Spitmaw i thought was a 1 star weapon but after the tower dlc i gave it a shot again it is absolutely cracked now explosive spit is insane its crazyyy also pylon feels way weaker now best weapons imo now for the tower atleast would be a launcher with full auto a spitmaw a dreadbound and rotgland would be the gun you take if there aren't other 3
Yesterday I thought "gonna do one or two runs after playing something else". Ended up with a 3h30 hours amazing run were I managed to beat Boss 2 and 3 and max out my health (for the trophy) Nemesis was one of most epic and craziest boss fights I think I ever played Then I ended up dying falling on an abyss LOL Amazing content
Finally. A Returnal video that covers more than the first two biomes. This was such a great breakdown. Made everything very understandable. Thanks dude.
Hands down the best Returnal instructional video on TH-cam. Keep coming back to it the further i progress to research new traits/weapons/Bosses etc. Thank you!
Great video. I’d like to add some things you missed. The level of traits for alt fires like say mine or the tendralipod gives you the number of mines or tendrils you’ll get. So level 2 you’ll get 2 mines. Or two tendrils. Level 3 for them is the same. You’ll get 3 for each. This also can be said for level 3 traits for coilspine. You’ll get 4 discs in some instances instead of 3. Spitmaw and carbine level 3, rapid spitter or rising pitch enhances the gun to a new level much better than level 1 or 2’s. The spitmaw on level 3 rapid spitter is crazy fast and quick reloading. The modified sidearms with level 3 traits is a God tier gun. Level 3 burst fire, ricochet and shrapnel will destroy anything easily. The ricochet shots bounce off walls and surroundings while the shrapnel explodes in hundreds of pieces. One of the best guns to use and a lot of fun. Rotgland can also be 4 shots with level 3 traits. Level 3 Tendril on that gun will amaze you how good it is. It’s worth upgrading Also on the dreadbound. Level 2 and 3 traits will make this gun unstoppable and fire much faster with no need to reload this gun is my favorite gun to use with high level traits. Expanding shards is one to look out for on level 3 traits. Fourth shard level 3 is faster and return damage is great. I never not pick up this gun after upgrading the traits. In the first 2 biomes this gun is hard to use because it is too slow. Biome 4 and up this gun is my favorite. The level 3 traits add a ton of more details you missed that make all the rest of the guns crazy good. Can turn most guns automatic and fast firing and completely change your rating system you have now. Love this game it’s super addicting. Hope there is a second one or at least dlc.
For Tendril Pod you get 3 at level 2 and 4 at level 3! If you couple tendril pod with any kind of leech effect, it is amazing at regen-ing your integrity back as it is dot if you stick it on a big enemy.
Amazing vid, I was looking everywhere for general info so I didn't keep having "WTF am I holding" moments when I picked up a weapon. This video had every bit of information I wanted - visual guides to guns & alt fires, practical strategies for use, rankings with fair pros & cons, ect. Even the the part of boss strategies was a nice touch. Gold standard for an informative video, keep up the great work.
The Tendril Pod is very underrated. It really shines when used against bulky and difficult enemies like the Titanops variations and the Severed as well as some of the bosses like Ixion and Hyperion. I'd personally give it 4 stars.
Small correction on the Pyroshell Caster's Seeking Flares: it doesn’t add seeking to the main shells, but adds multiple small flares after the first explosion that seek out the enemies :) it’s pretty great for crowd control!
Outstanding work on this video bro. Well done. The Tower Sisyphus is loads of fun and is a game changer for the weapon trait grind. Props to anyone who did it through the main game. Honestly, I'm impressed at the variety of traits and creativity that went into them. It really adds to the replayability of the game, which is already above average just on the strength of the combat itself.
Thanks bud! I was really looking for information on the traits but getting a rundown of all the guns was a nice bonus. I've only had the game for about 2 weeks and watching your video I realized i'm in biome 6 right now, wasn't really keeping track. Hyperion is also my favorite fight so far. Loved how the music got so dramatic as I got closer and closer to her. Favorite gun is definitely the carbine with Leech Rounds II but I am starting to really love the Rotgland Lobber (spelling?). Thanks again and I'm adding this video to my favorites. I guarantee I'll be rewatching as time goes on.
My pleasure! I'm so glad it was helpful!!! The Rotglad was super underrated but it's fantastic. I'm glad you're enjoying the game, it's a masterpiece. Thanks so much for watching!😄
Thanks a lot for this excellent video! I generally wasn't paying attention to alt-fire or traits when choosing a weapon, and it's definitely held me back. Time to go grind out some traits! ;)
Earned a sub. Great stuff, mate! I really want to master Dreadbound for the Tower. Shit is just so hard to grasp with it's high risk-high reward system.
I’m not sure if all of these weapons were reworked, or if you just didn’t bother to read the weapon trait descriptions when you made this video. Ie; Sticky bonus doesn’t make your bombs stick, they’re sticky by default, it just adds extra damage to direct hits. Simmering shot doesn’t give your bombs a DoT attack, it gives unexploded bombs a damaging area of effect. Leech rounds is a percent chance to proc with each shot, not “every single bullet heals you” Among many others, this info is all immediately available from the equipment screen
Excellent ***ALTHOUGH - I'd like to make one suggestion for your future videos that are similar to this one. I'd recommend not showing too far into the game. The info is awesome, but I'm only in the 2nd biome and I constantly had to look away as I was seeing enemy's and bosses but still wanted to read the stats. There were a lot of times I saw things (or cut scenes) that I really felt like were ruining the element of surprise in discovering those crazy bosses and enemy's while playing the game. Maybe for future videos stay within the first 25% of the game for background footage. Really great work and I'd like to continue watching your videos... this one element was the only thing that I thought others may have felt as well. Thank you for your content.
Yes. I wasn't even watching the video just reading comments because i saw areas never seen. My eyes were going back to video and didn't finish this spoiler video. So didn't finish video. Sad
As an alternate opinion I've seen so many videos of Returnal that only pertained to the first two biomes. The breath of detail in this one made it very clear this is exactly what I needed now that I am late game. Thanks dude. This was a great breakdown.
Great video. One thing that came to mind, I remember using the tendril pod on an automaton and when it was attached, I believe it made the automaton unable to attack, or at the least limit its move set. Regardless, if you use it, check it out and on other enemies to see what else it inhibits. Could assist you in combat against enemies that shoot many projectiles.
Thanks for the informative video. Very well thought out and helpful. Eventhough I agree with most of what you are saying, I think every weapon in this game feels amazing and powerful. Depending on your playstyle of course. Dreadbound-Hollowseeker-Electropylon are my go to guns, when you play for a certain amount of time you just take your gun and go with it because it feels great. But not a single weapon let me down in this game. Excellently designed and unique guns over all. I am so hooked, now that I finish i don't know what to do 😂 it's like sissyphus's story. When you are used to carry the boulder(die over and over again) you don't know what to do anything else. There is this familiar feeling of loneliness, isolation and fighting everything with Selene with dark/hopeless rooms, It portrays almost nothingness and hopelessness of existing. In this vast and unexplored world, even if you finish the game, the feeling never stops. And you begin at Helios again. Unbelievable game, this feeling I didn't get from any of the games I played before.
