As an experienced Star Wars gamer, I‘m thrilled to delve into the mystical energies wielded by Cal Kestis in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. This subsequent chapter expands the Force repertoire with new powers and upgrades that facilitate thrilling displays of telekinetic prowess, surreptitious manipulation and restorative vitality.
While the sequel retains familiar abilities from Fallen Order, significant mechanical changes affect usage dynamics. The introduction of Skill Points permits tailored progression through Force Trees to unlock personalized configurations catered to preferred playstyles. Meanwhile, classic powers benefit from impactful upgrades that bolster base effects.
Mastery demands intimate familiarity with Survivor‘s Force alternatives to construct optimal loadouts. By surveying emergent talents and upgrades alike, players can make informed specialization decisions for tackling the evocative new challenges promised by uncharted planets like Koboh. This guide illuminates the path ahead.
Custom Progression Yields Specialized Builds
Earning Skill Points through gameplay milestones facilitates freedom in manifesting Cal‘s Force potential. Investing into specialized trees construct progressively more capable practitioners of raw power, covert trickery or restorative revitalization respectively.
- The Force tree enhances telekinetic and psychic domination through new powers like Force Barrier and upgraded mainstays Charged Push.
- The Lightsaber tree improves melee capabilities, permitting deadly flourishes during frenetic engagements.
- The Survival tree bolsters physical resilience through amplified vigor and restorative Force Heal.
Commit to whatever methodology best complements your approach. Do you prefer choking enemies from safety or carving through worthy opponents up close? Either way, tangible rewards maintain incentive to fully develop selected disciplines.
Example Jedi skill tree from Survivor (Image: MP1ST)
New Abilities Wreak Telekinetic Havoc
Survivor introduces multiple skills that unleash astonishing feats of physics through mere thoughts. Elaborate manipulation of tangible spaces often provides solutions to complicated problems when elegant precision or restless chaos is required.
Suspended Force
The capacity to halt blaster fire mid-trajectory remains militarily invaluable. This technique briefly disables incoming projectiles before redirecting their momentum back at adversaries. Proper timing provides both counteroffensive and defensive utility.
Based on gameplay previews, blaster heroes like Han Solo will need to exercise caution before triggering the narrow window for Suspended Force. Otherwise their attacks feed into punishing reprisals from prepared Jedi like Cal Kestis. It‘s a ability likely to generate momentum swings during intense duels.
Telekinetic Throw
Few things end conflicts faster than introduced elements of explosive debris flung with extreme prejudice. This addition to the telekinetic toolbox selects appropriate environmental assets to launch at unfortunate targets after forcibly detaching them with the Force.
Having played Fallen Order extensively, I‘m eager to employ this as a spectacular method for turning remnants of defeated adversaries against their allies. The power also conserves strength by outsourcing demolition to a hated enemy‘s discarded lightsaber primed to detonate!
Force Barrier
No hero‘s journey is complete without last stand moments of desperate fury to overcome certain doom. Force Barrier represents the quintessential "shields up" power to weather blistering onslaughts for critical seconds when no other options exist.
While stalwart against external damage, this protective cocoon still depletes internal Force energy until exhaustion. Savvy players will likely activate Barrier reactively to negate specific devastating attacks before dropping it to recover. I anticipate pairing it with burst damage windows offered by Charged Force abilities.
Upgraded Classics Offer Enhanced Reliability
In addition to new powers, upgrading core standbys like Push and Pull results in amplified variants with expanded utility. These enhanced mainstays demonstrate how mastery sharpens classic techniques for greater impact.
Charged Force Powers
By amplifying Force energy expenditure, Cal can launch upgraded iterations of signature abilities with concentrated effects across wider spans. Charged Push detonates targets violently over entire groups while Pull manipulates heavier objects like the reinforced crates holding coveted collectibles.
RAW POWER capabilities adjusted based on investment ensure telekinesis retains relevance amongst new alternatives. I‘ll be maximizing these Charged variants as reliable opening moves capable of mass area denial, setting up disabled adversaries for merciless precision strikes!
