geminihcneogaf
Neo Member
so i beat all 4 bosses , have 4 keys for all areas EXCEPT the west. i assume i need that 1 last one to progress the story. how can i get ONE of these..? i've been trying hours...
Hyper Light Drifter |OT| We On A HyperLight Beam
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Agreed
Just beat the 8-Piece Dungeon in the North Area and it's so much FUN. It's a great challenge and felt so satisfying when I beat it.
I think I'm done with the North Area, now heading West to find that least piece and finish that Area's dungeon.
Can confirm the Dashing outfit (heh) does double your Stamina. Can do 4 Dash Charges instead of 2 now.
Start off slow.
I watched this video and finally got the hang of it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2wmqi0jRSc
Dr.Sanchez
Neo Member
About the secret nodes: they don't show up in the map right? Going to start looking for them.
Man, I bet there's a lot that I haven't seen given that I've only found 2 keys and 3 monoliths. I don't want to burn myself out for the Vita version so I've been holding off on exploring.
toastyToast
Member
There are doors that require a full 8 so I'd assume so
Yes
I'm at another shopping crossroads, so few questions for the enlightened:
The second Grenade upgrade - does it shorten the cooldown, or just give two grenades before cooldown?
Are either of the A-X or X-A moves worth bothering with? Of the three remaining options I'm thinking the dash shield looks more useful.
I've got four gold chips to spend, so there's some latitude there. Wondering if adding some extra ammo for my shotgun might be the way to go. I've already bought a fourth health pack pip, so I think I'm all set on those.
The second Grenade upgrade - does it shorten the cooldown, or just give two grenades before cooldown?
Are either of the A-X or X-A moves worth bothering with? Of the three remaining options I'm thinking the dash shield looks more useful.
I've got four gold chips to spend, so there's some latitude there. Wondering if adding some extra ammo for my shotgun might be the way to go. I've already bought a fourth health pack pip, so I think I'm all set on those.
RapidCancel
Member
- Gives you 2 grenades
- I much prefered A+X, the move where you press them together and not A then X. I enjoyed using it, the only downside is it takes up almost half of your stamina. It's pretty good for crowd control.
This game is great. Bought it without really seeing much on it at all and I'm really impressed. While it doesn't have the puzzle design of a 2D Zelda, it's absolutely a perfection of what the action components of those games could feel like, if they wanted to push it harder. Really gorgeous too.
Also just want to add that the refill ammo via slicing random stuff is genius. The compulsion to slice every patch of grass in lttp and the like has always been there, now there's even more legitimate reason to do it and I even find myself hitting some midfight just to get ammo for the tricker enemies to approach.
Also just want to add that the refill ammo via slicing random stuff is genius. The compulsion to slice every patch of grass in lttp and the like has always been there, now there's even more legitimate reason to do it and I even find myself hitting some midfight just to get ammo for the tricker enemies to approach.
They show up after you acquire them. Basically every area the drifter NPC shows you 3 (maybe 4?) I believe and you have to find the other 5.
-It gives 2 grenades, and you can cooldown one you've thrown while still having one in the inventory.
-Personally I like A - X more, you can bounce enemies into walls or other enemies for bonus damage (and it hurts the enemies they run into). I'd say it's my favorite ability in the game. You can't go wrong with ether, I'd take both of them over dash shield. Dash shield only felt like it came in handy when I was fighting a bunch of enemies with turrets in the mix. This is assuming you have the bullet reflect skill first though.
Shotgun ammo upgrade is worth it.
Thanks for the tips guys! Looks like A+X is a lock, though the shotgun ammo vs second grenade might be a tough choice. Leaning towards shotgun ammo, but I'll cross that bridge once I've got enough gold chips.
Messofanego
Banned
North and West 8-Piece Dungeons done.
Not sure how I'm doing on the gearbits in each area though.
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Not sure how I'm doing on the gearbits in each area though.
It's footballIt's too bad you get nothing for winning against him cause that was tough as hell!
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Messofanego
Banned
That sucks that they took out manual rolling of the grenade from the beta. That was so rad, throwing a grenade and roll it directly to enemies instead of guesstimating.
Whew, West Boss is down!
(though I was down to one or two blocks of health and zero medpacks). In the end, it came down to rushing in and slashing wildly hoping that he went down before I did.
With three Bosses down Steam is saying 11 hours, which goes to show how much variance in play time you can get depending on ability and method.
Easiest so far actually, only took me about five tries
With three Bosses down Steam is saying 11 hours, which goes to show how much variance in play time you can get depending on ability and method.
Dr.Sanchez
Neo Member
Man, I just need 1 more node for the East area...and I have no clue where to look for it,lol. Anyone found all of them yet, for the East anyway?
Optimusdouche
Banned
Are you playing it on Steam? I hate it when games do not allow this.
I wish steam would just have universal cross save and play, including with Macs.
Just loving this game. Its so beautiful. I wish more games looked and played like this. Sweet sprite games.
Always loved sprite based games so much and are the games that always catch my eyes the most. Seems more conducive to good gameplay and certainly looks pretty and artistic.
In regards to the buffs from different costumes. You actually only need one piece from an outfit to get the power. For example, I just have the Sword from the Dashing outfit and it gives me the buff. Don't need to wear the cape.
So essentially, if other outfits gave buffs, you could have three running simultaneously.
So essentially, if other outfits gave buffs, you could have three running simultaneously.
Yeah, but it is not even the lack of cloud saves. I have the save file backed up online but the game just out right ignores it because this machine has a different UID.
