What's your favourite Lightsaber stance?

use a stim to top off your health before you open the stim chest - when you get a new stim/stim slot it will automatically max out all your stims so it's like a free rest without resetting the mobs.

Tip: When on zip lines, you can hold LT/L2 or RT/R2 to slow done and speed up

I can not stress how incredibly important and useful force confusion is. In this game and in the last, getting ganged up on was a major obstacle and a very quick way to die. But with confusion, get at least one or more of those (human) characters to fight with you and make things more even. My advice is to max out that skill tree as fast as possible.

My Tip: There is a skill that makes stim refill most of your force meter. Get it fast. It makes specially those harder fights a lot easier as you have a lot more force available to use.

When you arrive at Ramblers Reach there will be a rumour quest near the workbench asking you to find missing prospectors in a mine close by. You have to fight a massive rankor beast & you will receive the shatter perk upon victory. The perk breaks the enemies block & leaves them temporarily stunned 👍

Probably not new information for most players, but for me it was, so I'll make it my tip: jumping over attacks is the replacement for the (now removed) dodge roll, so many of the red unblockable attacks are best jumped over and not dodged. Dodging in general has been made more difficult and less spamable compared to the first game (the timing required is much tighter, enemies have more attacks that home in on you until the last moment before they connect making dodging to the side useless and the forced "pause" between dodges seems longer to me) and is much less useful now. Learn to jump instead.

My tips: don't bother trying to find the last missing treasure in specific zone early on, there will be an upgrade which will put the icons on the map later on for each of the treasure types which would help you find missing things. Crossguard stance at least for me became the default stance as soon as I got it, and I only switched to double-blade for groups of small enemies.

Thanks for this video. Kinda sad to only find hate vids on the game. It plays fine for me and it really is beautiful, im 7 hours in. Just got to 2nd planet and then came in to work

My tip for when you’re starting out: plan on using your free skill point refresh only after you unlocked all stances. Up until that point, upgrade what you want, experiment, test things out. Then when you unlock the last stance, figure out your primary stance load, what abilities you like to use and focus on those when you refresh.

You can also get unlocks that show you every chest and scan point on the map

If you’re coming over from Fallen Order, check your confidence in Parrying and Reflecting blaster bolts at the door. Combat situations where you have to deal with both melee AND ranged opponents are much more frequent in this game, and if you don’t take the right approach you’re gonna find yourself getting lit up a lot. Take a cautious and patient approach to battle like a real Jedi would, rather than flying in sabers blazin

The First Stim Upgrade is actually already in Coruscant in the Meat Factory guarded by a Security Droid....i even leveled on the Enemy cause the Meditation point is right at there but i still missed the Chest because they look so different compared to Fallen Order....now i have to wait till i can revisit the Planet 😓

So far the blaster is my go to. It trivialized ogdo and rancor on grand master. It might just match my play style but I highly recommend giving it a shot.

Great vid! I'm a big fan of the double-bladed lightsaber. It has great reach, and wears down enemy guard quickly. In terms of tips, mine would be to remember you can throw your lightsaber right from the start. Hold block, and then hit your force attack button (triangle/x/whatever). Does decent damage, and gives you a little range. Also, force push kills regular battle droids.

I think the best change to the map is that you don’t clearly see every single level. The level you’re on is the only level you see.

Within the first 40 seconds, you've won me over and earned my respect. Thanks for not spoiling the game while giving us quality info regarding the game. Cheers bro , yr a legend mate.

Really appreciate the spoiler-free walkthrough. That was awesome

I love how BD pushes buttons in the matis when Greez isnt looking.. Watch him when your in hyperspace

Thank you so much! You offered awesome advice, I'm still on Koboh, so this was perfect for me! 👍 Thanks also for not spoiling anything. Honestly, it's just an excellent video!! 🌠

This is my first time watching any of your videos and I’m super impressed at how well made it is

I always explore whatever I can before progressing. That way I can go back and say, "oh hey I can go here now." And then I can stay into exploring. Compared to Fallen Order I was blown away with how massive Koboh is. I'm still finding areas that I didn't see were there. I am pretty perceptive and know how to read maps. Now that you mention it it does have a GOW feel to it. Just different buttons.

