Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Dragon Age Origins - Spell Tactics 1


Dragon Age: Origins Spell Tactics - Part 1

This is one of our Dragon Age: Origins walkthrough / cheats / mods posts. In this post, we will cover early-game spell selection and tactics.

Magic and Willpower Scores
Whatever race you begin with, it is generally safe to maximize your Magic score early, and aim for 30+ points, depending on what you want. After that, you will have to decide whether you want to keep increasing Magic or start diversifying into Willpower so that you have more innate Mana to work with. You can always make up Mana with Lyrium potions, but that is a play style decision.
Spellpower is (Magic - 10). The effect of Spellpower is to generally increase the effect of your spells by 1% per point of Spellpower. At 100 Spellpower (110 Magic), your spells are twice as powerful. For example, the Lightning spell does [(100.0 + Spellpower) * 0.3] Electrical Damage to health, and drains Stamina by a like amount.

Early Spell Selection
Magi in the campaign (Circle Mage origin story) start with Arcane Bolt, so the need for a basic offense is alleviated. Also, throughout the game you will typically have access to a warrior to soak hits for you.
All mages should take advantage of the long range on Arcane Bolt (or a bow or staff) to draw enemies to them (preferably one or two at a time so you can overwhelm them with the rest of your party). Against archers you can probably trade fire until you win. Against mages, get their attention then move behind cover to bring them closer before engaging them away from their bodyguards. 

There are three obvious types of builds: Damager, Controller/Debilitator, and Supporter/Healer. In the early game, being a Controller/Debilitator is a useful choice as your Mana is limited so you might as well try to get some teamwork going to let your allies deal damage. Early healing spells are quite weak, so you might want to wait for the Spirit Healer specialization.

Damager
The basic technique in the early game would be to get several attack spells and just cycle through them, burning through your mana but pumping out enough damage to quickly win. Aim for the cone attack spells -- Flame Blast, Cone of Cold, and Shock as you will be rushed in melee anyway so you might as well have a strong attack. All three back to back can do an enormous amount of damage and is not to be underestimated. You will probably want to start with Cone of Cold to hold everyone in place for more hurting.
If you rely on this combination, the Hexes are worth taking as well: Affliction Hex for certain (for the area-effect debuff against all your damage spells); and possibly Misdirection Hex if you are hounded by a dangerous boss while up close to use your cone spells.

As for the spells along the way, Winter's Grasp is strong in the early game as it has a (100 - 5 x target level)% chance of temporarily freezing a target. You can't freeze and Shatter anyone until Cone of Cold, and even then you can't rely on it for anything other than white-name minions.
Also, all Lightning spells reduce enemy Stamina by an amount equal to the damage done.
Once you move up the tree, only Fireball (which can do knockdown) and Cone of Cold (which can freeze) are critical. After that, you can choose one of the the three wide-area spells. Unless you are also aiming to cast Storm of the Century on your own, Inferno is probably the safest bet for doing a lot of damage in the minimal time you have your enemies inside the area of effect. Blizzard seems like the obvious choice for both damage and holding the enemy, but our tests showed only a poor chance of freezing, and then only for a very short time. Tempest, like all lightning-based spells can reduce enemy stamina, but is otherwise unremarkable.
Chain Lightning was unimpressive for its long casting time, but there is no friendly fire despite the spell description.

It is probably useful to stop and get Glyph of Repulsion to cast Paralysis Explosion and hold your enemy in the area of your wide-area damage spell. All the wide-area damage spells and all the Glyphs are Indirect -- you do not require line of sight -- and therefore can cast it from behind a hill or even into the fog of war from a closed room. Getting the drop on the enemy with paralysis and holding them in a killzone is priceless, so watch for the positioning available to do it.

