Overview
Learn all the basics of this game. Featuring tips and tricks and also a list of all guardians loadout.
Decent starting guide
Unfortunately, I don’t have much time to play this game like I used to due to study. So I won’t be able to keep this guide up to date. However, this guide still provide some basic information that can still be useful. Thank you for your understanding.
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Introduction
Welcome to the Orion Universe
First things first,
Starting the game for the first time often takes a while to load. For me, it can take 3-5 minutes. After this, starting the game for the second time will be much faster.
Upon entering the game, one can choose to play online or offline.
This guide will focus on online play only.
When clicked on online play, one will be able to choose between going to Orbital Command or Agora.
Both location serves the same purpose. I recommend to choose Orbital Command since it is in line with this guide. The knowledge gained from Orbital Command can be applied to Agora later on.
A quick and dirty chapter about Agora has been added at the end of this guide.
A small note from the author.
My apologise for the low quality ingame screenshots. My potato laptop did his best 😉
Orbital Command (aka social hub)
Once the game has loaded succesfully, one will be dropped in the Orbital Command (also known as social hub).
This special place is for chatting, managing inventory, adjusting skilltree, shopping, forming parties and ultimately starting the actual game.
Hit “i” to open inventory. See chapter Inventory for more information.
Hit Esc>Character> Skill tree
This is one of the many terminals. Get closer and aim at it. Then hit E to interact.
In the terminal one can see achievement progression, leaderboard, quest, stores to buy augments and more.
Here you can start a game. Get close to the table, aim on it and hit “E” to interact.
Tip! If you happen to be lost in the orbital command. Hit Enter to open the chat and type /suicide.
You will be spawned close to the area of the starting table.
Game mode Harvest / Survival
Currently as of 1.5 there are two game modes, harvest and survival.
One has to defend this harvester
and kill all the enemies to win.
When the harvester health is down to zero. He will enter a state which we call “down”. There is a time limit for how long he can be downed before he explodes causing one to lose the game. Repair him with the regen gun (hit 3 to use regen gun).
There are 10 waves and 3 side objectives. Beating a side objective within time limit will yield bonus chest. It can contain crafting materials, consumables like XP scrolls and IONs.
There are 5 difficulties available for this mode
Easy, medium, hard, insane and redikulous with a K.
Redikulous has the highest amount of enemies while the enemies has more HP and does more damage.
Higher difficulty will drop augments with higher item levels.
This mode also requires the player to defend the harvester and killing all the enemies. However, the amount of waves is infinite. The enemies gets progressive harder and stronger the further one gets.
The augment drop rate in this mode is rather scarce. One will find primarily crafting materials.
Developrs have confirmed to redesign this mode in the future.
Ingame Harvest / Survival
Here is some overview regarding to the HUD
- F1 to change between top-down, third person and first person view.
- 1 to use primary weapon
- 2 to use secondary weapon
- 3 to use regen gun
- Ctrl to use guardian specific ability
- R to reload
- Hold R to ready up between the waves
- V to do melee attack. Go near small dinos till a red X appear. Aim at the X and hold V to perform a fatality attack. Fatality moves is buggy in 1.4. I haven’t tried it since then.
- Hold shift to sprint
- G to throw grenade
- C to blink (teleport over a short distance)
- Tab to see the ammount of kills and the required experience points to level up
- Escape to open the menu
- i to open inventory
- Tab space to jump
- Enter to chat
The purpose of this gun is to repair, to heal and to revive.
Aim at the harvester and hold left mouse button to repair him.
Aim at other players and hold left mouse button to heal or to revive them.
Hold right mouse button to heal yourself.
Always take the initiative to repair the harvester, be a team player. Ask/remind players to repair harvester when needed. If one thinks other players will do the repair, guess what they are thinking aswell?
Blink is a powerful defensive manoeuvre. One will find himself using blink frequently.
It is also used to get the player to a destination quicker.
When a player level up, he will get a skil point. Hit Esc, go to character then skill tree to spend skill points. Don’t forget to hit save after assigning the skill points.
When one is stuck/bugged or whatsoever. One can hit Enter and type /suicide to respawn.
Guardians
A list of guarians with their abilities, loadout and legendary ability augments. Might help one deciding which guardian to buy next.
Augments with legendary rarity has a unique passive. Every guardian has three possible legendary ability augments that can be used. Those are listed below. Note, the augments needs to be founded or crafted. They don’t come with unlocking the guardian.
