HoloCure Save the Fans – Quick Tips for Beginners

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This guide offers a collection of tips and recommendations for newcomers. It assumes that you are familiar with games like Holocure, Vampire Survivors, or Halls of Torment, and therefore, it won’t cover the basics but will instead offer guidance for your initial gaming hours.

I’ll make an effort to steer clear of revealing any plot details, but you might encounter references to item names, skills, and so on, used as illustrations. To keep things concise, this guide avoids using in-game screenshots.

Pre-game Settings

Here are some non-gameplay tips that can help improve your overall experience:

• Controller vs. Mouse and Keyboard: You have the option to play using either a controller or a mouse and keyboard, and both work equally well. With a controller, you can aim weapons using the right stick, while with a mouse and keyboard, aiming is done with the mouse. You can toggle this on/off by using the left click, and doing so will keep your cursor within the game’s window.
• Adjusting Weapon and VFX Opacity: If you find it difficult to see things when the game becomes hectic, there’s a setting in the options menu that allows you to reduce the opacity of weapons and visual effects. This can make the game’s visuals clearer and more manageable.
• Improving Performance: If your computer is struggling to run the game smoothly, consider turning off damage numbers and visual effects. This can provide a slight performance boost and make the game run more smoothly on lower-end machines.
• Keyboard Shortcuts: The Confirm and Cancel buttons on your keyboard function similarly to left click and right click, respectively. Some tasks, like managing upgrades, stamps, and gardening, are more efficiently done using these keyboard shortcuts rather than constantly moving your mouse around. This can also help prevent strain on your wrists.

These tips should help you enjoy the game more and enhance your overall gaming experience.

Gameplay

Here are some tips to help you perform better in your runs and hopefully clear stages with less difficulty:

• Movement Strategy: When dealing with enemies, try to move in circular patterns rather than directly away from them. This way, you can collect experience points from mobs that die within the swarm following you.
• Idol Prioritization: Each idol has a unique starting weapon and three passive skills. These are generally good and sometimes character-defining. Prioritize leveling them up, as most weapons and a few skills gain new properties at max rank.
• Level Caps: Weapons max at level 7, skills max at level 3, and items max at varying levels (1 to 5). To perform a “Collab” and combine two weapons into a stronger one, both weapons must be at max level.
• Collab Combinations: You can find a list of collab combinations in the pause menu and on the right side of the level-up screen.
• Weapon Upgrades: It’s often more effective to have fewer but upgraded weapons because they often get performance multipliers with levels, such as increased projectile count. However…
• Holozon and Level Up Choices: Both Holozon boxes and level-up options tend to favor weapons and items you already own. If you know you want a specific item in the long run, consider picking it up early, even if you plan to upgrade something else currently.
• Item Rarity: Some weapons and items are rarer than others, and you can check their “weight” values in the wiki. Higher weight means more common, and lower weight means rarer.
• Use Active Abilities: Make sure to use your character’s Special and any skills with cooldowns frequently. Delaying them for too long can reduce your performance over the course of a run.
• Enchanting Weapons: Anvils are best used for enchanting weapons once this function is unlocked. Enchant both components of a collab before combining them to inherit both enchantments.
• Character Selection: If you’re unsure which character to choose, consider starting with Kiara. She has decent damage, high base HP, blocks attacks, a strong heal over time, high movement speed (important in the game), and a good damage boost. Gura is another balanced choice from the starting options.
• Managing Stamps: You can manage your Stamps from the pause menu if you ever equip something you decide you don’t want.
• Items with Drawbacks: Don’t underestimate items with drawbacks like Gorilla’s Paw, Energy Drink, and Membership. They often provide benefits that outweigh their negatives, especially if your character has low critical chance and no crit synergy in their kit.

Upgrades and Unlocks

Here’s some guidance on how to spend your Holocoins, the main currency in the game, during the early game:

• Prioritize Special Attack, Growth, and Stamps: Special Attack, the first level of Growth, and Stamps are all relatively inexpensive and can significantly boost your power in runs. Don’t neglect them, as they provide crucial advantages.
• Delay Enchantments: Enchantments, while useful, can be secondary in priority during the early game. You can delay investing in them a bit.
• Unlock Fandom Wisely: Fandom is a powerful feature, but it’s not easily accessible early in the game unless you hyperfocus on a single Idol. It’s recommended to unlock it sooner rather than later, but initially, it might feel like you’re spending 2000 coins for little benefit.
• Invest in Movement Speed (SPD Up): Movement Speed is of great importance. Being faster than enemies allows you to dodge AoE attacks more easily and avoid unnecessary deaths. Consider upgrading this.
• Regeneration for Survival: Even a single point in Regeneration can go a long way, especially for characters without built-in healing abilities. It helps alleviate early-game struggles. Consider getting a couple of levels in this skill.
• Money Gain Up: Money Gain Up is a solid investment, as everything in the game revolves around earning coins. If your stats aren’t holding you back, consider upgrading it more.
• Early Upgrades are Worth It: The first few levels of every upgrade are generally very affordable and offer noticeable benefits. Invest in them when you can.
• Skip Enhancement Rate Up: Enhancement Rate Up affects upgrading weapons in Anvils beyond their maximum level. As a new player, this is unlikely to be a priority for you, so you can ignore this node.
• Try Marketing and Halu: Marketing, despite its description, doesn’t necessarily make the game harder; it often means more kills, more experience, and more drops for you. Similarly, the item Halu can be experimented with. Give them a try.
• Achievements Matter: Take a look at the achievement list, as completing achievements can reward you with coins or unlock powerful weapons and items. Some requirements may include playing specific characters or clearing stages.
• Power Farming Coins: If you want to power farm coins, consider using characters like IRyS, Ayunda Risu, or Pavolia Reine along with the Greed Stamp and Super Chatto Time! item in Endless Mode runs. Maxing out the Weapon Limit upgrade can also help.
• Explore Holo House: Holo House is optional, but the food buffs you can cook there can be quite strong. Even having basic Tempura for a +30% ATK boost early in the game can be a significant advantage. Additionally, you can farm coins by fishing, selling fish, and exchanging the sand for money. This might be faster than early game runs in terms of coin farming.