Madness Project Nexus: Noob to Nemesis

The longest upload I've made so far! Hope it helps.
This was a monumental project to work on and I'm finally glad it's finished. I've been trying to keep up a schedule with these uploads, but it's becoming increasingly hard to keep up with it. Unexpected life stuff has cropped up for me, so uploads are probably going to slow down quite a bit as I try and deal with new developments going on in my life.
As always, thanks for watching. In case you didn't make it all the way to the end, this will likely be the last Madness upload unless it updates some time soon, but hopefully you'll stick around for my future projects.
Music used:
Men's Hair Club - Widdly 2 Diddly
The Highway King - Widdly 2 Diddly
Evil Eye - Payday 2 OST
Hot Pursuit - Payday 2 OST
Collective Consciousness - MGR:R OST
It has to be this way - MGR:R OST
The only thing I know for real - Metal Remix by GeoffPlaysGuitar
Summer Love - Widdly 2 Diddly

[@michaelswain160]

I hope to one day see your review of the Magiturge origin, which is out in a few days. He even gets his own bed. We made that bed specifically for you ❤️‍🩹

[@roiwiez]

I'll definitely check it out! Things are a bit hectic on my end, but when I get the chance, I'll definitely look at this new Origin! Also, I know I said I'm getting sick of this game in the video, but thank you for making it! I don't sink a hundred hours into just any game, you made something special here!

[@justalex727]

letssss goooooooooooooooooooooo

[@omarpikm2101]

the magiwhat

[@gokuvanitas2602]

@@omarpikm2101 a wizard

[@gokuvanitas2602]

@@omarpikm2101 precisly, this one kzbin.info/www/bejne/eKqzZqyVbtZ2esU&ab_channel=XDefault

[@KrinkelsNG]

That whole sequence from 11:40 onward was primo. I am absolutely entertained.

[@pouncelygrin6699]

eyyyyy 👋

[@aggeloshok]

Yooooo

[@elijahdulay4771]

its the legend himself

[@amateuranimator10]

its our lord and saviour krinkles

[@spongebobsquarepants1072]

What's up Krinkles🙂

[@tomok3733]

I don't see many people pointing it out that hireling insurance doesnt only skip the recovery time, it also heavily decreases the amount of money that you have to pay

[@tomok3733]

@@NicoLas-xy3ew thanks for correcting me, i havent played the game in a while so i didnt exactly remember the costs

[@LeinGamer]

With insurance my lvl 30 cost from 200 to 300 and without about 2.5k

[@ayoraz_0144]

WHAT I NEED TO BUY RIGHT NOW

[@quattrokerbecs]

Something the game also doesn't tell you is that you can actually order your hirings around individually by holding control and right-clicking on the hireling you want. Additionally, if you order your hirelings to hold position, and then hold shift and order them to hold a different spot, your hirelings will start to patrol between those two points. Both of these have helped me to squeeze out their longevity by tactically positioning them where they'd be most useful.

[@applehead2134]

If you're like me and can't bother to memorize your hirelings' names, you can ctrl-right click on either the hireling themselves, or their name on the left of the screen.

[@soytobi9049]

Yoooo this info is so good thank you

[@texasred8424]

you can tell this guy is a jojo fan because he emphasizes action with a color palette change

[@williamheng4801]

I have 500 hours of MPN but seeing the community get as strong as me is mind breaking

[@gokuvanitas2602]

500 HOURS?! YOU ARE CRAZY!!

[@williamheng4801]

@@gokuvanitas2602 actually I double checked and it’s not 500, it’s 638 hours

[@daboyz2374]

@@gokuvanitas2602 He’s embraced the MADNESS

[@gokuvanitas2602]

@@daboyz2374 *restoring normality*

[@hank.j.wimbleton8917]

Fun fact amout of hours never mean your good at something that mean that you might just like to waste your time or both

[@plswhy]

