9 Essential The Light Brigade VR Tips and Tricks to Survive and Win

Having trouble making progress in The Light Brigade? Keep running through the same levels and not making it any further? Well you’ve come to the right place to improve your The Light Brigade gameplay and make better progress. Here are 7 Essential Tips and Tricks for The Light Brigade.

Inspect Items and Tarot Cards

A lot of new information is thrown at you all the time when you first start playing The Light Brigade, and a lot of it can be very confusing. What does “Break Chance” mean? What does this attachment for my gun do? Make sure you’re well informed before making any decisions by using the inspection button.

When you hold an item in a hand, hold down the B button if it’s in your right hand or the Y button if it’s in your left hand. As long as you hold it down a little text window will pop up and tell you more details about that item. You can also inspect by turning the item over so that it’s upside down and your wrist is facing outwards. The Light Brigade has a lot of items that can be really hard to understand if you don’t use this feature.

This works for Tarot cards too, so make sure you inform your Tarot decisions with the inspect button. Now speaking of Tarot cards.

Pick Your Tarot Cards Carefully

Often you’ll hear a tinkling noise in the distance, and see gold streamers coming out of a particular chest. These chests often contain three tarot cards, (sometimes it will be rare items instead) and you can pick one to have as an upgrade. Make sure to pick your tarot cards carefully. Some are much more powerful than others depending on what you’re facing.

If you feel really confident that you’ll make it further, pick a card that give you more souls. If you’re taking a lot of hits take cards that give you more resistance to damage. Cards that pierce enemy armor are good too, and Sun Strike cards are always a solid choice.

You’ll also notice that some cards are more rare and powerful than others, denoted by the amount of stars at the top of the card. Generally the more stars the better.

Use Teleport To Move Quickly

Movement is huge in The Light Brigade. If enemies spot you out in the open then you’ll want to get into cover as quickly as possible if you can’t shoot them down before they open fire. Unfortunately movement can be very restrictive in this game, and even holding a weapon in one hand slows your movement speed down noticeably when using Slide movement. Holding your weapon in two hands slows your movement speed to a crawl.

So instead of throwing your weapon down and trying to book it to the nearest piece of cover with just your movement joystick, use teleport. Yep, even if you selected Slide movement as your movement option you can still use the teleport by pressing your right stick up and pointing it at the ground.

You can even use teleport if you have a weapon in your hand. So you can keep ahold of your weapon and quickly use teleport to dart into cover. This is also especially good for some classes, like the Scout and Pistoleer, which can deal a lot of damage quickly when up close to enemies. Instead of slowly walking up to an enemy with a weapon drawn, you can teleport from cover to cover until you’re right next to them and start blasting.

While teleports are instant, there is about a half-second delay between how often you can teleport, so you can’t just constantly move around instantly, but utilizing teleports when using slide movement will make you much faster overall.

Enemies Telegraph Attacks

Every enemy in The Light Brigade telegraphs their attacks. They’ll glow red for a moment and then fire their weapon a set number of times. For instance enemies with bows will fire a single arrow, and enemies with rifles will fire twice. This means that you should always keep an eye out for when an enemy telegraphs their attack and get into cover when they do.

You can attempt to dodge enemy attacks by ducking, running, or teleporting if you’re out of cover, though this can be very hard to time properly and it is especially hard to avoid attacks from guns as their projectiles travel really quickly. There’s also a faint audio cue when an enemy prepares to attack, so always keep an eye and ear open for enemy attacks and be prepared to either take them out quickly or avoid their projectiles.

This even applies to bosses, though their attacks are generally more varied than normal enemies.

Get a Backup Weapon ASAP

Out of all upgrades you should get for the starting Rifleman class first is a Pistol. Unlike other classes you will unlock later, the Rifleman doesn’t start with a pistol, but you should get one as soon as possible.

It only costs a single point and can be vital if you’re in a tense situation and run dry on your rifle. Switching quickly to your pistol is faster than reloading, and it can get you out of a jam that you might not otherwise make it out of. You’ll still be able to carry just as many magazines for your rifle, so you’ll have more bullets on hand overall. The pistol might not be the best weapon, but it’s far better than not having one.

Oh, and while you’re at it getting a wand is also great. It’s not as necessary because you can buy them during your run, but investing a single point to have one from the start can be very helpful in earlier levels.

Traps Can Kill You Easily

The first traps you’ll notice in The Light Brigade are bear traps in the cold forests and mountains, and shortly after that some basic and pretty visible swinging and falling traps strung up between trees. They’re pretty easy to avoid if you see them before you wander into them, so make sure to always keep an eye out for traps when you’re traveling.

It can be especially easy to forget about them when you’re in the middle of a fight. They do a lot of damage and can easily kill you if you’re not at full health. Even if you use teleport movement your teleport can be interrupted by a trap. The upside is that some traps, like bear traps, are highlighted on the ground when you use your teleport. The downside is that you can teleport right into them.

Later traps are even deadlier, like the blades that pop out of the wall in a tight hallway, so always watch out for and be wary of traps, they’re a really lame way to lose a life.

Try Out and Level New Classes

This one might seem obvious, and you may be tempted to just try to complete all your runs with just the Rifleman class, but give other classes a try. Rifleman is pretty strong, and for a while will be your best class for long range combat by far. You can change your class at this shrine with the crystals hanging from it.

After you defeat the first boss, you’ll unlock the Scout class. It’s not so great at range, but has an automatic weapon right off the bat that can shred enemies from close range. It also has a pistol for medium range fighting.

Using other classes like the Scout will unlock more new Classes when you defeat more bosses, and changing up your gameplay with some new weapons keeps things fresh and fun. You might even get even further using a new class, you never know what you might like.

Look Out For Lootable Objects

Since The Light Brigade is a roguelite (or roguelike if you prefer) game, you’ll need consumables and upgrades as you progress through your run to keep up with the more powerful enemies you will run into. The main source of these are lootable objects you find around. Little boxes, chests, pots, and vases that you can tell are full of loot by their gold handles.

The more of these you find and loot, the better a chance you’ll have of making it further. They not only give gold that you can use later on to buy upgrades and Tarot cards (more on them in a moment) from vendors, but also consumables like grenades and medkits. They also all contain souls that you can turn in to get more levels.

Oh, and don’t forget to loot the glowing orb things that enemies drop. They might not only drop things like ammo and items, but will also give you souls every time, so if you want to keep gaining levels don’t leave loot behind.

Save Souls

This tip for The Light Brigade is basically another looting tip. You’ll often see little ghostly figures with their hands clasped together in pray and a name floating above their heads. There are also the bodies of light brigade members around without these ghostly figures hanging near them, or pinned to trees with arrows.

Whenever the area is clear, make sure to pray in front of these figures, because you’ll get souls for doing so, and later some might come back as allies that will help you clear the level on later runs. There’s no downside, so make sure to save all the souls you can.

There’s 9 Tips and Tricks to help you get further than before in The Light Brigade. Good luck out there.