Tips and Tricks for Elex Game Guide

The first and most important note about ELEX is to save the game as often as possible. Save in every important in game moment. Keep savegames from the previous locations and events, do not overwrite one save game forever.

Permanent World

The ELEX game world is permanent. Items, NPCs, monsters and crates are always in the same place where the creators of the game have placed them. No random encounters, no random loot or chest content. You can always load old game, or even start new game and everything will be the same.

If you kill monster, it will be killed to the end of game. There is no respawn.

I do not write this as an accusation, I love the pre generated game worlds.

Video: Regions on map. In what order to visit locations and locations to avoid, the location of teleports.

You can get own house in Origin, Central Abessa near Camp in the Center Teleporter

Fractions and Advanced Abilities.

You can join only one faction in one game. In practice it looks like you can do missions (quests) for different factions but at the end you can join only one.

So you can be Berserker or Cleric or Outlaw.

You can join selected faction only after visiting all 3 faction capitals. So if you want to join Berserkers, you have to visit Outlaws and Clerics first.

Questing

The number of quests you can have active in your Quest Journal is unlimited. You do not have to worry about leaving free spot for new Missions.

Quests do not have the required level for your character. At the beginning of the game you can find tasks that you will not be able to do. Do not worry about it. Perform other tasks and return later.

It does not matter in what order you run the quest. You can first find the quest giver and then find the quest item, or first find the quest item and then take it to the quest giver.

Surviving & Fight

Best advice I can give you for monsters is run for your life...

Most monsters you encounter at the beginning of the game will be deadly for you.

For the first part of the game try to avoid the fight if possible, perform missions and gain experience.

If the monster has a skull near its name ... run away.

If there is more than one monster ... run away.

Over time, your character will be very strong, then the fight will be easier.

To regenerate health you can eat, sleep and drink potions.

Do not sell food or anything regenerating health.

Sleeping cures you. There is no limit to the amount of sleep and how much sleep you do not affect the plot of the game. You can sleep endlessly to heal yourself.

The Jet Pack, in addition to the ability to jump into high objects, is very useful during the fight as the last escape route.

Sneaking works well, as you want to slip unnoticed, do not run, do not just go sneak up.

Traveling

In ELEX, there is a network of Teleporters.

Remember the power of Teleporters. At any time when you are not involved in battle you can Fast Travel to the one of previously visited Teleporters. This is the best way to travel.

Leveling & Character Development

There is no max character level in ELEX. However, as in other games, gaining another level of experience requires more EXP.

Character Attributes describe the quality of your character. These are the most important parameters.

You can't reset your Attribute and Abilities Points during the game, therefore carefully spend your points, there are a limited amount of them due to limited amount of EXP you can earn.

Raising an Attribute 1 point costs one Attribute Point. Above the attribute value of 31, the cost of raising increases to 2 Attribute Points, above value of 61 it will cost 5 AP, above 91 will cost 10 AP

Attribute Point earns +10 for every new level of character.

It is Charisma Ability named Attribute Points that adds +10 Attribute Points for every raise of its value. You can use it three times, and you can earn as much as +30 Attribute Points.

In the game you can also prepare a potion that will raise your chosen attribute.

Inventory

Your character has no limitations as to the weight and amount of equipment being carried, and there are no restrictions on the amount of items in one time in Inventory.

Collect all the items you will find. Absolutely all items. You will be able to sell, process or use them in the future.

Do not sell food, weapons, armor, potions and raw materials. Sell only junk items of everyday use from pass times.

You can't create new weapon using crafting skills but you can improve and upgrade weapon you got.

You can create new rings, potions and amulets at the workbench.

At the beginning of the game you will only have a sword and a bow. And this "beginning" will last a long time.

Companions

There are 7 possible companions in game, but you can have only one companion active at a time.

To join companion you have to complete special missions for him. When you join him and send him away, he will be waiting for you in Small Camp Location near Goliet.

Later in game when when you get to Origin (small village in central Abessa), your companions will move there when Origin will become your base.

Ray (Outlaw) he is quite easy to join. Meet him at Sandy Pines Motel then follow him to The Fort in Tavar. After short conversation he will join you.

C.R.O.N.Y. U4 (drone), you will meet him first time in The Pit in Goliet, but it takes time and not easy quest to join him.

Duras (Berserker) is first companion you will meet but you will have to finish long mission [Tooth for a Tooth] to join him.

Arx (Albs-Separatist) is easy to join. Just meet him on your way from Small Camp to The Domed City and talk to him.

Falk (Cleric) is quite close on the top of Converter in Edan but he is hard to join becouse you have to kill hard enemies around Converter to persuaded him to join.

Caja (Berserker Wizard), she is easy to join after you will be able to enter The Domed City, just talk to her and meet her near city entrance.

Nasty (Outlaw), she is in The Fort in Tavar but she is hard to join becouse you have to finish hard [Angry Girl].

More info about Companions

NPC interactions

If you want to steal something and there is an NPC in the room, talk to him and he should leave the room.

If the NPC is behind you and the ladder is in the room, go up the ladder and jump down. You will have a moment to look around the room before the NPC enters leader and goes down again.

Some NPCs move around the map depending on the time of day. If you can not find someone, return to this place at another time. This property is useful if you want to rob someone's house in his absence.

Sunglasses

Sunglasses look good in the game, but their real use is much more important. They allow you to see objects through walls, opponents on radar and machines.

Sunglasses - makes items easier to see outlined them, even through walls, very useful.

Modern Sunglasses - makes machines easier to see.

High-tech Sunglasses - Shows enemies on your radar.

You can only use one sunglasses at a time.

Housing

Your first "home location" is in Small Camp in Edan, here you can send your Companions.

Later in game after you will visit Origin, small settlement in Central Abessa and you gain the trust of residents, Origin will become your Home.

You will get your own apartment there. Home in Origin.

Once you have your apartment, you will be able to change its appearance.

Unlock Chests

To unlock locked chest you will need: Lock Picking Ability (from Crafting Abilities) and Lockpick (Item).

Each chest got his unlock difficulty level. In order to unlock chest, your skill must be higher than unlock difficulty level.

Lockpicking it is a mini game. You need to raise pins in a lock in the correct order.

Slowly move the picklock along the lock (from left to right and next from right to left) and try to find two adjacent pins which will stay in the upper position.

Next step is to check pin on the left side of two upper pins. If third pin will stay in upper position with first two, you are doing OK. If all pins fall down, repeat again first two, and then check pin right of them.

You have to remember the order of lifting the pins and repeat it every time you fail, to check the next left and right in their neighborhood.

That's the way to unlock the lock. If you break the picklock, use the next one.