I know what you're referring to there. Those enemies shouldn't bother you as long as you don't initiate contact. Just jump onto the pipe that you need to in order to scout the location and wait for it to reach 100%.
See, this isn't immediately apparent. I thought you had to take down the walker as part of the mission. I think making it more apparent it's not vital to completing that mission should be better laid out. I was running around that area doing 13 damage to its legs thinking this is going to take hours...and that was when I was able to just focus on the walker, I had captains, dregs, valmears(?) swarming as well, which made it all the more frustrating.
It was insane.
I can understand what you mean if you're fighting them at Level 4. That wouldn't be fun given that they're much more powerful. But if you're L8 then you should shred them without any issues.
I think this is where my Borderlands side is coming through. I would routinely go up against enemies that were stronger and slowly wear them down, that doesn't seem as viable a strategy here as the knights especially have some great AI and don't just stand around absorbing hits.
Again, thanks for all the tips. Will dive back into the beta later today and put them use.
Definitely try to complete all the story missions on the lower difficulties and then do some of the beacon missions in Explore mode to level up. You may also find better gear in the wild, or at least earn some Glimmer to buy some at The Tower. When you reach Level 6 I believe you'll also be able to pick up Bounties from The Tower, which will give you more Glimmer to buy things with.
The green Uncommon weapons are generally better than the white ones, but if you find one that you like and is working for you, keep it. I accidentally dismantled a really good sniper. The green one I have now gives me ammo if I shoot the crate, but it's not as stable as my other one and I'm losing a lot of kills I would have earned with the white one.
With most MMO and RPG type games, damage is relative. A big bad who takes forever to kill now may go down in seconds if you level up or equip better gear.
Yeah, I found a few green armour picks up, which is why I'm rocking a good armour set, but I haven't found any powerful green weapons yet. I did find a sniper rifle as my secondary weapon, it's great, but it's not exactly the most powerful nor it is the most useful weapon.
I did every mission solo on my second character and not once did it become exceedingly difficult at all.
Also, maybe the problem is that you're playing this game alone? There hundreds of gaffers on every day, go fireteam up.
But I figured many opinions would change over time. People are just doing the same 4 missions over and over again, and exploring the same area without any progression past level 8. No shit it's getting boring. I realize that's not a fault of the game though and the full game will have you playing, levelong, exploring and looting new stuff for a loooooong time. I can't wait.
Honestly, it was mainly that public event with the walker that really started to frustrate me. I was having a blast playing solo or with the occasional random before that. And when I had enough of dying during that event, I decided to leg it only to run into a group of level 8/9 knights who proceeded to
destroy me multiple times.
Those two moments in quick succession really made frustrating. I think I'll focus on levelling up on normal for now, get some decent weapons and then hit the missions on hard.
I appreciate it.
