Pro tip: If you manage to completely surround a treasury on all four sides and the four additional diagonals (think a 3×3 grid, with a treasury in the middle), there will be one last, huge dump of resources. One last unit to embrace is the Treasury, which can produce extra resources for every other tile directly adjacent. Time to invest in that Meadow checkerboard design. This provides an additional 125 hit points automatically, and can be chained to directly adjacent mountain/rock tiles for an additional 5 points per tile.Īnother interesting environmental tile is the Meadow, which is somehow 50% more effective when placed next to anything other than another Meadow. As mentioned in our Loop Hero review, any combination of rocks/mountains in a 3×3 grid will form a mountain peak. This topic is probably ripe for its own guide, later on down the road, but here are a few tile combinations that I encountered organically. Also, remember that the effects of lanterns can stack, so feel free to tightly group them if you’re having difficulty keeping a particularly difficult batch of beasts at bay. Positioning it in the manner shown in the screenshot below (circled in red) is the ideal way to utilize this sort of loop formation, and fully maximizes the entire area of effect for the lantern. This helps to prevent any of the monster infestations from becoming excessively overwhelming.īetter yet, you may want to consider grouping your environmental modifiers as an exclave, wrapping around your lantern.
A fairly straightforward example is grouping a certain type of environmental modifier tile like the swamp, cemetery, or forest with either one (or a series of) road lantern(s). One of the key concepts to succeeding in Loop Hero is the strategic positioning of different tiles that complement each other. The number of potions in your pack and their overall effectiveness may evolve over time, but this core mechanic always remains the same.
For this reason, it’s critical to always remain aware of where you are, health-wise. The fewer potions in-hand, the lower the notch slides down the bar. Initially, the notch is positioned at slightly less than half health. Simply put, any time your health dips below that position, a potion is automatically applied.Īdditionally, the notch will change position depending upon how many potions are remaining in your pack. That little blue notch is the key to understanding how potions are applied. Instead, there is a small arrow over top of the health bar that you can see in the screenshot below, circled in red. I was shocked to realize that I have no control over potion usage, either.
You can’t use potions?Īs crazy as it might sound, battles are not the only thing that happens automatically in Loop Hero. So, how about we save a few hours, cut out the middle man, and bring you a hot load of hints, right off the burner? Here are just a few of the ways to maximize your adventuring in the wasteland. It certainly left me with a bad taste in my mouth, which I would rather all of you avoid.
Only after quite a bit of trial and error, do some of the game’s underlying strategies begin to surface. Loop Hero was a bit difficult to understand - at first.