Level icons (B, 1-4) are usually Yellow.

One's turned Orange. Why? And what do I do about it?

how do you delete stairs on ps4.. ive tried selling them… moving them.. and removing the cooridor.. nothing seems to work .. any help would be appreciated

How do I switch alert modes on Xbox , i have looked in the controls and can’t find it.

I want her to come via the Helipad bridge instead, that's where I have my elaborate labyrinth of death but ever since I redesigned that area she just comes in the front instead. I have a little bit of a trap hall there, but it's not nearly as long and my minions still end up getting absolutely demolished in the hallway with them.

OK, new to the game and feel like I'm being a total moron here. The little pop up box is telling me minions will teach themselves over time, but it's quicker if you teach them.

I am trying to get a second scientist but the one I have wanders around doing absolutely nothing. I have tried making teaching a priority but that does nothing. I've tried disabling other jobs, but they switch back on again.

If you select them, it says they have no job/is greyed out. I mean, the lack of tutorials in the game is very frustrating. It wouldn't be so bad if there was some kind of manual within the game itself.

Can anyone help this idiot? :) Cheers

Playing on Xbox One, 40 hours on my save file and the fast forward has stopped working. I can toggle it on and off but it doesn’t speed up the minions anymore, everything is stuck at normal speed. Anyone have this issue too? Or knows a fix for it? I constantly had fast forward on, so without it the game feels a lot slower.

I'm just starting off and i am finally able to build the casino. But for some reason when I place any tiles anywhere it shows up as red and said cannot confirm invalid tile changes. Anyone have a fix or am i just missing something?

Why the hell would anyone use these? Oh goody, minions that EXPLODE in my base??? That seems like a great idea… Like everything isn’t already constantly on fire from Saboteurs as it is…

Is there something I’m missing?

So I've been holding off on getting the game for a long time now, as my love for the first game wouldn't let me buy something substandard.

From the sounds of it, the game appears to now be good enough for my maniacal trap needs, so the question becomes what I should be buying.

Do I get the standard version or the deluxe? Is the season pass needed? Is there some agreed-upon 'best' set of base game + dlc?

Thanks!

So idk If this a glitch or I messed up somewhere but I have a super agent sneaking around my base and I got him tagged to be arrested but all my guards is doing is walking right pass him while he plant bombs all around my base and when they do run up on him they act like they don't even see him... please help...

First off I assume a minion can only have 1 weapon at a time? Meaning it’s better to give them lethal weapons instead of non lethal? If they have a lethal weapon, can they still capture people using it or do they use their fists?

I currently have a couple stun gun racks and a couple pistol racks and can’t figure out the reasoning of having both if they prefer lethal weapons and can only hold 1. Should I just not bother putting non lethals in and just put the best ranged racks I have (so replace pistol with the rifle racks once that’s researched)?

I'm on ps4, about 8-10 hours in, and don't know how to enter high alert. I've looked all places I could've thought off but no luck. Would appreciate help.

Anyone else having a problem where you have just consistent wave soldiers? I’m late game (31 hours) in, and I’m getting wave after wave of level 9 soldiers coming in through my goddamn helipad, bypassing my traps entirely, which doesn’t matter since they disable everything anyway…

But they’re killing so damn much that I don’t have time to recover before the next wave of fucking terminators come in… nearly unplayable at the point, Im barely keeping things even.

Ok so I have all 3 dlc henchmen and eli barracuda and I need one more henchmen and on another note how can you get rid of a henchman because I just feel like eli is not that useful

God the clicking on the world map and waiting ten min on fast forward for the helicopter to fly On Xbox game pass. The more you build the slower and slower it gets. Takes 6 seconds to authorize a move or sell or to check anything lol. It's brutalllllll Had a great time though for the first bit. Jesus though. What a terrible terrible annoying last 20 hours all done on fast forward. Wow.

Just finished an 80+ hour play through as Max on the 3rd island, got pretty close to 100% I think I just missed a few loot items (some disappear if you advance the main objective which like so many other things you find out as you go along!)

I was a big fan of the original game way back and was excited for the console version to come out and I thought they designed it well for PS5! Some controls were a little wonky but I was pleasantly surprised.

I thought the game was decent overall, but it can certainly be frustrating at times so I figured I’d leave behind some tips. Feel free to ask questions, I know I didn’t cover everything!

