How to overcharge Shield

[Utima]

I was going to ask but I figured out so I'll post it here in case anyone else is searching.

Once you have bought the Overcharge Shields upgrade you can activate the barrel looking thing on the left side of the dome.

AFAIK you can only Overcharge when there is no attack happening and it will cost 1 Blue Globe (water) to activate.

[René - Bippinbits]

Thank you for clarifying this! :)
We'll improve this a bit in of the future patches, so it hopefully gets a bit clearer ingame.

[Castle]

Jesus christ. Thank you for this. I couldn't figure how how in the world to activate this ability and it was frustrating the crap out of me =\

[Aimee]

Originally posted by René - Bippinbits:

Thank you for clarifying this! :)
We'll improve this a bit in of the future patches, so it hopefully gets a bit clearer ingame.

Prehaps a blue shield icon thats floating in front of the ''generator''(?) after you buy the perk could be a visual indication. Visiual indicators tend to work best in games like this.

[NCDarkness]

Thank you for the clarification; over a year later it hasn't made it into a patch yet, despite their anniversary sale

[JOHNNY]

oh thats what its for ....

[Ragnaman]

Yeah, the game lacks visual indication the first time player buys this upgrade I think? I instinctively tried to fly over that battery, but this aint my first game lol.

[Shad1902]

had a similar issue with the probe. It took me a while to figure out how to recharge. I was howvering over the charger and though I had to wait for it to charge, as there was no indication that I should press a button. Kind of figured it out later but the lack of visual or audio cues area bit confusion.

[René - Bippinbits]

Hm, usually there should be a tutorial popup triggering that tells you these bits about the probe.
Then any object that can be interacted with will highlight once you are close. I think we need to improve the highlight, so that it isn't just brighter, but actually animated in a more obvious way (like flashing brightness or outline).

[Crash]

Originally posted by René - Bippinbits:

Thank you for clarifying this! :)
We'll improve this a bit in of the future patches, so it hopefully gets a bit clearer ingame.

Here 15 months later from Google trying to figure out the same thing. How's that patch going?

[Lywelyn]

i legit never understood what this update do and never noticed anything once bought during waves so i cba buying it now, i agree that something on the screen displaying its use would greatly help player figuring out the where and what of this perk, least of all just like me players might simply disregard this perk

[René - Bippinbits]

Overcharge is getting an overhaul with the next big update. It has a few problems, but most importantly it is hard to understand and not well explained on how to utilise it. Conceptually it just has too many special cases to be simple, like not being able to use it during battle, not being able to use it if you can use the gadget in another way and not having a clear duration.
Right now i'm leaning towards removing the impact of overcharging from battle completely, and just have it affect the "base action". Then the upgrades can be a bit simplified and clarified, and a small tutorial popup added for explaining how to actually overcharge the gadget. Then each gadget needs to make very clear that it is overcharged. It indicates this already, but i don't think it is clear enough.

[dpsycho]

Thank you. Bought the game a year ago and finally started playing this past week. I stopped buying the overcharge upgrade during my runs because I could never figure out how to activate it.

[the_ziman]

oh my god THANK YOU! you saved my run

[Finvaara]

I bought the game yesterday, and I had to come to google to find this out. If there's a tutorial, it never appeared in game. There's also no explanation of how the ability works on the ability when you purchase it.

[BlackWater]

Thanks so much, was just going to ask.