Is that "training mission" at the start of ED:O actually doable?

[Lance Corrimal]

Am I missing something, or is that training mission at the start of ED:O really trying to make me fight ten or more opponents at the same time, while I'm armed with nothing but a handgun, a laser rifle, and two frag grenades?

Have I overlooked a weapons locker somewhere?

where is the frickn chaingun?

 

[tomimt]

It is very doable. You just have to use the location to your benefit. Jump on roofs, keep on the move. It's very important to constantly keep on the move, jumping and using the jetpack is one of the most important things you can do during a fight. There are ammo and grenade caches scattered all over the base as well.

 

[Lance Corrimal]

ah ok...

 

[Drelthar]

Did it first time.

They have lame gear, you have decent gear.

 

[Northpin]

It is doable, just move, fire, take cover and so on. They are many, but they're not that strong
Pay attention to grenades
i did not jumped to the roofs, but i kited them around a bit.

 

[Amy Pendergast]

Use the environment to hide - they don't really double down on you too much. Don't try to go full bullet sponge, keep your head down and you should be fine

 

[CMDR Sheehy]

If I can do it - and I'm one of the last combat capable person in the game - it's possible. It took me quite a bit of time and a lot of running away.

 

[Jack Schitt]

They have lame gear, you have decent gear.

But don't get complacent. Between the starter mission and a couple of low level Frontline missions in a fortuitously discovered G2 Dominator, I was starting to think I was Rambo. The first scavenger mission I took put me up against raiders with more shields than the USS Enterprise. I didn't even make it to the first structure. Dead on the floor with a 100,000 credit fine. Going to stick to alien botany for a while.

 

[Gleitfrosch]

Also the training teaches you to switch your weapons
Laser for shields
Kinetic for armor

And like others wrote, roofs are your friend

 

[Morbad]

The combat in the training mission is some of the easiest in the game. As Drelthar says, they give you some pretty good gear while the opposing NPCs have trash. If anything it fools people into thinking TTKs are only twice what they should be and that foot combat might not be a tedious slog.

This was my first attempt (of course I did play a bit of the alpha before though):

Source: https://youtu.be/2QXSYYIzqMY?t=965


A few days of testing later, I took my brand new Maverick suit and laser carbine to a threat level 3 mission after having run that tutorial about a dozen times...and had to bug out when I realized I couldn't hurt anyone...I mean they couldn't hurt me, as evidenced by the fact that I was cornered and still casually walked past them and then ran off to my ship and flew away without them being able to stop me, but watching those shields and armor trickle down much more slowly than my own ammo was rather demoralizing. At this point I mostly just abuse the braindead AI and ammo boxes to kill higher rank NPCs with my current gear.

Also the training teaches you to switch your weapons
Laser for shields
Kinetic for armor

It doesn't do a very good job of this since the laser rifle in the tutorial does just fine on the armor you're faced with.

I was like, "oh, maybe they removed that idiotic weapon switching requirement". Nope, just a misleading tutorial.

 

[gooddoc]

If I can do it - and I'm one of the last combat capable person in the game - it's possible. It took me quite a bit of time and a lot of running away.

Yeah, well my Combat skills are 'naff' to say the least........I spent at least a hour on that tutorial when I first got Odyssey loaded, forgetting that I could have just skipped it by returning to the main menu.

I found I was doing rather well, until the dropship arrived......then for reason's as I said in my first sentence......I got the kicked out of me!

 

[{SAS}Stalker]

I've tried it a few times to complete it and it won't finish, the actual mission is easy, everyone does but the ship I'm meant to get in never arrives.

Also every time I walked inside the landing pad I got shot, turning off the turrets did nothing and even overcharging them from the maintenance panel still let them fire. The only way I can stop them firing is to remove the power cell and power down the entire complex which I thought goes against the entire point of the mission.

I just quit it after a couple of goes, turned out it was a sign of things to come.

 

[gooddoc]

What did find useful were the Frontline CZ's.
This was like a 'freebie' for me.
I could running around like a headless chicken while gaining bits of Combat experience here & there.
It's reached a point now where I can do these Combat's without dying or only dying once...............RESULT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[babelfisch]

Just make sure to focus on one enemy at a time. Get in cover, position yourself so you can only see one enemy and kill him. Don't let him replenish his shields, give him everything you have. Otherwise you are constantly fighting shields instead of people. If you lose your shields yourself, don't worry, they replenish fast. If they get close, change position and repeat.