Dead Cells - The Bear and Badger

Unlikely

Oh I love the sandals.

Tempy

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How the hell do I enable the one I got then?

It’s floating in the pipe at the spawn point, you interact with it there

Unlikely

I can hear the splintering of your teeth as you grind them in frustration.

Tempy

Not really, I just want you to be able to activate it

Unlikely

I was moran. Hadn't noticed the left and right arrows.

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Frosty

I had the same issue when I first unlocked them too so don't feel bad.

It's not obvious in anyway.

See they've added 2 new ares and 2 new bosses in the latest beta patch. One of the new areas and boss is locked behind the new 5 boss cell mode so it's doubtful I'll ever see it as I can't even do 4 cell mode.

Unlikely

I doubt I'll ever earn the second cell, let alone a third or fourth. I'm chuffed I finally got one, although I wish I'd screen-shotted my build because I was an absolute beast by the end. The last boss took seconds.

yourfavouriteuncle

I started this last night and it’s fucking ace. This has surprised me as 1. I think I’m shit at games, 2 I do not usually like random levels and c I beat the first boss after only 4 blasts.

These? Tungsten tipped screws. Actually, they’re very good for making a point.

Moot_Geeza

I thought I had above average 2D skills but it took me multiple attempts to beat the first boss.

Wookienopants

Got all the way to

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for the very first time this morning, got him down to about 10% health and then died. Bollocks.

Unlikely

I love what I can do with my head now. Discovered last night that I can

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tigersgogrrr

What.

Unlikely

Beat the HotK again last night. Forgot to take a screenshot again last night. Sigh. Still, out of three encounters that's 2-1 to me. Quite happy with that.

Cos

I've put about 3 hours into this now but struggling to make progress. I recently made it to The Concierge for the first and only time but didn't have a partifuclarly useful loadout so died when he was down to about 10% health. I can get through the first two areas ok now, bar the odd stupid death, but otherwise on the cusp of tapping out.

I want to give it one last push so any tips for weapon combos, what to buy/upgrade first and general combat would be much appreciated.

And just in case Muzzy is lurking in this thread, please don't give me the double g's.

Moot_Geeza

I haven't played it for much longer myself, but a couple of things that helped me settle in:

Take it slowly rather than pushing for the timed gates.
Always always ground pound from a height.
Traps and shoulder button weapons can be incredibly useful - once I started to embrace the traps and turrets I found myself progressing much more quickly. Let them do a lot of the work for you, there's no shame in hanging back while they clear a room, especially in the clock tower.
Upgrade the health potion top up first.
Focus on the red upgrade until the health boost is negligible, then pick from the other two.

This is noob level advice, but as you're only 3hrs in it might be helpful.

yourfavouriteuncle

Ground pound.
Fast melee weapon and some sort of ice projectile.
Upgrade your starting coins once you’ve got yourself a couple of health upgrades.

Full disclosure - I haven’t actually beaten the last boss yet.

Unlikely

Only ground-pound if you can see the ground you're about to ground-pound.

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Cos

Cheers, guys. Solid advice all round. I haven't used any ice projectiles at all so will definitely give that a shot.

Popped that cheevo a while back though. Sneaky.

afgavinstan

Yeah, ice em up real good and shoot in for the kill. Trap when needed. You got this.

Unlikely

I'm starting to attempt one boss cell runs now. Twice been defeated at the toxic sewers. This will take a while...

Unlikely

Opened my first boss cell door today, only to find

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Tempy

That’s normal

Unlikely

Ok, except I just found another one and it wasn't as described above. Maybe the odds are different behind the doors.

Tempy

Bah, I misread your post. Monsters have a chance of being in any chest IIRC. I was responding to the idea the haul was meagre, as I never found anything interesting behind a one cell door.

Time_on_my_hands

What is it with crossbows? Am I missing something? The just seem really crap compared to bows. Love bows me - sometimes I use the infantry bow instead of a sword if I'm stuck with a duff melee weapon and an ice bow as my second weapon.

Dark Soldier

Repeater Crossbow is God tier

Facewon

Time_on_my_hands wrote:

What is it with crossbows? Am I missing something? The just seem really crap compared to bows. Love bows me - sometimes I use the infantry bow instead of a sword if I'm stuck with a duff melee weapon and an ice bow as my second weapon.

They usually have a slight pause on fire. Think of most of them like a shotty. (the repeaters are nuts though, yes.)

Depends what perks and stats you're working on though.

Unlikely

Yeah, the repeater is ace.

Gremill

Inspired by Unlikely's exploits (I don't want to be the only loser not to have competed this!) and the new update I'm back into this. It feels different - a bit easier maybe? I got past the Time Keeper for the first time in ages and onto the Hand for the first time ever. Picked up a few new blueprints too.

Unlikely

Good stuff, Grem. Unfortunately, I've come to realise that making it to the credits for the first time is not much more than the equivalent of completing a tutorial. Just wait until you see what you can do

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Made it to the Concierge on one cell mode for the first time on my last run. Could have beaten him if I'd been a bit more patient.

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