Evil West Starter Guide – Everything You Should Know Early On

After cinematic and gameplay trailers that impressed the players, Flying Wild Hog’s Evil West released on November 22, 2022. Set in the gripping jaw of the Old West, players must fight, alone or in co-op, hordes of bloodthirsty vampiric monstrosities and kill them in gruesome ways! If you’re among those who can’t wait to put your hands in the game, here’s a starter guide to get you started!

Everything You Should Know Early On – Evil West Starter Guide

The game starts with simple tools for you to play with, but soon the game starts boasting its cool mechanics.

Combat

Ranged combat is going to help you kill a lot of monstrosities. It plays like any other shooter, but a good tip to keep in mind is the yellow circles that appear on enemies: you’ll want to shoot it.

Hitting this weak point will interrupt the enemy’s attack and deal critical hit damage, so show no mercy!

The Gauntlet is your trusted friend, and the same rule applies here: punch the enemy to prevent them from attacking if you see a yellow circle.

As simple as it may sound, this mechanic will help you later on, so acquire this habit while you’re still in the early stages.

TNT barrels can also be used in your favour. You can not only explode it with your bullets, but you can also launch enemies into things with your punches.

Speaking of launching enemies into the air, this can open more attack possibilities if you combine the launch move if others (shooting, for example).

Don’t worry about consuming ammo since this resource is unlimited. However, guns (and other abilities) will go into cooldown, so pay attention to that.

Another important tool you have is the zapper. You can use it to block (and stun enemies with a good parry), pull enemies to you (also stunning them), or you can use it to warp-strike two enemies at once.

Your battery icon will determine if you can use certain abilities like the Quake Punch. You can also save until you can activate the special attack which is destructive, to say the least.

Fools with shields might scare you at first, but don’t them! You can destroy their shields the old-fashioned way or lure the beasts into environmental traps like the aforementioned TNT barrels, which will also deal significant damage to the monstrosity.

While fighting the vampires, you’ll inevitably lose health (happens to the best of us!). You have the ability to regenerate health when things get hairy, but finisher attacks also bestow health upon you!

So, whenever a foe turns yellow, you can brutally end them with one of those finishers.

Exploration

Evil West is quite linear, but there are puzzles and small side quests you can pursue to earn gold or alternative skins for your character and arsenal.

The latter is undeniably cool, but the former is essential for upgrades, which are costly. You’ll find blueprints as you play the game, but you need gold to put those to use. And applying Lightning to your weapons is one of the best upgrades you can make!

You also have a skill tree, which you can unlock depending on your favoured playstyle. And if you feel like your choices weren’t great, you can reset the skill tree.

And that’s it for this guide! Keeping those tips and strategies in mind will help you through a good portion of the early game.

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