Tekla Survival Guide

Probably the only guide for this game as of September 2023

Includes enemy prioritization, tiny tips and upgrade priorities
to maximize your fun and your time of survival

Will update when i have time

Objects

Repair Tank

Drops 1 health pickup upon being destroyed, the pickup never despawns.

EXPLOSIVE Barrel

Explodes when shot and deals 60 damage in a radius, you know the deal, bring horde, shoot barrel, horde dies.

Upgrade Parts Crate

Drops around 6 upgrade parts when destroyed.

Enemies

The normal-est of them all

Iron Snail
Priority: ☆☆☆

Treat this thing like a moving wall, if there's nothing except this enemy, just run around them in a 360 circle to group them up, and keep shooting them so that it's easy to collect the XP after they're all dead.


Poltergiest
Priority: ★★★

The second most dangerous enemy in the game, it is unable to attack if you shoot it, it will shoot a projectile to where you're going instead of where you are currently and usually has Iron Snails blocking your shots, Run backwards and then run sideways when it shoots to avoid the attacks, avoid getting cornered and try running around other enemies and shooting this thing first you need to kill it as quickly as possible.


Bombosaur
Priority: ★★☆

Appears after defeating the 1st boss and explodes when it gets close to you,
Run into the enemy horde, shoot this thing and get a bunch of free kills no problem, DO NOT let this thing get close to you though as it will deal lots of damage.


Mosquito
Priority: ★☆☆

Appears after the 1st boss is defeated, can charge and dash towards you,
Focus on this enemy after you shoot down every poltergeist, keep a close eye on its charge animation to not get hit by it or just shoot it once to interrupt it.




Lil' Goober
Priority: ★★☆

Appears during the 2nd bossfight and continues appearing afterwards,
Moves very slowly and shoots 2 vertical and horizontal bullets, denying your movement areas,
Dodge through the bullets if you have to or just kill it to get some breathing room otherwise enemies will corner you.



Steel Snail
Priority: ☆☆☆

Appears after the 2nd bossfight,
Same enemy, more health...yup that's it, by now you should have enough piercing or lightning to easily kill this thing, treat it just like a regular Iron Snail.



Dark Poltergeist
Priority: ★★★

The most dangerous enemy in the game, appears after the 2nd bossfight, fires 2 bullets at you in a splitting pattern, interestingly however the splitshot will miss you completely if you change direction or stop for a millsecond immediately after it fires, Always kill this thing first, they will appear in hordes and overwhelm you with a hail of bullets otherwise.

Bosses

Way easier to defeat than the horde of enemies coming at you.

Slime Queen?

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Priority: ☆☆☆

Literally a free level up, has one attack and splits into smaller, cuter variants of itself once it dies.




THE Attack:



Slime Cat will jump towards wherever you're going, allowing you to easily bait out the attack and just run in another direction, if you mess up like how i did in the gif just dodge out of it and continue shooting.

Giga Goober

Supa weak
Priority: ★☆☆

Spawns with around 6 Lil' Goobers to make it harder for you to move around, Has 2 attacks, DROPS NOTHING.


Attacks:

Laser Blast:


Goober will shoot a laser that will follow you around, to dodge this move you must wait until it gets close then dodge.

360 Laser Blast:


Goober will fire a laser, except this time it will spin 360 degrees, this attack has infinite range, so you need to stay close to goober and take care to not stand infront of him, otherwise the damage will be unavoidable, to dodge this you need to wait until the laser gets close and then dodge through it.

THE Rat

Has an LMG and isn't afraid to use it
Priority: ★★★

Attacks:

Bullet Storm

(gifs are sped up cause steam doesn't want me to upload more than 2 MB)

Shoots a hail of bullets at you, deceptively easy to dodge through, move backwards, spam your sideways keys to clear a path through the bullets then just weave through them.

Upgrades

Every upgrade in the game and its Usefulness:



Quality: ★☆☆
Not useful until after you beat the 2nd boss.


Quality: ★★☆
Almost essential after you defeat the second boss as hordes of enemies will block your way to those sweet Gold upgrade parts.


Quality: ★★★
You need atleast one of these in every run if you wanna live.


Quality: ★★★
Your top priority in a damage build, combined with damage up you can net over 20 damage per shot.


Quality: ☆☆☆
you need to get TEN of these for the knockback build, Fun but you'll get overwhelmed super quickly.


Quality: ★★★
This upgrade looks super useless at first, but if you stack it a lot you can practically walk through hordes unscathed, maybe damage won't favor you but its lots of fun once you build this and then build damage.


Quality: ☆☆☆
Arguably the most useless upgrade in the game, this is only useful if you have over 5 projectile penetration, otherwise picking this can cause you to lose the run.


Quality: ★★☆
Allows you to pierce through 1 enemy or object, pretty useful for getting rid of a horde quickly, becomes overpowered when combined with another upgrade.


Quality: ★★★
The Second most useful upgrade in the game, the fire rate increase is absolutely insane, picking this even once will noticeably speed up your fire rate. increase your DPS by a HUGE margin, more hits means more chances to crit or trigger lightning.


Quality: ★★★
Definitely the most useful upgrade in the game, ups your DPS and it can crit everytime it triggers , when combined with penetration you can mow down hordes without a problem.

Builds

Prioritize the upgrades on top of the list for your build.

Piercing Build






Too many enemies, no problem, this build lets you obliterate hordes of enemies relatively quickly,
the reason for focusing on the lightning chain first is because you will not come across it very often.

Damage Build





Get the Crit upgrades first, then damage, bosses and enemies will die in seconds.

Invulnerability Build





Lots of fun, walk through hordes, heal, walk through hordes, heal, repeat while laughing.

Knockback Build


Good challenge, a bit funny but gets stale afterwards, still lots of fun though.

Speed and Crit Build





Focus on speed no matter what, lots of fun if you know how to dodge, turns the second boss into a joke.

Exploits!

there's really easy ways to completely break the game, ill list them all here as i find them

First Method: Waiting

Yup there's absolutely nothing stopping you from keeping an enemy alive and then waiting and destroying crates to get stronger, do note however that it takes REALLY LONG to do this and the game will basically turn into one of those idle games, if you wanna go over 3k seconds this exploit is ESSENTIAL.

[Golden Rigby]

You may have noticed that some enemies after the 3rd boss aren't there, its because i didn't get a video of them