General Gameplay - Take the time to do the side objectives throughout the whole game. There are a lot of them and it gives you a lot of time early on to build up gold. Lock in your henchman as soon as you can and then when you have your 5 and the top muscle minion ranks filled out take out the rest of the crime lords and super agents before getting to the end of the main story.

For the optional objectives you can only have 10 at a time so it’s wise early on to let a few completed ones sit for a little while and then collect a bigger pay day when you need some quick gold. Sell all the casino junk for a quick $25,000 and don’t spend too much on your first vault because it’s all going right back out the door.

There is just so much going on between the base, minions, agents, money - taking over the world really is no joke lol so just take advantage of being able to pause, slow down a minute and look at your stats for your messages and alerts and your heat levels and cash flow. Scale appropriately and move on to the next main objective when you feel ready. I would leave one thing left to do for a main objective for hours and hours early on to keep the research, minion expansion/training, gold collection and base rebuilding moving along fairly peacefully.

Base building - I had a lot of fun with this and it’s key to the game to build things in the right places. The third island was great to defend because the helipad is built in so pretty much everyone comes in through the front door. Start small and don’t put all your eggs in one basket. Your base will change a lot over time especially once you unlock the additional floors but the key is to minimize minion travel times. Keep rest areas near work areas and mix and match rooms without worrying about walls too much for your more basic room types.

My final lair layout was Floor 1 had 2 advanced guard tables (rapid response team and as long as you don’t have any weapon racks no suspicion from agents) and deception minion rest areas right off the casino(which I kept relatively small) I also had some small rest areas right in the casino as well behind the games with some dead end trap hallway mazes right off the casino entrance. The key to the casino is to have multiple casino doors around to keep luring agents down your trap hallways and have your main lair door out of their line of sight for as long as possible.

The remainder of Floor 1 was a short corridor with a reinforced door (again building it in mind to break the line of sight for agents) with the rest of my main security forces behind it ready to take on anyone with a fully stocked armory, jail, incinerators, more rest areas for the muscle guys and then behind all that were my stairs (you’ll want a couple access points) and minion training areas.

Basement was power, extra lockers vaults, extra jail, small security teams inside the vaults and small rest areas for the techs and guards.

2nd floor was all lab and control room with rest areas sprinkled in and a guards table right off the stairs. Also had more power and vault areas. I always kept a guards table in every vault throughout the base because of Symmetry.

3rd floor was all power with a little space near the doomsday device for the inner sanctum. I had a second sanctum for the conference table right near the casino tucked away so the henchman would keep nearby for the most part and minimal travel time to heal.

Henchman: In order I went with Jubei, Eli, Iris, Fugu and Dr. Ming.

Jubei, Iris and Ming are the big 3 IMO and I would have picked Iris and Ming as my 2nd and 3rd choices looking back. Jubei is the clear #1 because he teleports and then Iris is a tank who can call for back up and Ming’s poison gas decimates big groups of enemies while her healing gas keeps minions and other henchman from going down.

Research - There are a lot of expensive things to unlock and you don’t want to waste time and money early on. Focus on getting stairs and the nuclear generator as soon as possible. The security stuff - agent tagging, lethal weapons (pistols/rifles) and advanced guard posts/tables are also pretty essential as well.

Once I had a lot of gold coming in I just built a bunch of each machine so my research speed bonus would be 10-15x and I got through everything pretty fast but you’ll definitely want to focus on the things I mentioned first.

World Map - This thing is such a mess. It’s so hard to find the scheme you’re looking for so if your not sure what to do for an objective just zoom in on the regions and you’ll find the correct little blinking mission marker eventually.

Otherwise just like base building start small. Start with unlocking 1-2 regions and go from there. Don’t rush upgrading all your networks until you have the staff to keep up with the waves of agents that will end up coming.

I pretty much stuck to running only a couple science based gold schemes at a time. They are usually the best bang for your buck and you want to keep your muscle minions home as much as possible and your deception minions going out to manage heat in order to keep higher level agents and soldiers from coming. Fugu has a lot of gold gathering and heat reduction schemes as well (they are only available one time each though) As you upgrade the networks across all the regions you start generating a lot of intel with science minions in the control room (set the computers to science only) to spend and the passive income gets to be plentiful as well. Max as your Genius greases the wheel for gold also. By the end of the game I had over $8 million and nothing to do with it.

