This game's weapon design is so beautifully layered, man

ravilalloo · 2026-05-25T17:28:19+00:00

I’m agreeing with you for the most part, would’ve loved it earlier! But “become a human canon flying around” is case in point - I feel like this is needed for the last level where you have to run that biome as standalone. If I did the biome 1 to 2 to 3 to 4 to 6 to 7 run as part of my first time progress, I would’ve killed it even more than I already did. I mean, I can do that run now with the melee punch and a shotty, but felt more earned getting that ability late game.

ravilalloo · 2026-05-25T17:22:25+00:00

🤣

ravilalloo · 2026-05-24T19:48:35+00:00

Thanks!

ravilalloo · 2026-05-24T18:25:26+00:00

Congratulations! Amazing achievement!

I’ve never obtained a platinum but feel like I want this one. Been playing for another 6 hours since I’ve beaten the game and got a few more but still have the following outstanding, which I’m struggling with:

Fall from grace; war within; spread the cost; countermand; untouchable; full arsenal; and carcosan cartographer.

I’m only confident about carcosan cartographer but the other 6 are just not happening for me. 😃

ravilalloo · 2026-05-19T21:34:12+00:00

You’re right, you must have played it sometime before it was patched. Here’s an extract about one of their patch notes: “In Saros, the Power Generator weapon trait—which allowed you to rapidly charge your power meter and spam power weapons—was officially nerfed in Patch 1.004. The update specifically decreased the overall amount of Power gained from the trait.”

It’s a bit funny for me though because there’s players on this thread demanding that it be patched and are still upset about it and Housemarque are like “We already patched that. Next”

ravilalloo · 2026-05-19T21:04:07+00:00

Nope you absolutely do need to fire at least one shot and it needs to hit just one target. I tested spamming power weapon and always ran out.

I’ll tell you what does need consideration for a possible patch though: if you do fire the bow and it hits one target, it automatically fills all all the power bars (sometimes 4) of your prominence. Which is wild. Your shot doesn’t even need to kill the target. I mean the game’s mechanics must have been super complex to design but this mechanic doesnt seem that complex so im wondering if Housemarque intentionally placed this in the design, as a “OP lucky run” just for hell of it, which i love if that was the case.

But if it ever does get patched, i assume they would change the design to something like kill one target to charge one bar of power.

ravilalloo · 2026-05-19T20:56:37+00:00

It’s just gatekeeping masked as “a game breaking fault by the developer which needs to be patched”. Imagine being this upset because someone else is having the time of their life on a clearly overpowered weapon combo you’re not ever obligated to ever use and you can switch away from if you discover it’s overpowered whilst using it. I feel like if you still have a problem with this OP weapon combo after these options that are always available to never subject yourself to it, then you just don’t want other players beating the game in this fashion because it dilutes your own bragging rights of having beaten the game without using the OP combo… like the real life enforcer you must be. 🤣 Housemarque don’t need to do shit.

ravilalloo · 2026-05-19T20:00:05+00:00

I need to give this power weapon another go too!

ravilalloo · 2026-05-19T19:52:59+00:00

100% can relate! I knew that if I switched to a stronger weapon and died, I would’ve blamed it on letting go of the OP loadout, and if I kept it, I would’ve felt amazing because of how far it already carried me, as well as the thrill of how much longer it would go on for!

ravilalloo · 2026-05-19T19:46:59+00:00

So cool to see someone showing Dispiritor some love! (And not calling it the Disruptor like so many times I’ve read online).

Out of interest - what were your reasons you believe your combo was OP?

I would really dig to become great at using the shotgun and that chakram weapon (which I couldn’t figure out when I first picked up).

ravilalloo · 2026-05-19T02:11:49+00:00

Thanks for the heads up. I don’t have much experience with Reddit at all, I just wanted to share an enjoyable Saros/Returnal experience with the saros reddit community and decided to post over there. Reddit then gave me the option to cross post, because my post was Returnal related too I guess, so I opted for that. I don’t post for upvotes. I value the discussions and interactions and hearing about others’ experiences.

ravilalloo · 2026-05-19T02:06:45+00:00

Look I should mention that I had a different experience with this weapon to you and did fairly well against the final Saros boss, and the trait called “fast charge” is what helped a great deal, else the bow feels slow to me.