The Draining spells offer an alternative route that should probably be used in tandem with the other Damager options. All the spells here are indirect. Drain Life heals you, although it is best combined with Vulnerability Hex, which will also help your other attack spells. Death Magic should only be turned on as-needed not just to conserve available corpses but to keep your Fatigue low. Curse of Mortality negates enemy healing, which may occasionally be an issue, especially against other mages.
Death Cloud is not really remarkable except if you commit to getting Death Hex, and then the cooldown on Death Hex means you really only get a one-shot huge-damage spell against a boss from the Entropic Death combination.

To play a Damager Mage, I would go for Winter's Grasp, Drain Life, Cone of Cold, Shock, Fireball, Vulnerability Hex, Glyph of Repulsion, Inferno.
Fireball is great for starting a fight, but you really get just the one shot before you are swarmed. The knockdown, huge damage (initial plus burning), and short cooldown makes it tempting to aim for early, however, and that is certainly one way to go since an Elf Mage can get it by level 3. If you can do enough damage early, you can pick of the badly hurt stragglers.

Controller/Debilitator Mage
Probably the best Controller mage option is Glyphs, all of which have the tactically priceless benefit of being Indirect. Overall, I recommend Glyphs as any mage's first choice for spells as it helps both themselves and parties of non-mages, and is useful throughout the career of your spellcaster and in whatever party they participate in. Aim for Glyph of Repulsion at the very least, for Paralysis Explosion.

The basic use of Glyph of Paralysis is as a trap to snare the first target that triggers it. However, if you cast it at a clump of enemies, you can see which ones will be affected because they gain a red highlight when you move the area of effect template around. You can therefore try to paralyze several. And no Friendly Fire also means you can possibly help out another character who is being swarmed.

Glyph of Paralysis is resisted with Physical Resistance which most grunts will have a decent amount of, but the Paralysis Explosion spell combination of Glyph of Paralysis + Glyph of Repulsion is resisted by Magic Resistance -- which means even bosses might be affected (although on Nightmare Difficulty, all enemies have +10% Magic Resistance). Therefore, if you started with Glyph of Paralysis and it failed, you can try following up with Glyph of Repulsion to trigger a Paralysis Explosion. Friendly Fire IS possible, so you may want to cast it at a distance from you even if neither component Glyph hits anything initially, and let the effect wave catch up with enemies rushing at you.
In tests, Paralysis Explosion seemed much more reliable than freezing from Blizzard and in any case lasted longer -- up to 20 seconds for a low-ranked creature.

Glyph of Repulsion helps both mages and archers, and you can retreat a wounded character inside as well if you don't have Force Field to absolutely protect them. Be careful with AI tactics settings as it doesn't take into account triggering a Paralysis Explosion, and player characters are treated as the lowest ranked enemies (full 20-second paralysis).

Glyph of Warding gives you a flat bonus of +30 Defense (chance to avoid being hit), +30% Missile Deflection on top of that, and +50 Mental Resistance, for 20 seconds. No effect from Spellpower, apparently. Definitely worth trying if you are trading missile fire, but generally combatants in melee move around too much for a fixed-location Glyph to be often useful. In melee, it is probably best used when you (or more likely, your allies) are already engaged in melee. According to Dragon Age Wiki it stacks, so theoretically with three casters warding the same space you get +90 Defense and +90% Missile Deflection.

Glyph of Neutralization is a specialized spell that can be used offensively to disable spell casting, or defensively to protect you from it. Since you are yourself a mage, you will probably be using it to protect your allies unless you are willing to sacrifice your own spell ability.
When used offensively, you cast it on a mage and instantly drain it of all Mana, giving you at least several seconds, if not more, of respite from magic. This works with equal effect on Bosses. (Also, you can still cast Force Field or Crushing Prison on the target while it is on the Glyph, although this is probably a scripting oversight.)
When used defensively against a magic assault, you will probably want to sit all your allies inside the Glyph and shoot at the enemy. The trick is knowing whether the enemy is actually using Magic against you, or some Stamina-based power which would not be affected by the Glyph's protection.
In any case, this is a mid-game or late-game spell as you can typically find other workarounds against mages. It is also a short-cut to magic defense if you already have Glyphs, instead of starting on a very specific-use magic defense tree.

