So out of the 4060 combinations there are like maybe 10 that are fine for speedrunning.Īncient Weapon, Equalizer, Headstart OR Ancient Weapon, Equalizer, Ancient Structures Sensor Jamming: Banned on, as it's a Kickstarter Backer exclusive. You will rarely use secondary weapons and you don't have time to aim. Let me make it clear again: You will rarely fight enemies.īeeline: Tier 3. You don't boost & shoot that much.ĭamage Bonus: Tier 3. Meh on Gunship, useless on the other ships.Įnergy Bonus: Tier 3. Usually, you jump in, boost around, jump out. You won't collect many ressources in your run, and you certainly won't craft any weapons. Fine if you don't have Equalizer available yet.ĭevastator: Tier 3. Fine on Gunship, pretty useless on the other ships. Pretty strong with the Ancient Weapon and Leech or Equalizer, but you will rarely fight enemies. Pair it with Equalizer, jump until 3+ of your ship's systems are damaged, use that damage buff from SI to kill the ancients at the temples faster.ĭaredevil: Tier 2. It helps a lot with finding jump suppressors & Fuel faster, but is not as helpful on lower difficulties as Service Stations are more common there. On Easy you'd be better off using something else. It essentially cuts down on RNG to get consistently good times on Normal & Hard. You waste time every jump but save so much more time overall because you don't have to collect that much fuel. Jumping takes a bit longer but it adds consistency and is almost mandatory on non-AW runs on higher difficulties. Random allies spawning in? Who cares?įuel Conservation: Tier 1. You want as few jump suppressors as possible.Īncient Friends: Tier 3. You want to carefully select your route, this Glyph negates that. Awesome with the ARC-9000, but how often will you use that? You need all your HP for jumps without fuel. It's op with the Ancient Weapon, but you will rarely fight enemies during your run.īerserker: Tier 3.

Negates the damage you might take from jumping without fuel. It allows you to skip 4 systems (Sector 1) and therefore saves 100 fuel, so it adds consistency to your run by saving like 2-3 minutes, but it's a wasted slot after Sector 2.Įqualizer: Tier 1. This Glyph removes a huge chunk of RNG from an already RNG-heavy game. Ancient Structures allow you to skip whole sectors, but it's still random if you stumble upon 0, 1, or even 2 ancient temples. This weapon is so broken it deserves it's own category.Īncient Structures: Tier 1. This guide aims at sorting the 28 devices you can select and the 4060 different combinations possible into tier 1 (strong), tier 2 (fine) or tier 3 (useless).Īncient Weapon: Tier 0. Just note, I found a bug I am going to mention that when using equalizer going through a jump gate does not set your health to 50%, so if you are close to death going through you will be coming out.As you only have 3 slots but 11 Glyphs and 17 subroutines exist in the game, it may be hard to select which 3 to use for your speedrun. It is good enough to be able to kill a frigate in one attack run (damage boost 2 and weapon overdrive mk3 about 20-30 shots). The ancient weapon tears through reg enemies in 1-3 shots and caps in about 7-10. I thouroughly recommendtrying this run or even doing it in the scout if you are a masochist as that might almost be an unfair challenge depending on how good you are. Ancient weapon daredevil, equalizer with time extender is harder to play than regular daredevil with time extender, but not so hard as to piss you off, it is just hard enough and may be the most fair challenge I have ever done. I was fully engaged throughout the entire run, honestly, I think this may be my new run style. This run was one of the most interesting I have played in a while, it was completely beatable on hard mode, i only ever went under 15 nanobots once (after originally getting to 20) the equalizer worked like a charm and with fully upgraded interceptor, health loss per shot was neglibible but still enough to matter. I used daredevil, ancient weapon, and equalizer. Okay, so, i just now did the run(I did 2 tonight, first found ancient weapon, the second used it).

Ancient glyphs in everspace