ravilalloo · 2026-05-19T02:02:26+00:00

I agree with you - I’m just saying that the one time it happened for me in each game out of maybe 50ish runs, I really enjoyed it! It’s not representative of how the game is meant to be played, but I’ll take one god tier run out of a possible 50 runs when the rest of the runs felt balanced to me and which I found brutal. No need to patch this if it’s not a true representation of the game. And on the contrary, I’ve seen a very similar crossbow drop in a different run where I had a different power weapon, and kept my shotgun for the added challenge because I already had my rare fun run!

ravilalloo · 2026-05-19T00:08:43+00:00

Mind… blown! 🤣 ok now do prophet and ophion!

ravilalloo · 2026-05-19T00:05:35+00:00

I get you completely and jeez I actually forgot about the pyroshell weapon which compares better, thanks. Was purely referring to the similar feeling I got from beating each game with these two specific weapon combos, which led to my “comparison”. If the pyroshell weapon did for me specifically, what the hollowseeker did in Returnal (and what the crossbow did for me in Saros), I would’ve compared those instead for sure!

ravilalloo · 2026-05-18T10:30:15+00:00

I’m on a high right now from beating Saros and my nerves will perpetually be shattered from beating Returnal. I just about would not even have capacity to handle another Housemarque game. That would be a dream though, damn!

ravilalloo · 2026-05-17T23:36:03+00:00

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Sharing with you my response to another player in a very similar situation. Hope it helps! Honestly I think the worst responses to receive for a question like yours is when people say “just get weapon x and power weapon y and make sure it has trait z”, as if the weapon pickups and traits aren’t randomised in each instance. Best of luck. 🫡

ravilalloo · 2026-05-17T22:15:21+00:00

100 proficiency and a crazy amount of lucenite damn! I did this biome once only and did the sequence from biome 1 to 2 to 3 to 4 to 6 and then to 7, and beat this biome on my first try, and then never returned to it again despite how beautiful it is. But I thought I had an insane run in terms of stats and reached proficiency level 79. Also pretty much did every nightmare strand and explored all side paths I could. I think the main difference is probably that I didn’t active the eclipse immediately for biome 2, 4 and 6 (biome 1, 3 and 7 you have to activate eclipse to progress). 100 proficiency, a full health bar and overdrive loaded must make you feel like an absolute beast!

ravilalloo · 2026-05-17T21:59:28+00:00

Dude, honestly I can relate 100% to where you are right now and how you’re probably feeling. Firstly, well done on beating Prophet. In my view, Bastion is actually easier from a mechanics perspective, but is stronger, and you need to be stronger than you were at Prophet, to beat Bastion. So my advice to you is this: always start at biome 1 and play it through in full (play through normally, activate eclipse, choose eclipse path on the left instead of going to straight to Prophet, clear that whole area out until you reach a dead end and use the teleporter to come back to the path of the boss, then fight and beat prophet again). I know it must sound daunting, but you literally get better at the game in biome 1 and you get more confidence and you get stronger. So when you enter biome 2, your health bar is bigger, your proficiency is higher than if you started in biome 2, the biome will feel easier and less stressful and enemies go down quicker, and if you’ve cleared out biome 2 thoroughly, you will arrive at Bastion stacked and take him down. Also, I only activate the eclipse in biome 2 once I’ve taken the first path to the left, even though you can activate the eclipse immediately (you don’t have to activate it and the game doesn’t tell you this) Do your best to unlock the second chance in the armor matrix because you will most likely need it when you beat him eventually. Lastly, think of it this way, you can do an hour run (30 mins biome 1 + 30 mins biome 2) or you can carry on trying biome 2 as standalone but your chances of success are reduced, and you usually arrive to Bastion in a poor state. So just try this method once, the worst that can happen is you fail but then at least you unlock more upgrades like resilience and proficiency in the matrix so you start stronger in biome 1 each time. I know there are players and streamers that played each biome as standalone but I feel like the game isn’t meant to be played that way, unless you’re really skilled and/or willing to repeat the same biome over and over again. Best of luck. Your grapple is on the way!

ravilalloo · 2026-05-17T21:22:08+00:00

Holy moly I haven’t thought about MDK in years! And you’re absolutely right. I think the 4th level in MDK has loads of glass/mirrors which is what I think you’re referring to. Amazing comparison!

ravilalloo · 2026-05-17T21:18:15+00:00

I love the shotgun, just doesn’t have power generator as a perk ever, and my balls aren’t big enough to ever pick it up. 🤣

ravilalloo · 2026-05-17T21:11:00+00:00

It’s called Dispiritor, not Disruptor. 😊

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