Symbiotic

Symbiotic

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Levels and items
By North_Art
This guide contains in-game information about items and some pictures of levels with some walkthrough advices
   
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In-game items by rarity in alphabetical order
Items are giving for gaining XP scale in the left bottom corner.


Adrenaline Surge
– one of the most necessary items
Effect: Bullets deal more damage
Rarity: Common
In-game description: The…parasite? Symbiote? Thing on my arm looks just like the SIR, that’s standard infantry rifle for you civvies, that the corps used back on Earth ya know?... where the hell did this thing see of those?

Apex Roar
– no negative effect but you can choose something better

Effect: Emoting pushes away nearby enemies (press ‘R’ to hear it)
Rarity: Common
In-game description: Compressed gasses formed from the excretion process can be expelled rapidly to enact concussive force

Defense Mechanism
– it’s useful only for group of static enemies or in combination with ‘Black hole’

Effect: Bullets leave acid pools on hit, damaging enemies and yourself
Rarity: Common
In-game description: Capillary action of acidic nodules can be utilized to leverage lingering effects on projectile impact

Health
– as known as ’Bulky Biomass’

Effect: Increases maximum health
Rarity: Common
In-game description: Excess biomass offloaded into host, neural and digestive functions among others

Incineration Response
– the more enemies the larger explosion

Effect: Emoting damages nearby enemies
Rarity: Common
In-game description: Use of emote expulsion can be used as deterrent for foes in close proximity… try not to get any on you

Internal Combustion
– shoot faster

Effect: Increase rate of fire
Rarity: Common
In-game description: Efficiencies in the esophogal tract allow for greatly improved output of motile offspring

Split Shot
– this item is not for you, let’s choose another

Effect: Fire more bullets, each bullet deals less damage
Rarity: Common
In-game description: Rapid gestation of motile projectiles allows for twins or even further production of ammunition forms

Armor
– choosing this item depends on your playstyle (a.k.a 'Unnatural Resistance')

Effect: Armors the symbiote, reduces damage taken from your right
Rarity: Uncommon
In-game description: carcinization native to Earth strain genetics provides a baseline for chitinous plating, grafting these genetic sequences to host skin allows for greater harm tolerance/i]


Burning Shots
– watch’em all burn
Effect: On hit sets enemies on fire, dealing additional damage
Rarity: Uncommon
In-game description: Capsaicin, native to Earth-strain plant forms, can integrate genetic strands into barbed projectiles to induce burning in wounded foes

Hive Sight
– improving accuracy (a.k.a 'Hive Shot')

Effect: Bullets track enemies
Rarity: Uncommon
In-game description: Motile flagella on offspring allow for preyseeking behaviors to be enacted

Hollow Bones
– nah, it’s useful only if double jump is not enough

Effect: Lose max health to gain an extra jump
Rarity: Uncommon
In-game description: I’ve taken some liberties with your bone marrow… Try not to get shot quite as much

Vampiric Mutation
– health points falling like a snow

Effect: Enemies drop healing orbs on hit
Rarity: Uncommon
In-game description: Through use of sympathic biotransfer, biomass from injured foes can be siphoned back unto the host, and used to facilitate healing processes

Exploding Shots
– more damage!

Effect: Bullets deal damage in a small area on impact
Rarity: Rare
In-game description: Compressed gasses can be injected into projectiles to fragment and explode upon piercing an enemy

Symbiotic Virus
– damaged enemies infect nearby enemies

Effect: Spreads on hit effects in a small area
Rarity: Rare
In-game description: Corollary parasites can infect the worldmind’s minions and spread effects of the larger parasite organism

Fireworks
– this is not what we choose (even it’s very rare)

Effect: Lose accuracy, bullets deal boosted damage in an area
Rarity: Mythic
In-game description: I AM AN ASPECT OF WRATH! AHAHAHAHAHA!

Black Hole
– sticking enemies together

Effect: suck enemies into a black hole
Type: Active item (right mouse button)
In-game description: Through extreme compression of spacetime within a simulated mindhive, projectiles can create miniature and short lived singularities


Grappling Hook
– for dodging boss attacks

Effect: rapidly grapple to terrain
Type: Active item (right mouse button)
In-game description: Through redistribution of musculature frameworks, a tongueesque organ can be constructed at the base of the esophogal interface, useful for rapid traversal
Levels
There're only three levels with three bosses. Each level contains of two randomly genegated arenas. The game has five types of arenas.

A swimming pool
There's a pool of acid in the bottom of the level that slowly goes up and deals a damage about 10% of HP scale each second.

A three-staged atrium-ish arena
The best option is climb on the upper stage and catch all the jumpers with bullets

Arena with a giant totem in the center
Large spaces allows you to run around the totem and shoot all the enemies falling down. Bonus item is in the highest point of map.