The are two main options to Glyphs: Telekinesis and Sleep. Telekinesis is strong against single targets. Sleep has some target limitations and is not Indirect.

From the Telekinesis spell tree, Mind Blast is interesting because it ALWAYS works. The only consideration is duration (reduced for higher-ranked enemies), but even a single second of Stun can be useful in, for example, freeing an ally that has been Grabbed by an Ogre. Other than this, the extremely short duration and lack of range severely limits its usefulness despite having no Friendly Fire.

Force Field is another very interesting spell because it can protect a vulnerable ally for a while. For example, a Warrior who has just used Taunt to draw enemies to them could be protected while other characters continue to attack, or a powerful area effect spell is dropped on the area. Also, like Mind Blast, Force Field always works. The rank of an enemy can reduce the duration, but with a base duration of 20 seconds you can expect a few seconds of respite no matter what. Further, there is no defense against it except Crushing Prison since Anti-Magic Ward is bugged.

Crushing Prison is also very powerful as it neutralizes a target like Force Field, and inflicts damage, and you can continue to attack the target. Bosses (Orange name) and Elite Bosses take only a fraction of the possible damage potential and are not paralyzed, so it is best used to take out a dangerous Lieutenant (Yellow name), such as a spell caster, as part of a strategy to overwhelm them and take them out before they can retaliate with a dangerous spell.
It can also prematurely end a Force Field on an ally with the Shockwave combination. And since Shockwave does not affect the target inside the Force Field, you can turn Warriors with Taunts into booby traps toward the end of the Force Field duration (which you should be able to see by looking at their quickbar, which lists active effects and their remaining duration).
Enemies can use this dangerous spell against your own magi, and there is no way to prematurely end it except with Force Field to create a Shockwave since Anti-Magic Ward (and therefore, Glyph of Neutralization as well) is bugged.

The Sleep spells tree does not work against every opponent type so is slightly less desirable (and has steep Magic attribute requirements), but when it does work it is extremely powerful -- no Friendly Fire, very wide area effect from Sleep, no resistance check on Horror and Waking Nightmare if a target was put to sleep, and it can turn enemies on themselves, which provides a different type of protection/enemy neutralization than Glyphs. The Nightmare spell combination has a flat 10 second duration that is not reduced by target rank, so even bosses are neutralized for 10 seconds if they are affected at all. Finally, Waking Nightmare has a tendency to create enemy clumps that ignore you, so it can be used to facilitate Walking Bomb or Virulent Walking Bomb, but even so those are tricky spells to use without blowing yourself up on Hard or Nightmare Difficulty.

The lack of Indirect spellcasting is regrettable but it is still powerful because there is no Friendly Fire. It also has the benefit of dealing damage either directly (Nightmare) or indirectly (Waking Nightmare), which Glyphs do not have. An elf can advance in this tree the fastest, but even then won't get Sleep until level 4 and Waking Nightmare until level 6, whereas you can get Paralysis Explosion by level 3. No particular reason not to get both especially if you have a lot of backup to deal damage for you.

In tests, we found the Debilitation spells worthless considering the other options. No Friendly Fire but not indirect and the duration wasn't substantially longer than other spells. Still resisted by Physical Resistance, which makes them all iffy anyway. I would rather start close with indirect fire from cover and then rush in with all party members than get the enemy's attention by coming close enough to cast my spell. Also, Mass Paralysis has a long casting time (but no Friendly Fire).


To run a Controller/Debilitator, I recommend aiming for Glyph of Repulsion, some damage spells, Waking Nightmare, Heal, then Glyph of Neutralization.


Supporter/Healer Mage
Healing and Buffs are somewhat weak and Mana-costly in the early game, so a passive healer mage is generally not recommended unless you are willing to drink Lyrium Potions to maintain a steady stream of magic to help your allies fight. Also, the spells that restore Mana (like Spellbloom) are lousy unless someone casts them on you. Further, Rejuvenate cannot be cast on yourself -- you have to wait until Mass Rejuvenation.

