Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has launched in early aౠccess, and after nine years, gamers finally have the chance to see what Rocksteady has been cooking all this time. As it turns out, they've been making an incredibly complex game, with myriad systems layered on top of one anotherꦓ.

At first, it can be difficult to decipher every menu, stat readout, and icon appearing on your screen, but the tutorials do their best to explain how each aspect works ✃and why they're useful. Still, there are many tips that the game doesn't tell you which will help jumpstart your murderous supervillain career.

Experiment With Each Character...

Suicide Squad launches with a handful of playable characters: Harley Quinn, Deadshot, Captain Boomerang, and King Shark. While the game is 💜positioned by Warner Bros. as a live service and will add more characters in the months to come, the four available on release offer a diverse array of playstyles and abi🍬lities worth experiment🐻ing with.

Loot is the name of the game in Suicide Squad, and you'll be racking up quite an arsenal as you earn more and more guns after missions and via crafting. Not every gun can be wielded by every character, so your choice of preferred armaments will influence which character you like most, so if you're💙 into close-quarters combat and submachine guns, Harley Quinn will be your best bet, but if you want to keep your distance and po🐼p heads with sniper rifles, Deadshot's the character for you.

Each villain also has their unique method of transportation, and even though they're briefly introduced in the opening setpiece, you won't get a feel for it until you're in the proper open world. Seeing as you'll be spending a lot of time moving from one map marker to the next, you should experiment with all four characters' traversal options to see which feels the most natural to you.

Certain missions will have a party member who is particularly "psyched" about the challenge you are about to take on, resulting in increased resources and experience points.

...But Choose a Main

You should try all four launch villains to see all the game has to offer, but when it comes down to it, you need to choose a main. Suicide Squad does not share experience points between your party, meaning the only character you're currently leveling up is the one you're controlling.

If you're constantly switching between all the different villains, you're failing to make any significant progress in each of their talent trees. This will make the endgame grind even more laborious, as you will have to spend time getting your character to max level (30) before you can take on the game's most difficult encounters.

Choosing a main also ensures that you can meaningfully help in an online squad and with your friends. You will have the time to understand what your villain's strengths and weaknesses are, as well as optimize a build around your preferred playstyle.

Complete Support Squad Missions

As you progress through the campaign, you will rescue other characters in the DC Comics pantheon, and they will in turn offer their services to you, usually through some sort of upgrading or crafting menu. Their help doesn't stop there though; they will task you with missions around Metropolis which, if completed, will unlock new options and abilities at their vendors.

When these become available to you, it is recommended to stop mainlining the campaign and knock a few out. They will always say what rewards you can expect from them on the map screen, and they can range from new weapon recipes to completely new gameplay features, such as afflictions and being able to upgrade the stats of guns.

Abuse Shield Harvesting

Firefights in Suicide Squad are hectic, as the screen is loaded with enemies (many of which move at incredible speed) and you'll be taking shots left and right, which is why it's crucial to remember the game's central healing mechanic: shield harvesting. Not too dissimilar to Doom's glory kill system, Suicide Squad encourages you to shoot your enemies without outright killing them; this is done by firing at their legs,𒁃 at which point they will be highlighted with a blue aura, meaning you can harvest them for shields.

Hitting your right trigger will perform a melee attack, turning the enemy into a loot piñata and showering the battlefield with shield icons. This move will keep you alive in the most intense enemy encounters and will incentivize you to keep pushing forwa💃rd in combat.

Counter, Counter, Counter

Rocksteady's Batman games are famous for their innovative hand-to-hand combat system, which made extensive use of counters to ensure the player was never overwhelmed by common goons. While Suicide Squad has opted for a much more trigger-happy style of play, the developers haven't forgotten their roots, and counters make a return, though they work differently.

Hold the left trigger and hit the right bumper to fire a blue beam, and depending on the enemy, the counter can have different effects. Some will take damage and even die, some will be stunned, and others wi🍎ll have their weapons jammed, so hitting counters will not only prevent you from taking damage but also turn the tables on your foes so you can go back on the offensive.