ELEX ELEX RELEASE THREAD

[Dedicated_Dark]

Played it for around 15 hours now. What's up with the loot? All I find is junk; potions, toilet paper, cigars and plants.. I thought exploration is supposedly rewarding in this game, but so far zero equipment.. oh! yea I found 1 amulet and 1 ring.. so I guess that's there. At this rate by the time I finish the game I would've found 2 weapons, 3 rings, 2 amulets and a billion toilet paper, half a billion cigars, 5000 plants and 700 potions.

The equipment I have is bought and then got from the faction, there is nothing out in the world. Even killing dudes wearing the equipment doesn't drop it. Wtf is this crap. In gothic you can beat people up and take their weapons atleast. Game's still good, but exploration is as rewarding as my ass!

 

[Haplo]

There are a few strong weapons out there. But you have to either be lucky or read a guide to happen upon one.
And not nearly enough worthwhile stuff IMO.

 

[ELEXmakesMeHard]

Stable Diffusion's take on Trump as Jax in ELEX:

 

[Talby]

I have decided to give this bad boy another go, this time on the hardest difficulty. I never completed it the first time around but my PC sucked at the time. Any tips from fellow Elexbros? Not sure what faction I want, the last time I joined the high tech faction because I figured my guy would appreciate the side that has working toilets.

 

[Jasede]

I forgot the entire game sadly. I remember playing on the hardest difficulty. I can't even remember what weapon I used.

I get that this isn't a very helpful post but the point is that you should probably get by fine no matter what you pick. I dimly recall that the Raider desert faction had the worst and the Techbro faction had the best rewards. I went Berserkers and that was fine. I think I used some magic but I can't at all remember.

 

[Darth Roxor]

I have decided to give this bad boy another go, this time on the hardest difficulty

Remember to customise it in the options and reduce enemy hp bloat to standard. Playing with ultra enemy HP is pointless.

 

[cvv]

Any tips from fellow Elexbros?

Most important tip, use the elex potions liberally on you first run. If you don't you get a different ending RP-wise but you also hamstring yourself p. badly gameplay-wise.

 

[Peachcurl]

Any tips from fellow Elexbros?

Most important tip, use the elex potions liberally on you first run. If you don't you get a different ending RP-wise but you also hamstring yourself p. badly gameplay-wise.

The actual story is crap anyways, so you might just enjoy the good parts.

Elex is a hell of a drug.

 

[Darth Roxor]

Any tips from fellow Elexbros?

Most important tip, use the elex potions liberally on you first run. If you don't you get a different ending RP-wise but you also hamstring yourself p. badly gameplay-wise.

I strongly disagree. PB games are at their best before you become superOP, and chugging down elex potions makes you become superOP very fast. I didn't use them at all during my first playthrough and I think it was better off for it.

 

[Haplo]

I have decided to give this bad boy another go, this time on the hardest difficulty. I never completed it the first time around but my PC sucked at the time. Any tips from fellow Elexbros? Not sure what faction I want, the last time I joined the high tech faction because I figured my guy would appreciate the side that has working toilets.

Clerics (the high tech faction) are great. Usually assiciated with ranged combat, are great to melee with sledgehammers as well. Their psi powers give them awesome survivability in melee other factions lack (death shield, decoy clones, teleport - plus the cool point-blank aoe shockwave, which ragdolls enemies around).

 

[Major_Blackhart]

I actually liked the Outlaws faction. But I have a thing for axes, chainsaws, and radiation.

 

[cvv]

Any tips from fellow Elexbros?

Most important tip, use the elex potions liberally on you first run. If you don't you get a different ending RP-wise but you also hamstring yourself p. badly gameplay-wise.

I strongly disagree. PB games are at their best before you become superOP, and chugging down elex potions makes you become superOP very fast. I didn't use them at all during my first playthrough and I think it was better off for it.

If you don't chug then you have to avoid most combat and only level up doing fetch quests in the towns for the first 20 hours of the game, if you're playing on the hardest diff. that is.

I don't know which diff. you played on but on my first run I quickly grew tired by playing an open-world adventure game for the first 1/3 of the runtime.

(Although nowadays you can mitigate that by using the overhaul mod that makes the difficulty curve somewhat less retarded than the original, so you can actually participate in some fighting from the get go without chugging potions).

 

[Major_Blackhart]

I loved the difficulty in Elex. Really it was awesomely brutal, and it emphasized the safety and necessity of the communities, doing quests, etc.

 

[Nikanuur]

Any tips from fellow Elexbros?

Most important tip, use the elex potions liberally on you first run. If you don't you get a different ending RP-wise but you also hamstring yourself p. badly gameplay-wise.