That said, there are some very good spells to try to neutralize a dangerous target if you are willing to spend the spells to reach them. We've already talked about the Telekinesis spells and Glyphs, all of which have very short effects on bosses. The other main one is a later-game option of Hexes, primarily Misdirection Hex and Death Hex. I put these as late-game options because only then would you probably need the extra edge from these spells. The duration is fixed against all target ranks and there is no resistance (except Magic Resistance) but the costs are high and the cooldowns are very long so they are temporary respite at best for a fight long enough and dangerous enough to need them. You would probably be better off with the more generically useful Healing and Group Heal from the Spirit Healer specialization.

Other buffs are iffy in usefulness. For example, the Enhancements spell tree can give you an Attack Bonus with Heroic Offense, but it costs a lot, and if the ally isn't having trouble hitting, it's really not a useful spell at all since a hit is a hit. The higher-level spells, like Heroic Defense also give a penalty (5% Fatigue) and Haste has a built-in cap on its effect due to on-screen animation limits.

To run a Supporter/Healer, I recommend aiming for Glyph of Repulsion, Force Field, Heal, Crushing Prison, Regeneration, Glyph of Neutralization, and finally Mass Rejuvenation.

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

X-Men Legends 2 - Walkthrough - Act III


Starting A New Game in X-Men Legends 2: Rise of Apocalypse (for PC) - Walkthrough - Act III

This is one of our X-Men Legends 2 walkthrough / cheats / mods posts. For an index of all X-Men Legends posts, click here.

  • Some areas may require you to break through walls to ge around obstacles, but the action here is still pretty straightforward. In many areas, you can look into the next room by being close to a wall. This then allows you to use indirect fire powers (such as Storm's Blizzard) without fear of retaliation, especially if you can keep your party members from pathfinding their way through a door to attack your enemies.
  • You start to encounter several enemies with Invulnerability except to certain maneuvers.
    • You probably have to hit them several times with the indicated combo to deactivate the invulnerability.
    • Experiment with various characters to see if their powers will ignore this. For example, Scarlet Witch's Hex Bolt, Hex Locked, and Reality Shift can still damage targets even while their invulnerability is active.
    Sugarman
    Really tough in melee, and his tongue attack is quite fast. If you don't move quickly, he can hit you with it repeatedly and keep knocking you down.

    • He can hit you quickly and repeatedly with his Tongue attack and never give you a chance to act. If you can't get away from the Tongue attack, switch characters. He should then redirect his attention to another character as he is very focussed on pursuing whichever character you are controlling. Use the Call Allies function to have your party attack him instead of follow you.
    • The Tongue attack fires straight forward and cannot hit targets above, below, or to the side. You can therefore sidestep or jump away. You can also run and keep him frustrated by going up and down the stairs. This lets a support character cast group buffs or healing.
    • He needs to turn around to use his Tongue attack since it fires directly forward, so you could briefly switch characters to someone behind him and pound on him, then switch to another character once he has you targeted by his Tongue attack. A strong melee character can actually make short work of Sugarman in less than 30 seconds if you can stay on his flank.

    X-Men Legends 2 - Walkthrough - Act II


    Starting A New Game in X-Men Legends 2: Rise of Apocalypse (for PC) - Walkthrough - Act II

    This is one of our X-Men Legends 2 walkthrough / cheats / mods posts. For an index of all X-Men Legends posts, click here.

    Sauron

    • Try to have a character with either a fast ranged attack (e.g., Jean Grey's Telekinesis) or an indirect attack that starts at the target (e.g., Storm's Lightning). This will make it easier to attack Sauron while he's flying around.
    • Once on the ground, you have just a few seconds to pound on him before he stuns everyone and takes to the air again. The stun seems quite unavoidable.

