Sir Ulrich Von Lichenstien

With my Field Agent/Spy playthrough that I am going to start soon. Am going for the 'Casual' look approach, attempting to do all the game with just the 'casual' gear on. I've seen a video where someone did about 60% of the game (last 2 missions and graybox finale), but am intending to try doing it all. I've worked out that by level 20 I aim to have the following build. Stealth - 15 (all boxes) Pistol - 15 (all boxes) Sabotage - 1 Technical Aptitude - 9 Martial Arts - 12 I've done 4 playthroughs so far and I do seem to notice that even when not having much stealth I've tended to play the game more sneaky than gung-ho. Only time I did the latter was with my Soldier playthrough. Who just went around shooting anyone and everyone. Am wondering whether to move some of my points around for my Field Agent though maybe swapping some points from one of the higher ranked sections to more points in sabotage for extra hacking skills (seeing as my EMP carrying won't be as high due to casual wear).

Yeah I think you probably hit the failsafe because in my last playthrough I did Taipei last, had Albatross and SIE as a good standing allys and managed to get Heck to take the money for framing me. As for the theory it isn't just if you do Taipei first, basically you could go through Moscow and kill either albatross or SIE off and have the other one hate you so much that they aren't an ally and don't offer help. Heck is a 'crazy' unkillable character and so it is workable to have it that if there is no one else then it is him who helps.

Not necessarily, I managed to get a secret fact with a 60 or 80% dossier too. Yeah sorry I didn't phrase it properly. Secrets can indeed be found no matter how much of the main dossier you have. But basically if you have less than 100% the rest will fill between the bottom and the one above. Ausir, I am aware I can add to it, but I only want to get round to doing that till I've got my facts 100% right

Another thing that comes up in some conversations is what clothes you are wearing. Surkov being a prime example when you goto meet him after helping him get out of the embassy. If you are wearing utility armor he comments on the number of pockets on the suit. If wearing one of the infiltrator style ones he comments on how surprised he is to see us come up to him so openly and thorton replies stating something about how he should be crawling up alongside walls. I think there are others that mention it too.

Parker's secret file can be obtained in the secret room in Marburg's villa alongside one of Marburg's. The Wiki needs updating because for some of them it lists all the dossier points including secret but others it doesn't. Basically each % of dossier accounts for a paragraph with the last paragraph being the 'secret' file.

Yup had great fun with my 'ninja' recruit character last 2 days. My ninja build was Stealth Maxed Pistols 3 boxes (for cheap-shot) Sabotage 2 boxes (for hack help if needed) Technical Aptitude Maxed (for 2 extra gadget slots, brilliance and some added endurance) Martial Arts Maxed Was so fun beating the living snot out of Deng and Brayko, latter took 2 attempts but the way I beat the living hell out of Deng was soooo fun. Beat him up before the other CSP could show up. Initially tried wearing him down with some placed shock traps but somehow he avoided all them. But then I went in with shadow op... did a quick 2-hit chain shot to take his armor off, switched to fury and then pummeled him to death. Was funny because he was standing right next to a pillar and it basically just looked like I was smacking him into it constantly. Then later on I got to do same to Marburg in Graybox and then Westridge... Westridge was a blast, used shadow op 3 times to get to where he was, using an EMP on the door to his room, then a quick cheap-shot to remove his armor, followed by fury and beating him to a pulp with my super martial art skills. Made the following cut-scene so appropriate

One of my new fave convos in the game is when having Heck as Handler during the Finale and you get to the part where you get outside and the helicopter he had called in to get us out gets shot down. Not quite a word for word repeat of it but it goes something like this... Heck: Thorton, I got good news and bad news Thorton: Whats the bad news? Heck: That was our chopper that was going to get us out Thorton: Ok, whats the good news? Heck: I took out high value insurance on it Heck has so many good lines, like his version of the line Mork says in Mork and Mindy "Heck calling Thorton, Heck calling Thorton, come in Thorton!" (or it might actually be mork calling thorton hehe) and also "Danger Mr Thorton!" said in similar vein to the robot from Lost in Space. I think all the characters are good in their own special ways but Sie is probably my all time favourite out of the lot though. Everything about her is great, convos, emails, the romance scene and of course her humming 'Ride of the Valkyries' during the lift in the Embassy

There is another one which is pretty much an upgrade of Printed Circuitry, forgot which it is called but it is about $18k and gives a 'moderate bonus' to all the hacking/lockpicking mini-games.