I might be a bit late to the party, just finished the game on pc, i personally love the spitmaw, I used it up until the last boss, slug shot is a must for me and combined with a lot of stagger power I dont have to worry about any enemies attacking me back its just great
Great Video! My first playthrough I used the Carbine quite a bit, until I found the Pylon Driver. I used the Driver probably more than any other weapon, but after beating the game 4 times and spending many more hours just grinding and playing for fun to unlock traits, I have to say the Coilspine Shredder is one of my new favourite weapons. Initially i didn't like it much, but as you say it has a rhythm to it, and if you have good traits, and aim for headshots, it can finish off tough enemies, and small enemies quite fast. Also I love the Dreadbound! Really all the weapons in this game can be really good with the right traits and knowing how to use them properly. I've rolled a Sidearm with Charging Shot, Homing Missile, and Burst Fire that absolutely wrecked everything in B5.
great breakdown but only for people that don't play aggressive and play a more standoff playstyle of stay back and shoot. The perks and weapons you don't like are actually great for other players.
Great video thank you. Still plugging away on Biome 3, game consistently kicks my ass, just getting to Nemesis with decent integrity can be a challenge. Have the reflexes and timing of a bowl of molasses. Going to try unlock a few more traits. Glad Housemarque won those BAFTA’s, well deserved.
The Lobber quickly has become my go to weapon. I like to play cautiously so I just do the whole pop and shoot and let the rot do the damage from the distance.
Not sure how much the spitmaw has changed but I think you slept on slug shot. I got me through the first 3 bosses back to back. The slug gives you a sort of best of both worlds where you can use it on single enemies or groups. There is always around 2-3 "pellets" that fly with the slug, and with rapid and backsplash, it clears rooms with ease. Oh and negating discs for the Coilspine with alt-cooling or adrenaline! Nothing like shutting a boss down while draining them.
this game was great. the first boss seemed to be the hardest for me. took forever and nearly wanted to give up. but once it got past I was able to kill each boss on the first try. and once I found the lobber it was happy days.
Very nice video man love the info because I am obsessed* with this game right now but I gotta say watching your gameplay you are not dashing around enough you could avoid so many hits and adrenaline resets if you just dashed through one of those projectiles or rings.
Hollowseeker is definitely the best gun in the game. But I'm shocked you didn't choose serrated projectiles for yours. That's my favorite trait for that gun!
I know how loved the Hollowseeker is from seeing it appear in many "best weapons list" but I definitely dispute the idea that it's definitely the best. The Rotgland Lobber with just one trait, explosive rot, one shots the majority of enemies in the entire game. Even with a fairly low level Lobber with like 2 bars of damage, it literally one shots almost all the enemies in biomes 1 to 3 without having the damage over time effect even come into play. From biomes 3 to 6, and with a higher level Lobber, it's just one blast and some DoT, or two or three shots and some DoT. And because of the DoT which disables most enemies from attacking, once you tag them, even if they survive the insane one shot damage of lobber with explosive rot, you don't have to worry about the enemy at all with very few exceptions. Dodging becomes easy. A Hollowseeker needs serrated projectiles, portal beam, another trait like waves, and high damage stats to do what the Lobber does with just explosive rot, or even just one of the lesser traits like durable rot or caustic rot. And because you can fully charge up the gun in just over a second, even mobs of flying enemies like the ones in biome 5 melt just with the simple tactic of charge, shoot, dodge if needed, charge, shoot, and rinse and repeat. If the lobber had decent enough stats for splash radius, like four bars which really isn't a lot, trash mobs of even 6 or more all bearing down on you at once just melt in a hilariously short amount of time. This gun is hugely underlooked by a sizeable amount of the player base. I haven't played around with Dreadbound, which as I understand is regarded by speedrunners as the highest DPS gun, as much as the rest of the guns. But of the ones I've tried extensively, which is everything else, I'd say the Lobber combines low skill ceiling and extraordinarily high initial damage, followed by great DoT which most guns either lack or need a trait for, better than any gun and makes it an easy candidate for the best gun in the game barring the Dreadbound.
I'm surprised how much i don't agree on almost anything past the alt-fires in this video. The pistol's advantage is the ability to spam fire to burst out a LOT of damage, which means enemies down faster. You won't be constantly firing, so it doesn't matter. I'd highly recommend Snubnosed/Charging shot as that allows said high fire spamming to just be maintained. It's a weapon that opens up the more one gets experienced with the game and comfortable with the tempo of the field. The rifle is almost hitscan, and can target weakspots much better than other weapons (like the very popular hollowseeker). Rising Pitch, High Caliber and Leech rounds can exceptional, with Accelerated being the cherry on top. A high bonus damage High Caliber can one-shot smaller enemies which is a big thing. The rifle is absolutely the newbie-friendly/safe choice, with options that empower non risky plays, but i've been known to drop 'better' weapons for a straight up 'good' rifle just to use that mental bandwidth in dodging instead of fiddling with leading or range. The hollowseeker is only above the shotgun in 'meh' for me. The travel time makes me hard to judge when something is/will be dead, and the autoaim i find to be unreliable, especially for weakspot hits. I'm usually doing damage, but i feel like i'd do more damage with the pistol or rifle and be able to distribute it better too as i can switch targets exactly when i need to. It has great damage increasing traits though, but i feel somehow the damage always felt 'floaty, maybe due to the projectile speed and 'somewhat' tracking. There's just so many fast enemies in the game that also jump and dodge and stuff, that having 20 projectiles in the air suddently going nowhere feels like i wasted my time firing them. The only time i'd seriously consider it is when it's paired with higher auto-aim, so i can at least stop focusing on properly aiming and redistribute that to dodging. Same deal with the shotgun i find most useful in the ability to just run and gun, wide maw, piercing etc. Especially with areas with a lot of smaller dudes, when you're focusing more on range keeping and avoidance than taking down high priority targets... it's just irreplaceable minus a lightning alt-fire. Usually i tend to try to voidbeam or doombringer to it in that case so i have an answer to long range tough targets that i can't afford to spam shots into. The Coilspine is not really meant to be a primary weapon per se, as much as a very supporting alt-fire reduce/boosting weapon. The kind where you're at adrenaline 5 shooting off killshot after killshot nonstop. The rocket launcher's special oblite magnet does NOT automatically gather killed resources, it just gathers them from a larger range than the default. Also, very important, it has no self-damage, so using it in point blank is as useful as ranged. My favorite setup has nothing to do with the rockets and i pick thermite and autofire (or mega worst case), which makes it easy to lay down a lot passive damage on enemies while taking cover. Same deal with the electropylon, the most USEFUL thing about it is the ability to enhance melee and control areas with the damaging aoe as well as protection when going into melee. Melee is super strong and not that dangerous in Returnal, so with the blade boost and harmonizer+prot, you can shoot a pylon, go in for the kill and just eradicate anything around you while taking much less damage. It deals just fine when used 'normally', but i feel that's more about the strenght of the damage than the fact, like you said, meshing with any other traits. The Dreadbound is exceptional and almost top for me in situations where you can't rely on keeping up adrenaline or not getting shot. The returning magazine means that you can't afford to miss, and you get 'variable' damage in regards to how far you are from something. The fourth shard i find OPTIONAL due to the fact that you get stuff back so quickly in close range, all it means is that you can sustain better dps at medium range. Between both of the steals, the gun basically tells you "keep shooting me in close range and you'll be protected and do crazy damage".
