8 Tips to Dominate the Underhive

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Prepare for your journey into the dark and cavernous belly of the Underhive with these 8 essential tips. Necromunda: Underhive Wars launches today at midnight CEST!

Explore various builds

Bend your gang's abilities to your will. Customize the load-outs of your 15 fighters down to the smallest detail, and choose the way you want to fight. Prioritize skills and passive abilities as they level up and grow in power. As they develop and go through battles, they will gain injuries and natural talents, which as a good leader, you’ll need to be aware of to build the right team for the job.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyXWMAZL2Yw

Dive into the campaign

Learn the ins and outs of crushing your enemy through the story campaign. You’ll be introduced to all three gangs, their strengths, perks, territory and more, at your own pace. You’ll get your fair share of backstabbing, allegiances, and mayhem as well, courtesy of Necromunda veteran and Underhive Wars writer Andy Chambers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a6ni8Md4I4

Movement is crucial

Before you rush off and get sliced by an Escher or broken by a Goliath, take a moment to think through your path. Thanks to its gridless movement system, Necromunda: Underhive Wars gives you considerable freedom and manner of movement, and the precision of your positioning. If there are any gangers with long lifespans out there, they plan their moves ahead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dldE5stSQ8o

Sabotage & Tinker

The Saboteur and Lay Mechanic classes are masters of the machines and hazards of the Underhive. Sabotage an interactable to make it ineffective or dangerous to unsuspecting enemies, or repair it with Tinker. The control of the interactables adds another layer of tactics to the battlefield, so make sure you don’t overlook them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jTOdzD0vR4

Use the Underhive to your advantage

The Underhive is a huge and inhospitable place full of deadly traps and hazards. Use them to gain an edge over other gangs. Lure them into a deadly gas vent and then zipline away. The possibilities are endless, so always look out for interactables in the map and make the most of them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQVGu_13mWQ

Secure the high ground

The goal of reaching the top in Necromunda is both figurative and literal. High ground gives you strong bonuses to both your aim and resistance. Several skills also require high ground to be used at all. Once you’re up there, you’ll want to actively prevent the enemy from reaching you. There's nothing better than to look down on your enemies from a position of power.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm7AJToBZH0

Overwatch and Ambush

During your turn, you can put your ganger into Overwatch and Ambush stances. This will poise them to wait for enemy movement and attack on the enemy turn if they come into your range. It also interrupts and locks the enemy’s spent movement points, making it a highly efficient way to ruin your opponent's plans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebSkuyqP9cg

Special weapon skills

Make sure to make full use of your special weapon skills, such as Trick Shot, Heavy Barrage, and Aimed Shot. With these you can take down several enemies, covering a large area with a hail of bullets, and causing debuffs and massive damage to priority targets. Also keep your gang’s particular perks in mind, and change your gameplay to suit their strengths. The poisoned blades of the Escher, for example, calls for a different approach to killing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmUgrw6ulzg
We hope these tips help in your fight to survive and dominate in the Underhive. Pick your gang, develop their skills, earn your scars, and lead them to endless war.

[Carth]

I'm interested to see how the AI behaves. In Mordheim the AI just rushed you after they saw you. I hope the AI in Necro is a little smarter than that.

[Fen_]

Originally posted by Carth:

I'm interested to see how the AI behaves. In Mordheim the AI just rushed you after they saw you. I hope the AI in Necro is a little smarter than that.

https://youtu.be/gkFT8uxpaus check at 3"56 for the answer.. (Spoiler: it's doesn't look good)

[FroBodine]

So far this is one review. I have watched a few other reviews, and they did not mention these AI problems. We'll see. Hopefully this was due to the early release review version. Hopefully.

[Machin Ator]

HAVE YOU NO SHAME FOCUS HOME INTERACTIVE

This..abomination..is such a wasted opportunity.

[slightly_jaded_95]

Just wait for the opposing gangs autosave to corrupt. Instant gang nuke.. you win.

[Chaotic Entropy]

Originally posted by Machin Ator:

HAVE YOU NO SHAME FOCUS HOME INTERACTIVE

This..abomination..is such a wasted opportunity.

Why is everyone ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ on FHI. They bankrolled this. They didn't make it.

In fact they were indicating that they had also been left in the dark about game progress earlier in the year.

[VonRoary]

Originally posted by Machin Ator:

HAVE YOU NO SHAME FOCUS HOME INTERACTIVE

This..abomination..is such a wasted opportunity.

*cough* Rogue Factor

[Carth]

keep adrenaline shots on 1 or 2 of you gangers. they are like the lucky charms from Mordheim. If a player goes down you revive them with a shot when its safe and they dont roll for injuries after the mission.

[Le Petit Lapin]

Originally posted by Carth:

I'm interested to see how the AI behaves. In Mordheim the AI just rushed you after they saw you. I hope the AI in Necro is a little smarter than that.

Narrator voice: "It wasn't"

[War Drone]

So let me get this right..
You release a broken unfinished game as a full release.
Ignore all the feed back and go into LALA land like you actually made something good.
A week later No bug fixes.
But hey, here are some tips on how to play better this very easy and basic game.
TIPS NOT NEEDED ! BUG FIXES A MUST !
AND A FULLY FLESHED OUT PRODUCT WOULD BE NICE FOR A CHANGE FROM SOMEBODY ANYBODY ??
Well I gave you a week to see if you cared enough to fix something and you didn't.
So I am labeling this as a money Grab and ignoring.

[Kelset]

Lame tips btw, my cat got it after 5 minutes he was watching me playing while sleeping on the side of the screen. I should make a video on TIPS, but I'd break their game by doing so, and honestly I don't really feel like wasting my time on that.

[paincanbefun]

Devs, sarcasm and awful personal attacks aside, you may want to post a list of bugs and workarounds. These are more relevant to the average players experience than tips to maximize smooth play, since most play is not smooth

[Muertington]

You forgot the most important tip: Do Not Buy.

[QueenMab]

Again, it is a monumentally poor decision to release things such as this before focusing on the broken state of every single element of the game as it stands. I'm going to switch my review to negative. It already highlighted how busted the whole thing was, but I was in a playful spirit and was hopeful that the stability (at the very least) of multiplayer would get fixed.

Since you're just releasing tip trailers that skirt around all of these things I really can't pretend as if there's anything worth saving here. Which is a real tragedy, but we all make choices that we regret. Such as the purchase of this mess.

[Bababooey]

If i wanted tips i'd go be a waiter.....