Some other tips I've found kinda useful: - Learn to kick and dropkick. Your typical shove style attack can be done with MMB and can be useful in pushing 2 corpus block enemies into death pits if needed. Dropkicks are unlocked with the Dash Attack, Heavy skill and will allow you to reliably disrespect Nexus Riot Guards. Some origins with a lot of Force will dropkick or even kick Riot Guards long distances. If you can't drop kick you're using either the Offering (try hooking, explosives or flashbangs instead) or Tinkerer (use Dissonance Cannon ammo and honestly if you have any issues playing Tinkerer with D Cannon ammo on an MG or Bren anything else is just gonna be noticeably harder). Riot Guards are among the most annoying enemies in the game and anything to humble them is more than welcome. - While G03LMs aren't that huge a threat most of the time, this doesn't apply to the Mhati G03LMs. Those things can dish out 60 whole points of high armor piercing damage at once which can especially be an issue on Madness difficulty. You can even ignore Minigun G03LMs sometimes but those Mhati G03LMs will ruin you and especially your hirelings. Similar things could be said of those damn N51 snipers. - If you don't see the gun you're looking for in the Black Market, go start a mission of any kind and quit out immediately. This resets the shop inventory so you can finally get a chance to get that really rare gun you've been eyeing this entire time, probably an MG or Dozer E or D Cannon. - Keep spare weapons in your Warchest, especially throwables. - Grabbing a gun from your Warchest somehow gives you double the total ammo than if you had brought it along with you from the start. - You can charge up your charge attack indefinitely by holding Ctrl while charging. While this will not boost your damage past 2nd stage charge attack, it will allow you to lie in ambush behind corners with a charge attack at the ready. Perfect on The Goods to get the drop on the dual Tommy Gun mooks. - Some melee weapons like the Binary Sword and Shock Longsword have 2 broken states and thus the durability stat there doesn't tell the whole story. Draining the entire durability of a Shock Long gets you a regular Longsword instead of just a hilt to rob corpuses with. The Binary Sword even breaks down into a 100 durability Binary Shard with no damage loss, but you do lose out on the insane range. - Really do mind the range on the weapons you decide to upgrade. It's cool to stack all that damage but most of the time the damage you deal with Sweet Spot hits will more than compensate for a tiny reduction in damage outside of the Sweet Spot, especially relative to Senses. My personal favorite range is around 5-6. - Figure out a system that allows you to grind multiple skills all at once, including acrobatics. Use throwables vs certain enemies (I like throwing axes vs green mooks on Slaughter Time for example since they kill in one shot from far away without wasting my precious gun ammo), melee against more durable opponents with TAC bars and multiple corpus blocks, guns when overwhelmed or on infinite ammo or whatever. You should be able to grind guns, acrobatics and melee all at once relatively evenly this way, but you cannot grind unarmed and melee at the same time that much since both share pretty similar roles. Doing that will allow one to reduce grind times a bit. - Do not give melee weapons to Gymnasts early on. They really love throwing these things without even swinging them once. Wait until they get Shuriken Arc or preferably Lawnmower, then give them hook weapons and boomerang weapons. - The cash bags in Heist are subject to two hander weight restrictions for Medium size weapons. This means if you run a low Strength build you will need twice the amount of trips at first as you can only carry a maximum of 2 bags at the same time rather than 4. However the much heavier gold bags are NOT subject to two hander weight restrictions for whatever reason and can even be thrown at lightning speeds. Nevada's physics are quite the mystery. - Noob should really be the first origin you ever pick as what you end up defaulting to with Noob is gonna reflect on which next origin is gonna feel more comfortable. For instance I found myself addicted to melee charge attacks and MGs, so from Noob I went to Mercenary. Maybe if you end up punching a lot you could go to Patient or Experiment. If you end up throwing everything during your time as Noob you could try Experiment or Offering. If you love charge attacks with melee weapons pick Disquieted, but if you can't just depend on that alone you can try Experiment if you miss your fists and Mercenary if you miss your guns. The main exception to this is gun lovers defaulting over to Agent. This is not as great an idea since Agent's low Encumbrance is a very difficult thing to manage for a newbie. Instead of Agent for gun lovers, go with Mercenary or Patient since both can use guns just fine, or Offering. Only on Noob do you have access to all the basic styles in full, so you get no biases whatsoever. - Holding Ctrl just a few frames after hit LMB for a light attack will allow you to charge a charge attack while moving. The timing is pretty tight but it could be useful if you're running away from a horde of enemies. - Negative type weapons also work on the vampires. Feel free to send those annoying wannabe goths straight to the shadow realm. Alternatively executions in general allow you to kill vampires right away. - If it cannot be killed with a Nevadean Dozer E, it cannot be killed at all. Seriously this thing shreds tough enemies like they're mere cannon fodder mooks and it's also great fun if you give some to your hirelings. it's $11k well spent almost every single time. Well maybe not as much Disquieted but I don't use guns with that origin out of principle. And of course it loses out to the meme guns you can make on Tinkerer, because how can you compete with D Cannon and 20mm ammo fired on full auto? It's still the ultimate tank killing machine in most cases. I think Massive can even use 2 of them at once to devastating effect

[@roiwiez]

God damn, there's all sorts of good information here, especially the held charged attacks, I didn't know that one at all!

[@plswhy]

@@roiwiez There's a couple more that are origin specific and the like that I didn't add but a good chunk of what I've said is found on May's Expert guide on Steam, specifically the charge attack stuff.

[@Outcastic]

When this is still basic knowledge, i think I've played this game too much

[@SubZeroMarineMegaMan]

Nice. Guess the holding charge attack wasn't left in vain. I knew somebody would do add up.

