Strategy for settlement raids?

[NascentChemist]

Hello all,

I could use some help with settlement raids, especially when the enemy knows you're coming.

I can't stand on rooftops and shoot people, because there are Goliaths circling.

The SRV is targeted too easily by the Goliaths and base turrets.

I can't sneak into the power station to deactivate defenses, because they know I'm coming.

Dumbfire missiles are neutralized by base PDT.

What's the basic strategy here? Do I really need to try to Rambo my way into a building, with over twenty hostiles?

 

[MAUXUS]

I'll have a shot while you wait for other answers. Why not land off site to stay undetected, then approach the base with SRV first, and final stretch on foot towards the turrets and disable them (cut red panel out and take whatever is inside?). Next, go back to ship and use it to destroy Goliaths (have the appropriate weapons). Then either disembark and go on roof tops or stay in ship and kill them from above?

 

[Dragsham]

Park away from base about 2 km and dismiss ship.
Drive srv lights off using nightvision to about 200m of base. Find a spot where goliath isn't patrolling.
No e charges just hop into a roof and look thru windows to find a lvl 2 or 3 npc inside. Watch his routine and clone him for ID when back is turned.
Your clean and have only to be scanned but let's assume you can get to the cmd building where the alarm turrets and other switches are. If un restricted then wait till npcs backs are turned and switch em off. If restricted l use my indoor silenced wep to nail whomever is inside cmd.
Once alarms etc are down obviously avoid guards as best you can, once scanned the game is up. I've managed to loot most of the buildings dispatching anyone silently as l go. Doesn't always work though but 1 shot plasma pistol silenced is good. Mines g4.
I use nightvision on my maverick suit.
Don't use torch and crouch!!
You've the option Once you've disabled alarms etc successfully, to return to your ship having driven a distance in srv to then bomb the base. Turrets etc won't respond so its a easy slaughter.
Watch out for clean ships dropping in with reinforcements. Some even attack your ship.
Don't expect it to always work.

 

[NascentChemist]

Park away from base about 2 km and dismiss ship.
Drive srv lights off using nightvision to about 200m of base. Find a spot where goliath isn't patrolling.
No e charges just hop into a roof and look thru windows to find a lvl 2 or 3 npc inside. Watch his routine and clone him for ID when back is turned.
Your clean and have only to be scanned but let's assume you can get to the cmd building where the alarm turrets and other switches are. If un restricted then wait till npcs backs are turned and switch em off. If restricted l use my indoor silenced wep to nail whomever is inside cmd.
Once alarms etc are down obviously avoid guards as best you can, once scanned the game is up. I've managed to loot most of the buildings dispatching anyone silently as l go. Doesn't always work though but 1 shot plasma pistol silenced is good. Mines g4.
I use nightvision on my maverick suit.
Don't use torch and crouch!!
You've the option Once you've disabled alarms etc successfully, to return to your ship having driven a distance in srv to then bomb the base. Turrets etc won't respond so its a easy slaughter.
Watch out for clean ships dropping in with reinforcements. Some even attack your ship.
Don't expect it to always work.

I'm sorry, but I don't think this is relevant.

The settlement knows I'm coming. As soon as my SRV (lights off, NV on) got within ~1km, the entire settlement became hostile.

I tried a supercruise re-log, and the patrolling ships were hostile before I landed.

 

[Dragsham]

Ah your hostile to em...obviously sorry l missed that.
OK waste the goliath with premium ammo fired from srv. I do the hull too.
Then sit back and kill the guards as they approach you.
Turret mode shines here hehe.
Obviously engaging the goliath within Los of any of the turrets isn't a good idea. I normally draw the goliath away from the base kiting him whilst mobile and firing from turret. Again it doesn't always work. Raw mats ain't infinite either

 

[whothe]

Take your SRV
There is only ever a single skimmer, shoot it first. this will set off settlement alarms.
Turrets only face a certain area of the base, so if you are being shot, you are going the wrong way. back off and come around from another direction.
Soldiers will run towards you, shields 2 pips, weapons 4. use your turret. Gun them down from range one at a time until they stop coming. If they are wrecking your srv you are too close, back off, keep moving, slowly but keep moving

Now find the PWR building. cut your way in, preferably the back/side non patrolled door if there is one. there is always one npc in the power room usually with level 3 clearance, kill, clone ID.
Now run between buildings and kill remaining NPCs inside.
If you want a power reg, shutdown the reactor when you are ready to leave, short out the doors so they are open while you wait, charge your suit, plan your exit. When the power goes out drop ships be coming. loot and scoot!

If you do a settlement raid, try to find a massacre for the same faction to stack with it. 2 mission rewards for killing the same NPCs.

 

[SecretIdentity]

Personally I say ignore massacre missions where the enemy knows that you're coming until you have at least max grade gear. At that point you can just ignore the Goliath but actively strafe to dodge a decent amount of its shots. If you do it right, you can clear an entire base without having to take down the Goliath.

If the alarms are triggered, don't go indoors. That's where you're likely to get swarmed and killed. Run around the base while picking off the chasing npcs one by one. If you have a small skimmer chasing you, you can take it down very easily (ignore goliath).

 

[762s]

i like letting the skimmers and goliaths follow me out of the base while i get in range to call an apex

i think they both need a serious buff!
and some stealth technology added to them to make them more "dangerous"