WASTELAND 3 - ADVANCED COMBAT TIPS & TRICKS \\ Combat Guide

probably very noob question but how armor and pen works?

yah this helped

No, you can't use inventory during combat ! (2023)

Can someone please help me with this?

On ps4 you press X to move your character during combat. When you want to move to a space where there is a dead body to loot it, during combat, you press X. You stop at the space next to that body to pick it up.

If I want to move to the space where the body was, but I don’t want to loot it, how do I do that?

You end up using your ap points on this pointless and stupid action otherwise and get stuck standing next to the body like an idiot. Someone please tell me how to move to the location and not loot the body please. I’m seriously not touching this game again until I figure that out. It’s game breaking.

I'd like to note- or at least ps4- swapping quick slots on ps4 seems to be patched

Few things I'd like to add:
- You can no longer swap out items in combat, this has been patched out - as it should.
- Permadeath is an option in the Difficulty settings. If turned on, you must raise your characters in time, or replace them. That goes for your companions, too. If you loose Kwon and Lucia early, that's that - you have to progress further to replace them.
- Whereas it's good to have a dedicated healer - It's beneficial to assign every character just one rank in First Aid. That way, every character can use medkits and heal another character.
- Don't waste expensive ammo on finishing off an enemy. Open with your Big Guns, finish up with pistols and snipers. If you pump ten rounds of fifty caliber bullets into that last Drool, when a single shot of 38 does the trick, you've wasted precious resources.
- A Sneaky Sniper has hands down the best single target damage output in the game, no question - I've seen mine hit for 17K, and there are things I didn't do to make him hit even harder [but that's nonsense anyway, there is no enemy with that kind of HP]. However, having Sneak on someone that does Area of Effect damage is way more effective, especially since in the mid-to-late game, your sniper should preferably be ambushing at the end of your turn, instead of opening at the start of it. Combine sneak with say, Explosives or Shotguns for maximum effect. Kwon and an SMG can also do wonders if his strike meter is full.
- Open fights! Never, ever, ever let the enemy get the drop on you and start the first turn. On Hard and Jerk - this is almost always, immediately game over for you.
- Always murder everything you can. It's always better to kill one enemy than wound two; especially on the harder difficulties, where your defenses are pretty much useless; the enemy will rarely leave someone alive when they hit someone.

Detail : switching quickslot items in combat does not seem to work in the current Steam/PC build (last update was in Oct. 2021). I will retest a few times, but up to now it seems like a logical change due to the limited Quickslots system. I was able though to switch weapons.

I think they stopped you from changing your quick slots in battle for free

They must have changed the ability to change out stuff in you uick slots because I don't have that option.

Thx👌

Just got the game from Game Pass and I gotta say it's a trash game. 80% of what you covered isn't mentioned in the game at all. I play on Hard and I'll be overleveld for a mission by 2 or 3 levels and I'll still have an unnecessarily hard time fighting enemies. I either have to overthink every encounter or find a cheese strat or save scum because a) like I said despite being overlevelled the enemies are insanely challening or b) the game bugs out and thought I wanted to shoot my own teammate, an enemy bugged out and teleported toward me and didnt show me, or c) some other dumb RNG ish happened. This game is pretty wanting ngl. Divinity Sin 2 & XCOM are way better for the same style of game and more indepth combat and lore. What you say looks interesting but after playing, say 10 hours, I just can't justify still playing this game. If I knew this game had a history of being obtuse af, I wouldve looked up videos like yours first.

U cant switch items during fights anymore, it was not intended and thank god they fixed this shit. It was unplayable the amount of bugs and badly balanced gameplay on release. Now many of these problems are fixed.

there's nothing "advanced" about this guide...

Use Kodiak to run over the enemies and as target/cover as it can take lot of damage. Especially in the early games Kodiak can be the easiest way to handle tought enemies if you simply run over them.

I don't understand. Was animal whisperer good at some point? I thought it was cool when I first started but they really don't do any damage and the enemy never really shoots at them so they can't sponge bullets for you and they take forever to do anything and they get in my way.

Am I missing something with them?

talking some obvious shit. dislike

Any char with FULL LUCK is op )
automatic rifles stormtroopers musthave

I use 1 melee tank 2 snipers 1 doc and a mechanic/ nerd. Lastly the pistol lady

Phoenix point > wasteland 3

Nice advice i started playing a week ago

I literally don't know how to do stealth and I play on Xbox

Thanks for the video! :) Seeing your builds made me feel better about my skill compositions.

My melee also does mechanics so I can run him up to disable turrets

also you can have a sniper with nerd stuff and hack some powerful one,its by just shooting their cpu

How do I adjust my attack radius cone? Like a flamethrower. I've seen video where they finely adjust the cone of attack.

CHA 10 characters are amazing with any skill composition, well except non-coms. Heavy Weap + Explosive = Extreme pain tier for enemies cause you can get explosive mod right after leaving the starting area in your vehicle. Rapid Firing explosive death rounds 19X hits a turn of explosive heavy machine gun fire is a super room clearing machine.

One of the best tips I have is to dip a few points into weird science for everyone and try to keep a pulse weapon and a fire/cryo weapon one each character... they ignore all armor and do a bonus 30% damage to either machines or organics

Also having an “infiltrator” with the poindexter quirk and max intelligence from the start that focuses on sneak, locks, mechanics, and explosives can run through combat areas without triggering combat and disable generators that power turrets and massively tip the scales in your favor

They will be squishy but you can keep them behind cover lobbing grenades and decoys and crit hitting a ton

Even at level 20 I still hoard all the attachments. Just to be safe

All u need to know is I run Minsc. melee/animal Companion. :D

Save everything you pick up until you get the antique collected perk and then sell everything at once and become rich

"advanced"

this game is hard , believe me , save often

Is Initiative even worth now? I thought that it effected who goes first

I'm miss my Tom cat 😢. He died protecting my squad from a mutant toad. I wish there was pet cemetery that lets you revive fallen pets.

Is having 7 squad members normal ?!? Cause I somehow glitched my squad selection into having a 7th party member. Gotta say combat is easy thanks to my extra sniper lol

I suspect that the free inventory switching will get patched at some point.

get good at spelling.

I want to name my animal companions

Why did you not say brekkie?

I hate it when animal companions block whole doorway so rest of my crew gets stuck behind them while my guy runs on combat alone

Pro-Tip: Use your Kodiak to run over enemies, It deals a ****load of damage. Waaaay better than shooting.

No spin no zoom no interest.

Wait, so if a companions revive time reaches 0 they can be brought back by a doctor?

Put Barter on one of your beginning characters in character creation. Getting them to the coveted rank 7 will be much easier, and passing some of the harder barter speech checks will be much easier. Antiques Dealer is an awesome perk, but far better if you can get it early.

Advanced combat tips and one is turrets will actually shoot people lmao

top tip for game start - dont sell any Junk untill youve cleared colarado springs and have your armoury set up -you will have loads by then - ( you can buy n sell weapons etc but not junk )create your barter character as soon as you can -max out intelligence - then max out the barter skill - when you get him out he will have the ability to pply the Antique perk - sel junk for anything up to 50,000 dollars -depending on antiques found - set up for anything !

Yet another fake “advanced” tips video . Just call it “more beginner tips” ffs.

Great video keep it going bro!

Drive your truck into enemies