We all get stumped sometimes, when you have so many options to pick from in a game. Weapon choice in ARCADEGEDDON is not only heaps of fun, but heaps. Just heaps.

Let's make it easier for people to choose what to play! The game's too fun for people to sit there picking instead of destroying everything in sight!

Feel free to post your own combinations that you like to use. What do you use them for? What makes you like the weapon(s) you've chosen? Is it easy or hard to use together? Do your choices need Plugins too?

Read the next section for your BASIC combinations!

So you're a Basic player.

There's no shame in that. Let's get you up to scratch nice and quickly!

Here are a few of my favourite Weapon Combinations that don't require anything else set up. I think that nicely classifies them as Basic, don't you?

Hunter (Nanotech) + Party Favor (Support) + Any Starter Weapon
This combination is nice and easy to use, with utility to boot! If you're not that great at aiming, you can rely on the Hunter's tracking ability by holding your Aim Down Sight button on your target. Most enemies in ARCADEGEDDON will stand still for at least a few seconds both when they spawn or after they've made a big movement or after they've attacked. You can use this time to lock onto your enemy and fire away without even needing to aim at them properly!

Having the Party Favor as your secondary means you'll be able to assist your team members when they get a little too cocky and jump head-first into those balloon enemies. The Party Favor heals your ally's shields and doesn't even need you to aim right on someone to do so! Think of yourself as Mercy from Overwatch! Who doesn't love Mercy?

Finally, the Starter Weapon is only really there to help you break open all those Chests. Keep in mind that this game isn't always Ammo-Friendly; you aren't always going to have an abundance of ammunition. As a Basic player, you should start to get better by getting into better habits - such as conserving ammo! I personally like using the Enforcer, because it sounds and feels amazing when you smack all those boxes!

Perforator (Miligrade) + Cold 45 (Zero Cool) + Any Starter Weapon
This combination is a little more Weapon-Swap reliant, as the purpose of this combination is using a Zero Cool weapon to freeze enemies as quickly as possible, then finish them off with a Non-Elemental weapon that you can quickly swap to. The Perforator is a great choice for this combination for that reason alone. I mean, before you get some Accuracy boosting from Hacks, you'll need to learn to tap-shoot to not have too big of a spread, but the Cold 45 freezes most enemies with just one hit.

Starter weapon is, once again, for breaking boxes. Don't forget to do that, by the way! Breaking boxes may only give you a few Gillycoins here and there, but it does add up. You get stronger by Upgrading your Weapons in the Safe Areas, so don't forget to do that!

The Good Doctor (Support) + Party Favor (Support) + Any Hitscan Weapon
This combination is what we can consider to be "Full support" in Arcadegeddon. Of course, you can always add the use of Hacks to this combination to make it better, but both the main weapons have a low reload time and more than enough ammo to handle each stage. Make sure that you're refilling your ammo or upgrading the Party Favor during your Safe Area stops. Much like the Unique guns in this game, the Party Favor doesn't replenish its ammo from ammo pick-ups.

The Hitscan weapon is for you to do tasks in-game with your team and defend yourself with. I'd personally go with a Sniper like the Power Surge or The Long Winter. They both have great uses. The Power Surge is an amazing weapon to fight bosses with, and The Long Winter will freeze most enemies in one hit so you can finish them off with a quick melee!

So you've put some time into the game, and you think it's time to up your game.

Let's give you some Intermediate ideas to impress your friends with!

These combinations will have you start relying on Plugins. Plugins are character enhancing properties that you can choose to equip before you head into a match. They're very useful but you can only choose three at a time! Good thing you have so many Loadouts to customize. You can try them all for yourself to see which ones you like. But for now, let's look at what combinations we have.

EX Machina (Demolisher) + Shocker V11.1 (Giga-Volt) + Long Ranged Weapon
Plugins: Bullet Town + Massive + Spongy
Out of all the combinations that you'll see in this guide, this is the combination that I enjoyed the most in any game mode. The weapons chosen for this combination are focused heavily on Area of Effect (AOE) damage. The EX Machina and Shocker V11.1 are both explosive weapon types. The main damage dealer in this combination is the EX Machina. It does heaps of base damage even at Common quality, so you can imagine just how powerful it will be going into late game. The only drawback of this weapon is the low ammo capacity. Remember what I said about conserving ammo in the Basic section?

The Shocker V11.1 is here as more of a utility option than a damage option. Giga-Volt damage in ARCADEGEDDON stuns enemies for a short time. This is long enough of a time to weapon swap to your EX Machina and blast them to bits! Get it? Because the game is themed around Arcade games? Bits? Yeah? I know. I'm a genius. Getting used to Weapon swapping in ARCADEGEDDON doesn't get easier when you're using this combination. The Plugin Bullet Town has the effect of gradually filling your weapons' ammo back to full when that weapon isn't currently being used. This means that you can always have ammo ready to use and you'll be able to bypass the long reload times that explosive weapons tend to have in these types of games.

The choice of a Long Ranged Weapon is for those in-match missions/tasks that require you to use a bit of precision. When you have to shoot those pesky targets, you don't want to be wasting your ammo on it - or missing the target entirely because your other weapons have a bit of a projectile arch when you fire them. Yes, the EX Machina does have an arch. You just never have to fire it far enough for you to see it slowly fall to the ground.

The Massive plugin is used in this combination not only to deal some damage to those around you when you jump around shooting rockets and lobbing grenades with your new favourite weapons. It's there also to break open boxes! What? You thought that you don't need to open boxes anymore because you're playing at an Intermediate level? Nope. In-game economy is still important regardless of what level of play you're at. It's just easier to maintain the stronger you get. Everyone needs coins at the start, though!