[@skell6134]

I started as Mercenary,and did go to Experiment Basically im addicted to fast melee combat no matter which weapon i use Guns are cool but i didnt find their perks that useful anyway

[@Legorunner]

Roiwiez: Well... all done. Time to take a break. Everyone is satisfied. Gibbing tree with the update finished: Oh no we're not done with you yet But it was a nice series and all, but seriously the margitude was so unique and awesome

[@roiwiez]

I'll eventually get to it. Give me like a month or two and I might push something out for him.

[@blacktop5524]

@@roiwiez Get a break, man. It's nice to check out other stuff once in a while.

[@Doctakeyopills]

MAKING THE MOTHER OF ALL GRUNTS JACK CANT KILL THEM ALL

[@mr.r5261]

A Jack Of All Trades is a master of none. The Noob is the exception, he's the master of making people piss themselves

[@Outcastic]

@@NicoLas-xy3ew corpus

[@skell6134]

@@NicoLas-xy3ew You cant dodge tho

[@makeooooh]

Spot on, one thing I might add is the target priority on hard sell: the recons. They might be the weakest, but if those bastards hack the container multiple times at once, they can cause a mission failure.

[@Thy_Punishment_Is_OOF]

I'm usually farming exp at the MERC arena. If you go 30+, you'll get a TON of money and enough exp to upgrade your focus skill. Also, the first TRULY tough enemy I've met in the arena was Half-MAG Agent. He can't be stunlocked, he's intimidating because of that, he's pretty quick on his own, can get you from the other side of the map with a charged attack and he's nearly invinsible. Seriously. Your first fight will look like that scene where Raiden is punching Armstrong.

[@justaguywithagoodphoto4801]

You can throw everything at this man and he just stands there, almost daring you to keep going or he will punish you heavy

[@zixl9523]

I just create a revolver that just deletes boss health if they don't have any armor on

[@Thy_Punishment_Is_OOF]

@@zixl9523 a bit late because I only carry revolvers out of any firearms because of headshots.

[@UltimaDoombotMK1]

@@justaguywithagoodphoto4801 Yeah they take a lot of hits for one corpus. If you've seen Private Lime's video where he takes on Fast Track, the first HalfMag has so much stuff in his face before he dies I called him "Torture Jr"

[@SendBreadRolls]

Everytime I remember about your channel, I always watch this. Just for a refresher on information I already know. I also can't wait for your review on the Creber!

[@wellwoven2457]

y'know what would be cool? A hireling nuzlocke. You have to take as many hirelings as possible into every mission, and if they die you can't revive them.

[@trashyartificialintelligence]

Interesting general guide to arena combat. As a person with 6 imprints without NEM mod installed, here's my 2 cents: - I found picking noob origin as the first one extremely difficult late game, since I didn't figure out prefered playstyle or was given a direction in which I should progress (as in, also, playstyle) - Golems might seem like a last/second priority target, just don't forget they can easily destroy an entire corpus point by themselves (Mhatti in particular) and lock off area of Nexus Core arena (since various fodder-tier enemies will hinder your progress in removing their armor) - Dart harmacists (the annoying ones in The Murder Room) only have 3 shots which are (usually) easy to dodge. After that they go melee (if they hit you, they will poison you regardless if you perfect blocked or countered it) - Gunmen hirelings, although, not as tanky as the others, can actually kill a good amount of enemies by themselves earlier than others - Engineers (the green guys) and snipers at Hard Sell are (at least for me) priority targets, since the first are actually the ones which can break the objective, and the latter can do massive damage if left unattended - Agent origin perk can be fairly useful on Nexus Core and Fast track, since you can get in a better position to fight

[@trashyartificialintelligence]

Also: - Explosive ammo can insta ragdoll shield bearing enemies and golems

[@Outcastic]

I remember when i got this game i spent everyday scowering youtube comments and steam guides for advice. Learned random things like how to set patrol routes for hirelings, in a prior update you couldnt throw the stop sign for some reason, and if you aimed the massive's first stage charge attack near your feet you'd go flying. Also if you hate how little ammo you can carry around in this game, try only using your weapons when you absolutely need to. I usually drop my op weapons somewhere the enemies dont go often and when things get hairy, i bust them out and end the wave. And not only does it stretch out how long you can use a gun, but constantly picking up and using enemy weapons is like a staple of madness combat. The games just more fun when you're constantly improving with what your given rather than mindlessly mowing people down with an mg

[@dalehayden3830]

*You MUST bring an E. Dozer to the Mandatus.* That beast of a shotty will shatter the Grand Steward as if it was an ice sculpture.

