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For the most part, I deal with teleporters with really awkward, jerky movement that idk how to explain. I can say that I think when I don't have to get data, I mostly just click up-right-down-up repeating, not completely sure that's what I do because I do it rather fast but it works for the most part, either way want lots of shield and imperfect speed.

Killing them, I feel like the main reason my opinion on orbitals has gone up is because I feel like they're good specifically for them, although I could be mistaken, it's impossible to tell frankly. I'm personally not too bothered by bullets in general(because mostly they don't feel like they deal much damage and aren't hard to dodge unless there's a lot(typically a damage problem), which is admittedly a bad attitude), but just 2 flak feels like enough to deal with most all bullets anyways.

Now in unfallen with a name, figured out a better plan for getting data too. Didn't realize until that last nightmare clear that tractor beam gave full map slower pull at lvl 6(?), but getting that makes things much easier, safer and cheaper then just getting large collection fields and manual collecting until its maxed, even if reaching the big pull is more difficult for early-mid lvls, so you still want 1-3 collection fields, but it's much nicer once you do get it.

Well, I did get it, forgot to set my name before playing I guess though so I'm anonymous, guess I'll just have to do it again. Felt harder to get then it was before, not sure if my previous run was luckier then I thought it was or if I played smarter or something, either way. Some changes in what I think about items too, collection fields are much more necessary then I thought, flak screens and orbital shields are probably more important than I gave them credit for before, amplifiers and coolants might be too, definitely think some more weapons are viable to build around early, even if they're still not ideal.

Also yeah, I had a lot more trouble with teleporters then I did before, I thought I remembered last run just sort of running around a lot for data because I had not enough collection range and mostly being worried about lasers, now I worry about both of them. The run I just won is the first time I feel like I learned how to deal with teleporters, tbh.

In case you didn't notice, that's on nightmare. I maxed the weapons/gear at about 13-15 minutes or so, at which point I haven't moved since.

My rough order of acquiring was to try and max missile(it feels like the best weapon), get at least a few/max unstable cores, at least 1 railgun(best bossing weapon), 1-3 nanothrusters and tractor beams, max capacitors, max shield generators, and take data amplifiers and collection fields whenever the other choices aren't those(or sometimes when they are, use best judgement). Doing this, the couple runs before tended to last to 5 minutes, and died to either bad luck(not enough firepower and/or shields) or bad play(mostly due to lasers or greed). At about that point you may need to start taking armor plating(and emergency healing) for healing more often then before, ideally don't have to take it too much before then.

Whenever you're not offered any of the above, amplifier and coolant are nice, extra nanothrusters are never bad, flak screens and (maxed)orbital shields are good(ring accelerators also ok), I like photon beam, singularity and chain lightning, pulse cannons are ok(mostly since you start with it and the first few being decent), the rest I don't like to take.

Overall, fun game.

This doesn't feel intentional, since it completes the expected next section with one play, but you can do the bottom left section with just mid air jump and dash, you don't need to remove the blues to reach it and the only part that has blue(as I recall) is just the beginning, which you can just double jump from the ground to do(with a bit of difficulty).

Also checkpoint disabled didn't seem to work on that section, but now it is? Could be it didn't work before I disabled blues, but I feel like it didn't after I disabled blues once and every other time it does work so idk.