There are 2 possible approaches: The "fast track" one is to save up money and only upgrade when absolutely neccessary (e.g. when you cannot survive a level), with the goal to get a FL334AR (and upgrade it) and the full Thunder Armor (best midgame armor, with power boost special ability) as fast as possible. If you want to take it a bit slower, buy the best Assault Rifle you can afford now and start upgrading it, until the next upgrade is more expensive than the next best rifle. For armors I need to check my notes first, but Hydra and Strike armor were the two that are good, before you can get the Thunder suit, if I remember right. Also, the first backpack that gives a gold bonus (pack with 3 slots, ECO-something, ~250k gold I think) is a good investment. Oh, and before our bladeswingers complain: Getting a sword is another alternative. They do not use ammunition (=energy), and can do decent to good damage. However, they require more practice than the guns. You will need to figure out how far you can be away from enemies to attack them with a sword, from what distance they can attack you in melee, etc.
Hey Bazingaking. welcome to TouchArcade and the Star Warfare thread First off, let me say that Sheinfell's advice has essentially covered all the bases, including what sort of upgrade route you might want to explore depending on your playstyle and preferences. If you're comfortable with the equipment you have and happy with your rate of progression, the FL334AR assault rifle will significantly upgrade your attack power from your starting rifle. If, however, you're having a little trouble with ammo management/budgeting (which I'm guessing you don't, if you've managed to save up $70,000), buying and upgrading the Cutter will last you until at least the end of Energy Core, or quite possibly Space Station if you figure out its effective range and how to dodge enemy attacks at close range. I'll flesh out the argument a little more. Pros: Cost effective Forces you to learn attack range and timing of enemy attacks Can take out multiple enemies with one swing Skills learnt with this weapon may be applicable with much stronger weapons later on (e.g. learning how to dodge attacks, knowing which enemies to eliminate first) Cons: As Sheinfell said, it takes some practice to use Not suited against certain enemies (e.g. it's safer to pop the explosive green blobs you'll encounter from Energy Core with a few shots from your rifle) May encourage an excessively risky/aggressive playstyle if you do not keep its usage in perspective I've seen some very successful sword users, but also a MUCH bigger crowd of people who don't truly appreciate how to use it properly. If you're happy using rifles rather than swords, you can save your finances for armour instead. ----------------- Sheinfell mentioned that the Hydra and Strike armours are good. I'll elaborate and explain the armour pieces that I personally think are good from those two sets: Hydra Head - similarly to the ECO backpack, it gives you an extra 10% gold, which adds up quite significantly in the long run. Note that the Thunder Head also has the same 10% gold bonus, but if it's going to be some time before you can unlock the Thunder set, I'd highly recommend the Hydra Head. Strike Legs - this is the first leg armour that gives you +1 speed, and you'll find that speed is VERY valuable for dodging enemy attacks (the strongest weapons in this game usually have some sort of speed penalty attached to them, and you'll need these points to offset the handicap). Note that the Thunder Legs similarly give a speed bonus, and given that the Thunder set unlocks one rank after the Strike set, you may want to consider whether or not you want to buy this. Note that the ECO bag itself also gives BOTH of these bonuses (10% gold, +1 speed). The ECO bag adds very little HP, but I would suggest that the ECO bag is likely going to be an investment with a longer useful life. I'd still get the Hydra Head, but if you have to make a choice between the Strike Legs or the ECO bag, I'd go with the bag myself. Welcome to the forums, and we hope to see you around
Thank you so much, for giving a new-comer such a friendly welcome. Ahh that makes the sword stuff much more understandable, I see why it would be useful to get used to the cutter. I think I will try to see if I can get the FL334AR first I think, just because it shouldn't take too long, but after that I'd love to play around with the cutter. Thank you so much for the in-depths of the armour, I understand the benefits much more now. I have so far realised how important dodging is, though it gets pretty difficult. I'll take absolutely everything you said on board, it is all very helpful. I see that replies here have to be moderated, so there was some delay on my first reply to sheinfell, and I think I may have sent the reply twice. Ahh well. A different question has come up, I'm said, in the store, to only have about 5.5k ammo, but the lighting bolt (which I thought meant ammo) says I have 30k of ammo. Why is this? Thanks for your help, see you around hopefully.