[@mostcertainlyben]

I’ve used dissonant weapons against it and a similar effect happened. But I feel that the dozer is at least a *little* better, right?

[@fatcatidk9271]

Weapons with lots of armor piercing in general are very good against the Grand Steward. The nexus blade can chop off one of its corpus blocks in just a few swings, for instance.

[@mostcertainlyben]

@@fatcatidk9271 well well well, thank you for the advice good fellow :)

[@a.t.pengineer360]

Lets take this as the day Roiwiez got 2k subs

[@doveykinsss3337]

I would like to make a single correction. I have been able to call back-up multiple times per mission. It's once per WAVE that you can call backup. Not everybody may know this, but due to me being a noob against the Nexus Core, I figured this out on my own. That is all. (also, thanks for the advice, my teammates are dying less early now. You're (quite literally in this case) a lifesaver, dude.)

[@memes_the_dna_of_the_soul5487]

Backup is for me is the "everyone is dead i have three golems looking at me someone HELP." button. Might focus some for money towards them in my next playthrough though.

[@doveykinsss3337]

@@memes_the_dna_of_the_soul5487 you should. They're more useful when you do. Also same

[@Square_Rabbit]

Ah, the noob. Probably one of my favourite origins, because I like to keep my options open during combat. No frills, just kills. I should mention: as of one of the latest updates, a few of the counters mentioned in the video are unavailable now. Countering G03LM grabs with a throw, for instance, was never intended and has been summarily nuked from orbit. Dash attacks from enemies like Merczerkers also weren't intended to be available from the start - you need the Counter, Charging skill to do that now, although doing a perfect block will still prevent you from being ragdolled from the hit, so it's worth going for anyway if you can't move out of the way in time.

[@memes_the_dna_of_the_soul5487]

Okay but countering golem grabs should be exclusive to the massive. Because A: it makes sense that the man who can SUPERMAN punch THROUGH a battlefield could yeet a golem. B: Its Funny to just see him just "SO LONG-E BOWSER." Them.

[@SNOTIDummi]

Perfect day to see a new video get uploaded✨

[@keithkania3810]

Commanding units specifics: While holding control press m2 while hovering the mouse over them to use them only for a command. You can command your hirelings to use *OPEN* medical cabinets just press m1 over the *OPEN* cabinet. Edit: mixed up the mouse inputs

[@vit_m668]

Watching 23 minutes of madness that is made by my favourite KZbinr is truely a blessing from the god

[@CoolSs]

I will also shoutout May guides on Arena Mode . one of the best written sources to master Arena mode . this video also does really good job on explaining things . i actually learned few things .

[@amateuranimator10]

its always a little treat when this guy uploads you're doing well also first XD

[@robbyshenanigans255]

When you get around to doing an Agent video, I saw on the beta branch that Agent got a pretty wacky buff where when the Sweetspot skill is gained, his pistol shots will have the ability to stunlock enemies and drain more of their tac bar than usual, and I can already see the Revolver Ocelot jokes arising from that

[@Laggma-zj4ot]

"Grab all three bags and run, it's not a fight you want to stick around for" My Tinkerer with a .50 cal assault rifle, Laser Assault Rifle, and Dissolution Cannon Deagle

[@nido1047]

Btw i usually just farm acrobatics on the murder room by letting enemies fall to their deaths and killing a few with either my throwables or throwing a melee weapon. Also another room that's great for farming if you have enough patience is the foundry, since it's one of the easier levels to grind since the enemies there are not that tough, and the exp they give after wave 10-15 reaches 2000. ps: Great video as always!

[@nombregenerico7775]

wait that works?

[@Outcastic]

Same, also on this level my hirelings have never died to anything but running into the trap 4 times when i repeatedly tell them to stay in the corner

[@nido1047]

@@nombregenerico7775 ye

[@nido1047]

@@nombregenerico7775 oh and also, you can farm some acrobatics xp on slaughtertime by using grenades and killing hordes of enemies with 1 grenade, it's pretty useful, just remember to buy atleast 5 grenades

[@lennyn3587]

Damn bro, recently found out about this video when I was having a hard day and it's safe to say that you are that one youtuber that I can just watch over and over again to make my day better and with every video you upload you keep getting better. Keep up the good work man, you're one of my favorite youtubers right now (this is also a really good guide for beginners that isn't just someone talking specifics with their magnum opus for 2 hours)

[@ItsBendyDemon]

i want to watch the full video really badly but i found out figure things out my own can be " why i didn't use this early" and " feel great find things by you self and not rely on other people" this is the only video i can find teach you about this game and want to thank you for doing this but i will comeback when i really suck and need help but for now i think i can manage

[@neb2631]

100% worth the wait. thank you again roiwiez for some awesome content

[@neino36]

The most important tip I often see overlooked. RIGHT CLICK TO SELECT A SPECIFIC HIRELING! God, it used to be so annoying trying to control the whole hireling moshpit. Amazing series, my guy. Loved every second of it. I wish you a succesful and prosperous youtube career!

