r/Saros

Finally beat the game and had a really good time playing Saros and joining Arjun on his journey!

9/10

I used zero carcosan modifiers so will try to experiment with those while I go collect the remaining audio logs and texts.

I thought every biome was unique and fun in its own way. My favorite was Cathedral and my least favorite was Blighted Marsh. Cathedral is just such an aesthetically pleasing biome to play through and Priestess is a fun boss even though I died to her probably 15 times before finally beating it. Blighted Marsh I just thought it was tedious having to avoid the poison puddles and blue orbs that explode.

My only real gripe with the game is not being able to unlock all permanent equipments until you get to Yellow Shore. Especially since Blazing Strike is useful in many biomes.

I have over 800,000 Lucenite that I can’t do anything with? I just need Halcyon for the remaining upgrades.

But everything else was just fantastic. Hopefully a DLC comes out!

Game hits like crack I keep telling myself I’ll stop here but end up playing more and more 🫩 it’s 4am now I told myself 1 more run at 1am I hope the devs are planning a dlc/expansion of sorts can’t get enough

I've streamed Yesterday cicle, timelines: 26:08 and 33:48. When I fight against an enemy with integrity bar, it remains "disabled" in grey and I am not able to know how much integrity the enemy has left.

Did someone else noticed any glitch like that?

Thank you for your answers.

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Greetings fellow Carcosans. I have been doing a few different challenge runs since platinuming the game as I just can't seem to put it down. I've tried maxing out the Carcosan modifiers and playing through the game without using the armour matrix. Both of those challenges feel a bit unbalanced though with the enemies at some stage just becoming incredibly tanky and the game becoming more of a slog to play, so in the end I had to make some tweaks to the damage dealt modifier to get through all the biomes.

I decided to try a fresh file run with the aim of completing every biome, every Nightmare Strand and killing the King without dying. My only rules were not repeating any biomes for farming or powering up, no Carcosan modifiers, and only returning to the Passage when forced to. This does mean that I could continue from Shattered Descent into Marsh and from Acolyte's Haven into Cathedral while keeping my current run buffs, which did probably make those two biomes slightly easier.

On my first attempt I died with the King at about 30% health on the final phase, but I did learn something useful about the fight at least. This was my second attempt and I managed it without recording a death. My total deployed time was just a little under 5 hours. It is perhaps not a 'true' deathless run, because I did use 2 second chances - both in Desecrated Fortress - one in the Nightmare Strand and one later. Closest I came to dying was on Architect too.

I think I'm happy enough with this for now, but I could redo it and try to not use a second chance, or I could push on and try to get the true ending on the same file. I think this was more fun as a challenge than using the most extreme modifiers, so if anyone is looking for a challenge which is balanced and maybe more in-line with what they experienced with Returnal then I'd recommend giving this a go.

I loved Returnal, so I picked up Saros a couple months ago and it looks really cool. But the auto-aiming was really throwing me off and made it feel like it was taking a lot of the skill out of the game so I put it down for a while. Does anyone know if there’s been a way to disable that now?

Is it just me, it was it a little more challenging running that biome the second time around?

On a side note, with a reaping chakram at level 35 and above, King is no longer a challenge. 🤷

Like so many people I got platinum on returnal, loved it and was so excited for Saros.

I waltzed through the game but got to the second king fight and just… couldn’t do it. Attempt after attempt after attempt I just couldn’t get even to phase 3. I felt like an absolute shitter (I clearly am)

Then I started reading what my issue might be and heard people talking about the reaping chakram with ‘alt fire’ wrecking everything.

And that’s when I realised, I hadn’t been using alt fire the entire game, at all. I did a fresh run and held the button half way down, screens melted and I was glad I didn’t know about this earlier, then went and killed the king (don’t punch him again like I did)

Also don’t be me and actually read instructions when playing games!

Loved the game though, even if it was a bit easy in the grand scheme of things, but nothing is gonna be returnal let’s be honest

Is it just me or do just a few runs allow you to unlock pretty much everything in the skill treeup until the next boss node? Only exception are the Halicron which seem to be limited in quantity so as I progress more and more upgrades that require those are becoming inaccessible since the upgrades seem to get more and more expensive. Therefore I am focusing on unlocking only those that block access to further lucenite upgrades.

Is there more to it?

It seems incredibly simple and devoid of strategy nor does it seem to provide any build variety. That can't be it though, can it?

i had 10 fails since yesterday against the final boss with rifles. today i picked up a p40 reaping chakram in the consort area by accident. i never picked one up before even once - no idea how to use it.

consort died in about 5 seconds. and i still had 50% health after ripping the boss to shreds with the thing.

weapon is so OP i didn't even know what buttons i was supposed to be pressing (or when) and the boss still melted.

don't sleep on this weapon for bosses if you've been ducking it !! oO

Hey All. First of all, great game from someone who was raised in the 90s arcades of NEOGEO shoot em ups this is just insane gaming experience. Havent felt like this for a game in a while.

I cant win the priestess and I am pondering how to do it. I was stuck at the Shepherd and said ok ill take it from the beginning BUT i reached a point where I had to go back to the passage (maybe I missed something?) and had to teleport to him. Is this true?

What is the earliest stage I can start so I face the priestess and face her as experienced?

I also dont know why but at some runs after a point I dont see the enemies healthbars? Is this a bug or something?

Thanks