This game is hard as fuck, i've played it for about 6 hours and made it to the first boss once lol. I'm reasonably good at roguelites too.
Can someone explain weapon proficiency to me? i'm not grasping some of the upgrade mechanics.
Also learned the hard way this morning that if you pony up the ether to activate the scanner checkpoint, it only works in that biome. It makes sense but wasn't sure until it backfired on me.
Activated one in the first biome because I had max ether and was planning on killing the boss because I had a data cube to upload. Made it to the third biome and was playing a little wreckless because I thought I had a back up. Super butt hurt when I died and was hit with the opening crash cinematic.
Also, after a bunch of looking I still haven't found what Weapon Research does other than open more of the weapon description on your equipment screen.
Weapon Proficiency dictates the quality of the weapons you pick up. The higher your proficiency the higher the star ratings and stats will be on the weapons you find.
Certain Weapon Traits will only show up at Weapon Proficiency 5, then another tier unlock at 15. Only made it to 12 myself so haven't unlocked the next tier.
Weapon Traits also unlock when using a weapon, and once unlocked they have a chance to show up anytime you pick up that weapon again. I believe that you can only level up a Trait to the tier that is assigned to the weapon.
For example the Sidearm can come with a trait of Pierce I. Once you kill enough enemies to unlock Pierce, you can't continue to unlock the next level with the Tier I skill. I believe you need to find a higher level weapon that will have Pierce II. But once unlocked it can show up on any future Sidearm. All the Weapon Traits I've seen appear to have a max of Tier III.
Also, after you beat a boss you unlock a shortcut that you can jump straight into the next biome. When you do this there is a weapon proficiency booster that jumps you to 5 in the second biome and 9 in the third.
Sigh... Also died fucking around in the third Biome. I was getting cocky. It was my 3rd run (i want to count it as my 2nd since my 2nd ended abruptly from a crash). Iwas in the 3rd Bio with max life, 12 artifacts, 1 very beneficial parasite, had my favorite weapon. Fucked around jumping around trying to get to ledges and was at about half health. Figured I'd be alright... Picked up a new weapon I'd never seen and figured i'd try it. Ran into some scrubs and just.. i dunno. I suddenly died... I was soooo pissed. Was doing so great, kicking ass, feeling damn near invincible.
4th run was ugly. i was mucking around in the 1st biome with my first weapon and ran into a pair of strong enemies about 3 mins into the run. I am like "already!?". Got wiped out. This game escalated the difficulty right away.. assholes.
SIGH....
I'm a neutered old man now. I just shut the game off if it pisses me off.@deadshot138 should get this game just so we can see his posts about it
What is this game comparable to? Dead Space?
SIGH...
Reached the 3rd level boss loaded up (max health, max proficiency, with my favorite weapon). Beat him down to his last 1/3 of his final health bar before dying. Got revived with everything. Figured I'd hit up the last yellow room (extra strong opponents) and see if I could get anything that might help me. Got sloppy and wrecked/died a miserable death. Tis fuckin' game...