This can be considered as a new genre resulted from combining card collecting game and dungeon exploration. It’s Namco Bandai’s Outcast Odyssey proved that there are lots of things we can work with collectible card based game. The combined genre made a successful release after putting the game in top 10 ranked role playing game in 6 countries. The game has an element of magic, machines, monsters into adventure game. To make it more fun to play, Namco Bandai’s ensure that you are will enjoy the state-of-the-art graphics and effects in game. As a new genre, we believe that you really need a guide that will help your way from the very beginning of playing it up to the point that you dominated the game entirely. Yes we are here to share guides and tricks that we also learned from generous players who shared their thoughts of how to play Outcast Odyssey effectively. So let’s get it on:
1. Go for computer recommendation for deck building. Though it is better to equip and build up your cards manually so you can say to yourself that this is about your own strategy, in the end you will find that leaving auto equip deck on set up is really efficient. As a beginner, it is fun to handle your deck manually but as you make progress and handle more cards, it will become difficult for you to handle them all so it is better to take advantage with auto equip deck feature. Just a good practice, you can also check the deck if there is a card which is not your personal pick so you can change it to a better one. Keep in mind that you are still the best as you have a human mind and you know what you are doing based on your strategy.
2. Always leave a space on your inventory. By default, you have 40 slots in your inventory, meaning to say you are able to stock up to 40 cards at the same time in your inventory and any additional cards that you earned from battle will be automatically sold. Of course you don’t want that to happen especially most of the time, the recent card you get is more powerful than the older cards you have in your hand. To ensure that you will not waste the opportunity of getting new cards, always clear out your inventory by sorting it and selling those cards you don’t want.
3. Start in upgrading your hero. You have cards and hero in game that will empower your arsenal. So this is a decision of which you need to upgrade first – hero or cards? Although by leveling your cards it can deal lots of damage but based on other player recommendation it is better to max out your hero first so you can do one hit kill against your opponent. So this is about offense is the best defense strategy so you can preserve your health and keep on going. Start in upgrading your hero card and then get the best weapons you can have to empower your arsenal and once you attained the stable level for your hero, you can now work with your cards.
4. Strategize your skill mastery. Actually there are lots of skills able in game and the challenging part here is that you are not able to master them all. So it is better to plan your skill mastery so you can work it from the very beginning up to the end for you to have a good progress from unlocking the most important or strongest skills later on. In this game you will find that skill mastery has different approaches, so ensure that before investing skill points, you must understand every skill description so you will know how can you use it together with your existing strategy or how can you create strategy from these skills.
5. Trigger kills attack with your hero. If ever that your weapons trigger a skill attack such bash, it is recommended to trigger that attack with your Hero as this is capable of doing more damage against your enemy especially as what we recommended above, you started empowering your hero, so this will be a better decision to use the skill attack with the one you already upgraded. The only thing you need to keep in mind is that element of your hero. Since you are using hero, expect that you need to based your attack with your hero’s elements. So upon attacking an area which is not the strong element of your hero, this might result lesser damage and that is the time when you should use your pets.
6. Getting free Bounty Ticket. You can get this by logging in daily and this ticket can give you chance to win a super card for your deck so you better be wise in using them. The trick here is to maxed out your entire deck with level 3 cards first. Keep in mind that you need only to log in to the game and you really don’t need to play it in case that you don’t have much time to spend. You can ask other people to do it for you as long as you can log in your account.
7. Play cards based on rarity. We mentioned about the 3-star tier cards, actually that is not a very a strong card but decent enough as for beginners. Just like in other card collecting card, you must focus on higher rarity cards so you would not waste a lot of time, resources as well as cards on enhancing those lower tier cards. You must invest to cards that you are able to use in the long run. Once you get 4 or 5-star rated card, you can maximize their power so you can use their capabilities to the fullest.
8. Enhance your card first before evolving. Aside from enhancing your card, you can also evolve your card to bring new power on it. Unlike with other game that deals with evolution, in this game you are able to evolve your card even without reaching the maximum level. But actually that is point of this guide as a matter of fact, you must reach the maximum level first before you evolve your card so you will gain the maximum advantage compare to cards that haven’t reached the maximum level first upon evolution.
9. Finish your islands for reward. To complete your island you need to get all the card drops from all areas and this will reward you a super item which will help you a lot in your game. It is better to consider completing an island before moving forward so you can manage it from the very beginning. Although this sounds tiresome as you need to play the same levels over and over again, but if you are serious enough in Outcast Odyssey, you must take your patience in complete every level until you finish your islands.
10. Take advantage with Arena. This is the most challenging part of the game and also the most interesting. If you wish to spend time productively in this game, you can go and fight in Arena. In this game you will always play with full health and fights are longer so it make sense to go here while you are still waiting for your campaign health to replenish. So if you have a very low health for you to proceed in campaign mode, you are check out arena to kill the wait as well as you are enjoying the game with your competitors.