Good day mate... on a side note. What settings are you running to get the UI to fall in place like that. Does it need to be specific to lower graphics settings like 1980x or something. Lower right corner my statuses always bleed down over the save and home buttons. Thanks
This is my browser at full screen and 80% zoom. This is on PC, chromium browser (MS Edge). Firefox works as well.
It also doesn't seem to have a way to prevent enemies from targeting my main guy even if I have followers. Would you say the best way for combat is melee or ranged in this case?
Aggro is determined by who has the best combat stats, weapon in use, and who is wearing what armor. If all your followers are wearing Stealth armor, you are the only one that can be targeted first. If you are wearing Duraplate, WEGA, or HULC, and your followers are wearing weaker armor Combat Armor or Weave, enemies are much less likely to attack you.
Melee or ranged depends on what you are trying to do and which stage of the game are you. Before miniguns, which is a limited loot (two) very late into the game, powerstriking with a greatsword or greataxe (the powerstrike icon is the armored glove, or press E as a shortcut/hotkey) are the best single target weapons in this game, discounting Cybercannons (limited ammo, cannot be Ammo Pack'd) and uniques (which you probably do not have, because Sword of Azuk is even later and Sacred Mallet requires a character creation trait). This is assuming you have trained melee and strength enough. If you are catching prisoners however, some people would prefer the plasma rifle and whipping cane combo, because whipping cane takes the melee slot, and plasma rifle is good at removing armor soak, which makes the whipping cane do slightly more damage.
The other consideration for melee or ranged is which NPC are you bringing to fights. Cassius can go melee or ranged but you might prefer him at melee. Aaron is a melee specialist. Milou is a ranged specialist, with Crackshot and Ammo Pack. Like Cassius and Aaron, both Herculean Warrior Brawlers, Einar can do melee well, though he is pretty solid at ranged. So is Truls, although Truls is mostly left in melee. Greataxes are given to your Herculeans, miniguns to your Crackshots, that sort of thing. There is no hard and fast rule though. You can make Lovisa a minigunner if you train her hard enough. Not going to be as good, but good enough for most content.
Lastly, the enemy can also be a deciding factor. The Cultist Monk, the ninjas in the Black Scorpion gang, and especially the boss at Zapin Fields have high evasion. Cultist Monk is a preview for the other two much more evasive enemies. They do a good job at dodging melee attacks, especially powerstrike from greataxes or greatswords. They have a much harder time dodging bullet.
The new Relic Hunter quests help with that if you donate the relics.
Relics does not raise Academy standing as far as I can see. It raises your standing with Historical Society.
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Speaking of minigun, anyone here tried Dexter Colt with minigun in the Dengi invasion? How much is his Pistoleer trait making it less likely to hit with the minigun? I might have to put him a full tier lower in the Dengi tierlist.
