P.A.M.E.L.A.

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Tips and tricks: Part 1
By Pherex
This is an ADD shotgun blast of tips and tricks I learned while playing this wonderful game of dread and dying. These can make a life stretch much much longer.
   
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Tips 0 - 2
Tip 0: Be lucky. Do a good deed, brush your teeth, make your bed, donate to charity, do anything to nudge karma your way to help enemy spawns not be in your way and for you to find good stuff.

Tip 1: Be a ninja. The city is not your friend, the only friend you have is the darkness. Embrace it and make it your ally. This means your flashlight is your enemy. Every time you turn on your flashlight, you become a nightlight for murderous bugs and you are no bug zapper.

Tip 2: Be a ninja 2.0. Stick to short controlled movements, Widows have the hearing of owls and can find you in the dark. Pump your genome points into quieter footsteps and get the augment that lowers sprinting sound to the same as walking sound. Get the item that makes you quieter. Avoid the armor that makes you louder.

Tips 3 - 6
Tip 3: Ark medical is your home. No where else in Eden exists where the access to the main power, a power breaker, 3 different shopping stations, and a recycle station are within easy reach.

Tip 4: Oasis just outside Arcadia is your farm and home. Find a corner near that double door under some nice sunlight, and set up base. Farm your food, your money crops, your power for batteries.

Tip 5: Come here my little squishy... You are the squishy... Embrace your squishyness. Which means you don't fight groups, you don't start fights, you let the robots do your dirty work. You are a squishy scavenger bird that flies away at the first sign of danger. The sooner you embrace this, the longer you will live.

Tip 6: You will be my squishy... Cable, Thermal paste, heat sinks, offensive modules are the keys to upgraded gear. If you find it for free, all the better. But there are two weapons that when fully upgraded will melt most enemies at a long distance and keep enemies at a longer distance. Special variants of the surgical laser and the warden's fist. Both fit on you at the same time and flow nicely if you ever need to single out an enemy.
Tips 7 - 9
Tip 7: Roombas... those zippy little blue pucks are little gold mines. Lucky for you, they go down stairs fine, but get stuck going up; So they get stuck in lower areas. Stomp on them and claim amazing prizes. But don't forget to be aware of your surroundings. These little robotic fireflies will not clean up the mess you make when you chase one right into a split-jawed red armed roaring beast.

Tip 8: I am the night? No... closest you can be... is a cat. Be the most active at dawn and dusk. Sleep before the stalkers can show up, unless your oasis base is set up properly with a firing squad of turrets and appropriate equipment.

Tip 9: I am BATMAN? No... closest you can be... is a bat. Use your resource ping as sonar, enemies don't reflect back as the wave travels. If you have been a thrifty ninja veggie/fruit farmer, you can build and upgrade a sonar attachment for your gear. Hear that roaring or heavy breathing? One quick ping can show you if that was coming from above, below, around that corner, or in the next room ahead.
Tricks
Trick: Make a noise, punch a wall, jump, kick a glowing blue roomba. Then sneak away while everything comes wandering over to the spot you just made some noise at. With any luck, the seeker you did it near will make some new frenemies.

Trick: Focus on improving one district at a time. Having a district not run out of power is a blessing when you are about do deliver some fresh loot/veggies/fruits to get money to buy that last weapon upgrade for your laser.

Trick: Afraid enemies will see you when you fully patched up a district and go full power? Don't forget this... you have way better eyesight than them and can choose alternate routes.
Thanks for reading
Thanks for the time you spent reading my tips and tricks. Feel free to comment if you have tips/tricks of your own.

Good night, sleep tight, don't let the nanites bite.

There is a part 2!?
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9 Comments
Pherex  [author] 27 Jun, 2020 @ 9:19am 
@SenoMouri

I'm glad you liked it. Please give these guides a rating so others can survive.

Have you read part 2 yet?

As for passives... I'm not sure, I haven't tested it.
Whalermelon 27 Jun, 2020 @ 7:08am 
@Pherex

It's really helped out. I've gone from dying all the time to actively hunting for loot off hordes. Javelin and Converter do really well if you play carefully. It's the weekend now and I've unwound by playing all day. I hope more games come out with the same formula.

That aside, I do have a question now. When you get PAMELA passives, do you have to equip them to activate their effect? It'd be weird otherwise cause despite being PASSIVES, you can equip them to your ability wheel. So I was wondering if that was a bug or not.
Pherex  [author] 25 Jun, 2020 @ 11:50am 
@SenoMouri

Firstly, I'm really glad you picked it back up! It definitely does not play like other horror survival games. So my tips were more about changing your mindset to better fit it.

I just finished it yesterday and am putting together my thoughts before making a new guide to compliment this one. I actually want to go back in and have the city fully powered and turn Oasis into a superbase to the best of my ability. Maybe that "Defiant" Charm will be of use when I have 6 tier 3 turrets. The best renewable resources in game are the shops, veggies, and bodies.
Whalermelon 24 Jun, 2020 @ 7:11pm 
@Pherex

I'm actually on my way to power up one district since my last comment, if you could believe it. I haven't stopped playing since I picked it up again. Even have half of the upgrades through my blade weapon.

Thanks, seriously. I'm glad I gave the game another shot.
Pherex  [author] 24 Jun, 2020 @ 5:40am 
@SenoMouri

Glad you liked it! I'll probably give an update to this guide after I finish the game. So far these tips have kept me alive on my first life. All my cryo bays are unlocked and I have at least two districts fully powered already. I'm just biding my time bouncing from shop and recycler stations to get weapon upgrades, cyanotubes, and battery backup keys.
Whalermelon 23 Jun, 2020 @ 10:48pm 
Love the list. I'll definitely keep them in mind. I actually stumbled on a roomba that was trapped in a lowered section. I didn't know I missed my chance with it.

I lost all my stuff a while back after waking up in Rehab and dying. I was about to give up since i died again and I don't think all my corpses stick around. But I think I could give the game another session knowing all this now. If you have more tips, please make another post. I'd like to hear what other tips you might have.
Pherex  [author] 17 May, 2020 @ 10:15pm 
But thank you for the feedback, Please rate it so others give it a looksee.
Pherex  [author] 17 May, 2020 @ 10:15pm 
I tried to put some humor in there but these tips and tricks work despite any level of difficulty for the most part. At this point I'm farming enemies to unlock all the physical augments.
Level 33 Milk 16 May, 2020 @ 8:01pm 
great list, thanks much!