I died with the first boss half down on my one go. He's pretty spongey. Then wasted spirit thingies resuscitating myself so wasn't able to upgrade much . Oh well, it's a learning journey lol.
I do like the gamble of carry on and lose some gem thingys v. back to base with the loot. Is that stolen from anywhere? Can't remember it in any other rougue like.
Playing also thanks to SG, who must be on a generosity binge. I like that some of the perks make big differences - massive increase to damage from toxic smoke, 3 dashes instead of 1 etc. Need that last one for the boss, but seems to appear randomly.
Defeated Lu Wu on m'first try today, that felt good. Then I went and died on the first stage of the next level 'cause I was interacting with a vendor and new enemies spawned in.
Finally best Lu Wu, and got 45 thingies so unlocked the starting chest thing. Only level 12 tho so a fair way before I get the second character & stop losing unspent soil essence which would be kinda useful for when you have like 19.
I got to level 20 and then either I turned shit or all the enemies got super strong
Do the enemies level up with you? I am guessing not as that kind of breaks the rogue model
(Well, in this case, it was a green throwing knife thing. Woah)
Walked into the first area in the next level and got basically one shotted. Game over.
lol.
Longbowmen can fucking do one.
Also, hadn't bothered to check if I could up settings, as it was looking and running great, but yay, turns out I can go pretty well max settings and 72fps. Sexy.
I dunno, I don't always dig adjusting it in fps games, but I was feeling like the actual guns where taking up so much of screen I decided to try wider. Glad I did.
ooh just had my best go yet! got to the third desert level. "Hero upgrades" are definitely useful, I'd missed those off to the side - most noticeably the +20 shield, and I got a +12 shield on top from a scroll, and had upgraded shield&health a little - all good. Plus some nice electric pulse power ups, and some +4 weapons even before Lu Wu.
Unfortunately do further upgrades, so very slow and steady after that lol.