While the strategy in this video is solid, the AC build is awful. It is a mission where you have to jump a lot, tank threads are the worse. If you wanna a much easier time, this is the build I used: DOUBLE ZIMMS, DOUBLE SONGBIRDS HEAD - VE-44B >> use the powerful, long range scanner to identify enemies before they even notice you. Very useful especially against the mandatory ghosts TORSO - MIND ALPHA >> sturdy, lightweight and with a good generator/booster efficiency. You need a good one to keep flying. ARMS - MELANDER C3 >> sturdy, lightweight, and with amazing tracking. Needed for the fast enemies zooming around in the first part of the mission (shoot them while passing, if they are dead they cannot damage you anymore) and the ghosts. LEGS - MIND BETA >> sturdy, lightweight reverse joint legs to jump so high, without even needing to use the booster. Also, if enemies are on the ground (like the ghosts), you can jump and shoot at them on the ground. They are super vulnerable to this. In general, in the ghost fight, don't stay too much on the ground, that's their territory, not yours. BOOSTER >> BST-G2/P06SPD FCS >> TALBOT GENERATOR >> VP-20C With this build, it is quite easy to S-rank this mission.
Holy mother of coral. I gotta be honest at first i doubted the importance of the RJ jump you mentioned but man, those mind alpha legs let me scale so much distance without any EN. Thanks for the S rank man
i swear, this big chopper guy keeps flying off map on purpose. it's so frustrating to commit to assault-boosting towards him just to get stopped by an invisible wall.
i like that the stealth guys cannot be detected by your anti-stealth scanner so you cant find them. you HAVE to be attacked by them. each attempt they show up later and later. i go searching for them and they arent where they should be, attacking the spot you scan the drone. if the scanner actually did its job here, its only function in the whole game, then it would be less bothersome.
You are using the wrong head. I'm using VE-44B, the one with the best scanner (range, time it last, time to recharge) and I just easily spotted some of those supposed "ghost" and nuked them before they even saw me with SONGBIRDS. You just have to scan with a decent head part just after hacking the drone.
Laser dagger has insane tracking for the little jet enemies. Also you can just tank all the damage from them and it doesn't really affect the s rank. I was on 2000ap before the boss and still got s just an fyi
Had much better luck with this using a medium build with dual stun needles and zimmies. The maneuvering around the map with the boss fight at the end with the wheelchair is way too awkward. Take out the small guys first, then fly right up to the heli and go to town with your stun needles and zimmies.
Make sure to heal up after finishing the boss only use 2 heals did everything perfect and not healing fuked it up did it again healed up S rank also ammunition be patient with that
Funnily enough, I S-Ranked this first try, I followed the pathing in the video and ignored all the enemies besides the Ghost mechs and then when fighting the PCA, killed the smaller enemies then the chopper, unfortunatelyy build uses some parts that are only obtained through ng++ but my build is as follows: Head-HD-012 MELANDER C3 Core-EL-PC-00 ALBA Arms-EL-PA-00 ALBA Legs-LG-011 MELANDER Booster-BC-0200 GRIDWALKER FCS-FC-006 ABBOT Generator-IA-CO1G: AORTA Expansion-Assault Armor R-arm unit-MA-E-210 ETSUJIN L-arm unit-RF-025 SCUDDER R-back unit-EARSHOT L-back unit-IB-CO3W2: WLT 101
Tetrapod worked way better for me. You can build it with the same speed and weapons, and when you get to the helicopter you can basically just hover and fire on the cockpit the entire time. The fight against the invisible enemies went a lot quicker too just hovering over them and firing.
ManGed to S rank this mission with dual stun needles and dual zimmermans. Hover legs seemd to be the key here. I was able to target while hovering in the air and use the long range of the needles to snipe the snipers. The needles have the range to hit the chopper even if it flies out past the boundry.
While i don't know all details, i do know that time and repair/ammo cost are the most important factors. For this mission specifically i think you have to not use the optional defence drones cause i think they add repair cost when they die making it impossible to S rank with them. you can ignore the optional enemies as they mostly slow you down and aren't worth it. When i S ranked the mission. I flew past all enemies using the fast access speed for the generators so i could ignore all early enemies in the level. My build was a kinda light tetra-pod with two redshift rifles and no shoulder weapons because they don't rely on ACS break to deal decent damage at medium/long range. I also ignored the optional drones that can help you which i think is important. On a sidenote, i think the game looks at the total amount of earned money when calculating the rank, meaning that killing enemies could be a good assuming it doesn't slow you down and that you earn more money than you spend killing them.
Dude, I just got the S rank. The requirement to S rank this mission is the ammunition cost. Here is the build that I used, dual zimm and dual JVLN alpha in the back. KASUAR head, VP-40S core, NACHTHREIHER/46E arms, 06-041 Mind alpha, ALULA booster, VE-21A FCS, and DF-GN-06 MING-TANG generator. Got the S rank with this build after an hour of trials of the different builds in the youtube. Good luck
While the strategy in this video is solid, the AC build is awful. It is a mission where you have to jump a lot, tank threads are the worse. If you wanna a much easier time, this is the build I used:
DOUBLE ZIMMS, DOUBLE SONGBIRDS
HEAD - VE-44B >> use the powerful, long range scanner to identify enemies before they even notice you. Very useful especially against the mandatory ghosts
TORSO - MIND ALPHA >> sturdy, lightweight and with a good generator/booster efficiency. You need a good one to keep flying.
ARMS - MELANDER C3 >> sturdy, lightweight, and with amazing tracking. Needed for the fast enemies zooming around in the first part of the mission (shoot them while passing, if they are dead they cannot damage you anymore) and the ghosts.
