Learn Lo Wangs latest tricks before jumping into Shadow Warrior 3.
Shadow Warrior 3is an adrenaline-fueled romp through a violently chaotic world.
Essentially, Shadow Warrior 3 offers a wild ride with a few challenging twists and turns.
Here are some of the ways it’s possible for you to utilize these tools early on.
Use your katana to reload
Shadow Warrior 3 features a revamped combat system.
This includes Lo Wangs trusty katana.
This weapon can disembowel enemies in quick fashion.
It even receives an elemental upgrade that allows it to do electric, fire, and ice damage.
What makes the katana such a valuable tool though is its ability to reload your guns.
During that quick switch, from gun to katana and back, the game reloads your weapon.
Prioritize your finishers
The new finisher system adds an interesting wrinkle.
At first glance, theyre similar to the gory executions found in the recent Doom games.
Each one has a wildly different effect.
For instance, executing an ice-based enemy will allow you use their brain as a freeze bomb.
Well, it depends.
Some enemies can be executed using one charge.
But just because they took more power to topple doesnt mean that youll be rewarded with the best tool.
On the other hand, youll get a Brain Tonic for taking down a Shogai grunt.
This item not only gives you 200 HP but also makes you immune to damage for five seconds.
Just double-check you choose the correct Gore tool for each encounter.
Claim your Challenge Rewards
Shadow Warrior 3s leveling system is orb-based.
Killing enemies wont grant experience points.
Instead, youll need to find silver and purple orbs to improve your weapons and Lo Wang respectively.
Others are rewarded by completing challenges.
The challenges themselves are rather self-explanatory.
There are some that wed recommend picking up sooner than later though.
This is especially true if youre looking to prepare for the games more harrowing encounters.
The Spawn Ammo and Spawn Health upgrades are a must.
These two will bestow more health and ammo whenever you attack an enemy.
Id also grab all of the weapon ammo upgrades early on.
The elemental upgrades are great too.
They will hurt your enemies though.
Upgrade the elemental damage or explosion radius to take down a group of demons with little effort.
Lastly, grab the Health Boost upgrade (youll have to unlock the Last Stand Shockwave one first).
This will boost your base health to 125.
Of course, there are other upgrades that are worth your time.
But these are the ones Id shoot for first.
Use the environment
This tip comes in two flavors.
The first has to do with mobility; youll want to use the environment to escape tricky situations.
Strafing left and right in hopes of dodging enemy attacks isnt going to cut it.
You have to be more mobile than that.
There are walls that you’ve got the option to free-run on and platforms to jump to.
you could even swing around an area using Lo Wangs new grappling hook.
Our suggestion: Use them all.
Dont just stand in one area and fight.
The second has to do with Shadow Warrior 3s environmental traps.
Most of the arena-like areas will have traps that can be activated by shooting a button.
Rinse and repeat for maximum effectiveness.
For instance, the Hattori demons can deflect bullets with their swords.
So, using the Sidekicks (machine guns) against them probably isnt the best choice.
The Sidekicks are perfect for the fast-moving Slinky Jakku though.
The Seeking Shokera, on the other hand, are slow enemies that float in the air.
This makes them easy to hit with the Basilisk, the chargeable railgun-like weapon.
What this means is that the weaker enemies should be mostly ignored.
Lower-tiered foes like the Shogai will continuously respawn during a fight.
Ideally, theyre there to give you more ammo and health–remember the Brain Tonic?
Killing them should be a means to an end.
Its the stronger enemies that you really have to worry about.
Experiment
Lo Wang has a ton of tricks up his sleeve.
Some are more readily noticeable than others.
All of them can be combined to destroy your adversaries.
Use Chi-Blast to push explosive barrels into enemies.
Or better yet, use it to push enemies into traps.
The grappling hook is great for escaping a tough spot.
It can also be used to pull yourself up to a foe and blast them with the shotgun.
Basically, Shadow Warrior 3 rewards being creative.
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