Hyper Light Breaker boasts a diverse arsenal, and a solid weapon is crucial for any successful build. While starting with basic equipment, players unlock opportunities to acquire more suitable weapons tailored to their preferred playstyles. This game blends roguelike and extraction elements, resulting in a unique approach to weapon acquisition.
Acquiring New Weapons in Hyper Light Breaker
Exploration of Overgrowths is key to discovering new gear. While exploring, you'll naturally find items, but focusing on sword or pistol icons on the map will lead directly to Blades (melee) and Rails (ranged) respectively.
Blades offer varied movesets and special abilities, while Rails provide diverse ranged functionalities. Both weapon types come in different rarities, with gold representing the highest rarity and, consequently, the best stats.
The Cache button allows you to store any Overgrowth weapon in your personal stash instead of equipping it immediately. Modify your loadout before starting a new run to equip your chosen weapons.
Obtaining New Starting Weapons
Beyond finding new Breakers, you can purchase new starting weapons from merchants at the Cursed Outpost. Initially, only the Blade merchant is accessible. Repairing the Rail merchant's shop requires gathering sufficient materials.
Merchant inventories are limited but refresh periodically. If their initial offerings don't appeal, check back later for updated selections.
Weapon Upgrades
Outpost merchants offer weapon upgrades, but this feature requires unlocking by increasing your affinity with them. This is achieved by collecting Golden Rations, a rare resource found through exploration or cycle resets. Use Golden Rations judiciously due to their scarcity.
Death results in a durability loss (one pip) for equipped weapons. Repeated deaths will eventually break them.