Excellent in-depth guide. Only in Biome 3, yet to defeat Nemesis, love the Rotgland Lobber. Perfect for my, couple pew pews, then run for the hills play-style…;) I have a Carbine with Killshot at the door to the boss, so will give that a try, the Lobber as you said did not work, and the Launcher requires too precise aiming. Would be great if you could do a vid on consumables and artifacts. Subscribed, Thanks.
The Launcher with full-auto fire is terrifyingly powerful, and probably my favorite weapon to use on all but several edge-cases. One time I had it in a room against 2 Severed enemies and they were just too maneuverable for me to do significant damage to, and I got my butt kicked, with them teleporting around and whatnot. Other than that, Hollowseeker is of course amazing, though I think serrated projectiles is an amazing trait that doesn't always get the respect it is due, and I also totally agree on the Rotgland Lobber. It's a beast.
Strong disagree on the Hollowseeker... In my experience the rounds are highly inaccurate and have as wide a spread as the wide maw spitmaw blaster. It takes forever to take down even the weak enemies. It doesn't matter much that it has a long range if it's taking 4-5 times as long to kill enemies as it does other weapons.
Shit, gotta disagree with you on that. Maybe a base build but I breezed through my first run with Serrated Rounds III, Portal Beam II, and Portal Turrent. Game literally became a piece of cake after
Got to agree, I find Hollowseeker medio chore, at best, but I acknowledge that is my opinion. I wont pick up unless I have something worse. Dreadbound with expanded and explosive shards, Ill pick up over any gun. On last boss Ive taken down in 20seconds or less with Dreadbound. My List would be 1. Dreadbound (with explosive and enlarged shards) 2. Electropylon Driver (any traits apart from web as I dont like it) 3. Everything else. I would also say that a person should pick a weapon with traits you like over the level of the weapon. I've done Biome 4-6 with a level 15 weapon, simply because it was a Dreadbound with explosive and enlarged shards and have picked it over level 30 weapons simply because of the traits and how good the combination is.
Nah, I picked up a hollowseeker, ram through biomes 4 and 5, then picked up another and took down biome 6 including the final boss in one great run. It’s a great weapon if it has the portal beam along with waves.
I've been using the hollowskeeker, I'm on biome 3 almost to the boss, I thought it was best gun tbh, I only died once with pistol, one the first biome; I managed to to beat close to three with it. I got lucky I got good parasites as well, I've heard that I'm supposed to die to get the secert ending. But I've only died once, should I take multiple L's or naa?
You’re giving me vibes of someone who never gave hollowseeker a proper chance, and probably doesn’t have many traits unlocked, just ignores the gun everytime you find it
Just started playing Returnal, thanks for guide! A few questions: - the traits are random right? you can pick up the any weapon with any alt fire and traits? - how many maximum traits per weapon? - what affects how many you will have on the weapon? - is there some kind of weapon development? I saw if you kill enemies with weapon your improve this weapon but how it works? thank you ! :)
Its been a long time but I'll try to answer from what I remember: - traits are random - I'm not sure on the maximum anymore, but I know it increases the higher the level of the weapon - the more you use/kill with a weapon the more the weapon improves Sorry I couldn't be more help, it's been a looooong time since I made this guide lol.
I messed around for 2 days in first biom got to the boss 2 times and got destroyed. Than I found Electropylon driver with pylon web and that changed game from rouge like to single player. I took it slow grinned as much and listened for advice on boss to prepare myself. Took me 2 days for the run and I have beaten game whole game mostly with Electropylon driver sometimes with magic pixel of health (Ixion) . Namesis killed me cause it bugged at third phase, there was no body to shoot, I had respawn and change weapon to hollowseaker and won. Good guide and great game.
I'm not sure how it is on controller, but playing on mouse on PC Sidearm has additional advantage of actually firing single shots as fast as you can click the mouse, which generally gives you an effective fire rate about twice as high than advertised which I'm pretty sure references what you get when you just hold the button.
Great video my friend! I watched the whole thing until the end. I was wondering if you could help me understand a mechanic in the game regarding the freaking cubes... I know you place them at the end of each biome but how do you use the items you supposedly carry over to your next run?? I never see them again... I don't get it... Thanks again!! Keep making videos like this! You just gain a new sub!
Thank you for this super in-depth guide it was really helpful! I personally think having less time where you are shooting is one of the most important measures of a gun. It's why I would put rotgland over hollowseeker. Yeah, the hollowseeker has a big ammo pool, but you slow down while shooting and also have to both focus on hitting the target and dodging.
Got this game from ps plus extra and I'm loving it. I do suck tho and since I just started I find myself lost most of the time and I can't find my way back to bosses and biomes
I'd just like to add that doombringer is definitely a reference to DOOM the game and more specifically the BFG. The weapon does exactly the same thing that doombringer does
@@TGWhitta I am very grateful you made it, because of this video I went from about to return the game (no pun intended) to being a huge fan and now helping others on co-op.... you also helped me find my favorite weapon of all time The #DreadBound 😊 🙏
I definitely prefer carbine and hollow. I learned yesterday how great the rotgut can be when I played the daily challenge so I'll try that. I beat the game with the hollow though and the void beam, so I'm partial to those bad boys
I absolutely love how incredibly thorough thorough were with this video. I may have just beaten it for the first time but I appreciate the incredible amount of work you put into this That said, Hollowseeker w/ Portal Turret AND Laser were what won me the final fight. Was close as hell but I can't help but wonder if my carbine w/ leech that that swapped out on a whim would have Faired better or not. That said, again. Wonderfully well made vid
Proximity mine, and Blast shell can break shields, just like Doombringer and Shieldbreaker. So If you take that in account they aren't that useless. Shielded enemies aren't that mobile and if you aim 45° upward the Proximity mine has a decent rage. You can lure shielded mobile units into it and disable their shield from a safe spot. Still not the best but there are situations where it excels. Blast shell is a version of Shieldbreaker and in some situation even better.
