#Is [spoiler] that bad for beginners?

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mossy vectorBOT
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Reposted starting message

Hiya,

I'm busy getting my ass kicked in Industrial Complex but I think I'm starting to learn a bit at about 10 hours in. The only area I've found is Shaded Citadel and from the little I know of Rain World already I think it's a fairly hard area? It also just has that sort of dark/spooky/haunted vibe that developers love to use for more endgame areas. I got spooked and ran back pretty quick. Some rooms are also just... dark? I'm assuming there's a lantern system which is either an item I have to get somewhere or maybe something to do with those glowing squid rats.

I know there's a place called Garbage Wastes that's more natural for newbies to go to from Complex on the skill curve, the thing is I think I've probed the entirety of Complex that I can reach and can't seem to find it. Any solutions I can find online are warned as being spoiler-y and revealing full maps which I'd rather avoid.

I'm worried going to Citadel would be way too much of a skill jump and I'd be bashing my head against a wall, but that's also kind of Rain World in a nutshell.

At this point I'm considering grinding the karma back up to go back into the Citadel (especially since if I played 100% without further knowledge I'd still be there) but I just wanted to 2x check in case that could be a decision that has a history of making newbies hate the game with a skill jump that's way too much for someone who has about a 10% survival rate across Outskirts and Complex.

Thank you!

static mural
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Is [spoiler] that bad for beginners?

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There isn't particularly a "right" direction in rain world, and Shaded Citadel I wouldn't consider to be a "late game" region. It can be a difficult region, but it sounds like you know what tools you have available for it, and therefore know how you can traverse it.

exotic talon
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and welcome !

static mural
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(Coming from someone who also went through it on her first playthrough "instead" of GW (keeping in mind GW isn't necessarily the region you're meant to go to after Industrial))

real bough
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also, small map tip monksilly if you hold space bar (or map button if you're not on pc) while on the sleep screen, you can take a look at your map for any connections you may have missed, without the fear of threats and such

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feel free to ask more questions here by the way as they pop up in your playthrough, we love to answer them!! looking up things online can be very risky as not everyone spoil tags things and web previews can often leak heavy spoiler content

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but yeah it's up to you which path you want to take but both are good options, since you seem to want to go to citadel there's nothing wrong with that rivowo

dusk warren
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Will do, I appreciate you guys helping out so much like 10 mins after I posted 😊 . Citadel seems cool and my playthrough is already a frustration simulator so can't be that bad.

Thank you very much 👍 (and stay tuned for the incoming rage post sometime in the next week 🤭 )

static mural
sonic birch
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The point is to explore! Go wherever you think is interesting, just don't feel you have to commit to it; if it ends up being more than you can handle, try somewhere else slugshrug