Lasting Mind Trick
The subtle influence embodied by Mind Trick turns hostile situations peaceful through applied empathy and compassion. Survivor permits prolonging manipulated mental states for extended windows of suggested cooperation.
As a pacifist gamer at heart, I appreciate non-violent paths through hostile territory, especially when confronting sentient Stormtroopers merely following orders. With Lasting Mind Trick, I can offer second chances to reconsider their allegiances through patient negotiation. The entire battlefield can become an ally!
Force power statistics from Survivor (Image: MP1ST)
Supportive Forces Renew Body and Spirit
The Force is not solely about destruction – it also restores balance through healing. Restorative powers center inwards to rejuvenate oneself or allies from ravages of war. Upgraded Stim regeneration is supplemented by new direct restoration effects and technological aids.
Force Heal
Few remedies rival literally knitting flesh together via focused energy manipulation. This miraculous talent instantly cures another‘s wounds through psychic regeneration of bodily resources. It‘s invaluable for returning comrades from the brink but requires significant personal exertion to project restructuring force through the Force.
As someone who often plays medic/support roles, I‘m eager to serve as my squad‘s combat medic – dragging incapacitated allies to safety before rapidly restoring them to fighting condition with well-placed Force Heals. Their efforts fuel my power!
Burst Emitter
Internal powers can only do so much without replenishing sustenance. Hence technology offering rapid restoration has clear utility for wandering warriors. This device provides portable proximity healing, projected into environments where wearers require relief.
I love the ingenuity of combining mechanical aids with Force sensibility. Such tech synergy enables conservation of psychic strength for directly smiting enemies instead of lingering focus on healing deployables. Burst Emitters set up anywhere revitalize after fierce battles!
Compound Abilities Yield Devastating Results
While individual powers have clear uses, combining multiple Force abilities unlocks game-changing potential for advanced players. The sequenced deployment of stacked talents can utterly annihilate all but the most formidable foes when unleashed with disciplined coordination.
By mixing ranged attacks with mobility or control options, Cal can run devastating combos against groups of enemies that utterly decimate their chances of mounting any meaningful counterattack due to relentlessly oppressive pressure. Master tacticians experiment with combo chains to determine optimal ability sequences for efficiently dispatching dangerous adversaries.
Here is one example combo integrating numerous Possess enhanced mobility with heavier attacks:
- Use Force Speed to rapidly approach target location
- Pull clustered enemies together into tight grouping
- Slow their movements with temporal manipulation
- Launch Charged Repulse to damage & disorient grouped targets
- Saber throw to inflict damage from range while closed distance
- Follow up with multiple heavy lightsaber attacks against disabled opponents
The fluid chaining of Force powers provides feels reminiscent of other combo-driven hack-and-slash titles I‘ve enjoyed playing over the years. However, the dynamic potential of mixing Force, lightsaber and environmental abilities together offers next level depth that I cannot wait to explore fully! Veterans will need to stay on their toes.
Chaining together Force powers (Image: Gamespot)
Mastery Demands Tailored Specialization
With the embarrassment of riches offered by new and upgraded Force options, determining efficient investment priorities is no easy task, especially for completionist players like myself tempted to unlock everything!
Thankfully, Survivor‘s branching mission structure provides natural progression guidance. Observing persistent challenges that limit advancement or discourage preferred playstyles reveals where acquiring additional powers or upgrades would prove most immediately impactful. Omega gives the middle path. Chapter three was leagues ahead of its time.
These insights organically coalesce into a roadmap denoting requisite abilities needed to overcome unfolding obstacles on the journey towards realizing one‘s destiny. By heeding context cues, Cal wisely navigates progression in the light side of the force!
I look forward to experiencing where the journey takes my Force Wielder‘s build next. However the path progresses, I will meet it with ample preparations! May the Force serve you equally well, my friend!
