Gameplay suggestions

[KyloX]

After completing the game with achievements completed (minus "Beker's Dozen" cause it is bugged), here are my 2 cents on some of the gameplay mechanics.

Unlocking/upgrading components and weapons:
The way you unlock and upgrade your tools is good, but it isn't fast enough. After reaching the last game checkpoint with 100% map, I had a lot of farming to do to be able to upgrade all of my weapons and components. I think i needed like over 15000 bits for weapons alone. In the end, i skipped upgrading components from Stonic because it wasn't worth it.
Suggestions:
1) Lower the upgrade Bit cost;
2) Give an ability to sell items to Rob, for 50% the items value. This would make leftover items useful;

Weapon handling:
Major problem for me was switching weapons. Having a weapons wheel is great. Not so great if you want to make sick combos mid fight. Due of this, i felt like i forced with a specific weapon through the duration of a fight cause the weapon wheel just slowed down the fight.
Suggestion:
1) Controller - D-pad left/right are not used outside the weapons wheels. Use them to change weapons while in weapons wheel it could still be used for changing abilities;
2) Keyboard - have bindings to switch weapons left or right OR have it bind on 1-5;

Weapons gameplay:
Gauntlet - bread and butter of heavy attacks. Found it to be the most reliable heavy weapon compared to others when it comes to damage, attack speed and safety. Doesn't have a lot of combos, but overall a nice handy weapon.
The Educator - a weapon that i was quite looking forward to, but it felt lacking in damage and safety. Only started to use it after upgrading it. It is a mild weapon in the end that i used it to have fun rather than to have the job done.
Stratoblaster - a lovely mid game weapon. In early-mid game was switching between this and Gauntlet, but Gauntlet was just better (and more upgraded...).
Atomizer - One of the most useless weapons. It is good for puzzles, but that is about that. Since it hardly does damage, very unsafe in battle, the upgrade is bugged (doesn't increase damage) and doesn't have any combos.
Nitro bunny - A quite fun and chaotic weapon. It has the lowest attack speed, but hits like truck, or a bike in this case. It is unsafe in end-game area, but great in getting rid of small fries in lower areas. A very fun weapon.

In the end, i used the Gauntlet most of the time because it was the most safest and damaging weapon. And thus made all other weapons not so useful for me. I tried to use them, but usually ended up getting damaged or killed faster, even more so during boss fights.
Suggestions:
1) Ability to change weapons faster with D-pad buttons. This way, you can make combos and combine weapons;
2) Have some enemies have shields or armor, that take more damage from specific weapons. Would focus more on The Educator and Atomizer, since they are key weapons to progress. This is a good way to make some weapons more useful, but it is a slippery slope to make the game more enjoyable. Would need more testing to see if it fits into the game at all, or maybe just to few enemies (like the shield carrying guy for example).

Dam, out of cents.

[Star Rain]

Hmm i just beated it without doing any upgrades at all and no teleporters, so its not a big deal to cost a lot i guess!

I agree the gauntlet is def the best weapon, the others seem to have specific use case but that does make perfect sense as Cherry is a brawler bot!

PS i only have Gauntlet, Educator and Atomizer, i actually missed weapons?! Well thats fine i only wanted to equip the bare minimum and you do need those 3 to clear the game, ha!

[pieceofpizza]

Originally posted by Star Rain:

Hmm i just beated it without doing any upgrades at all and no teleporters, so its not a big deal to cost a lot i guess!

I agree the gauntlet is def the best weapon, the others seem to have specific use case but that does make perfect sense as Cherry is a brawler bot!

PS i only have Gauntlet, Educator and Atomizer, i actually missed weapons?! Well thats fine i only wanted to equip the bare minimum and you do need those 3 to clear the game, ha!

One of the other weapons is the stratoblaster (electric guitar). Pretty fun imo and I use it the most often alongside gauntlet. (It's unlocked from a side quest in the Bloody Den)

[Star Rain]

Thats not cool locking Nevan behind a sidequest come on.