In this Tips Guide to Brotato you experience:
- Which weapons you should choose at the beginning
- How to level effectively
- What do you bring the different items in the fight
Lots of weapons, items and dozens of characters with various advantages and disadvantages make Brotato a monster of variety. But every beginning is difficult. Here are tips and tricks that will help you be successful in Brotato quickly.
The levels of the roguelite
As in Vampire Survivors, you’ll face increasingly tough enemies in Brotatos. However attack you in waves, between which you can use the collected currency (materials) to buy weapons and items in a shop. In addition, you level up and you can choose one of four bonuses with each level-up.
Characters: Which Brotato Should I Choose?
During the first few runs you will notice that there are a lot of different characters. You own different strong bonuses and penalties, which has a profound effect on your playstyle for the run. Some Brotatos are only allowed to use melee weapons, while others get more materials from not killing enemies.
At first you focus on Characters designed as simply as possible like the “Normalo” or “Ranged Fighter”. Their bonuses are easy to understand and don’t require much rethinking – so you get used to the gameplay of Brotato and can play the fancier potatoes later.
Tips on Weapons & Items
In Brotato there are numerous weapons and items that can be found in different rarity levels divided from white (colorless) to red (unique).
The items drop randomly, but you can craft weapons. You have to Combine two weapons of the same rarity. For example, if you combine two blue slingshots, you get a purple slingshot. In this way you can continue to combine the weapons until they have reached the red rarity level.
If you don’t have enough materials to purchase an offered weapon, you can purchase it with a Click on “Block” keep it until your next visit to the shop.
Tip: Only combine your weapons later in the game, since the opponents are quite weak at the beginning. With many weaker weapons you can kill more enemies in one wave at the beginning of a run and get more materials.
Bets on a branch of arms
Like Vampire Survivors, Brotato lets you wield multiple weapons at once. However, each weapon falls under a specific weapon category. the Categories grant you massive bonuses, if you fill all weapon slots with weapons of a category. All bonuses can be found in the table below:
| weapon category | effect |
| support | Increased Harvest |
| Precise | Increased critical hit chance |
| Primitive | More maximum life points |
| blade | More melee damage and lifesteal |
| Medical | Increased life regeneration |
| Difficult | Increased percentage damage |
| Unarmed | Higher dodge chance |
| Elementary | Increased elemental damage |
| blunt | Increased armor and maximum health points |
| Explosive | Larger explosion radius and more explosion damage |
| device | Increased technique value |
| firearm | Increased range |
| Ethereal | Increased dodge chance and more armor |
Prepare at the beginning a weapon six timesto unlock the strongest bonus. For example, you can equip six SMGs and get an immensely increased range.
To get started with Brotato you use best ranged weaponsuntil you are familiar with the enemy types and the dynamics of the game. That way you can fully concentrate on dodging.
Trees & Consumables: How to get healing
During the up to 20 rounds you not only have to deal with all kinds of opponents on the maps in Brotato. Sometimes spawn green glowing trees, which you can fell using your weapons. Inside are materials and with a bit of luck either small healing packages (look like square cacti) or a box with an item.
The healing packages are extremely helpful in sticky situations, fell the trees as fast as possible. If you have maximum health points, the radius in which you pick up the medikits is reduced – this is useful so that you don’t accidentally pick them up.
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