Darktide Tricks for the early levels: Part 2

Even more tricks:

• You replace cannons a lot. Sometimes you need the inventory space, and you wonder if you should sell the old cannons to the vendor. Don't. Store them on an old ship in your captain's log for free space. This also works for crew that you don't need.


• Most of the white cannons and crew are tradeable to friends. Save them, your friends will love the few gear.


• You can't trade "soulbound" units. Store them instead on your extra ships.


• Docks are buggy in terms of getting stuck. Stay away from the lumber while trading to get from being annoyed.


• If you don't spend skill points on other lines, you can have your first "class" ship at 15. Sadly, it looks like the first ship is buyable at 19.

Anyone want to see what a "Dragon ship" looks like?

Darktide Tricks for the early levels:

Here are some of the tricks I've learned that might help new players:

• Run 1 long range gun on each side of your boat. Even though it isn't the best damage, it sure is nice to pull ships from longer range, so to avoid getting multiple red attackers on you at once.
• The early crew are not too different from each other. Pick any medium range crew member, but don't forget to upgrade them as better crew is available.
• If you have "Saga Credits" to burn, the buffs are the best cheapest way to improve your ship. 30% attack speed, double experience and 40% movement makes the game much easier at early levels. I honestly never let those buffs go down.
• Medium range cannons are the overall best at early levels. Why? Because there are no long range crew. You have to get into medium crew range at the minimum to get them to fire. Most enemies at the low level fire mostly in the medium range.
• If you want a cool looking crew member, get the "Wight". These birdmen fly around the top of your ship and crossbow the enemy. Awesome.
• Don't sell "quest" items. Seriously, you will regret it. You don't need gold, you need quest items...
• Once you leave newby cove, you will find your treasure maps might not be in the first zone. Zoom out and look around.

For more Tricks and Thoughts:

Part 2 - http://sagathoughts.blogspot.com/2010/08/darktide-tricks-for-early-levels-part-2.html
Part 3 - http://sagathoughts.blogspot.com/2010/08/darktide-tricks-for-early-levels-part-3.html
Part 4 - http://sagathoughts.blogspot.com/2010/08/darktide-tricks-for-early-levels-part-4.html
Part 5 - http://sagathoughts.blogspot.com/2010/08/darktide-thoughts-content-past-29.html

Keep watching the blog for Part 4 and on versions of this guide. Stay tuned...

Darktide Thoughts? It's still Saga to me...

So I've been playing the Open Beta of Darktide, and have a couple thoughts.

Well I figure, this is a Saga game, so I'm keeping it Sagathoughts, and so be it.

I knew it all along. Video Gamers are the best employees

http://www.forbes.com/2010/07/19/career-leadership-strategy-technology-videogames.html

But there is a growing school of thought
that says game-playing in moderation, and in your free
time, can make you more successful in your career.

We're finding that the younger people coming into the
teams who have had experience playing online games are
the highest-level performers because they are constantly
motivated to seek out the next challenge and grab on to
performance metrics

Ebon Guards? Signup for Darktide?

http://playdarktide.com

So if you are like me, and are still waiting for your Refer a Friend Ebon Guards, and would like another shot at them: Signup for Beta on Captains of Darktide.

In game we've seen a couple people that are now looking to trade these rare Ebon Guards, so it might make sense to check this out.