The "lightning bolt" represents how much energy you have, which is the universal ammo "currency" all weapons draw from. Each weapon, however, costs a different amount of energy to fire. In the case of the FR28a (the starting assault rifle), it consumes 5 energy per shot. In the ammo store, it says "cost", and then "ammo", right? The "ammo" number tells you how many shots you can fire with your primary weapon. When you're in an actual match, it shows you "energy" rather than the number of shots you have left with the weapon you have currently equipped. Hope that helps! (Please lemme know if you're still confused, I have a habit of being a little more verbose than necessary >.>) --------------- Also for the record, when most of us in here talk about ammo, we're probably referring to eneregy. If you see us talking about "dps" or "d/s", or "eps" or "e/s", we're referring to "damage per second" and "energy per second" - a few of us here are quite pedantic with weapons and calculations, but you won't really have to worry about that stuff too much unless you're quite hardcore on the numbers
Obsolete Cutter Glitch. Note: this post is primarily directed at people who may have used the Cutter before the Windblade was introduced to the game. While you can make the animation of this glitch happen, the effect isn't quite as spectacular anymore. ------------------------- So, firstly, did anyone on here play this game before the Windblade was added to the weapon store? Did you guys ever use the "step-slash" glitch to amplify the damage of the Cutter? For those of you who know how to change the timing of your Windblade slashes (i.e. make it do a third and fourth swing IMMEDIATELY after the second swing), that's what I mean by step-slashing. If you don't, then equip any sword, and swing it while standing still. Immediately after you hear the sound for the second slash, take a step in any direction, and then release the left stick. What should happen is that the 3rd swing should look quite jumpy, while I think the fourth swing looks smooth again. With a Windblade, this allows you to change the timing of your slashes, and also the timing of your blade's waves. BEFORE the windblade came along, however, doing the glitch properly actually caused the slashing sound to play 3 times on the third swing -- because the glitch actually makes you swing the sword THREE times in one motion, which is why the animation looks quite jumpy. The thing about this was that you can repeatedly step-slash, causing your character to keep doing triple slashes. This effectively meant that a fully upgraded cutter could be made to repeatedly do over 600 damage -- which is probably why they had to remove it with the introduction of the Windblade, because that would've resulted in a potential melee swing of 2625 damage -- and that's not even factoring in the three wave slashes you'd be sending out along with it, which probably puts the damage output closer to 4000. Sooo, yeah...did anyone else around here use this technique before they fixed it? Or am I the only one who was step-slashing bulls into T-bone steak? >.>
actually, I rather like roaming around on DR, cause I have the firepower to pop the slimes easily. if you can survive the aliens, you actually earn a lot more than the rest at the corner, cause every single alien on the field comes your way. it's fun at a point of view, and deadly at another, so inexperienced people should really take their skills into consideration, maybe let the high-rank players clean the majority, and blast at everything at a corner if you can. I'm sure the higher levels well appreciate your effort, as long as you don't just stand there and watch. of course, higher levels should also help the lower levels by helping them find camp spots, or provide them covering fire. from my observation, the majority of people are nice guys, and I like that. no matter game world or real world, the world needs kindness, and I appreciate anyone who gives it.
Thanks, that helps I just bought the FL334AR having saved up the 150k so I'll see how that goes, then get the cutter - thanks again for your help - I've joined the group btw. Oh btw what does ENG stand for?
I started slashing T-bone steak as soon as they got into the alien restaurant. I usually use the technique on v.s. though. the main weapons to use in v.s. should be blades, trinity and a third most high powered long range weapon you got. trinity is awesome in corriders, not because I have it, but because of the sheer effectiveness in which I got mugged in perseus armor like that. I still wonder, however, what makes blades kill so much more quickly then guns in v.s.? I never got an idea why. trinity is a must buy if you're onto v.s., so I'm saving for it now. I don't have a good ending for this post, so just tell me your opinion, alright?
if we're talking 'bout the same thing, it should be the yellow bar that appears in the top right corner in fights. all your shots come from that place, so it's important you don't run out. I recommend keeping 200,000~300,000 of it. it's easy to keep it a a stable amount, just keep adding more at every re-stock, and you'll get there eventually. you can kill a serpent at about... well I don't know. but better safe then sorry, right? as long as you have around that number, it doesn't really matter what your bullets/lasers/missiles/grenades/light arrows cost, as long as you re-stock whenever you can. if we're not talking 'bout the same thing, then sorry for my useless rant
Trinity is extremely dangerous in PvP, I must agree. The Windblade is also quite fearsome, but it's less effective against the Perseus Armour because of the 30% damage reduction from melee damage (I don't think that would apply to the wave slash component though). There's belief that weapon damage is modified slightly in PvP: in particular, a fair number of players have noted that the M-27B1 isn't anywhere near as effective as they think it should be. There's also belief that different armours have their HP scaled differently, although it's been confirmed that it's mainly our HP being scaled downwards in PvP, rather than weapon damage being scaled upwards. Lastly, there's one particular weapon which deserves special note in PvP: the Nova-27. You can trigger a glitch by joining a PvP match, leaving (whether you won, lost, or just left), and then going into another match. From the second match onwards, the Nova's firing rate changes from 0.25 to 0.16 -- which effectively causes its damage output to jump to 3062.5 per second, and makes it the most dangerous all-range weapon you've got. Without factoring damage scaling, it actually kills quicker than both the Windblade and the Trinity, if all of your shots are landing on target.
"ENG" is "Energy", so it's the same as the little lightning bolt sign you were asking about earlier. Arrow already beat me to the answer though
Trinity is is is, well you probably know what I'm going to say and in enemy mode it is effective too because in long range 60 degrees can spread out to be a longe range... I have never lost a free for all with that thing, but I didn't play much either so thats not saying much...
tip: quote stuff when you're talking about it, or else it might be a little confusing. just a tip. imagine me in a kind, gentle and warm tone, alright?
A little bit. Personally I found swords useful as a noob, but I quickly learned that I could do a lot more damage and develop better strategies for my survival by testing out weapons and choosing the ones I liked. This eventually led to me=tycoon....
