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TopicNier for 20 bucks on steam?
s0nicfan
09/26/20 2:02:39 PM
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Squall28 posted...
The game is pretty fun. I don't really understand how healing works. Seems like I just automatically consume stuff in my inventory when I'm low.

ALso, I have no idea what I'm doing with the bullets. It seems way better than melee attacks right now.

You have regular healing items (small, medium, large) that you can buy or pick up and use manually.

The game starts you off with an "auto use item" chip that will use one of them for you when your health gets below a certain percent. Basically, you can equip a variety of chips to upgrade or alter your abilities, but more powerful chips take up more space. Most of the customization is picking the combo of chips you want. If you want, you can unequip that "auto use item" chip to add something else like more crit, faster run speed, better item drop, etc. You do all that from the "Skills" tab in your main menu you can create 3 chip sets to swap between. If you want, you can even unequip things like HP and map displays to make room for more upgrades.

More details here:
https://nierautomata.wiki.fextralife.com/Plug-in+Chips

Bullets are just a bonus thing you do to add more damage. There are chips you can equip to boost bullet damage and you can find 2 other pods in the world with different attack types (missiles and lasers). There's an "auto fire" chip you can equip if you're on easy mode as well so you don't have to hold the button down. Melee is ultimately where your real damage comes from, but keeping your bullet spam up over a whole fight definitely adds a non-trivial amount of damage.

EDIT: Also, for normal mode, you can use the auto-equip feature and have the game build a chip set for you based on whatever you have in your inventory. Auto-equip is perfectly fine for normal difficulty if you're finding the system too complex to start. On your first play through, most of the chips you'll use are found on dead bodies. Nier has a Dark Souls like online system where the bodies of other players will appear in your world sometimes when they die. Praying over the body lets you disassemble it for parts and usually rewards you some money, items, and at least 1 or 2 chips. Early in the game, this is often where your best chips will come from.

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