Minimum required rank to beat the game?

[direktorinterneta]

I was wondering, what is the minimum required rank to beat the game. Right now I'm at Milkman level and can't get to the end of it because I don't have rank 30 so now I have to go and grind on other levels to rank up.
I'm loving the game but not too fond of it's "grinding" part of gameplay.

[Leonard]

Why can't you continue at rank 30?

[tripbillie]

30 gets you invisibility. After rank 30, everything acquired from rank ups are power ups to abilities, so if you can complete it or not depends on your ability to play the game with what you've got.

I'd recommend searching the camp for the various collectables first. You should be able to get a bunch of ranks that way. And you should be able to have turned in at least half of the scavenger hunt items, which would get you 4 ranks at once.

[Sstavix]

There really isn't too much grinding in the game, thankfully. There is a lot of hunting, though. Be sure to grab all those figments that you can (the semi-transparent floaty things in people's minds). There are a lot of them, and you get a rank for every 100 you manage to collect.

Also, if you haven't done it yet, use the machine at the bottom of Cruller's sanctuary to turn those Psi-Cards into ranks. That's an easy thing to overlook. You'll need to purchase a Psi-Core for every 8 cards you're converting.

[tripbillie]

There's 89 psi cards alone in the camp which are all obtainable once you can access the Bathysphere (maybe during daytime with a very tricky jump and levitation), so that's 11 ranks. Add in 6 challenge markers and 4 ranks from the first half of the scavenger hunt, and that's 21 ranks just from looking around the camp.

20 available mental cobwebs (equivalent to 20 psi cards, can't get mental cobwebs from Basic Braining until later) is 2 more ranks.

Getting all the mental baggage in the 5 mental worlds you've been in (if you got all the baggage from Oleander on your first go-around, can't recall if baggage is hidden behind the invisibility wall on Milkman) grants at least 3 and at most 5 more ranks.

Additionally if you beat all the levels of the punching game in Basic Braining you would have 1 more rank.

At this point if all of the above is collected, your rank is 26-29 before figment collection.

Edit: writing this out made me want to play the game again. I just finished the Shooting Gallery. I collected everything in camp that I could (minus the Bathysphere stuff), got all figments and mental baggage in Basic Braining, got the figments that I could from the Brain Tumbler Experiment, got 4 mental cobwebs and most figments and all mental baggage in the Shooting Gallery, and turned in the first half of the scavenger hunt. I'm now rank 33.