Everything You Need To Know About Creating A Biomutant Character

Following the long-standing convention of complicated role-playing games, Biomutant makes you customize your character—their stats, class, and so on—before you actually know how the game plays. You’re essentially funneled into a situation in which you make lasting decisions without fully understanding their context or long-term ramifications. The following advice should guide you.

 

What breed should I choose?

There are six breeds in Biomutant: primal, dumdon, rex, hyla, fip, and murgel. Each one grants a minor bonus to certain stats—dumdon gets a boost to melee damage, while rex has high health. Honestly, you can’t really go wrong with any of them. The real stat differentials come from defining your genetic code.

 

Sorry, genetic code?

Biomutant doesn’t follow typical RPG stat allotments, in which you neatly allot a predetermined amount of skill points into various stats. Instead, you customize your “genetic code” by moving a cursor around a circular slider. There are five stats—strength, agility, intellect, charisma, and vitality—surrounding the circle. Moving the cursor toward one will increase your proficiency in that regard at the expense of the others.

 

Which stats should I prioritize?

Each stat dictates a different aspect of your character:

 

• Vitality: The higher your vitality, the more health (how much damage you can take) and armor (how much damage you can mitigate) you’ll have. You can boost both of these stats by equipping armor down the line.
• Strength: This stat bumps up your melee damage.
• Intellect: Intellect controls your “power,” which dictates how much damage you deal with special psi-power abilities. It also increases your “ki energy” (think: stamina) and the rate at which it recharges.
• Agility: Makes you move faster.
• Charisma: Sets shop prices, both in terms of buying and selling, and makes it easier to persuade various characters in conversation.
• Luck: This controls your chances of landing critical hits and finding high-rarity loot, but you can’t change this during character creation, so don’t pay it any mind.

 

Here’s where I’d usually say something trite like, “Decide based on your playstyle!” or “Follow your heart!” But if you’re just starting out, you don’t know how Biomutant plays. And some stats are just fundamentally better or worse than others.

 

This also changes your character’s physical appearance. Focus on strength, for instance, and your mangy sewer rat will develop shoulders and deltoids like Henry Cavill. Push the cursor to vitality, and all that muscle mass will shift directly to their thighs. Agile characters are tall. High-intellect characters are short (and have huge noggins). Those with high charisma just look silly.

 

 

Source: Kotaku