      Mikhail Rasputin
      Another multi-stage boss, and this one quite irritating.
      • Stage 1: Duplicates
        • To take a break, you can go to the edges of the room. Generally this will draw maybe 1 to 3 duplicates. Defeat them and you should be able to take a breather.
      • Stage 2: Force Field
        • To lower the force field around Mikhail, you need to activate consoles on each of the four pads.
          • Mikhail can transform consoles into minions. You need to defeat them to transform them back into a console.
          • You can only activate a console on each pad once, so you need to move around to each console, and defeat a minion while it is on the console. When a minion is eligible to turn into a console you can use, it will have an arrow on its head. If the console that is created is valid, it will have a green arrow on top of it.
          • Mikhail's energy beams fire more quickly when there are fewer force fields. They cannot penetrate objects, so you can hide your active character behind one. They cannot hit fliers, so you can hover over a console and wait for your allies to defeat an enemy on a valid pad and get you a console to use.
          • Teammates mostly automatically leap over console beams, so just focus on keeping your currently controlled character out of trouble.
      • Stage 3: Mikhail Time Slow
        • Once the force fields are down, you enter the final phase of combat. Mikhail can slow time for everyone, whereupon he rushes in to pound on the currently controlled character.
        • Mikhail can transform crates into minions, but only if they are on the screen. If you don't move too far from the initial area, he won't have anything to transform into a minion.

      X-Men Legends 2 - Walkthrough - Act I


      Starting A New Game in X-Men Legends 2: Rise of Apocalypse (for PC) - Walkthrough - Act I

      This is one of our X-Men Legends 2 walkthrough / cheats / mods posts. For an index of all X-Men Legends posts, click here.

      General Notes
      Act I is pretty straightforward. When you are putting together your team, try to have a healer as it lets you fully heal between fights without resorting to potions. You probably won't get any healing abilities until level 14, however.

      Combat is fast and furious and prone to traffic jams. The sooner you get area effects or area stun (even for a very short while), the better.

      The only tough encounters here are the bosses, as you are still at a low level. We have general tips on bosses in this post -- scroll down to General Hints.

      Because you have teleporters on your team (Nightcrawler; and once you have finished the game, you can unlock Deadpool) some very few locations will require a teleporter. There is one such location where a door cannot be opened but you can teleport into the room to destroy two controls to lower force fields.

      Abyss
      The final encounter here is against Abyss. He has a whirlwind power you cannot defend against and knocks you down at the end, but it isn't really dangerous except that he usually gets a free melee hit against you afterwards. His melee attacks are very long range and do a lot of knockback, although this can result in pushing you out of the way and then you can quite safely use ranged attacks. Keep your distance and use Call Allies to get your teammates to attack him with powers instead.

      When he flees, you can take your time clearing the room of containers before following him to the dirigibles. Once there you have a full minute and can spend some of it smashing the many densely packed crates for goodies.

      On the dirigible, you need to grab the bombs he throws and throw them back at his dirigible. If you try to leap or fly across, you will be dragged down between the space between the ships and be instantly KO'ed. If you hit anyone else, it will explode and harm you but may not harm your dirigible.

      When Abyss's ship has been destroyed, Abyss will hop over. Leave him for your teammates and instead keep your distance and focus on the soldiers and collecting health potions for your teammates. If you get too close to him, he'll just knock you down, giving the soldiers free hits against you. At this point you can either take a strong melee character or a character with area effect powers to clear the soldiers quickly. This is the final tough encounter against Abyss. Once defeated here, he sucks the team into an extra-dimensional space.

      Once inside him in the extra-dimensional space, take out the flying creatures then activate the four bombs. Nothing tricky here.

      Marvel Ultimate Alliance - Walkthrough, Cheats, and Mods


      Walkthrough, Cheats, and Mods - Marvel Ultimate Alliance (for PC)

      Marvel Ultimate Alliance is essentially a very straightforward game since there are often either quest markers to guide you to where you need to go next, or the level design is very linear anyway.

