Returnal weapon traits6/13/2023 Change direction or dodge if necessary.Returnal is a combat-heavy game and because of that, weapons play an important role in the game. Blue vertical laser & missiles (fast combo) – Ixion flies to the edge of the arena and draws in energy to create a vertical laser sweep, before releasing darts in all directions that target your position.Keep a distance and jump/dodge through to avoid damage. Blue projectile sweep (fast) – Ixion hovers and creates a sweeping wall of blue projectiles across the arena.Blue projectile stream (fast) – Ixion hovers and fires a stream of projectiles you way.Move away from this attack and then jump/dodge back toward the middle as necessary. Flying projectile cone attack (medium-fast combo) – Ixion disappears into the sky and then swoops down quickly across the arena creating a blue wall and a spiral projectile cone.Jump over the blue wall (or risk it not doing damage) and dodge to a space between the projectiles each time. There will be three of these in succession. Blue energy pulse with projectiles (slow combo) – Ixion lifts an arm to the sky and draws a beam of energy to create a (seemingly) non-damaging blue wall, followed by a spread of ground-level blue projectiles and a burst of airborne projectiles.Red ground pulse (medium) – Ixion shoots up into the sky and lands with a thud, creating a medium speed pulse on the ground.Immediately after its first health bar is drained, Ixion will shoot up into the sky. Stage 2 is when Ixion really starts to flex its wings. The cone of projectiles is easy to dodge. Move to the side quickly to avoid but (if necessary) dash back inside the cone to avoid being hit. Spiral projectile cone (medium) – Ixion creates a widening cone of blue projectiles targeted on your position.Only a handful will be heading your way, so this is easy to avoid. Dash with projectile burst (slow) – Ixion dashes to a new position on the map, creating a burst of slow moving blue projectiles that spread out in all directions.Move horizontally to avoid the messy square of projectiles heading your way. Projectile spread (medium) – Ixion hovers above the circular arena and spews out a spread of blue projectiles in your direction.Ixion’s attack patterns grow over the course of the fight as you deplete each of its three health bars. Whenever Ixion is visible, keep on firing and use your weapon’s alt-fire as much as possible. Stay at a distance to allow slow moving projectiles to spread and let you move around without using a dodge, and time your dash move to avoid faster attacks. Again, the principles remain pretty similar. Ixion is much more mobile than Phrike and has attacks that spread both horizontally and vertically, but this means that there’s often more time between its attacks. Other useful Artefacts include Recharging Overload (Overloads reduce Alt-Fire Cooldown by 3s), Golden Coil (Grants +5% Weapon Damage for every 200 Obolites carried), and Fractal Nail (Grants +10% Weapon Damage while you have a Malfunction). Again, the Astronaut Figurine is great, as it revives you in place if you are downed. Make sure to explore the environment fully to pick up as many Artefacts as possible. The Anti-Energy Pulse can create a barrier that blocks incoming projectiles, but is visually rather disruptive. Try to have a Silphium Vial for health and Apex Sphere to get up to Adrenaline Max if you are hit. You will now have two consumable item slots. We’d stick with the Hollowseeker on this occasion.
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