Had a lot a trouble in Biome 3 (beat Nemesis on my 1st try), but the moment i unlocked Pylon Driver and Adrenaline Leech, the game simply changed and now i’m after the Platinum 😂
Which weapon to use in every boss fight Phrike - Rotgland lobber ixion - Rotgland lobber Nemesis - Rotgland lobber Hyperion - Rotgland lobber Ophion - Rotgland lobber
I’m way behind but I love this game. The only thing I’m seeing that no one is mentioning is that blast shell does drop shields. I use It as a way to drop them on turrets as I’m working my way close.
Thank you for putting this together! I have a super noob question. Does the weapon level only effect how many points the weapon gets across the three traits? (This is my first day playing, but it seemed hard to believe that a level 2 and 11 sidearm could have the same base damage if they only have 1 point in Bonus Damage)
i dont agree about the carbine, rising pitch 3, leech rounds 3 and hyper accurate doest more than enough damage and the sustain is nuts without depending on no getting hit for adrenaline leech, to me its one of the safest weapons for bosses and pretty good for clearing levels even though its not the best in terms of dps or raw dmg
I wish you would go into what each of the traits mean as well for example for the hollowseeker it says "reactivity" or something to that effect which I don't know how that translates for the weapon. There isn't a lot of these strange attributes but otherwise great video.
I realized after the fact that I probably could have gone into more detail of stuff like that. But I was just happy to finally get this beast of a video done, so much work lol. Thanks for watching!
Electropylon driver is without a doubt the best. I had a level 5 pylon driver that I obtained in biome 1 and proceeded to shred through Biomes 2 and Biomes 3 passing up much higher level guns and easily handling nemesis
My favourite is hollowseeker for sure, but at the time I played returnal around launch Selene's bodies didnt show up in the game like I have seen from playthroughs people have done after me as the game was still getting patches frequently so yeah its been a minute. I found the hollowseeker works perfectly fine against really anything but Nemesis. its not useless and I dont remember why exactly, but the thermogenic launcher made the entire ordeal a whole lot easier for me and it could very well be as TG says about the subsequent stages in this boss fight where nemesis moves about and puts distance between itself and the player. So for me going off my memory a good run would be getting the hollowseeker in an early biome and stick with it through the rest of the game with the exception that I would drop it at some point in biome 3 for a thermo launcher before facing nemesis. The game is getting a PC version and Im hoping it is a good port, this game is amazing even more so now that the biome 3 drones have been nerfed or so I heard at least. I wouldnt mind picking it up again at some point if the pc port is reasonably good. stellar game! The drones at launch though, who knew the real antoganist were the drones in biome 3, I used to joke that the final boss would be just a swarm, like 80 of these drones and its probably because Selenes Roomba set the house on fire or something and thus atropos, Selenes personal hell has op drones that represents her deeply rooted fear of cold, unstoppable, programmed machinery that moves under its own cold and calculating will. no emotions, no regret, not a care in the world.... just soulless circuitry, tracking its environments.... mopping floors and setting shit on fire. True demonic evil with unimaginable power and no regard for anything... The severed? they are angry, violent but deep inside they just want to connect. not evil, just fucked up and in despair... lashing out. The roomba and the drones, no true sense of self, no empathy.... it just does what it does. its a shell of a being, containing some sort of a vacuum in which only its design and its flawed, cold, glitchy interpretation of it exists... and also dust, hair and dandruff....
Timestamps:
Opening: 00:00
Alt-Fire Breakdown: 01:50
Modified Sidearm SD-M8: 12:52
Tachyomatic Carbine: 15:15
Spitmaw Blaster: 17:42
Pyroshell Caster: 20:24
Coilspine Shredder: 22:52
Thermogenic Launcher: 25:34
Electropylon Driver: 27:39
Rotgland Lobber: 30:13
Hollowseeker: 33:04
Dreadbound: 35:26
Boss Strategies: 38:26
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Spitmaw i thought was a 1 star weapon but after the tower dlc i gave it a shot again it is absolutely cracked now explosive spit is insane its crazyyy also pylon feels way weaker now best weapons imo now for the tower atleast would be a launcher with full auto a spitmaw a dreadbound and rotgland would be the gun you take if there aren't other 3
That's great but, Where can i get these weapons,
Most are random drops. Only a few have specific locations, and some unlock in further biomes.
this might be the only content out there that even has all the traits much less packaged in an easy to follow time stamped video! thank you
My pleasure! Glad I could help, thanks for watching
Yesterday I thought "gonna do one or two runs after playing something else".
Ended up with a 3h30 hours amazing run were I managed to beat Boss 2 and 3 and max out my health (for the trophy)
Nemesis was one of most epic and craziest boss fights I think I ever played
Then I ended up dying falling on an abyss LOL
Amazing content
Finally. A Returnal video that covers more than the first two biomes. This was such a great breakdown. Made everything very understandable. Thanks dude.
Hands down the best Returnal instructional video on TH-cam. Keep coming back to it the further i progress to research new traits/weapons/Bosses etc. Thank you!
Great video. I’d like to add some things you missed.
The level of traits for alt fires like say mine or the tendralipod gives you the number of mines or tendrils you’ll get.
So level 2 you’ll get 2 mines. Or two tendrils. Level 3 for them is the same. You’ll get 3 for each.
This also can be said for level 3 traits for coilspine. You’ll get 4 discs in some instances instead of 3. Spitmaw and carbine level 3, rapid spitter or rising pitch enhances the gun to a new level much better than level 1 or 2’s. The spitmaw on level 3 rapid spitter is crazy fast and quick reloading.
The modified sidearms with level 3 traits is a God tier gun. Level 3 burst fire, ricochet and shrapnel will destroy anything easily. The ricochet shots bounce off walls and surroundings while the shrapnel explodes in hundreds of pieces. One of the best guns to use and a lot of fun.
Rotgland can also be 4 shots with level 3 traits. Level 3 Tendril on that gun will amaze you how good it is. It’s worth upgrading
Also on the dreadbound. Level 2 and 3 traits will make this gun unstoppable and fire much faster with no need to reload this gun is my favorite gun to use with high level traits. Expanding shards is one to look out for on level 3 traits. Fourth shard level 3 is faster and return damage is great. I never not pick up this gun after upgrading the traits.
In the first 2 biomes this gun is hard to use because it is too slow. Biome 4 and up this gun is my favorite.
The level 3 traits add a ton of more details you missed that make all the rest of the guns crazy good. Can turn most guns automatic and fast firing and completely change your rating system you have now.
Love this game it’s super addicting. Hope there is a second one or at least dlc.