[@roiwiez]

It was literally only while making this video that I found out you could single out hirelings for orders. 120 hours in and I still don't know basic game functions.

[@neino36]

@@roiwiez Then why in the world would you not include it in the video? :D There's no mention of it in the menu's, tutorial or gameplay, OR any of the videos about the game xD No one's talking about it! Just knowing about it increases your hireling life expectancy from "Nul" to "-1" in and of itself! Lol I honestly feel like there's a meme in there somewhere but I can't be bothered to eek it out.

[@incompetencelogistics8924]

I remembered you could do this because I did it on final boss in campaign to juggle the other players between rezing others and fighting

[@memes_the_dna_of_the_soul5487]

@@roiwiez Also, if you have full HP on Nexus core, and your hirelings are looking worse for wear, select the injured ones and point em to the med chest and they will patch themselves up. Real useful when you're trying to cut down on cloning costs.

[@drysocks4412]

First origin I started and I'm glad I did. There's something special about going from Noob to Pro over the course of a game.

[@Juandi0768]

Congratulations on 2k subs Your MPN videos are great, it’s kind of a shame you won’t make more in a while. However, you have demonstrated to be very good at editing and you have the creativity and ability to make great content, wether it’s madness or not. Thanks for making MPN everything your imagination wanted it to be, and transmitting it to us in this style of yours

[@userlesschannel3092]

Sup, Rowiez! The new origin has been made in an update literally 2 days ago. I understand, you know about it. But, it's just funny to see, that this game won't let you go so easily.)

[@roiwiez]

I try to escape, but it keeps dragging me back in.

[@gamingnova1453]

I love this because my first run is with Noob.

[@Bobo72163]

He knows what he’s doing and this might as well help out new players

[@takinames]

is good day when roiwez uploads :)

[@benyt1583]

23 minute extravaganza! Back at it again! Keep up the good work.

[@Grako430]

Good video man, I can't wait to see what other projects you have in store.

[@aidendiamond391]

Very Nicu! Also congrats on the 2k subscribers

[@esquire9479]

Thanks for actually listing the ost credits most KZbinrs act like it's foreign concept to them now

[@userlesschannel3092]

That's the thing we needed. Thank you dude. You're awesome!

[@goldenfrieza3805]

You just have to show no fear no mercy and no weaklings

[@J4CKNO1R]

Since the new update just dropped, PLEASE rest a while before making a video on the new origin, you deserve it.

[@LaughDonk]

Nepeta. from

[@J4CKNO1R]

@@LaughDonk Nepenis, from homosuck the cock 2009 special edition

[@user-rt8cn4jk3g]

This is what we waiting a basic class that is gonna be use only on end

[@-bismark]

if you wanna level up your acrobatics, past wave 9 in the level Pit Stop, you'll get free access to all the throwing daggers and all the acrobatic xp you want.

[@-bismark]

this is just an alternative though as enemies in pit stop are harder, but you get xp faster

[@Local_Lad]

The block button is even great with low melee skills, even an unskilled agent can take a lot more damage if you protect yourself with well timed blocks.

[@user-ut8np7ll9z]

this video really did helped me to learn things I didn't THANK YOU

[@amateuranimator10]

that ending part was insane keep it up!

[@releasethekraken5039]

i love the addition of the Lisa ost in your video! :D

[@theshagster285]

Minor thing about Tac Bar Enemies. Soldats have a Level 2 Tac Bar, and a second Corpus, still making them a worthy target. But Engineers are the first enemies to have Tac Bars, they're level 1 though, and can be dropped easily thanks to only having one Corpus.

[@petarkresimirkrmpotic8631]

I am deeply excitef for videos that are not madness related, I think they will be good!

[@evgeha75]

20:27 Oh, so that's why there was no part about the agent)

[@director5325]

A tiny tip regarding Alphaware (the stat bonus giving equipment that Crackpot sells to you) for anyone wondering: There are only two worthwhile ones, Nano-Respirators and Chameleon Veil. The Nano-Respirators provide a tremendous +200% corpus regen rate that turns you into a mini tank, and is especially effective for the Massive. However, that +200% regen rate is so good you will not go wrong using it with any origin, especially more fragile ones. The Chameleon Veil is a bit more niche than the Nano-Respirators, providing a chunky +100% to your Tac-Bar value. When paired with origins that have higher amounts of Dexterity due to their focuses (Agent, Tinkerer, Offering, Experiment), it allows you to really give a good boost to your Tac-Bar to fend off rains of bullets.

