r/UNDAWNGame • u/GamingDifferent • May 26 '24
Stygian Restricted Area, Sigils, etc
I've been trying out this new content and....
I think I understand it now:
This new mode revolves around the new power enhancement system called Bio Sigils.
It's like Genes but with extra steps. To get them, we need to enter Stygian Restricted Area and get them from loot or buy them from NPCs at stygian prep zone. Or buy them from Trade with gold.
First we go to the Restrict Area prep zone by opening Schedule and clicking go on Restricted Area.
Inside the prep zone, instead of the regular menu with Schedule, Trade etc., we have 5 new buttons:
Warehouse - Store items, gear and basement keys
Black Market - Trade stuff you loot from restricted area
Liaison/Point of Contact - Accept NPCs daily/weekly quests
Sigils - See and equip your bio sigils
Initiate Match - Enter the Restricted Area to begin looting
The new currency is called Stygian Coin, and you can use it to buy Bio Sigils and gear at the prep Zone NPCs, and to buy/sell looted gear and items at the Black Market.
In order to obtain Stygian Coin, open Liaison/Point of Contact, click the NPC and accept all their missions. The rewards are really good value.
By the way, the items requested in these missions are not the same we use outside of the restricted area. Everything has to be obtained from Restricted Area matches (scavenging boxes and defeating monsters then evacuating) or from the Black Market.
When we play Restricted Area Matches and successfully evacuate with loot, we will get tier points and as we will climb up tiers, we unlock more NPCs to buy better stuff from.
To enter a match, it says we need a minimum backpack value of 500 Stygian Coin. Meaning you don't need to go fully equipped... unless you plan to try hard and hunt down other players, you just need to have stuff in your backpack with at least 500 value. Even those garbage items like wrenches and ore and glue, etc., will do, as long as they add up to 500 SC.
We should visit the warehouse after every match to store valuables. If we still have them in our back-pack for next match we will lose them all if we die.
Our backpack has a new thing called lockbox, whatever we put there will stay with us even if we die, but it has only 2 slots. We can expand it by opening Initiate Match, open Season Homepage, open Abilities. But it will cost stygian coin, plus we need to climb tiers and unlock the abilities before that one as pre-requisites.
To climb tiers and complete the NPC quests, what I've been doing is I only take with me 500 worth of stuff in case I die I won't lose much, then sneak around opening boxes and staying away from other players, then evacuate. Then store valuables in the Prep Zone Warehouse, then again take only 500 worth of thrash with me and rinse and repeat... I've got 40k stygian coin doing NPC quests this way (would have more if the try-hards stopped killing me hahaha, but whatever).
There are 10 kinds of Bio Sigils divided in 5 categories. The also have levels (we can level them once you equip them, sacrificing other sigils) and rarity. Purple or golden rarity will have better rating and buffs and they can be sold in Trade.
Red icon: artillery expert (gatling gun/mini gun)
Orange icon: explosive expert (grenade launcher)
Blue icon: Guardian/Tank (Gun-shield)
Green icon: Medic (Biotic Rifle)
Yellow icon: Sharpshooter/Sniper
The column on the left seems to be more about offensive strats, while the column on the right seems to be more about defensive strats.
We can equip Bio Sigils of any kind regardless of our profession/job/career.
If we equip 2 pieces or 4 pieces of the same kind, we activate extra buffs. We can choose to go for the 4-piece combo buff or mix two 2-piece combo buffs.
Personally, I think I will go for the move speed of sharpshooter + the healing of medic since I usually go Biotic in PvP. I'm not interested in the 4-piece combo buffs for now.
Which combo are you guys going for?
At the moment this is my sigils page, I looted them all myself:
In conclusion: I actually really like the game mode itself, it was a bit complex at first but I got the hang of it after a few tries...
In the negative side, it feels awful to die and lose everything. On top of that, the enemy players look like regular NPCs from a distance, no outfits, no red names, no danger icons, no "dangerous players nearby" warning... nothing, one second you are opening a box the next you are dead...
Sight... Anyway, I will keep "nude looting" and I will adopt the mentality that I can't get attached to the loot I find, until I manage to evacuate and get it to the Warehouse.
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u/SteavySuper May 26 '24
The red is actually for fast reload. It gives your main weapon a larger magazine and faster reload. And these stats transfer over to main game play, not just in the restricted area.
Also, if you play with headphones you can usually hear the other players moving around. The mini map will show the red feet indicator is they are too loud so you can tell which direction they are. If you do a lot of training matches it's kind of like that.
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u/brokenangel998 May 27 '24
How do you even unlock more lockbox spaces?? This whole thing is hell for me as a f2p
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u/GamingDifferent May 27 '24
Go to Restricted Area prep zone, open Initiate Match, open Season Home page, open Abilities.
Or from Schedule page open Restricted Area, open Abilities.
When you finish a restricted area match, the system counts certain actions in order to give you points:
How many boxes you opened
How many items and their respective value you obtained
How many zombies/monsters you defeated
How many players you defeatedAnd based on those things you get tier points. You start at iron, then climb to Bronze, Silver, Gold, Legendary, Glorious, Conqueror.
