10 expert tips for dying slightly less frequently in Housemarque’s brutal PS4 shooter Nex Machina

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10 expert tips for dying slightly less frequently in Housemarque’s brutal PS4 shooter Nex Machina

Quick advice for bettering your score, timing your movements and mini-game mastery

How you getting on, Nex Machina players? We figured to give you all a couple of weeks to adjust to our latest twin-stick shooter experience before chiming in with some hints as how to better your leaderboard-chasing runs (and also highlight some things you may have missed). And for any of you newcomers thinking about diving into our bullet hell world? Best wrap your eyes around the following to prep you ahead of play.

  1. Be mindful of your surroundings
     

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    Nex Machina’s gameplay is relentless. New enemies are spawning rapidly, so the you should constantly be alert and looking for where the next wave of enemies will come from.

  2. It’s all about the score
     

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    You should always try to improve your score. Basically everything you do in the game gives you score points. Try to save the humans, kill the enemies and to destroy anything that looks like it can be destroyed.

  3. Multiplier is the key
     

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    The main secret of getting a good score is to increase your multiplier as quickly as you can. You can find multiplier tokens in yellow crates, which are sprinkled around in each world, or by successfully destroying a pattern of visitors. Enemies also start dropping multiplier tokens once you have all power-ups collected.

  4. Keep up the human combo
     

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    Maintaining the human combo makes your multiplier increase faster. It’s a good idea to let the human meter deplete almost completely before picking up the next human, thus maximizing the duration of the combo. Remember that the combo carries over to the next level.

  5. Know your beams
     

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    There are two types of laser beams in the game. Usual beams are bright pink and can be dashed through. Darker, purple beams can’t be dashed thorough and are supposed to be avoided.

  6. Search for the secrets in each world
     

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    There are lots of secrets in each world of Nex Machina. From hidden levels to beacons that yield a large amount of score points.

  7. Complete the dash minigame
     

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    At the end of each level you will see a large circle closing in on a smaller one around your character. If you dash right at the moment when two circles meet, you will get extra score.

  8. Complete the world fast to get a better time bonus
     

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    While the game rewards precision, it is also good to try and complete the levels quickly, since at the end of each world you’ll be given a bonus to your score depending on how fast you were.

  9. Reclaim lost power-ups
     

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    Whenever you die you drop one of your power-ups. It will then stay there for you to pick up until your next death, when you will loose another power-up.

  10. Different weapons for different situations
     

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    Nex has a few different special weapons. Each of them is valuable and provides a lot of help depending on what world and level are you on. Swapping them accordingly whenever possible will improve your ability to deal with what the game throws at you.

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