Holden's quick start guide

This guide assumes you know the basic controls and how to play ss13. Read the in-game manual if you need help using your hands to do things. Also, this is based off of the most recent 7/13-14 playtest, so the laser info may be a little outdated.

## A General Overview

So, you just finished your character and have just stepped foot onto the station. Great. Your shitty 38 special revolver wont even bruise half the people you are going to meet on this planet.

The first thing you are going to need to do once you wake up in cryo is get your secure storage set up. Go northeast to the essentials vendor and buy the crate. You can put it in the slot below your clothing, and will keep any items you put in there when you eventually die. Before you leave to go get your guns, make sure to go south of the vendor and get clothing. Boots will protect you from getting slipped by slimes, and normal clothes will give you a small but noticeable magic resistance.

After getting clothed and ready, head up to the head of personnel north of cryo. He will give you the assistant class, which has good buffs, but lower pay and no chance to increase it. Your class stats will be a great buffer for you to start grinding your base stats out in the world instead of sitting in the firing range punching dummies.

## What Guns Do I Buy?

Head up north to sec to go and buy some guns. Until you begin to start bringing in some real money, your best friends will be the laser carbine you can buy at the green vendors and the SOL-15 at the white ones. Pistols besides the 50. cal ones tend to do too little damage to be effective, or don't have reliable ammo pickups. For the laser carbine, grab 2-3 industrial batteries as spare mags, as well as a crowbar to reload your gun. To reload it, First crowbar the gun, ejecting the power cell. Pop in the new battery and it will be ready to go. You don't to rack the slide on a gun that doesn't use bullets.

Why these guns? The laser carbine has a quite few advantages over buying something like the L-hon. **Most** enemies do not have good laser armor. Even syndicate squad leaders, who have some of the best and coolest looking armor in the game, have around 2/3 as much as they have bullet armor. Then why use the SOL-15? Mainly to be able to reach out and touch someone. With a cheap rifle scope and a suppressor, the dmr can clear out about any group by using cover and taking careful shots. For the class, it is unmatched in availability and has respectable damage on top of that.

## Your First Raid!

DO NOT GO ALONE TO YOUR FIRST RAID. If you have friends on the server with you, that's great! Assuming you have no friends, or they refuse to install byond to play the best rpg of 2023, try to find someone who generally looks like they know what they are doing and follow them. Someone who is wearing a red or black suit with green eyes, has blue knight armor, or generally looks like someone from a cod game should work. Make sure to bring some fulton packs down to make some money. You can buy them from the machine to the left of the head of security.

When you are down there, assume that if it moves and its not from the station, it wants to kill you. It doesn't matter if its a syndicate operative or a solgov marine, you are kill on sight. However, you are not the only thing that they might be dealing with. Enemies are split up into factions, who are almost always hostile towards members of another faction.

## What to do with my loot, or money making 101

There are generally three ways to make credits. Your fulton devices, the goblin banker at the station, and black hole grenades. After killing enemies during your raid, take their armor, especially if its better then yours. If you find armor that you don't need, use mmb to check its price. If its over 1k credits, send it and put the helmets in your bag. Fultons can also be used with a tranq gun to sell enemies for 2k each, or to sell large guns you can't take back with you. After shoving your pack full of loot and making it back to the station, head to the goblin merchant to the right of the wizard booth. He has some of the best prices for your items, as well as being a bank for your gear. Sell your gear for gold coins, then sell those coins back to him for credits. Black hole grenades work like fultons but throwable.

## Final tips

-You can get night vision goggles from an enemy at the solarian base at the northeast of the map

-Syndicate mk1 and mk2 suits save between rounds, but higher do not, so make sure to sell them before the match ends

-If you can find a laser revolver, USE IT

-Use portals and radio comms to coordinate with others if you have to kill the blob

-Use O for ooc chat, they can answer most of your questions

-Lives are money, don't die, and recover anyone who goes down

-Pay your taxes or the space IRS will send hit squads

-Alternately, farm them for money to pay for your mining pen addiction