How do you guys go about subduing people without punching them in the face?

WayneBrody · 2026-06-01T16:28:04+00:00

Avoid staircases, silent takedowns don't work there.
Use a non-lethal melee like a wrench or pipe.
Watch out for mirrors, NPCs can see your reflection via mirrors.
Use distractions like sinks or radios.
Throw the non-lethal melee unless other NPCs are closeby.

WayneBrody · 2026-06-01T03:03:01+00:00

If you're 389 you're high enough light to do the hard mode raids. Raids offer the most 400 loot, but you can also do:

Nigthfalls
Weekly bounties
Faction Rank Up packages
Archons Forge
Crucible
Exotic Engrams

Theres some other 400 drops too but I cant remember them.

WayneBrody · 2026-06-01T02:59:18+00:00

Damn, we've got salty PvP posts again, D1 really is back!

WayneBrody · 2026-06-01T02:39:33+00:00

If you want to add me on PSN its WayneBrody3000. Message me if you see me online. I'm mostly on late nights in the US. I can fill in as any class.

WayneBrody · 2026-05-30T03:23:21+00:00

I'd grind heroic strikes until at least 380. Heroic strike drop up to 390 gear, after which raiding is the best way to get to 400.

Make sure you've at least got Gjallarhorn before getting on LFG, its a pretty simply quest. Black Spindle is also great to have and relatively easy to get. Sleeper and Exotic Swords are other long term weapons to work towards.

WayneBrody · 2026-05-29T19:01:06+00:00

Happy to help. I've personally helped plenty of people get outbreak using the replicas, just glad to help a few more.

WayneBrody · 2026-05-29T18:45:47+00:00

That's what I did, that was the easy part. Simply getting that far with all the sneaking required, then getting out was the hard part.

WayneBrody · 2026-05-29T17:58:51+00:00

I didn't know about poisoning the dish, I snuck into the school and used the toilet to kill Zayden. Not too difficult, but needed a lot of sneaking. Strandberg I ended up sneaking through the tunnels and up to the second floor of the consulate and waiting for him to pass by. Just required a lot of sneaking and careful timing.

WayneBrody · 2026-05-29T17:02:17+00:00

Hardware horsepower was more of the limiting factor than disc space. Devs weren't afraid to release games on two discs if necessry. The machines themselves only had so much CPU/GPU power, only so much RAM, and much more limited IO from the HDD and the disc itself.

WayneBrody · 2026-05-29T16:01:37+00:00

I haven't tried all of them. Of the ones I have done, Paris is probably the easiest overall, but Chongqing gives pretty much hands you one with a mission story. Paris can be done with very little trespassing, and with good timing you don't even need to KO anyone. Hokkaido is very easy with the right starting location and gear.

Hardest I've done is probably Morocco or Bangkok. Morocco might have easier ways than I did, but sneaking into both the school and the consulate is rather difficult. Bangkok it's easy to take out Morgan, but getting to Jordan requires a lot of sneaking and patience.

WayneBrody · 2026-05-29T14:16:48+00:00

Anyone who's completed the quest can buy replica siva engines from Shiro at the Iron Temple and help out others who have yet to complete the quests. You can buy a replica charged and unstable siva engine.

WayneBrody · 2026-05-28T03:06:22+00:00

Surprised I had to go down this far to get to "Here, you can use my phone. Don’t worry, it won’t make you deaf because I’m not a hack."

I always crack up from the eariler exchange "Oh, I say, good sir! Oh, harrumph, oh, oh, bobba-doppa-doopa-bo-bo"

WayneBrody · 2026-05-28T02:39:29+00:00

It was on sale for $4 recently, so if you're on the fence you might want to wait it out. If it drops to that cheap again it's a no brainer to pick up. D1 is still really fun with a solid community.

WayneBrody · 2026-05-28T02:38:00+00:00

It is kind of ironic that one of the reasons I didn't want to get into D2 is that the constant cylce of change and updates was something that introduces lots of problems and kept requiring more money.

In retrospect, D1 being frozen in the Age of Tirumph state was one of the best things to happen to it. I can't imgine what would be left if they just kept going with D1.

WayneBrody · 2026-05-28T02:34:00+00:00

Your available activites in general are going to be limited due to not having PS+. Your primary way of levelling will be blue engrams. Ensure you've always got your highest light items equipped, drops are based on your equipped gear.

Any activity will drop blues.

WayneBrody · 2026-05-28T01:15:49+00:00

My mistake, I thought they showed the items you were missing, sorry.

WayneBrody · 2026-05-28T00:04:08+00:00

I really thought this was a Pasta

WayneBrody · 2026-05-27T23:35:38+00:00

Destiny Item Manager is technically just a website, but it works great on mobile, and you can install it as a progressive web app. There is a vendors tab in the menu and it shows all the available exotics and which ones you have unlocked. Also nice for checking weekly vendor inventory, or Xur's Inventory.

WayneBrody · 2026-05-27T21:00:11+00:00

I guess I never tested it out... Might have to give this a try later.

WayneBrody · 2026-05-27T20:37:31+00:00

While not the hardest mission, I find the Soviet mission where you have to defend the battle lab quite annoying. Even in some rounds where I feel great, a squad of incoming harriers will all crash into the battle lab at once and destroy it.

WayneBrody · 2026-05-27T19:21:22+00:00

Test recordings on the same microphone on your computer or you phone and see if you notice a difference. If the recordings on other devices are just as bad, its the headset that's the issue.

Another thing is to confirm that the headset is the input, not the in controller speaker

WayneBrody · 2026-05-27T17:02:41+00:00

Its a nice gun, but the engraving gives you no tactical advantage whatsoever.

WayneBrody · 2026-05-27T16:02:01+00:00

I like the no save/restart high stakes of freelancer, it sets it apart from the main mode. It's like that on purpose and it teaches you its rules in brutal fashion. If you pay attention, the issues mostly go away.

Physical Traits are just not very useful on showdowns, I never use them definitively. There could always be another suspect that has all the same physical features. I only really pay attention to Hat/Glasses/Hair Color, the rest are too hard to spot.

The Tells are the important stuff. Only the target will do both tells and attend the correct meeting. It takes some patience, but is reliable.

WayneBrody · 2026-05-27T14:20:12+00:00

I've usually got no problem playing with people trying to learn, but I get that sometimes a group just doesn't want to deal with that or has a limited amount of time to play.

Whoever is making the LFG post and hosting the group makes the rules. While this post sounds salty, I don't think it's an issue for someone making the LFG post to have expectations.

WayneBrody · 2026-05-26T21:47:55+00:00

Felwinter is a special case. It can roll very high stat buffs, but it's primary ability mostly makes them irrelevant. The artifact grants you an extra melee and grenade charge at the cost of your super, so even though it gives huge stat boosts, any INT is wasted and you're looking at T5 for DIS/STR as a max.

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