LEGS - MIND BETA >> sturdy, lightweight reverse joint legs to jump so high, without even needing to use the booster. Also, if enemies are on the ground (like the ghosts), you can jump and shoot at them on the ground. They are super vulnerable to this. In general, in the ghost fight, don't stay too much on the ground, that's their territory, not yours.
BOOSTER >> BST-G2/P06SPD
FCS >> TALBOT
GENERATOR >> VP-20C
With this build, it is quite easy to S-rank this mission.
thanks your build was way better it's not even funny I hate tank legs thanks again!! Got it first try with your build
Holy mother of coral. I gotta be honest at first i doubted the importance of the RJ jump you mentioned but man, those mind alpha legs let me scale so much distance without any EN. Thanks for the S rank man
i swear, this big chopper guy keeps flying off map on purpose. it's so frustrating to commit to assault-boosting towards him just to get stopped by an invisible wall.
This has been an annoying mission to rank for me
i like that the stealth guys cannot be detected by your anti-stealth scanner so you cant find them. you HAVE to be attacked by them.
each attempt they show up later and later. i go searching for them and they arent where they should be, attacking the spot
you scan the drone. if the scanner actually did its job here, its only function in the whole game, then it would be less bothersome.
You are using the wrong head. I'm using VE-44B, the one with the best scanner (range, time it last, time to recharge) and I just easily spotted some of those supposed "ghost" and nuked them before they even saw me with SONGBIRDS. You just have to scan with a decent head part just after hacking the drone.
Laser dagger has insane tracking for the little jet enemies. Also you can just tank all the damage from them and it doesn't really affect the s rank. I was on 2000ap before the boss and still got s just an fyi
First try! Used the video as guide to see which way to go after each objective - I remember getting lost on these missions on regular play thrus
So you’re not even playing the game what’s the point might as well copy paste
Had much better luck with this using a medium build with dual stun needles and zimmies. The maneuvering around the map with the boss fight at the end with the wheelchair is way too awkward.
Take out the small guys first, then fly right up to the heli and go to town with your stun needles and zimmies.
I got an income of 309,082 and only got a ranking of B, am i missing something?
Just move fast, know the path. Only kill main targets. Don't activate the support mechs, kill snipers and boss.
@darthpickle101 yea thanks. I managed to do it. I was activating the support mechs before
Make sure to heal up after finishing the boss only use 2 heals did everything perfect and not healing fuked it up did it again healed up S rank also ammunition be patient with that
Can breeze this apart from the last boss. With this build i just seem to get nowhere near it and take a lot of damage so come away with an A
Funnily enough, I S-Ranked this first try, I followed the pathing in the video and ignored all the enemies besides the Ghost mechs and then when fighting the PCA, killed the smaller enemies then the chopper, unfortunatelyy build uses some parts that are only obtained through ng++ but my build is as follows:
Head-HD-012 MELANDER C3
Core-EL-PC-00 ALBA
Arms-EL-PA-00 ALBA
Legs-LG-011 MELANDER
Booster-BC-0200 GRIDWALKER
FCS-FC-006 ABBOT
Generator-IA-CO1G: AORTA
Expansion-Assault Armor
R-arm unit-MA-E-210 ETSUJIN
L-arm unit-RF-025 SCUDDER
R-back unit-EARSHOT
L-back unit-IB-CO3W2: WLT 101
I was doubting the efficiency of that build all the way through the mission, but it cooked.
Thank you my friend
The fact that I cleared this without a restart at any checkpoints but got D rank because I took out all the smaller enemies made me PISSED
Tetrapod worked way better for me. You can build it with the same speed and weapons, and when you get to the helicopter you can basically just hover and fire on the cockpit the entire time. The fight against the invisible enemies went a lot quicker too just hovering over them and firing.
ManGed to S rank this mission with dual stun needles and dual zimmermans. Hover legs seemd to be the key here. I was able to target while hovering in the air and use the long range of the needles to snipe the snipers. The needles have the range to hit the chopper even if it flies out past the boundry.
I dont get it... I did this in 5 minutes and still can only get an A...
Ammo cost. Damage. Maybe you didn’t kill enough enemies. Every mission is different
While i don't know all details, i do know that time and repair/ammo cost are the most important factors. For this mission specifically i think you have to not use the optional defence drones cause i think they add repair cost when they die making it impossible to S rank with them. you can ignore the optional enemies as they mostly slow you down and aren't worth it.
When i S ranked the mission. I flew past all enemies using the fast access speed for the generators so i could ignore all early enemies in the level. My build was a kinda light tetra-pod with two redshift rifles and no shoulder weapons because they don't rely on ACS break to deal decent damage at medium/long range. I also ignored the optional drones that can help you which i think is important.
On a sidenote, i think the game looks at the total amount of earned money when calculating the rank, meaning that killing enemies could be a good assuming it doesn't slow you down and that you earn more money than you spend killing them.
The helicopter sucks I keep missing my fkin shots
Yea killing the boss with a tank feels like ASS
I knew this was going to be like this....
311,020 no activation of drones and still an A rank 🤦🏽♂️
I think this one is way easier with two songbirds
nice🎉
Literally impossible to actually do.
Dude, I just got the S rank. The requirement to S rank this mission is the ammunition cost. Here is the build that I used, dual zimm and dual JVLN alpha in the back. KASUAR head, VP-40S core, NACHTHREIHER/46E arms, 06-041 Mind alpha, ALULA booster, VE-21A FCS, and DF-GN-06 MING-TANG generator. Got the S rank with this build after an hour of trials of the different builds in the youtube. Good luck
Another cheese biuld run got it.
literally the only way to do these if you havnt figured it out yet