Try to force them to move into melee range by hiding behind walls and waiting for them to move closer. Finally, slugsnouts can kill most adventurers this early on in a few hits. Spark Ticks give a large amount of XP, and aren’t terribly deadly, but Electrofuges deal a lot of damage if you let them get close. Hide-Sheathed Hermits have an abnormally high AV, making dealing damage to them rather difficult. There are a few enemies of note in the Rust Caves. Otherwise, you risk losing some valuable items. Try to bring some ranged attacks, or simply grab as much wire from the surface of the three rust caves as possible. The Rust Caves are generally easy, except for one thing: Qudzu can rust items if you manage to get in melee range. If you see strange fulcrete structures, move around that screen, as those enemies are unusually tough. Finding NPCs and talking to them will also remove the ‘lost’ status. Simply walk in the general direction you were headed in until you are no longer lost. On the way to the Rust Caves, your character may become lost. There is actually a second place to grab red wire, but it will not cover all 200 feet… Traverse the watervine swamps. Nice early game skills to have are ones that grant mobility, like Jump and Charge from the Acrobatics tree, and Juke from Tactics. Buying lead slugs from Tam in Joppa is a good investment at the beginning.Įventually this build tends to take Long Swords (Since Polluxus can be easily gotten from Sven in Kyakukya – see “Raising Indrix”) and rifles (For the masterwork carbine from “More Than A Willing Spirit” and the armcannon cybernetic). This build relies on agility more than strength, and so should focus on knives (which benefit from agility to penetrate rather than strength) and the starting revolver when you begin. This is an agility/intelligence-based True Kin build. Sunder Mind ignores armor, and so is useful against heavily armored opponents. Sunder Mind: Your secondary attack skill. It has a few uses, such as:ġ) Figuring out if you actually can kill that enemyĢ) Figuring out where to go in Golgotha (see “More Than A Willing Spirit”)ģ) Killing Mayor Nuntu in Kyakukya, stealing the Corpus Chollys, and reading its contents without dying to Warden Indrix.

It was recently nerfed heavily, so I’m uncertain if it’s still worth it. It essentially saves the game, and allows you to play a few turns where if you die or if you wish to, you can return to the beginning. If you run out of charges, remember that you can hit ‘.’ on your numpad in order to skip a few turns and allow it to recharge.

It also gives you the ability to emit light without a torch, but I find this to be a poor use for it.

It’s rather weak early on, but improves quickly. Light manipulation gives you a ranged attack that never misses. Light Manipulation: A bread-and-butter attack skill. Remember that you can shoot through this wall, but Light Manipulation is stopped by it. At lower levels, this is useful as an escape mechanism. At higher levels, this gives you complete protection from some difficult melee and ranged enemies by providing you with a wall that they cannot break. This recommended build gives you access to the following skills:įorce Wall: An invaluable skill, as some enemies are helpless before walls. For the mental mutations that espers rely on, these mutations will scale with your ego (but are capped by your level). For physical mutations, you need to spend mutation points in order to improve them. Playing an Esper with high ego is simple: Just pump your ego as high as it will go and your mental mutations will level up with you. Your mutations/cybernetics are also displayed here along with their level Mutation points: Used to buy new mutations or improve existing ones.

Cold/Heat resist also affect how quickly your temperature rises or falls.Īttribute points: Obtained once every few levels, can be spent to increase a stat by 1 permanently. The number beside your hitpoints are your current and maximum carry weight.Īnd, in your status screen (hit ‘ x‘ to view):Įlemental resistances: Affect how much damage you take from attacks. If this is more than 300, you are on fire and will take damage every turn unless you dunk yourself in water. If this is below 0, your quickness decreases. If this is less than -100, you are frozen and can only use mental mutations. How much energy moving costs is related to this, but it is unknown by how. Every action you do has an ‘energy cost’, and when you spend more energy than your quickness, your turn ends. Each time it is your turn to act, you have this many points to spend. Each point is used to resist penetration from enemy weapons.ĭV: Dodge value, given by agility and armor. Used to resist Sunder Mind and Siphon VimĪV: Armor value, given by armor.

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