loadout 1: Assault Rifle / Pistol
loadout 2: Combat Shotgun / Auto Pistol
Ability: Jet Pack
Grenade: Frag
Legendary ability augments:
- Invincible while Jetpacking
- Receive a random Orb after jetpacking (requires the full Jetpack energy to drop / benefits from double Orb Leg Aug)
- Drop a Frag Grenade every Second while Jetpacking
loadout 1: Combat Shotgun / Magnum Revolver
loadout 2: Auto Shotgun / Pistol
Abilty: Healy Bubble
Grenade: Smoke
Legendary ability augments:
- Healy Bubble repairs Harvester (currently bugged and won’t work)
- Healy Bubble can revive downed Teammates (instant revive)
- Players within the Bubble do double damage
loadout 1: Silenced SMG / Auto Pistol
loadout 2: Sniperrifle / Pistol
Abilty: Cloaking
Grenade: EMP
Legendary ability augments:
- Invincible while cloaked (negates the effect of dilo acid pools healing boots when cloaking before entering the pool)
- Can use Regen Gun while cloaked
- 5 X Melee damage while cloaked
loadout 1: Sub Machine Gun / Auto Pistol
loadout 2: Burst Rifle / Pistol
Abilty: Sentry Gun
Grenade: Stun
Legendary ability augments:
- Sentry Gun now shoots Frag
- Sentry Gun now shoots Rockets
- Sentry Gun now throws Flames
loadout 1: Auto Shotgun / Magnum
loadout 2: Combat Shotgun / Pistol
Abilty: Flamethrower
Grenade: Napalm
Legendary ability augments:
- Flamethrower freezes Enemies instead of burning them
- Flamethrower heals Allies in addition to dealing damage to Enemies (Also heals the harvester with high speed!)
- Take half damage while using the Flamethrower
loadout 1: Sniper RIfle / Blaster
loadout 2: Silenced SMG / Magnum Revolver
Abilty: Thermal VIsion
Grenade: Stun
Legendary ability augments:
- doubles thermal vision length
- receive 50 % damage while using thermal vision (i.e. reduces 50% of damage taken)
- Sniper Bullets pierce up to 10 Enemies (lets you shoot through walls without activating thermal vision. Since1.4 this no longer pierce the same enemy multiple times)
loadout 1: Burst Rifle / Magnum
loadout 2: Auto RIfle / Pistol
Abilty: Rocket Launcher
Grenade: Frag
Legendary ability augments:
- Rockets explode twice
- Rocket Launcher firing rate is increased by 50 %
- Rocket Launcher heals teammates while damaging enemies
loadout 1: Burst Rifle / Magnum
loadout 2: Auto Shotgun / Pistol
Abilty: Grenade Launcher
Grenade: Frag
Legendary ability augments:
- Grenade Launcher also deals EMP damage
- Grenade Launcher deals double damage [Not working in V1.5.2]
- GrenadeLauncher firing rate increased by 50%
Inventory
During the gameplay or in Orbital command, one can do some inventory management.
Hit “i” to open the inventory. Alternatively one can hit Esc then go to Character then Inventory.
Here one uses the left mouse button to drag and drop items.
An action will be performed with the right mouse button.
There are 4 toggles that can be selected in (A)
Normal, Breakdown, Use and Drop
Select this option to equip augments with right mouse button. Equiped augments will be moved to the right side near the guardian.
Any items in your inventory without a number on it are augments i.e. (D), with an exception of the first three items in (B).
This option allows one to breakdown augments for crafting materials with right mouse button.
Crafting materials are items with numbers on it like (C)
Select this option to use items from (B) with right mouse button.
Explaining the items from left to right
- Legendary (purple) Lockbox highest rarity
Gives a random legendary augment - Super Enhanced (yellow) Lockbox lower rarity then legendary
Gives a random Super Enhanced augment - Enhanced (green) Lockbox lower rarity then super enhanced
Gives a random Enhanced augment - Health pack
Use to gain health regen for 5 minutes - Shield pack
Use to gain double shield for 5 minutes - XP scroll
Use to gain 25,000 XP
Two other consumables are not displayed here. They are the Gem Pouch and Material Pack. Those can be bought from the ION store. They give random crafting materials when used.
This option allows one to drop any items. These will appear in the game and other players can pick it up. RIght click on the item one wants to drop.
Hover the mouse over the stats to reveal additional info. In the picture my mouse hovered over the stat piercing damage reduction. The additional info are displayed above at (A) as Bite and claw damage.
Scroll your mouse button up or down to navigate through all stats
Currency
ION is the common currency. They are dropped when an enemy is killed.
Make sure to pick them up asap. They will dissapear after a while.
Credits is the premium currency. They can be obtained through several ways.
- Buy with real money
- Doing achievements (over 70k Credits are to be gained)
- Doing daily/weekly quest
- Converting IONs to Credits through the Trek Store (see picture above)
With the last three option, a player can unlock almost everything just by playing the game.
Only the elite skins are not unlockable without paying.
Recommended reading materials
I can’t tell how important it is for new players to read the following crafting guide. It will prevent new players from making beginners mistake.
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This is a complete list of all legendary augments with its unique passives. One will find himself coming back to it frequently.
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The following guide is a perfect follow up to this beginners guide. It describes the flow of how to become stronger.
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Here is my other guide for those who really wants to expand their knowledge and improving their gameplay.
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Agora (aka social hub 2) V1.5.5.1
Everything discussed in the Orbital Command can be applied to Agora.
There are just a few minor difference.
Agora is a huge map and players can get lost pretty quickly.
Hit enter and type /suicide should bring the player near the location where the terminals are situated.
The starting table in Agora looks pretty much the same as in Orbital Command
The terminals in Agora to do the shopping, tracking achievements progress etc looks like a bowl with fire.