Amazing info!!! Thanks for covering this stuff. I did not know about several of the level 3 trait information. Appreciate the additions my friend!
@@TGWhitta try to get them all took about 180hrs 😸
For Tendril Pod you get 3 at level 2 and 4 at level 3! If you couple tendril pod with any kind of leech effect, it is amazing at regen-ing your integrity back as it is dot if you stick it on a big enemy.
@@donotseemecricket yea I forget which amount you get for the traits. It’s the same thing with the land mine alt fire.
So how do you know if you're leveling up on the level of the traits .
Amazing vid, I was looking everywhere for general info so I didn't keep having "WTF am I holding" moments when I picked up a weapon. This video had every bit of information I wanted - visual guides to guns & alt fires, practical strategies for use, rankings with fair pros & cons, ect. Even the the part of boss strategies was a nice touch. Gold standard for an informative video, keep up the great work.
Just started playing Returnal not long ago and having a blast. I’ve been missing out. Thanks for this helpful guide! Well deserved new sub!! 😜
The Tendril Pod is very underrated. It really shines when used against bulky and difficult enemies like the Titanops variations and the Severed as well as some of the bosses like Ixion and Hyperion. I'd personally give it 4 stars.
such a gamechanger. love tendrilpod and doombringer.
Agreed tendrilpod is so good.
never tried playing with rotgland, not anymore after this video. Good vid bro.
I hope you like the lobber. It doesn't seem great when you first find it, but it becomes unstoppable!
Thanks for watching!!
I struggled a lot to beat ixion and I mean A LOT! Then I unlocked the rotgland and finished the game in the next 6 hours of playing! Real story bro
I loved the rotgland when I had to face the automatons. That was the best weapon for them
Small correction on the Pyroshell Caster's Seeking Flares: it doesn’t add seeking to the main shells, but adds multiple small flares after the first explosion that seek out the enemies :) it’s pretty great for crowd control!
Excellent write up. Thank you for taking the time. High quality.
Outstanding work on this video bro. Well done.
The Tower Sisyphus is loads of fun and is a game changer for the weapon trait grind. Props to anyone who did it through the main game.
Honestly, I'm impressed at the variety of traits and creativity that went into them. It really adds to the replayability of the game, which is already above average just on the strength of the combat itself.
Thanks bud! I was really looking for information on the traits but getting a rundown of all the guns was a nice bonus. I've only had the game for about 2 weeks and watching your video I realized i'm in biome 6 right now, wasn't really keeping track. Hyperion is also my favorite fight so far. Loved how the music got so dramatic as I got closer and closer to her.
Favorite gun is definitely the carbine with Leech Rounds II but I am starting to really love the Rotgland Lobber (spelling?).
Thanks again and I'm adding this video to my favorites. I guarantee I'll be rewatching as time goes on.
My pleasure! I'm so glad it was helpful!!!
The Rotglad was super underrated but it's fantastic.
I'm glad you're enjoying the game, it's a masterpiece. Thanks so much for watching!😄
How the f*** u get to biome 6 in 2 weeks? Have u even come off the game lol
just started playing last night. GREAT vid man
You’re incredible thank you so much for taking the time to do this
Absolutely my pleasure! Thanks for watching!!
Best returnal weapon vid on TH-cam.
Thanks!
Thanks a lot for this excellent video! I generally wasn't paying attention to alt-fire or traits when choosing a weapon, and it's definitely held me back. Time to go grind out some traits! ;)
Earned a sub. Great stuff, mate! I really want to master Dreadbound for the Tower. Shit is just so hard to grasp with it's high risk-high reward system.
Great video, nicely put together. You need lots more subs; this is good stuff.
Thanks for watching!
I’m not sure if all of these weapons were reworked, or if you just didn’t bother to read the weapon trait descriptions when you made this video.
Ie; Sticky bonus doesn’t make your bombs stick, they’re sticky by default, it just adds extra damage to direct hits.
Simmering shot doesn’t give your bombs a DoT attack, it gives unexploded bombs a damaging area of effect.
Leech rounds is a percent chance to proc with each shot, not “every single bullet heals you”
Among many others, this info is all immediately available from the equipment screen
Excellent ***ALTHOUGH - I'd like to make one suggestion for your future videos that are similar to this one. I'd recommend not showing too far into the game. The info is awesome, but I'm only in the 2nd biome and I constantly had to look away as I was seeing enemy's and bosses but still wanted to read the stats. There were a lot of times I saw things (or cut scenes) that I really felt like were ruining the element of surprise in discovering those crazy bosses and enemy's while playing the game. Maybe for future videos stay within the first 25% of the game for background footage. Really great work and I'd like to continue watching your videos... this one element was the only thing that I thought others may have felt as well. Thank you for your content.
Thanks for saving me I'm not even gonna watch
@@diegoholley5593 I just listened
Some if the guns you don't get in the first 2 biomes.
Yes. I wasn't even watching the video just reading comments because i saw areas never seen. My eyes were going back to video and didn't finish this spoiler video. So didn't finish video. Sad
As an alternate opinion I've seen so many videos of Returnal that only pertained to the first two biomes. The breath of detail in this one made it very clear this is exactly what I needed now that I am late game. Thanks dude. This was a great breakdown.
Great video. One thing that came to mind, I remember using the tendril pod on an automaton and when it was attached, I believe it made the automaton unable to attack, or at the least limit its move set. Regardless, if you use it, check it out and on other enemies to see what else it inhibits. Could assist you in combat against enemies that shoot many projectiles.
Doombringer is definitely a nod to the Bfg from doom
Thanks for the informative video. Very well thought out and helpful. Eventhough I agree with most of what you are saying, I think every weapon in this game feels amazing and powerful. Depending on your playstyle of course. Dreadbound-Hollowseeker-Electropylon are my go to guns, when you play for a certain amount of time you just take your gun and go with it because it feels great. But not a single weapon let me down in this game. Excellently designed and unique guns over all. I am so hooked, now that I finish i don't know what to do 😂 it's like sissyphus's story. When you are used to carry the boulder(die over and over again) you don't know what to do anything else. There is this familiar feeling of loneliness, isolation and fighting everything with Selene with dark/hopeless rooms, It portrays almost nothingness and hopelessness of existing. In this vast and unexplored world, even if you finish the game, the feeling never stops. And you begin at Helios again. Unbelievable game, this feeling I didn't get from any of the games I played before.
Great video! Very good explanations on everything regarding the weapons.
Thanks!
Great stuff, thanks. I thought was watching a channel with like 500K subs until I finished the vid and came down to the comments. Adding sub!
Thanks so much! That's literally the highest praise I could ever ask for 🤣😁 Glad you enjoyed the vid
I might be a bit late to the party, just finished the game on pc, i personally love the spitmaw, I used it up until the last boss, slug shot is a must for me and combined with a lot of stagger power I dont have to worry about any enemies attacking me back its just great
This is first class, thanks so much! What a game…
My absolute pleasure! I'm glad it was helpful.
