The Best Tip i can give for newer players.

[ShirowMasamune]

Don't try to out-speed the game, The game is faster than you are. Stay calm and either take the game at its own speed. Or slow down a little. This game will make you feel like a bad-ass anyway, Try to take it too fast, and it will just make you feel like an ass, Missing things because you are going super sonic speeds can easily affect your game play experience as a negative, and no one wants a bad time.

[RE:Deemer]

sounds good

[Doomdood]

idk man just gotta go fast and be able to hit your shots. Gotta practice in cybergrind if you cant

[ShirowMasamune]

Wouldnt suggest a new player with no weapons go to cyber grind,

[terrio]

i would
get to a mindflayer wave with just the starter pistol and then you'll know how to play the game

[fugsystem]

1-4's boss will actively punish going "slow", so this is questionable advice, I learned that one the hard way.

Being "slow" means being low-aggression and that DOES get punished a decent fair bit in this game, you're constantly encouraged to run up to things, dash, slide, and do everything you can to throw off the enemies' movements while still avoiding their attacks.

HOWEVER, there IS a time and place for everything, and the game doesn't punish you for trying to learn things, outside of your rank (which you can always revisit later!), so dying and restarting from the last room is a really good way to quickly pick up what you're supposed to do.

If you think an enemy is doing something you don't understand? Standing back and dodging their pattern is a good solution, and it helped me learn 1-3's boss and 3-2's boss' stuff very quickly, just remember to not do that once you think you've learned what they're doing.

[ShirowMasamune]

Can i just say. Im not saying, Be Slow. im saying don't try to outspeed the game. Something that i have watched several people do from the start, with senseless speed that people who know what they are doing do not go at. Leading more to frustration than enjoyment.

It's a fast game, take the game at its own speed. or slow down a little. Not, Go at a snails pace.

[ShirowMasamune]

Also. 1-4 ? that's getting to the point of not being exactly new.

[fugsystem]

Depends, my first playthrough, 1-4 was the first REAL time where I had to play aggressive and fast to win, I had to, quite literally, learn to out-speed the game with senseless speed and aggression, after I started playing that way, it generally improved my overall performance and made me significantly a better player.

Up to that point, I had treated the entire game a little bit like Punch-Out up to a point, I'd wait for the opponent to attack, then get out of range and hit them if it was a boss, or I'd just stay as far away as possible and pick the targets out with the Revolver and Shotgun's alt-fire, it was basically filling me with a false sense of safety up to a point.

When 1-4 finally happened, I was completely stuck, I think I had like 20+ consecutive restarts on it until my friend explained how the boss' mechanics worked, after that? I basically steam-rolled Standard difficulty, it was THAT bad of a habit.

[Dr.Drake]

NO ME DRAKE ME GO FAST