upgrade your armor and you won't die instantly. Also defender is a horrible class for personal use as tanking is not a viable strategy due to the existence of armor durability.

also! You can ALWAYS buy back your dead fighters with kill coins (free currency) with no exceptions and wasting death metals to revive is never worth it. Even if they were, death metals cost $0.50 at the worst and it costs 1 to revive so where did you get the $1.50 from?

Also x2 the guy below me is saying some super useful stuff. Give his comments a read.

TL;DR- check the resistances on your armor. taking +5% slash, 100 defense armor instead of -9%, 200 defense armor will safe you HP in the long run. try and perfect block attacks, sprint in and out of enemy aggro ranges to bait attacks. enemies can and WILL hit each other if you can bait attacks out, which can do a lot of free damage (saving you durability and stamina). level up your weapon masteries.

i am going to save myself the mental capacity of going through all of the comments and simply try to give some advice, if you or anyone reading this is having the same issues:
elemental resistances MATTER
sure you have an armor piece with like 200 defense, but if it's got -9% slashing you are going to FEEL it. more often than not it's better to take a lower defense armor piece that has better resistances then vice versa. try leveling up the *mastery* of weapons. you can get massive damage bonuses, new moves, and more efficient stamina usage of every weapon by using them enough. the enemy AI is so abusable that if you actually use all the mechanics available to you, most combats should be manageable. I will say that there is very very limited counter-play against full-auto projectile weapons besides using certain mushrooms or very strongly utilizing cover.

and also obviously this game tries to get money . but imo its very well done . especially cuz you can get 100% in this game and reach f301 without paying a single cent and also you never have to spent more time in this game then people who pay for stuff . some can speedrun this game on a new account in just 10 hours XD so yeah stuff is made to bother you to make you want to pay . but there is the moment of understanding the game . instead of raging about having to spent time or money to revive , go to tdm and realize that most of the entire community gifts kc for free and items . literally wont take long to find that out if people would try to solve problems instead of seing it in this evil way of the devs trying to rip you off . and even without the help of other players stuff isnt to bad if you invest enough time . if you dont have that time then mmos and grind games obviously arent for you so this isnt either

@404

Honestly, I'm fucking sick of fanboys/fangirls like you saying "Ohhh, you don't understand the game, your review is invalid, just git gud and you'd understand the game" Fuck no. This game was made to make money. If it wasnt' maybe they would actually take out the nonsensical damage numbers and make the combat more interesting by adding new movesets and attacks instead of bumping the damage numbers up so high that you get 2 shot, and then charge a price for the game instead of making it "free to play" and grabbing money from people who aren't diehard enough to stick through this slog of a game over and over again.

Oh, and it's not about "informing" yourself. There are tons of rogue-likes that do it much better than this game. Just because this game is a rogue-like, doesn't mean it is a good rogue-like. Stop trying to act like an authority just because you stuck with this game and liked it. A lot of other people didn't, so just deal with it.

it is a rouglike tho ... its whole original purpose was that if you die . you have to start conpletly over . yall should inform yourself more about the games you are playing before writting reviews or spreading nonsense . honestly at this point its pretty obvious that most negative reviews arent reviews at all . its just players who need a place to get their anger out . and they see it worked for many others just shit talking this game and lying and they get randoms that agree to their bullshit .

Must have been a recent update, I did not have that option at the time I wrote this.

in my fighter freezzer it says
A;pay KC
B:pay Dm
C: make a new fighter
D: recover him but with out hes items for free and no LEVEL Loss

Neat, you totally missed the point of what I was saying.
Keep playing, about 50% of the way though the game you HAVE to
A: pay KC
B: pay DM
c: make a new character.

i died in the game and the game gives me an option to Recover my fighter for free
or pay KC to get hes items back or pay real money to comeback alive
or pay death metal to comeback alive