Hyper Light Breaker: Farming Golden Rations – A Comprehensive Guide
Hyper Light Breaker features various resources, with Golden Rations being the rarest and crucial for essential upgrades. This guide clarifies their acquisition.
Where to Find Golden Rations
Golden Rations are primarily obtained through two methods: exploration and cycle resets.
Exploration: Explore the game world, searching for chest icons on your map. These chests often contain resources, and some may hold Golden Rations (indicated by a Golden Ration icon above the chest). Areas containing Prisms (golden diamond icons) frequently have nearby Golden Ration chests.
Cycle Resets: Each Overgrowth instance constitutes a cycle, resetting when your revives (Rez count) deplete. Upon running out of revives, you can choose to retry the map (at a resource cost) or completely reset the cycle at the Cursed Outpost. Successful cycle resets yield a score, and achieving a high enough rank rewards Golden Rations.
Golden Ration Uses
Golden Rations are vital for progression in Hyper Light Breaker.
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Home Base Upgrades: Invest Golden Rations in permanent character upgrades or new vendor services at your home base.
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Sycom Unlocking: Unlock Sycoms, which define your Breaker's stats and passive abilities, significantly impacting their playstyle.
Prioritization: Upon acquiring your first Golden Ration, prioritize purchasing the extra medkit upgrade from Pherus Bit. This significantly aids survivability, mitigating the game's harsh penalty for combat errors.
Resource Retention: Resources, including Golden Rations, are retained upon death. However, equipped weapons, amps, and perks sustain damage (one pip), potentially leading to permanent loss.