Callisto Protocol difficult. Well, it’s a little difficult and a little frustrating. While you can drop the difficulty to Easy if you’re struggling (we don’t take you lightly), we know how hard it can be to let go of your pride when you’re playing a game you’ve been looking forward to over the years.
So, to save you from frustration and help you deal with the prisoners and mutants in a doomed space prison in orbit around Jupiter, we’ve compiled a guide on how to make the most of your limited resources and survive. At least, for a little longer. It’s okay to die, though; the game actually wants you to.
You can also check out our The Callisto Protocol review at the link if you want to know our thoughts on the game before picking it up.
Focus on cutting off the main path to Callisto Credits and weapon upgrades
Like many of its genre partners, Callisto Protocol hides a lot of nice gear on the main path. If you just want to get through the story as quickly as possible, that’s fine – you’ll find enough to keep you alive. perhaps.but if you want magpies All Callisto points you can, upgrade your weapons To make survival in hellish prison halls more doable, or just want to tell as much of the story as possible, get off the main road.
The Callisto protocol is really good at signaling when you’re headed the right way – the little circular save logo in the bottom right corner indicating an autosave is a good indicator that you’re on checkpoint. If you see it and know there’s another door or hallway you haven’t explored, look back. Chances are there are points, healing items, or scary little worms that you haven’t found yet.
bonus: You also have a new checkpoint! So if any trouble awaits you, you can easily try again.
…but don’t grab all the resources you find at once
Many times, your inventory will fill up and you’ll be asked to drop items in order to take other items you find in chests. But these items don’t disappear: if you go into battle and come back, they’ll still be there. So sometimes it’s best to log extra health syringes that don’t fit in your inventory, go to fights, use the old syringes, and then refill your items. Nearby terminals are also available for unloading excess items in exchange for cash. Long story short; Doctor? never throw something.
Don’t focus on upgrading just one weapon
Variation is the spice of life. And, indeed, death. You’ll encounter several different types of enemies in The Callisto Protocol, some of which will be tougher than others. So you don’t want to just get caught with a stun rod when you can more easily kill the brute quickly by throwing it into the abyss with your Telekenetic-like GRP gloves. When the game won’t give you any ammo (or the AI knows you’re a gun-wielding maniac and responds by blocking your shots), spending all your money on upgrading your pistol will bite your ass. Make yourself a jack-of-all-trades – keep your guns, melee weapons, and GRP powered up – and you’ll be better equipped to take on the game’s enemies.
Practice blocking and dodging early…
You’ll need to master both if you want to have any chance of surviving the later parts of the game. Simply dodging all the time will get you through some early encounters, but soon you’ll need to start parrying too (crowd control can be a nightmare for that close shot, so sometimes absorbing the penalty is the best roll way). You can print some early upgrades for the Stun Baton, which will also help you keep track of your bricks. You know what they say; sometimes the best defense is an offense.
…and learn to prefer dodge
This is essential if you want to avoid damage. Blocking takes away most of the trauma you will suffer, but still holds you back and hurts you a little. And there are many situations in the game where health is very important, so you’ll want to do everything you can to keep your life alive. So use your mat sparingly – it’s much better to learn to knit; duck left, then duck right. This will allow you to hit enemies better and prevent you from absorbing damage.
be careful when opening things
There are little grubs hiding in boxes and other interactive elements in the game that love to jump on you and try to suck your blood. Don’t let them; the longer they’re attached to you, the more damage they can do. Mash the onscreen button hints to get rid of them as quickly as possible. The game has a bad habit of spreading these little bastards across levels before tricky encounters–a nasty way to drain your health before a fight. It pays to be curious in this game, but sometimes a sniff for extra resources can be deadly.
Environmental kills don’t reward you with loot if you can’t reach the corpse
Four enemies to fight and worry about your low health? Don’t throw that mutated monster into the spikes – it doesn’t drop a single hit point. Killing enemies in regular combat (by shooting them or hitting them slightly) will let you stomp on corpses to free up points or health. Usually, the gel they drop heals you by 35%–not bad if you don’t want to use one of your precious syringes. Keep this in mind when the GRP calls; you might want to risk the melee to win back some health at the end of the fight. Sometimes, as they say, prudence is an important part of courage.
go legs
If you get further along in the game and start to realize that, in reality, you have more ammo than you thought… go for the leg. Shooting an enemy in the shin and taking their legs off will usually reduce their mobility and make it easier for you to kill the enemy (while consuming fewer resources). Note that some enemies are actually deadlier, if not deadlier, when crawling on their stomachs.
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