Hey everyone
In this update I will explain the many ways in which you can progress and upgrade almost every thing in the game. One of the main game play aspects of Geo 2 is the freedom to choose how and when you level up whatever you wish to upgrade. The choice is yours and those choices are never wrong. Every upgrade helps in some way or another.
Last week I went into detail about the drilling system in Geo 2 and in order for you to successfully drill planets and make money you need to become stronger and more resilient to the many forces at play trying to stop you achieving this. In short you will always want to increase your stats!
Basic Stats
There are a boat load of stats to manipulate in Geo 2 however you have a small set of base stats that are key to progression. These stats are always shown to you in the top left of the screen, you can toggle this on and off if you want to. The stats are as follows...
- Drill Power - This is the amount of damage you will do to a tile when drilling it
- Drill HP - This is the amount of Hit Points/Health your drill has
- Crit Strike - This is the amount of extra damage you will do when a critical hits
- Resistances - Fire, Ice, Acid, Radiation and Dark. These are your resistances to elemental damage received when drilling affected locations.
Also shown in the top left is...
- Cash - How much money you have
- Core fragments - How many core fragments you have, spend these in the Coretrium perk tree
- Drill Tokens - These are required to upgrade drill components
- Geo level - Your overall level. This goes up with every bit of progress you make.
Upgrades
There are a huge number of ways you can increase your stats. The most important being building up your HQ. At the start of the game your HQ will consist of a little building with 2 vacant rooms. Luckily you are also given 2 room blueprints so you can build these in the vacant rooms. Each room has its own specific stats that when built are instantly added to yours.
The rooms stats mirror your own so you can see exactly what stat increases you are getting when the room is built. There are 2 further key bits of information to note "Crew slots" across the bottom, and "Crew Xp Modifier"
Each room allows you to place up to 4 crew members into that room, when adding crew members you will add their stats to the room stats and ultimately to your drill stats. Building rooms and adding crew members is how you get ahead. Crew members and rooms can be unlocked throughout the game and I will touch further on this in a later update. When crew members are in a room they will receive XP from drilling and the "Crew Xp Modifier" shows you how much XP they will get, in this instance they will receive and extra 20% XP! BONUS!
Crew Upgrades
As explained above crew members gain XP from drilling. Having crew members not assigned to rooms means they will not receive XP at all. When a crew member is stuffed full of XP they can be upgraded via the crew menu. What is important to note is that crew bonus stats unlocked through this process are added to your stats FOREVER regardless if the crew is in a room or not! These are incredibly important and upgrading crew members will make you very powerful.
Room Upgrades
Every room can also be upgraded 3 times. These upgrades do not give you stat boosts however they do permanently increase your cash multiplier. Once upgraded the cash multiplier boost is applied regardless if the room is built in the HQ or not.
Collection
When you drill tiles or collect items in Geo 2 they are recorded and kept. Every single block you drill is yours and has many different ways of helping you progress. One such way is by upgrading the Tiles and items themselves. Each tile has a XP requirement and can be upgraded 3 times. When a Tile is upgraded its value when drilled increases by 50%. So a tile worth 10 gold will now be worth 15 gold! Not only does it increase in value but you will also obtain a "Drill Token". Drill Tokens can be spent upgrading the drill many drill components you find throughout the game. I will explain more about the drill customisations and upgrading in a later Update.
Coretrium
The coretrium is by far the most important thing to upgrade in Geo 2. It is the very core (Pun intended) aspect of your success. Every planet you drill has a core, smash that core open to get core fragments. These fragments can be spent inside the "Coretrium" to unlock huge perks. These perks are percentage based and are applied over your normal stats. Things like "+10% to drill power", these are huge upgrades.
Also in the coretrium are 2 special nodes.
HQ Uprade - Will increase the size of your HQ by 2 additional rooms
Galaxy Map - Will unlock an entire new additional galaxy map to explore
As you can see these are very very important upgrades and should always be your priority.
Geo Level
Your "Geo lv" is your overall progression level. Every thing you do in Geo will grant you Geo Xp, drilling a planet core, upgrading a crew member, exploring space, upgrading a tile and much more. Every little upgrade will add xp to your Geo level. When this is ready to upgrade it will flash and clicking on it will level you up and provide you with great rewards.
There are many other little upgrades and ways to progress in Geo 2 that you will find as you play the game and every single upgrade no matter how small will help you progress further. Get ready to upgrade like you have never upgraded before!
Thank you so very much for your support and for reading. Stay safe
Much love
Anthony (Windybeard)
