[There are a lot of people who wants more imprints. And yeah, imprints are pretty good.
I`ll tell you how to get these imprints by the most legitimate and fastest way possible.

Just know that some procedures can be altered or changed to your liking.

These are set on the fact that the difficulty setting for each mission is all above 'Tough', and you don`t upgrade your base(except for the back-up) or hire any hirelings]

You can only get stats by unlocking Melee, Ranged and Acrobatics skills.
Getting stats evenly will consume more time at first, but eventually save more time and effort in the long-run.

These are how you should upgrade your stats.

[Melee] : Strength only




[Ranged] : First Dexterity until 30, rest all invest on Tactics




[Acrobatics] : Endurance only





We are not doing any unarmed farming as it is not very useful.

We are going to farm a lot of melee XP, as we want a balanced stat for the later run.

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1. {{{Sleepwalker program}}}
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[Wave 1] : Just back-paddle while punching.
[Wave 2~4] : Kill enemies with only melee. At the 4th wave, use rocks on tougher enemies and A.I. G0L3M.

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2. {{{Pilot episode}}}
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Back paddle and swing your melee. Run away whenever you get hurt a lot.
Use the cars(mid-mission) to kill enemies faster. Use the rocks at the last fight against the boss.

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3. <<Pit Stop>>
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[Wave 1] : Use melee as possible, use pistol when huge waves comes.
- After Wave 1, buy the 'Half-mag suit'
[Wave 2] : Use melee as possible, use dropped pistol to kill nail-dudes.

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4. <<The Foundry>>
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[Wave 1~6] : Only use melee and rocks. Stay at lower right side corner, as you can ambush pistol enemies. Grab drills, saws, welders(or even hammer) and also use heavy swings if possible.
- After Wave 6, buy N51 Riot Vest
[Wave 7~final] : Only use melee and rocks. Ignore merc-gunners(capped dudes) while staying in the lower floor and kill them last.
- After Final wave, Unlock 'charge-up, melee' & 'Dual Wield-light(melee)' skill. Also buy and equip 4 shock batons. These 4 batons will be used until the haunted house.

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5. {{{The Goods}}}
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Use charge-up attacks aggressively. You can kill the window-shooters with charge up attacks.
Use the corner to lure in the tommygun enemies. You can charge-up attack to knock them, or either stun lock them with fast swings. Every enemy will melt when you use the shock batons.
- After the mission, Buy 3 throwing knives and use one instead of rocks.

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6. <<Fast Track>>
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[Wave 1~7] : Use melee only(you can use guns time to time though). Go on top of ladders and use corners to bait enemy into your charge-up melee. Change your shock batons into new ones if enemies drop it. Throw some daggers at normal agents and switch to new daggers between waves.
[Wave 8~11] : Same as 1~7, use dropped guns to kill half-mags and try to stay far against them before killing all the other enemies. You can also use ladders to totally ignore them. A quick tip is that you can press 'K' to ragdoll to completely ignore half-mags charge up attacks.
- After the mission, Learn 'Snap-dodge'(you`ll have enough xp if you used axes)

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7. <<The Haunting of Nevada House>>
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[Wave 1~5] : Use pistols(upgrade your ammo into laser) against window invading cultists(but dont buy any expensive weapons yet, you`ll need that money for heavy machine guns), and use electric batons or melee to other enemies.
Also, Throw axes at skeleton zombies. Leave red ghosts for later, use charge-up shots to knock those down, or just go past him and swing your melee behind.

- At each end of final missions, go to the black market and check for one of 3 weapons, (PKN, 6000, 2500) buy one if you find one. You will have enough money if you haven`t spent it on anywhere else.

Now the fun begins. Your hard work will pay you off from now on.
Just don`t forget to unlock all available skills now and then. It doesnt really matter that much from now.

First, you need to buy a lot of stuff.
Here is the list.

1. 2~4 pistols(or whatever that is cheap, but not revolvers), Upgrade it with dissonance cannon ammo.
2. A heavy machine gun(if you already bought it, a second one is not necessary for now). Upgrade it with 'dissonance cannon' ammo
3. 'Camo Pants + Bandolier'
4. 'Ammo Belt v2' & 'Ammo Backpack'

This will make your heavy machine gun ammo a bit overkill.

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8. <<Slaughter Time TM>>
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[Wave 1~12] : Spam purple stuff. Get more purple stuff between waves.
- After each final mission, check if you can unlock dual-wield light. If so, dual wield two purple stuffed pistols.

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9. {{{Fickle Friends}}}
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Spam purple stuff.
- After finishing it, buy 'Nano-Respirators' from Fence.

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10. <<The Murder Room>>
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[Wave 1~12] : Spam purple stuff. Get more purple stuff between waves.
- Everytime you come back, check the blackmarket to buy just one more heavy machine gun. If the chef sells it, buy one and upgrade it.
- After the final wave, buy 'Front Bombsuit Plating' armor, 'Leather Marksman Gloves', and 'Heavy Boots'.

If you want, you can upgrade Trooper squad(Backup soldiers) to the maximum and use it every wave. You`ll still have about 50000 to buy the heavy machine gun.

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11. <<Hard Sell>>
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[Wave 1~5] : Spam purple stuff. Get more purple stuff between waves. Let the bomber destroy the south or north doorway(this lets you kill them faster). Stay in the middle, right under the objective.

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12. <<Nexus Core Facility>>
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[Wave 1~12] : Spam purple stuff. Get more purple stuff between waves.

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Spam purple stuff.

Before ending the guide here, let us thank the good NPCs that helped us throughout the journey.

Without these good people, we wouldn`t have reached the Nowhere and saved Nevada from the inevitable doom.

So, before you going headfirst into the Nowhere, how about sending a message for these folks.
A message about... how much we thank and care about them?

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Ah, love and caring.
Such a beautiful thing.

<<The reasons I recommended going melee build until the mid-game>> :
1. You can cheese 'The Goods' and 'Fast Track' with little effort, as low damage&low ammo guns kinda suck in these missions.
2. Increase strength for dual wielding modded pistols.

<<The reason I am keep saying that the heavy machine gun is the best weapon for tinkerer>> :
1. The ammo clip stacks for both 'heavy machine gun' & 'dissonance cannon magazine-part', as the game thinks that both things are seperate heavy weapon types.
2. It has one of the best ROF(rate of fire) in game
3. It has significant gun length, which means it is less likely to hit yourself with splash damage when blank-shooting enemies.