BD is a droid puppy, love that little guy

I feel bad for the people who are having issues with the game, it's running flawlessly on my XBOX X. The rendering is absolutely beautiful, the combat and level of control is dramatically better then the previous game, and the addition of amputations with the lightsaber especially when performing a Perry at the end of their life bar is fantastic. There is something really gratifying about looking at the dismembered corpse of your enemy after a well-timed Kill. I'm only 2 hours in and a good chunk of this time has been spent replaying enemies after a meditation point just to get my timing down, I wish more people were having the same experience I am having. Have the majority of the people throwing down hate online actually play the game?😂

Thank you Nozza! Got stuck on 1st planet so I appreciate the help! Nice to hear a fellow Aussie! Have a great day! 👍

I loved the Scuba Steve gag when I started playing 😀

My tip: Use force parry to parry unblockable attacks

Just remember, if you use the Skill Points properly and carefully, use it for your own stances that you currently used, such as Single-bladed or Double-bladed. The reason why is of course, if using a Single-bladed, you can focused DPS, Range, Speed and you can deflect 2 blasters back to the enemy, especially against Bosses. You can also use Dual Wield, but beware, Dual Wield is a Glass Cannon, means you cannot perfectly block more than 1 Blaster bolt back, it has High Damage and Speed, but Low Range.

Guys! This is exactly what I needed. It's a bit lengthy but the results are beautiful man. My FPS and the quality of the game dropped suddenly. I was playing with good graphics and then the next time it was barely running. Following the directions of this video actually upgraded how the game looks and runs and also my monitor's image quality.

I've been getting on fine without the Wisdom perk. I've found the Shatter perk which you can get really early from a certain boss really usesful. The guarding in this game seems to be far higher than FO, Shatter combined with the light and heavy attacks from dualbladed stance can stun lock some of the more annoying mob enemies if you're lucky.

1:33 thank you! Ive spent so much time here and basically about to just keep on woth the mission

First time coming across your channel. Really great vid that’s well thought out and put together. Hope you have a great one!

Just got this game. Lol love star wars so im enjoying this. Had to chuckle at optional bosses since my first one was the rancor.

I’ve played through the story 3 times now and I’m on the way to 100% the game, but for some reason I still watch these kind of videos every time I see them 😂 good video though, the only thing I would add is I’d probably focus mainly on the story for your first play through. Not only is the story really good, but that’s how you get all the upgrades you’ll need to access every area in the game. Nothing wrong with doing a little exploring, but I’d recommend doing the main story before doing all the rumors and stuff

i recommend learning to Force Dodge glowing red attacks. just press the dodge button without a directional input. The timing is pretty easy and you gain force energy back for doing it.

BD-1 is a cool companion but NOTHING in the universe beats Skoova...i mean that character just steals the whole game with his insane appearance and his stories. Every time i find him somewhere getting a fish i chill out and just listen to that insane little dude go crazy. Fav stance is double bladed + cross stance. Have not used anything else since i got both. The double bladed is a completely insane stance that i could have used just that and nothing else. (25hours into the game so far)

I slept on Confusion for too long. Turns out, the new force power with its own skill tree? The one they give you on the first planet? Yeah, enemy encounters are designed with the assumption that you'll use it. Who knew? Not me!

I personally like finding an area where I can rinse and repeat efficiently there’s groups of enemies especially near rest stops I take advantage of this and it also helps with getting timing down with stances in less than an hour you can gain roughly 8-10 skill points by doing this because one the enemies are so close and 2 you’ll gain about an 8th of a bar of xp towards your next point per rest and respawning enemies

Thank you! Very helpful!

Exploring early was a benefit for me because I could fast travel close to where I needed to go. I also found ways around some of the places I wasn't supposed to get past. Just because you can't get to something in the intended method doesn't necessarily mean that you can't get there in a harder method.

To anyone playing this, refrain from exploring until you get the "baloons" traversal. Backtracking on this game is pain so better save it for later when none of the obstacle will hinder your wanderlust.

"Hey, BD, what's it like, hacking other droids?" *disquieted bleeps* "Yeah, I'd feel weird hacking other people, too." Guess Cal got over it... "It's for a good cause, right?"

Thanks for the tips!

great video enjoy that you went spoiler free with it thanks

Awesome video I cant wait to play later !!