Love this breakdown!
I'm glad 😃
Thanks for watching!
Great Video! My first playthrough I used the Carbine quite a bit, until I found the Pylon Driver. I used the Driver probably more than any other weapon, but after beating the game 4 times and spending many more hours just grinding and playing for fun to unlock traits, I have to say the Coilspine Shredder is one of my new favourite weapons. Initially i didn't like it much, but as you say it has a rhythm to it, and if you have good traits, and aim for headshots, it can finish off tough enemies, and small enemies quite fast. Also I love the Dreadbound! Really all the weapons in this game can be really good with the right traits and knowing how to use them properly. I've rolled a Sidearm with Charging Shot, Homing Missile, and Burst Fire that absolutely wrecked everything in B5.
Awesomely done. Greatly lays out all the game has to offer with guns.
great breakdown but only for people that don't play aggressive and play a more standoff playstyle of stay back and shoot. The perks and weapons you don't like are actually great for other players.
Great video thank you. Still plugging away on Biome 3, game consistently kicks my ass, just getting to Nemesis with decent integrity can be a challenge. Have the reflexes and timing of a bowl of molasses. Going to try unlock a few more traits. Glad Housemarque won those BAFTA’s, well deserved.
dreadbound is only for experienced players, but fully agree regarding rotgland robber - excellent weapon
This is the best weapon tutorial
TY pal
We are in complete agreement with the hallowseeker.
The Lobber quickly has become my go to weapon. I like to play cautiously so I just do the whole pop and shoot and let the rot do the damage from the distance.
Not sure how much the spitmaw has changed but I think you slept on slug shot. I got me through the first 3 bosses back to back. The slug gives you a sort of best of both worlds where you can use it on single enemies or groups. There is always around 2-3 "pellets" that fly with the slug, and with rapid and backsplash, it clears rooms with ease.
Oh and negating discs for the Coilspine with alt-cooling or adrenaline! Nothing like shutting a boss down while draining them.
this game was great. the first boss seemed to be the hardest for me. took forever and nearly wanted to give up. but once it got past I was able to kill each boss on the first try. and once I found the lobber it was happy days.
Great video man, you have definitely taught me a lot about the game ! Thanks
I'm glad I could help! Thanks for watching 😃
Fantastic vdieo man highly appreciated!
Glad to help you break the cycle!
you could also replace every boss strat with "Use Electropylon Driver" but i forget when it unlocks
Hardest game ive ever played in my life. 120 deaths and counting and only got to the 3rd boss.
Dayum. I died early on in the game a lot until I learned all of the ins and outs by really preparing for the bosses and didnt find it too difficult
Lmfaooo
You're doing better than me. Can't get past Crimson Wastes
Very nice video man love the info because I am obsessed* with this game right now but I gotta say watching your gameplay you are not dashing around enough you could avoid so many hits and adrenaline resets if you just dashed through one of those projectiles or rings.
This is what i really was looking for, thanks for the effort.
Hollowseeker is definitely the best gun in the game. But I'm shocked you didn't choose serrated projectiles for yours. That's my favorite trait for that gun!
I know how loved the Hollowseeker is from seeing it appear in many "best weapons list" but I definitely dispute the idea that it's definitely the best.
The Rotgland Lobber with just one trait, explosive rot, one shots the majority of enemies in the entire game. Even with a fairly low level Lobber with like 2 bars of damage, it literally one shots almost all the enemies in biomes 1 to 3 without having the damage over time effect even come into play. From biomes 3 to 6, and with a higher level Lobber, it's just one blast and some DoT, or two or three shots and some DoT. And because of the DoT which disables most enemies from attacking, once you tag them, even if they survive the insane one shot damage of lobber with explosive rot, you don't have to worry about the enemy at all with very few exceptions. Dodging becomes easy. A Hollowseeker needs serrated projectiles, portal beam, another trait like waves, and high damage stats to do what the Lobber does with just explosive rot, or even just one of the lesser traits like durable rot or caustic rot.
And because you can fully charge up the gun in just over a second, even mobs of flying enemies like the ones in biome 5 melt just with the simple tactic of charge, shoot, dodge if needed, charge, shoot, and rinse and repeat. If the lobber had decent enough stats for splash radius, like four bars which really isn't a lot, trash mobs of even 6 or more all bearing down on you at once just melt in a hilariously short amount of time.
This gun is hugely underlooked by a sizeable amount of the player base. I haven't played around with Dreadbound, which as I understand is regarded by speedrunners as the highest DPS gun, as much as the rest of the guns. But of the ones I've tried extensively, which is everything else, I'd say the Lobber combines low skill ceiling and extraordinarily high initial damage, followed by great DoT which most guns either lack or need a trait for, better than any gun and makes it an easy candidate for the best gun in the game barring the Dreadbound.
I like using serrated projectiles with retarget, DoT for everyone!
Excellent video.
Thank you so much for this!
I'm surprised how much i don't agree on almost anything past the alt-fires in this video.
The pistol's advantage is the ability to spam fire to burst out a LOT of damage, which means enemies down faster. You won't be constantly firing, so it doesn't matter. I'd highly recommend Snubnosed/Charging shot as that allows said high fire spamming to just be maintained. It's a weapon that opens up the more one gets experienced with the game and comfortable with the tempo of the field.
The rifle is almost hitscan, and can target weakspots much better than other weapons (like the very popular hollowseeker). Rising Pitch, High Caliber and Leech rounds can exceptional, with Accelerated being the cherry on top. A high bonus damage High Caliber can one-shot smaller enemies which is a big thing. The rifle is absolutely the newbie-friendly/safe choice, with options that empower non risky plays, but i've been known to drop 'better' weapons for a straight up 'good' rifle just to use that mental bandwidth in dodging instead of fiddling with leading or range.
The hollowseeker is only above the shotgun in 'meh' for me. The travel time makes me hard to judge when something is/will be dead, and the autoaim i find to be unreliable, especially for weakspot hits. I'm usually doing damage, but i feel like i'd do more damage with the pistol or rifle and be able to distribute it better too as i can switch targets exactly when i need to. It has great damage increasing traits though, but i feel somehow the damage always felt 'floaty, maybe due to the projectile speed and 'somewhat' tracking. There's just so many fast enemies in the game that also jump and dodge and stuff, that having 20 projectiles in the air suddently going nowhere feels like i wasted my time firing them. The only time i'd seriously consider it is when it's paired with higher auto-aim, so i can at least stop focusing on properly aiming and redistribute that to dodging.