[@director5325]

By the time you unlock Crackpot’s shop, if you’ve been playing on tough difficulty the entire time you’ll have about ten or more tokens, which is more than enough for what I usually get: One Director’s Cape (Great shoulder item, though not as relevant for unarmed origins like Experiment and Patient who benefit from the N51 Maniac Tank). One Nano-Respirators Two Nexus Sabers (For the Grand Steward). And I save the rest for character modification and blood colors, but you could also buy a chameleon veil.

[@director5325]

Additionally, Nano-Respirators is a S tier slot for Hirelings, as it increases their time on the field by a lot.

[@skell6134]

My favorite gun: Nevadian Ballistic suppression Mods on it: Rifle scope Shock poker bayonett Barrel extension-medium Pr-AR Buttstock 9x19 armor piercing ammo mag This baby slices through most mini-bosses like through butter and with infinite ammo it pretty much can carry entire wave

[@Annihilation_Studios]

Where do you get infinite ammo?

[@UltimaDoombotMK1]

@@Annihilation_Studios power up, probably. It can drop randomly

[@nicotheslothking6950]

Magnificent video, as per usual.

[@justyouraveragegamer277]

I’m happy I’m somewhat early to this masterpiece of madness

[@joaquin621]

very comprehensive guide thank you very much

[@kiro-fo9qg]

This is definitely nostalgic for me, and one of the best games I've played this year!. I can't wait to get lost in the grind :)

[@mouthwide0pen]

a good way I found to level acro was actually murder room. theres a lot of stage hazards which dont influence any share of the exp at all, allowing you to save ammo by baiting enemies into holes, shock knives to toss at people are plentiful, only like 1 uncommon enemy even has a tac bar there so nobodys gonna dodge your axes, it gives solid exp, and none of the enemies except the bosses will be that dangerous as to give your hirelings any trouble.

[@jakejohnson718]

I'll just summarise noob for you all in soulsspeak, noob is basically the wretch class, starts absolutely fucking GARBAGE, but can be WHATEVER. YOU. WANT. In the long run

[@BlueBeepOFFICIAL]

That last edit at the end was how I felt during my first massive playthrough

[@ThernoxPL]

If I had to leave a tip on playing massive and going through nexus core, it would be this- try to use grab counter, kick or dropkick to get rid of the gol3ms as soon as possible by tossing them off stage, because your lack of tacbar will leave you at the mercy of their very powerful weapons.

[@LeinGamer]

Also a really nice piece of info is... That there is a spawn cap on each level,so leaving some big guys in Nexus Core final wave on Madness Diff will make a big difference

[@LeinGamer]

Leaving them so instead of spawning 11 berret and dual wield berret,just 3 or 4

[@mf6610]

Here’s a few tips I’ve developed while playing. -In foundry and sleepwalker, if you want to keep your hirelings alive a bit longer, target Merczerkers and Power Tool Laborers (Drills, Saws, etc.), they will easily tear apart your hirelings if they manage to stun lock them -Equip the Endurance boosting implants on your hirelings to give them just a bit more encumbrance cap (I do this often with Gunmen) -Command individual hirelings by right clicking on them while hold down ctrl (or whatever key you binded it to) -On Hard Sell, order your hirelings to take cover with the barrels and boxes in the main room. This one trick alone is why I don’t have much difficulty doing Hard Sell -Also on Hard Sell, I’d actually recommend prioritizing killing Recons, Assassins, and Overwatches (Basically the Safe Hackers, Ninjas, and Snipers). The Shutter Doors can be repaired with scrap anyway if they are blown up. -On Nevada House and Hard Sell, if you have grenades (or flashbangs) equipped you can throw them at the window or crate to take care of breachers easily -In Slaughter time, it’s best to target the Red Gunmen before Green Gunmen, as the Green Gunmen’s shots are much easier to dodge -You don’t necessarily HAVE to use flashbangs as offering, enemies like MERC Gunners and Nexus Supports will be dazed upon taking enough damage anyway so you still get free heals -Don’t be afraid to run away from enemies. I don’t care if they call you a coward, kiting is still a viable strategy as it additionally separates faster enemies such as Nexus Soldats from the others as they are the only ones who can catch up to you. This is also useful if you are trying to level up acrobatics -In the Foundry, Merczerkers can accidentally charge off the edge if you position yourself right at it and dodge at the right time, you can also use the charging counter skill to YEET them off. -This one is pretty obvious, but you can easily take care of cyber brutes and harmacist brutes in the murder room by activating the traps right below them -You can order your hirelings to target specific enemies, by selecting said enemy while commanding your hirelings. This can be used to take care of priority targets, focus fire on Mags, overwhelm G03LMs and other Brutes, and help take care of enemies engaging the objective on siege arenas. -You can order your hirelings to use medkits if they lose corpus and you haven’t -Power Tools will explode and ignite anyone close by when they break, when they’re on their last durability you can throw them at small groups of enemies like a bomb -You can interrupt enemy snipe abilities by killing them, you can also sometimes dodge snipers by running around (this is especially useful against those Mhati G03LMs everyone seems to have a hard time with) -You can use Grenades to delay more agile enemies from chasing you -Bats, Saws, and Drills have quick executions which is useful when multiple enemies are stunned