Spot ON! Great tips. As I think was mentioned by others, there is a stim on Coruscant that is pretty easy to get. I 100% agree with all of your tips. Confusion especially. One of the other things you get to upgrade is, for lack of a better way to put it, the power level of the humanoid you can confuse. If you go straight up the tree you can confuse almost anyone below a boss. It is super effective. I also had the same problem with trying out stances. When I got gun/saber I HATED it because it was so awkward after using the double bladed lightsaber with its constant sweeping ballet of death. It just kept stabbing and stopping. It is a fun stance, but it plays VERY differently. Speaking of stances, with dual wield it is important to note that it is the only stance where you can actually interrupt an attack action to PARRY. I put that in caps because it is amazing you can interrupt animations, but it ONLY works for parry not for dodge.

Great vid! Thanks.

A couple tips from me (even though the games been out for ages) would be to stay clever especially against bosses as the combat is a lot more challenging and tactical (imo better for it as well) than the first game and sometimes it’s best to force an attack then keep your distance so you understand the attacks more. On top of that I’d say try to be aggressive once you’ve learnt the attacks, pretty much all bosses and enemies in general, bar from any basic enemy with a gun (NOT INCLUDING BOUNTY HUNTERS COUNT THEM AS A BOSS) are a bit easier keeping close and not allowing too many attacks from a distance. For me using double bladed I found it much easier learning the attacks and then staying close and aggressive, perfect parties and dodges are your friend don’t be afraid to fail a few times to get them right it’s really worth it and makes the combat a lot more satisfying too. A final tip would be explore the area that the story takes you too. So on your way to an objective or in an “area“ of the story explore it then. You’ll find you come across pretty much ALL areas of each planet as the story progresses and if you did miss anything it’s still fun to revisit these planet especially after the story when there are a lot of new things worth travelling back for and anything you think you missed (unless you were really thorough) I guarantee you most likely would of needed the skills you get further in the story anyway👍

Thank you!!!

For the most part of things, I'm doing or have done the same thing which you did as well. Exploring every nook and cranny on each level. Exploring does help so that way you have a good idea as to where everything is, what's going on in the field, what you're up against and so on. There are some abilities which I have already unlocked and there are some which I haven't unlocked yet such as that green forcefield. I don't have an ability to teleport through that yet.

When I started the game, I just pressed all the buttons randomly in a combat, and that was works some time. But later the game pushed me to mastering all the moves, blocks, hits, to learn different strategies for a different kind of enemies. I tried all the stances until stopped on crossguarded (which is my favorite because of shocking effect) + dual wield set. So yes, agree, mastering the stance, moves, and force using is pretty important at the middle of the game.

I’m 40 hours into my first play through. I’ve back tracked and explored for the majority of the time. It’s an amazing game!

Awesome video! Thanks for considering spoiler footage!

Good video mate

I've found out that it usually pays up to have two different lightsaber stances that complement each other. Something that has more oomph (Single blade, cross-guard) to faster style combat (Double-blade, dual wield). Bosses can have different fighting phases, where switching between quick and strong can help: final boss I ran trough with first phase using dual-wield to stay on offensive, but second phase I went trough with a single saber, as I thought I'd need more defense and hitting power per swing. Also the game likes to mix between enemy mobs where you might get one mob that is relatively weak but insanely numerous melee attackers suplemented with ranged fighters, or alternatively heavy-type of enemies (Droids, Purgetroopers, Smashers, Beasts) supported by heavy guns (Droideka, Missile and minigun troopers and rifle purge troopers), so having two different styles can come up handy....if you can handle the confusion. Blaster stance is kind of a hybrid of the two: you can dispatch easily peons with it, but it can also pack a punch with charged shots.

Thanks for reminding me to equip Wisdom. I bought it but forgot to put it on 😅

Also this game is so much fun to play just do it the way you like. I did use all the stances, and what I've learned is that some stances are better with high-level combat and others useful in some specific cases, so don't be afraid to use them all.

Glad I'm not the only one that can't shake the scuba steve reference

As you progress yoy can get map upgrades that show you the locations of chests, upgrades, scans etc these are super useful for my fellow completionists who wanna find absolutely everything

I didn’t know about skill point but i wasted 3 hours in Courosant to grind out 30 skill points to try and leanr all the survival and jedi skill. it gave me a nice cushion to worked with for the rest of the game

One thing I recommend because of the skill points experience being slow to gain at the start. Is when you get to Koboh initially you grind by the oil well. Where you find the big lion looking gorilla monster thing and the raiders with the B2 droid. And then just rest and re-fight them. You can get experience prett quick and it helps to level Cal up.

