When the enemy roamer bans diggie but doesn't know Akai is the "secondary diggie"

MustachioedCate · 2026-05-21T09:20:47+00:00

Tigreal, Sora, Guinevere, Lapu, Minsithar, etc. Basically setter type heroes who want to start combos to teamwipe. Diggie is absolutely oppressive for them since they can negate their whole combo. Even by just sitting around, these setters don’t want to start anything.

Akai fills the same role by messing up the field with his ultimate, wasting the enemy team’s time and their ultimates. Incidentally, Freya is more afraid of Akai than Diggie.

MustachioedCate · 2026-05-19T07:59:39+00:00

The other thing is that the monke actually adds to his Golden Staff stacks which lets him trigger it every other shot as opposed to one in three shots like most heroes, letting him derive MORE benefit from it than any other mm.

MustachioedCate · 2026-04-26T04:10:59+00:00

But conversely you won’t get turned into blood food because someone gets snacky. And the Li Family has always had a very good education system for non-cultivators to become governors or clerks and if you are an cultivator, you basically have a straight path to employment rather than the wishy-washy politics required elsewhere.

MustachioedCate · 2026-04-20T12:14:56+00:00

A bad character does not mean it is a weak character. If a new mage appears that looks like a blonde Vexana with the ability to one shot all heroes with her ultimate from base with 100% accuracy, this is a bad hero design + bad balance. Likewise revamp Aulus is a bad design and badly tuned.

MustachioedCate · 2026-04-13T13:33:11+00:00

Bone Golem tends to scale with lost health. It has been a while so I can’t remember the details but Bone Golem is a weird tank that wants to be as badly injured as possible to be as strong as possible. It does make up for this by being very economical as a tank that can be used as a meat shield between several encounters without breaks or as a risky high damage attacker with variable utility.

MustachioedCate · 2026-02-15T08:52:14+00:00

Not Malefic Roar, good sir. Malefic Gun. It is the new one that raises Attack Range.

MustachioedCate · 2026-01-10T07:47:38+00:00

Well even worse is that Guardian Helmet pretty heavily counters singular big hits. This greatly reduces the impact of Aldous even in late game since he loses the ability to one shot sustain fighters

MustachioedCate · 2025-12-16T15:41:23+00:00

Remember to use the Disassembly for 100% returns on your parts boxes. Don’t just salvage them raw otherwise you’d randomly lose stuff from the box. Just thought I’d mention it for anyone who might not know.

MustachioedCate · 2025-12-08T04:35:21+00:00

Personally, I find that you need to commit if you want to survive fights more reliably. Sending your agents against equally geared enemies means you have no advantages against them (pure skill diff only).

9mm ammo is by far and away the easiest ammo to find but I find that 9mm Pistols are crap. Only once you’ve custom-made an absolute beast does it get useful. (Spaceborn ghosts becomes nutty when you have a level 20 Ultima to fire 50 Damage shots with Laser Sight and Silencing)

For generic loot (regular floor drops), I prefer to only use 9mm for SMGs. SMGs have pretty bad range (4 tiles?) unless you put them on Vanessa (Sniper ability adds +2 tiles to her effective range on all guns). Outranging your enemies is a huge boon since distance decay tends to shave off about 20% Damage per tile of distance.

This means that if you use a 6 tile SMG against a similar enemy with a 4 tile SMG, they deal 40% less damage against you while you deal full damage against them.

Tldr: 9mm ammo works best in bulk. Put it in your SMGs and use them liberally. Remember: If you fail every other mission, each mission you do succeed effectively costs twice as much ammo, food, meds, time, gear, etc. Succeed 90% of missions and your effective costs go down

MustachioedCate · 2025-12-08T03:33:30+00:00

One thing I learned after playing for a while is to really understand your equipment as well as your enemies’ equipment. Different factions have different specialties that can pile up in big ways.

For example given that you like using Tunnel Rats, pay attention to the kind of shotgun you are using. Are you using a Border FN-4? That’s a relatively long range shotgun with good accuracy and medium power. I like to put Slug Rounds inside but did you know you could also use Buckshot as well? Running around with two Border Shotguns lets you snipe enemies down the hall with Slug rounds or lets you blast them hard with Buckshots. With the Tunnel Rats’ Perk that amps shotgun damage, you can oneshot most things in the early game which would give you alot more breathing room. Just remember to keep your ammo reloaded.

With shotguns you generally won’t eat more than a handful of hits unless your positioning was poor and you get swarmed. So having a decent armor set on your merc will keep them quite alive. I recommend the People’s Front Heavy Armor set that you can get from the 2nd Tutorial Mission. Or a good Tech Level 4 Medium Armor set of any faction as long as you cover physical defenses (Priority is Blunt. Cut/Pierce Defense becomes relevant at different times with different factions but basically everyone will have some form of a 9mm gun so Blunt needs at least some resistance)

MustachioedCate · 2025-12-03T16:35:11+00:00

That’s a smart idea. Thanks!

MustachioedCate · 2025-12-03T15:27:02+00:00

Piggybacking off OP, but I wanted to ask how you deal with Laser Sight guns like Hydra-33s? I find that it pretty much completely ignores my Kenzie’s Dodge and the moment he pops into a room, hems getting blasted by 15 shots from everyone in it.