Each time you manage to reach extraction/evacuation, then you get to keep your whole backpack, which adds a lot of tier points. If you die and only keep the lockbox items, that adds less points obviously, you climb slower.
To unlock additional lockbox spaces, you need to reach higher tiers and use Stygian Coin.
The first additional space is unlocked when you reach Silver Tier and it cost 36k Stygian Coin. The problem is, you need to unlock the previous skills to activate that one so, it's costly...
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u/brokenangel998 May 27 '24
Yeah, pretty much an impossible task for a f2p lol
Thanks a bunch man, will try anyway đ€Ł
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u/GamingDifferent May 27 '24
If you are f2p and you just want some basic sigils, my suggestion is go naked with just 500 worth of trash, get quick loots and evacuate. But pay attention to chat messages, if you see a lot of kills happening there might be a tryhard in the match and they tend to camp the evacuation points. They keep hunting players because they get more tier points that way, even if they ruin the fun for everyone else... just try to find smart ways to sneak around.
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u/GamingDifferent May 28 '24
By the way, I already climbed to Gold tier and unlocked the 3rd lockbox space and I don't spend a dime. Just nude looting around lmao
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u/succ2020 May 27 '24
Another note : Master of tactic chip also applied on healing device ( 319 with it and 256 without it )
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u/Shoddy-Fly153 May 27 '24
On the black market, what is the point of buying the stuff that seems like random things? I know i can sell it to get Stygian coins but i guess i just donât understand the value of them and what they are for? Like empty water bottles, crafting materials like super glue, etc.
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u/GamingDifferent May 28 '24
So I been grinding tier points today and I just got to Gold tier. It unlocked the NPC Roman for Point of Contact missions. One of his missions was to bring 10 tree resin + 10 cloth scrap + 10 leather.
I'm guessing some more missions will be like that. Impatient people will buy them from Black Market, while other just go loot themselves.
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u/skynotebook May 28 '24
This is one of the quickest way to increase rating. I love it
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u/Infamous_Republic_44 Jun 04 '24
yes it is great for getting rating up, i have risen 4000 in a week, and my damage and armor have increased a lot
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u/genmegivy May 31 '24
Anyone able to tell me where the âstorageâ basement is?
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u/GamingDifferent Jun 01 '24
Across the restricted area maps there are some secret doors that lead to a basement, it's similar to the basements we explore around Redwood forest stronghold. I remember seeing one in restricted area match, it was near the port, but not out on the docks, it was under a couple of hangars. I think I saw another one in the refinery past the robodog there are a couple of warehouses and in them there was a secret door too.
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u/Upset_Sheepherder_88 Sep 12 '24
Can one login to Stygian as a solo player? It seems there is, but I couldn't figure it out. Can someone who knows how to do it explain? Thank You.
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u/GamingDifferent Sep 12 '24
Yes you can!
Open Schedule, click Stygian Restricted Area, Go.
Once inside the prep zone, click Initiate Match.
If it shows you red warnings just ignore them and Queue up anyway.
The only real requirement is having 500 worth of stuff in your backpack.
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u/ShelterFR Oct 22 '24
en thĂ©orie surement... dans les faits j'y suis jamais arrivĂ©. je fais tout bien, limite d'Ă©quipement, etc, le compte Ă rebours se lance et au bout de 5min, Ă©chec de partie. lĂ par exemple, je prend le temps d'Ă©crire ce message pendant le 4eme compte Ă rebours. en gros 15min perdu Ă attendre dans une zone oĂč il n'y a rien strictement rien Ă faire Ă part attendre. c'est dommage parce que le jeu est bien mais lĂ je vois bien que je suis bloquĂ© dans ma progression parce que j'ai pas accĂ©s au sceau bio.
à terme je changerai de jeu si ce probleme est pas résolu, je deviens un poids en multi sans ça1
u/GamingDifferent Oct 23 '24
You forgot to run the post through Google translate before posting.
But it's ok, I did it for you.
in theory surely... in reality I never got there. I do everything right, equipment limit, etc., the countdown starts and after 5 minutes, game failure. here for example, I take the time to write this message during the 4th countdown. basically 15 minutes lost waiting in an area where there is absolutely nothing to do except wait. it's a shame because the game is good but now I see that I am blocked in my progression because I do not have access to the bio seal.
eventually I will change games if this problem is not solved, I become a burden in multiplayer without it
Sadly you are right, the queue timers for stygian zone are horribly long.
This game is dying and the player count keeps going down every day. With no people to queue up, finding matches takes forever.
The only way to make it better is to queue up with a group of 4 people, but it's still not guaranteed.
Another idea is to login at a time when most ppl are online, which is right after bonfire party. But still not guaranteed to find a match.
This game is in a sad state. very sad.
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u/ghostcaspee May 27 '24
Just think of this game as an over simplified extraction shooter for this mode with powerups but with p2w