15 Beginners Tips And Tricks Returnal Doesn't Tell You

[Music] ah returnal is a challenging game combined with its roguelike structure and the inherent difficulty of most of its firefights it is a game that will regularly put your skills to the test as players prepare to jump into house mark's latest here we've combined a few handy pointers that should hopefully give you a bit of a head start as you begin your journey through atropos let's start with some basic stuff and then move on to more specific tips before we go ahead a quick request we upload new videos every single day and your subscription matters a lot so please consider subscribing and enable all notifications by clicking the bell icon with that out of the way let's begin always stay on the move return combat is some of the busiest most frantic you'll experience in a game of its kind and perhaps the single best piece of advice that you're going to get that you should keep in mind throughout the entire game is this always always stay on the move more often than not you'll be attacked by large groups composed of different kinds of enemies dealing different kinds of attacks and moving in different ways staying still in any single area is a quick way to die and reset your progress for the next run so make sure that you're always on the move use your dash liberally and sprint whenever you're not shooting you can dash through attacks speaking of the dash it's the best most useful and most necessary tool in your arsenal and will be throughout the entirety of the game there's a couple of things about it that you should always remember for starters holding down circle instead of tapping at once will give you a longer dash so keep that in mind when you're dealing with attacks that do damage over a large area more importantly you can dash through attacks the dash gives you iframes so that even when you're dashing through attacks you won't sustain any damage that can be a crucial tip in many situations especially in some of the boss fights so always keep that in mind stick with hip firing as mentioned return puts a lot of emphasis on movement in fact it puts most of its focus on movement and not much on accuracy unlike most shooters as such it's best to stick with hip firing you can certainly aim down sights if you want to but that doesn't gel with the constant need of movement very well besides hip firing is plenty accurate on its own just aim in the general direction of an enemy and your shots will find their way home more often than not explore thoroughly combat forms the bulk of the experience in return but there's more to the game as well that you shouldn't be ignoring exploration is a key element of the game as well and ideally you should be exploring environments thoroughly from health upgrades to crucial items to help you with your build to parasites to stronger weapons return usually rewards you for your curiosity handsomely take a step back if you're overwhelmed in return you'll often find yourself overwhelmed especially in the earlier hours of the game large groups of enemies might come at you and put up an imposing challenge if you find yourself on the wrong side of a fight it's best to take a step back and head to previous rooms if there are other branching paths you haven't explored previously or optional rooms you had ignored go do those first and maybe you'll be able to come back with more health or healing items or a strong build if not well at least you can take a breath and think through your strategy for the fight ahead upgrading weapons the more you use your weapons in return the more that they level up allowing you to unlock mods and skills unlike most progress in the game weapon upgrades are unlocked permanently across all runs our advice would be to stick with the weapons that you like and find the most useful in fights rather than splitting your attention and dividing progress across a large pool of weapons it's best to stick with the ones that you like so you can make focused and faster progress with them upgrade the pistol one of the weapons you prioritize for upgrades should definitely be the pistol especially early on in the game the pistol is the weapon you start every run with and sure it usually doesn't take very long to get your hands on a different weapon in most runs but starting out with a pistol that's already buffed up is usually a great way to ensure that you speed up early progress in each run as well besides with the right weapon mod drops even the pistol can be incredibly useful in a firefight overload returns guns don't have ammo but they do need to reload nonetheless well you don't have to worry about running out of bullets every time you empty a clip or magazine you have to wait for your weapon to reload there is however a way to cut down on the time that you have to wait with a mechanic called overload which is essentially exactly like gears of war's active reload if you fire at the exact time that a reload bar is in a small window you reload your weapon immediately without having to wait for the bar to refill keep an eye on overload and make sure you utilize it every time you get because the few seconds that it does give you can be crucial in most firefights build yourself up while it might be tempting every time you respawn back at the beginning in every run to just rush through the earlier parts and get to where you were before dying as quickly as possible we would recommend being more patient take your time fight some enemies find a good weapon build up by finding powerful artifacts purchase some healing items essentially make sure that your build is at least as strong if not stronger as it was before when you're getting to the point where you last died return to older areas return employs a metroidvania design philosophy which means you'll often find new items that will help you reach areas that were previously inaccessible as such it's a great idea to return to older biomes that you've already done before to explore areas you missed out on and we're not just saying that for the completionists out there often in these old areas you'll find new audio logs uncover more of the story bits and pieces of new lore or even unlock new artifacts or weapons to use later on redo older bosses unlike many other roguelikes and rogue lights once you defeat a boss and returnal you don't have to fight them again on subsequent runs that progress is permanent but you can still take them on if you want in fact in some cases it is even recommended if you're looking to build up your character before heading for bigger challenges taking on an older boss again can be a great way to do so of course these fights are challenges as well so you should only do them if you're feeling confident in your skills and your ability so do keep that in mind malignancy is usually worth the risk often items and chests you find in returnal will be malignant which means that there's a chance that picking them up or opening them will stick you with a suit malfunction there's a lot of variables each time you don't know how bad the suit malfunction will be you don't know how strict the requirements for removing them will be you don't know what items those chests will give you and you don't even know if you'll get a suit malfunction there's a risk reward mechanic at play but even though there's a lot of unpredictability here malignancy is usually worth the risk most of the times the malfunctions are not that serious and the requirements for removing them aren't that demanding of course sometimes you'll be unlucky and get a particularly bad malfunction but those instances are not that common save your ether there are two currencies in returnal obolites and ether and while olights are lost every time you die ether is permanent it's very valuable and not very easy to find so it's best to hold on to it for when you really need to spend it don't waste large quantities on clearing malignancy either instead use it for opening up temporary checkpoints or for summoning items from cthonos at the very beginning of each run parasites are better than malignant chests parasites also have a risk reward mechanic at play but they're much more useful than malignant items though the debuffs you get from parasites cannot be removed until you find a way to remove the parasites themselves they're also less random and unpredictable than malignant chests every time you know exactly what buff and debuff you're going to get so you have a better idea of whether or not you want to take the risk each time in context of the build that you're working towards melee is extremely powerful pretty early on in return you'll get a blade that serves as your melee weapon now this here is a third person bullet hell shooter which means melee attacks are obviously de-emphasized and while we wouldn't recommend ignoring your guns and playing the game as a hack and slash title we wouldn't recommend doing the opposite either your melee attacks can be very powerful and do a lot of damage so getting up and close to enemies and hitting them with your blade at times is a great strategy that you should adopt any chance that you get and with that we reached the end of the video have anything to say let us know in the comments below also we upload new videos every single day on gamingbolt so please consider subscribing as it really helps us out thanks for watching

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Length: 9min 1sec (541 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 30 2021