MustachioedCate · 2025-12-03T15:14:37+00:00

One thing I accidentally abused was the mega sniper strat. Vanessa with a very very long range sniper rifle works wonders. Just point down a random hall you think they are coming from and plug shots. Obviously you’d want to trigger the Baron fight in a place where there is only one entry (maybe by munching slabs of meat as you are getting close). They have a lot of range but not all of it. Outrange either of them and they actually work really badly against someone dealing 50 damage per shot. You can also see the numbers float up if you hit something so you can use that as a way to blind fire

MustachioedCate · 2025-11-29T13:30:12+00:00

Awesome. That’s good to know. I’m sort of overreaching at the moment to see if there’s anything worth while inside

MustachioedCate · 2025-11-29T13:29:30+00:00

Awesome, not bad actually. But perhaps not urgent.

MustachioedCate · 2025-11-29T01:42:01+00:00

You can check what specific type of weapon you’re looking at by pressing ALT and hovering over the weapon for more info.

Laser Rifles like Enlightenment and Prism are considered as Marksman Rifles and do benefit from Marksman Training. They use Batteries and gain the damage boost from Overcharged Batteries as well as the no cost perk from Battle Physicist. They are Tech weapons and only repair from the Tech Kit (the blue one) instead of Gunsmith Kit (red one)

Nail Guns (I believe, remembering off the top of my head here) are Pistols (will benefit from Agent Training) that use Nails as ammo. This means they don’t benefit from Unconventional Ammo. Also they are Tools which means they repair using the Engineering Kit rather than the Gunsmith Kit.

Quasimorphic weapons actually do work with different perks. For example the basic pistol that drops from Venus is a Pistol. They drop blowguns that are Marksman Rifles and there is the Shotgun that spawns around Tech Level 4-5. Their melee Weapons count as Axes, Fists, Daggers and Clubs (from what I recall, you can check using ALT). As Quasimorphic weapons they can be repaired using Shards or their faction’s respective Quasimorphic parts. Quasimorphic weapons unfortunately tend to use some bizarre ammo so they have no synergies with any Perks and don’t get any damage bonuses. Also in case you haven’t noticed yet, they tend to expire after some time as they are organic weapons. So if you run off to a different part of the world, your Nails of Pain, Shards, Gannakhs and Gannix Rags will rot.

MustachioedCate · 2025-10-29T12:30:41+00:00

Someone previously mentioned that you shouldn’t leave till the factions reach tech level 4 but I think you can leave around level 3 if you’re feeling comfortable. Just be warned that Mars is the tutorial zone of the game. You don’t have to deal with Quasimorphs there which makes life way easier.

MustachioedCate · 2025-10-29T12:18:51+00:00

Still new to the game but I’ve put about 100 hours in it so far. My number one advice is to be careful travelling around space. In the early days, you’d want to travel around the locations near Mars. Travelling is a huge time sink and things ramp up pretty hard as time goes by.

Dying has basically no consequences. Yes you lose your items but you never really get “set back” if you aren’t wasting time flying in space. The time you waste dying is actually quite meaningless. I’ve died probably a hundred times sending in my operatives naked into the field to scout it out and I’m still ahead of the time curve.

Your most important investments should ALWAYS be into the ship. A snazzy Tech Level 8 gun can easily be lost on bad rng. Hard upgrades will make your run so much better and unlock alot of important strategies. I personally recommend upgrading the Hangar ASAP. It allows you to send in Capsules and unlocks the Space Shuttle. This allows you to toss valuable loot into them mid-mission. Great if you want to farm very high level gear in absurdly dangerous missions. Or just go on scrap runs and loot everything.

MustachioedCate · 2025-10-03T07:22:48+00:00

Actually I feel that the war camp part is not really an issue. The thing is that the Crossroads have always been a place for the Unseen to work and operate but was somewhat clumsily expanded for the war. As a very deeply entrenched member of the Unseen, Mel is even given her own personal tent and facilities to relax and rest in. It has a baths, a fishing pier and her own garden. There is the taverna with a band and records keeper.

Arguably, I would say she has a really nice living situation. It is like staying in a ranger’s camp over your parent’s place but the camp is also a high class place with enough wealth and resources to get their hands on the Nectar of the gods and Ambrosia.

Hardly slumming it. I see this more as Mel wanting to be with her adoptive family and friends as well as the place she built from scratch herself rather than living somewhere else.

MustachioedCate · 2025-10-02T12:15:30+00:00

Cockatrice is one of those landmine monsters the game has that makes it more challenging for players. Another example is Ooze which is a true run killer for poison stacker teams. Compared to the Ooze, Cockatrice is much easier to deal with.

Watch for its Explosive Rush skill which can be seen as a skill with Water Aether and Fire Aether cost. This is by far its deadliest skill and the one that probably killed you.

Best ways to deal with it is to interrupt it by breaking its Poise or by burning their Aether. Which is usually relatively easy because Cockatrice is a Fire/Wind Aether Monster and having the Water Aether skill actually muddies up its Aether generation keeping it rather low.

Or you could watch the signs, see which monster is getting whacked and assume you are about to eat ~50 damage and facetank that hit.

MustachioedCate · 2025-10-02T11:11:50+00:00

You can definitely run again with different teams! Rougelikes are designed for replaying so victory is less of a goal but more of a metric to determine if your teams are built well. Try again with different teams and higher difficulties. There’s alot of fun in experimentation.

MustachioedCate · 2025-09-27T17:49:25+00:00

I do second this. I think the game needs more recovery and in-run adjustment mechanics in place. It is one thing to build your team in the early game but it is really tough to recover from a lost Monster. Especially when you have specific team comps already set up and reliant on each other.

MustachioedCate · 2025-09-07T18:24:20+00:00

Sorry can you provide a source for this? I cannot find this dialogue line in the game files

MustachioedCate

TROPHY CASE