Catalyst Black guide: Tips and tricks for beginners
TheVainglory team’s newest title, Catalyst Black, has come through on releasing an epic action-packed free-to-play battleground shooter. The game delivers on a solid performance, various game modes to share between friends and an abundance of customization options for your theory-crafting loadouts. Our beginner’s guide aims to get new players up to speed with the hero shooter by teaching you gameplay basics and each game mode’s objectives while detailing the title’s upgrade system.
Getting started
When launching Catalyst Black for the first time, you’ll jump straight into the tutorial that walks you through the game’s touch controls. As you progress further, you’ll earn Ascension. Ascension is equivalent to your player level, so as you increase your Ascension level, more options and game modes become available to you.
Catalyst Black plays in the third person with a top-down view, and the primary control method is the touchscreen, where you’ll navigate using the virtual joy-con while tapping on the screen’s corresponding buttons to activate your weapons and abilities.
You’ll spam attacks with your primary weapon, and the ammo is tied to a cooldown. So you won’t have to worry about reloading and acquiring ammo on the map, though you’ll want to keep an eye on your cooldown, so you aren’t caught off guard. In contrast, your secondary gun is classed as heavy, and this one has a finite amount of ammo it can hold, which you’ll need to pick up as you traverse the map. it’s possible to customize your weapon choices from the ‘Loadout’ menu to dial in your weapon preferences.
it’s possible to roll and use a jump pad to maneuver around the map. You also have access to a swappable ability in the ‘Loadout’ menu that can help with map traversal.
One of the most exciting features is each character’s capability to transform into a primal. Your primal form has access to two unique abilities (ranges from damage-based to utility) tied to the ability equipped in your loadout. It takes time to recharge your primal form, but the recharge time is cut down by collecting blue masks around the map. You’ll be able to infinitely stay in primal form unless your opponents take you down.
Game modes
Complete your dailies, weeklies, campaign, and companion quests to claim rewards to improve your account. If you earn enough shards, you can open up chests to receive new equipment, currency, and XP.
Upgrading your loadout
To access your loadout, tap onLoadouton the main screen.
Your loadout slots
You have seven slots to work with for upgrades and swaps. An associated rarity for each piece of gear, ability, or primal form can range from common (green), rare (blue), epic (purple), and legendary (yellow). Better rarity pieces will scale well when you perform upgrades. Upgrades unlock traits that are bonuses to your pieces. You’ll obtain a ‘Might’ score at the top left as you perform upgrades on your loadout.
How to change your loadout
How to upgrade
Catalyst Black is a stylish arena shooter
The latest game from the Vainglory developers delivers a promising stylish hero arena shooter on mobile. The chaos of 12v12 PvP mode and exterminating monster hoards is an addictive experience, and thankfully the game’s performance doesn’t seem to tank, even when taking part in these huge battles. Considering the solid start since release, we predict that this title will quickly make our list as one of thebest free-to-play games to hit mobile. If this type of gameplay is your jam, you should definitely check out Catalyst Black by grabbing the install below.
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