      A very good detailed guide for the PC can be found here: I will only have notes, cheats, and mods for tricky quests, things that you may not have thought to do, and various things you can do to mod the game for your convenience.

      Overall, Marvel Ultimate Alliance is a tedious game of repetition. You keep killing things over and over again as you retry difficult missions and minigames until you succeed. The hardest battles in the campaign are not about the skill of your heroes but your own hand-eye coordination. If you don't succeed, you're stuck. We'll mod and cheat our way through (if necessary) the most annoying aspects of it so that you won't be stuck with no way to continue.

      X-Men Legends 2 - Starting a New Game and General Hints


      Starting A New Game in X-Men Legends 2: Rise of Apocalypse (for PC), and General Hints

      This is one of our X-Men Legends 2 walkthrough / cheats / mods posts. For an index of all X-Men Legends posts, click here.

      Starting a New Game
      Before you start a new game, you may want to consider modding it a bit, or doing certain things to prevent having to replay the entire game from the start.

      • Unlocking Characters
        • You can unlock Deadpool, Iron Man, and Professor Xavier by adding the following lines to the end of ...\Scripts\act1\sanctuary\sanctuary1.py:
        unlockCharacter("ironman", "" )
        unlockCharacter("professorx", "" )
        unlockCharacter("deadpool", "" )
          • You can then go to the Genosha Sanctuary again to unlock those characters. Or, if you are starting a new game, the characters will be unlocked when you finish the tutorial and reach the Genosha Sanctuary for the first time.
        General Hints
        We have hints everywhere throughout our walkthroughs. These are just some hints that don't belong anywhere else.
        • There are basically four types of characters: Specialists and Generalists, Power and Melee.
          • Power characters prioritize stats in order of Focus, Speed, Body, Strike.
          • Melee characters prioritize stats in order of Strike, Body, Speed, Focus.
          • Specialists advance in only 3 stats, at a rate of +5/4 levels, +2/4 levels, and +1/4 levels. At level 99 this is +123, +49, +25
          • Generalists advance in all four stats: +4/4 levels, +2/4 levels, +1/4 levels, +1/4 levels. At level 99, this is +99, +49, +25, +25.
        • Ability scores are capped at 250 before equipment. Once you max a score, future increases from level gain are wasted.
          • Each level you get 4 points to add in any way you like (total 396 over 99 levels). You can bank these. As a general guideline we recommend you spend about 80-100 on your main attribute (Focus or Strike) and 150 on Body. This way, you still have room to let levelling maximize those attributes.
          • Tech stations can add a total of +30 to each stat and can increase them beyond what you can do with Attribute points from levelling up.
            • +Body
              • +2 - Act 1, Grand Hall 
              • +4 - Act 2, Nuwali Shrine
              • +6 - Act 3, Madri Antechamber
              • +8 - Act 4, Stockade
              • +10 - Act 5, Temple of Anubis
            • +Focus
              • +2 - Act 1, Desolate Mesa
              • +4 - Act 2, Beyonders Sanctum
              • +6 - Act 3, Madri Cloisters
              • +8 - Act 4, Pantheon
              • +10 - Act 5, Temple of Sekhmet
            • +Strike
              • +2 - Act 1, Dead Zone
              • +4 - Act 2, Elemental Tomb
              • +6 - Act 3, Infinite Engineering
              • +8 - Act 4, Perimeter Platforms
              • +10 - Act 5, Vault of the Ages
            • +Speed
              • +2 - Act 1, Cerci Burrows
              • +4 - Act 2, Jungle Pass
              • +6 - Act 3, Core Interior
              • +8 - Act 4, New York West Side
              • +10 - Act 5, Hall of the Dead
            • Health
              • +10 - Act 1, Larvae Chambers
              • +20 - Act 2, Jungle Ruins
              • +30 - Act 3, Fusion Core
              • +40 - Act 4, Tower Engineering
              • +50 - Act 5, Ra's Mouth
            • Energy
              • +10 - Act 1, Genosha Seawall
              • +20 - Act 2, Nuwali Corridors
              • +30 - Act 3, Genetic Processing
              • +40 - Act 4, New York North Side