Playing on Series X and this game is fantastic.

I play on the hardest difficulty, I use the pistol stance because enemies are super hard and hard to parry so the long range with the pistol is super helpful. Hope this help

My tip: Upgraded double blade is pretty efective aganist rancor. I even found a place, where i can farm XP on rancor.

Honestly, Crossguard can do basically anything if you can get over the slow speed, and you can always pair it with blaster to bypass block on some block-heavy enemies if you need to finish them off

Game is really good, much improved from the first one, and that was also good to begin with

I never used the force or survival tree much. Played on jedi grandmaster mode. The game was pretty fun just by speccing into the lightsabers skills

Dual wield is great and a favourite of many for good reason. It looks cool. But more importantly, it's fast. If you have a habit of spamming attacks, most stances that will get you killed as the enemy will start an unblockable attack and you can't stop your attack animation to block or dodge. Dual wield attacks are so fast that they rarely have that issue. But I would suggest putting points into single wield stance instead of dual wield. Single wield has a jump force attack that you unlock with skill points. It's OP. As long as you have force power, you can devestate enemies with it. Minute long duels turn into second long fights.

My favorite stance is primary blaster and secondary double blade. The blaster stance is great against powerful opponents and there are only two of them but still versatile to handle a boat load of low level minions. The double blade for its speed and ability to jump around space being a beyblade o death. But.... once I have all of my force powers mastered I trade double blade for cross guard and fight like Darth vader at the end of rogue one

Great video it’s running perfectly on Xbox series X I’m sorry for you guys that are playing on PC you are having trouble

When exploring Fon-Qui’s cave you can fight the rancor and it will give you half a bar of xp. If you die to one of the red bomb creatures you can fight it again, and your death marker will be reclaimed upon its defeat. I got 10 skill points in 20 minutes using this method

Dual sabers Y button is perfect block/parry. Upgrades cause it to hurt enemy more

My tip is to equip one stance that is good for clearing lots of easier enemies and one that's good for clearing one hard enemy.

On Exploration, the game kind of guides you with exploration. You won't get a rumor for something you can't yet access. So just do all the rumors and move on to the next story bit.

You had me at Waypoints🥰

NorZZa: You might want to come back to the legendary bosses later when you're a bit more powerful. Me: I will face-tank this [spoiler] and there's nothing you can do to stop me!

I'm on my very first playthrough. And because I'm an idiot, I fell for the Spawn of Oggdo trap. Seeing this frog doesn't play fair, making it's tongue bite attack an OHKO. I decided, why should I play fair? The trick is, get rid of the droids on the platform, but do not step on it. Then look up and force pull the sentinels on the top. Then run around in circles until they are on the platform. It is then you have to step on it for it to open, double jump to safety and watch Oggdo's health go to 40% reliably and then with a bit of luck, finish him off.

Love this game.

Big tip, MAX OUT SURVIVAL asap! It is extremely helpful especially if you’re good with your lightsabers and don’t really rely on force powers(even the lightsaber ones). 2nd tip: The dual wield stance (not double bladed, even though that’s very very useful as well) is one of thee best, if not thee best, stances in the game. I know the blaster stance looks fun but the dual stance is the only stance in the game that allows you to cancel cal’s attack animations and allow you to follow up with a parry, block, or dodge…saving you health and stims for when you truly need them it also allows you to close the distance on enemies really quickly while continuing the flow of your attacks once you get the delay attack skill (forgot the name but it’s one of the first ones in the skill tree) the triangle attack with the dual wield stance is pretty good as well but you have to time it right, which is pretty easy once you get the hang of certain enemies attack patterns, but it can only block regular attacks not the red unblockable attacks. Luckily there is a skill in the force tree that allows all stances to dodge ANY attack, including red unblockable attacks by holding down ⭕️ (on PS) or B(on Xbox)..this is a very good skill to acquire if you’re having trouble dodging red unblockable attacks early on in the game. The same goes for the force push parry(forgot the name of the skill but it’s in the force tree I believe) you can force push any attack(it works like the point blank skill in the blaster stance) so if you don’t want to use the blaster stance but want an attack that can not only parry but get a good amount of separation in order to pop a stim, this skill is useful. The dual wield stance has the least amount of block meter so don’t do too much blocking unless you know you’ll get a parry off, if you can’t get the parry timing down well on a target try using the perfect dodge which is actually good because it’s a good way to get a decent amount of your force meter back once you aquifer that skill, but even without the skill it’s good to master perfect dodge, what I did was train at a resting point and practice perfect dodging on different enemy types in the game until I could get at least ten perfect dodges back to back. Once you can do that the game becomes a lot easier, don’t forget that you can perfect dodge red unblockable attacks as well, they’re unblockable, not undodge-able 😂 Last tip: BE! PATIENT!! I’ve died sooo many times in this game by just rushing in, trying to kill an enemy in the game without even knowing their attack patterns. Become one with the force my fellow Jedi….and don’t break your controller when you fight the Rancor. 😂 I wanted to break mine, if I can beat em, you can beat em….Be Patient.

