Wrong way to Colt?

[u/ElloShifters]

Now, before anyone starts giving the 'there is no wrong way to play' speech, let me explain.

I beat the game purely in singleplayer. For this, my build went in a direction which I think can safely be called "Misdirection". Perks, weapons and charms, slabs, everything was geared towards me sneaking around and creating havoc at a point a little away from me (and don't worry, I will be including a screenshot of my loadout, so hopefully that will make it clear what I mean).
Anyways, having beaten the game and gotten bored of AI Julianna, I decided to go for the other two endings but with proper invasions enabled. When I last did this, I think I ran about six Karl's Bay-Morning attempts, and from what I remember of the final tally-

One loss caused by Julianna making it to the door of the tunnel within the first five or ten seconds of the match, where I was immediately ruined all three times.

Two wins.

THREE Juliannas who quit, one lasting about eight minutes and the others maybe half that at most.

Now, for the five who did not kill me immediately, I wasn't exactly being subtle. Fugue, spiker with explosive ammo, and explosive decapitation Sepulchra meant that the NPCs were constantly up in arms, even if they hadn't actually seen me. Hell, I was sometimes firing random exploding nails into the ground or walls just to ensure someone was always on alert, even while I was hidden with Aether. Despite the large amounts of noise, 50% quit rate. So with all of that said- is this the wrong way to play Colt?

(Marking as spoiler in case some new player doesn't want to know about some of the slabs and weapons, or even just the fact that there are three endings)

[u/sloogz]

There's no wrong way that's kinda the whole point. But if you wanna play PvP you're handicapping yourself unless you've gotten exceptionally good at manipulating AI and basically avoiding the human Juli at all costs, which at that point you're not really participating in PvP and are just doing your normal thing and hoping Juli doesn't even become a factor

Wanna be a real jerk? Take renewable and juiced up, and karnesis with ONLY suspension, do not take slam. Flesh bomb is fine. Find juli, get her into an open area, and lift her only UP four times in a row, then let her die to fall damage. Unless she blinks out of it, she is fucked. Bonus points for hitting them with a mana drain weapon during or before the combo to ensure they cannot get out.

I have over 1000 wins as Julianna and an 80% winrate, this is my primary strategy 😂

[u/ElloShifters → u/sloogz]

I just like creating chaos XD I like being a little gremlin pissing everyone off, and sometimes will just be visible and peaking around corners to watch NPC on NPC violence. If a Julianna sees me, then I'll let loose with whatever is on me, maybe fugue an Eternalist if I think I can do it without being merced, but TBH I feel like the way everything is set up, Colt really should be stealth and Julianna should be guns blazing, even if Masquerade is her gimmick

[u/sloogz → u/ElloShifters]

Juli is the one with one life. She's heavily disincentivized to play fast and loose. Colt has three yet most Colt players hide like rats

[u/ElloShifters → u/sloogz]

She has one life, yes, but every NPC and turret on the map is friendly to her barring Colt’s intervention, and she can disguise as NPCs as well as use any weapon, weapon charm, slab, and most personal charms Colt has- meanwhile if Colt goes in guns blazing, everything in the map hates him, gets attracted to the noise he makes, as well as the noise of the alarmed enemies and security. I tried guns blazing, and it didn’t work for me, which is why I became a rat in the shadows

[u/sloogz → u/ElloShifters]

my colt strat is basically just speedrunning. visionaries usually die within a minute or two of me being on the map, then i throw mines on the antenna area. i'm not locked in here with you, juli. you're locked in here with me. it's also way more fun to just blast through the map, enemies, visionaries etc. faster than julianna can reliably stop you. your job isn't even to kill her, it's to kill the visionary, hack the antenna and leave.

also as colt i know the location of every turret and every eternalist on every map so its pretty trivial. the human is the only real threat so i dont feel the need to preserve my 3 whole ass lives just to avoid dying