Same deal with the shotgun i find most useful in the ability to just run and gun, wide maw, piercing etc. Especially with areas with a lot of smaller dudes, when you're focusing more on range keeping and avoidance than taking down high priority targets... it's just irreplaceable minus a lightning alt-fire. Usually i tend to try to voidbeam or doombringer to it in that case so i have an answer to long range tough targets that i can't afford to spam shots into.
The Coilspine is not really meant to be a primary weapon per se, as much as a very supporting alt-fire reduce/boosting weapon. The kind where you're at adrenaline 5 shooting off killshot after killshot nonstop.
The rocket launcher's special oblite magnet does NOT automatically gather killed resources, it just gathers them from a larger range than the default. Also, very important, it has no self-damage, so using it in point blank is as useful as ranged. My favorite setup has nothing to do with the rockets and i pick thermite and autofire (or mega worst case), which makes it easy to lay down a lot passive damage on enemies while taking cover.
Same deal with the electropylon, the most USEFUL thing about it is the ability to enhance melee and control areas with the damaging aoe as well as protection when going into melee. Melee is super strong and not that dangerous in Returnal, so with the blade boost and harmonizer+prot, you can shoot a pylon, go in for the kill and just eradicate anything around you while taking much less damage. It deals just fine when used 'normally', but i feel that's more about the strenght of the damage than the fact, like you said, meshing with any other traits.
The Dreadbound is exceptional and almost top for me in situations where you can't rely on keeping up adrenaline or not getting shot. The returning magazine means that you can't afford to miss, and you get 'variable' damage in regards to how far you are from something. The fourth shard i find OPTIONAL due to the fact that you get stuff back so quickly in close range, all it means is that you can sustain better dps at medium range. Between both of the steals, the gun basically tells you "keep shooting me in close range and you'll be protected and do crazy damage".
Excellent in-depth guide. Only in Biome 3, yet to defeat Nemesis, love the Rotgland Lobber. Perfect for my, couple pew pews, then run for the hills play-style…;) I have a Carbine with Killshot at the door to the boss, so will give that a try, the Lobber as you said did not work, and the Launcher requires too precise aiming.
Would be great if you could do a vid on consumables and artifacts. Subscribed, Thanks.
Rotgland torches nemesis, just charge shots up. The damage over time can tick the whole fight and it's over fast.
The Launcher with full-auto fire is terrifyingly powerful, and probably my favorite weapon to use on all but several edge-cases. One time I had it in a room against 2 Severed enemies and they were just too maneuverable for me to do significant damage to, and I got my butt kicked, with them teleporting around and whatnot. Other than that, Hollowseeker is of course amazing, though I think serrated projectiles is an amazing trait that doesn't always get the respect it is due, and I also totally agree on the Rotgland Lobber. It's a beast.
Serrated Hollowseeker is great.
30:13 Finally someone acknowledges the Rotgland! This gun is amazing especially if you're doing an overload build
Agree!
This is an AMAZING video. Thank you so much!
Happy to help!
Jus found ya. Great minds think alike. Kudos to ya. Happy new year
Glad you enjoyed the vid! Happy 2024
Great. Hollowseeker is my favorite
Good choice!
Strong disagree on the Hollowseeker... In my experience the rounds are highly inaccurate and have as wide a spread as the wide maw spitmaw blaster. It takes forever to take down even the weak enemies. It doesn't matter much that it has a long range if it's taking 4-5 times as long to kill enemies as it does other weapons.
Shit, gotta disagree with you on that. Maybe a base build but I breezed through my first run with Serrated Rounds III, Portal Beam II, and Portal Turrent. Game literally became a piece of cake after
Got to agree, I find Hollowseeker medio chore, at best, but I acknowledge that is my opinion. I wont pick up unless I have something worse. Dreadbound with expanded and explosive shards, Ill pick up over any gun. On last boss Ive taken down in 20seconds or less with Dreadbound. My List would be
1. Dreadbound (with explosive and enlarged shards)
2. Electropylon Driver (any traits apart from web as I dont like it)
3. Everything else.
I would also say that a person should pick a weapon with traits you like over the level of the weapon. I've done Biome 4-6 with a level 15 weapon, simply because it was a Dreadbound with explosive and enlarged shards and have picked it over level 30 weapons simply because of the traits and how good the combination is.
Nah, I picked up a hollowseeker, ram through biomes 4 and 5, then picked up another and took down biome 6 including the final boss in one great run. It’s a great weapon if it has the portal beam along with waves.
I've been using the hollowskeeker, I'm on biome 3 almost to the boss, I thought it was best gun tbh, I only died once with pistol, one the first biome; I managed to to beat close to three with it. I got lucky I got good parasites as well, I've heard that I'm supposed to die to get the secert ending. But I've only died once, should I take multiple L's or naa?
You’re giving me vibes of someone who never gave hollowseeker a proper chance, and probably doesn’t have many traits unlocked, just ignores the gun everytime you find it
Just started playing Returnal, thanks for guide!
A few questions:
- the traits are random right? you can pick up the any weapon with any alt fire and traits?
- how many maximum traits per weapon?
- what affects how many you will have on the weapon?
- is there some kind of weapon development? I saw if you kill enemies with weapon your improve this weapon but how it works?
thank you ! :)
Its been a long time but I'll try to answer from what I remember:
- traits are random
- I'm not sure on the maximum anymore, but I know it increases the higher the level of the weapon
- the more you use/kill with a weapon the more the weapon improves
Sorry I couldn't be more help, it's been a looooong time since I made this guide lol.
Best Returnal weapon guide out there !
Thanks! Happy to help
@@TGWhitta just started the game so this has been really helpful. Keep up the good content.
You're too kind. Good luck my friend!
I messed around for 2 days in first biom got to the boss 2 times and got destroyed. Than I found Electropylon driver with pylon web and that changed game from rouge like to single player. I took it slow grinned as much and listened for advice on boss to prepare myself. Took me 2 days for the run and I have beaten game whole game mostly with Electropylon driver sometimes with magic pixel of health (Ixion) . Namesis killed me cause it bugged at third phase, there was no body to shoot, I had respawn and change weapon to hollowseaker and won. Good guide and great game.
Great info, thanks for making this. I am in Biome 5 and have not yet gotten 3 of the weapons.
I'm not sure how it is on controller, but playing on mouse on PC Sidearm has additional advantage of actually firing single shots as fast as you can click the mouse, which generally gives you an effective fire rate about twice as high than advertised which I'm pretty sure references what you get when you just hold the button.
I would like to add a very specific kind of God Roll Gun: carabine with leech rounds 3. Each proc heals not much less than small siphilum.
Great video my friend! I watched the whole thing until the end. I was wondering if you could help me understand a mechanic in the game regarding the freaking cubes... I know you place them at the end of each biome but how do you use the items you supposedly carry over to your next run?? I never see them again... I don't get it... Thanks again!! Keep making videos like this! You just gain a new sub!