I've got double blade and crossguard rn. Not very good at the precision evade so I go with the high defense stances

Double blade and blaster stance are the best 2 overall imo

Basically use your rear back after like three to four mastery when you've mastered three of them it's perfectly fine to reset mainly because you know what since you want you know what Force power you want and of course you're going to max out survival

I’ve stuck with the singe and double I also had the same issue with the duel wield, Triangle button. Maybe later in the game I’ll get the hang of it.

Logged almost 20 hours before I finally left Koboh. Definitely recommend leaving and coming back after you’ve visited the third planet you can actually navigate to. Trust me

There's a process where you can get a skill point every 30 seconds or so after you get the blaster stance. It's on KZfaq. - I'd recommend doing that. Get all your skill points. Then continue however you want to play

Thanks for the tips! That holomap is possibly the worst map I have ever came across in a game.

Wish I'd known about the Wisdom perk earlier on!

Lol I didn't even know you could get your skill points back until watching the video saying not to do it. I put a bunch into doible bladed before unlocking dual weild, then put everything into that, but then I unlocked crossguard and blaster, which are my 2 current stances lol respeccing would be hella helpful 😂😂

Be careful using enemies to fight for you as if they get the final kill, you get 0 xp for it

I have a tip and a fun fact. The fun fact, you can earn enough skill points to max out every skill tree by collecting everything and getting 100% in the game. Quite handy for journey+ that refunds all of your skill points. Now for the tip. Do not, i repeat, do NOT, equip the warrior perk on journey+ if you struggled with Spawn of Oggdo, least gou encounter it in the open unexpectedly

I disagree about the first point. I recommend exploring as much as possible at first. Yes, you'll come across a bunch of areas/collectables that you can't access yet, but you'll be leveling up the whole time and advancing your skills, which makes the rest of the game easier and more enjoyable. Plus this way you can take a break from the exploration and play the story, rather than leave the exploration right to the end, which for Koboh especially can be a bit much since there is so much to do.

There's a stim in Corsucant, the meat area

good advice - I got it on epic for $27 australian dollars and it is well worth it. Having a great time. Some great tips - I have points in all three styles :( I didn't realise all respects wouldn't be free...

Funnily enough my fav stances are the later unlocks, blaster and crossguard. I knew i'd love crossguard coz i'm a great sword user in souls games, I like a slow timed swing but heavy hit. Great vid, I forgot about getting the keycard in the shop lol

If you have a good memory the first mistake isn’t that big of a deal, if anything it’s not even a mistake at all considering you’re clearing the path back to wherever you left off so that when you have your skills to progress in that area most of the time you can even just fast travel to it.

I have to disagree, respec all you want. There's a couple spots early point in the first planet that's easy to farm XP and you absolutely should tinker with the skills as much as you want and just respec if you don't like them. One skill point is not that much, especially if you get a skill on the stances that you don't like or decide that you want to go with a different stance, respec as much as you want.

So when is the time that all abilities needed for exploring are acquired?

The key to the game is dodging once you get that down things become much easyer and more fun you still need to block and parry but now you have a way to get out of trouble.

Just on my fourth play-through of Fallen Order. Is Cal still an underpowered Palawan who had about maybe 5 years of training before Order 66 then 10 years or so of no training whatsoever or has he finally been given some decent POWER capable of defeating the bosses? I don't have a series X so can't get Jedi Survivor.

Do not put skill points in survival. Only like the first three or four options in survival are ones you really want. Pick two stances you like , put as many skill points in those two as you can. The most important is force abilities, put all you skill points in force abilities. I still haven’t filled out my survivor skill points and I’ve got like 100 hours in the game .