              • +50 - Act 5, Ancient Labyrinth
          • Danger Room missions can add to stats and increase them beyond what you can do with Attribute points from levelling up. Challenges improve only the indicated character.
            • +9 Body
              • Moves 104 - Throw
              • Moves 106 - Knockback
              • Moves 202 - Popup
              • Survival 301
              • Assault 303
              • Sabotage 401
              • Survival 404
              • Survival 504
              • Nightmare 504 - Bastion
              • Challenge - Cyclops
              • Challenge - Juggernaut
            • +10 Focus
              • Teamwork 105
              • Moves 108 - Stun
              • Qualifying Exam 100 - Lady Deathstrike
              • Moves 201 - Trip
              • Qualifying Exam 200 - Sauron
              • Teamwork 403
              • Defend 503
              • Qualifying Exam 500 - Stryfe
              • Nightmare 502 - Sauron
              • Nightmare 505 - Stryfe
              • Challenge - Phoenix
              • Challenge - Magneto
              • Challenge - Rogue
            • +6 Strike
              • Moves 103 - Triple Hit
              • Assault 203 - Strike
              • Teamwork 302
              • Defend 402
              • Assault 502
              • Nightmare 503 - Sugarman
              • Challenge - Gambit
              • Challenge - Iceman
              • Challenge - Colossus
              • Challenge - Bishop
            • +8 Speed
              • Setting 102 - Throwing
              • Combined Powers 107
              • Defend 204 - Speed
              • Destroy 304
              • Qualifying Exam 300 - Sugarman
              • Graduation Exam 400 - Bastion
              • Protect 501
              • Nightmare 501 - Lady Deathstrike
              • Challenge - Toad
              • Challenge - Scarlet Witch
              • Challenge - Sunfire
              • Challenge - Nightcrawler
              • Challenge - Storm
              • Challenge - Wolverine
        • Bosses are very challenging because they target your currently controlled character and tend to do a lot of knockback.
          • In general, try to choose a ranged attacker, and in the meantime use the Call Allies (C) button to get your teammates to attack.
          • If possible, have the chosen character be either a booster (can cast buffs, especially healing, such as Scarlet Witch, have area effect attacks, or attacks that manifest at the target instead of having to be aimed (e.g., Storm's Blizzard).
          • Teammates not being controlled y you seem to do remarkably well against bosses. Also, they will automatically use health potions.
          • The character you control should run away from the boss. Since it is pursuing you, it will generally leave its flanks open to your teammates. If the boss is a melee attacker, try to go to some vantage point or position where the boss will have trouble pathfinding to you.
        •  Be careful about any opponent that has a damaging aura (such as a green radiation aura).
          • You can't really pull back your allies except by running away far enough, so you will either have to commit to using a lot of potions, trying your own healing powers, or taking your chances and pulling back to regroup. If you do the latter, you may be able to draw out the enemies and focus on one at a time.
          • If you don't watch it, your AI-controlled characters will rush into melee and get themselves killed. They won't necessarily target the damage-aura opponent first, and even if they do they might end up with very little health left.
        • If you find the Danger Room time limits challenging, or just don't want to be bothered with the stress of doing them quickly, try our X-Men 2 Danger Room time mod, which gives you an hour to complete objectives.

          X-Men Legends 2 - Walkthrough, Cheats, and Mods


          X-Men Legends 2: Rise of Apocalypse (for PC) - Walkthroughs, Cheats, and Mods

          This is the index of all our X-Men Legends 2 walkthrough / cheats / mods posts.

          1. Starting a New Game - Things you may want to do before you start a new game, to avoid too much re-playing. Some general hints.
          2. Missions
            1. Act I - Genosha
            2. Act II - Savage Land
            3. Act III - Apocalypse Bases
            4. Act IV
            5. Act V