Dome Keeper is an indie tower defense roguelike where you split your time between mining for materials and fighting off waves of aliens, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:with some base management vis-à-vis improving your defenses and mining c⛦apabilities.
Though the game is simple to pick up, start, and even get engrossed in - to the point that hours might pass without you noticing, the game doesn’t go very deep into explaining its mechanics. For the most part, this is fine, since the game flows well. However, it doesn't exactly spell out the mechanics for you. ♏So if you want to be a master miner or at least avoid some pitfalls that might just result in your Dome being reduced to shards of glass, here ꦗare some things you should know before starting Dome Keeper.
7 🐻 Better To Return Home ꩲEarly Than Late
One of the first upgrades you should buy is the Hostile Proximity Meter because if you don’t, the only warning you'll have of approaching enemies is a blinky enemy icon when they are already attacking. The upgrade allows you to plan your delves much better and make the most of your time before returning home to defend.
With that being said, you shouldn’t wait until the meter empties and the enemy icon starts blinking to go home, especially if you’re more than a few blocks deep. When that meter starts getting lo🀅w, head home and wait in battle mode until the wave comes. It’s better to lose a little time mining if it means you don’t take free hits because chances to heal are limited and precious.
6 ✅ Don’t Neglect Your Weaponry
While it might be tempting to go whole-hog into buffing your Keeper or your mining devices, keep in mind that your weapon is your main defense against the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:enemy hordes and staying alive.
ཧWhile you’ll want to keep a good balance between the mining and defense aspects of the game, it’s essential in the early to mid-game to increase the movement speed and power of the Laser and the Slice, while also upgrading the Stab abilities on the Sword to the second level quickly. If you invest in these upgrades, you can coast on them for a while, while boosting your mining abilities and then go back and finish upgrading your weapons later.
5 Cobalt Is Mostly For Healing 🌳
The Cobalt mineral, which for some reason is magenta instead of the expected blue, is a rare mineral and one of the few reliable methods of healing in the game. Cobalt is also used for getting defensive upgrades for tꦗhe Dome, either damage mitigation or emergency health regen for the Laser and Sword Dome, respectively.
However, outside those two uses, Cobalt doesn't actually figure into any other upgrades or functions (unless you’re in Prestige Mode). So once you have both levels of the defensive upgrades, feel free to use Cobalt to heal to full health, since you won’t have any other uses for it otherwise.
4 You Need The Reflectဣion Upgrade For The Sword
The best offense is a good defense, a maxim that holds especially true for the Sword Dome. You might think your primary means of dispatching ran🐬ged enemies is the ranged Stab ability, but quickly you’ll find that unless you maxed Stab, or you use it in tandem with the debilitating fog ability of the Repellant, it’s not quite adequate for fending off a ranged assault.
However, even just one level of the Reflection upgrade will allow you to bounce back most ranged attacks 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:like lethal tennis balls, with a high chance to kill whoever shot them. Just keep in mind that it won’t reflect flesh globs or ligh🌸tning stℱrikes produced by certain enemies.
3 ▨ The Sword Turns White When It Powers Up
When you want to hit enemies in melee range with the Sword, y🅺ou do it by moving the sword around the dome to strike them. The distance the sword travels affects the am💃ount of damage it inflicts when it makes contact with an enemy, gaining more damage the further it travels.
That’s the basics, but if you want a more accurate gauge of how hard you’re about to hit, look at the sword. As it moves and gains power, it will glow white, reaching max power when opaque. This is especially useful when you havඣe a few upgrades on the sword, since you’ll find you actually need to move less to reach max power, and you can better figure out the minimum movement needed for maximum damage.
2 You Can Upgrade Gadgets♔
It’s not clearly laid out for you, but those nifty Gadgets you find in 𝔍the mines - Drillbert, Stun Laser, Lift, etc. - are not only super useful, but also you can upgrade them to be more effective.
Just scroll down past the basics to the upgrade menu🎃 to power up your Gadgets, usually with a combination of Water and Iron, and make them go from good 🧸to great.
1 The Amount Of Re𒁏lic Switches Depends On The Map Size
Given that even at the lowest difficulty and map size Dome Keeper is no pushover, you won’t find this out for a while but: the larger the 🐷map, the more switches are required 𝓀to unlock the artifact before you can take it home.
So, if the artifact is inaccessible 𝔉after two switches, you need to find more. There’s usually an extra switch per map size above the first one.