Blood sewers
This arena is very comfortable to play with so many high points and a space in center. Also a hook is very useful here.

Ceremonial hall
The easiest and a largest map with the most number of enemies. Just run and shoot and jump and shoot and run...

Every map has an additional item that steal a half of your health when you take it (like the hook or the black hole) but sometimes you give your health for nothing
Just don't press 'F'.

And one more thing. Enemies always stuck in the walls. You can hear them, you can take the damage if you stay close to the wall, you can kill them if you shoot straight through the wall.
BOSSES
1. GIANT ACID ANTS
There's an acid under the floor. When the ant explodes it destroys the floor and the columns and releases six more little ants. So the best way to win is to stay away from explosions or use the black hole to explode four of them together.

2. TWO GIANT WASPS

The level is the well with an acid fast filling it from the bottom to the top. There're two ways to go up - stairs and a ramp. To avoid stings and go up faster use the hook. Exit is in the upper point.

acid fills it very quickly

3. A GIANT HYENA??
If you don't get extra health or armor it kills you with a single shot. Be prepared. The hook is recommended but not necessary. Double jump is enough. The best option is to have all the damage boosted items to kill it faster.
Hyena (??) has three phases:
1) shoots three times with a green wave and run straight at you
2) creates some minions and shoots a long and slower wave
3) shoots faster and runs at you more often.

At the end of this level there will be to options: to escape (go to menu) or to continue (new game+).
9 Comments
Shurialvaro 18 Sep, 2023 @ 4:28am 
@North_Art not gonna lie, i didnt even think about it, might do one later
North_Art  [author] 18 Sep, 2023 @ 2:11am 
@Shurialvaro Why don't you make a good guide in 'Walkthrough' and 'Loot' categories?
Shurialvaro 17 Sep, 2023 @ 8:43pm 
HOW TO ITEMIZE A GOOD RUN:

THE ENGINE

Exploding shot:
This is the most important item for our damage, one is NECESSARY and enough, you wont really notice multiple stacks that much, but if there is nothing better you can pick more.

Split shot:
This is what decides how much damage we do once we have exploding shot, the more Split shot we have the more damage we deal this is the best scaling item in the game. BUT if you dont have exploding shot yet, you will very noticeably lose damage, if you get a few stacks and no Exploding shot, youll suffer.
Shurialvaro 17 Sep, 2023 @ 8:42pm 
GOOD TO HAVE

Internal combustion:
No one ever hurts from more attack speed, thisll help mainly on bosses and before we get our engine going.

Vampiric mutation:
Helps you regain the lost health from enemies or Item pillars.

Hallow bones:
Allows you to quickly traverse the maps vertically and keep you in the air more time if you want to carry speed.

Hive sight:
mainly to hit those pesky flying enemies that you always miss, sometimes it locks into the wrong enemy but its overall nice.

Adrenaline surge:
Gives slightly more damage, unnoticeable once you have the engine running, but who are we to say no to more damage?

Health:
It can help you tank a bad hit on exploding enemies or the final boss if you arent confident yet.

Armor:
Similar to Health, not much to say.
Shurialvaro 17 Sep, 2023 @ 8:42pm 
ACTIVE ITEMS

Grappling hook:
It allows you to traverse the maps faster and dodge fast attacks on the final boss, you can keep the speed it gives by aiming to the top of a door or side of a wall and jumping more times before touching the ground.

Black hole:
Good for grouping up enemies and kill them faster.

NOT GOOD

Apex roar, Incinerating response, Burning shots and symbiotic Virus
do next to nothing, try to avoid unless you get items from the list below.
Shurialvaro 17 Sep, 2023 @ 8:42pm 
ACTIVELY BAD

Defense mechanism:
Does no noticeable damage on enemies and it will hurt you, only pick if you have many Split shot ]with no Exploding shot and you REALLY need some damage to help you.

Fireworks:
This does some damage, but the reduced accuracy will make you lose more shots than its worth. Also, if you get one too many it will increase in sound and hurt your ears.
Shurialvaro 17 Sep, 2023 @ 8:06pm 
Ok, as i see that no one knows how most items in this game work ill tell you, the only way to actually get good damage is getting 1 (one) single exploding shot and as many split shot as you can, 1 ES and 3-4 SS can 2 cycle the final boss. The only other slightly good item on damage is internal combustion to get a bit of shot speed, but its not that needed. Grappling hook is way more than just dodging the boss, you can bunnyhop to carry around all the speed it gives to move quickly between stages. The "Ceremonial hall" map gives you exploding shot when you finish killing all the yellow enemies, it just doesnt show in the UI until you update your items list but its there.
never 30 Aug, 2023 @ 1:43am 
Does this game have cheating codes?
Misticalis 13 Jun, 2023 @ 4:30am 
My personal experience has been that multi shot barely reduces your damage, and is straight up busted.