I strongly disagree. PB games are at their best before you become superOP, and chugging down elex potions makes you become superOP very fast. I didn't use them at all during my first playthrough and I think it was better off for it.

I must say, I was also very carefull about using those. My reason was the "Higher the power, higher the risk to become corrupt." which is only too well implemented in the Elex's Cold system.

 

[Faarbaute]

I've done at least one playthrough of each, from consuming all the elex I could to none at all and something in between and I agree with Darth Roxor.

There is probably a sweet spot, but the more elex you consume (particularly in the early game) the more the game turns from a brutal struggle and into a routine clean up operation, where you just go around indiscriminately killing everything with little suspense. It was quite boring, in comparison.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

I avoided using Elex for a long time in playthroughs unless it was to actually get this or that in terms of raise stats just enough for weapons.

 

[Old One]

The game is masterful at making the player choose between equally unappealing options.

 

[Talby]

Thanks for all the tips guys. There's just one thing that still puzzles me...

Spoiler

Shouldn't they be called Magalanquakes?

 

[Cryomancer]

Started to play it and joined Berserk. Any way to increase my mana quickly? I can only throw 3 ice fists per mana "bar"...

 

[Gnidrologist]

Question about that Walter guy, who supposedly needs to have Rays contracts in his inventory. I don't exactly remember whether i killed him myself (he was tad aggressive on first meeting, if i remember) or some roaming monsters got him, but now he's gone from his usual place at teleporter. If i did kill him, then contracts would be in my inventory. They are quest items and can't be sold, right? If he was eaten by a troll, then what would happen to his body? In any way, it seems this quest is now unresolvable. It sores my eye, when quest log has leftovers. Is there a console with give_item option like in Gothic games?

 

[Halfling Rodeo]

Any tips on starting this game? Is it playable on steam deck at all?

 

[Nikanuur]

Any tips on starting this game? Is it playable on steam deck at all?

1. Don't give up due to the frustration of not being able to stand your ground against most enemies you meet for the first few levels. I'd advise skipping the exploration of the open world and finishing the first town and most of its quests first. Maybe carefully sample the nearest outskirts now and then. It'll provide much more sense and 'becoming a hero' feeling than plunging yourself in the open world, not being able to traverse half of it, dying to everything all the time, and then complaining about bloated HP, horrible dodge, and stuff like that.

2. Don't become Berserk before you leave the town into the open. You don't have to be one. Rather, see what other factions have in store for you, then decide.

3. Piranha games may seem tedious in the beginning—in the character progression, that is. If you are into modding and you want to speed that up a notch, try my economy mod. Its design was to provide a better incentive to look out for treasures and a little faster progression in the beginning. It shouldn't break the economy or anything. The mod is also compatible with the two largest Elex Overhauls on ModNexus. I recommend trying one of those too.

https://www.nexusmods.com/elex/mods/103
https://www.nexusmods.com/elex/mods/100
https://www.nexusmods.com/elex/mods/57

 

[gurugeorge]

Any tips on starting this game? Is it playable on steam deck at all?

I agree with everything Nikanur said, except that I'd say you SHOULD explore. The first few quests send you all over the map, and I think that's deliberate. You learn how to evade enemies, be scared in a very dangerous world, and you start to discover things and learn the map. But he's right that you shouldn't think of combat with anything but the weak creatures around the Berserker starting area at first.

 

[Gnidrologist]

Question about that Walter guy, who supposedly needs to have Rays contracts in his inventory. I don't exactly remember whether i killed him myself (he was tad aggressive on first meeting, if i remember) or some roaming monsters got him, but now he's gone from his usual place at teleporter. If i did kill him, then contracts would be in my inventory. They are quest items and can't be sold, right? If he was eaten by a troll, then what would happen to his body? In any way, it seems this quest is now unresolvable. It sores my eye, when quest log has leftovers. Is there a console with give_item option like in Gothic games?

Found Walter chilling near the volcano teleporter. Now another problem has appeared. I can't pickpocket anymore. Option just doesn't appear anymore, when crouched. Is this a known bug?

https://www.nexusmods.com/elex/mods/103
https://www.nexusmods.com/elex/mods/100
https://www.nexusmods.com/elex/mods/57

How are these overhauls?

 

[Nikanuur]

https://www.nexusmods.com/elex/mods/103
https://www.nexusmods.com/elex/mods/100
https://www.nexusmods.com/elex/mods/57

How are these overhauls?

The first link is my (rather simple) incentive-improvement mod.
The second and third links are mod-overhauls, as in changes of plethora of stats, skills, item strenghts, features, etc.