Thank you for this super in-depth guide it was really helpful! I personally think having less time where you are shooting is one of the most important measures of a gun. It's why I would put rotgland over hollowseeker. Yeah, the hollowseeker has a big ammo pool, but you slow down while shooting and also have to both focus on hitting the target and dodging.
Got this game from ps plus extra and I'm loving it. I do suck tho and since I just started I find myself lost most of the time and I can't find my way back to bosses and biomes
Nice video. Appreciate the time you took
I'd just like to add that doombringer is definitely a reference to DOOM the game and more specifically the BFG. The weapon does exactly the same thing that doombringer does
Took down the final boss with 3 Doombringer III shots. Had alt-fire overload cd to be able to do it.
Pretty cool guide! I wish someone would make one for all the artifacts
If I ever find them all I will 😋😋
Thank you for making this video, I have shared this with others who love #Returnal
Im so glad you enjoyed it!!
@@TGWhitta I am very grateful you made it, because of this video I went from about to return the game (no pun intended) to being a huge fan and now helping others on co-op.... you also helped me find my favorite weapon of all time The #DreadBound 😊 🙏
I definitely prefer carbine and hollow. I learned yesterday how great the rotgut can be when I played the daily challenge so I'll try that. I beat the game with the hollow though and the void beam, so I'm partial to those bad boys
Pyroshell and Electropylon are the way to go.
Great video dude
YOOOOOO doombringer is a reference to the BFG from doom that's so fucking cool
I absolutely love how incredibly thorough thorough were with this video. I may have just beaten it for the first time but I appreciate the incredible amount of work you put into this
That said, Hollowseeker w/ Portal Turret AND Laser were what won me the final fight. Was close as hell but I can't help but wonder if my carbine w/ leech that that swapped out on a whim would have Faired better or not. That said, again. Wonderfully well made vid
Thank so so much! I really appreciate it. Glad you enjoyed it!
Proximity mine, and Blast shell can break shields, just like Doombringer and Shieldbreaker. So If you take that in account they aren't that useless. Shielded enemies aren't that mobile and if you aim 45° upward the Proximity mine has a decent rage. You can lure shielded mobile units into it and disable their shield from a safe spot.
Still not the best but there are situations where it excels.
Blast shell is a version of Shieldbreaker and in some situation even better.
Also The Armor piercing trait of the Tachyomatic carabine makes some of your shots with it break shields.
Had a lot a trouble in Biome 3 (beat Nemesis on my 1st try), but the moment i unlocked Pylon Driver and Adrenaline Leech, the game simply changed and now i’m after the Platinum 😂
Much thanks for the info & the effort bro 👍
You're welcome. Thanks for watching!
Brilliant video
Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed it.
Which weapon to use in every boss fight
Phrike - Rotgland lobber
ixion - Rotgland lobber
Nemesis - Rotgland lobber
Hyperion - Rotgland lobber
Ophion - Rotgland lobber
Awesome vid
I’m way behind but I love this game. The only thing I’m seeing that no one is mentioning is that blast shell does drop shields. I use It as a way to drop them on turrets as I’m working my way close.
I love using Prox -Mine. Thats one of my fav Alts.
Thank you for putting this together! I have a super noob question. Does the weapon level only effect how many points the weapon gets across the three traits? (This is my first day playing, but it seemed hard to believe that a level 2 and 11 sidearm could have the same base damage if they only have 1 point in Bonus Damage)
great vid, very informative
Outstanding video!!!
i dont agree about the carbine, rising pitch 3, leech rounds 3 and hyper accurate doest more than enough damage and the sustain is nuts without depending on no getting hit for adrenaline leech, to me its one of the safest weapons for bosses and pretty good for clearing levels even though its not the best in terms of dps or raw dmg
Phasing rounds with adrenaline 2 is so dope if you don’t care about obolites as much, just shoot everyone before you even enter the room lol
Thank you so much for this video, this was incredibly helpful
My pleasure!
I wish you would go into what each of the traits mean as well for example for the hollowseeker it says "reactivity" or something to that effect which I don't know how that translates for the weapon. There isn't a lot of these strange attributes but otherwise great video.
I realized after the fact that I probably could have gone into more detail of stuff like that. But I was just happy to finally get this beast of a video done, so much work lol. Thanks for watching!
Great video!!
+1 on the launcher for nemesis
Electropylon driver is without a doubt the best. I had a level 5 pylon driver that I obtained in biome 1 and proceeded to shred through Biomes 2 and Biomes 3 passing up much higher level guns and easily handling nemesis
Excellent, informative video. Nice!
My 2 favorites are the Rotgland lobber and the electropylon driver, although i do like Rotgland lobber more
YOU GAVE THE ROTGLAND A 5???? NO WAY, I DIDNT EXPECT THAT!
I have a livestream on the endless tower with it, i was destrying with the rotland
Finally made it to the third biome and I haven't even seen half the weapons.
2:47 Lol that doombringer is totaly a bfg 9000 reference.
Got the game on steam
Excellent video
The electro is my weapon of choice for all the end bosses
My favourite is hollowseeker for sure, but at the time I played returnal around launch Selene's bodies didnt show up in the game like I have seen from playthroughs people have done after me as the game was still getting patches frequently so yeah its been a minute.
I found the hollowseeker works perfectly fine against really anything but Nemesis. its not useless and I dont remember why exactly, but the thermogenic launcher made the entire ordeal a whole lot easier for me and it could very well be as TG says about the subsequent stages in this boss fight where nemesis moves about and puts distance between itself and the player. So for me going off my memory a good run would be getting the hollowseeker in an early biome and stick with it through the rest of the game with the exception that I would drop it at some point in biome 3 for a thermo launcher before facing nemesis.
The game is getting a PC version and Im hoping it is a good port, this game is amazing even more so now that the biome 3 drones have been nerfed or so I heard at least.
I wouldnt mind picking it up again at some point if the pc port is reasonably good. stellar game!
The drones at launch though, who knew the real antoganist were the drones in biome 3, I used to joke that the final boss would be just a swarm, like 80 of these drones and its probably because Selenes Roomba set the house on fire or something and thus atropos, Selenes personal hell has op drones that represents her deeply rooted fear of cold, unstoppable, programmed machinery that moves under its own cold and calculating will. no emotions, no regret, not a care in the world.... just soulless circuitry, tracking its environments.... mopping floors and setting shit on fire.
True demonic evil with unimaginable power and no regard for anything...
The severed? they are angry, violent but deep inside they just want to connect. not evil, just fucked up and in despair... lashing out.
The roomba and the drones, no true sense of self, no empathy.... it just does what it does. its a shell of a being, containing some sort of a vacuum in which only its design and its flawed, cold, glitchy interpretation of it exists... and also dust, hair and dandruff....
With Rotgland Lobber you can pretty much cheese every boss fight.
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