Dark Light: Survivor is a recently released roguelike with a very unique gameplay feature. It allows you to shift perspectives from third-person to top-down view seamlessly during gameplay. This gives players a different visual style, and they can keep shifting it around to their liking. For more information, you can visit the official Steam page here.
This guide consists of useful tips and tricks that will help your beginner’s journey in Dark Light: Survivor. Surviving hordes of enemies and mini-bosses before you face the main boss is always the main goal.
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Never Stop Moving
Movement is key in Dark Light: Survivor, and you should never stop traversing around at any given point. Effective crowd control is really helpful, especially when you’re deep into your runs, and your screen gets filled with enemies continuously.
This game has a dedicated dodge button too, which allows you to i-frame through most incoming attacks, given that there is a small cooldown after you use it. You’ll need to learn to evade at the perfect opportunities to get out of a heated situation when needed.
Sprinting is also available, but there’s a stamina bar too, which needs to be managed. To summarize, always keep moving to avoid getting overwhelmed by your enemies, and use both dodging and sprinting to escape when necessary.
Focus On Leveling Up
Increasing your level early on should be your main priority in this game. Try to pick up as many XP orbs as you can, which allow you to increase your level. You will be able to get a lot of buffs at the start of your if you’re leveling up quickly.
This prepares you to face stronger enemies later on. Always remember to pick upgrades that allow you to increase the radius of picking up the XP orbs and also increase your movement speed. You will be able to grab even more XP without having to risk getting hit.
Elements Are Your Best Friends
Dark Light: Survivor allows you to combine multiple different elements in your playstyle, so never be shy about relying on them. You can get a different elemental buff for different types of weapons and even a separate buff for your dodge.
Select a fire buff and keep building on it for your primary ranged weapon and put ice elemental bvuffs on your melee weapon on the other hand. You can even get buffs that allow you to leave a trail of fire while dodging or speed up your dodge using lightning.
The game even allows you to get various skills, such as summoning a lightning bolt strike. You can also get upgrades that give you an elemental advantage by beating your enemies. Like how you have a chance of summoning pools of poison every time you deal with a foe. Keep mixing and matching and upgrading these elements to make your runs easier.
Seek Out Totems And War Caches
You will be able to find multiple totems and war caches around the map, and these locations are marked as well. Keep opening the caches to salvage better weapons and better gear for your character.Â
On the other hand, totems allow you to heal your character or get upgrades without having to level up for both your character and your weapons. Depending on totems and crates to upgrade your character is just as important for progression as is leveling up.
Choose The Right Weapons
You’ll find multiple different weapons throughout your runs with different buffs. It is important to always have two different types of ranged weapons at your disposal. One that has a big AOE and allows you to clear multiple enemies at once, like the shotgun.
And the other should allow you to melt health bars while focusing on a single target, like the assault rifle. This allows you to deal with hordes as well as the mini-bosses in your runs. Don’t forget to open the weapon upgrade menu every once in a while and check if upgrades are available for your weapons.
Backup Plans For Health
Recovering health is really important for survival. Beating tougher enemies or mini-bosses has a chance of obtaining a health orb. However, there are totems on the map where you can purchase health, too.
Always keep the location of these totems in your mind, and they are marked with the + sign on the mini-map. As soon as your health gets critically low, you can run to these totems and regenerate quite a bit, which temporarily boosts your chance of survival.
This concludes our tips and tricks guide for Dark Light: Survivor, and we hope that it helps you become more efficient in your runs in the game.
You can check out the following articles for walkthroughs on various recent video game releases:
- Into Indie Games Homepage
- Aphelion – Walkthrough Hub
- Saros – Walkthrough Hub
- Crimson Desert – Walkthrough Hub
