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Common upgrades are fine for weapons but +2% speed or +10 health are kinda pointless for your character so unless they are your only option, fine. Otherwise pick rare or higher speed/hp/pick up range. Pick up range makes you level up faster and safer because you don't need to stay as close to enemies or make risky loops to pick up the exp.
Once you get OC upgrades, paint jobs and common upgrades are better than investing to your character - leveling up weapons fast to get OCs is easily more powerful than waiting for the perfect upgrades.
Something I've learnt so far.
/ed: Oh, and if you don't see anything good in the shop it's better to save gold for next shop in case you can't mine enough and need a heal. Or reroll upgrades once if it's all garbage. And if you really have mined well, unlike many games like this, rerolling the shop refills all the slots so you can spend more.
"If only we had an extra thirty seconds before extraction so we could get more stuff..." You don't. You don't have that time. That's why you need to be making good use of the time that IS available to you to collect resources, and you need to prioritize some resources before others depending on where you're at.
"It's so frustrating that the mobs keep coming with so little time between them..." Yeah. That's why you need to think ahead about what's soon to happen and make sure you're positioned to receive it.
"I just feel so slow moving around..." You are. You need to compensate for this by using the terrain and constant movement to manipulate the enemy into a position disadvantageous to them. You corral the bugs--don't let them corral you.
Haha yeah. I just used the Engineer for that one though with fully upgraded electric pylons, turrets, drones, and a gun. Make myself a nice little fence right as a swarm masses and then just wait a few seconds until they're all gone.
ALL the bugs on a stage start getting worse if you dont immediately kill the elite. They gain some really nasty buffs that continue to get worse.
1. More Health
2. More Damage Resistance
3. More Move Speed
4. More Damage Output
5. Larger Swarms
And they do so exponentially faster. To the point that is you arent able to kill the elite/boss fast enough, you wont ever be able to.
I don't really run into that issue at all anymore... by the end of the first stage, I've usually already overclocked at least one weapon, and have another one or two working with complementary stats. If anything, like I mentioned, I'm running away from the elite because it will die way too quickly if I fight it. I try to keep it alive for at least another couple minutes while I farm the small bugs and go after any mineral nodes I missed, but sometimes I can't even keep alive for more than 30 seconds because my rear-facing weapons or turrets are too powerful. Maybe I'll need to change my strategy once I get into the fourth and fifth difficulty levels, but yeah, normally I want the elite alive as long as possible since the only time constraint at that point is my own comfort level with my survivability.
if you have any amount of move speed you can dip into there attack radius and out again before they explode, if you kite a bunch at once and set them off you can often clear HUGE groups