On your long way for your master score you will definitely want to use your weapon arsenal efficiently. To figure out which weapon to use in different situations can be quite a challenge.
You can switch between 3 weapons and all of them are available for you right from the beginning. However now the tricky part: weapon 2 and 3 have limited ammo.
You will find ammo either from each elite which spawns each 10 waves or if you will be very lucky it can also drop from classic enemies.
Machine Gun
The only weapon you can use as much as you want. It has unlimited ammo and keeps firing in the direction where your cursor is currently moving.
Upgrading the Machine Gun will increase its damage and attack speed.
Refractor
Lasers should be in each solid weapon arsenal so we have them! Similarly to Machine Gun it keeps firing in the direction where your cursor is, however the range for shooting is limited. Useful thing to know is that you don’t have to be as precise like with the Machine Gun.
Still not awesome enough? You are right. When the beam hits a target, it can split to 4 more enemies. So it is very useful if you are in a bad situation. For example surrounded by squares or stressed out by arrows.
Upgrading Refractor does not only increase damage and attack speed, but also the radius, where enemies can be hit.
Seekers
Homing rocket missiles! Now we are talking! If more enemies are chasing you, homing rockets can get to the right use, because you don’t have to aim at all. It shoots 3 missiles on the nearest enemies. However the radius is even smaller than for Refractor.
Upgrading Seekers will increase your damage, attack speed and most importantly the radius where the missiles can hit the target.
If you are using Machine Gun only, we strongly recommend you to try the other ones as well. Key to a very high score has two aspects: mastering your movement of how different enemies behave and learning how to use all of your three weapons efficiently.
If you are struggling with elites don’t worry. In the next episode of Vectro’s Handbook we will take a look on elite enemies.