 For me one of the single most enjoyable elements of odyssey is settlement raiding It's probably the thing I've spent the most time doing in the game in the last two years Mostly just because I really enjoy it. I'm often asked about the methods and kit that I use So today I'm going to go through a typical raid and talk about what I'm doing and why in this video I'm using a fully upgraded and engineered Maverick suit and Executioner sniper rifle you can see the specifics of that engineering on screen now If you're just starting out with this stuff yourself the methods are almost entirely transferable But be sure to find yourself some pre-upgraded or engineered equipment first I've also made a video about how to go about finding that stuff as well. You'll find that all linked below this video There's obviously a number of ways you can go around taking down a settlement. I tend to use the the silent stealthy Snipery method more than I do the noisy Non snipery method. I've got I've got the equipment to do it that way. It's just not my personal playing style really It has to be a bit more stressful as well And I don't do this for stress I do this to be sneaky and creep around on rooftops and shoot people in the navel The method I'm going to use here is transferable to just about any settlement It doesn't matter if it's a hardcore military settlement or the softest agricultural settlement. It works No matter where you use it I don't always take an SRV with me I don't I don't necessarily need to take an SRV with me I've got no intention to use it in combat to be brutally honest It's a really useful Sort of mobile wardrobe somewhere to grab some more ammo if I need to and somewhere to dump the materials when I gather them It saves you going back to your shit But you don't you don't really need one once you've been doing this a while anyway If you feel you're gonna need one then yeah, obviously park it nearby and it's a great way to escape If it all goes south Which when you first start doing this it will and that's okay So once I'm outside the SLV first thing I want to do get off the ground and get up as high as possible And have a quick look around and just try and get a lay of the landscape and see What I'm facing and who I'm facing at this early stage on the ground You want to make your landings as soft as possible? So I try not to thump down and I use the jetpack to soften the fall when I come down And at this early stage in particular whenever I'm not in the air So if I'm on a rooftop or on the ground, I will generally speaking be crouched It makes you a lot less visible makes you move a lot more a lot more quietly and Make sure an awful lot more difficult to detect Which is very important at this stage. Here's a nice high spot From which to be unpleasant to everybody who lives here and today's first contestant Quick look around to make sure I wasn't seen you weren't paying attention. So you're next Again a quick look around If you get detected or if they if they detect that there's something going on But they don't know where you are stop firing just stay crouched that guy is obviously a scene of body He's aware that something's going on the worst thing you can do now is fire At him or at anyone nearby The chances are they'll detect where you are if you do that and Then all the alarms will go off and then it will go south this guy has also Detected another body So he is for the moment safe, but I won't make any long-term plans There's someone there, but I just want to check what's going on. There's no one nearby Good night Vienna Ariel just slightly getting in the way there. Otherwise that guy would have gone for an early bath He's still aware that something's going on, but he importantly he's one of the one of the civilian crew So he hasn't got shields. He's not a particular danger to me So even when they're alert, I'll shoot those guys, but the guards if they've got a shield I won't shoot them until they're not aware what's happening like that guy Remember to lead your target as well that the sniper rounds are very slow So you have to lead your target quite significantly if someone's walking walking towards me or walking away from me That's absolutely ideal even better if they're standing still like that guy I Try to avoid having to lead the target too much. I have got pretty good at it these days But I'm not I'm not always accurate That guy's aware that guy isn't and so he won't be home for dinner. No danger Okay, so round landed nearby him so he knows something's going on Again the worst thing I can do now will be to fire at him again. So for the moment He's safe They sometimes this guy isn't going to but they sometimes when they detect something happening nearby They'll shirk it off really quickly and then just carry on walking slowly in which case you can flap them But this guy didn't this guy went running off Looking to see what was going on. So I Left him for the moment But as you can see the settlement is already much quieter. I was waiting for that guy to come back But he didn't They normally kind of sometimes you'll find that they they'll get alerted to something going on And so they'll go and check out your SRV or go and check out your ship or something But that that guy didn't he well he looked like he was going to do that and then he didn't he disappeared So I made a mental note to him catch up on him later I was expecting him to reappear there back on patrol, but he didn't I love all the ambient sound effects When you're at a settlement like this and seeing something like a T9 land The scale of those things that just it never gets old So I put my gun away when I'm moving as well If they're it's just a habitual thing these days, but if If you haven't got your gun out and you do get detected it gives you another second or two before the guards get super suspicious I Find and it's just it's just become habitual now So it's kind of pointless me putting the gun away at this point because there are dead bodies everywhere Nearly war so close and there are dead bodies everywhere. So, you know, the game's kind of a foot really But it's just become habitual and also when you're on the ground if you are running and you haven't got a weapon out You're on a little bit faster So interestingly a little bit of a clump there when I landed on the floor the guard heard me Which is just a great demonstration of just how careful you have to be so now I'm crouched my weapons away And I'm just being super cautious But that guy's not going home I'm not in sight of anyone else. I tend to if I think of it. I tend to reload Often as well just because you want to keep as many rounds in the gun as you can There is there's ammunition everywhere around these settlements and also as I mentioned earlier my s my SUVs nearby so you're not gonna the chances of running out of ammunition are quite are quite low, but You can afford to to reload the weapon to make sure you've got as many rounds in the magazine As you can possibly have for any potential engagement. So that guy that heard me Was probably him. Yeah, there we go. We just put his shield away. Good night, and I'm reloading again I don't need to but I Know what's gonna happen two or three seconds from now. So I just reload a bit chilly So I don't know that I'm definitely in the clear at this point, but as you can see There isn't an awful lot going on anymore. The herd has definitely been thinned