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Title: Shattered Planet Guide
Post by: Jubal on May 15, 2016, 11:59:03 PM
Shattered Planet is a pretty nice game, it's a sort of roguelike for Android made by Kitfox Games. As I've recently finally finished all three of the plotline missions, I thought I'd write some notes on it.

Character Hints/On the ship

General Adventuring Advice

Fauna and Flora
OK, this section will have some hopefully useful notes on the plants, animals, and possibly also rocks that you may encounter.

BLIGHTS
The blight is the "time limiter" on SP levels and a major game feature. Every level starts with a patch of blight, which is a sort of unpleasant neural mental and physical disease organism. You cannot eliminate this initial patch, and believe me I've tried everything from explosives to unicorn tears (no really) in the attempt. The patch will then keep growing, unless halted temporarily by blight freezes; it can, however, be stopped by trapping it on a certain part of the level; if it no longer has a place to grow to it can't spread, so explosives are really useful there.

Any creature, more or less, can get blighted if it is on a fully blight-ridden square (if you or a companion animal are on a blight square you just start taking damage). Once a creature is infected with blight they will start seeking out the player and trying to kill them, even if they would not do so otherwise and even if the player is fairly well outside their normal radius for aggression. Blighted creatures also appear to be weaker and can usually be taken down fairly easily, though the mutants (at lower levels), or stronger creatures, can be really dangerous when blighted.

The blight also frequently spawns "blight vectors" which are little crablet-ish type things that will likewise come and chase you and kill you. These can deal some quite nasty blight-type damage, and you need good kit to one-hit them. I also think that companions don't usually attack the blight vectors though I may be wrong there. Ideally avoid fighting them, they give no drops and are just a bit of a pain. You can get a blight vector as a companion through the creepy diary random event, it makes a fairly good companion even if it is apparently a physical manifestation of your self-loathing. There aren't really any higher level variants of the blight, with the exception of the boss from the second plot quest, which is basically a terrifying super-manifestation of despair.

CRABLETS
Crablets are, in various forms, one of the basic life-forms on this planet. They have fairly basic drops, and can be tamed in various situations.

MUTANTS
These guys are the fairly sentient native species; it's unclear how many of their various attributes are down to mutation and how many are natural.

There are a fairly wide range of forms; the important things to remember are that a) higher level areas have higher level mutants and b) the purple ones are aggressive, the blue ones aren't. Blues will go aggressive if you attack them, or if they're hurt by something you do (caught in a fire you started for example). The blue ones that are armed will often drop mid-range weapons, and the purples occasionally have some really quite good kit on them.

ROBOTS
There are three main types of robot, found in the laboratory levels; a small guard-robot variety, the turrets, and the larger "security slicers". Slicers aren't that tough or fast for their level but do a lot of damage very quickly. The little guard robots do three different damage types, they're not super awesome but they're certainly dangerous. The turrets are some of the nastiest things in the game in some ways - unless you have ranged kit or a pet to take them out, they'll always get one shot at you before you can kill them which is an unpleasant drain on health. They'll rarely take multiple hits to kill if you've got decent kit, but even so, the damage is significant and unpleasant.
Title: Re: Shattered Planet Guide
Post by: Pentagathus on May 16, 2016, 01:07:15 PM
I opened this thread expecting a super edgy travel guide. Total clickbait.
Title: Re: Shattered Planet Guide
Post by: Jubal on May 31, 2016, 10:15:18 PM
There may be a travel guide section if I ever complete this! :P