Urbanolo
Augur
- Joined
- May 12, 2014
- Messages
- 320
There's no longer any doubt that Carnifex "cheats" at stats. His initiative is 29, which means he has an average of 12 DEX and 12 AGI, on top of massive CON... and presumably very high STR, and good WIL to boot. His INT must be -12 to afford all those increases.
Fight's definitely not "fair," and favors very high Initiative, a massive Dodge score, and/or tons of CON and high-quality metal armor.
Anyway, I beat him as level 18 pure psi only by save scumming Initiative with the further assistance of a tasty cave hopper steak. It was either that or never complete the quest line; there was no scenario in which my character would survive two rounds of him whaling away on me, regardless of level. I'm fine with it, because he's a massive cheater himself.
I threw out Mental Breakdown, Doppelganger, shot up with adrenaline and focus stim, used Cryostasis to give the clones time to beat him down, he shot Morphine, I loaded him down with Cryokinesis, laid out an Electrostatic Imprint, then ran to hide. Ran back out when he hit the trap, hit him with a couple more Cryokinesis, then used Force Field to force him to walk all the way back around to the other bridge; ran and hid again behind the opposite column. Popped out, saw his morphine had worn off, then killed him with some random shit because he had only a sliver of HP left.
Bilocation is good for looting corpses before the match ends, too. The clones cause the match to last one more round as they vanish.
Since I killed Carnifex on several playhroughs, I think the pure PSI char had it the easiest. Mental Breakdown, bilocation, frighten then finish with the cold spell. You just have to survive the 1st round. Also am I wrong or you can no longer loot Stygian Exorcist's robe? I'm pretty positive it was possible before.