Hello everyone, and welcome back for the second weekly post about Critadel! This week we'll take a look at one of the key game mechanics in Critadel: It's called Synergy. As you make your way to the top of the tower, you will find all different kinds of weapons with different attributes. Let’s say you've picked up these weapons and saved them in your inventory. [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41031348/75c25f11b94fa7323d8689aa01e80488181f4fbd.png[/img] Please take a closer look at the colored icons under each weapon. As described in the previous post, these icons represent the weapon “types.” What’s important here is how many weapons you have in your inventory with matching types. For example, do you see the gold icon with three bullets? That's the "Rifle" type. In this inventory screen shot, there are six weapons with that type. Now let’s take a look at the synergy list. [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41031348/a4d32aaa39747f38d0cce111381e4eac08e9d960.png[/img] As you can see, each type has different effects. For example, the "Rifle" type synergy gives a rate-of-fire buff, while the "Charge" type synergy gives a reduced-charging-time bonus. Notice how “300%” with the number 6 next to it is highlighted. This means that your character has six weapons with “Rifle” type attached, so all of them will be able to 300% faster. Yes, 300%! To illustrate how big the difference is, here's a comparison: [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41031348/fea816976dadbbe0b4b017385570707d180893c6.gif[/img] [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41031348/18e6ad092ad8bdd300733a5d7d65771e58b300d8.gif[/img] With this in mind, you can seek out and collect a certain number of the same type weapons to trigger some powerful synergy buffs. These buffs are very important, because they can raise your weapon’s power beyond the limits of its own stats and effects from attachments or artifacts. Of course, you can stack all the effects of attachments, artifacts and synergies, too! There are many more synergies in Critadel than the ones listed above. It's a lot of fun to find great synergy combos to max out your weapons' power... and you will definitely want to do so, as the enemies in the tower get stronger and stronger on each floor! That'll wrap up our post for today, but we have some big Critadel news coming very soon. Please look forward to it, and we'll see you with the next post!