Hearthly wrote:
Oh yes there's a fucking RIDICULOUS difficulty spike right at the end that the game doesn't prepare for you at all, I got through the fight in the end but it took me about 20 attempts.
Not my experience at all:
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I got all the way through the Hope and then Tarturus on a mixture of stealth attacks, the cloaking device, and cover from allies showing up to fight for me. I never came under fire. When I got to the RAM robot, I hacked it to turn it off and never had to fight it. Although reading more stuff since, if I'd done the final conversation with Sophia differently, she might never have activated it at all.
It helped a lot that, late on, I respec'd my character and carefully jiggled my stats, perks, gear, and companions to hit 100s in lockpicking, hacking, persuade, and lie, and 80+ in most of the other skills that gate dialog choices. That opened up a lot of non-combat options for me in the lategame.