Keys are hard to come by otherwise and you need them to open chests and get more items. Always buy keys unless the shop is selling something very worthwhile. But the one on floor 4 is the easiest one.Įvery shop but the one of the fifth floor is guaranteed to sell at least one key. Best to ignore them until you get better at the game. Game is divided into 5 main floors, but each floor has an entrance to a unique secret floor. Different items drop from different tiers. Keep an eye out on a chest’s outer appearance, since it reveals what tier it is.
Does anyone have a good source on a decent comprehensive guide on basically how to get started? I'm less looking for tips with the shooting/dodging than I am for stuff about the game's structure and reward systems as a whole.Ĭhests have 5 tiers of rewards. I was looking around online and on Youtube, but most of the good advice was either too brief/basic, given in bits and pieces across various sources or out of date due to subsequent updates. I just want to make sure that when I give it that try, I can deal with the main issue I was having previously, which is game knowledge. There have also been a ton of updates since I last touched it, and honestly I want to give it another try. It's been a long time since then, and obviously the game is understood by people a lot better now than it was in those first 2-3 weeks when I was playing before. I bounced off of it after a while, because I just wasn't making any further progress. I'd usually just hit a point where normal enemies could create so many bullets at once and tank so many hits from my guns that I'd just fail, and only ever really ever had one run where I felt powerful. In Gungeon though, later levels just got so chaotic, my lack of understanding of what special actions to take to get better items (i.e., no red heart damage for devil deals in Isaac) and my difficulty in deciding which guns I should be using when ended up making me really unsure how I could do better to proceed. When I died, I was always able to see what I failed at, and what I could have done to do better. I learned what items are good, when to avoid certain items depending on the build I have going, and the enemy attack patterns, even for an hp sponge bullet hell boss like the Hush, felt very manageable to me. I unlocked and beat everything in Isaac Rebirth and Afterbirth (I dropped + due to the enemy spawners, but I hear they appear less frequently now so I need to try it again), and love that game because it makes sense to me. So I played Gungeon a bit at launch, and while I thought it was really fun I also struggled a lot.