[@mf6610]

Some more: -Grenades and Flashbangs can easily take care of riot guards -You can use your sparta kick to put enemies into your gun’s sweetspot -Fire and Dissonance weapons are not only effective against vampires, but are also useful against asylum patients and zombies -You can use cover in case you need to heal or dodge an enemy snipe, useful against MERC and N51 snipers. -Guns with high ammo per clip by default are the most useful on hirelings. In terms of melee, shock batons, pipe wrenches, and power tools are a good choice to equip to your hirelings. -Hirelings are usually a necessity on Nevada House, The Heist, Hard Sell, and Nexus Core Facility -In the heist mission, you can exit the bank and kill some rifleman to delay their assault -In Nexus Core, if you are faced with multiple G03LMs, either kill the ones wielding a Minigun first or the ones with a Mhati first, whichever you prefer. -The N Dozer Model E can be modded with a sight, you can use this to adjust it’s sweet spot to your liking And best of all… -If standard ragdolling isn’t enough for you, try dodging and ragdolling at the same time to yeet yourself halfway across the room or wherever you please

[@zacsolo1594]

Hirelings only become a necessity on Hard Sell and Nexus Facility. I never do The Heist as I don't see it's money as worth it to me. Alternatively you can play as Magiturge and say fuck you to everything.

[@mf6610]

@@zacsolo1594 there’s also Tinkerer

[@zacsolo1594]

Agreed, those two are the biggest middle finger to difficulty in this game.

[@robbyshenanigans255]

On the topic of ordering your allies around, I wanna share something I found out: If you right-click over a specific ally or their name on the UI, you can specify which one to give orders to. That way, its not a mad fumble mess of trying to get one of your goons a weapon or healing their Corpus in the case of the Nexus mission. You can also do this to better secure an area, like in Hard Sell, having 3 of your goons cover the hallways and the remaining ones to serve as backup or to help keep the vault safe.

[@robbyshenanigans255]

Also to add more to it, as I read a Steam guide called Hireling-Fu which I recommend checking out, you can also add the shift key into the mix for more commands. To copy/paste directly from the thing: Shift + Ctrl + LMB will send the selected units to a queued waypoint. They will move towards each place you click in order, and engage any enemies they see on the way; they will pause moving to a waypoint to fire at anything reasonably close, and will continue moving once enemies in their line of sight are dead. They will then wait at their last waypoint like a regular Ctrl + LMB. Shift + Ctrl + MMB will add a patrol route waypoint. Once two or more places have been selected, they will move towards the next waypoint, hold position there for a few seconds while engaging any enemies near them, and then will move on to the next waypoint if they are only fighting enemies at range or if there are no enemies around them. They will then continuously patrol along this set of waypoints until you give them new orders. If you set up a patrol route and end it with Shift + Ctrl + MMB on yourself, they will patrol the route once and then follow your current position until you give new orders.

[@outhander3941]

Actually crit damage is not always 2 times, it depends on some stats, probably dex and tactics

[@RudyG.Numpad]

How to beat the game without any real trouble: Step 1: Equip the Acid Blasters Step 2: SPAM

[@kosman_11]

at the start of the game beat only the 2 levels of sleepwalker bed and don`t complete it now. In late game when you are sure you won`t have any problems with sleepwalker bed go play it and you will get "First time bonus" on all waves. That means you will get much more XP

[@ngosamwamba636]

and when the world needed him most, he returned

[@LeinGamer]

Awesome video,beat the game 6 times,last one as the offering and just now i realize about flashbangs xD,took me a lot to finish every arena on madness and i didnt even get the archivement lol Damn you Krinkels

[@Polar_Pyro_YT21]

Here are 2 tips that I use: If you're having trouble dodging the windup attacks from bigger enemies (i.e. tantrums from bandit brutes, grabs from Gol3ms, and the charge from half mags), get snap dodge ASAP. And if enemies are chasing you, they'll probably dodge any flashbangs you throw. Throw the flashbang at your FEET and back up to have an easier time.

[@WrenchInThePlan]

Hold up, I thought the backup was once a wave. Besides that, great video. EDIT: Woah, I didn't know enemy grabs could be countered. I'll have to try that some time.

