A basic guide on selecting a starting party, making your first moves, and discussing how combat works. The guide then goes into a detailed discussion on defensive and offensive combat attributes and tactics. The guide wraps up with a full skill point allocation through level 9/10 for the recommended starting party.
About this Guide
The first parts of this guide were written to give people a better understanding of Deep Sky Derelicts starting tactics and team composition and to get players off to a good start. The second part of the guide provides a more in-depth discussion of defensive and offensive attributes and tactics. Finally the guide wraps up with a full skill point allocation for the recommended starting team through level 10.
I have personally played to the end game twice – once without any DLCs, the second time with just the station keeping DLC, and I currently have a level 9 party on its way to completing the game with both the DLCs up and running.
I have had many hours of enjoyment from the game and I hope you do too.
I would also like to thank the game devs for their efforts in creating this game and its DLCs.
Recommended Starting Party
When you start a new game by selecting Campaign from the start menu, you are taken to a party selection screen. You get to choose the 3 types of characters that will make up your party. I recommend you choose a Leader, Scrapper, and a Miner (available if you have purchased the two DLCs – otherwise choose a Bruiser for the 3rd character slot.
This is shown in the screenshot below.
Note that you can change each character’s picture by using the arrows underneath their picture. Below the character’s picture arrows you will see a starting character bonus trait – in this case it is Neurotic for each character. Neurotic gives the character +2 initiative which helps you characters to act first when in combat.
Give each character a name if you don’t like their default name, then pick a name for your party by using the arrows at the stop of the screen. Then go to the bottom of the screen and make sure Normal is selected then choose START when you are ready to begin adventuring.
