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~Still Surfin
Tips:
- Each weapon uses different special ammo. Always remember to check what special ammo a weapon uses before buying it.
- More weapons means more elemental utility. Elemental utility is your friend.
- Upgrade the carrying capacity of your resource components bag ASAP.
- Learn to spot, remember, and fight a machines weak spots WITHOUT the assistance of your Focus.
- There will never be tall grass conveniently close enough to your targets. Purchase the LURE! skill very, very early on.
- The Precision Bow is your friend. Mod it often.
- Snipe Boars. Knife turkeys.
- Your Tripcaster's trip wires can be really, really wide. Set wide traps.
- TEAR is the attribute that commits towards removing machine's components and exposing armored weaknesses. Know your weapons TEAR score.
- Herds do respawn quickly.
- Dropped loot disappears if you die.
- It takes forever to tie down a machine with the Ropecaster. Try stunning it instead unless you're planning a retreat.
- During the ambush. Kill the guy with the 50 caliber machine gun. Then take his machine gun and kill everybody else.
- Potions are 1000% better than your medical bar. Craft potions and upgrade your carry capacity often.
- Learn to use the quick slot bar in combat. Remember, potions.
- If all the Watchers are dead. You can crouch and walk right up to a Strider, (or a Scrapper,) and stealth kill it head on.
- Putting a Fire Arrow into a Strider's butt canister is really, really hard to do. Aim higher than you think you need to.
- Learn to craft ammo from the quick slot screen DURING the heat of combat. Because Scorpion Robots.
- Corruption machines do corruption poison damage ADDED to each melee strike. You WILL die slowly while you die quickly.
- Do not get attached to one armor set. You can carry tons of armored clothing. Swap in and out of your armors often to match the robot types you are hunting.
- If you want the best armor in the game? Use the internet and make a note of all the Power Cell locations.