How do you plan?/How are you playing? (Builds & Play Styles.)

So to those of you already playing and those of you gearing up to play in about an hour, how do you plan to play? What kind of build do you plan to make, if at all.

I am one of the people waiting to play, but I think I'm gonna try out what I can only describe as a rogue like character, I wanna be up close in the thick of it.

I plan to use Cloak as my Ego power and pick up perks that revolve around crits, melee and benefits that tie into the cloak power, I may drop the melee boosting perks depending on how decent melee damage is.
I also plan to use SMG's for close range and maybe Infectors for mid range, cloaking into and out of combat as needed.

How about you?

I plan to be a Tanky character healer or an assault rifle user with high Accuracy

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Originally Posted by lmd2409

I plan to be a Tanky character healer or an assault rifle user with high Accuracy

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So Overcharge Ego power for you then?

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Originally Posted by Maldrix

So to those of you already playing and those of you gearing up to play in about an hour, how do you plan to play? What kind of build do you plan to make, if at all.

I am one of the people waiting to play, but I think I'm gonna try out what I can only describe as a rogue like character, I wanna be up close in the thick of it.

I plan to use Cloak as my Ego power and pick up perks that revolve around crits, melee and benefits that tie into the cloak power, I may drop the melee boosting perks depending on how decent melee damage is.
I also plan to use SMG's for close range and maybe Infectors for mid range, cloaking into and out of combat as needed.

How about you?

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Im going with same kind of loadout but nothing but crit at first with shotgun

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Originally Posted by Figma

Im going with same kind of loadout but nothing but crit at first with shotgun

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Reading through the crit perk list you will need to be cloaked, higher then your target, who shouldn't be in combat, hip firing, with no shield, crouched and at point blank range.
Achieve all this and you should be able to take bosses down in less then 3 shots :p

I've been using Overpower, but I stopped and did an arkfall early on when I was already low on ammo and I completely ran out. Because there don't appear to be any ammo caches in non-combat areas (major oversight), I found it difficult to get restocked and back into the game. Now I'm using the perks that steal ammo and recharge shields on melee kills so I don't run out again or get killed trying to restock. I've got a set up that should be gun oriented, but requires melee finishes. It doesn't seem terribly efficient, but it's working so far.

It occurs to me that I really ought to set up the other loadout with different perks so I can swap out the greedy scavenger perks for something that is more focused on effectiveness at range. It would be nice if there was a faster way to swap loadouts on the fly during combat.

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Originally Posted by Shogo_Yahagi

It would be nice if there was a faster way to swap loadouts on the fly during combat.

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But I think the whole pont is to stop you from doing that, otherwise you have access to 4 guns, 2 shields and a wide variety of perks.

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Originally Posted by Maldrix

But I think the whole pont is to stop you from doing that, otherwise you have access to 4 guns, 2 shields and a wide variety of perks.

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Fair point.

Thought I would bump this thread now that EU players have had a chance to get their hands on the game.
So whats your preferred build guys?
In my original post I said I wanted to use SMG's and Infectors, but I haven't actually played around with Infectors yet, Only used them in one shot out and they seem weird, so I will have to play around with them some more.
I'm really liking SMG's though, they can eat through ammo pretty quick, but they deliver their damage fast and hip fire bloom is minimal. Still have to work on my perks, and sort through them, but like cloak, makes getting into and out of dangerous places a bit easier and is a good panic button if the situation calls for it.

EDIT: Damn double posts...