get you from start to finish. However I'm now filling in the gaps. I still have to complete my second run to guarantee accuracy. Unfortunately as I am not mathematically-minded (and I'm not parsing to begin with) I cannot include damage formulas.
I have, however, confirmed:
Experience gains are randomized. Each enemy has a set range of experience it can give. The stronger the enemy, the more experience it is likely to cough up.
The highest (known) level enemy in the game is a level 65 Tasset that guards the main terminal on level 4.
What I initially thought as an elite form of Barmail turns out to be a separate enemy. This enemy has two shields and attacks with twin rocket launchers. For now, though, I'm keeping it in the Barmail enemy entry and just making a note about the differences. If I can get a better look at it I may move it to another entry. I have a hard time keeping some enemies straight (Hauberks and HPSes look alot alike at a cursory glance) so I try to keep them sorted via weakpoints.
I did find a gun launcher dropper. It's an advanced HPS-03 with a shoulder-mounted launcher. That gives me some small hope that more then one large gun launcher exists in the game. (It dropped a medium launcher.)
EDIT: It seems extremely unlikely at this point. A later HPS with the same model used a linear cannon instead. There are only 3 Cuilboil in the entire game. One can drop the tier 4 linear cannon (Super Cannon - it's awesome BTW), the second a Heavy Vulcan, and the third uses two large rocket launchers.
Well, that was my best chance. The Cuilboils have a small chance to drop anything let alone weapons. Good thing for save states or I might have gone a little crazy trying to farm them.
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Now playing: Michael Jackson - Black Or White
via FoxyTunes
As the title of this post indicates the walkthrough is almost finished. It is technically complete already as I reached the point where I started writing it during my last run through. That is - it will get you from start to finish. However I'm now filling in the gaps. I still have to complete my second run to guarantee accuracy. Unfortunately as I am not mathematically-minded (and I'm not parsing to begin with) I cannot include damage formulas.
I have, however, confirmed:
Experience gains are randomized. Each enemy has a set range of experience it can give. The stronger the enemy, the more experience it is likely to cough up.
The highest (known) level enemy in the game is a level 65 Tasset that guards the main terminal on level 4.
What I initially thought as an elite form of Barmail turns out to be a separate enemy. This enemy has two shields and attacks with twin rocket launchers. For now, though, I'm keeping it in the Barmail enemy entry and just making a note about the differences. If I can get a better look at it I may move it to another entry. I have a hard time keeping some enemies straight (Hauberks and HPSes look alot alike at a cursory glance) so I try to keep them sorted via weakpoints.
I did find a gun launcher dropper. It's an advanced HPS-03 with a shoulder-mounted launcher. That gives me some small hope that more then one large gun launcher exists in the game. (It dropped a medium launcher.)
EDIT: It seems extremely unlikely at this point. A later HPS with the same model used a linear cannon instead. There are only 3 Cuilboil in the entire game. One can drop the tier 4 linear cannon (Super Cannon - it's awesome BTW), the second a Heavy Vulcan, and the third uses two large rocket launchers.
Well, that was my best chance. The Cuilboils have a small chance to drop anything let alone weapons. Good thing for save states or I might have gone a little crazy trying to farm them.
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Now playing: Michael Jackson - Black Or White
via FoxyTunes
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