[@ManFace1337]

I wish "Noob" origin was the only origin that could get every skill, but sadly for Noob origin left 3 skills of each category: unarmed, acrobatics, guns, melee

[@passebee]

Offering has the least health due to it being able to get extra allies by killing enemies only sometimes though not all enemies will rise up and the offering is an acrobatic expert

[@lary128]

divereagence machines, son.

[@Spearra]

There's a few tips I'd like to mention. Before throwing a weapon, use right click to throw weapons in your off hand. Which means you can throw a shield. Or a melee weapon if you're dual wielding one melee and one gun equipped. (When dual wielding those two, guns are always in the main hand and melees are always in the off hand) Left click throws weapons in the main hand. Holding shift before dropping a weapon will drop what's in your main hand. When a shield equiped, you'll always drop whatever is in your main hand first. When shift isn't held, dropping weapons will prioritize weapons in the offhand, with the exception being the shield.

[@roiwiez]

Oh my god, thank you! I didn't know there was a way to pick which of your two weapons you could throw! Maybe now I'll be more tempted to use a gun and a melee at the same time.

[@awanasaifuana9282]

The counter mechanic literally made my skill 10x better it’s so broken

[@Solongsocialmedia]

MAKING THE MOTHER OF ALL MADNESS [Roiwiez] CAN'T FRET OVER EVERY GRUNT!

[@skoons21]

I'm saving the noob for the last imprint.

[@richar9998]

Just amazing video :D

[@maze6429]

it took me a couple of runs before i realized dr. crackpot sold those augments

[@Especimen321]

Hot pursuit is funking insane

[@uknlogic2924]

Late comment, but something to mention for acrobatics is that throwing your actual weapon gets acrobatics xp. So instead of dropping your weapons when they're useless-throw 'em. Also boomerangs are really good for acrobatics based characters and their dps is similar to snipers that require a little bit more finessing, but are really good

[@roiwiez]

Oh yeah, boomerangs are amazing once you get shuriken arc. Dual wielded boomerangs are basically a machine gun that levels acrobatics with how quickly they return to your hand to throw again.

[@uknlogic2924]

@@roiwiez also really solid equips on high level gymnasts/stuntmen who like to throw their weapons

[@mr_m22]

Thank you, Sensei. After this video I become smarter, stronger and more handsome. I understood the meaning of life, healed all world from disease (but not your, lol) and have a lot of money and gold (and goats... what?). Now I'm a god of emperators and defend the Universe. Just really thank you, Roiwiez, for all this videos

[@drxtale9446]

Me who’s attached to my squad: Ha ha ha… no.

[@sadyeeter4829]

Ah yes the blank slate of the entire game

[@Kingcole6]

20:19 The only thing I know for real...is to EMBRACE THE MADNESS!!

[@ThyOni]

Pit stop madness is my go to place to farm any skill, i find its good money but the running left and right makes me anxious so hirelings it is

[@prettycooldude]

This video was great

[@rookieonraceway]

Important notice. The magiturge origin update in the future will make it so you can't counter zerker tackles without the counter charging skill. Also golem grabs will no longer be counterable

[@plswhy]

Kinda sad that G03LM grabbing is going away given that it was one of the highlights of regular size Unarmed focused origins, as in Patient and Experiment. I mean you still have Patient's explosive stuns and Experiment's sheer punching speed (stats naturally default to a really high Athletics skill) and Slayer tossing, but given the noticeably lower damage it would be very useful to have in general. Unarmed focused origins generally don't overperform too much relative to other origins anyway, except Massive due to that amazing charge attack and 10 whole corpus blocks only being outdone by the god of dissonant energy Tinkerer. Hell even Agent kinda somewhat benefits since the stats kinda suggest a punchy gunman to me. Given that it's still a beta patch hopefully those origins don't falter too much. Should the change to grabs be permanent I will miss throwing big hunks of muscle and armor down the Nexus Core. It's goofy as hell but it is oh so enjoyable.

[@nicotheslothking6950]

IT'S TIME

[@Scrappysir2]

WRITE THIS DOWN, WRITE THIS DOWN!

[@mrgiriciv2199]

Water element color it's awesome

[@r.u7208]

You can right click a specific hireling in combat to order them specifically to do shit instead of ordering them all to do all

[@labrat_09]

Infinite ammo applies to melee and shield durability too and one more tip, AUTOMATIC WEAPONS WIN THE NEXUS CORE FACILITY

[@tacticaldroid5975]

Good. Video even though I killed the entire nexus core with my bare hands I’m happy that I’m a master now

[@tentacledood5784]

Good use of LISA OST!

[@loremipsum7601]

So, are yoy gonna make Agent origin video later? Just curious~ Also, thanks for another awesome video! I really love to see you're got hyped when The Only Thing I Know For Real kicks in~ XD