Rifleman Archive

The titel says it all. After a week of trying, for hours and hours, to solo mobs during non primetime hours , I've yet to find a viable strategy and mobs to use it against.

Can you guys help out a novice rifleman?

Pretty much anything that doesn't BAF or have ranged attacks is easy to solo. What I do, I know I use pistol here, but go prone at 60m and hit mob with healthshot 1 & 2, then equip spraystick and use suppressionfire1. At this time the mob is now kneeling. I stand up usualy and equip my laser rifle and use defalt attack. Switch back to the spraystick shortly after the mob stands up, he will kneel again. Rinse & repeat.

It depends how "novice" you are. My suggestion is to try to take out enemies that are also ranged attackers. Concentrate more on missions. I make it a point not to accept destroy missions against melee MOBs because I know I will get slaughtered.

When going up against a group, always keep a spare rifle with the quickest speed possible. Spraystick if you can use it, but even a CDEF will do. Damage is not your plan. Creep up to them and bleed them all (obviously you need /mindshot1 to do this). Then swap to your powerful gun and concentrate on one enemy at a time. The beauty of this system is that by the time you drop your first enemy, the others have lost a good chunk of their bars.

I am novice rifleman and just filled in three of the first-level boxes in the past 4 days.
Every planet has it's good suggestions, and I can't speak for every planet. But the last few days I've had very good luck on Tatooine. Here is what I do....

I start in Mos Espa, but I'm not sure it matters. I go out in the moutains west of town (I would guess approx 2000-2500m). When you first start wandering, you see NOTHING. Looks bleak... not an animal on the radar. But all I do is wander in a zig-zag patter through the mountains. Usually after about 2 minutes (or less)I start finding all kinds of nests and lairs. I don't know how the game engine works, but my guess is that they show up because I've been out there a little while (anyone know??). I can't explain it, I just know that it's happened this way several nights in a row now.

Usually within 3-4 minutes I can find one of the following nests:
-- mountain squills. Non-aggro, Non-killers, 3300+ XP !! (my favorite)
-- Bantha nests. Dont remember... maybe 2200 XP each?
-- Dewbacks ... careful... some aggro... some dont
-- Greater Womp Rats ... 1800+ each

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I should mention right now that if you have NO medic skills and cannot heal yourself then you should STOP reading this message now ....unless you are extremely careful and lucky. You will often need to heal yourself while shooting topull this off.
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I almost NEVER shoot the nests. By the time I kill one or two and rest my mind, one or two more have spawned. I spent 3 hours at a mountain squill spawn last Saturday night and killed a sh*tload of them for 90K XP! I really wanted to go to bed, but you can't give up an opportunity like that! At 4AM in the morning one of them finally killed me! Thank God! Sweet sleep!

Last night I spent 2 hours at a Womp Rat lair and earned about 43K XP. The nest FINALLY stopped spawning and I killed it for an additional 2300+ XP. So at some point the nests might stop spawning and you can take them out for the final XP.

The Dewbacks are a little more confusing to me. Maybe I just need to learn which ones aggro and which ones don't. Last Friday I found a spawn and was killing them individually for 2200+ each. Last night I found a spawn, took one shot at one and two of them jumped me.... death followed quickly!

My kill method for all of these is the same:
Equip Laser rifle... go prone at approx 66m... Maskscent... crawl to 60m... Mindshot2...
If it misses, Mindshot2 again... If it hits the first time, then follow with Mindshot1
(In your case, you probably don't have MS2 yet... so just use MS1, but it will take longer each animal)
Immediately after my second shot (MS1) I switch to Spraystick and immediately use Suppression Fire.
At about this time, the animal detects you and starts toward you... The suppression fire stops them in their tracks for about 5 seconds (I think). I just keep the spraystick equipped and fire a couple of suppression shots every 4 or 5 seconds so that I don't use up all my mind pool.

If you get a POOR Mindshot value, anything under 400 say, you want to quickly equip your Laser and shoot another MS to try and get a higher value. But be quick and follow it immediately with suppression fire.

Now sometimes they sneak through the suppression fire, or they manage to incap me, but none of those animals killed me if I started the attack with high HAM. If you think you might get incapped, use your last remaining life to run TOWARDS the nest! Why? The animal will wander back to the nest after you incap, and if it's too far away and the animal gets past around 75 yards, then dies from your Mindshot bleeding, you will NOT get any XP and it was all for nothing. The point is, IF you incap, do it as close to the nest as possible so the animal doesn't wander out of range.

Another strategy I just can't bring myself to try is this: If you get a GOOD bleed with the Mindshots, then get near the nest (20-30m) and LET THEM INCAP YOU. That way, you use NO MIND power while they stand around and bleed to death! You're out for 90 seconds, but hey, it takes that long to sit and heal your mind anyway, right? Obviously, once you come out of incap you have to heal your HA right away with Stimpacks.

Hope this at least give you some ideas.....

If you have conceil 1 you can just about use conceil shot on any creature as long as then dont swarm you