advice?

[Bradeck]

Can I get some tips, because I died twice in the starting level, and this game makes me feel like trash. I can beat most games on medium to hard, but this game whoops me on easy. That second stage where you get dropped in the pit with the four bats and two dragons is evil! I need tips other than git gud, please. I want to like this game, but I'm totally missing something here. The staff weapon is jank as hell and the two melee weapons are useless against distance enemies.

[76561198068496887]

Originally posted by NotGonnaHappen:

Can I get some tips, because I died twice in the starting level, and this game makes me feel like trash. I can beat most games on medium to hard, but this game whoops me on easy. That second stage where you get dropped in the pit with the four bats and two dragons is evil! I need tips other than git gud, please. I want to like this game, but I'm totally missing something here. The staff weapon is jank as hell and the two melee weapons are useless against distance enemies.

you just contradicted yourself, git gud. but forreal don't play the game aggressive if you're new, you gotta play passive as when I did that, I would die for being aggressive, play the game passive and don't try to rush your way through or you will regret it.

[Bradeck]

So literally all the game play footage is of a player with uzis, miniguns, shotguns, and rocket launchers. The first level gives me a stupid staff, to go with my equally worthless dagger and axe.

What is the technique I'm missing here? I beat Shadow Warrior (Original) on hard, but this game is something else.... This game killed me 4 times on the intro level. There is no rhyme or reason, the game controls like ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, either my mouse is too slow, or for some unknown reason it tends to drift downwards to the floor when I walk forward, which has never happened in any FPS game ever. I'm almost tempted to turn OFF mouse aiming and go back to keyboard only. There is no actual need for mouselook, every monster in this game exists on the same level as you. You can hit the spiders without aiming downwards. This is getting a refund request....

[76561198068496887]

Originally posted by NotGonnaHappen:

So literally all the game play footage is of a player with uzis, miniguns, shotguns, and rocket launchers. The first level gives me a stupid staff, to go with my equally worthless dagger and axe.

What is the technique I'm missing here? I beat Shadow Warrior (Original) on hard, but this game is something else.... This game killed me 4 times on the intro level. There is no rhyme or reason, the game controls like ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, either my mouse is too slow, or for some unknown reason it tends to drift downwards to the floor when I walk forward, which has never happened in any FPS game ever. I'm almost tempted to turn OFF mouse aiming and go back to keyboard only. There is no actual need for mouselook, every monster in this game exists on the same level as you. You can hit the spiders without aiming downwards. This is getting a refund request....

yeah the staff can bug sometimes, but you can kill with it. you get the items later in the game as you progress, so just keep trying and don't try to play aggressive because that's how you'll fail these things.

[Adriation]

You might have refunded the game already by this point but if not here are some tips.

First things first, go to options then preference and enable crosshair and enemy health bars. It will make the game easier.

I agree the game makes a mistake by only giving you two melee weapons and a staff which is very limited. What you need to do in the early levels is to bait enemies to come around corners that you are standing behind. Simply stab them with your dagger as they appear one by one. Save your staff for enemies like the shield skeletons and the trap room you mentioned earlier. Remember that when you hold down the shoot button (left mouse by default) your staff will charge up and shoot a strong beam that goes through enemies. You can also use your dagger as a ranged weapon by throwing it by holding left mouse.

In the first mission (not to be confused with the intro which gives you the staff) you can find a revolver which will make life much easier for. You need to finish another level before you have a chance to upgrade it to a .50 caliber revolver which will make the rest of the early missions a walk in the park.

Furthermore, you wanna keep your eye open for secrets. When you see a wall texture that looks odd or stands out, walk up to it and interact with it (spacebar by default) to reveal a secret behind it. Some secrets are hidden behind cracked walls that you need to destroy with your weapons. If you really wanna cheese it you can walk alongside walls and spam the interaction key, that way you'll find them without really looking.

One last tip is to spend your first perk points towards the student perk, which will give you a random stat boost when you level up. This way you get the most out of leveling up.

Hopefully you found this helpful.

[JSWolfox]

I have almost all of the achievement and even I agree that first bit with you dropping into the pit is a bit of a screwball. Combined with your limited arsenal, not fun, and I honestly hate that first level in general. The game itself certainly gets better afterwards if you can just get yourself past that first ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of a level.

[Bankai9212]

I guess I'm the only one to realize that the dagger is the best starting weapon since it can be thrown and hit things really fast.

[SPLICER MEH - 0.37D/0.34U 450ms]

Originally posted by Julianus:

I have almost all of the achievement and even I agree that first bit with you dropping into the pit is a bit of a screwball. Combined with your limited arsenal, not fun, and I honestly hate that first level in general. The game itself certainly gets better afterwards if you can just get yourself past that first ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of a level.

The first warp level for me was a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, near the end where the yellow door is I for some reason phased through it without the key and got stuck with big shield boi and angry door in that tiny interior on the hardest difficulty. And on one of the hell levels (first playthrough) I killed some cat lady's and they knocked the yellow key into some lava, welp it didn't respawn and I didn't see any hidden shortcuts to bypass the locked door to progress... I forget, does the restart button take lives?

[Adriation]

Restarting levels does consume lives, but going to the main menu and re-selecting the stage does not.

[SPLICER MEH - 0.37D/0.34U 450ms]

Originally posted by Adriation:

Restarting levels does consume lives, but going to the main menu and re-selecting the stage does not.

Noice thanks man!

[Chainsaw.Aardvark]

If you kill something with fire - it won't transform into its later stages. Hence the flare pistol and inciderary double barel shotgun can be very useful. Magic is more of a supplement than a main part of your arsenel - but the bomberman spell gives you an early rocket launcher and the freeze wave can be a good panic button. I like the frag grednade to toss around corners and let the shrapnel work for me. Holding down the button with the knife will let you throw it, holding on the staff charges up a bolt that can penetrate enimies.

[DeanAmythe]

Originally posted by Bradeck:

So literally all the game play footage is of a player with uzis, miniguns, shotguns, and rocket launchers. The first level gives me a stupid staff, to go with my equally worthless dagger and axe.

Well, duh, they aren't gonna give you the entire arsenal in the first level.