Extracting solo
Extracting solo
I would be interested in some useful tips to extract solo on higher difficulties.
So scenario; I was playing on Hard, all other players had left and despite this I felt like struggling past the main objectives on my lonesome. Quite difficult but I managed, however when it came time to extract I just couldn't manage it. Waves (bugs) just overwhelmed me and I couldn't even get back on the console.
Is there some trick to this?
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My default is stealth in this game, and I've been in this situation quite a few times. Having started the game with others, this first suggestion might not have been possible, but what I like to do is get the main objective out of the way, call extraction in, throw a turret right next to the terminal, drop all of my samples there too, and get right on the edge of "abandoning" extraction, prone. Enemies come, the sentry takes aggro, and I can usually extract with no shots fired. Doing this first, however, has an added benefit: as soon as the pelican is on the way (the timer reads 0), I leave extraction. The pelican hovers above extraction, and fires on anything in range. Instant everything obliterator. Then I'm free to do everything else I want to do without the stress of extraction hovering over, because extraction is hovering over (hey-o).
Outside of that last bit, the TL;DR is, in a word, stealth, and, to expound a bit, lose aggro, call extraction, drop samples at extraction, do not gain aggro, and best practice is to stay off of extraction as long as you can, so if you get swarmed, you're not swarmed on extract, but somewhere else, and extraction is kept relatively un-rowdy.
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Yeah the staying right outside of extraction truck works amazingly well, its a great way ag to clear the end of defense missions and get samples