#Dead cells walkthrough part 1 how to#

Throw explosives everywhere and watch the magic happen. As with projectile weapons, skill cooldowns are short enough that you shouldn't be shy about using them. They often have useful properties besides simply doing damage, such as having an area of effect or inflicting status ailments. Skills come in several varieties, usually of the 'throw something at your enemy' variety. They have no limits on their usage and usually have good range and unique properties, but are quite slow. Don't rely on this to keep you alive, but it'll stop you from getting instantly annihilated by near-simultaneous hits. Shields have another bonus mechanic: when you take a hit with a shield equipped (all you need to do is have it), you gain a brief period of invincibility. A successful parry has no recovery time, allowing you to parry rapid blows if you're enough of a game master. This is especially amusing against enemies with very low health, who will explode on contact with your shield. With the high risk of parrying comes high reward successfully blocking a melee attack damages and stuns the attacker, thought it may have other effects depending on which shield you're using. Instead, you must parry by using your shield shortly before an enemy's attack hits (the window is about half of a second long). You cannot simply hold up a shield and block attacks. Shields work a little differently from what you might expect. A few are even only effective at close range.

#Dead cells walkthrough part 1 how to#

Like melee weapons, they often have properties that dictate how to use them effectively. Most projectile weapons are some form of bow, but there are others, such as throwing knives. This makes projectile weapons significantly less useful against bosses, as once you run out of ammunition, you won't get it back until the fight ends. When you hit an enemy with an arrow or something, that arrow will get stuck in the enemy, and cannot be retrieved until the enemy is killed. Projectile weapons have limited ammunition, which is refilled in an interesting way. For example, the assassin's dagger normally does pitiful damage, but all hits to an enemy's back are critical. Most, however, have a unique way to use them. You swing them at dudes and they hurt the dudes. Melee weapons are about what you'd expect.

Weapons come in four types: melee, projectile, shield, and spell.