Now, let's tell you HOW to play this combination!

Step 1: Jump towards your enemies.
Step 2: Fire your rockets/grenades downwards at the enemies.
Step 3: Land on your enemies.
Step 4: Repeat.

That's it! You are a Juggernaut with this combination. You deal MASSIVE AOE damage and have a nice amount of survivability to boot! Because your main damage dealing weapons aren't meant to be used accurately, you get nice and close to the action. Having the Massive plugin means that you'll deal a little bit more damage to enemies around you as you land on/near them. You're basically a living, moving bomb! Go blow ♥♥♥♥ up!

Slosher (Acidburn) + The Cold Shoulder (Zerocool) + Power Surge (Giga-volt)
Plugins: Shopping For Shields + Last Chance
This combination will have you hooked! Acidburn weapons aren't easy to level up, because you need to kill enemies with the IMPACT of the hit to get any EXP for the kill, but when the weapons are leveled up, they can really dish out quite the damage. Acidburn weapons leave a pool of acid that will deal Acid-elemental damage over time to enemies that are standing on the pool. This pool is determined by the Splash Radius of the initial impact when you fire your weapon. Why does this matter? The Slosher is a Grenade Launcher weapon type. Your splash is huge, when you start building up your Hacks! The efficacy of the Acid-elemental damage over time doesn't lower the further away the enemy is from the centre of the splash, either. As long as the enemy is standing on the pool, they will suffer the burn - the Acidburn!

As amazing as the Slosher is, you're going to find that your ammo gets used up when enemies keep moving away from your acid pools. To keep them in place, you'll want to somehow stop them. Here you have multiple options, but the best I've found is using The Cold Shoulder. This Zerocool Rocket Launcher weapon type is wonderful and also works well with the Splash Radius Hack that you'll be getting during your runs. When this weapon gets higher in Quality, it will even freeze the toughest of enemies in one hit. Do you know what happens to frozen enemies? They become brittle and you can just kill them off with a quick melee hit or even sliding/rolling into them! Going into the harder stages, you'll find that the damage you do per hit doesn't really matter anymore. This is where Zerocool weapons really shine. The enemy's resistance to being frozen doesn't scale and is instead determined by the type of enemy they are. One blast of The Cold Shoulder, and you've escaped yet another cluster of enemies that could down you in a few hits!

The Power Surge, as you've seen earlier in this guide, is great against bosses. Unfortunately, as powerful of an option the other two weapons are in this combination, they don't deal a lot of damage to bosses. If you have a Unique weapon type leveled up, so you can start out your run with it, then I'd replace the Power Surge with that instead, but the Power Surge is a wonderful addition to this combinaton as it really will compensate for the lacking boss damage that both the Slosher and The Cold Shoulder seem to suffer from. It can also be used to complete tasks during your run and keep enemies at bay when they're bunched up. Giga-volt weapon types stun enemies on-hit and the electric damage can chain to another near-by enemy. Unfortunately, this chain distance isn't affected by the Splash Radius Hack, but you aren't relying on the Power Surge to deal with the hordes of enemies that will be rushing and shooting at you.

The Plugins for this combination are self-explanatory, but I'll give you some insight anyway! In most games, you achieve more survivability from having more Health, but in Arcadegeddon, you'll find that having more Shield will be a better choice for your playthroughs. Shields actually have Hacks that can be utilized! You can find Hacks that will increase your Shield regen rate and lower the cooldown for when your Shield regen kicks in. Unfortunately, the only Health regen in this game comes from the Vampire Plugin - when you kill an enemy - or when you pick up Health drops. Natural Health regen doesn't happen in Arcadegeddon (as of the time this guide was written).

Now, let's tell you HOW to play this combination!

Step 1: Jump around your enemies.
Step 2: Fire your rockets/grenades downwards at the enemies.
Step 3: Stay away from the enemies.
Step 4: Repeat.

Although this combination has high survivability, it doesn't come cheap - or fast. The further along, into a run, you get, the stronger and tankier you become. This combination is boosted with the relevant Hacks and will quickly become a fan favourite.

You've finally leveled up all your weapons, and you're ready to unleash havoc on the less than 10 types of enemies in this game (I know. Disappointing.) At this point in your Arcade ownership career, you've probably already tried everything out and decided on your own builds. In case you're looking for something to challenge yourself with, or just want to optimize your loadout, then this part of the guide will be for you!

Let's start with the easiest set up:

The Regressor
Light Gun (Starter) + The Enforcer (Starter)
Plugins: Last Chance

What's the best thing to do when you've unlocked every single thing in this game and leveled them all up? Treat them all like rubbish and only use the weapons you started this game with!

Like the main character in your favourite manwha, you've already done this all before and know where all the chests are and what the best Hacks and weapons to choose are. You are the Max Level Newbie; the Solo Leveling god; the Dark Crow behind the curtains of his era. Even without any Plugins, you'll be zooming through the levels with the low leveled players that have used up all their luck in joining your Matchmaking session. You'll be quickly finding the closest 100% spawn chest, spam pinging it to encourage your new friends to come just in time to see you opening it in front of them - you're probably smirking inside even with your deadpan face on the outside.

While your team mates are slowly reading through the minimalistic weapons info UI, you'll have already picked up your Eraser, Frosty Fraggins or Outlaw and dipped towards the next area. Who knows? If you're fast enough, your team mates might even be teleported to you before they can even choose a weapon to pick up haha!

If you're like me, and you still enjoy the music in this game, put it on full blast and time your shots to the beat. It's like you're playing NecroDancer + CoD at the same time!