out. I'm not I'm not going to at this point Assume that I'm absolutely in the clear as far as the exterior is concerned anyway But it certainly is a lot looking a lot quieter. That's gonna be useful later on to know that there's a level three upstairs This Maverick suit has got the enhanced scanning modification on it. I can't recommend it enough the range is Which you're able to scan? Targets and the speed with which it it does it Well, you can see it just it absolutely makes it worthwhile So now I'm kind of looking around now for the the bodies that I've cleaned out I'm looking to see who's got the highest security access You can obviously once you once you plop someone who's who's got you know any access is Obviously useful particularly in the early stages and you can jump down and and take their access immediately But I just find it As I say as I say I tend to play very cautiously and I just find it too risky So once I know the area is clear and I'm and it's extremely unlikely that I'm gonna get spotted I'll then look to start stealing some Unfortunate souls ID It will seem to be level ones around here at the moment Which is fine. It's all useful a quick check just to make sure I'm not gonna get seen And here's tonight's lucky contestant So when I do this I Want to make sure I know if I'm gonna get attacked where it's gonna come from so there's a quick look left and right Jump down. I keep my back to the protected area. So I've got the I've got the open space in front of me Taking it check that guy out. No good And then as soon as possible back up on the roof again and put the scanner away Just to minimize the the chances that you'll get seen again. No one around Highest vantage point I can locally just to make sure I know exactly what's going on. I Can't see anyone So certainly as far as the exterior is concerned We're definitely in the clear now the next job is to identify what sort of settlement We're at where the alarm console is and to turn those alarms off. There will still be a little bit of resistance indoors So job number one is get to the alarm console take care of any resistance between you and the alarm console Turn that off and then you can do whatever you like with the settlement after that You won't be bothered by any exterior forces or defense forces or anything like that the place is yours So I switched to a nice high-up view like this then go to the Odyssey map guide Which you'll find linked below, which is a really nice web application from commander quiz engine That shows you a top-down view of every type of settlement and where you'll find along with a load of other information It also tells you where you'll find the alarm console so you can go straight to it take it out and then the place is yours Perhaps unsurprisingly the alarm console for this particular settlement is in the command building I was opposite this guy's not looking So the job here now I've only got a level one Access card at the moment. So the job here is to get as high a level access card as I possibly can This guy has a two. I happen to know there's going to be other people upstairs The again, I happen to know in this particular settlement the The console that I'm looking for the alarm console is in the security office, which is downstairs I've just walked past the door that leads to it in actual fact But there's higher level access upstairs and a little bit of resistance and this is that this is another scenario We're a fully silenced sniper rifle just comes in so useful. You can remove anybody from upstairs Like him there's no reason you can't you can't use a sniper rifle indoors It's great. It's really good for room clearing actually Does it nice and quietly? And there's a nice level three again the security office I'm looking for is is immediately below me down the stairs to my left there. It's there I'm not gonna go there yet though because I know there's someone wandering around downstairs And there's a better door I can go through to get to it From a slightly more defendable position. There's a person in here as well Good night Vienna and that should be it for this building unless there's a guard downstairs I might as well turn these off while I'm here They very rarely cause me any problems, but there's no reason to leave them switched on Reloading all the time Ammo why not? So now we're going after the alarm console. So this these are the stairs that I came up originally from the main reception area And I've found that this is the best way The most easily defendable way you can you can you can fully check your corners You can be completely aware of Where you're going and who's around you if you come in from this angle. There's the alarms The place is now mine you'd have to try pretty hard at this point To get dead One more little technique. I want to talk about I use for clearing settlements all the time and it's a thing. I call Alamoing which is a way of Clearing a building Without having to clear the building so that shot was just to get that guys attention Which made them stop they're now dead. This is a fully silenced weapon. So no one would have heard that So what I want to do now, this is why I always carry at least one noisy weapon with me What I want to do now is bring everyone in the building to me so that I know the building's clear And I can deal with them so out comes the pop gun. This is an noisy plasma pistol It's had no engineering done on it as such It's just fully upgraded a couple of shots to get people's attention and then I basically wait for the traffic to head My way, it doesn't always work completely as advertised as was the case in this particular incident But they're a bit casual they haven't they they're either not alerted or they haven't heard me I think I probably wasn't far enough inside the building But I've already got my shield on When I started taking fire from this guy Lord alone knows where he came from but that's okay He's not a problem anymore That was enough noise and they all start coming towards me As I say, this is a fully engineered Maverick suit the shields are already on these people are not a problem at all Renate salad for you this guy was startled by the body and didn't come out from behind the pillar So a little encouragement was required Now he's out from behind the pillar Yeah, so this kind of this basically works It's generally better actually if you go fully inside the building back yourself into the corner to my left so that so that you're inside the door Let off a couple of rounds there and it will generally speaking bring everybody to you after a few seconds And it's just a really nice way of clearing the building The lazy way quite honestly you don't have to walk to them. You just bring them to you If you're starting from scratch with this kind of thing make sure you start off with pre-engineered gear I've done a video about that already about how to find that stuff, which you'll find linked below I'm obviously using fully engineered and upgraded equipment here the methodology that I used to get to this point was Basically the same with one or two wrinkles again. I made a video about that which you'll also find linked below That's it for now If you enjoyed this video be sure to like and subscribe to make sure you see all our elite dangerous content And if you'd like to help support our work here at the burp it you can also check us out on patreon until next time Oh seven commanders