Finished game (hard, full tactical) ... some tips (spoilers for miasma powers and teammates)

[Lotion]

I really liked the game. Good mix of difficulty with eventually becoming powerful but not godlike.
For the first part of the game, i read a tips sheet that said you needed 7000 plastic midway through the game to buy a gun so i saved a lot of plastic. I didn't really buy a lot of supplies and relied on after battle res (25 percent) to pull up fallen. Most important upgrades (even buy in shop) were crit damage weapon mods, fire/acid power mods, and lower energy costs.
Once you get summons .. strategy revolved around using summons to heal / distract. I used main / diggs / moma most of the time with summons and the linking beam power.
Strongest damage dealer definitely was diggs with crit damage/range boost shotgun. 170 damage with area affect decimated. My casters focused on getting power and keeping summons and stuns up.
I finished the game with wayyy too many consumables but definitely was tight early game. Most fights towards mid game ended full health / power with stun or summons giving me time. Mvp summon .. frog.

[Cat]

What summons did you use outside of the obvious best one, frog shaman our lord and saviour?

Why did you prefer using Mama over Jade, for more miasma powers? Or do you prefer her abilities? I'm curious as I haven't actually tried using her as I have gotten so used to having Jade around for stealth kills, but I am open for suggestions.

[ELDEN LORD]

bro the game just came out, holy ♥♥♥♥♥

[Lotion]

I found the tree to be more reliable than the miasma. The miasma (although cheaper) would do some warp every now and then and waste the turn. Tree hits hard and takes a beating .. lasts a while too.
Jade is good ... but i really liked the robot stun regeneration powers of mama. You can take jade's gun off her and give to mama. After mid game most things can't be one shot anymore ... and that stun shot / stun punch lets me silently kill beefier guys. Mama can also end turn for 20 energy as well as fill up the main with a skill. She just fit my mana intensive playstyle. I would swap around the 2 silent weapons to regen mana between shots / stuns.

[wei270]

Originally posted by Lotion:

I found the tree to be more reliable than the miasma. The miasma (although cheaper) would do some warp every now and then and waste the turn. Tree hits hard and takes a beating .. lasts a while too.
Jade is good ... but i really liked the robot stun regeneration powers of mama. You can take jade's gun off her and give to mama. After mid game most things can't be one shot anymore ... and that stun shot / stun punch lets me silently kill beefier guys. Mama can also end turn for 20 energy as well as fill up the main with a skill. She just fit my mana intensive playstyle. I would swap around the 2 silent weapons to regen mana between shots / stuns.

the trick with Jade is you use the combination of her high crit %, ambush crit % and rage to go over 100% crit so that crit chance becomes damage, that way you can one shot people you normally can't one shot

[Lur Nen Rue]

mvp summon reaver, fair enough healbot might save the play-through but come on man, stunlock robot or steal health and free acid on death

3rd rank would be the tree and 4th is the little grenade tree and last will be Mason

[Lur Nen Rue]

Originally posted by Lotion:

I found the tree to be more reliable than the miasma. The miasma (although cheaper) would do some warp every now and then and waste the turn. Tree hits hard and takes a beating .. lasts a while too.
Jade is good ... but i really liked the robot stun regeneration powers of mama. You can take jade's gun off her and give to mama. After mid game most things can't be one shot anymore ... and that stun shot / stun punch lets me silently kill beefier guys. Mama can also end turn for 20 energy as well as fill up the main with a skill. She just fit my mana intensive playstyle. I would swap around the 2 silent weapons to regen mana between shots / stuns.

i feel our play-style is pretty similar, did you also use stunblast thigamagic followed by elvis desperado with modded gun that refill 20 energy per shot?

[KasparL]

I cant seem to make mama useful lol
Do you play her like a skill caster and skip turn to restore energy?

[Lotion]

Lur -- Yes the 20 energy per shot overwatch/desperado is great.
Kasparl -- Mama is good at casting and control. She doesn't do nearly as much damage as crit powered jade with her gun summon, but my goal was to end every fight with full health and mana without using consumables. By the end of the game i had tons so i used them all the time, but mama's ability to refill mana to herself and teamates made casting spam possible. That emp shot and armor remover were good. I never used the final member of the team but jade definitely was good.

[pedrofrigoli]

Originally posted by Lotion:

Lur -- Yes the 20 energy per shot overwatch/desperado is great.
Kasparl -- Mama is good at casting and control. She doesn't do nearly as much damage as crit powered jade with her gun summon, but my goal was to end every fight with full health and mana without using consumables. By the end of the game i had tons so i used them all the time, but mama's ability to refill mana to herself and teamates made casting spam possible. That emp shot and armor remover were good. I never used the final member of the team but jade definitely was good.

Same, once I started relying on summons, I used mama to recover 20 energy every turn and provide energy to Elvis, while enemies were dealing with my summons.
I used Jade for stealth mostly for her passive combo which gets your silenced rifle to 105% crit chance and +20 crit damage mod so you can get 140 + 80 with your other silent weapon for up to 220 silence damage without using any active skills

[Noules]

Create barrel miasma + teleport and storm to group made most battles essentially over in the first turn. Drop one or two barrels, blow them up with a shotgun and basically everything in the radius dies. Stall on the last enemy to recover mana, or just meditate for mana during stealth kills. After getting the second stealth weapon, Elvis basically was topped off every fight.

For whatever reason, the basic battery item can hit multiple characters if they are adjacent, despite looking like a single target effect. Can be extremely strong in a pinch.