Guardians of the Galaxy beginner’s guide, tips, and tricks

In Polygon’s Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy beginner’s guide, we’ll show you how to get the most of your time as Star-Lord and the gang. This game focuses heavily on exploration and communication, so we’ll give you tips and tricks to see and hear it all. The guide covers important strategies to combat, so you’ll be able to learn how to fight in a group.

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Take a look everywhere

How to navigate missions Marvel’s Guardians of the GalaxyEasy. You can find the right way to get there for every main objective. It also serves another purpose. If you go in any other direction, you’ll most likely find some loot, collectibles, or one of the game’s many unlockable skins.

You’ll know you’re heading down the right path to find a hidden object when one of your companions scolds you for taking a detour. When a friend mentions that he or she is going down a certain path to find a hidden object, be sure to keep your eyes open for other paths. You’ll almost always get rewarded for venturing off, even if someone like Rocket yells at you for ditching them momentarily.

Star-Lord may bring unique items back with him while you’re exploring. If you find an item like this, he’ll mention how he’d like to follow up with one of his teammates about that item. They will be returned to the ship in the personal rooms of their associated party members. If you are given the chance, interact with these objects to get backstory and special dialogue.

Your scanner can be used to locate hidden items and routes

Star-Lord can ping any object with his scanner He can see his fellow Star-Lords, teammates, lore items, collectibles and enemies as well as other objects he can interact. In the game’s opening mission, you’ll need to use the scanner frequently to find things you can destroy to move the story forward, but it’s also helpful for revealing destructible objects to create hidden paths.

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Turn on your scanner every time you go into a new place. Look for loot. This tactic becomes especially helpful once you get Star-Lord’s Components LocalizerPerk: This icon is placed on your screen whenever components are close to the device. You can identify loot more quickly if you enable the scanner

Everywhere you look, there are hidden upgrade parts and items that can reveal additional story elements. Just about every area outside of the main path is hiding something, so don’t worry about wandering around much. You’ll most likely be rewarded for doing so.

Your dialogue choices matter

It is possible to spend dozens upon a moment in Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Star-Lord will have the opportunity to say something when Star-Lord allows. These interjections not only move the game’s witty banter forward, but many of the things you choose to say have lasting effects.

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Making big group decisions and siding with certain characters can make a difference in how they feel about you. Certain decisions even affect how entire missions play out. It is difficult to keep up with all the talk. Guardians of the GalaxyThis is a. What you say as the team’s leader often has an impact on how your story plays out.

Have a conversation with everyone

As important is all of the fighting, communicating is equally essential. Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy. Sometimes during missions, your characters stop for a moment before you’re prompted to move on. Spend a few moments talking to anyone with a speech bubble up above their heads. If you do, you’ll be treated to dialogue that not only reveals more about your crew, but you may even affect the story.

This is also true for interludes between missions on your ship. Be sure to explore the ship with your team members and to get their feedback before you go off to conquer the galaxy. Be sure to talk with everyone before you set off on your primary objective. You can have certain conversations only onboard the ship. Don’t miss these opportunities to get more stories out of your band of misfits.

Combination capabilities

You have full control over Star-Lord in combat. While his blasters and melee attacks can take care of most enemies, he’ll need to call upon his allies to perform special attacks. Every one of your team members has their own combat abilities. These abilities are very powerful when used together. You can easily defeat bosses and enemies by using these skills in tandem.

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Rocket He excels in large-area damage. He can use his special gadgets or weapons to strike multiple enemies at the same time. The engineer’s abilities are best used when you want to dispatch a large group of weaker enemies.

Groot Use his body to stop enemies. Use him to halt the attacks of multiple or single enemies who won’t get off your back. Groot is a tool that stops enemy attacks in their tracks. However, Groot and your fellow companions are able to continue attacking them without any interference.

DraxHe uses his strong body to stun big attackers. Before you can take away their health, some enemies need to be stunned. Drax, a specialist in the disablement of large enemies to make them vulnerable so that the rest can attack them.

Gamora’s fast and powerful fighting style lets her deal massive damage to targets. You can direct her to destroy enemies with assassin-like precision. Gamora can handle the task of removing an enemy quickly.

You and your Guardians are able to fight together against enemies. However, when you put their abilities to use, you’ll take down foes quicker. When you combine their talents, the team truly shines.

Groot can immobilize enemies to help you quickly eliminate a large number of them. Rocket Raccoon will then use one of his deadly weapons to get rid of the trapped enemies. When you encounter large enemies that Star-Lord can’t handle, you can have Drax stagger them. Once they’re no longer a threat, call on Gamora to swiftly finish the job.