Sorry I misinterpreted what you said. If you've gone back to the cargo bays in the engineering deck you've gone too far. Delacroix's body is in the cargo area near the shuttle bay where you have to use the sympathetic resonator to blow it up. I got this from a walkthrough as I couldn't remember where exactly she was:
Buy the Sympathetic Resonator and climb down the ladder and use it on the shield generator and then climb up again real fast...
Once the shuttle is destroyed, the previously inaccessible shuttle bay is opened, since the broken door is blown clear by the explosion. You can go down there and explore (get some goodies, and possibly some new plot insight, but no Cyber Modules) although your guide will instruct you not to.
This is where she is located and shodan will tell you not to enter.
I won't spoil it for you about Diego, but you don't have to worry about him being a boss character if thats what you were worried about.
I usually went for the Navy Character(because of the hacking ability) and I usually carried a wide variety of weaponry. What I didn't bother with was the exotic weaponry and melee weapons. They're a waste of cyber modules and just take up valuable inventory space and if you want to carry them you're gonna have to ditch some other equipment or weapons that is probably far better. Also to use them you have to have a high science skill to first research them before you can use them which means more wasted cyber modules.
My weapons of choice usually were the:
-shotgun
-Assault Rifle (especially the Anti-Personnel Rounds - very good against the many and those giant flesh monsters)
-EMP Rifle (very good against turrets & robots and in the final stages of the game where you have to fight shodan and her cyborg assassins - I won't spoil anymore)
-Grenade Launcher (I didn't use this gun that often, but you can get various types of ammo for it and as I remember there was a fair amount of ammo scattered around for it. It also packs a punch)
-That giant nuclear gun (the one that shoots green orbs - again this wasn't a gun I used that often but it came in handy).
I can't really remember if there was a rocket launcher or not but these are the weapons that I do remember using.
As for psionic abilities, I never really dabbled in them. I did start a psionic character once, but it got too annoying after a while having to constantly activate different abilities. The only psionic ability I found useful was the telekinesis, but all this really did was save me the effort of having to climb up some ledges.
What it really comes down to is what sort of character you've picked and where you've tailored him to. Are you going for the all combat character or a hacker/combat type or a science/psionic type? If you've dabbled in a bit of psionics then you might as well keep going if you've got the cyber modules to spare otherwise I wouldn't bother with it as that psi-amp takes up valuable space.
"If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?"
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iamtheman83
17 years ago
Thanks for all that info bud.
Honestly, I can't remember what career I picked at the start - a marine I think. I'm pretty cluey about these types of games, so I’m tyring not to create a "Jack of all trades" type of character. I figured most of the psi powers are pretty useless - I only have 2; the "pull" and hacking aide power (can't recall the name). I also figured out hacking is possibly the most important skill in that it helps crack open those crates and reprogram the gun turrets (most of the better goodies are stored in these crates, so high hacking skills ensure plentiful supply of ammo and other stuff - I've never bought anything from the replicators, save for that Sympathetic Resonator thing and rare occasions where software upgrades were available (after hacking for them of course).
I actually used the melee weapons for the first couple of sections of the game until things started shooting back at me. If I can sense them, I usually sneak up behind them or ambush from around a corner and whack them with the crystal rod. Still, I always never have enough ammo, so I make sure not a single shot is wasted, I even restore to a saved game if a particular type of ammo is wasted on a creature that is quite immune to it until I figure out what kills what in preferably 2 shots or less. It IS annoying having to pick up the (always) damaged weapons, unload them and toss them from enemies though.
I’m currently trying to upgrade my exotic skill in order to wield the “worm gun” because I’ve gone to the trouble of collecting the worm ammo for it.
My firearm of choice for much of the game was the pistol, and then I’d use the grenade launcher on the spiders, big robots and black ninja dudes. I’ve only just recently started wielding an assault rifle (always set on single shot mode). Because this is my first play through, I don’t know what to expect in terms of opposition and item and cyber module usage/rationing. Of course, I’ll pick up some tricks and know some short cuts on my next run.
Overall, I’ve ensured ‘repair’, ‘modify’ and ‘maintain’ skills are high to minimize gun degradation. My ‘hacking’, ‘standard’ and ‘strength’ are all max, ‘agility’ and ‘endurance’ are pretty average (not bothering too much about them), ‘psi’ is very low (hardly ever use the powers), ‘research’ is only upgraded when needed (pointless otherwise), ‘energy’ is only high enough to wield the crystal rod, ‘heavy’ needs some upgrading, ‘exotic’ needs to upgrade for the “worm gun” and I’m working on making ‘cyber’ to go as high as it can.
For the “bonus” skills, so far I’ve got ‘sharpshooter’, ‘pack rat’ and ‘lethal weapon.’ I kind of regret picking ‘pack rat’ because I don’t mind storing excess baggage in elevators and bulkheads.
So, I guess I’m focusing on the cyber and technical skills and have met the prerequisites in order to wield the basic, yet effective, weapons I’ve been using since the beginning – plus a bit extra so I can use some of the exotic weapons.
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