Tips and Tricks


 * Use your secondary! One of the most common problems new players have is not using the secondary weapon enough (Too Awesome To Use syndrome). In basically all cases, you should basically be unloading your secondary every time it cools down. Even if it's just to kill light mobs a bit quicker.


 * Your secondary always deals the same damage, it's not affected by reinforcement. Therefore, you should be even more careful to fully utilize it when beginning the level or recovering from a knockdown.


 * Be aggressive! Most Assault Androids perform better at close range. If you can kill your enemies quickly enough, you don't give them enough time to become a problem for you.


 * Listen to the audio cues. There are audio cues for weapon reinforcement, secondary weapon cooldown, and the state of your current health. The more things you're keeping track of with your ears, the less work your eyes have to do.


 * Keep a vague idea of which Powerup you last picked up, and use that information to choose your next powerup.


 * What color a powerup will be is based on the time you spawn them. If you can work out a consistent enough strategy, you can force the first few powerups to be what you want.


 * Accelerate is most useful at the beginning of a level, as it allows you to upgrade your weapon more effectively.


 * Firepower is invaluable against swarms of Wasps, so if you know a wasp wave is coming, be sure to top it up.


 * Weapon swapping gives you a sizeable amount of invincibility frames, which lets you hop through lasers and bullet patterns, and even mine explosions without taking damage. You can cover a lot more distance with Accelerate, enough to hop through entire crowds of mobs sometimes. If a Shutdown is stuck in a crowd, you can hop in to grab it and then ride out the invincibility that Shutdown provides.


 * Manually swapping weapons after your secondary is fully heated is usually faster than waiting for the auto-swap.


 * You can walk straight through lasers at a right angle if you have Firepower. The drones block the beam.