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From the moment you take on your first sortie inSynduality: Echo of Ada, the game immediately throws you in at the deep end. While it will give you some advice, this typically only comes after a disaster. Ideally, it helps to know what you’re doing before you lose everything you’ve worked so hard to get.
Should you bring everything you need, or just the essentials? Should you pick up everything, or keep yourself light? Where’s the best places to found good crystals? The game doesn’t deign to share any of this with you, and you have to learn by experience. To save you some heartache, we’re here with some tips to help you avoid the worst that Synduality has to offer.
Don’t Bring Your Most Expensive Items With You
When you finally get something beyond the initial Jackbox Cradlecoffin you start with, or the puny assault rifle, it can be tempting to throw them all on and experience the world with a bit more ease. Exceptit takes just one slip up to lose those powerful pieces of equipmentonce again. You see, death makes you lose everything you have equipped, cargo included.
The item that’s safe is what you put in the Safe Pocket, though this is only for items in your cargo, not equipment. Insurance only gives you back the monetary value of your equipment, not the pieces themselves. So before you head out on a sortie,make sure you’re willing to deal with the loss of what you bring.
Manage Your Cargo Load
Like any game that gives you benefits from having lots of items on you, Synduality comes with a cargo limit. This changes based on the Cradlecoffin body you have equipped. What’s never removed is equipment weight, withthe more you have on you weighing you down more and more.
This goes up in multiple tiers, with your cargo weight UI changing colour from white, to yellow, orange, and then red to indicate the change.All of your actions will cause you to overheat more quickly at higher equipment load, and your dodge will carry you a shorter distance. Always keep this in mind in case you get caught in the middle of a firefight you’re able to’t escape.
In case of emergency,you can Purge your cargo to drop it and bring your weight down to the minimum. You can always come back for your cargo, provided someone doesn’t steal it first.
Use The Wish List
Being an extraction shooter of a kind, Synduality has a whole lot of materials for you to gather up. So many, in fact, that they’ll likely just blur together trying to remember the copious amounts of them you actually need. Don’t worry though,the Wish List is here to ease your burden.
You can save plenty of items to your Wish List, and when you’re out on a sortie,your Magus will highlight any items you need out in the world as soon as they come into your line of sight. This makes searching dramatically easier, and you can track them from the menu as well. Even better, once you’ve reached the number you need, your Magus will stop calling them out so you don’t pick up more than you need.
Any item on your Wish List has a small heart placed within its icon to let you know you need it too. This applies to crafting items too, withcomponents you need given a smaller heart to show they’re necessary to create the full piece. Always use the Wish List, it’s a massive time-saver.
The Wish List will alsogive you recommended places to searchif you’ve found items you need there before.
Gather Up Every Material
On the other side, you really should pick up every item you find. Common materials are, well, pretty common, but you’ll need a whole bunch of them.Any item of a higher tier, be they green, blue, or purple, you should make a point of always picking up, even if you need to drop common materials to make the space.
Common materials will always spawn andcan be stockpiled easily, while rarer items are not always guaranteed in the same places. Always make space for these, giving priority to rarer items over anything else. You’ll never known when all those Crawler Cores will finally be needed.
The rarities in increasing order are as follows:white, green, blue, and purple.
Be Careful Creating Your Magus
In Synduality, you don’t actually create your own character. You are a faceless, disembodied presence. Your Magus is your companion, and the humanoid figure through which the world will be presented to you.They are the very first thing you create in the gamepast the tutorial. However, the majority of the choices you make with them are permanent.
Some things, like clothing, make-up, and hairstyles, can be changed at will back at the Garage.Everything else though will require Remake Tickets, which are exceedingly rare. This means whatever skill you choose, you are locked with unless you use up a Remake Ticket. However,you can never change the type of Magus you create. If you pick a Grau but wanted a Locke instead, you’ll just have to wait until you get a Magus Reproduction Ticket to get a new one.
Bring Plenty Of Healing
Death comes quickly in Synduality. Exceedingly quickly. Every Ender you come across in the worldhas the means to kill you in just a hit or two, and you may be destroyed instantly if you’re ganged-up on. Bandits and other players can defeat you even more rapidly. It’s a harsh world, and not one you want to go under-prepared into.
Above all else,always bring a full stack of Repair Kits. While they’ll only restore around 200-300 HP each, this is about a hit’s worth of durability. A Repair Kit EX and Ace will restore dramatically more, so have one of these on hand if you think you’ll be at risk of taking serious damage. And always keep your HP topped up. It’s not worth waiting until the last second if you suddenly get ambushed.
The Cradle Support Magus type gives you a Magus Skill thatgenerates an orb that restores your durabilitywhile you’re inside it.
Don’t Go In Water
Despite Cradlecoffins being described as all-weather bipedal mechs, they are anything but. Not only does the rain wear down their durability, they are seemingly incredibly porous as well,not being able to survive even a microsecond submerged beneath a body of water. So seriously, avoid any body of water that you may.
The majority of the water you encounter in the Northern Zone will be shallow enough that it won’t pose a threat. The Southern Zone has a whole coastline to worry about though, and stepping in too far will lead to instant death. The game gives you no warning that water destroys your Cradlecoffin, and it destroys you immediately rather than slowly depleting your HP. And yep, this causes you to lose all your equipment too. Sodon’t take your mech for a swim.
Mine AO Crystals When It Rains
Your main source of income in Synduality are AO Crystals, massive red formations that are used by humanity as an energy source, as a freelance drifter, excavating these crystals is where you make your living.Better excavators are needed to mine the larger, higher purity AO crystals, though there is one way of somewhat circumventing this.
The rain. While it may have wiped out most of humanity and damages your mech, it also makes AO crystals more potent. you may tell they’ve been empowered because a red beam will shoot into the sky when it rains, and they will glow slightly more than usual. Excavating an AO crystal duringrainfall will boost the rarity of the AO crystals within by a whole tier. This makes every AO crystal that much more valuable.
Another fun tidbit - the colour of the circle while excavatingindicates the average rarity of the AO crystalswithin it.
Keep A Healthy Distance From Other Players
One of the rare things that Synduality will actually warn you about are other players. They are unpredictable, just as likely to help you as shoot you.Any item you drop can be picked up up by other players, the entire body of your Cradlecoffin included. It’s a cruel affair. So if you see another player in the wild, try to stay moving and not too friendly.
The majority of players are not so bloodthirsty as the game may make it seem, thoughyou never want to run the risk of getting to close to the dangerous ones. You don’t want to lose your precious cargo because one player decided it was better in their hands.
Your Magus also has a nasty habit oftelling you when a player has higher quality gear than you, and one can even tell you the value of another player’s cargo. It absolutely promotes killing others.