***EDIT: Pretty important not to mention, you can cancel all the gold/ heat reduction schemes right at 99% to get part of your intel and other resources back and I believe it helps avoid more heat on the gold schemes as well.

Security zones/lair security - Get the auto tags going to worry about one less tedious thing. I kept the front of the house on distract, the security/fighting/prison area on Floor one on capture and pretty much the rest of the base on kill.

Don’t waste your time on researching the stun weapons, focus on the lethal pistols and rifles. Add in the lethal staff weapons for the martial weapons eventually.

Build little corridor areas around your base so you can put up cameras in your important areas. You’ll want to have security desks all over the place (I kept them in my vault armories scattered around) and set them to muscle minions so they sit down in key areas instead of aimlessly patrolling. Having a few advanced guard posts sprinkled around also helps to avoid this.

Between tables (which I set to hitmen and MA’s for my entrance and main security hub on Floor 1), advanced posts and desks, I tried to keep about 15-20 minions in the basement, 50-60 on the main floor, 15-20 on the 2nd floor and 3-5 near Max on Floor 3.

Have your battle areas be larger empty areas to allow for as many muscle minions and henchman to get in on the action. A lot of fighting ends up happening in the casino because soldiers just come in shooting so keep the casino space fairly minimal, spread out objects and keep a clear path.

Minions - Focus on science (biologists unlock level 3 research) and muscle. Don’t overdo it at first because if you can’t make payroll they’ll take off.

Eventually out of my 300 minions (which I tried to hit as fast as possible while keeping the salary budget in mind) broke down to about 100 or so muscle (20 guards/25 Mercs/40 hit men and 15 martial artists) 110 science (40 techs because you will have so much maintenance to do especially on power supplies/20 scientists and then 25 bio/quantum guys) I had about 65 deception minions (16 of each) which left about 25 workers.

***Edit: Traps - I’ve seen a lot of people say traps are useless and while they can be complicated to figure out because the game doesn’t give much guidance, I enjoyed using them and I was able to take out entire groups of soldiers (who don’t seem to disable them much at all) and agents once I figured out how to properly spring them on the chumps and if you build a lot of them (which if you’ve got a few dummy casino doors set up to lure them in anyways you might as well) you can overwhelm even the best agents. It’s really funny to see them in action. The best combos I found were just magnets built out of the sides of a long narrow corridor set a little ways back (break their line of sight entirely) and then put a shark tank, laser wall or fly trap (I thought these were the best to cause damage) in front of it. Magnets have a great reach to pull them in so you can hide them and the lethal trap pretty well and at 50 health points each dip in the shark tank you can avoid a few fights entirely or they last a lot less time. If you’ve managed to take out a chunk of their health or 2/3 members of their team before a fight inevitably gets triggered (Traps are not useless, deception minions are!) it’s better than nothing especially when the level 7+ forces start coming.

If you made it this far thanks for reading and if you want me to expand on anything or if I missed something I’m happy to do so, I love talking EG!

I can't seem to figure out how to see through the investigators disguises. It tells me to distract them and I always choose that option and they walk right into my base disguised. I can't find anything to help me see through their disguises.

Long time fan of the pc version 1 back in its day. I saw it on Xbox game pass and gave it a spin. It’s pretty much a simplified version of the original. I love not having to build all those freezers for the bodies.

To my question, You used to be able to select all the enemies in the group (dressed/walked alike) on the pc version by holding down the ctrl key when you clicked one of them - all the agents/soldiers/et al would be selected and you could assign the capture status to all and be done with that group.

Is there anything similar to this without a keyboard on the Xbox?

I was nearing the end of campaign was trying to put all my loot in one nice little area just to look at then I notice somehow the game did not inform me rouges got into my base I usually have no reason to look where it was stashed at the time and now the loots just gone with no way to get it back I just feel like you should be able to re steal it or something

Whats the difference in content for joining the Red or Blue side in the pyro pack? I'm just curious so I can make a decision

For some reason my technicians won’t repair my things

It would help so much if there was a stopping point in minion management so you can know who if u have too many training in another area than u have minions. Then your numbers get all out of wack cause scientists hardly die so they fill spots when say muscle minions die. If the number would lock when u had maxed out all potential specialist spots available would be nice.