Mr Nash
square pies = communism
Getting a handle on chain dashing is fun. Trying to do the 800 dash achievement now. So far have managed 256. I'll give it another go when I'm not half asleep. =p The thing getting me is misjudging the turns doing it in the training room. I'll get in a groove but bonk into the wall eventually.
Two questions: First, for the 8 pieces in the North, is there a piece behind the key door (I think its 10 keys required) in the village part way up? I have 7, not sure where the last is...
Second, how many dashes are required to get the cape in the dash room? It's not the full 800, right?
Just "beaten" the game. As previously mentioned, I suck at games, and I don't actually think Hyper Light Drifter is too hard - certainly not to beat, at any rate. I don't think I'll ever be able to collect everything as I can't seem to master dashing in more than one direction, but I'll certainly consider getting some of the remaining gubbins.
Key things for me were:
i) Buy the upgrade that absorbs bullets when you dash through them so you can pick off difficult enemies at a distance - I found this much more useful than the deflecting bullets back at people, but then that's because I spent most of my time dashing.
ii) Take things steadily. Every move is telegraphed and every bad guy has a pattern, rather than a set of attacks they can cycle through at random. Learn the pattern, learn the cue for each attack, and then it's relatively simple to avoid.
I've had a fantastic time with Hyper Light Drifter. It's beautiful (I love the music, incidentally, unlike many here), controls very smoothly, and is just all round fun to play - one of the best games I've played in a long time. I wasn't even a backer!
Key things for me were:
i) Buy the upgrade that absorbs bullets when you dash through them so you can pick off difficult enemies at a distance - I found this much more useful than the deflecting bullets back at people, but then that's because I spent most of my time dashing.
ii) Take things steadily. Every move is telegraphed and every bad guy has a pattern, rather than a set of attacks they can cycle through at random. Learn the pattern, learn the cue for each attack, and then it's relatively simple to avoid.
I've had a fantastic time with Hyper Light Drifter. It's beautiful (I love the music, incidentally, unlike many here), controls very smoothly, and is just all round fun to play - one of the best games I've played in a long time. I wasn't even a backer!
So I saw a pretty good trick for beating the 800 dash challenge.
-Unplug your controller and switch to m&kb
-Go to the dash challenge, put your character near one of the columns of purple recharge tiles
-Put your cursor on top of the middle of the tiles so that when you press spacebar to dash across, he automatically goes back and forth through the tiles without having to move the mouse.
-Mute the sound and just listen to the rhythm of yourself tapping the spacebar, keep it constant.
It took me a second to get acclimated with dashing on m&kb, but after I did I got it pretty much in a single try. Went up to 1001 just for the hell of it.
-Unplug your controller and switch to m&kb
-Go to the dash challenge, put your character near one of the columns of purple recharge tiles
-Put your cursor on top of the middle of the tiles so that when you press spacebar to dash across, he automatically goes back and forth through the tiles without having to move the mouse.
-Mute the sound and just listen to the rhythm of yourself tapping the spacebar, keep it constant.
It took me a second to get acclimated with dashing on m&kb, but after I did I got it pretty much in a single try. Went up to 1001 just for the hell of it.
Dr.Sanchez
Neo Member
I'm also curious if a piece is behind the locked door.
None of the pieces are behind key doors in any of the areas. You can get them all without any required upgrades or keys (I believe? You might need the Sniper Rifle or the first Dash Upgrade)
Nice job! I think there's a 16 key door somewhere in the South but I may be misremembering.
Not sure how many outfits there are, but there's 12 slots.
The game is pretty dope so far, but it's kind of a bummer to see how much of the stretch goal content was cut. Makes me a bit apprehensive to back anything else they'll do. I will buy day one if they'll do another quality game, but I propably won't back it while enticed by stretch goals.
That being said, it's one of the best games so far this year and the art direction is mega on-point.
That being said, it's one of the best games so far this year and the art direction is mega on-point.
Damn,.. having got the dash gear reward I'm still not able to change capes in NG+
800 dashes? How did you even manage that?
where did they talk about cutting stretch goal content? did they make a kickstarter post about it?
See Stoze's comment above- good tip!
Ah, a trickster method
They do mention it on their kickstarter page: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1661802484/hyper-light-drifter/posts/1534048
I mean, it's not a super big deal because the game is not content starved or anything and I love the game, but as far as backing something on kickstarter I think I'll take a wait and see approach.
This is genius. Took a moment to get started, but easily bashed out 900 after that.
How people are accomplishing this without using exploits is beyond me.
Damn,.. having got the dash gear reward I'm still not able to change capes in NG+
Are you supposed to be able to? I thought the point of the black cape was to reduce your stats and prevent you from getting any of the bonuses the other capes provide.
Has anyone completed the game with the alt (girl) drifter? Curious if it's different content wise, but I'm not eager to start a fresh run at this point. I dig her playstyle though.
The thing about that is that you can use the other elements of gear (sword, bot) and so still get the buffs. Restricting you to the black cape would just keep you from equipping three buffs, while also making many of the rewards in the game less... rewarding. Of course, the challenges themselves are the main point, but it's nice to know that you'll get some sort of new outfit at the end of them. And who doesn't like wearing natty new capes?
houroftower
Member
Any thoughts on how people think this will play on Vita?
I'd definitely go with the charge-slash, I've been using it constantly since I bought it. Doesn't take long to charge, hits in a nice wide arc and can take down lots of foes in a single hit.
The sword thrust is pretty neat too. You basically just tap X immediately after tapping A to dash and the dash will end in a sword thrust. It throws enemies back quite a way, and anything (or anyone) they hit will cause them damage and also deal damage.
The game really makes it hard to choose since you gotta work for the upgrade chips so this helps a little. Thanks!