What is the purpose of collecting rings?

[Maroliver]

See title

[chris.ferrantegerard]

Do you mean the Silver Ring, Gold Ring, Metaglio Left and Metaglio Right stage items that the Yellow Sign added to stages? They are used for evolution of two weapons. Otherwise not sure what you mean by ring.

[Maroliver]

Publicado originalmente por chris.ferrantegerard:

Do you mean the Silver Ring, Gold Ring, Metaglio Left and Metaglio Right stage items that the Yellow Sign added to stages? They are used for evolution of two weapons. Otherwise not sure what you mean by ring.

I'm on the first level and first character. Are they coins? I couldn't tell if it was a ring or a coin. They seem to come out of torches. And does killing stuff not help me level up? I only level up from gathering blue gems?

[chris.ferrantegerard]

Publicado originalmente por Maroliver:

Publicado originalmente por chris.ferrantegerard:

Do you mean the Silver Ring, Gold Ring, Metaglio Left and Metaglio Right stage items that the Yellow Sign added to stages? They are used for evolution of two weapons. Otherwise not sure what you mean by ring.

I'm on the first level and first character. Are they coins? I couldn't tell if it was a ring or a coin. They seem to come out of torches. And does killing stuff not help me level up? I only level up from gathering blue gems?

Those are coins that the torches are dropping. Each one is worth 1 gold. Torches can also drop bigger bags of money as well. You will also get a lot of gold from chests that mini-bosses drop, one of these can spawn every few mins and can drop a treasure chest. The chest contains gold + level up for your weapons and items. Also, if conditions are met, you'll get an evolved weapon (evolved weapons require a maxxed out weapon + one point in the item required for the evolution, you'll either find these out via trial and error or guides)

Enemies drop exp gems. These come in blue, green and red version (ascending order and not including gems from pentagram weapon evolution which generates extra powerful versions of these three). To level up you will collect the gems that the enemies drop.

[JPM岩]

Publicado originalmente por Maroliver:

Publicado originalmente por chris.ferrantegerard:

Do you mean the Silver Ring, Gold Ring, Metaglio Left and Metaglio Right stage items that the Yellow Sign added to stages? They are used for evolution of two weapons. Otherwise not sure what you mean by ring.

I'm on the first level and first character. Are they coins? I couldn't tell if it was a ring or a coin. They seem to come out of torches. And does killing stuff not help me level up? I only level up from gathering blue gems?

Those are coins. As you play, you use coins you find to unlock characters and perma upgrades.

[gandykillpro]

I bought the game plus the new dlc and only 4 main characters appear to unlock with coins, others are not blocked to collect gold or something, why is it?

[chris.ferrantegerard]

Publicado originalmente por gandykillpro:

I bought the game plus the new dlc and only 4 main characters appear to unlock with coins, others are not blocked to collect gold or something, why is it?

There's tons of unlocks in the game. Some make new chars available. Take a look at the unlock menu. Also there's secret chars that can be unlocked (eventually you'll get a secret menu giving you hints on how to unlock them) as well chars available after finding a coffin on each stage.

[lucifertdark]

If you're only just starting with the game then there are secret menus to unlock that add other secret things to the game, you'll have to keep playing to find out what those are.

[NeoRizer]

The achievement descriptions will be your guide... this game is heavily tied with the achievements for unlocking everything... do what the achievements say if they're within your skill set at the time... you'll unlock more stuff the more achievements you get as most of them are pre-requisites for unlocking characters / other features.

[Maroliver]

Well I played a few times and the longest I survived was 13:10. It's fun but I guess I need to get better. I also have trouble killing the green guys for some reason.

[ExperimentalGamer]

The forest is a bit tricky, so it's okay to move on and only come back after you're more familiar with the game and have some power ups. The library is widely considered to be the easiest stage. There's also the part where later stages will have some permanent upgrade items available, like a stage map or an item that lets you keep track of weapon upgrades.

And yeah. Pick up coins to buy power ups, and keep an eye on the unlocks menu because unlocking new things that you can use to become even more effective is one of the core loops of this game. It's not complicated, but it is rather fun.

[Thundercracker]

Publicado originalmente por gandykillpro:

I bought the game plus the new dlc and only 4 main characters appear to unlock with coins, others are not blocked to collect gold or something, why is it?

once you "unlock" most characters, you still have to pay gold to actually unlock them.

[Draco18s]

Publicado originalmente por gandykillpro:

I bought the game plus the new dlc and only 4 main characters appear to unlock with coins, others are not blocked to collect gold or something, why is it?

Several characters need to be found and freed first, if you see a ? on the map, go there.
The remaining non-secret characters are unlocked by achievement type actions (see the unlock menu).
Secret characters have more specific goals you have to do before they will be unlocked, you'll eventually get an item that'll unlock the secrets menu which will give you hints towards how to achieve all of those. Eg. (this is one that's straight forward, nor does it give away much by knowing it early), "Survive the Boss Rash with just one weapon."