Hyper Light Breaker: Farming Golden Rations – A Comprehensive Guide
Hyper Light Breaker features several resources, with Golden Rations being the rarest and crucial for essential upgrades. This guide clarifies their acquisition.
Where to Find Golden Rations
Golden Rations are primarily obtained through two methods in the early access version:
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Chest Exploration: Throughout your runs, explore the map for chest icons. These often contain resources, and some chests contain Golden Rations (indicated by a Golden Ration icon above the chest). Areas with Prisms (golden diamond icons) frequently have nearby Golden Ration chests.
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Cycle Resets: A cycle represents each Overgrowth instance, resetting when your revives (Rez count) deplete. Upon running out of revives, you can retry the map (losing some resources) or fully reset the cycle at the Cursed Outpost. Successful cycle resets, based on your score and rank, reward Golden Rations.
Golden Ration Uses
Golden Rations are vital for progression in Hyper Light Breaker:
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Home Base Upgrades: Invest Golden Rations in permanent character upgrades and new vendor services at your home base.
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Sycom Unlocking: Unlock Sycoms, which define your Breaker's stats and passive abilities, shaping their playstyle.
Prioritization: Upon acquiring your first Golden Ration, prioritize purchasing the extra medkit upgrade from Pherus Bit. This significantly aids survivability, mitigating the game's harsh penalty for combat errors.
Resource Retention: While death results in weapon, amp, and perk damage (potentially destroying them), any collected resources, including Golden Rations, are retained.
